Spang shows work at local gallery Page 2 The Weekly Student N ewspaper of Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis M O N D A Y • N o v e m b e r 2 7 , 2 0 0 0 H oops Preview TO THE OLD SC H O O L ■Coach Hunter to use to play when I first got here. quickness and agility to T v e always coached better when we were smaller. We’re power IUPUI men's basket­ going to play ‘small ball’ and cre­ ball team this season. ate mismatches for other teams.” As small as Hunter says his By Ed Holdaway team will be, he still has a trio of $PO«TS Eoiiot talented big r Senior Don Carlisle has been the most consistent player for the Jaguars the past two seasons despite being hounded by con­ stant double and triple teams. Carlisle poured in 12.8 points per game last season while grab­ bing 7.2 rebounds per contest. He was also named to the Mid- Continent Conference AU- Conferencc Second Team by the “Everyone has a new attitude this year to alleviate all the pres­ sure off me,” Carlisle said. ”1 like the pressure but I needed some help.” So no longer will it be a one- my assistants are man show in Jaguar country. j we're ready to go,” Junior Charles Price returns at ages and braces have he averaged 10.8 points and near­ been replaced by smiles and ly six rebounds a game last sea­ promise, as a healthy group of son. Price is also well on his way Jaguars are to embark on another io setting the school record for college basketball season blocked shots in a career. “With the additions of the peo­ Sophomore Josh Fiuwater, ple we brought in and having who has spent a good pan of his everyone healthy, we’ll play ten career sidelined by injuries, will or eleven guys,” Hunter said. join them up front. “We’re going to go back to press­ ing and playing the way we used New look Ja m to TEAK INTO THE MlO-CON ■IUPUI women's head coach Kris Simpson with six players who barely dressed last year. Amy prepares for her first taste of life after Werling. Muehlhauscn. Natalie Hendricks, and Jessica Davis are all freshmen that were redshirted last year. Amber Hoik, Nelson. Stucker and Neal. Eight new players Kelli Ely. and Amy Frey sat out last year due to transfer including three redshirts, three transfers and guidelines. two true freshmen look to lead the Jaguars to Even after losing four seniors and with all the new faces, head coach Kris Simpson said their shooting should the top of the Mid-Continent Conference. be even better than last year's. Last season the Jaguars shot a dismal 37 percent from the field and 31 percent B y Hm M t k from the arc. Su if T u t » “We have better personnel this year with the kids r | The IUPUI women's basketball team is geared for its and they’re a better shooting team than last year,” I third season in the NCAA D ivisk» I Mid-Continent Simpson said. “We have more quality shooters at more The Mid-Con media and coaches poll ranked IUPUI The Jaguars are built with depth, and many f seventh in the league this year, following a losing season provide them with scoring ability. They have their sights where the Jaguars ended up 11-17 overall and tied for on finishing in the top four in the Mid-Con, but i sixth in the conference with a 7-9 record. This year may be somewhat of a rebuilding year This N ews Sports Life Page 4 Page 5 Page 2 Week ■With "Bamboozled” Lee turns his ultra critical era on television and the black an community. Enter Pierre Delacroix SsfftmnanxT Eonoi (Damon Wayans) It would seem the vast major­ Dun witty (Michael Rapapoct). ity of filmgoers and critics In a last ditch effort to get a hip would like Spike Lee to remain black situation comedy on the the Afro-centric activist of his “Bamboozled** is “mucked up." air, Dunwitty turns to his only early years. They w ould be very Truly mucked up are the black staff writer, Delacroix. to minds of audiences in today's DeLa. as Wayans is “Do the called, wants to develop a show Right Thing" and “Malcolm like “Cosby.** but Dunwitty X." These films make it easy to ment to a cinema of provoca­ wants “a nigger show.