----------- - - -- - - 990 18 April 1990 f Vol. I No. 21 . What's shakin' : the ole Provoc re turns frQl'l'.I hospital Still a pain in the rash. p. 8 MSU's alternative . and truly independent voice o we have columns galore ... o Check out The Clydesdale .. . OLet us take youOut a About .. . o Snltt around Dog Boy ... o Peter Murphy runs two Deep ... o Utter Nirvana. ... p. 6,8 p. 10 p. 10 p.10 p.11 p.12 Hemp legalization a burning issue :::::i::::llllllllllllli:!:::::::::::::::::\ll{@§#f~l@!l ev STACY LAMMERS uR- I Issues correspondent Cannabis, hemp, tea, ganja, weed, pot, reefer, fatty, grass, Acap- ulco gold, mary jane, herb, smoke, hash. Called by any of Its names, conflicts and problems. However, Charles Kile, Michigan coordinator of the National Organiza- tlon for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), said using marijuana has not adversely affected him. ·rve been smoking pot for 15 years, since I was 35, · .he said at a taxpayers money In the long run and eliminate present drug problems, such as smuggling, dealing and abuse. By keeping pot Illegal, they say, drug traffickers will be ousted and users/ abusers will be In jail. Conversely, NORML says taxpay- ers lose out on that Idea, because marijuana has for decades been the subjed of songs, protests and contro- versy. Today, frustration ~~~~~ of the war against drugs has revived debate as politicians, police and the public argue the merits of legalization. The question centers on ~~: ~r~~~:~ ~: health and human · behavior, the effect on the ~onomy, and existing attitudes regarding the drug. From the health standpolnt, there are numerous beliefs surrounding marijuana and !~1 ~ect~:; ~hn~o~~ent Ad mini- stration magazine, Drugs of Abuse, · Americans· annually spend about $4 billion to combat drug smuggling and over $1 billion to prosecute and Imprison drug offenders. Zolton Ferency, an ~~~~~ professor anct leading local proponent of decriminallza-. tion, said It costs taxpayers approximately $25,000 to maintain a prison Inmate. Ferency prop<>ses that . :~:=:~.~~~~::~ hol. . NORML also estimates :~:•~~11~&1·~~i-~~~l:lil that Americans spend In excess of $30 billion a year on marijuana, supporting a black market that destabll- lzes the economy. Using a macroeconomic model, NORML says the legallza- ~~n!, ~~~ ~=~Jo~.0: f::~~~ tion of marijuana would Increase the ·rm not lazy or brain-damaged: ~~:~. ~~;:::~0ct~~6u~,!~~~· 3 :Sexuarhatrassment:at::fflii:Stauf::::::=:::: :&~;f:/(t:::JJ:::J)::){:{:)/::t/\:t: ;;~=~~~E!~£~~nm :;~~E~E=::~~ Si~:S:£r~a1n llf'Sl&~lfi~ .,~~-11~1~~} ... 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Cale llJJG,guflc 13 April: Severed Heads with MC 900 Ft Th~ lllti 12 April: Dirty Looks loYGD Orlllt IMl111111ic Th.ah 21 April: Oingo Boingo 22: Michelle Shocked with Poi Dog Pondering and John Wesley Harding A ANNARBOR The Am 11 April: Lady of the Lake 12: Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen 13: RFD Boys 14: Clive Gregson and Christine Collister 15 Beausoleil 17: Gordon Bok. Ed Trickett. and Ann Mayo Muir 18: Open stage Tl-IE CLYDESDALE by JONT TIWtQUilllER GUN READY? Q£CKI I curl.ERV una> Ulr'? I OEQ(I ..._._..."NEXT OF IC11P. CHEQ(f I 18 A ril 1990 university Reporter-Intelligencer • Reviews Murphy digs up his roots ~ · Peter Murphy, Deep presence. His use of unusual melo dies and bass notes that viorate the chest more than the drums dominate the album. The Hundred Men, Murphy's backup band, help him reveal the attempt to revive the originality and eccentricity present in his Bauhaus days. This is obvious in the -similarity of "The Line Between the Devil's Teeth" to the Bauhaus tune, "In the · Flat Field." Besides some drum sequences popularized in recent radio hits, Deep is a success and a necessity for any alternative ' music collection. - McHAL J. PFaFER Rev1ewolthePeterMurPfiyshoW>>> Beggar's Banquet Ex-Bauhaus lead singer, Peter Murphy dug down to his roots for his third solo project Deep. The 10-track release boasts a great mixture of melodic acoustics and biting guitar and keyboards, with no one instrument being favored. The album's aggressive quick paced songs are packed with ener getic guitar sliding and heavy dance beats-great for a festive party. "Shy," which doesn't lend itself to its title, is one of these faster tunes with high-pitched keyboard punches and Murphy speeding up his vocals. It's definitely a toe-tapping tune. The more emotionally haunting