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Volume 14. Number 3 .

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The Campus Affairs Journal of the University of Michigan

U-M Explores Mandatory Health Care

BY PAUL DEFLomo

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NRESPONSETOMOUNTING concern that many students are either uninsured or under-insured, the Offi.ce of Student Affain (OSA) recently commisaioned an outside consulting agency to study the state ofhealth care at the University.

The Office of Student Affairs (OSA) commis8ioned Stephen L. Beckley & Associate. (SLBA) to cr&ate a report concerning the present state of student health care at the University, as well as possible 801utiODll iftbe.re are indeed probleJDI. As a reBUlt, SLBA determined that ex;i.at.. ing plana can no loJl8W meet student health care n.eeda. To add.real the problem, the rompany:reeommended the adoption of a univenal, mandatory health eare plan.

Under the new proposal. cUrrent Uniuimy health care optiOll8 would be replaced bya U~.,... tem. 'Ihrough a UniveraityHealth Service (UHS) fee increase of apporximately $250 per semester, the eervice8 provided by the UHB would be expanded into a comprehensive health care plan. With the C\UTent UHS fee. the increase in fee would bring the total fee to approximately $850 a semester. Since the plan is

mandatory, financial aid would apply to the fee. '!he plan ala9 covers summer months, when most students are not at the Unjverslty.

Under the proposal. which is e8sentially a typical managed health care plan, students would use UHS as a primary care service. Ifmore intensive care is necessary, UHS doctors

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would make refeITals to specialists effective risk pool. working within the plan's hospital ViC&-President for Student Mnetwork.. '!he plan is comparable to fairs Maureen Hartford, whose office leading managed care health plans, commissioned the study, said that and in addition to co-pays, the plan "there has been interest at the Unicovers 90 percent ofinpa- ..:-=: • , . -"' """" tient care, with a maximum out-ot-pock.et expense.

In addition to covering students" 1I\1Ul'l . .es related,to varsity and intramuru sports, and providing pre~ scription drug benefits, the plan would also include provision8 for mental health coverage for all stUdents. i · .. .

When enacted, the plan The UHS may play ......:... In hilllhcare. wou1d. be mandatmy, mean,ing that all students would be reversity for some time about student quired to ~;'unJesa they can ,health insurance." conclusively prove that their CUITent In addition to coneulting with Beckley, Hartford has involved the health ineurance meeta the standards of the program being offered by the Michigan Student Asaembly (MSA), University. The propoeal out1inee criusing MBA President Flint Wainess teria for comparatiVe evaluation of. health care plans. '!he plan was partly constructed around statistics taken from the Rackbam School of Graduate Studies. This data show8 that approximately 13 percent ofRackham. students are uninsured. ByextrapolatBY SHERBAN DRULEA ing these statistics with national deQUG FRIEDMAN IS ANYmographics, the report concluded that thing but a politician.

Frierunan,wholivesinthe Northwood apartments and attends the U-M, is simply an everyday citizen running for Ann Arbor City Council. In fact, he views his background as an advantage. He claims that it makes him an alternative to his opponot enough undergraduates were innents, who "offer only more of the sured, and that too many students same." were under-insured.

-nrlngs·need to be fixed," he says.

Poor relations between the Univer'!he plan estimates that approximately 70 percent of all students at sity and the council are one of the the University would be covered by main reasons why Friedman decided the plan. Furthermore, the proposal to run. He jokingly likened the tumulstates that a 70 percent participation tuous relationship between the two rate is necessary to maintain a cost as similar to that of"Hamas and Is-

as a student liaison. In addition, the MBA'8 Health Issues Commission issued a press release that voiced serious concerns about the plan. The roncerns include the arbitrary nature of comparing health plans, the accuracy of the predicted risk pool, and the actual benefit to students who cannot afford health care (who would be nonetheless affected by Universityfees).

According to Gerard Castaneda, chair of the Health Issues Commission, "'The solution may not lie in the proposed plan - other possibilities exis~ including expansion of the cu.rrent optional MBA plan." If MBA votes to approve the proposal. with or without minor modiflcationa, then the Board of Regents ieexpected to accept and enact the plaJi. Student. wishing to find out more about he plan sbouJd oonact the Heal1h Is8ues Commission at the above eJWW'address. m

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rael." According to Friedman, the council views students primarily as a "revenue source." He sights the "oppressive" number of parking cops as an example of this. Moreover, he claims that the council deliberately split up the different voting districts to prevent 8tudents from voting together in local elections. "'!bey made sure that the students wouldn't have a voice," he explains. As a student himself, he intends to work "with" the University and to try to provide cohesion between it and the oouncil, which he believes will derive mutual benefit.

Friedman also pla1).8 to drastically reduce what he views as overly

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THE MICIflGAN REVIEW

o SERPENT'S room U-M President James Dudentadt ahocked many by announcing he would resign at the end of the year.

M one ofm. reasons, he states that he baa completed many of the tasks on hie original agenda. "Let'e see ...

Armed troopers to enforce my poli~ des: check. Oppressive, \Dlconatitu~ tional JlOIHlcademic code of conduct: check .....

Recently, the 16 yeal'-<lld daughter of Vice President AI Gore was ticketed for underage possession of alcohol when ahe was caught by police with an open can ofbeer at a party. 'l1rls came u a major embarraaament to the Gene; Al'e wife, 1ipper, it eeema, baa been preaching that parents should teacll their children not to drink. Serpent's Tooth wonders if a cloee check of Republican financial recorda will reveal a major expenditure (or beer Cor an unspecified -eo-

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on time overnight delivery rate to 87 percent, an increase of four percentage points. Another audit, conducted by theNRA, revealed that the marks~ manship of certain disgruntJed employees has improved by 35 percentage points.

TOP TEN TmNGS YOUR T.A THINKS BEFORE AN EXAM

10. "Wait till they get a load of tm. questionl" 9. 'TIl bet John there will be SOITY he asks all those stupid questions in section after thisl"

It seems that President Duderstadt will go back to teaching after his resignation takes efl'ed; in June. Classes he will not teach are Due Process 101 and Students' Rights 220. A miniCOUl'8e in administrative double-talk will be offered, however.

8. "NOli NOli MAKE IT STOPIl" 7. "Wait till these suckers find out there's no curve ... " 6. "Why am I T.A'ing Bio. ifl'm a Nuclear Engineering major?"

5. "Please, no more essays."

4. "Now they want it graded in an hour?t? Are they nuts?l?"

8. 'Td like to see the goddamn professor 'sit here with these whiners for a while."

2. "Why in the name of God am I doing this and my dissertation at the same time???"

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o THE ELECI'ruC SNAPPLE ACID TEST Why Can't We Just Get a Life? traordinary life - as judged by otha rip about their own lives.

This is what is fascinating about ers.

While the above situation is most 1""8 NOT JUST A TREND, the whole thing. Because the people certainly extreme, it happens consisit's an epidemic of bubonic procare 80 much about experiences in tently in varying degrees. It's hard to portion. It's a plague of others' lives, they neglect their own, come up with specific examples, but oxymoronic non--amlformity, of cop~ and then beconie the icons they're 80 just ask yourself (and your mends) a catted repetition. It's a d.ieeaee maniaddicted to. It's circular. Let me pose few questiOlll8: Would you like to be on feat in all parta of society. 'I1Ua sickenthis theoretical situation (though rm a talk show? Do you want your "15 ina .mbition ofhuman behavior is 8Ul"e it's become a reality at some minutes offame?, lfyou answer yes tn what I, and many othera, deem "Jivpoint): JoeScbmoe sits around all ing one's life vicariously through day, watching talk shows, flipthe quesUOIIl8, as I did. then you might be living your life vicariously through othen." ping to O.J., flipping to soap opothers, and may in fact be altering In other words, get a life. eras, etc., on the television. Beyour actions as a retrult.

Alas, to avoid being labeled a cause his life is rather boring, he 'That's OK. Just don't go on a trihypocrite, I must admit that l, too, becomes obse88ed with the charstate killing spree, or engage in a often 1iw my life vicarioualytbrough acters he sees on TV. He even shoot-out at your local post office. others. buys a Wedly World NetV8. Evenlike most things, as long as one doesn't tually, he begins mimicking the I watm talk shows, I watcb.(ed) live one's life too vicariously through the Simpson trial, I watch TIM Real characte:rs he lives through vicarianother, then usually things are World, I gossip, and I even read the ously, until at some point be actualright. I mean, come on, we all have Wedly World NeIN. 'Ibere', a camally begins acting out what he to admit that it'd be great to ta.lk to mon thread between an these seem, BeeS .others do. For example, he Jenny Jones or Montelin person, or ingly unrelated items: they're all ~y start; becoming a compulsive bued on emaordinary events - in lAMe me .... rm reeding Weekly World News. over.eater, or he may staIt piercaetua1ly .be a feature story in the Wedly World NeuJ#. It might even be other people'sli'Yel. sues husband fOr p;oor sex. then wants '_,ina random. partII ofhis body because neat to live the life of one of those This leacla to the c::rux of the concti:Yoroe after be ~ mto a nympho" be saw it on N. While the actions this cept of living one's life vicariously are perfect examples, and rm not .• person mimias mayor may not be bad, dorka on 90210 ... Hey, wouldn't you love to be a star witneas? Or maybe through ot:ben. It'. the kIM that since even makjng tl!e.,up. People (inthe fact is ~t he is no longer living apply to T he Real World? I think we dwting myaelf) read this rubbish behis life (or ~ sake of himself. He', most mea are relatively homeostatic, everyday-Joe, and even mundane, cause they can't, won't, or refuse to living it for the sake ofliving an ex~,need to get a life. OJ many react to thia by aeekiJ)g to actd experience what they :read on the an exotic or extraordinary element to WeUl, World N~' page.; what ,1 their own lives. In fact, I propose the can't experience for myself I have to following theorem: Because most inexperience through others.

Consider aoap operas - be it teendividuala live an uneventful existence, they seek to maxjmize the e1eage onee like 902JO ortwen~mement of exotica in their lives. thing ones like The Reol World or Given that acceaaibility to exotica housewife ones like The Young and is a problem in most' people's lives, the RUtle811. In every case, the inthey seek to obtain it from sources tended audience is supposed to view other than ad:ual ~ In other each show as "the exciting lives of G~eenpeace words, people seek ~ces from others." But isn't this the same as other people'slivea to fulfill the voids escapism? No, because the basic in their own lives. premise of escapism is to flee the 'lbia explains the exisUmce of talk problems of one's life, or society, or mowlI. It'a not as iftheee mows are environment. In the case of soap operas, people watch them fur the drama actually trying to solve the problems of the world, i.e. stopping Suzy from (well, melodrama). People want to humping everything in sight, or why experience the ups and downs ofrelaJoe is into that body piercing thing. tionahips in The Young and the RutWhile many talk abowa'(read: Mc:mtel) lull; people want to experience the hide behind the guise of-saving the oh-eo-tough times ofbourgeois teenagera in 90210; people want to experiworld from itself," they actally just deliver ~sip and a quick fb. for the ence. Puck. getting booted out of ~e I extraordinary. Talk shows provide an pad m The Real World. Once agam, .1.1 I . element of~ e:'~ that is misaing ~e wi~ess. peoples' desire to live their I For a tax-deductible contribution of $25 or more, you will receive a one-year I from peoplea lives, m concordance lives Vlcanously through others.