** since place Lee in a sociological box, tion. education, or. God forbid, young blacks from the ‘hood but what he has managed to do cultural enlightenment that are the ones who set the trends. his focuses on challenging DeLa decides to resurrect the “Summer of Sam** and American myths rather than turn of the century minstrel “Bamboozled,** is promoting them. show. His reworking, “Mantan: of America’s past — and many “oppressed black A film that demands repeat The New Millennium Minstrel of today's black entertainers. and take a more critical look at viewings to. be fully under­ Show,“ would showcase blacks On so many levels America today. To the distress stood. “Bamboozled** uses the rather than whites applying “Bamboozled" is better than of many, “Bamboozled** con­ world of television to explore blackface, in an attempt to sati­ anything else one is likely to Sarion Gtovtr, right, at Mantan and T<aamy Davidson aa Steap Eat firms Lee as one of the most the folly of today's black youth rize the original minstrel con­ see on screen (his year. To who are so conditioned by cept. Secretly hoping the ultra begin, through his use of digital artistically innovative and his­ over and over again they say to sharp criticism Lee directs at Hilfiger advertisements, rap politically incorrect pilot will video for the majority of the torically significant filmmakers one another. “You know what every character in the film. Lee get him fired. DeLa brings the film, employing 16mm film I’m sayinV* *That’s what I’m is very effectively saying that idea to Dunwitty who loves it stock only for “Mantan." Lee sayinY* The point is they aren’t entertainers like Master P and so much he “gets a boner.*’ implies that television is mere saying anything at all. Martin Lawrence continue to What happens from here on fantasy. The images of blacks in After “Mantan“ becomes a promote the idea of the min out is quite simply amazing. blackface, tap-dancing and per­ huge success and De La goes strel, and while their action! forming skits where they act on to win several awards Lee may make them rich and multiple plots, each of equal like stuttering backwoods injects the film with more famous today, they are ulti- dimwits is not the image one import. He lampoons hypocriti­ recent displays of real-life cal rap artiste. He calls out should believe. Not only docs black buffoonery by having whites who align themselves the film/video juxtaposition DeLa do a variation of Cuba cxist with African American culture work for the film, it furthers the Gooding, Jr.'s back flipping This is Lee's most ambiguous so much they believe they are aesthetic ideas that have been Oscar acceptance for “Jerry and most ambitious film. So “blacker*’ than black people. sunrounding the recent film vs. Maguire.“ Also checked by many questions are raised with- video debate. Most intriguing is his treatment name are Will Smith and of the “house niggers“ Militant rap group the Mau Whoopi Goldberg and in a Delacroix and his assistant Maus, the characters most clever visual allusion Spike without resolve it is no surprise Sloan (Jada Pinkctt Smith) who viewers would identify Lee as places the video box for Lee forfeits his trademark don’t know if their more com­ being sympathetic with, are “Friday“ (starring Ice Cube and cameo and remains outside the mitted to their heritage or portrayed as inarticulate hyp­ Chris Tucker as jwo lazy, film's action. It is to the film*! money. Network television in ocrites who. while arguing for unemployed, pot smoking credit, however, that Lee doei particular is indicted as a sys­ revolution, are shown drinking blacks who spend their days sit­ remain behind the camera tem that ruthlessly alien artist's ting on a porch) atop Pinkett's because for the first time Lee visions, manipulates informa­ television. gives us a slice of Americana tion for the sole purpose of lous linguistic points such as The studio and director have profit, and operates under the spelling black “blak“ rather championed “Bamboozled“ as partial, and objective pretense that any publicity is than “black” for no discemablc a satire. While a number of being detached. “Bamboozled" good publicity regardless of reason. The most obvious cri­ comic moments pepper the is a turning poir 'w h d o n ftia t is at stake. tique of this group comes while film, those expecting pure career, and a wake up call tt> The narrative strain that pro- the Mau Maus plot the assassi­ satire arc‘ going to be disap­ artiste more concerned ptis the film, however, con­ nation of Mantan. The group of pointed. The satire that docs “genin' jiggy" than with getting seven stand around a table, and cents Manray/Mantan. stun- appear is often muted by the W anted. Wanted! Spring Breakers! The Egyptian room gets funked o provide Cancún. Bahamas, Florida, »art-time care for our three | Jamaica & Mazatlan.