tunes grab the listener and give a tension-releasing musical massage. A lava lamp and a big couch are a must for this portion of the album. , "Marlene Dietrich Favorite Poet" reflects its soothing title. Its acoustic beauty and orchestric synth patches are perfect for those incense-burning candle-lit evenings. ' But whatever song it is, Murphy's voice is pounding out its usual eerie EAT CHEAP Dirty Dog Deal $1.99 Coney Basket Includes One Coney Dog, Fries __ .... __ ... _, and Cole Slaw. Evervdav 'till 1 lom r ' · FREE . I CONEY BASKET I I I wnen you buy one I I basket and two pops I I with this coupon. \. Everydav 'till lln.m. I WE DELIVER 332-2381 , ___ ._ __ .._.__, ~o~-~ New Wednesdays Reggae Night All Rum Drinks $1.75 Fe.ature This Week: Ras Shaggai 101 E. Grand River Home of The Shark bowl! We Invite You To Come In and Receive A Professional Hair Style and Cut With Kelly, Teena & Kathy. $5.00 OFF Also Hair Clairifying Treatments Reg. $15.00 Now $10.00 Cleanse Your Hair and Scalp. Promotes Hair Growth and Gives A Beautiful Healthy Shine. Murphy comes alive live B~ ~·CHA~ J. PFEIFER nde t n u - music correspo DETROIT - The Latin Quarter, Detroit's newest hotspot for alternative concerts, was packed with black leather and thick eyeliner April 8 for the Nine Inch Nails/Peter Murphy show. The hard beats of NIN pounded the excited crowd first. Trent Reznor. lead Let Us Help You Out-Come To GARY'S CAMPUS HAIR SALON $9.00 Uni-sex Hair Styling "IJ eut 4 k 'lfd (J'Jiod ~" 351-6511 • 549 E. Grand River (next to Confection Connection) M-F 8am-7pm • Sat 9am-2pm The Peace Corps Is Coming To MICHIGAN STATE Find out more about Peace Corps Opportunities during an Information table ALL DAY April 26 & 27 in the Wells Hall Union at MSU singer and creator of NIN, bounced around the stage thrashing his arms, head, hair and every other part of his body. · And the crowd mirrored the band's enthusiasm. The first couple rows looked like a gymnastic net for some pretty irrpressive stage dives. NIN'ssoundwas excellent - asynth lover's dream. Loud, hard, and definitely full of energy. Everyone walked off the stage sweating, and maybe even bleeding, following NIN's last tune, "Head Like a Hole; in which Reznor leveled his guitarist with a strong elbow and gave the key boards a good beating as well. While the stage was cleared for the headliner, the crowd didn't have much time to run to the bar before the lights were doused. A quick spotlight showed Murphy towering above the stage squatted in the same position as on the cover of Deep. The former Bauhaus frontman opened with "The Line Between the Devil's Teeth." Unfortunately, Murphy had a mediocre light show, and his musi_c mix didn't touch NIN's. His vocals were both too loud and unclear in the first half of his set; maybe an overlook on the sound man'spart. But The Hundred Men~ the music behind the man, did a great job in their performance even though Murphy's efforts at being an entertainer left something to be desired. H~ played to a crowd of ticket sales rather than an audience of music lovers. Although Murphy was a bit calmer than NIN, as was the crowd, he performed a good mix from his last three albums. Twelve songs in all, topped by Murphy's decision to close off the show with a Bauhaus encore I The show was very entertaining, musically and theatrically. And in spite of · some shortcomings, seeing the pasty- faced, sharp-featured leg'end strut his stuff was enough to make this show worth the bucks ---~- ~--- - - - - Entertainment Three band show hard driving wit'1 stage diving ,--;....., ev ANGIE CAROZZO uR-1 entertainment editor ANN ARBOR - The Blind Pig was the host of heavy muddle head banger mania April 1 O when two SUb . Pop bands, Tad and Nirvana, joined together with Victim's Family to shake the house down to the ground. Victim's Family, from California, opened the show with a story of their hardships on the road. "Our truck broke down and blew a gasket on the way over here; said the lead singer, "and the U-Haul you probably saw outside Is ours, so I think we're gonna take out some of our aggressions now: They went on to play a halfway decent set that was more hardcore Influenced than anything else. The lead singer screamed at the top. of his lungs, white the drummer beat the crap out of his set. As for the bass player, he was jammln' and he couldn't wipe the snot-eating grin off his face. . Certain members of the crowd proceeded to the pool