I subscription which includes 13 hi-weekly issues and the 1996 Summer Orientation I with the theory above.

Is this a bad thing? Does it really I Issue.

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I Wedly World New. satiates the bumedia have evolved (devolved?) to a I d I man deeire for exotica. The funny state that provides ilKndible amounta A dress: I thing about tbiJ pqb1kation, however, ofinfimnation at desire, it's certainly I . . . '. is that it is 10 fal"-fetched and obvi- . undandy that people scarf up thie I CIty. State.

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HE UNIVERSJ1Y OF MICInGAN IS ONCE AGAIN DISPLAYING A tacit diaregard for student rights and needs, as proven by the proposed mandatory student health insurance plan. Not only is this plan financially Ull8Ound, it is empirically unproven and relies on coercion for its eft'ective implementation..

The basics of the plan include adding approximately $250 per term to the current University Health Services fee, in return for which students would receive a full....fledged health care plan. All students would be required to pay this fee with tuition - a student may qualify for a refund only if he can demonstrate that his health insunmoe is equal to or better than the University's service. The idea that the burden of proof be on the student is ludicrous, and it shows yet another subjective ambiguity in the plan, as determining whether or not one insurance plan is better than another is dubious at best.

The writsrs ~the plaD. abo": their obvious ignorance toward the ladl: ~need for mandatory health insurance for U-M students. While the plan cites a recent study revealing that 13 percent of Rackham students are not insured, it mentions nothing concerning uninsured rates for undergraduate students.

Common sense says that since most undergraduates are covered under their parents' policy, the percentage of uninsured undergraduates will be lower than 13 percent. In any case, a rate of 13 percent uninsured for Rackham, coupled witJi an even lower rate for undergraduates, should not be deemed a health care crisis.

The finandal baaie of the plan lies in coercion.. A large risk pool is needed to make the plan affordable and. effective, and the only way to ensure this is..!D make the insurance mandatory. The proposal ~ that a 70 percent participation rate is needed for the plan to be cost effective; coincidentally, the proposal estimates that the plan will affect 70 percenfj .of all stUdents. Being that the plan baa substantiated statistics for only about 30 percent of an students, maintaining that the remainder can be obtained.. wit,q audt.a sample size ia a questionable asaumption. Furthermore, the fact that the SO percent includes only Rack-ham, which has vastly different demographics than the undergraduate population, poses quite a threat to obtaining the DeCeSS8l"V 70 percent participation.

While many of the uninsured cannot afford health insurance, the proposed plan will force everyone to purchase the University's insurance. Purchasing cheaper insurance is not an option under the proposed plan.' 'lbis is its greatest flaw: while the plan exists to provide health insurance to all studentB, it doesn't addresa the fuct that those who cannot afford insurance are still required to pay for it. What problem does this solve? If a student cannot afford insurance, mandating hiJi? to purcllase insurance is not an acceptable solution. Because it ' would be a reqJJired plan, it would be covered by financial aid, but since this could amount to $2,000 in additional loans over four years, it is still an unfirlr burden on the college student. While the plan may be a good deal, it doee not address the affordability of health care for many individuals.

In addition, what student input was solicited for this propoeed health plan, let alone for any proposed health insurance plan? 'Iime and time again the University either ignores or does not solicit student input Where were the open forums and the Dlasa meetings? '!he only contact ever made with students was through Michigan Student Assembly (MBA) President Flint Wainess, who in tum. distributed the plan to the Health Issues Commission (HIC) ofMSAfor review. '!he mc has done its best to publicize and solicit input concerning the plan, but this is a task. that is the responsibility of the University. Before drawing a propoeal concerning an issue that affecta all students at a cost of$20 million per year, the University should pursue student input.

Pending MBA approval, the plan will be forwarded to the Board of Regents.

Other isaues aside, if MSA approves the plan, the regents will probably do likewise. The plan should never reach the regents, however, as MBA should Imanimoualy reject it Not only is it a ooe.rd.ve plan based on unsubstantiated claims, the authors never considered student input when writing the pIan..At a rats oC $20 mi11jan a year, this plan is a gamble the U-M should not UDdertake.

While there should be definite conoem about undeHnsured and uninsUred students, a mandatory health insurance plan is not a viable option, neither philosophically nor pragmatically. If the current voluntary health insurance offered through MBA is not sufficient, then maybe it should be improwd. As the plan states, a comprehensive 8U1"Vey of undergraduates should be undertaken.

But, in any case, the University should be solely concerned with educating its students, not with Mcard, not with a non-academic code of conduct, and oertain1y not with health insurance. Ml

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HILE THE 1995 TIGERS' BASEBALL SEASON HAS COME AND gone, the debate BUrrounding how to fund the proposed new TIger stadium has not suJwidecl ~ propoea1s call for the city of Detroit and the state of Michigan to carry a portion of this fiDancial burden. Such propoea1s are misguided, however, for they rely on public funds when ~ with a private enterprise.

Perhaps the best argument against the U8e of public funds is that such funding oomes man taxation - monies that the state and city require one to pay by threatening punishment 'lhus, the city and state are attempting to fund the new 'llger stadium. through coercive means. The building of a new stadium is outside of govemment's role of protecting individual rightB; such a project only compromises one's right to keep one's property for peaceful uses. Additionally, coercive ftmding of a stadium. may result in eamomic inefficiencies - the government may build a stadium. when the IIUU'ket does not demand one. Such problema conceming pluperty rights and economic efficiency are unnecessary, for the private funding of a new stadium will solve them.

While baseba1l bu traditionally been a part of Detroit, the fact remains that this spartis merely a ftaction ofthe entertainment:market. 'Illere is·plenty ofentertainment fnm whidl to choose, and many people may hold no interest in baseball Aleo, aome people may live a great distance from Detroit, making it inoonvenient to travel to the stadium. Given tbia, why should the govemmeD.t burden an state taxpayers with the coat of a new stadium when many of them - perhaps even a ~ty - will not use it? Such a proposal is unfair, for it inflicts coat on BODle taxpayers without returning any benefit.

One must remember that the TIgers baseball dub is a private organization, and as such, it atriws to increase its profits. Ifthe government doea assist in the funding of a new stadium, it will give this organization an unfair advantage in the market. Indeed, DOt all private organizations have access to public money, and. they must compete in the IIUU'ket aa:ontingly. Thus, any organization that does:reoeiw pub1ic funds holds an advantage aver the rest, for it may rely upori this governmental aid to assist in its profit-making. For this reason, the government should be entirely neutl'al concerning the market, adopting a ~ fiJire poeition to flD8UJ"e free tnmsactions. Sudl a position eliminates the option ofpubliciy fimeting a new stadium. 'llrla argument is DOt to say that the 1lgera organization should not build a new stadium; indeed, it has every light to determine where it will provide its aervicea. As a privats organimtim. howe¥er, it sboWd fimd its own expenditures, and not burden the taxpa:yera ofMicbigan with unnecessary costs. Ml -Jametl A. Roberttt,ll

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o THE INFoRMATION SUPERSTOPSIGN

Tolerance

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AHr WEEK I SAW A BAND of "Christiana" march around the Diag with sigDa proclaiming friendly words of wiBdom like, • AIDS: 'llle Homoeexuala' Contribution to the World!; and pointing at . studente, declaring, caey, you're on the path to Hellt" or roUl"88. this was meant to get people piaaed off, and it worked. This paeudo-niligiou behavior (cross reference with the word "pseudointellectual"} is just one example of the end of tolerance in America.

From the hate-propagation of Amendment 2 in Colorado. to the divisive, cIaaaist overttar.. of the "Contract With America,· to the violence and bittemea&81DTOUDding the legality of abortion and ita govermnenQ11 flmding, we are amatantly reminded of intolerant attitudes in this countIy. Ewm. a ceriBin mwdttt trial (wbidl ~ will find nowhere in this newapaper) was clouded by iaaues of racism - a raelet cop and allegati0D8 of planted evidence, and the view that no black person can get a fair trial After a period of letting political correctneaa make us kinder and nicer. vitriol is gushing tOrth from human minde li.ke lava from a volcano.

I think that much of tbia intolerance stema from well-meaning intentiOll8. Yea, thafs right. Uke it or not, these hate-mongera are not. bad or evil or malicious. Deep in.aide. they feel a fundamental CIIlHng on 8OII1e issue; they are out U1ere being jerks because they 1hink that they are beJ:ping people in the proceaa. Religibua folk have what are, at least from their standpoint, wholesome rea80ns to oppose homoeexuality. The Republicans once believed that the whole country would benefit from the "'trick.l..down" economics of aiding the rich ~ of the poor. Even the Ku Khr.l Klan probablyViewa iiBelf as a defender of the faith and of the people. SomewheI'e along the way, however, any good intention got muddled by the ever-lallihle human mind, and the product is intolerant, ilTeproachable behavior. This is not a defense ofany oftbeee ~ rather. it is merely that which is neoeaury to even begin to undsratand them..

You see, intolerance is a function of oonfusion and not ofill-wi1l People lose track of the filet that they are hurting people and, often, having a destzuct;iw impact an their own cause.

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It all starts with BOJDething I call the the Natural Science Museum? Just and they don't want to be forcibly -debaters itch.- (No, ifyou.'re asking, . let it slide. Now he's telling him that ronvert.ed into heterosexuals. 'l1rl.s is ifs not a bacterial iDfecti.on.) Ifs that thermodynamics is the easiest class obvious; no one likes to be told, "(Inurge that foroea people to argue with he ever took? Don't even comment. sert a label here) are bad and evil and.

