;;:,. , SPECIAL f 1-/\,fURt I TOWNSHIP J I V' E ,Manifesto32 PAGE EXTRAVAGANLA ·Home, S' Home On lbe , ,{l Bencb· 'fIWJw' POETRY BY PAUL WEINMAN . Lettuh from da Edituh Welcome to the 8th semi-regular In- I average of 4 classes held at our fine Uni­ thored editorial work. The difference The last issue, sex roles, structor Evaluation edition! -Each time versity. The reporters were asked toevalu­ between the comments printed in the generated a lot of mail. we publish this collection of sometimes ate the instructors on the "basis of teach- Evals and the letters on a real newspaper's Requests from out-of-state brutal, sometimes ing ability, pro- editorial page is that we grant anonymo­ Monkey fans for a copy fartciful comments, MASCULINE FEMININE fessionalism, ana nity in the hope of receiving greater ob­ tripled to 43. I never realised just how an argument ensues ~- accessibility." - jectivity from a "reporting staff" not con­ well the word SEX attracts attention... as to A) whether or In the interest cerned with faculty retribution~ or being and just how many ways people can view not the results are of fairness, some branded a trouble-maker. basically the same physical thing. statistically accurate, reporters were The Instructor Evals are a powerful This issue is also a first! The Lame B) whether we are •• "assigned" to and necessary forum for the student's voice Monkey and Township Jive have con­ doing an injustice to evaluate the to be heard. In my own experience at solidated efforts to produce a Monkey­ professors who get same class, but, UTK, I feel that the evaluation forms Jive issue. 32-pages of the two largest trashed by the single These sizes were chosen in the interest unfortunately, given out by the universi ty are seen more ~ndergrounds inKnoxville, back to back. of symmetry and are not meant to be a rna 1content. standard for comparison. neither inter! many of the asa tri-mesterlyformality as opposed to a I'd like to thank all the undergrounds that So this time, as we intra-sexual or personal; these abstract classes were vis- self-analysis tool for a: department to have been published in Kville over the began planning for organs are fictious and are not meant ited and com- improve i tself. Too often the voice of the years and the people behind them who to represent any individual human, this issue, we decided subculture or majority, or the organs mented upon by , consumer, the student, the reason for a did the work. If things are gonna change, to conduct our -sur- affixed therewith. only a single university to exist in the first place, is they've got to start somewhere ... with veys "differently." In "reporter." ignored in favor of tenure politics, beuro­ something to say and a way of saying it. order to amass the some 350 entries, we Our reporters were sometimes accu- cratic shuffling, and the good 'ole boy Silence is dangerous. Vive la press! "hired" 163 students who offered to vol- ra te, someti mes biased, bu tour resul ts are network. Andthatiswhy the Lame Mon­ Enjoy! unt,:er their services and report on an at least as valid as that of any single-au- key persists ... Lettuhs to da Edituh DEAR MR. MoNKEY. way amusing or enlightening. Imagine if Theme for Next Issue: I found out something interesting you had been raped by your father and you our home, we could not return the pizza to today. I t takes exactly the same number of read that. Imagine if you were a Catholic, you (it was raw dough underneath the Racism anti-fur protesters to screw in a light bulb had been raped by your father, and read lovely cheese and peppers), Therefore, I If You've Experienced Arrt Form of Bigotry at UTK as it does anti-abortion protesters. that. The imagery of the story is in no way am sending you -a sample of the crust for or defend rociol supremacy or seporotism, we need Sincerely, supportive of the hundreds of thousands your examination. The cost of the pizza , you to write. Anooymonity Guarenteed. Leo Fisher of women that are raped and abused each was eleven dollars and thirty cents. I ' Call 525-8243 or send stuff to address below -------------...:....:-- year in the U.S. (We cannot imagine you cannot remember if the delivery charge WRITE FOR THE LAME MONKEY LAME MONKEYS: representing an article about a lynching was included in that or not. The Lame Monkey prints luttuhs . Asls'; we do not Thanks you for sending me all those of a black man in the South in the sam,e I am writing to you because we still change a won! unless absolutely necessary (changes issues of LMM. way you presented the rape ofSt. Vibrissa hope that people will treat otherS with denoted by [brackets]). If you have any comments regarding The LarneMonkey, please