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THE MICHIGAN REVIEW Volume 13, Number 1

September 14, 1994

The Campus Affairs Journal of the University of Michigan

Georgetown Sues White Mrican BY AARoN STBBLMAN

HILE STUDENTS ARE

involved ill manythinp during the summer, from internshipe to minimum wage jobs to summer school, few are involved in legal disputes. Fewer still are involved

in legal disputes as interesting and et1'a:nge as the me Raymond Tittman faced this past summer. Tittman applied for admission at the Georptown University Law Center and em the aw&aticn he W88 asked to check me of several boxes to best describe himself, as are students who ~ fc:r admission to the Univenity of Michigan. While 'nttman is a resident of State College, Pennsyivania, his family are lifelong residents of Tanzania, an east-

ern Afiican country. Thus, although he is white. when oonfronted as to which box best describes himself,路 Tittman checked African-American. Tittman based his choice on advice from an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission liasion, who told him that because ofhis familya ancestry he could classify himself as an A1iican-American. The Georgetown Law Center admitted Tittman on January 28. Once admitted, nttman was asked to send in mare application materials, including a photograph, which clearly shows that he is white. It was at this time that Tittman says his admission was reecinded. 'littman', cause has been taken up by a private Loa Angeles baaed civil rights group, the Individual Rights Foundation. Jcmatban WUCOIl, a sp:Ikesman fer the Foundation, ~, "1 tbink: he ('littman) unwittinl1y expoaed Georgetown twice because they 00ceped him becauee he's Nack and didn't accept him. because he's white." In addition to WUCOI:'8 charp of

unfair admission procedures, Georgetown also filed a brief with the Law School Admjssitw\ Council (LSAC), a Pennsylvania <rganizaticn that 0versees law school applications nationwide. In a press release, the Individual Rights Foundation said that Georgetown "moved to have him sanctioned" by the LSAC. When asked about LSACs involvement, Wilcox responded, "'What they are trying to do is very serious. The charge they filed with the LSAC is very serious. I would like to have seen them. do an investigation that did not involve accusations oflying. This whole thing didn't have to go too far." Adrienne Kuehneman, the law

center's director of public relations, denies that Tittman's admission was rescinded and that the brief filed with LSAC was dime to have him sanctiooed. Instead, she says that 'littman tum.ed down his admission and that the University is obligated to file a report with LSAC whenever a discrepancy in admission materials is found Despite Kuehneman's explanation regarding the LSAC affair, Andy Comblatt, assistant dean for the law school's admissions office, wrote in a letter to 'littman that the University contacted the organizatim in order for LSAC "to examine the material you submitted to our office for evidence of possible misconduct in the admissions procedure."

'littman tried to explain to LSAC and Georgetown that he genuinely believed that he W88 checking the most accurate descriptUn ofbjroseJf and that he was not attempting to deceive them. "Although my skin is white, I would still describe myself as an AfricanAmerican. In the context of the questiQll, 'African-American' seems to indicate a cultural upbringing <r heritage," said'littman. The Individual Rights Foundation prepared a lawsuit against Gecrgetown on 'littman's behalf, however the lawsuit was dismissed this summer. LSAC has subsequently found that Tittman did not commit fraud. He will be attending law school at the University of Notre Dame this fall. Ml

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Entree Plus a Whole Lot More BY RACHEL CARDONE

OR THE PAST ELEVEN years, the Entree Plus program at the University of Michigan has given students freedcm &em spending cash, providing them with a debit system where participants charge things to their student accounts through their ID cards. Until recently, the poe- . sibility of Entree Plus' expansion to . include ~ businesses had beE,rt nothing more than a pipe dream. Yet after petitioning ~ much work, the proposition has 'tkme a reality: the program will be established on an in- . terim basis this January. The winds of change have blown, and many local businesses are sighing in relief, for what they have long considered a monopoly situation will soon be broken, and they hope to reap the profits. .

In the past few years, many businesses have protested the policy whereby students charge things to their student accounts. They feel slighted because participating stores receive an unequal share of the profits of things that eme can purchase in the Unicm and on U-M prooperty; they want a share of the $2.2 million dollars businesses located in the Union earned under Entree Plus last year. They are not alone. The University wanted to include . outside business as well; they earn between one an~ three percent of all Entree Pl~ sales. The cnly thing stall. ing their efforts was a large number of regulations tor legality. . A solution was found at Florida State University, where the inclusion of a bank (which already fullows all the _.1..+.: __ and meets the . ts 1."'5.. ............ :reqt.DI'EIIDE!

in tbept1C888 of~ mmeymanageuumt)}lI'OYidEs a legal eo1utim. By baa-

ing the new JrOKl'8Dl on FSU's, both the University and Ann Arbor businesses will seemingly be satisfied. The U niversity will still make money, and oft:campus stores will be able to accept Entree Plus. Additionally, several new things will be included to further benefit participating students. Is this new sYstem truly a benefit? ,

From a consumer standpoint, it IlPO' pears flawless. Students whose parents pay the bills will be able to purchase virtually everything they need. The Entree Plus ~ard could in theory double as a credit card, a phone Claro, and an ATM card, in additiQn to its already widespread ftmctim in dorms, at v~ machines and laundry Cacilities. Under this new system, purchasing power will be at a maximum. and the price of the purcllases will be

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In response to questions about Fidel Castro's attempt to orchestrate Mariel II, President Clinton excitedly replied, "She has a daughter? 0000,. ,goody!"

The IRA, a northern Ireland terrorist group, signed a peace agreement with the Great Britain government to end their acts of terror on the citizens of Britain. In a dissimilar move, the IRS announced that it would be auditing twice as many people this year. The Ku lOux lOan will soon be holding another rally on the steps rL the cap.td in Lansing. Organizers hope for the turnout to exceed one dozen.