8Omeone, even over the moat minute 1he problem with this tactic is obviGod should strike them down'" No points. Some people are WorBe than ous. Pretty soon, people will be drivone that I know, at least. othmJ, but ~ in1mlectuOf rourse, this is the easier part of ala are the wont cuJpi.t:a. the solution. The bard part is knowofa1l We get used to baving when your own beliefs and qpining cdiacuasiona- with ions are too questionable to be forced our peers, the 1iiends we upon other people. Like it or not, it's tzust to be able to withessentially impossible for any ofus to stand a good. violent arbe absolutely right all the time. Furgwnent. Then we unthermore, it's nearly impossible to thinkingly aaaault an understand an issue as it pertains to emotionally-weaker persomeone else perfectly. Sometimes we eon. and accidentally rip have to admit that there's a pretty bia spine out. Yau lmow dam good chance that we're full of it, how it is. an~ make the decision to keep our Over the years, mouths shut. through rountlesa argu'lbere is anoJd, well-known aphoments and debdaI, IJOIDe rism. that one catches more flies with of the wont ReplJbJiama honey than with vinegar. Perhaps came to equate the fiillthis is a good lesson for those who find ing8 of the poe.- with evil. they must argue, whether in a apeSome Christiana,.~ c:ific case, or just in general. If they to bate the sinneI- instmd have to try and .convert someone to of the sin they penaVe. Convtnion br ton:e •• bid 1hkIg, n'eat pas? their paradigm, then they at least After 80 many encounters with raeing off'brok.en bridges to their nasty should do it nicely. Oddly enough, ista, some would-be political sciendea.the by the thousands, taking DeWS ~ple will occasionally admit they tistabegan to ......-akio. cob'1r.ith lJroadca.t. at filce-value, and letting ,,/,' are wrong when prodded gently, berac:iam, U8Q!Djng thBt 4MD'Y white is Vanilla Ice get a nmewed reCord 0011C8U88, Il8 much Il8 people like their . racist and every black is a victim.. tract. opiniona to berigbt, they will Qft;en This seems to bappen in even. the 'l1!e simple buth is that there are change them once they are firmly moat trivial debates - I have seen timee when we cannot let our friends ocmvinced. that they are wrong. 1hafs people call each other fooJa andjerb (or even. our enemies) rontinue to be not to say one should prod people simply because of the kind of romwrong. Such iaaues include safety, gently into conformation lDltil we are puter they have on 1heirdesk1upe. Ifs prosperity, religious significance all donee; a gentle ausader isn't much inevitable because the logical and in shmt, rue and death, whether acabetUn- than a crass one. emotional parta of our minds are not demic, spiritual, emotional, or physiThis is especially true in politics, separated by a void. as we'd like to cal 'lbere are others too; sometimes in which there is perhaps more arguthink. When we get eui.ted about a we know that letting someone be jug and. resentment than in any other debate, emotion substitutes fitct and. wrong will eventually cause trouble facet of life today. Politics is a we begin to dislike or even hate people that outweighs the value oflearning confluence of different issues, a lake for no inteUigent reason.. from mistakes. We arg.u with them in which waves of ethnic:ity, wealth, Of COUl'II8. even this very root of ~ we believe we are protectiTIIJ safety, and autonomy all rome under intoleranoe is, itaeJ( grounded in good tluJml ecrutiny. Since our politics are demoinilmtiOll8. We don't want our mends What, then, are the things that cratic in nature, our political views to go around with misconceptions. are worth arguing about. and what should try to nurture and cherish and. for some reason, we think that are not? '1bia is the bardestquestion viewpoints, even when we disagree we're right. Ifsjuatwhenourmends of all. and, ironically, the one that with them. Furthermore, in politics happen (they must be confused) to could be debated witq. the most we have had the most negative expethink that they're right, they become heatednesa. An. overly-righteoua man rienoes from which to learn , but noneoffended. and are hurt by our argumight say he is always right, a meek theless we still are not accustomed. to menta. man might say he is never right, and. tolerance.

Immediately. one should notice most of us would be closer to fiftySadly, this seems to be universal; that it is almost impossible to make fifty. In my opinion, you have to balthe most intolerant people are the someone elae more tolerant than he &nee the effects of arguing with those ones who have the most reason to already is. 'lllia is no more than an ofletting things be as they are. know better. They are people who intolerant argument, similar to the In the end. it is inevitable that know what it is to be despised, who one that started this problem. 'lbafs some of the things we say will hurt know what pain is, and who fear the what makes our good intentions inpeople. but, inasmuch as we can, we power of hatred.. Although it is a slow compatible with. tolerance: other ought to avoid hurting people unnecmethod, the only way to stop this people think they're right too, and esaari1y. We should try and consider problem is to be more tolerant of otheYeD. mm:e, they don't like to be wrong. our friends' pointe of view before we erst and hope 10 convert them by your So, maybe we should all atop arspeak. I think this is what those example. Truly, tOlenmce istb.e forguing. Just let everything slide. WhaO -preachers" on the Diag forgot. Hogotten family val1ie,theone virtue One of your friends is telling the other mosema1a don't want to be told that thatconveniendy gets left in the doset that bit about the panthers in front of they are a plague upon the nation, when the zealots go out to play. OJ

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THE MICHIGAN REVIEW

October 11, 1995

o NEWS FEATURE Censorship,:~t On October 5, Greg Parker and Patricia Dark interviewed art senior Stephanie Sailor concerning the recent developments concerning her exhibition MILK - What a Surprise!

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TEPHANIE SAILOR SAYS she didn't set out to create controversy - all the art senior wanted to do was express herself. Her exhibit, MILK - What a surprise! was installed in the Street Gallery in the Art and Architecture Building on the night of Monday, September 25, 1995. The next day, when the exhibi~ tion opened, the University erected wooden barricades surrounding her work. The barricades were a complete surprise to Sailor, and were placed without her knowledge or consent.

Art School Dean Allen Samuels cited that "small children literally walking hand-in-hand" passed through the hallways of the building regularly, and it would beinappropriate to subject the children to the exhibit.Interestingly, Sailor says that children should see the exhibit and be exposed to its messages - if she had children, she would allow them to see it.

On Wednesday, September 27, an unknown person spray-painted "Censored by UM School of Art" onto the barricades. Sailor agreed with the graffiti, stating that it was a "positive and very effective message."

As the Uifiversity placed more barriers at the-exhibit, Sailor finally decided to take down the exhibit late on Sunday night, October 1. In her opinion, the barriers obstructed the intended presentation of the exhibit, forcing people to enter the exhibit from right to left instead of left to right - the way she intended. She also believed that the barriers turned the display into peep show, with people looking at the exhibit simply because they were curious of what was behind the barriers.

The controversy lies with the content of Sailor's work. MILK - What a surprise! consists for four framed collections of appropriated media each of the four frames contains a milk magazine advertisement featuring a female celebrity with a milk mustache, a picture of a woman from an erotic magazine, and a picture of dairy/meat animal abuse. According to Sailor, "the juxtaposition of the

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placed barricades in front of my art, images demonstrates the oppressive at the University, there is no proof but not the other art hanging across objectification of both women and that Catherine MacKinnon had anythe hall." animals." thing to do with the actions concern"This wasn't about all those chiling Sailor's exhibit. Furthermore, the Sailor's work soon found a home, link between this incident and the dren walking hand-in-han~ through however. The Alexa Lee Gallery, lothe art school or the public having a cated at 201 Nickels Arcade (off of 1992 Law School Censorship might choice to look at my images. It State Street), contacted Sailor was about maintaining the staafter learning what happened tus quo, and pleasing School of to her exhibit. While the gallery Art donors." initially contacted Sailor to of"Those life drawings are fer support and condolence con'acceptable' portrayals of cerning the circumstances of women and men, which has MILK - What a surprise!, the been dictated by the malegallery's directors decided to dominated art world throughgrant Sailor a single person exout history and my portrayals hibition in their Nickels Arcade of the human body were nongallery. traditional." . Bruno L. David, Corporate "Keep in mind that my Art Advisor of the Alexa Lee work only contained two fully Gallery, states that Sailor's naked women: ene from the work was given space based on Stephanie Sailor, MILK - What a surprisel (1 I, (detaiO 1995, mixed media, 'acceptable' milk ad found in a its artistic merit alone, and not 14-112 X27-112 Inches, courtesy: Alexa Lee Gallery, Ann Arbor. magazine, and the other, an because it was political or con'unacceptable' front cover of Hustler. lead one to believe that Jacobsen troversial. David, and Gallery DirecThe other images show a . woman's might have used Sailor's exhibit as tor Alexa Lee, maintain that while face, next to a man's penis.

The incluanother experiment in censorship at Sailor's work.m.ay be frank, politic;'l, sion of the penis certainly is not the the University. Sailor, however, and controV:ersial, they are sure tl'l.at traditionally accepted portrayal of a stresses that this is not the case, as the exhibit is ¢ first and foremost. man in art history t especially .when she had completed the work before An interesting aspect of the story the man is ejaculating onto the her independent study with Jacobsen is that Sailor's independent study inwas even approved by the art schooL structor for the exhibit - Carol woman, which I find rather symbolic."

Sailor agrees with ACLU PresiJacobsen - was involved in the UniSailor's exhibition has alighted dent Nadine Strossen when she states, versity of Michigan Law School Cenmany issues concerning art and exsorship controversy in 1992. In short, "All censorship measures throughout pression. The fact that the Street history have been used disproportionthis centers around a symposium on Gallery - where Sailor first displayed ately to silence those who are relaprostitution that was planned by the this series - is in a hallway questions Michigan Journal ofGender and Law. . tively dis empowered and who seek to the concept of displaying art in a hallchallenge the status quo. Since women The journal contacted Jacobsen and way versus a separate wing, or room, and feminists are in that category, six other artists to curate an exhibit like in a museum. Also, for the Uniany censorship scheme would in fact on prostitution, which, among other versity to determine what is "objecbe used to suppress expression that is things, included actual views and ex~ tionable" art is completely subjective especially important to their interperiencesofprostitutes.Afterthesymin nature. While the hallway placeests." (Strossen, Defending Pornograposium was under way, MacKinnon ment might lead some to unintentionphy) received a complaint from a conferally view the exhibit, who is to deterThe irony of the incident does not ence speaker who believed that a video mine whether or not the piece is in escape Sailor. "Dean Samuels ordered tape in the exhibit was sexually exfact "objectionable?" A Mondrian may the barriers to be placed in front of my plicit. MacKinnon turned to the stuoffend some, for instance, but such a work to 'protect children from images dent organizers, who in turn removed work is not generally considered "obthat they probably shouldn't see and jectionable." While the University cannot understand' and to 'give the might have been responding to the public a choice if they want to look at complaints of students and faculty these images.' However, across the concerning the exhibit, again, the hall from MILK - What a surprise! IS question arises as to whether because a row of seventeen life drawings, all of one person considers something to be which are completely nude women, objectionable, the form of expression except for three men. And it just so should not be displayed publicly. happens that of those men, two are While there are no utilitarian anfully clothed, and the other nude male swers to the above problems, Sailor is chopped off at the waist. Under the video. Jacobsen reinstalled the states perhaps the most rational soluSamuels' theory, children certainly video, but MacKinnon and other antition: "Suppression of 'sexpression' is do not have the capacity to underpornography conference speakers disnot the answer. If someone finds my stand why there are so many naked cussed the matter and warned the art offensive, the solution is more women and so few men, and the pub~ student organizers of the "dangers" of speech, more dialogue, and more art. lic does not have a choice over whether showing pornography. The student Not censorship." l\R or not they want to look at the draw~ organizers consequently told Jacobsen MILK - What a surprise! will be ings. In the Dean's mind, those condi~ that the exhibit would have to be at the Alexa Lee Gallery in Nickels tions are enough to justify the placeremoved.