write: Lettuhs, Now let me tell you what your paper in the story). We are creative enough to fairness. My hopes have not been realized c/o The Lame Monkey Manifesto, P.O. Box 8763, needs. Your paper needs more dicks. In slam Christianity (or anything else for _very often. Knoxville, TN 37996-4800, / every issue ofLMM that I have seen there that mat!ter) without resorting to misog- Yours truly, Names are withheld by request. _has been at least one titty, but never any ynv. I Cynthia Hermann 81228104 dicks! Thanks for nothing, UNDER PENALTV OF LAW Women Who Hate Sexism in the Guise DEAR MONKIES:: Lets have some weenie action in the THIS TAG NOT TO BE REMOVED next issue. of Leftism A friend of mine says that the cover of EXCEPT 8Y THE CONSUMER Sincerely, the last issue (sex roles) was about homo­ Jackalene Arthur DEAR MR. MASK: sexuality, lesbianism in particular. ALL NEW MATERIAL CONSISTING OF P.S. I'm not sure what I mean by this, Last night I could not find my Dom­ I say it's a satire of male-created stere­ do this: jerkoff3 times onto this letter and ino's coupons--so my children suggested otypes of women. It would sorta fit with gaze into the puddle until you are. that we try Mr. Gatti's pizza. We ordered the theme, no? double cheese and green peppers. Well, what was it about? This publication NOTIFICATION IS To THE EDITOR: When it arrived, it looked lovely. Inquiring mind, protected by copyright. ~!~mE Regarding your vol. 4 #21 edition, we When we tried to eat it, our smiles faded. John Burnam All rights reserved, SUBMfITED AND mE in the feminist movement have decided © 1990 OPINIONS EXPRESSED N C S BY INCLUDED that your magazine isas radical and uplift­ 1-1-;"£ II( , . tamp WRITERS I ARTISTS ing to women as Penthouse. If on the Hff:L..SI If KI Exemption No, 45 ARE TIIEIR OWN cover you were trying to make the point MADE BY that lesbianism should be open and un­ METAMEDIA repressed (at least that is what we are P. O. Box 8763, Kno~ville, TN 37996-4800 assuming), you could have chosen hun­ (615) 525-8243 dreds of more appropriate and less am­ Editor: Rev, Dr, NEK'ln Fleshbisui~ C,S.G., V,S.C. biguous images. The images represented LayoutJDesign: Nelln; Orig, Design: Chris Gray are very stereotypical views of how soci­ Cover: Nelln ety'views "woman" (the "thin and cute" Proofreading: Mr. Macintosh & friend younger ,woman and the "matronly" Distribution: Bob Melkins .mother figure). Furthermore, we resent Ad Sales: Jim Bacon the implication that mothers are always Facilities: Universal Printing Company playing the oppressor's role (woman did Press: Knoxville Printing & Publishing not. invent Christianity, women did not Print Run: 7,000 copies build the patriarchy ). Mothers are simply Cost: Distributed free at area locations OR $1 by token torturers of our society, enforcing mail in plain brown wrapper. All back issues avaUable, ' rules that they did not create. Secondly, Hall '0 Fame: Ian Blackburn, Bob Daedalus, your story of St. Vibrissa (although satiri­ Lance Bledscoe, Paul M" ChristopherG, cal} was hardly amusing. Although slam­ Special Thanks: WHliam Calaman ming Catholicism was the target, there is FEDERAL REQUIREMENT no reason to reinforce i~ages of sexual l­ Filling: Ad conlelltlelS than 13% f violence against women. These images of Un1na: 100% Unsolicitatcd, Submit your wen r sexual violence (the father 'killing 'his Advertillng: Very Affordable, Call S25-8243. wift;! and raping his daughter) are in no ......;..----~------~_--~~.;...~::;....;::::::::::::::ri:....--...:...J Lame Monkey ProduCII Identification Act RN 37230 l ,--.,..;.:--:--~--:---:---------~----~-------------~~' ~-~~~~"";'~ ~' --.-~ - -- -~-- --" ' --~'-'--- - " Welcome to the Instructor Evalu­ ACCOurtTIrtG "Great class. He runs his class like stuff ."_"Klippellooks so much ations of Spring Semester 1990. For the 201 Prio of Financial Accounting the backroom of Long's Drug like Sean Connery 'that it is uninitiated, this survey represents the Finch 1 4.00 I Store." sometimes truly frightening." "His , "Gives very good explanations. humor escapes me- and the rest responses of students who stopped by our ANIMAL SCIENCES Makes class a lot of fun. Willing of the class." polling booth and evaluated their in­ 241 Breed Farm Animals to work individually." M4 521 Malecology structors "on the basis of teaching abili ty, SmallinglFuller 1 1.00 ~ ' Hughes 2 2.50 tY Parmaless 1 4.00 professionalism, and accessibility." "Need some organization, guys. I "This course is way too hard!" "Sorry, it's the last class he's Every effort has been made to confirm . Really monotone. Could you try to "Really helps you understand going to ,teach." course information and name spellings.