The biology department began taking gme1ic samJies ofthe'Wdverine" place kicker who kicked the game-winning field goal at Notre Dame, in order to confirm that he is in fact on the Michigan roster. Guyana recently announced that it will pe.rticipate in an invasion of Haiti along

with the United States and a "multinational" force. Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, and Bel:ize will also join in by erecting hammocks and serving pina coladas to exhausted U.S. troops. The United Nations began work on a 2O-year}ian to antrol the world's pcp1lation. A}X'OIXl88l. submitted by AI G<re, consisted of nationalizing health care. President Clinton's poll standings remain low, forcing him to avoid campaigning f<r Democrats in the midterm election. Said one Tennessee candidate, "I'd rather kiss Zach Wamp (Republican candidate) on the lips at noon in front of the courthouse than have to campaign with Clinton right now." Los Angeles restaurant owners are

gearing for an assault on their hamburger business by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Aooording to the EPA, charcoal smoke is,harmful to the atmosphere, and the agency will soan firce all restaurants to install cata-

lytic converters onto their grill hoods. We expect to see the same restrictions placed on Boy Scout campfires soon.

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The Detroit News quoted Bill Clinton in COPY EDfI'ORS: Chris 8an'eIl, Dean Bakopodos a factory in Bath, Maine as saying, 'We MUSIC EDrTOA: Drew Pelels cannot afford in a global economy to be CIRCULATJOH DIRECTOR: Paulo lina divided again - government and busi- FUNDRAISING DIRECTOR: Erik Schnurstein ness and workers fighting each other STAFF: OlIve Bogue, K8Yin CoIteIo, Franc Grabowski, all the time." Here's an idea: stop run- Stephen Hessler, Chauncey HIchcock, Shea Kammer, Mohan Krishnan, Terry Lorber, Mark Morgan, Crusty ning our damn lives! Muncher, Nathan MurpI'rf, Eddie Willers

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Wake, government cafeterias in China

EDITOR EMERmJS: Traqr Robinson PUBlISHER EUERITUS: Aaron Steelman

served the human flesh of c0unterrevolutionaries after China's cultural :rev0lution. On a related note, the United The MIch/gvI RrIiew is an independert. bl-weeldy AIStates maintains its most-favored- dent-nIt jownaI. !he UnIversity of MIchIgan. We neIhef nation status to communist China. &OIcil nor IClCepl monetIIy donaIiorB 110m the UIMIdy d From Tenants' Voice (the An,n Arbor Tenants' Union): "A national study has cited excessive individualism. as one of the root causes of the (health) problems faced by U.S. children." Maybe it would be better if they all shared their immunization shots.

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o INTERVIEW: P. J. O'ROURKE

The Funnie'Sl Writer in America

mar. They:pide themselves on all these of famine. overpopulati~t ecological wmdedUl oomedians, but when it ocmes destruction. that kind of tiling. right down to laughing at the absurdity Called the "funniest writer in America" . of life. liberals are most e<m- i =- :r • .W .c. • • == . by the Wall8treet Journal, O'Rourke cerned about appearing car- . currently HMJU (J$ the foreign affairs ing. Humor is about telling editor for Rolling Stone magazine. He the truth and liberals don't ha.tt aerved as ~1H:hief of the Natell it. tional I .ampnnn and written for several other publications including Esquire MR: Hat the political ~ and Car and Driver. He also wrote the phenomenon made your job easier? screenplay for Rodney Dangerfield's Easy Money and has authored several O'ROURKE: You betcha MHielling books including Republican Party Reptile, Parliament of MR: Do you think the whole 'PC' Whores, Modern Manners, Holidays in concept It fading? Hell, Give War a Chance and the recently re-released Bachelor's Home O'ROURKE: No, because it Companion. is part and pareel of the total politicization of life. The ~ era! agenda, fundamentally, MR: EMler ... YW. 8rtftune'SIOl\ IIId he WIt more excited Ibout meeting you than is to politicize everything in' Preaident CUnton. Do you ... you,..., .. In life. Politics basically comes Icon to young COftI«VItiVII? down to the achievement of power and privilege without ,""''. ._..;..;;..........""'-______...::: O'ROURKE: I don'tknowifrdgothat merit. That's what politics is about, MR: How h.. being from the t.tdwest (Tofar. But frankly. I've met me and I've that's what liberalism is about. and Itcio, O~ shaped your writing and ...... of met President aintcn, and without saythat's, of course, what the politically humor? ing much in my favor - I am more correct nonsense is about. It's the idea -~> interesting. of getting power and privilege because a person belongs to a group. For inMR: You've IIso exprelMd aome concern stance, I'm a .short Irishman with the that mlny young RtpubIIcInt are too uptight unfortunate afiliction of 'BeatIe' hair at too young of an ag.. Are you wonitd that and so, according to liberals. I should when they're 40 they'll flip and join get money for that. Green,..ct? MR: Since you mentioned the BeatItt, and O'ROURKE: Yeah, that seems to hapyou did uk BiN Clinton to nlme hit favorite pen a lot with the aecm.d wife. You see, BeatIe when you Intervltwed him for RoHing if you're too square too young and then S10nt - tell us, who's your favorite member of some ~ 'comes along - the next the fib Four? thing )'OU know. )Ql're out whale watching. You've got to O'ROURKE: r-----------------------------~i~gO! Look be careful. at this nose! MR: What advice What do you would you give th... think, I'm at-riek~? crazy? URING

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O'ROURKE: Yeah, I think there really is something to that. Liberals really don't have much of a sense ofhu-

MR: Do you hive any new books In the works?

