KODOUTEK 199 E* =«:» ED RRIDIA H E T E R 0 G L 0 S S I C 0 :VP 0 C W HAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? The Other Side APRU. 23, 1991 VouThu: XVIT, ISSUE 4 4 EDITOR'S DESK • THE E DITORS • lnrroducing postmodernism. - 5 REFLECTIONS FROM OUR READERS· Lacking solutions and seein' red. -C> 6 UNFURUNG OF HOPE • WILLIAM H ICKEY KRAMER • The AIDS Quilt. ~ ~ 8 TROUBLED WATERS • SARA S HEPPERD • Tension in Mead creates ~ ........a animosity between students and adminsrration . ............. 10 NO PARKING ANYTJME • SARA S HEPPERD • The Mead parking problem. v --Q_ '+- 11 BOB DYLAN: THE BOOTLEG YEARS • BILL FoREMAN • Album review. I C> 12 GARY SNYDER & ALLEN GINSBERG • STEPHAN DIGNAN • Inten iews. N .............un s:::: 16 THE PENDULUM SWINGS • KAREN STEEN • Student Activism in the 90's. T ~ -c::::s 18 DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION AND THE PSU • CATHY FEINGOLD • A chance A ...........,::::::::s for all to be heard. ~ G 19 UBRARY WEEK CONSUMES CLAREMONT • JENNY SPI1Z • A parody. ~ E ..s::::..........., AN I 'TRODUCTORY SURVEY OF POST)lODEH'\lS'J ~ 20 SURVEYING l HE POSTMODERN LANSCAPE • CHRIS DAVIS _Q c s:::: 22 POSTMODERNISM AND MARX •NTONGELA MAsiLELA L C> 24 POSTMODERNISM ON THE MARGINS • LOUREDES A RGUEUfS --..........., ~ 25 POSTMODERNISM AND MUSIC • WHrr PRESTON 0 ~ T --- 26 BRIUO-PAD AND A NEW WORLD DIS-ORDER • JOHN D. SULUVAN 28 POSTMODERNISM AND LOS ANGELES • JASON SINGER R "Shake Your Groove Tbang!" I Come Join The Party 30 SOMETIME THE TRUTH HURTS •DAVID STOI.BER • Major League Baseball On M ay3rd preview and predictions. N Make That CaD! ) 6ZO-Z89Z 34 THE FALL OF THE GREAT POWERS • ANDREW STARBIN AND JoHN STEWART G • More consrructive suggestions for the American sports scene. THE OTHER SIDE ~»UR'-' E. Y <e>F 35 THE RIGHT SIDE •SElH lEtBSOHN • Peace: In whose time and at what price? POSTMODERNISM ~~---~?'l-~ 36 THE FLEXJBLE VOICE • BRm SPEER • Making cents of the arts. ~~- '!~~!~~~ POLYPHONIC 38 THE FLEXIBLE VOICE • JENNIFER HoFFMAN • Pitzer at play, Pitzer at unrest. BLAH BlAH BLAH -~~ , e~$.a. t ~ ~t-o. ~""' IU ~lU f~U Designed by: When finished reading Chris Davis THE OTHER SIDE, please recycle David Glickman 197£. Znd St. Pomona. CA 91766 • (714) 622·8446 Joson Singer (SubleW!I ufthe Marco Polo Building) The Other Side, February 26, 1991 • 3 F ROM Explaining, Justifying The Other Side T H E and Defending EDITOR'S ~ Editor male population is capable of rape? valid or importtml. Dav1d Glickman Lacking Solutions Please ... 1 would hardly call my articlt ~making light" DESK Our Cover .,.. ExtClltivt Editors ara Shepperd's article on campus Still, the grossest d isfiguration in her of tbt issut of rapt. It had nor btm covatd in Jennifer Hoffman rape ("Close to Home,• 3/ 19/91) is article is in the following sentence, The Other Side for ovtr two ytars. so 1 which states wl find it sickening that don 't btlirot "that wt [didn't ntd] to hear any know you must be saddened by the absence of our traditional front cover Sara Shepperd Sone that is filled with inaccurate in­ Jason Singer formation, perpetuating many of the even one of one hundred educated men mort on this point." 1 wnlt about whar 1/ttl is photo (which usually has nothing to do with the contents of the maga­ myths that surround rape and presenting would engage in such a despicable importa'ltt to be known , tvtn rf one puson .,.. Smior Editor only idealistic solutions to rape on cam­ crime, let alone have the audacity to ad­ tbougbrtwicc abour tbt imu btcausc of my arti­ zine). Instead you are confronted with an eclectic, possibly obnoxious, Kristin Kasper I pus and the perpetuation of violent mit it." Does Ms. Shepperd really be­ dt tbm that could be ont mort tducattd ptrson cover attempting to entice your mind into the world of Postmodernism. crimes against women. Her opinions lieve that by being supposedly educat­ If 1 bad cbosm lo writt a'lt art1dc offtring so­ First off, Postmodernism is a relatively new concept and I myself do not .,.. Produclio'll Ma11agtr are expressed in such a wishy-washy ed, only one in a hundred men could be lutiolfs, 1 could easily bavt do11c so. Howrotr, Brett Speer fashion I find it hard to believe that she capable of rape'? If this really was the I'm guilty as (you) chargtd: writi11g about a u­ fully comprehend its significance, meaning, etc. However, over the last few case then there would be no horrifying alizalio'll. I suggest that thost knowkdgtable on .,.. Pb<Jtograpby Edrtor can call herself a woman who stands for weeks there has been great enthusiasm on the part of several editors, stu­ statistics of cnmes committed against tbt subjtct of rapt not ovtrtstrmatc therr purs. Pauline Yao