Arcade until October 19. Gallery hours ment of barriers in front of those While it is true that this is are Tuesday - Saturday, lOAM to 6 works. The irony is that Dean Samuels Jacobsen's fIrst semester instructing PM, and by appointment.

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THE MICHIGAN REVIEW

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Housing ~~curity Woes BY

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HERE ARE MANY PROS and cons of living in the University residence halla. One drawback. that has beoome evident to many students is the constant presence of the resident hall secUrity officen who patrol the corridors from nine at night until Beven each morning. 'llle most important function of the oflicen, U cited in the Community Livin6 at Michipn HandbooA. is to "maximize the safety and security ofresidenta." Unfortunately, when the safety and security of residenta are not in danger, many dorm security oftlcer8look to cite students for minor infractions of residence hall rules.

Many atudenta have complained about the methods oftbeee officers, prompting inquiries into the responsibilities of the security penonnel.

One should note that finding information on the guidelines that the residence hall ofliC8l'8 must follow is extremely diftlcult. An aura of secrecy aeema to abroud Housing Security operati0D.8. Information concerning residence hall security should be readily available to the public, but instead, one baa to launch a fUll acale investigation to learn about the desired policies.

One of the major questions conoemi.ng the Housing Secmi.ty penonnel is: Are they polioe oflicers? The answer ie no. According to Jeanne Takeda, the Director of Residence Education at Bursley Hall. Housing Security is a unit Of the Depaztlnent of Public Safety (DPS), and its o.ffioera are actually more akin to rent-&-oope than real police officers. A common conception among students is that many of them became security oflicera because they did not qualify to become a part of the police furce. So, to compensate for this shortcoming, many believe that BOme, but not all, of the oftioen play -copj and robbers" with the kiddies in the dorma. it is lDlder their juriadietion to investigate the private uae of alcohol and marijuana in dorm rooms, but many of the security officers use the ign01"8llce of the students against them. Since a document of students' rights to privacy in the reaidence haDs ill not pub1id.zed, HOWling Security can assume that the students don't know their rights and gain evidence through this knowledge. As one dormitory resident advisor put it, the Housing Security "basically operate[e] on the basis of threat." The best way to avoid a situation in which a aecw:ity officer treats you unfilirly i8 to know about both your and their righte.

to your room, BeeS empty beverage As Takeda indicated, it is imporcontainers, including beer cans, to be tant to know that an officer can enter taken back for deposit, and requests your room. without permission if your door is not completely closed. This to look in yOur re1iigerator or around means that if your door is op.e n a the room, you must permit him to do crack, an officer may enter. Another so or face a possible charge of nonvariation on this point is that if you open your door with the chain connected to speak to the officer, the door also is considered to be open. If you think that this BOunds a little contradictory to the point of using the chain, you are not alone. However, if your door is closed a security officer cannot enter without an occupant's penniasion, baning the presence of a search warrant. _ Another wrinkle in Hous- • ing Security protocol is that Witch out for 1he MIn In South Quad. these officers do not have to identify compliance. F.ssen1ially. the non-<nmthemselves when they knock on your pliimce clause takes the c::boiceout of door. 'lb.erefore, uyou retlexively yell allowing an officer to .look in Y0Qr "come in" at the BOund ofa knocZ, they refrigerator o;r around the room; if can walk in ~_ybody ·eIse.and you say DO, you will be assumed guilty begin questionmg you cmomrlng your ..~ anyway. Ifth.ere is no choice involved in letting an officer look around your activities. 'llle aafe,troute to take is to keep your door locked at night room, barring the presentation of a when the officers are on duty, and to search warrant, then you are being look. through tbepeep hole bebeopm-

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deprived of one of your basic liberties.

Granted, non-compliance is treated as a minor offense by housing officials, but possession of small amounts of alcohol and marijuana are aJ.so. minor o.tfenses. Is permitting a stranger to invade your personal space really on par with these offenses? Multiple minor offenses are considered equal to a major offense and can lead to tamination of a lease.

Therefore, if you refuse to allow a s~ty officer into your room on a regular basis, you can theoretically be expelled from your dorm. Though this is a highly unlikely scenario, it is still a possibility. More common punishments for multiple non:--a>mpliance incidents are community service and probation. These reprimands are certainly leSB severe than eviction, but you are still being punished for defending your rights as • .resident.

F~ mo", illfOrmatiQ:o. ro,ncerning Housing Security and your civi11iberties, contact the Director of Residence Education in your dorm, call the offices of the Department of Public Safety, or just ask one of the friendly ~ty officers. Mt

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justice involved with Housing Security, however, is the consequence for' not giving an officer permission to enter your quartel"8. If you decide not to allow an officer passage into your Join other students, alumni, and parentS and sign the room, he can write you up for suspicion and for non-compliance (vaguely Reverse Pledge. The Reverse Pledge states that you will outlined in section 2.3 of the Communot give money to MPact, the Senior Pledge, or any other nity Living Standards) even ifno illeUniversity-sponsored funding drive until the Statement gal activity is taking place within the confines of your room. When I asked of Student Rights and Responsibilities (the Code) is abolone of the Directors of Residence Eduished. Apparently, student disapproval of the Code is not cation how an incident report could be drafted without any proof ofwrongdc>. important to the U-M , so we must deny the University ing, I received an approximate anwhat it cares most about - money. swer that amounted to, "because, if you won't let us in, then we wonder why." , ~. Ikd J wdJ, HDL cItuu.d. tUUf Well, they don't have to look fur- 1J, ther than standard number six in the IMlNCeIJ 10 IJ. 'lI~ M~/ ~ UMid u".

Resident Bill ofmghts printed in the Cornnumity Livi'nB at Michigan Hand- l~o/$~Rt#_tuJ,R~IJ.~ bool. which·states: "As a member of I the residential community, eachresi- 1 dent has the right to penonal pri- 1 ~J,-----vacy." Housing Security takes the 1 approach that if a resident is unwilling to invite them into his space, then ITosign,~ the Michigan Review at mrev@umich.edu or mail this he must be guilty of something. How- : with your and name to the Michigan Review at: ever, we live in a democratic society in 1 Reverse Pledge which a penon baa certain guaran911 N. Ul1iversity, Ste. 1 .

I teed civillibertiea, such as the right to 1 privacy, which is even written in the I Ann Arbor, MI 48109 I U-M Resident Bill of Rights. of the Reverse Pledge,contact 1llere are also other forms ofrum- !For more information or for compliance. If an officer gains access

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October 11,1995

Mcard: All You Get '~ lSt <'~'

BY BENJAJON KEPPLE

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SAID, "WAIT A MINUTE, Jerry," as we walked under the west Engineering arch and continued toward the Diag. "You know aomeone with an Maud who lilu it in every way?"

"Yes, I do. I don't know why, though. How could anyone like it after they've been forcing people to get the damn thing?" replied Jerry with a sneer.

"Yeah, really. I mean, who would ever want to get that Mcard? The Mcard is such a pain in the asa, that goddamned, worthlesa ... " IIJtarted to say.

He joined in with me a8 we gleefully continued walking, loudly dumting, "One bad motherfu-" "Shut your mouthr' came a snarl from the other aide of the Diag as we walked over the sacred "M, that shining beacon ofhope on the Diag that, acxwding tI) legend. would menileaaly crush you if you dared tread on it, or get out of line within 80 milea of campua.

-Juat talking about the Mcard," we called back to the DPS officer.

Unfortunately, we had nul inti) one of those annoying policemen who believe that they are the law, that the Bill of Rights meaD.8 nothing, and t'ain't no one gonna meaa with hU It

Diag.

"Excuse me, there, gentlemen! I'm afraid :rm. going to need to see some ro," said the DPS o1Iioer, brandishing his nightstick.

"You don't need to see our IDa, you - uuuggggbhhr' Jerry cried as the policeman hit him twice on the head with his nightstick. Jerry feD. to the ground and moaned.

-rn be damned; said the DPS officer. "Did you see that, Bill? That kid tripped into my nightstickl" "Tripped? I didn't bloody trip, you ..... Jerry groaned aa the DPS officer pushed hie bead onto the ground.

-XdentiJication, gentlemen. Do you know why we stopped your "You ran out of tickets to give to parked bicyclesr "No I You violated Code Article ... bmmm ... ah. here it is: 95MCA-UMl188. Well. well, well. Dierupting the peacel There are women and children present. You can't talk that way in a public place. even iCit means we have to invoke a 19th century public .tatutel" Jerry and I looked around. All we saw were four disinterested people playing FriIbee and ainging Buffalo Springfield 8011gB. The only person who WIUI fMID ftIIIlOtmy oaocemed. W88

the man videotaping the DPS officers at every tum. Not even the proselyUzingpreacberwas interested; be was too busy rattling off Ezekiel 25:17.

"But there ian't any harm being done ..." .

"Shut upl" 1be DPS man took our IDa and examiMCi them closely.

-Well. now. You don't have Mcardsl" "Andr "You must have an Mcardl Didn't you see the public notice put up? By fall 1995, all atudents will have the Mcard by order of the' University. So. rn forget this little incident as long as you proceed directly to the Mcard officel NOWl" -X don't think you're hearing .me, I don't want an Mcardl" "I don't think you're hearing me. rm not asking you. boy. Movel" the rent-a-rop said as he put his hand on . his pistol.

Later, at the Mcard. office, we were whisked in~e by efficient. happy.

University" personnel who glared at us and said little. "'l1ley dldD.'t have to lumM'ltrusr whined Jerry.

"Yeah, I know."

Above the large counter there was a huge sign that said, "MCARD: ALL YOU GET." Within minutes. the Uni- . varsity perionnel took our pictures, scanned them into a computerized database. and sent our pictures God knows where - probably onto secret computers accessible by every governmental agency on the continent.

Our old ID cards were destroyed and recycled, soon to be an integral part of a picnic table. Five minutes later, we received our all new MCARD. -Xt's all you get," said the man at the anmter, throwing the Mcards onto the table.

Jeny and I picked up our glorioua, new, Mcards, looking at them quiDiailly. I pidfed mine up, but Jeny held his up to the light before he put it in his pocket.

"Heyyyyy .....

"Whatr "Look. There's a watermark on the front of the card."

"You'J;e right. Hey! '!he Nike Swoosh logo?'"

Jeny and I left the office and went upstairs to the Mcard office affiliated with Firat of America. It was deserted. The First of ;An?erica rep was polite and courteous. He also talked,路and talked. Very quickly.

"Ready, hey. hey, got your Mcard, time tD sign you up fur the BankSlripe and ATM card privileges we'D. have it done before you can even begin to complain about the major hose job

onto the CashChip to see how it wodm.

We went into a normal reataurant that bad a large "We aooept the Mcard..

We kinda had to, or you'd go someplace else" sign in the front of the store. We went in and got some food and paid for it with ... the Mcard.