O'ROURKE: Yes. My new book is called All the Trouble in the World and it's coming out this fall. It's the lighter side

O'ROURKE: Being from the Midwest gives you the ability to know what's on everybody's mind Nothing is more average than a middle-class Toledo upbringing. At any given moment. if I think IDI1EIthing is weird, I can be p-etty confident that about 80 percent of other Americans will think it's weird too. I know this because rm from Toledo. MR: There are a lot of aImIIart1Iet between you InCI Bin Clinton - your age, your middlecas chldhood - why do you 1hi1k you Uned out 10 different from eeoh other? DId he just not grow out of the alxtiet? O'ROURKE: No. Bill has chosen politics for his profession. and that turns him into a whore. Not to put too fine a point on it. MR: WhIt Is the moat ouInIgeoU8 thitg tplYe ewr hid to IXpIIin to the RoIIiJg StoneeditOt'l In terms of your expense account?

O'ROURKE: I once spent an entire week with Hunter Thompson, and I'll say no more. Ml

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Unnecessary Tuition Hike? s STUDENTS RETURNED TO CAMPUS TIDS FALL, THEY FOUND that their tuition at the University of Michigan had risen yet again. This actim, undertaken by the U-M's Board ofRegenta, is CErlainly questimable, yet it pasaed without any Dll\iar opposition. This past summer, the, Regenta unanimously passed a tuition increase of6.9 percent for i.n-irtate undergraduate stu.denta. 'Ibis ~ resulted in a tuition of $5040 ror two sem.ester8 at the freshman and sophomcre levels (plus fees). Juniars and seniors will pay $5554 fur two semesters ofupper level classes (plus fees). Out-oHtate students are also subject to an increase, albeit a smaller one. These students will see education costs rise by five percent. Freshman and sopbomare out-of-etaters will pay $15,732 fer two semesters, while their junior and aenier counterparts will owe $16,858 (plus fees). Such an inc::rease in tuition is not unusual at the U-M; nor is it unusual to Micbigan's statewide university systsm. According to a ieport 4:larlierthis ~ by the Associated Press, tuition costs at the state ofMicbigan's 15 public universities ' have increased at a rate of 8.3 percent per ~ since 1986. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) - a measure ofinflation in the economy - has only increased by 3.8 percent per year during this same time period. Given this data, the increases in the cost ofhigher public education in the state of Michigan have Di<re than doubled the increases in the cost ofbasic goods and services. These increases have resulted in an average tuition of $3200 in the Michigan higher public education system. The University «Michigan has seen ita tuition costs rise at an even faster pace than the statewide average. As reported earlier this year in the Michigan Daily, the Budget Study Committee of tile American Association of University Professors (AAUP) found that tuitien at the U-M has iru:reased an average of 11.3 :pE:rCEmt per year over the past 15 years. These yearly increases are over one and one-third times higher than the state average; more dramatically, they are nearly three times m<re than increases in the CPI since 1986. With such increases year after year, tuition at the U-M has nearly doubled since 1980. Sihce the U-M is one of the most highly respected universities in the nation, one might El!tpEICt its tuition costs to be somewhat m<re expensive than an average school. Yet the U':"M's tuition also exceedS that of other COlllparable public universities. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for instance, has established its tuition at $784.71 for North Carolina residents -less than on&fifth of what U-M in-staters pay. UNC outH>f-staters owe $4547.71 for their education - only about one-third of what U-M non-residents must pay. Also comparable to the U-M, the University of Wisconsin offers its students a quality education at bargain prices. Tuition for Wisconsin residents is $1368.25, while out-of-state tuition runs for $4547.75. Both costs are approximately on&third ofthoee at the U-M. Both Wisconsin and UNC offer students first-rate ;-~tians; )'et they do 80 at a dramatically cheaper cost than Michigan, suggesting ~:.:\hat the U-M maybave nplaced education as the ~ priority with something else. Given that the U-M already has one of the highest tuition rates of any public university in the nation, ~ is a great dealof controversy swrounding this most recent increase. Although he is generally an opponent of tuition hikes, Regent Deane Baker, in a:recent interview with the Review, states that "[o)ne of the reasons that tuition costs in.crease is that there is less support for public education from the state of Michigan... He cites that "20 years ago the state provided. 78 cents of every undergradUate educational dollar in general fund suworf;." Today, Baker claims, that support has,fallen to approximately 46 cents of every dollar. This is essentially the same reasming that the Baud of Regents used to justify the 1994 increase. The Regents claim that the state's 2.3 percent increase in general U-M funds is not substantial; a tuitien increaSe must follow. If an increase in state funding does not equal an increase in inflation, a tuition increase may be justified simply to cover the rising costs ofrunning the U-M. This year's increase, however, exceeds the gap between state funding and inflation; thus, one must question what the Repnts are doing with the remainder of the tuition. The Ann Arbcr chapter of the AAUP provides at least part of an answer to this. In a study reported in the Michigan Daily, the organization asserts that a subrtantial percentage oftuiticm increases suppcrl an expending U-M bureaucracy. Such appropriations are of little or no service to students; excessive tuition increases, therefore, are unjustified. The very ~ ofpublic edu~tion is to provide a quality education at a minimal C<l8t. Throughout its history, the U-M has strived to adhere to this tradition, claiming to be one of the best bargains in higher education. Yet with theee most recent inaeases, the U-M has abandoned this principle, a disservice to its students. ~