an end to violence against women, as dents, and faculty to explore Postmodernism's various definitions, interpreta­ her article does not lead to quell any women on college campuses, especially Tbry mtry not know as much as you think. .,.. Oprmons Editor at the ratio of one in six. This statement 1 do, it~ddmtally, read the other campus pa­ tions, and implications. Thus, I am excited to present six unique essays from myths about rape; it only discusses (in Chris Davis her opinion) how awful they are. She perpetuates the myth that college males, pas, and just because tbry writt tlmr ptrsptctivts three students and three professors, each approaching the concept of Post­ being supposed.Jy educated are excluded on a particluar issue dots not mtan The Other .,.. Rn.>inos Editor begins her article with the discussion of modernism from his/her own background and attempting to understand how her new found fears about rape (and the from the ability to commit violent S1de cannot prrnt thost of our <Jwn writtrs, Jenny Spttz crimes against women and can continue mi'llt i11cludcd. its implications may intervene in our everyday lives. men around her) when she conducted a .,.. Sports Edri<Jr short survey for an independent study to •sow their wild oats" as they choose, -Sara ShtfJptrd So what is Postmodernism! First, there is no one comprehensive way to David Stoiber In her results she claims to have found even if it is against someone's w11l. This four men who admitted that they would statement doesn't bring anything •ctose define it. For myself, this has been the most frustrating aspect of grasping .,.. Aducrtisi"!l Mtmagtr to home;• as a matter of fact it throws it Seein' Red DougChun force a woman to have sex if they were Postmodernism. However, I have learned that the first step in studying the sure that they wouldn't be caught. Next out the window. nee-upon-a-time the U.S. concept is the ability to accept its ambiguity . Realizing its different implica­ .,.. Copy Editor Ms. Shepperd states "I thanked God I'd Ms.Shepperd's final paragraph of her thought that if V tetnam fell to article does nothing more than the rest tions in different areas of study, it then becomes impossible to provide a uni­ Gretchen S1gler requested the pencil, I couldn't bear to 0 communism then Laos would know who had affirmed my deepest of her article did in stating statistics and tum communist, followed by Cambodia, versal defi nition for the Postmodern. If you can accept this notion, you are .,.. Writtrs fear: What Ms. Shepperd needs to re­ discussing how bad they are. She rec­ the Philippmes and then there would be on the right path to grasping Postmodernism. Tim Ahearn alize is that men all around her confirm ommends that students "open your eyes, hardly any time before they would be and open your mind, because no prob­ As a critical perspective of contemporary culture, Postmodernism attempts Bill Foreman this fear, and I'm sure that they did long coming for us. First Pitzer establishL>rl a Amie Greenberg before they answered her survey. What lem can be truly solved until it is ad­ M1nority Recruitment and Concerns to re-conceptualize a world where everything from art and politics, to value Juliet Henderson needs to be pointed out about the infor­ dressed_" Yet even Ms. Shepperd's arti­ Committee and an Anti-Discnminatton cle doesn't address the issue of rape- it systems, and cultural ideologies are being re-considered in terms of a world Brll Kramer mation that Ms. Shepperd discovered IS Board But 1t snowballed rnto the "Com· Katie Marble merely discusses her real1zat1on that increasingly affected by our state of late capitalism. Simply put, our increas­ that forcing sex on a woman in our soci­ mittee Concerned with Communttv Thomas M11l ety is not seen as a crime as of yet, and rape is an issue filled with horrific statiS­ Pressure (CCCP)", m turn tt created th~ ingly "efficient" ability to make use of our accomplishments in science and Andrew Starbin that this consciousness needs to be tics that needs to be dealt with. With­ "United Students Supportmg Reac­ out offering solutions or advocating a high technology to alter our environment, (genetic experiments making John Stewart raised tn order to acknowledge that rape tionancs ( USSR)," next came the Ken Weisbart is a crime of violence imbedded in our heightened consciousness in terms of "Kinder, Gentler Bngade ( KGB): and credible the idea of cloning human tissue for medical purposes or introduc­ Trav1s Wright societal beliefs, a crime namely against the issues surrounding violence agamst then "a group of students to monitor the ing ammal organs into the human body), to call our value systems into ques­ women.