The guy at the counter gave ua the food and took the Mami to pay for it. He then walked over to the Mcard plastic machine and pushed a button and swiped the card. Nothing happened. He pushed another button.

"Damn machinel" He pushed lots of buttons. Nothing happened. Our food waa getting cold. There was a very long line funning and many in the line were getting Bngry. "DAMMITI" the attendant screamed as he hit the machine bard. It beeped a lot. He returned our Mcards. The machine WHAT? I . .to gil 11'1 Mcard? blew up. A spring flew into my super order of fries. atantly we had doubts.

Our food was now ~d. We were "Hey! What'a this about me needannoyed, so we left and tried to use ing a First of America accountr cried the Mcard somewhere else.

Jeny, shaking.

We couldn't use Mcard at lots of "Well, First of America is the only places where we wanted to use it and bank to administer the Mcard proonce we had put our money on that graDl,80 ~'vegQttl)baVe"an account cash chip we didn't know bow to get it ' with usl But it's worth it to uaethe ,. back other than by spending it. It BankStripe and the ... " sucked. We went to Borders. They "But what about my Comerica also did not take the Mcard. In fact, accountfve had since birth and that there were lots of places that didn't I use as part of my ... " take it. Why was this thing so great?

"You won't be needing that any "Jen-y." more, son," said the rep confidently, "Yeahr as he pushed the papers toward us.

"How the hell could that friend of I was more confident. "Hey, I've yours l.ike all of the stuff that comes got a First of America ,account but I with the card?" opened it in Kalamazoo. So where do "I really don't know. Hey! There's Isignr a picture ofhiml" "Wait. You have to have an acI looked over on a large poster count in Ann Arbor. We'll close your that had been put up onto the wall. account and open one here."

On the poster, there was a guy hold"Whatl I'm not about to do thatl ing up a ami. He was holding it up to Are you out of your head?:rve got 150 the sky as iCtA:> say, ~ youl1hank good checks to usel I don't bave time youl"l walked forward to the poster to fill out all of those formsl" and groaned.

'11le rep looked disgustecl "Wait a 'Ibe guy was holding up an Maud minute. You can't use any ofour spiffy "THEODORE B SCREWDlr exoptions, ao why are you here? claimed Jen-y. "He never told me he Ah ... wait! You can use the CaahChip was doing these adsl Hey, here he ... available in 14 not really conV8comes now! Hey, Lewl" nient locations around campus! And "WHAT?I" said Lew, angry. three on North Campusl I think. I'll "You're on the... " have to check."

"YES, I'm on the bloody poster. I "Fourteen? How many people wish I had never done that. It's made have the Mcardr my life miserablel Miserablel" "Oh, between thirtyandfiftytbou."What are you talking about? sand. Why?" Didn't they give you Iota of money and '-lbat's not very convenient ... hey! other cool stuff?"

What'a this fine print down here at "They gave me 20 bucks a week the bottom?" for the rest of the year."

"Rightl Look at the timel Come "'lhat's not 80 bad. is it. for one back to First of America soon! Be posterr well!" "'Ibey put it on CashChip."

Jerry and I left. We were hungry, Jerry and I winced. We bought and so we decided to put aome money him a oofI'ee. With caah.. Mt

were pulling on you - habahahal" the rep exclaimed as be produced two contracts from behind the desk..

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Your Money at Waste

BY GEOPP BROWN

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VER WONDER WHERE ALL of your bard-epent tuition dol· lara go? Well, me neither, but

my dad keeps bitcb.ina about it. 80 I thought rd look into the matter a little more closely. I'm the 80rt of penon who likes "gettina to the bot.. tom of tbinge,.. 80 to apeak. So, using my numeroua imaginary cantactB who are all very influential in the administration, I discovered the following plaale our money is likely to be epent: AdvertlsiDJ= By now you've eeen all of tile advet1ising the U-M likee to do for itaeJ.f, eepecially fur the "Mcard" ("Mcard: it's all you need. It's a li· brary card. A copy card. A debit card.

A calling card. Use it to pay tuition.

Use it to buy a house. It's good. It's your friend. It will1iaten to your pr0blems. If someone inaulta you or your &mily, Maud wi111aill that perIOD. for you." etc.). '!be U-M I}MIIlt 180,000 of our money advertiaina the damn thing

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with flyers, hats, t-ehirts, newspaper might be the Code."

JF: "If you're the pet project of ada. and an entin frealrin' blUi One can't help but believe it must be wOIk· Vice-President for Student.Affa.ira Maureen Hartford, who really doesn't ing - for tllat much money, it better be.Well.a~nling ,.----------------------------------, to a source whom we'll call "Bob" (but who's real name is "Fred"), the administration is very much enoouraged by its recent advertising campaign far the Mcard. In fact, it already has planned a similarly extensive campaign to promote the Code. Plana include bringing in noted Southern co~----------------------------------~ me d ian Jeff "-'ned of Utheir resotJ'ce8.

Foxworthy to help lHI_~. explain the Code to people who may give a whoop about civil rights, you not underatand it. just.~t be the Cod.... .

JEFF FOXWOR1HY: "If you're .'. . And lOOn. an 'UJl(lOJ)8i;ituijoDal document which Ine,e•••nt CoD.truetIon: For a ignoree due.ptOOeaa and the right to a' university that claims it needs more fair trial and hands out punishment money from the state (in the form of for crimes you may even be found .taxes) and from us (in the form of innocent of in a court of law, you tuition hikes), the U-M sure seems to

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have a lot of money to spend on new bnj]dinga, doesn't it? Well, if you had the information I have (and Ouija boards like mine are hard to come by, let me tell you) then you would know that all of the new construction is a desperate plot by the administration to end Diag demonstrations by endintI the Diagl You would have to admit it would be awfully difficult far 5,000 people to get stoned on the Diag during Hash Bash if there were to all of a sudden be, say, a new MLB built right over the "M," wouldn't you?

Ann Arbor Tenants Union (AATU): Get this: According to my sources, a good deal of our Btudept government fees are allocated to this organization headed by a left-wing woman who uses her position (and our money) to further her political views. Oh. wait a minute .:. this one's actually true. .

1'b.ese are just some ottbe wayw the U-M squanders -uh, apenda our money. It's sick and disgusting how it eeems to only be interested in :mo:ney. Is there anything we am do to stop it? There sure is. I1l tell you for 1i.ve bucks. Ml

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October 11, 1995

End Studen;! Loan Programs

BY MA'M'HEW

BuCKLEY

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UTI'ING THE BUDGET wasn't supposed to be easy, but when student loana came under fire, it sure seemed like hell was breaking loose. Loads of antiNewt ecom appeared, complementing rants of Washington Democrats staUng that the Republicana are monsters out to deny the American youth the right to an education. As an idealist, though. I see the other side on this iseue. Student loana should be cut, and two reasons exist for conservatives and libertarians to press the case.

First, there is an essential element ofhonesty here. For months the budget debate in Congress detailed the dangers of federal debt. 'Ibe dangers are aD. too nm Iftbe federal debt gets too large, rising interest rates will cauaeall aorta of economic problema, like le88 inveetment in capital and higher unemployment.

It lle8lD.ed for a while that the two partiea both neljpci that cuta had to be made in order to get the budget on track. Both the Republicans and

Democrats have offered numerous then how will we persuade others on cute with which to balance the budother issues? Smaller government get. Given the traditional congresmeans moreself-rellance for everysion81 demands for spending for soone. If we believe that farmers, senior cial projects, everyone knew this citizens, and others would be better would be difficult. served by the private sector, then the As expected, every group has deargument must hold for students as manded to be spared. Farmers want well. A philosophy on government to retain their agricultural subsidies, should not include nifty clauses like the elderly ' want to keep Medicare . .' " ... unless, of course, the negative ef~. on federal funds, big busifect$ ofthis would happen to me." nese wants to keep its corporate wel'Ibe second reason that we must demand less dependence on student fare. GrOups seeking funding display an odd lack of sympathy for others loans is that the private sector has facing the axe. Far from being all set incentives to handle the job. Private to saaifice for the sake of the coUntry, banks make money off loans to stuit appears college students are terndents, and they would be happy to fied of cuts when it comes to student have more business from students. I loans. Rather than setting an example, will say this directly - banks want to we students are following the crowd . . make money, and this is going to help.

'Ibis is blatant hypocrisy on the '!he banks will want to make money part of many college students who . from premiums 9n student loans in claim to believe in a smaller govern- • the long run, but this profit motive ment. To believe in smaller governwill be used to allow students to go to ment is to believe in smaller gover:qcollege. ment, perioo.."'fhe government cerGranted, there will be slightly higher payments by college students tainly fillsliumy roles, but if as servatives and libertarians we refuse due to interest charges, but this will to acknowledge that matte1'8 dear to be partly offset as banks cut interest rates on the Joana to at:t.nid business; our lives ahould be handled privately,

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The benefits of private sector loans (increased tailoring to individual needs, less bureaucracy, and other standard free market ideas) should more than offset these modest increases in the cost of higher education, and conservatives and libertarians should join forces to bring about these changes.

Current Republican plans are not the best way to cut student loan funding. A better way is to give a tax break to businesses and private foundations that provide loans and other financial aid to college-bound students, and include this in a package with caps on future .s tudent loan spending. This would begin a gradual shift from the public sector to the private sector in the area of student loans. Let corporations help educate their future womers, let them invest in their communities, and let them create opportunities for students of all sorts. Student loana are a good deal for students regardless of whether or not the government granbt them; for students to maintain that any government cuts in direct loan fund.ing are bad is hypo,mitical and misguided. Ml

A Visit to the War ·in Detroit BY

MARK JOHN80N

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ONNING DARK CLOTHES, I leave my ap8rtment earlier than Diost, moving slowly and deliberately. constantly keeping an eye out for thoee who consider me the enemy. I creep towards the oomer of East University and South University, drop my coins into the pretty yellow box, silently pull open the door and snatch my very own copy of the Detroit Free Pre.s. I look left. I look right. 'The ~is dear. I Blip into the shadows of the early morning sunrise, where I Blither off to the undiedosed lomtion army eight o'dodt cIa.se, carefully hiding the evidence until I can read it without fear.

On a recent trip to my hometown of Sterling Heights, I decided to venture over to the Detroit Newll North Plant to see for myself what the excitement was really all about. I drove down Mound Road, where, not Unexpectedly, I witnessed about 100-150 pidurt;ing emplo)1ee8 circling about the various entrances to the plant. Like the oauntleea other cars, I slowed down to a anail'1 pace, gawking at what hal become the biggest neW8 story this year (ne1t to O.J., that is). Along with scores of picltetel'8, the lcene was

crowded with police officers, cameramen, reporte1'8, non-involved union members ranging from UAW representatives to Teamsters, and many innocent byst8nders waiting for tempers to flare. As 1 pulled into a nearby parking lot to scan the situation, I had a sinking feeling in my stomach.