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ELCOME BACK TO THE MICHIGAN REVIEW. WE ARE BACK after a summer hiatus, and we plan to make this years version of the Review better than ever by tackling the system and hopefully improving the quality of your lives as students at the University of Michigan. The Review was founded en October 15, 1981, and has grown in thirteen years from a sparadically--p"Oduced collection of essays to a journal of opinions published on a regular schedule. Thomas Fous, founder of the Review, established the paper as a means of combatting the overwhelming leftist attitude on campus, from the administratien to the editorial page of tile Michigan Daily. With support from local and national figures, including William F. Buckley, Gerald Ford, Stephen Tonsor, and the late Russell KiIk, the Review published its first issue in December of 1982. From. the beginning, the Review was designed to be a voice of conservatism. As the paper p:ogressed and grew, the editorial policy of the paper did as well. While the paper nm8ined OYa"Whelmingly conservative, many libertarians and moderates began to make their presence felt on the pages of the Review. The Review was becaning truly a review of all typeS of thought that had. been traditionally shut out on the U-M campus. Surprisingly, the Review did nat flourish during the eighties, as one might expect. While the Reagan Revolution did sweep across the nation, the Review maintained a relatively low profile on campus. This was soon to change, however. As the university became more active in its opposition to student's rights, the Review became more vocal and attracted a large and loyal readership on campus and 8croes the country. The Review led the way in opposing various speech codes that were instituted. by the university and later struck down by the courts as unconstitutional. The Review also became the leading voice against the insidious institution of political cxrrectness on the U-M campus. Throughout the past thirteen years, the Review has gone through many changes - same fer the worse, but most for the better. While it maintains its position as the leading vdce of conservatism on the U-M campus, the Review has evolved into much more than just a mini National Review. The Michigan Review plays an important role in influencing the debate on campus by allowing conservative, libertarian, and moderate students to speak their mind without fear of reprisal. While Michigan has a penchant for leftism, there are same students who believe that this orthodoxy needs to be challenged. If you would like to join the ranks of those who are fighting against politicized classrooms and championing the virtues of limited government and personal responsibility, then you should stop by our office in the Michigan League andjoin The Michigan Review. Ml

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A Triumphant Return to A2 BY

DEAN BAKOPOULOS

OU'VE BEEN BACK AT school for a couple weeks, and by now you have made small talk with numerous casual acquaintances, many of wham you've tried to aWlid eye ccmtact with in order to avoid the dread small talk staple question: How did you spend your summer? Perhaps ~u were able to say that you had a glamOl'OU.8 internship at a m~or corporation making thousands of dollars and sclnn<vYzjng with ocrpcratel:igwigs. Or ~ you spent the summer abroad learning about a unique culture as well as having a passionate summer r0mance with one of the locals. Finally, you may have spent the summer studying, preparing yourself for the challenging acadEmie year that lies ahead. Maybe, but probably not. Mere than likely, you held a job that paid slightly more than minimum wage while pr0viding you with absolutely no career experience whatsoever. Your days off were probably spent flipping through People magazine, eating vast amounts of Cheese Doodles, and watching WTBS's generous supply of A ndy Griffith reruns. Before you become a true replica of the marketing industty's model of a Generation Xer, welcome back to the invigorating, intellectually stimulating environment of Ann Arbor andtheUm~~of~~I~

your reacijustment to campus life is as smooth as mine was. After moving into myoff-campus home on Thursday, I spent the next

Dean Bakopoulos once spent an entire summer Bilently hoping that Gilligan and the Skipper would finally be rescued from their island before they killed each other.

twenty-four hours disinfecting the pemises with Ty-d-Bowl, Lemon Pledge, and Lysol Anti-bacterial cleaner. Once deocnt.amjnatim. was cxmplete, I settled into my very own bedroom. The fact that I have my very own room is quite beneficial to me, as I am still suffering horrific flashbacks as a result of my :ya;u: in a ocn.verted triple in Alice lloyd. I wandered downstairs, hungry after a grueling day of moving. I looked everywhere for a stack of orange trays, expecting to take my place in a lang line and partake in a feast of ChickEn Nuggets and Cap'n Crunch, my usual dam meal. Alas, my housemates quickly pointed out that I was responsible for my own meals, and 1 was forced to replace Alice Uo)d's ChefFlem.ing with my new friend ChefBoyardee. After I finished my third can r1Beef Ravioli, I decided a brisk walk would do me good, so I put on my new sneakers and headed out to the streets of Ann Arbor. I had forgotten how individualistic college students were until I saw that each off-campus house had flannel clad co-ed.s relaxing, listening to Pearl Jam, and drinking Ice beer. At first I thought that I had wandered into the set of Reality Bites 2, but then I remembered that, according to MTV, this is all my generation does. Alienated and dismayed, I decided to head to the Diag, the center· of Ann Arbor's throbbing brainpower. Upon entering the Diag, I found myself condemned to hell by three different people standing on benches. When I proceeded to ask why, I was told that I should not pass go or collect $200, but to proceed directly to Hell Recalling the fact that a day in the Diag is no fun without at least one condemnation to eternal oblivion, I smiled and returned to my home.

assure my traumitized and disillusimed I attended the Boston College game Saturday afternoon. There, I was mind that Brenda is not dead - she is really in London - and that Saved by reminded of the joys ofwatching a methe Bell is in fact make--believe, but, diocre game in the comfort of a beer90210 is definitely, absolutely real life. scented sardine can. That evening I I said that we should definitely help went out on the town, where many fine Dylan out somehow, and they nodded Greek organizations were hosting parin agreement as they locked me in my ties sharing the common theme of "Drink, Puke, and Take home a new bedroom. Finally, Thursday came, and I was friend whose name you won't rexnem.thrust head first back into the rigors of her in the morning." Unfortunately, I being a true gentleman scholar. I have was unable to get in so I went home, decided that I really love the U - M and drank three cans oficed tea really fast, the town of Ann Arbor. Yes, it's good to forced myself to vomit, and took a ranbe back. This year, I urge you to jc:in D1e dom .Polaroid of an unsuspecting fein making a fresh start. Make some male and slept with it under my pnow. new friends, join a new group, .study On Monday, I went to the Unioo. to even harder. Yes, this year will be mly purchase books for the Fall tenD. After as good as you make it, 80 stay positive. finding the texts, waiting in line, and have fun, and work hard. And as I rush shelling out $400, I finally returned through the masses of students, full of home on Wednesday. I was lucky to sit smiles andjoy, I take pleasure in knowdown on the couch just in time for the seaSon premiere r1 Beverly Hills 90210. . ing I can pull out my new issue of People &om my mailbox, grab a box of Unfortunately, my entire emotional Cheese Doodles and turn on Andy coruntioo. wastbrown entirely offkilter when Saved by the Bells K&y Kopowski Griffith. It's good to be back. M\ appeared as Valerie, the new kid from Buffalo. For the rest r1 the evening, my WRITE THE REVIEW housemates sat up with me,. tr,rt.tii to o~