hall downstairs for some peace and quiet until Tad would come on. In short, Victim's Family sucked. · So Tad starts setting up. This guy had to weigh about 300 pounds. Screams came from the audience, "Hey, Tedi. The guy looks like he's ready to eat several members of the audience. Tad started the set and the audience turned Into an ocean sway- Ing to and from the stage. It didn't take long for the stage diving to start. . The lead guitarist spent most of They played a good set and the croY«:t seemed like they couldn't possibly get any more rited. That Is untli the last song, when Tad put his guitar down and was just singing. As the song 'Was coming to a gers buggln' Nirvana white they're tryln' to get their equipment set up. The crowd was filled with Detroit rockers that night. Among them were Karen Neal and Linda Marie of Inside Out, Jymn Auge of Snake close, Tad gives a strange kind of look Out (the Fuknotz), and Warren to the croY«:t, starts running toward the Defever of Elvie Hitler. front of the stage, and this 300 pound hulk of a man does a stage dive! . Nirvana started their set off rockln'. hard. And with the loss of Jason Everman to Sound Garden, Kurdt Kobaln, lead singer and rhythm the half that wasn't gonna guitarist was left to do the solos - no · Half the crowd was horrified, and the other half were laughing their asses off - have to try and catch him. Tad crawled back to the stage and started singing again. Then the guitar player, while soloing, heads for the crowd and jumps with the bass player soon to follow. easy task. He did a most excellent job, though. Their set Included klckln' tunes like "Mr. Mustache.• Drummer Chad Channing set the pace with a hard- driving beat which bass player. Chrl• Novo.elic, kept up with and added to with some greet bass tines played In a style that.only he could master. The stage dives continued with twice the enthusiasm as when Tad See TREY,. p. 9 the show in front of his amp doing . feedback so!Os like they were meant to be done. The bass player was klckln' out some awesome tines. And what happens? The goofy autograph whHe the drums were good, .they were mongers start buggln' these guys nothing spectacular. This ended their set. So then .. Meanwhile, Tad is playing some great rhythm guitar with distortion up the butt. whlle they're tryln' to tear: down their equipment for the headllning band, Nirvana. In fact, It was these same mon- Mariah Productions/Pop Entertainment Presents: T ey ig l .Be Giant ' . i':euel ... ~ ,. . . .,,alien• •Ml • ..,Inola 11111111 . ._ 111atla It~ Autl· 1. llu4eftta tllet II• net ••ftCel !Mir ,....,. • ._ . I I I I I . for about ohe year, Mccallum said one of the problems he has noticed is that the newsroom atmosphere "is not always professional." For example, he said employees will give each other back rubs during work hours. ·And women sitting around engaging in conversation, he said, often are heard "talking about how good men are in bed.• But the new guidelines will no longer permit such behavior in the newsroom, which Canales believes resulted from the strikers' pressure on Secor to respond to their demands. These include: • Allowing the minority representa tive to have a vote on the editorial board; ·· Implementing an Affirmative Action plan to eradicate the alleged disriminatory hiring practices. • Develop a minority stylebook. • Adopt guidelines prohibiting sexual and racial harrassment. "I think we got him (Secor) to say, 'Yes, I'm going to agree to these things," Canales said. But whether Secor is sincere in his newsroom reform proposals "is yet to be seen,· she said. "I'm skeptical I guess, but hope ful." Copy Editor Alyssa Harvey, another walkout participator, said she is "not very optimistic" that reforms will be enacted. She said: "Right now I'm having trouble knowing if there will be any changes at all." Harvey noted that the strikers returned to work be cause overall they were pleased with managements' responses to their de mands. But upon returning to her job, she said she noticed no change in Secor's "attitude." A letter accompanying the list of demands released April 6 stated that strikers' "frustration and dismay has grown by the lack of effort, concern and a sensitivity displayed by the editor in chief, John Secor: Harvey said things don't seem to be changing. Upon the strikers' first day back at work, she said Secor already failed at making good on one promise he had made the group: "(to) tell staff that he knew of all the prob lems before we walked out." During the strike, Secor repeat edly said that he had never received any reports of sexual or racial harrass ment. Sports writer and striker Candace · Mccrary says it is "just a matter of time· before the group's questions are Jully answered. "We're still kind of on pins and needles waiting for things to happen," she said. the university Reporter-Intelligencer Page Three The Second Front Page BY STACY LAMMERS uR-l l88uea correspondent Numbers tell the tale of local drug war On campus arrests, alcohol vs. other drugs, 1987to1989 While the federal government has stepped up interdiction and the war on drugs, local police have found little or no change In drug-related arrests over the past few years. Alcohol arrests, however, ex ceeded drug arrests by far. On campus, liquor violations - minor-In-possession, transportation of alcohol, and open alcohol in public - are more easily discovered than drug violations, according to police. Fre quently, liquor violations lead to discovery of drug violations. DPS statistics show a steady trend of Increasing liquor violations since 1985. Marijuana violations especially aren't easily discovered, said Michi gan State University Department of Public Safety officials, who, along with East Lansing police and the Tri County Metro Narcotic Squad fight the local drug war. •Most (marijuana) offenses are brought to our attention through other means (than busts),• said Andrew McEntee, DPS deputy director. "They're either discovered by some one smelling smoke under a door, or through another violation, like a traffic violation.· The department, which combines ail drugs Into its statistics on drug violations, last year made 1 O drug arrests. This marks a decrease from the 12 arrests made in 1988, and · since 1985, the number of drug related arrests has fluctuated. It's gone from 28 In 1985, to 1 O in 1986, and peaked at 36 in 1987. East Lansing, however, has made a consistent number of arrests each year. "The number of drug violations in the city has pretty much stayed the same for the past few years," said ELPD Captain Richard Murray. · "We don't go after these viola tions, though; he added. "That's the job of the Metro Narcotic Squad." In 1989, East Lansing police reported four arrests for the sale of marijuana, and 1 O for possession of marijuana. Violators were jailed for those offenses, Murray said. But traffic for the Metro Squad, which handles such violations throughout Ingham County and surrounding areas, was heavier. "In 1989, we reported 54 mari juana-related arrests, which include deliv~ry of, conspiracy to deliver, and possession with intent to deliver marijuana; said Lt. Charles McCord. He added that Metro squad officers ·made 13 possession of marijuana arrests. - In 1988, arrests were classified differently, and police made 78 arrests for delivery of and conspiracy to deliver marijuana, 25 arrests for possession of and possession with intent to deliver marijuana, and eight arrests for manufacturing (growing) marijuana 73 elcolaol arrests ~ "n ~ ..., '7 ~,, 38 drug arrests ,, z z "n ~ "n ' I ,.., '7 12 drug arrests 10 drug arrests 1987 1989 source: MSU DPS Breakdown of dr~g offenses in tri-county area 1989 In 1985, there were 23 liquor violations compared to 28 drug violations. That was the only year drug violations exceeded liquor Infractions. The upward trend of alcohol related violations on campus contin- . ued, going from 58 In 1986, to 117 in 1987, dropping to 73 In 1988. In 1989, the number again Increased to 128. "In the last two years, drug violations have stayed about the same, but alcohol violations greatly Increased in the same time period," McEntee said. Last year, East Lansing reported 306 arrests for possession of a/coho/ in a vehicle, 27 for consuming alcohol in public, 1,052 for minor In posses sion, and 804 for consumption of open Intoxicants. The penalties for alcohol violations are not as stringent as those for drug violations, police said. 2.6X - 1ther.s 3.3" - metlaylamplaetamines ·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·. ::::::::::::::::::::>::::·:·:···· l!ill~~~e.i®.~ 4" - LSD .... ...... 