Only a few nights earlier, theae same picketers were throwing various objectB at the law enforcement officials, rocking the departing trucks, and throwing star nails into the driveways (which are meant to puncture tires). 1b.is scene also reminded meo! . the underhanded tactics coming from . tl;le union heads themselves - especially the fRet that these leaders were pressuring businesses who advertised in the "scab" Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press to stop running their ads or risk boycott.

I decided to roll up my windows and lock the doors ofthe all'. I thought' about the purchase of my morning newspaper. How long will it be before the union comes after me? Is it too late? Did they see me at the comer buying the paper, and do they know where I live?

I began to head home when I noticed two helicopters coming over the horizon. Did they finally catch on

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to my secret? I then realized that the ·Detroit Newspaper Agency was airlifting newspapers out of the plant to avert confrontation with the striking workers. I was safe - for now. .'Ibe following Monday was no different than usual. Camouflage, face paint, 35 cents - the typical morning

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ritual. 'Ibis was now a war in my eyes. With every paper l buy, I am helping to crush the group that has brought 80 much havoc to the Detroit community. '!he unions need to get trounced, and with each paper I buy, the Detroit Newspaper Agency gets one step closer tow~ victory. Ml

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Baseball's BYBILL~S

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N 1994, MAJOR LEAGUE Baseball unveiled a new system of divisions and a new playoff format, both of which promised more excitement, better competition, and an even longer season (as if 162 games were not enough). Unfortunately, as we all know, in August of 1994, the season was truncated due to the strike and the new system never was tested.

Now that the 1995 regular season is behind us, it is time to evaluate this new system, which doubled the amount of teams making the playoffs to eight, and in the proces~ created a whole lot of confusion.

The first question that one must address is: can anyone actually figure out what is going on here? The answer is undoubtedly no. First of all, the schedule-makers, for the sake oftime , have determined that each Division Series should consist of five games.

That I can live with. What is much more perplexing is that the team with home field advantage must play its first two games on the road, before playing the last three games at home.

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It boggles my mind that Cleve(what the hell were Atlanta and Cinland did not have home field advancinnati doing in the Western division tage against Boston. Cleveland is the anyway?) and in terms of representasame team that won 100 games in a tion of talent (both Boston and New season that was shortened by 18 York had better regular season records games! Secondly, why did Boston and than Seattle, who won the American Cleveland have to face each other in the first round?

Shouldn't the team with the best record play the wild card team? This is what happened in the National League. Apparently, this newplayoffsystern is not big on consistency.

Under the old system, the Chicago Cubs would have actually won the National East while only finishing two games above .500 (sorry, all you Cubbie fans). Atlanta would have still comfortably won the v.... fin, lllrlner fin, Indian fan.

West, finishing five games in front of Cincinnati, 12 games in front L,ague West crown). of Los Angeles, and 13 games in front , As for the season, did anyone acof Colorado. Cleveland would have tually miss those 18 games? Albert represented th~.American League '. Belle of the Cleveland Indians cerEast, but Boston and New York would " tainly didn't. Despite the shortened have finished 14 ~d 21 games out, season, the Tribe's slugger still man路 respectively . Clearly, realignment aged to compile mind-boggling nummakes sense both geographically bers. Belle led the American League

with 50 home-runs, 126 runs batted in, 52 doubles, and 121 runs scored.

"Hey Lou Pinella, there's no cork here.

It's all in the muscle." Look for Belle to easily beat out Boston's Mo Vaughn and Seattle's Edgar Martinez for the league's MVP award. In the National League, Colorado's Dante Bichette looks to be the leader in the MVP race, thanks in part to the friendly environs of Coors Field.

In the end, the World Series will most likely come down to a fight between the two best teams in baseball: the Cleveland Indians and the Atlanta Braves. Will the Braves finally win the World S~ries after back to back disappointments in both '91 and '92?The talent most certainly is there, especiallyin the pitching staff. Smoltz, Glavine, and Maddux most certainly should be able to go toe to toe with the likes of Martinez, Hershiser, and Nagy. Atlanta's pitching staft'remains formidable, but in this battle between baseball's two most politic8ny incorrect teams, there will be joy on the banks of Lake Erie, when the Tribe sends the tomahawk choppers back to Atlanta empty- handed. l\R

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Remember the Tradition

BY ANTHONY WEN

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EVERAL SATURDAY each fall, at least a tenth of a million people (that's about 100,000) fill Michigan Stadium to watch our beloved Wolverines pound the gridiron and 'toss the pigskin around. The Big House, a term ABC sportscaster Keith Jackson coined to describe Michigan Stadium, consistently contains "the biggest crowd watching a football game today anywhere in America." Unfortunately, the fans in the Big House also consistently sit on their hanas and are generally apathetic (no, not pathetic) toward the action on the field.

There are some traditions that most fans still participate in, but the loss of others concerns me. Which ones do we still do? We still throw marshmallows, yell "GO" and "BLUE" as the cheerleaders hoist their signs, twirl our hats and fmgers around during kickoff, do the tomahawk-<:hop resembling first down arm thing, chant "bullshit" after bad calls, and do the wave. But we don't even do the

Anthony Wen is a junior in electrical engineering and a copy editor of the Review.

wave right, among other things. what the Bullwinkle song is, much Any crowd, be it at a baseball, less knows what to do when the band plays that song. hockey, or basketball game, can do the one-way regular speed wave. In What ever happened to popcorn Ann Arbor, we add the variety of difand rowing? Popcorn involves jumpfering speeds. Maybe I'm starting to ing up and down repeatedly - like sound like an old fogey, but I remempopcorn popping. Rowing involves ev~ ber the old days two years ago (my eryone sitting down, moving forwards freshman year) when ,. the crowd did complex waves (similar to those ~~\.~,~,:') in Physics 242). What I mean by complex waves are multiple (usually two - we aren't that bright) waves going both ways. And sometimes, there woqld be different speed waves going both ways. I haven't seen this phenomenon at any games this year ThIe Ie NOT how you row. or last. It's quite a sight and backwards -like crew, but with to see, especially at the point where they meet. I know we tried to do this a heck of a lot more people. I don't during the Miami game, but we remember seeing either ofthese anycouldn't quite get it going. time I've been here so far. I do, howThere are also several other dyever, remember seeing them when I ing traditions. Among the most nowent to several games while visiting table is the Bullwinkle dance. Well, my sister. it's not really a dance; it's more like a One particular tradition that was fuDky head and hand movement. It a bad idea was the Locomotion cheer seems like no one even remembers performed by the cheerleaders. I don't

think they've done it this year, but they tried to revive it last year. It's a chant ofM-I-C-H-I-G-A-N accompanied by steam train style arm movements. Luckily, it never caught on.

Okay, I admit I'm not always the loudest guy in Section 26, let alone Michigan Stadium. It's hard to stay loud and excited (some might say annoying, though, when everyone else is standing around talking to their friends . I'd like to invite you to sample a Michigan hockey game at Yost. Now there's a loud, annoying, excited, enthusiastic crowd. You know you're loud when it gets so hot that fog forms above the ice. Football fans should take cues from the fans in Yost's Section R, perhaps some ofthe best fans in Ann Arbor.

Why have many Michigan fans become so unknowing about certain traditions? Is it the fault of the Athletic Department suppressing rowdy (but enthusiastic) fans, like the infamous Caped Fan? Who knows. Maybe everyone else thinks that they're stupid traditions and I'm holding onto the last strands of them. I think that there needs to be more cheers, chants, and traditions if only to get the crowd loud and enthused. Come on, all of you tenth of a million ~lus people. Ml

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Attention ,Star Wars Fans BY

BILL AH:aENS

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N THE SPRING OF 1991, Bantam books published a book, which, with much fanfare, marked the beginning of the current media blitz that is now once again marking the re-emergence of the Star Wars merchandising campaign. Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire continues where the modern science fiction epic had left off at the theaters, albeit five years later in the time line. Was there enough interest remaining in the Star Wars films for the book to be a success? Would readers want to once again journey to a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away? The book's appearance on the New York Times bestsellers list certainly made it appear so. Zahn would write two more novels (Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command) to complete his trilogy, and soon many new books by different authors began to hit the bookstores. Now, four years later, approxi-

mately 14Star Wars novels have been ceded it, it is at times sloppy, inconsispublished by no less than seven other tent, and suffers from poor characterauthors. Each of these books boasts ization. It becomes all too apparent impressive cover art, depictingfamilthat these novels are being written iar characters in familiar poses, promquickly and uncarefully simply in orising stories authorized by George der to feed the increased interest.

Lucas, but for the most part, the stoWith so many different authors creatries within the covers are not worthy ing new stories, it is difficult for each of the Star Wars name. novel to'be very interesting. EssenNow, with the current re-release tially, in the end, each author must - of the original trilogy in remastered bring his or her story full circle, or else THX, and the promise that risk interfering with the Lucas is curently writing ~ plot ofa different book. This scripts for epsides I, II, and leads to severe contradicIII, a trilogy of prequels to \ tions and an abundance of Star Wars, The Empire f ~ stagnant characters. AddStrikes Back,and Return of , \ ing to the apathy that surthe Jedi, more books are be- TIE fi ht neat rounds these stories is the ing published than ever. The 9 ers are fact that Lucasfilm has said latest novel is actually the third book that the stories are these authors in a trilogy written by Roger MacBride visions ofthe Star Wars universe, and Allen. Showdown at Centerpoint if Lucas ever decided to make more (1995, Bantam) , a story about po- â&#x20AC;˘ post-Return ofthe Jedi films, he would litical upheaval in the Corellian sysdevelop his own story. tem, doesn't offer much substance.

The story lines should pull the Like the other'novels that have pr~reader in, considering the potential

that could be explored in each of the fine characters that the movies provided. Luke Skywalker, Jedi knight, searches the galaxy for Jedi candidates to carry on the legacy of the Force. Han Solo and Princess Leia are married with three Jedi children of their own. Chewbacca, the Wookie, acts as a sort of baby-sitter for the children. Lando CaIrissian ... well, he doesn't do much, but he often seems to pop up, being the cool con-artist which he is. There are new aliens and a few new characters, but none are very exciting. Actually, come to think of it, none of these stories are very exciting. Each novel revolves around some sort ofsuperweapon (e.g. a Deathstar) controlled by the bad guys (the fragmented Empire) which the good guys (the New Republic) must destroy. Predictability is a rule. One is left to wonder what George Lucas thinks of the way in which these authors have handled his characters, or if he even cares.l\R

Brautigan: The New Writing Wn.soN

chance recommendations (including a poem in memorial ofhis 1984 death) OW I BECAME ACbefore I finally broke down and read quainted with the writing of , Brautigan.