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is unequaled in Ann Arbor, and the pricing is fairly competitive. An exception, howEMr, is the music secti.m: while the selection is admirable, the oompact discs are priced somewhat high. Ann Arbor buzzed this summer about the long awaited Borders move; when the move occurred. Borders regained its title as the mother of all Ann Arbor bookstaes. Also of interest to bookworms (or those who need books for humanities classes) Shaman Drum paralleled lkrden' move by renovating and expanding. Shaman Drum seemed out of the limelight at its previous second floor location; its new street lewllocation on State Street offers easier accessibility and a better display area. Unlike other bookstores, the interior of Shaman Drum is elegant and classy; it looks as iflittle expense was spared in the new location's renovation. Shaman Drum is known for its selection of humanities books - an:heology, anthropology, literature, philosophy, etc. - but it also atfen hard to find and altemative (read: radical) periodicals, fir example, Work-

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September 14, 1994

A Fitting Tribute

The life and times of Nobel laureate F.A. Hayek, as told by Hayek himself BY AARON STEELMAN

INCE IDS DEATH IN MARCH of 1992, F.A Ha)'ekhas achieved a level ofpopularity that he never attained during his life. His ideas are gaining a reD.ewed appreciation by the classical liberal community of which he had been a member long before his founding of the Mont Pelerin Society in

Hayek on Hayek Edited by Stephen Kresge and Leif Wenar University of Chicago Press

Cloth, 1994, 170 pages 1947. But more surprisingly, he and his ideas are finally getting a fair and 00.. jective hearing from the left, as witnessed by a recent essay on Hayek in Dissent, who had 80 long oft:..handedly depicted him as a reactionary to whom no serious attention should be paid. This newfOund interest in Hayek can be attributed to, more than anything else, the realization ofhow pr0phetic Hayek's warnings of the inviability of a planned economy were. While many American and European intellectuals were caught up sentimentalizing about what a great accomplishment the Soviet experiment was, Hayek steadfastly stuck to his guns and continued to fight for the sanctity of the individual. As the left's dreams came toppling to an all too fitting end with the collapse of the Berlin Wall, Hayek and his ideas were left standing. As a testimony to the great man's ideas, the University of Chicago began in 1988 to publish a nineteen volume set of Hayek's works, under the title of The Collected Works of FA. Hayek. As a supplement to this collection, Hayek on Hayek was published in May. Hayek on Hayek is an autobiographical sketch, usingnotaJ of Hayek's, material from eight interviews, and the text of a radio broadcast from 1945 which covers a debate between Hayek and two University of Chicago professors, one of whom was the 1940 vicepresidential candidate of the Socialist Party of America. The book opens with a lengthy in~on by Stephen Kresge, the general editor of The Collected Works. In fact the introduction takes up 35 of the 155 pages of text, a regretful thing in itself, but made even worse when one oonsiden that it is filled with sentences like, "'Einstein has said much the same thing," in response to a remark of Hayek's as to how he generated his

ideas. Clearly, Kresge is more thanjust an impartial observer to the life of FA H~ he is one who has been tremendously impacted by his ideas, and by the time the reader finishes the introduction. (a.ssum.i.ng he finally does make it to the end) there is no doubt in his mind about this. One will soon forget the folly of inclUding such a long and worshipful introduction, however, as the rest of the book is nothing less than ajoy. After Kresge's remarks the reader is plunged into Vienna at the turn of the century, where a young "Fritz" Hayek would begin to develop the ideas that would make him. a renowned figUl'e in the fight for freedom, and ultimat.e1yresult in his receiving the Nobel Prize fir econ.wUc science in 1974. Here we learn, largely through Hayek's own notes, of his upbringing and early interests, not the least of which was in the natural sciences; "My first scientific interest was, following my father, in botany," relates Hayek. Hayek then goes onto explain how his interests would gravitate towards the social sciences, "[M]y interest gradually shifted from botany to paleontology and the theory of evolution. I must. have been about sixteen. when I began to find man mOl'e interesting, and for a time played with the idea of becoming a psychiatrist. Also public life and certain aspects of social organization - such as education, the press, political parties - began to interest me, not so much as subjects for systematic study but from a desire to comprehend the world in which I was living." Once introduced to the social sciences Hayek would soon take up an interest in economics, holding very different views than he would at the end of his life, however. Hayek was fascinated with the ideas of the left, as were many young Europeans, and indeed was drawn to socialism through his readings of Karl Renner and Walter Rathenau. Yet this would soon change when he enrolled at the University of Vienna, for it was at the University where he would fIrst encounter the ideas of the early proponents of the Austrian school. "I was an early student of Wieser, and he originally had the greatest influence on me. I only met (Ludwig von) Mises really after I had taken my degree. But I now realizeI wouldn't have known it at the time - that the decisive influence was just reading Menger's Grundsmze," states Hayek. As for Hayek's relationship with Mises, the reader is treated to much infmmation that is unlikely to be found