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THINK IT'S OfC. TO TP.Y lRAGk. uR-1 artwork/JACK WHEATLEY Time to stop wasting time, legalize money and lives - No one is high on the idea of across the board drug legalization, . but there is one. substance many conservative and liberal thinkers can agree should be decriminalized - hemp. Marijuana, as it is commonly known, is a plant that grows naturally in much of the Earth's soil - unlike other popular mind alterers concocted in Bogota laboratories to later be cut with rat poison and other toxins. Although the question of legalization has been . debated on a number of new fronts now familiar to the general public, no action seems imminent. That is too bad. We insist that cannabis be legalized for several reasons: • it is a natural product, unlike harder drugs or even alcohol, which must be distilled from other products; • it will allow millions of poor farmers worldwide to continue to raise the plant legally, thereby removing the stigma of illegality while letting them feed their families; • it is no more dangerous than any of the other drugs already legalized and widely C:onsumed - such as alcohol, tobacco, valium, etc. Of course there are hundreds of other reasons and counterarguments to be made, but in this issue we feel you should be exposed to enough diverse thought from both sides of the spectrum to make up your own mind. Ours is already set. legalize marijuana - NOW,mon. They came, they saw, they walked, they lost What's that we hear? A distant voice with a cellulite warble? Could it be? It is!!! THE FAT WOMAN SINGETH ... ... and the tune is taps, sung for the hope of real reform at The State News. fight against racial and sexual After an initially courageous - and later vague (but more on that later) - harassment at the student daily, walkouts became giveups and agreed Good Friday to return to work the following Sunday. In true Friday the Thirteenth fashion, their luck turned bad as they gave in to what was -at best-a proposal by The State News Management to stick to its existing policy. The State News' counter-proposal to the walkouts' list of 22 demands included: A cultural awareness and sensitivity seminar; having a minortiy representative attend weekly editor meetings, changing the term "black· to "African American·; creating and using a minority stylebook; enforcing an affirmative action plan; and establish ing a specific, written grievance procedure for all staff members. According to the paper, all walk outs would return after the agreement was reached. In other words, not one of the strikers had the courage or sense to realize that they gave up the fight too soon and for too much nothing. Whyfore do we say this?? Primarily because most of the terms agreed upon are hollow; the minority representative can vote on editorial stances, making a total of four votes - but the editor-in-chief casts the tie-breaking vote. Nothing new here. Technically, the editor-in chief can overrule all votes (he can prevail against odds of one-million to · one, if that's the case), by virtue of his position. Then there's hiring staffers and promoting them. Now minorities are encouraged and will be given an equal chance-but the final decision rests with the editor-in-chief. Wow, what a change from the pre-strike policy, which gave editor-in-chief hiring, firing and promoting power. And enforce an affirmative action plan? Weren't they supposed to be doing that already?? Like they say the University should be doing??? Hyprocrisy???? Oh, then there's "Africian Ameri can· instead of "black· Like the difference in calling handicappers "handicappers· instead of "handi capped; changing the name doesn't solve the problem. This is a truly puny concession. And, lest we should forget, there will be cultural awareness and sensi tivity seminars! Let us also remem ber, however, that cultural awareness and sensitivity cannot be taught just with a seminar, it should be developed by listening to the concerns of minori ties - which the paper obviously hasn't done, and most likely won't do, unless a new editor feels that it is important. Editor-in-Chief John Secor has already shown he is not mature enough to listen to his staff's con cerns, and he is the linchpin to the See EDIT, p. 9 the university Reporter-Intelligencer 18 April 1990 :·.·.: · .. -.- : _.- @~@w!Bin~ ·@im~ · :. ••••:•:••:••:•:::::::•:•:::J~en'1.:$'-W::•::••••::•::::••:•:• .·.··:-:-:-:-:·:-:-:-: ..... ·.·.-.:-;.:-:-:<<:>>.·.· . . < :-:-:-: -:-:-::::::;.:-: -:-:-:.:-:-:-:-:-;.;.;.:-:-;.;.;.;. .·.·.<<<·> . . . . . . . · - . · · · . .. .. ·:-:-:-.·.·.·.·. :-:.:-:·:<·:-:-:<:> .·.·.·-:-:.:.:-:-:-:-:-: -:-:-:-:·:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:· ·<<<<:::::::: .. :·.