Richard Brautigan is, I think, The first two books I read were indicative of his self-described repuRevenge of The Lawn, a collection of tation. I wasn't introduced to him in a short stories, and Trout Fishing In literature class, nor in church, nor America, arguably his most famous through an article in some major newsnovel. I found them by chance, the paper or magazine. He was, and there first in a mend's car, the other in the is no more acc1p'ate term, a minor Foreign Literature section of a used poet. Not that his work was unimporbookstore in northern California. tant, it wasn't; not that he wasn't Both these books are similar in influencial, to some he was; not that nature. There is no central plotting, his books are disappearing from only a few stories or chapters overtly memory or bookstore shelves, they're tie into one another. It is not in plot or probably easier to find now than when story that Trout Fishing is a novel, it he was alive. is in theme.

He is a minor poet because his Brautigan writes about life in reputation and work will always reAmerica. Sometimes in a very realisside on the margins of society. So how tic manner, sometimes in a way that did I hear of this "minor" author? The is surreal and absurd. He conveys a first time: a middle aged friend of great love for America - its little mine wrote "Trout Fishing I nAmerica, tragedies, its beautiful land and good Richard Brautigan" on a piece ofpa. fishing - along with a subtle cyniper with a hundred or so other books cism. He assaults optimism, the he thought I might like. The second American Dream, and just about evtime: a minuscule article in the newserything else that could be described paper talking about how a boy in as "society." His writing is a paradox Montana, on his eighteenth birthday, oflove and hate for life. In his work, legally changed his name to Trout the love does seem to win out, most of Fishing In America. "Trout" was his the time (even if the only thing he first name, the rest, his last. The finds worth loving in a given situation third: a friend of mine mentioned a is the irony). But in his real life, hate "hippie author who writes stories that was the victor, as indicated by his don't really go anywhere." He prosuicide in 1984. ceeded to tell me, as an example, The third book I read by Brautigan Brautigan's story "Revenge of the was The Abortion: An Historical RoLawn." It took two or three other mance 1966, and was, by far, the best.

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Instead of the short (sometimes only a few lines, sometimes a few pages) disconnected chapters that worked to form a loose montage in his earlier work, The Abortion has a single plot and a small group of beautiful, well developed characters. The story is set in 1966, before Roe v. Wade and before the "Womens' Rights Movement" had really taken off.

- The initial premise is hilarious: a man lives day and night in a "library" where various "losers" and children bring the books they've written, sign the register and leave. One night, a woman named Vida comes in with a book she'd written about how much . she hates her body. She was, as becomes clear, the most beautiful woman on earth, and could not stand the constant torment of being gawked at by horny men of all kinds. Needless to say, they fall in love, she gets pregnant (at which point birth control is discussed), and they go down to Tijuana to get an abortion. While the beginning, and much of the middle, of the novel is absurd and very comic, the episodes dealing with the abortion (in particular the actual operation) are extremely real and powerful; so much so that, in an otherwise impossible book, I can't help but wonder if these episodes are somewhat biographical.

All of Brautigan's works evoke a counter-cultural mood and style in keeping with the times in which he wrote. Early reviews ofhis work pro-

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claimed him the authentic spokesmen of the "Age of Aquarius" - and this is certainly valid praise. While his fame has always been limited, he is one of the few fiction writers who really drew inspiration from "The Hippie Generation" in the way that Hemingway drew from "The Lost Generation" and Kerouac drew from "The Beat Generation." He performed surgery on the concept of the novel as no one had before, and as few have since.

A reviewer once said that Brautigan'sworkwassodifferentfrom anything we associate with the word "novel" that they were not novels but a new genra of writing. They should be called, he said, "Brautigans." This is an accurate statement; the only other author that writes remotely like Brautigan is Kurt Vonnegut, but even between them there is a great divide.

Much of his work has been reprinted in compiled editions (three novels per volume) within the last few years and is available at most bookstores (including most used bookstores in Ann Arbor). l\R I am Darkness.

Stealthy as a cat Spying on its master.

With curled claws I wait; Hungry. as-11lIl1, to evelope everything.

None can escape me.

Delicious. pernicious - my ecstasy.

I glory over all: I burn, Bum. bum brighter than any star, Haunting my claim to the universe.

- Laura Lee-lun

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Seven is /andTo Die For

BY RYAN POSLY

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begins murdering people according to the seven deadly sins. The murders themselves are so clever, so grotesquely ingenious, that Fincher chooses not to show us the act itself, letting our minds construct the horror and thus enhance it.

The signs of a music video director behind the helm are apparent from the outset. The opening title sequence

IRECTING EXPENSIVE music videos has taught David Fincher a few things: slick visual style, images used for shock value, and intricately layered soundtracks to name a few. Unfortunately, it hasn't taught him a thing about subtlety.

His first film since his debut flop Alien3, which did about as much business as it deserved to do, is Seven, another dark, brooding shadow of a film. The m~or difference here, though, is that the darkness of Seven is used as an effective developer of mood , and setting, whereas it was merely an annoyance inlUien3.

Gray, dismal, and dour, the unnamed city ofSeven never seems like a cinematic trick; it only seems like a truly horrible place to be.

Shoat '11ft upln. guys in Seven duke It out.

Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman is a wonderfull1' Ciaring attempt to star as Detectives David Mills and squeeze all that Fincher learned about William Somerset, respectively. stylized music video editing and efSomerset is a hardened homicide defects into three minutes of film time. tective trying to escape the despair The sound throughout the film is a and gloom of the city. Mills is his mix of hushed dialogue and ubiquireplacement,atypicallybrashsmarttous sirens and gunshots. And the ass: the eager beaver with an atticinematography presents the city as tude. These may seem like prototypian austere metropolis, rough and cold cal buddy-detective film characters, at the same time, and always glistenand they are. Pitt and Freeman, howing with rain. ever, somehow achieve a degree of The setting, however, is exactly ,restraint in their performances that where Fincher goes overboard. The enhance the reality of the entire situlights in people's apartments are alation. Freeman is extremely underways conveniently broken and the stated in expresSiDg his hollowness clouds never break over the city. Not and desensitizatiqn to his loathsome until the unfortunately anticlimactic surroundings. Pitt attempts a sort of finale do we ever see the sun. Fincher psuedcr-Method acting style that erecreates an horrible mood effectively, ates a subtle, though not entirely beto be sure, in this fashion, but the lievable, impetuousness. darkness and rain are overbearing at Somerset and Mills are teamed times. I often found myself squinting up to investigate a serial killer who at the screen to decipher what was

occuring.

On the surface, Seven is a tense and intriguing crime thriller involving two interesting (although poorly developed) characters: it's basically the young, naive idealist vs. the old, wise realist. When asked to look under the surface, however, one is hardpressed to find anything, except maybe a cynical statement about the downfall of modern society. On the other hand, the average moviegoer is not usually asked to look under the surface.

So take Seven for what it is. Admire it for its daring visual style, revel in its subdued performances, and enjoy its final twist. Just don't look too deep into it or you'll only find the heart of a man who has yet to learn how to make the rough transitionfrom music videos to feature films. it

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ELEVISION RUNS ' OUR lives. That is what Gus Van Sant would like you to believe in his latest black comedy, To Die For. Television has brainwashed one woman so much that she will stop at nothing to achieve the fame associated with being on TV. ", Gus Van路Sant is best known for such iconoclastic films as Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho, but .t his film marks a sort of sellingout for him. It bears his mark in its inventive use oftelevision-documentary style to move the plot along, but it also has a mainstream slickness to it. Regardless, the film gets yanked out from under him by an amazing performance by its underrated star, Above all, this is Nicole Kidman's film. Known almost solely for being Tom Cruise's wife and regarded as a mediocre actress at best, Kidman comes into her own with this tale of modern media gone awry.

Kidman stars as Suzanne Stone, a frightening incarnation of everything that is bad about ambition. She marries first for money, but when she discovers that her new husband (Matt路 Dillon) is not going to allow her to pursue her dream ofbecoming a worldwide television personality to the fullest, she decides to remedy the situation. She enlists the help of threehigh-school dropout candidates, about whom she is producing a video documentary (did I mention she is ambitious), by way of sexual seduction, money and friendship.

The story is told in a series of interviews with the characters: Suzanne's parents, her in-laws, the teenagers. The video style parallels the theme of the film. As Suzanne herself says, "You're not anyboQY unless you're .on TV." Kidman is at her best here, looking like she just leapt from a 1960s television show, dressed in hot pinks and lime greens. Suzanne is a calculating seductress, whether flashing her come-hither smile to Jimmie (brilliantly played by Joaquin Phoenix) or merely offering a friendly shoulder to Lydia (Alison Folland).

Also notable is the score by one of ,the greatest film composers of modern times, Qanny Elfman. Airily floating from one note to the next, it provides a feeling of lightness to the film, as if Gus VanSant wants to constantly remind us not to take it too seriously. After all, it is first and foremost a comedy, and a hilarious one at that. The video style offers countless juxtapositions for comedic effect. But Van Sant never ventures too far into the realm of satire, opting instead to create a more mainstream comedy than his previous films . And with a career-making turn by Kidman, it works wonderfully. M.t

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P J and Ben Bteught You Their Rock Mr.," Ben and the crew consistently held the attention of even the most die-hardPJfans. The fact that Harper is a master of the Weissenborn (a hollow-necked slide guitar) doesn't hurt. The fact that Mobley is a master percussionist doesn't hurt either.

rock that you can jam at your next alternative nowadays. frat party, Ben Harper's Fight For Regardless, P J and her gang of 'M NOT A BIG FAN OF SHOW Your Mind is not it. If you want sinfive (two guitarists, a keyboardist, a reviews. "The lights were colorcere, potentially classic songs with a drummer, and a bassistlkeyboardist) ful, the music was loud, the band lot of rhythmic flair, Fight delivers. played almost all of her latest Island was good ." Unless the band lights And catch the next release, To Bring You itself on fire, what is there to write live show too.

My Love, and rocked about? Then I realized that For some reain the strange ways my show reviews couldn't be son, I deceived my',' that only P J can rock. much worse than the other self into thinking It was a nice change stuff that I have been barfing that the primarily to watch a performer out onto page the past few college crowd was who wasn't "too cool" going to be annoyyears. And hey, the P J to be on stage, for Harvey/Ben Harper show last ance-free. When P J even through P J's Sunday at the State Theatre hit the stage, all my heavy, 80s dose of really rocked. hopes were drowned make-up, it was easy First of all, P J couldn't in a sea oftestostersee her happiness. have picked a better opener. one.

Carefully sauntering Guitarist/vocalist Ben With quite a few around the stage in a fists waved in the Harper, joined by funketeer Madonnaesque outair, shouts of "I love fit, she delighted in Juan Nelson on the bass, 19 P J has no time to prepare for pictures. you PJ!"and "take it flashing little glances year-old drum prodigy Oliver at a few select male Charles and percussionist Leon Lewis With Harper sitting down to play ;; off, baby!" I was tryMobley, played tracks from their guitar for most of the set, and the ing to remeber when Ben Harper rocks your lame ass. apes, making them earthy, eclectic Virgin release, Fight Polly Jean opened whoop with pleasure. volume set well bellow the State's for Van Halen.