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elsewhere. For example, Hayek responds to various questions about Mises, many of which are contentious in nature. Hayek discusses his differing opinions with Mises on rationality and ultimately views this as the reason why Mises' own attacks on socialism never were as effective as he had hoped. Hayek states, "[Mises] never could free himself from that fundamental philosophy, in which we have all grown up, that reason can do everything better than mere habit.... [A]lthough I accept nearly everything of his criticism of socialism, I now undtrStand why it has not been fully effective, because in his case it's still based on the fundamental mistake of rationalism and socialism, that we have the intellectual power to arrange everything rationally, which is now in conflict with the asserticn- In one place he says we can't do it, another place he argues, being rational we must try to do it." It is here that we see Hayek's ~:partmg of the ways with not only Mises, but also with another prominent twentieth century libertarian figure, Ayn Rand, who would eventually denounce Hayek's The Road-To Serfdom as the most dangefuus book ever written. While The Rood To Serfdom would catapult Hayek into an overnight celebrity it also did a good deal towards damaging his academic reputation and career. Hayek was no longer thought of as a respectable academic, he was now, according to the left, a popularizer of reactionary ideas par excellence. Indeed, excerpts from The Road To Serfdom had been published in The Readers Digest of all places. The left needed no more with which to insult Hayek, they could now claim that he had sold out his academic credentials and was just another polemicist and, with this, be done with Mr. Hayek as an intellectual adversary. Hayek would be forced to reclaim his academic standing, now in America at the University of Chicago. It was at Chicago that Hayek would not only have the job of restoring his academic respectability, which he was soon to do with the publication of The Sensory Order and The Constitution of Liberty, but also the pleasure of continuing his relationship with two young Chicago economists whom he had met at the initial meeting at Mont Pelerin, Milton Friedman and George Stigler. In addition to Friedman and Stigler, Hayek would have the opportunity to work with Aaron Director and two fellow future Nobel Prize winners, RH. Coase and Gary Becker. Clearly, this was a most stimulating intellectual environment in which ,to work. Yet,

Hayek never really became comfortable at Chicago, as witnessed by his remark, "Much as I enjoyed the intellectual environment that the University of Chicago offered, I never came to feel as much at home as I had in England." Hayek states that this was largely due to what he called "an inadequate provision" for his and his wife's retirement that the position offered, but one can sunni.se that it was in large part due to a severe depression that first grasped Hayek in Chicago, which at the time he attributed to giving up his pipe. Regardless, it is this part of the book, his recollection of his days at Chicago, that provides some of the most interesting reading, for it is here that Hayek not only comments on how he enjoyed his time at Chicago but also what he thought of Friedman, Stigler, et ai, as economists and thinkers. Indeed one finds a remark of Hayek's that would prove most enlightening to those who would like to lump the Chicago . and Austrian schools together as being one monolith of free-market thought: "Y ou know, one of the things I often have publicly said is that one of the . things I regret most is not having returned to a criticism. of Keynes's treatise, but it is as much true ofnot having criticized Milton's [Essays in] Positive Economics, which in a way is quite as dangerous a book." In 1961 Hayek left Chicago for a post at Freiburg which offered him a very generous package for his future retirement. He would remain in Freiburg, except for a rather unhappy stint at Salzburg from 1969 to 1977, for essentially the rest o{his life. Hayek's life was in many ways a turbulent one, regardless of his comment that it was "externally rather uneventful." He went from being the second most famous economist in the world in the thirties and early forties to an exile from his own profession just a few years later, and then in 1974 he would once again reach the peak ofhis profession with the awarding of the Nobel Prize. Clearly, Hayek and his ideas stood the test of time and while there are certain omissions that many readers will regret, for example there are no comments from. Hayek on his c0recipient of the Nobel Prize, Gunnar Myrdal, Hayek on Hayek sheds further light on the great man's career. It, like Margit von Mises' My Years With Ludwig von Mises, adds a personal dimension to a man whom many considered an intimidating intellectual. It is simply a must read for any serious fan or student of Hayek. Ml

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a time bomb," says Tommy Lee Jones' character about the maximum security jail which held Mickey and Mallory Knox, the heroes of Oliver Stane'slatest movie, Natural Born Killers. The bomb explodes, leaving many guards tortured and killed, inmates on the loose, and the Knox couple free to start living again. This comment and the ensuing events are a reflection of American Culture. Stone comments that America. much like the prison, is at risk of of exploding due to a lack of a goal or a sense ofintelligence. Mickey and Ma1l<ry lead lives simi-' lar to those led by many Americans today. Mallory, who was abused as a child, doesn't call a hotline or join a support group; instead, she kills her parents and tells her baby brother that he's finally free. To complement that, Mickey feels guilty for his father's suicide. These emotioos are banal; it seems that every talk show today has an :pr0gram about similar situations. Yet, for Mickey and Mallory, the reactions are excessive - just like the movie. The fascination with TV pop culture leads us to be unswayed by violence, sex, drugs, and basically anything strange or perverted. This movie, which has excessive violence, isn't as unnerving as the images which flash in vivid color before our eyes. The only complaint I had about the movie is that it entertained, like MTV, but a video lasts two or three minutes, while this visual barraie lasta far over three hours. While testing the mind, it hmt my eyes. Nonetb.eles.s, this movie was immensely thought-provoking. The surreal atmosphere, along with the music, which varies from opera to Jane's Addiction, carry us along on the ultimate road trip: it's Thelma and Louise, with a vengeance. The time bomb Stone unleashes lies not in the charactErs of Mickey and Mallory Knox; rather, they lie in the masses, those followers who hail the duo as heroes and role models. They are the ultimate alternative. They buck the system entirely. And throughout the movie, me wonden how they could possibly be good guys. We only see the salvation in the final scenes. Wayne host of American Maniacs, an inveetigative tabloid TV show, sees himself as part of the invincible media Much like the annoying figures we watch every day on the tube, he thinks he can break any kind of story, survive, writeBy a book, andhim, be both rich and famous. killing Mickey

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is from afar, much like a certain video and Mallory ruin that dream. That is deed will lead to a scenerio much like tape we watched for hours a few years the one portrayed in the film (without the turning point ofthe movie. Mickey ago. This, with many others, packs the the soundtrack and flashing lighte ).. and Mallory overcome the media They extra disturbing punch which makes choose what people will watch and what Stone infuses images froot our curus think about where we are headed. they will remember. rent media into this movie, which makes Natural Born Killers comments on In essence, America is a time bcmb, further impact on our minds. In fact, many facets of Am~can Culture, but much like the prison, because of the there are many Cameo appearances, only an attentive audjence which listrash too many people treasure. To reincluding ROOney King, who asks us to tens will be able to graSp Stone's true verse the trend of MTV pop propaget along, OJ Simpson, the Menendez meaning. Unfortunately, ifpeople go ganda culture, America needs to rebrothers, and more. Not only faces, but for the enjoyment only 8l)d not for a think and define it's purpose. With all also actions reflect the truth in this stimulating experience, this movie will fiction script. For example, when the of the problems that have infected our be dismissed as just another action cops finally catch Mickey, they beat culture, we .have lost our identity as a flick with innovative art. Mt him to the ground, and the view we see country. and the lack of direction in~------------------------------~-------------------------------------------------.