·.·.·.;.:-:-:·:·:·:·:::::::::::<<<·:-··· ·· .. .• _:: .. _ 11~141®.tt.:@ .. ~~·················· ~ltll!lt:: ············~~~~111 ;•••••••••••••r•~1~•~••••••••••••••••• 1111;m11~ .·.· ····················•~r;lelf it~~Y•••·••••·•••········· : ::: ::::::):;:~@n~~~\j~~~mn~M~IIH ::: : : 9f~ _Hun.ter S._Ihompson·: :::::-: :-~i~~~~~·~~i~~~~:@Q - . . . . ... :~~~@W:~~~~<><' ,::: gtg~~•P9W~C::::::: :::••· :: :: . wen~ ~_qrroy. . -- .. ... .... . ·· .... ·· · t £riti5ta& . . . . .... · · ··· · · . .. .. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . ·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.· ..... .. ... . . ....... . . •···•···•·•·•· ~~1imr1n~, ·········.··•·•· ······~~~--~11~\·~······· ·.·.·.·.· .·.· ..... . ·.·.· .. : :· .... . . . .. .. . ... .. .. .. ·.:· -- . . . . .. .. . ·.·.·. ·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.-... . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...... . . ........... . - ·- · ··· .·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.· . ... . . . 18 April 1990 · university Reporter-Intelligencer ·5 to that marketplace on Minister Farrakhan. I do not like Anti-Semitic comments disseminated, but I would not disallow it. The MSU Trustees felt they were acting out of dedication to diversity when they took away the pledged money, but in reality they were only the forerunners of bigotry. Poet Allen Gisnberg said: "The pur pose of such censorship is to concen trate all emotional authority in the state and eliminate all ideological and emotional competition.· There was much lobbying done on the part of a few student groups to have Farrakhan's speech removed from the campus because they didn't think that Farrakhan should be a part of American Democracy, that his point of views were too inconvenient for us and that his audience would be too stupid to recognize racism. This censoring attitude on campus also denied that Farrakhan is a viable voice within the Black community, and that's foolish. I feel that Farrakhan's speech should have been funded completely, but that the context should have been altered: All speakers, of any persua sion, should be required to hold aside a period of time for questions and answers so that students may chal lenge and learn from the speaker, as opposed to being merely passive receivers of indoctrination and bias. Additionally, for highly controversial issues (i.e. Farrakhan), a university facilitated symposium featuring repre sentatives of all sides including admin istrators, students, faculty, and staff to discuss the implications of what was said is essential. As William Kirwan, President of the Universityof Maryland, said, " ... a Univers~y ... has an obligation, not only to allow those presentations under the · First Amendment, but to provide regular, organized forums w.here students learn to divest themselves of those points of view. "The society at large is much better off when it consciously rejects something than when it never hears it and maybe harbors latent views: The defenders of freedom and fighters of racism were inside the auditorium with their notebooks and · their questions. But again, the Board of Trustees did not provide for a critical forum. The intellect of the Farrakhan boyc;:otters is analogous to people thinking that we can stop airplane crashes if we stop writing articles about them in our newspapers. This attitude only makes us less aware of the reality of society. The wave of apathy that clouded MSU over a clear First Amendment violation brings to mind a line from Cockburn's article Bound to be Gagged: "A freedom you aren't fighting for is probably a freedom you've already lost.· Great Issues is here to say that we fight censorship and will express our rights to program speakers. The Trustees seemingly forgot Voltaire's cliche: "I may disagree with what you said but I will fight to the death for your right to say it: Instead, they turned it on its head: "I might disagree with what you say, but I will fight to ensure you say it somewhere else.