And she played the frantic "50ft For You'r Mind . usually blarin~ level, it was defmit4tly In actuality she opened for Live a Queenie," the thumping "Meet Ze With songs ranging from the an atypical set. It's obvious that few weeks ago, so that explained all of Monsta," and the eerie "Down By The funky "Ground On Down," to the ulHarper choosei'! to hit you with his the krazy "moshing" and "body surfWater." Could you ask for m:ore? tra-reggae "Oppression," to the more songs more than anything else. ing" that makes everybody feel so Whoop! Whoop! Mt minimal and acoustic "Excuse Me Ifyou are lOOking for fruity hippie

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HE CRISP, CLEAN, SOUND ofWes Montgomery's guitar is something I always long for. I crave his thematic, yet creative solos.

And I can't get ~nough of his climatic stage presence .

Full House is wes Montgomery one of the best colFull House lections of my faRiverside vorite Montgomery traits. His dramatic style is in rare form, as this record is a live set. His solos build with ferocity, peaking in sheer musical ecstasy. The set is a great sampling of his styles : songs in 3/4, songs in 414, slow songs, up-tempo songs, hard bop, cool jazz. Montgomery is fully capable of each genre, and while the disc is live, the diverse style of each song doesn't surprise or scare him - he simply morphs to the correct technique.

Montgomery's technique is incredible. He thumbs the strings with an almost arrogant flair, and his tone is constant, be it repeated sheets ofmusic at hyperspeed, or the slow, drawnout notes of a waltz. His use ofoctaves is also worth pointing to, as this is what many believe to be his trademark. The octaves add an original

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While players like Montgomery sometimes (willingly or unwillingly) capture the spotlight ofthe quintet as a whole, perhaps the most interesting feature of Full House is who comprises Montgomery's combo. Listen up folks: even if you're not that familiar with rhythm sections, you're familiar with Miles Davis. It is his rhythm section that backs Montgomery on Full House. Wynton Kelly on piano, the effervescent Paul Chambers on bass, and Jimmy Cobb on drums - and we know Miles wouldn't settle for just anyone for his rhythm section .

The venerable Johnny Griffin rounds out the quintet on tenor saxophone, and he shares the lead with Montgomery on many occasions on Full House - and he does it with style and flair.

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cert: The album was recorded live, at a coffee house named Tsubo in Berkeley, California. The rather strange amalgamation of musicians - an all star cast, in any event - just happened to all be in San Francisco at the time for separate engagements. After practicing together for less than a month, they recorded their June 25,

1962 Tsubo recording.

If you've ever listened to Wes Montgomery before, you know what I mean when I say that I long for his sound - his tone. It's something to look forward to, something to simply sit back and enjoy. It's simply Wes Montgomery, and no other guitar player can sound the same. l\R

Two Flowers for My Lover I saw you there-there at the bench in the Quad library, surrounded By people I did not know, nor care about.

I saw you, but it was after a spell I walked around the reading room scanning, thinkIng of all the Millions of pages that have been read here, and how many searches Have started and ended as the leather volumes passively looked On and waited . I couldn't find you. Some moments of searching, of Wondering if you were there and if I was Acting the Fool.

But you were there, at a bench on the left, While I first looked right. I saw you, Picked out your hair green,blonde in the Cold mercury-vapor light of the reading lamp.

I stood over you and you saw me. Unexpected, a Flash of surprise washed over your snow路drift face.

The furrows tightened Into a question, then relaxed Into a smile, Two flowers I gave you, with a yellow 3M note that t was thinking of you and wishing You all the best on your exam. Two flowers-one Purple ooe whlte-snatched from my k~chen table In A moment of delight at romance , and adventure, and Boredom. They were yours now as I smiled And walked away. Yours, as you beckoned me back, Daring not to call out, to penetrate the silence that so Snugly surrounded us in the moment.

But I headed 00, knowing that my task was done, and the night Was young, and that I would be with you Again but soon.

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N THE MID SEVENTIES, THE Sex Pistols sparked a vicious punk rock machine that turned all eyes to Britain. It was at this time that vocalist Ian Curtis, guitarist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook, and drummer Steven j r - - - - - - - - - - , Morris felt it op- Joy Dlvlelon portune to form PetmlftHlnt Warsaw. After a aweatlWamer Bros. few months, they Varloue discovered a Lon- A MNn. to IIIJ End don-based band Vlrlgn called Warsaw .....- - - - - - - - ' Pakt, and Warsaw . changed their name to Joy Division.

But while most other Sex Pistols inspired bands were spewing their angst outward, Joy Division made pensive, dark music that focused on the often stifled emotions of and sadness and dread within everyone.

While Joy Division went on to release a four song EP entitled An. Ideal For Living, and the full-length album Unkrwwn Pleasures, they also released a few hard-to-find singles, contibuted to a Factory Records sampler, and reoorded a few songs during two live BBC se88ions with John Peel.

On March 18, 1980 Joy Division had finished their second album, Closer, and were waiting to launch a US tour when Ian Curtis hung himself at his home near Manchester.

Although the band called Joy Division died with Ian Curtis, the releases of outtakes', live tracks, and other compilations1has continued up until the recent QwestIWarner release of Permanent and Virgin'sAMeans

A Means to an End provides us withJ oy Division interpretations from such diverse musicians as Low, Face to Face, Versus, and Moby. While most tribute albums are usually a. waste, the artists on A Means to an End have somehow transformed the sounds and style ofJoy Division without changing the mood. ' Girls Against Boys' beefy version of "She's Lost Control" explemplifies the most successfully aggressive alteration, reminding you how much Joy Division could rock. On the other . extreme, Low chooses to strip down "Transmission" to the barest essentials, painting a delicate soundscape that only Low could paint.

Thl'lse of you who are not familiar with Joy Division would find this compilation a extremely palatable introduction. The bands are hip, the songs are well-produced.. Those of you who, are Joy Division die-ha:rds shouldn't be nervous. for t:Qr9u.ghout Means to an End, the bari(fs never lose 'touch .~ with the music Joy Division. If Joy Division was formed in 1995 instead of 1977, their songs would probably sound a lot like this.

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OS ANGELES BASED Acetone have done something very weird. You might not think they are very cool for doing it.

Let me explain ...

Acetone 1993 saw the reI Guess I Would lease of the trio's deVernon Road but eponymous EP. -...J With guitarist Mark Lightcap and bassist Richie Lee sharing vocals , and writing credits going to different com-binations of those two and drummer Steve Hadley, the EP was reto an End. freshingly eclecPermanent fea, tic . Some Neil tures fifeteen of Joy Young guitar Divisions most rel- : work, some New evant, memorable York indie--rock, songs. While most and some slight people are probably psychedelia profamiliar with "Love vided for four Will Tear Us Apart," rocking tunes. every song on this With the compilation captures full':"lengthed the encompassing Cindy , Acetone melancholy of Ian continued to mix Curtis. Whether it 90s songwriting comes from the wailwith vintage ing"DeadSouls"(covsounds and vinered by Nine Inch tage vibe.

N ails on the Crow And then soundtrack) or the Thank, ladles and gentlemen - Acetone. there is I Guess I more sparse "AtmoWould. Wouldn't sphere," Joy Division captures a seriyou know it, those rockers have gone ous side of music that we sometimes and covered a bunch of country tunes! forget about. Permanent is the perfect , What gives? reminder.

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"Juanita," originally by the Flying Burrito Brothers with Gram Parsons, "Border Lord" by Kris Kristofferson, and a bunch of other tunes by some of coun try's most respected. Not one original.

Not one "rocker."

Sucks to be you be- ' cause, with perfectcountry sounds and perfect country performance, I Guess I Would still rocks the ,. way old c6Untl"y can

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Grandma's attention. In the day of : the one-dimensional (Green Day) and ' ' the fast-but-boring (Seaweed) pOJr rock bands, Engine 88 is showing 'em where it's at.

Engine 88 plays with Jawbox and Jawbreaker at St. Andrew's HaIl in Detroit qn Sunday, October 15.

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Pallet sounds nothing like the band's u.memi tim;. With their Brute clear, ,NlneHighePaJlet reaUyrock; and Capricorn Go and mostly mellow music, I buy ,'this engine 88 rocks my world. can just see a bunch of you won't neo-hippies at a Brute have to lose your indie--rock credo See, show, stoned and swaying side to side.

FromAthens,Georgia,firuteconAcetone is so rock and roll that they don't even care about what anyone .' sists of vocalist and song writer Vic thinks. ', When you are busy rockiD.' '. , Chestnut, bacired DY the members of ,away to this record imd one of your > ' Widespread Panic. Their 80np are lame--ass friends walks in ruu18tarts , simple, but their sound is full, with talking about how country music and melodic, clean guitars (except for a Garth Brooks are not where it's at, few up-beat songs where the guitars you tell him something. You tell hiIitget a little raunchier), piano and orthat Acetone don't give one floating gans, sometimes harmonica and, of water-fartbubbleabouthimoranyof course, the maracas! Nothing parhis Fugazi records. Send him packing ticularly new, but then again, the and rock on! band had no lofty musical intentions Acetone opens for Oasis at the when they made the album; bassist Royal Oak Music Theatre on SunDave Schools says, "We J9st got today, October 22. P .S. if you are gether, played a whole bunch of songs, "too cool" to buy I Guess I Would, and had a whole lot offun doing it."

Acetone will soon release more And, as a whole, Nine High a original rockers on the sophoPallet definitely has a happy vibe to more If You Only Knew. it. With Chestnut's high, Southern voice, the lyrics are sometimes humorous, sometimes meaningless ORMED IN LATE 1992, nothing too depressing, like: "Good the Bay Area band then named morning Mr. Hard On/you've been so Engine evolved from the end strange here lately," or "Mama orof Sordid Humor and Smoking Secdered us some catalogue jeans! she tion. Cap,ricorn Records recently remade the cuffs on the sewing maleased Sordid Humor's posthumous chine."

Light Music for Dying People. You Each song can be repetitious, but may have heard the single, also hypnotizing. And, track to track, "Barbarossa," which featur~ CountBrute'll keep you interested as they ing Crows vocalist and Bay Area resident Adam Duritz on r - - - - - - - - , go calm and Southern ... to uJrbeat the back-up vocals.

Engine 88 and bluesical ... to their funky version Clean Your Room of "Blight" they generously snuck on Apparently, SmokCaroline for you at the end of the album. ing Section was some . I'm not about to put on my Berks funk band that folded after a short and hitchhike to see Brute but I don't existence. All I can say is Engine 88 is mind listening to them in the comfort wayyy more rockin than the band of my own home. members' history would indicate.

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The Michigan Review bids farewell to President Duderstadt, after seven years of service.

Much quiet and necessary construction took place during his tenure.

Our beloved Code - here are some vintage early drafts.

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