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RegardSims and McNeilly is quite feeling that way. Yau'll have to decide less, the Jesus Lizard is, without a powerful throughout with a for yourself who to believe, the dumb slew of cool drum beats and doubt, one hell r-----------, critic or one of the guys making the pumping bass linel3. · of a rock and the J ..ua l.Jzard music. roll outfit. The Doum Dennison, who said he is curSome of the songs on the second rently taking cues mostly key to their Touch aDd Go greatnees is the L..-_ _ _ _ _- - - I side lack the punch of the first side, but from Sonic Youth, the John · the album closes out with the tearsimple fact that not only do they rock, Spencer Blues Explosion. jerking "Elegy" and the body-shaking but they do 80 in ways that haven't Helmet, Mark Rebot and a . "The Best Parts." It is simply a song already been done one million times litile bit ofjazz, COltinuee to about a dnmken woman who "gives the before. Because of thi.&. one reviewer ~e on guitar. Trained ui boys a look at the best parts." classical guitar at EMU, has even been led to call them the "'U3d Zeppelin ofrock experimentalism. .. The Jesus Lizard will be playing Dennison plays with furious St. Andrew's Hall in Detroit on SaturFamed in 1988 in Austin, Texas by precision but does not try tQ day, September 17, and I highly recomDavid Yow, David Sims (lxth alumni. bowlover the audien.c:e. Uh~ mended that you should attend if you the legendary Scratch Acid) and Michilike· previous albums, are interested in good quality rock and gan native Duane Dennison, the Jesus Dennison plays more guitar ~ guplhlring. group hug. roll Ml Lizard has eince released a maSsiv.ely , solos on Down, and he said add a nice ccmedy touch that the Jesus this was because the band was "getting impressive disc:osraPhy. Lizai-d has always had. more comfortable With keeping songs Their first effort, Pure, was hampered by the use ofa drum machine, but .. soon after its release, they relocated to Chicago and were joined by drummer Mac McNeilly. Their first full-length LP, Head, released. in 1990, was light years beYQlld the Pure material and is a golfnut; thus we have the first golf the Manhattan golf cart scenes will quite spectacular. The next LP was BY DEAN BAKOPOULOS start a trend" music video. Mascia needs to balance 1991's Goat, ~one«myan time No matter how good his golf game his time between golf and music. "For favorite rock and roll albums. Liar folMASCIS HAS ENJOYED gets, it's clear from Without a Sound now, Sunday is a golf day," he says. "I lowed a year and a halflater and was moderate success with Dinosaur that Mascis should stick with music. really prefer to play the white trash along the same lines as Goat but perJr. A few profitable albums and Every track on this LP is solid, and haps a notch below. Aft.er the release of same soundtrack appearances (includmany of them are gems. The second Liar, there was a split single with Niring this years hit Reality Bites) have track, "Don't Think So," is one such made Dinosaur r -____ vana released on Touch and Go resultgem. Combining a driven melody ing in more mainstream press than Jr. a househdd Dinosaur Jr. and an unforced sense of despair, previously received They gained a few name in the al- Without a Sound this track is a good bet to be the next more fans in addition to their already temative music Warner Bros. industry. How- L -_ _ _ _ _ _.....l ~yed videom. MTV. Two other substantial base arising from thar:non:tracks that rank among the best on stop touring. After two years of waitever, the latest release from Dinosaur, the album are "Outta Hand" and ing, the Jesus Lizard have released the Without A Sound, may be 80 good that "Mind Glow." "Outta Hand" features it propels the band into the trendoid, DownLP. the softest, sweetest tune ever reover-exposed worldofMTV. '!hat's the It is by no means a great departure corded by Dinosaur Jr. In fact, the price J Mascis will have to pay for from their previous efforts, but Down guitar ~ons are so fluid that might possibly be a little less abrasive. putting out this darn good album, arguthey are vaguely reminiscient of V an David Yow claimed in another article ably the best album release since Morrison's smg "Sweet Thing." AnPavement's Crooked Rain, Crooked that the difference in the actual sound other emotional tune is "On the cL Down and their past material is due Rain. Brink," a song the press kit characThe liggest hit cLthe album is "Feel to different rec:uding methods utilized terizes as "Subsonic despair of winby their long time rec:uding engineer, Your Pain," a song written in the waitdow rattling JrOP(rlic:ns. S<xne days ing room of a cbi.ropracta's office. MTV Steve Albini. The songa themselves you need a oomp8SB just to get out of might also be a little less grating but, has already gotten a copy of the video bed" for "Feel the Pain," a humorous golfthis in no way means the Jesus Lizard has softened up in any way. Down is themed one that goes well with the These guys only had enough CI8h for one haircut Ind~, J Mascis has created a _ masterpiece. There's no forced anI!OIlg's caU:h.y, guitar-driven melody. Acquite a rocking record. courses. The other ·places get snooty ger here (see MTV), just a genuinely In an interview, J)ennieon, an F.,ast. cadingto a recent press release, Mascis and strange about letting non-mememotional collection of tunes. Withjust ern Michigan University graduate, said Dean Bakopoulos plays golf every day hers play." Of the video Mascia says, the right blend cL angst, hmnor, melody, except Wedne!Jday, when he plays "It's the first golf video I know of on and distortion, Mascis once again has Bob SchlanJrowski i.8 a distant cousin of croquet. MTV, but it won't be the last. I think proven his musical genius. Ml BritainB Prince Charles.

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OT AN ALBUM ABOUT EGO or pretense, vocalist/guitarist Chris Toppn describes Fuzzy's self-titled, debut full-length as "an album of really good pop

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Although they have since moved their way up to Seed Reca:ds, the band is still living in the familiar land of musical checurity as one may have witnessed first-hand at their unglamorous show at St. Andrew's last Friday. Fuzzy rocked out their batch of dirty pop songs to 20 sedentary people <nly to be cut sh.crt to make time fur St. AndreWs attempt at a danoo club, 'I'hree Floors of Fun . But those 20 glimpsed a band that could still crank out the kind C£melodic rock that Juliana Hatfield only dreams about.

VERYTHING ABOUT THIS band gives me chills. From vocalist/guitarist Dan Hoerner's youthful, occasionally androgynous rasp to Ch.ri.stqiler Th.c.a:n.ps<n.'s warped Fisher-Price pack- ,...,_ _ _ _ _..., aging, Sunny Day SumayDay Re{U Estate is fullReal Estate out mind-altaing. Diar:y Unfortu- Sub Pop nately, their'L...-------J prese-kit is virtually p:-estHess. I don't know much about Sunny D except that they are touring with labelmates Ve10city Girl and that MTV occasionally plays of their A-Ha!-e8que video for "Seven." I'll 00 my best to find the right words to praise their mastery. Hoexners vocals, which range from whispery murnbJings to the perfect desperate screech, always manage to 0verpower even the most heavily pronounced rhythms of bassist Nate Mendel, guitarist William Goldsmith and drummer Jeremy Enigk. Simply put, Diary is a perfect batch of perfect passion. HEN VOCALISTI guitarist Chick Gnmning was 17, he was the fortunate survivcr of an unfcrlu.nate car crash. Life afterwards was devoted to rock-n-t:"Oll,

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the next big MilIa sensation. The Divine Comedy "well, we 8BKReeords hit the teen- '--_ _ _ _ _ _--J aged girls with the New Kids, the altemateens with STP, andjust about everym.e else with Vanilla Ice. We need a new corporat;e:...mad,e gimmick." ~Good idea, Rex! You know, we haven't suckered the. under-sexed males of America yet." "Thorton, you may be onto something there! Why don't we get a hot model to sing for us? Maybe Cindy Crawford or something?" "Actually, that Milia girl is a real hit right now, she even acted in that movie about the nutty hippies ..." "Dazed and Confused? She barely even opened her mouth!" "Regardless, we can say that she's great at everything!" "You got a point there. But what if she's a bad songwriter?" "It doesn't matter. First of all, she's hot. Second of all, we'll get her to listen to lots of Tori Amos and Sarah McLachlan, throw in a bunch of talented musicians with exotic instru1DSlts, and even though she wem't pluck a note em the album, her press photos will show her all sexy and stuff with a guitar." "How about a mandolin?" "Even better." Mllla plays with the Crash Test Dummies on Friday, September 16th at Hill Auditorium. EdQoy!

UITARIST GRAEME Naysmith, bassistI vocalist Ian Masters and drummer Chris Cooper came together in Leeds during 1987 to form the . - - - - - - - - , Pale Saints, a band Pale Saints that would rise Slow Building. above the pouty, 4AD po ofy -1 ip pe d '--_ _ _ _----J pansy-bands that seem. to ooze from the pores of Britain.

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but how could they follow up such an album? Instead of con- Various tinuing to spew out Rari.tie. Vol. 1 the same songs Geffen with the same con- '--_ _ _ _ _...J narrowly focused to. cepts, Sloan is taking a totally <:ti.fferent app-oach to their pop songs with Twice Removed. With an older, mare Rdling Stoneetype production, Sloan still cranks out pop rock with jems like "Coax Me" and . "Pen. Pals." The seocnd band, Wf!Jf!fr.eC, has released a self-titled debut that coincidentally revels in the same thick and juicy guitarwork and pop melodies that Smeared displayed, courtesy of guitarist! vocalist/genius RiversCuomo. Songs like "The World has turned and left me here" and "Buddy Holly" show Rivers' ability to make bothjumpy and serious pop songs. Weezers tune on Geffen's Rarities Vol. Mandolin? Whllever you ny, r.tIlI. 1 is yet another reasen to pIq> down a mere eight bucks fur Although slight line-up changes plenty of fine songs from the Sundays, have altered the Pale Saints, even the Sloan and Teenage Fanclub. Even unfortunate departure of Masters has Nirvana's earlier version of "Stay left them creatively unstoppable. Slow Away," entitled "Pay to Play" is pretty Buildings is another wonderfully spatcool. tered painting in the Pale Saints portBefore you go out and buy these, I folio. have one last pug fo:" Sloan. The single for "Take It In," from UndeTWhelmed, WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THIS features two non.-album tracks. Buy moment to praise Todd Sullivan, this. The second of these, "Laying the genius at Geffen Records who signed two of the r,- - - - - - - - , Blame," is not only c:ne ofthe best Sloan. songs ever, it is possibly one of the beet best pop bands to Sloan pop songs written in the past few years. grace the nasty Twice Removed WhewlMl world of major la- Geffen bels. The first: Sloan. Sloan quickly burst into rock stardom with "Underwhelmed," the first single from the underappreciated ,---- - - , Smeared. Well, not re- Weezer Join the Review music staff and ally stardom but a select Wee.zer you can get all kinds of good free few know that they rock. Geffen stuff. Come to our mass meeting With four separately '--_ _ _-J

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