· - Patrick Bryant Director of Great Issues Due to the length of Bryant's letter - over five single-spaced, typed pages - the uR-1 is only able to print part of the essay. However, complete copies of Bryant's letter may be obtained at our Gunson Street offices. -'-Bd. Chick not amused Why is it that in Lynne Hoffman's 28 February review of Going Public the people of the male gender are called "men; but those of the female gender get to be called "chicks?9 Her review was offensive; an Alabama truck driver couldn't have done better himself! I go. to every Going Public show I can because they put on a great show. I am not a "chick~ or a "bimbo: (Gee, she forgot to use "dames; and "broads· too ... ) · Finally, why is it that she could figure out Rich Fossier's name but could only come up with "some chick· for the female singer? It would've taken all of 1 O seconds to find out her name by asking anyone in the band. Instead of doing that and pointing out the fact that she is one of the only female singers in East Lansing, Hoffman chooses to degrade her. Some "alternative· newspaper you have there. With Sincere disgust, -Tina Caputo English senior ,, WE WANT YOUR LETTERSl write to us about anything on your mind and send that kernel ot brilliance to the uR-1 at t 42 Gunson St, East Lansing, Mi 46623. Leffers should not exceed 250 words, and must be signed. We are not your pen pals, and therefore do not want to receive any corretpondence you don't want printed. WE PRINT EVERYTHING WE RECEIVEI More on Farrakhan Dear Editor: Being the director of MSU's only speaking organization, Great Issues, I _ feel ~n urgency to comment, albeit belatedly, on a subject of importance to Great Issue ,and to the MSU community-at-large. Last term, a controversy ensued at MSU on the speech of Louis Farrakhan, a reputable speaker who has undeniably made anti-Semitic comments. The Board of Trustees action (a limit of funding only $1,000) to withdraw the $4,000 which the administration gave to As One will surely go down in our history as an inflammatory example of modern censorship in an allegedly free society. I am disheartened and appalled by the Trustees' action and by the protesting of the speech which followed. These people acted as our own Jesse Helms, telling us what propaganada speech deserves funding and what does not. Farra khan became our Robert Mapple thorpe, and, to a smaller extent, our Salmon Rushdie. A truly free society, in my opinion, guarantees an adequate marketplace of ideas where differing opinions are made and exchanged, no matter how controversial or racial. However, the Trustees clearly tried to shut the door Fiddle, fiddle, fiddle. Burn, burn, burn. For denying that Rome was on fire as chunks of that scorched and once-venerated campus institution fell around you and your male chauvinist cronies, you win what some might call a booby prize - oops, we mean consolation prize - Geek o' the Week dishonors. Yes, John Secor, you lied to the press and ignored the real problems brought up by strikers who could take no more after nearly a year'of callous and depressing mismanagement. Gee, he always seemed like such a nice boy, Madge. Here's hoping, your last several weeks will - and then you will -fly by and be forgotten. Good luck selling Edsels, John - you'll need it. 6 ·university Reporter-Intelligencer 18 April 1990 Legalization question spurs debate, challenge on high levels TIM ILVERTHORNE H. Marcus was a history professor I didn't much like. He made me do a lot of work and in the end, I got a lousy grade. H. Marcus did, however, leave me with an admirable and succinct maxim which he used, though we squirmed at its utterance, to make an important point about ethics. "If you don't know, say so,· he would bark at some rwnbling oaf, in front of everyone. I recommend that Roy Gerard, the family practice department chairper son, think on H. Marcus' simple wisdom. Our story begins April 2, when David Greenbaum.an MSU human medicine professor, said In The State News that marijuana damages the central nervous system. Dr. Gerard was also quoted that marijuana destroys brain cells. These, they pontificated, were the reasons mari juana should remain illegal. I was immediately baffled be cause, in two years of reading re search literature on the subject, I had never seen these assertions. So, I made a call. ·"Those are incorrect statements. There is no evidence to suggest that,• says Lester Grinspoon, an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School who has studied marijuana for over two decades and has published two books decrying government misinfor mation about marijuana "Those are the kind of alarmist statements which are the product of our current drug hysteria,· Grinspoon says. Wanting to give Greenbaum and Gerard a chance to cite research evidence in support of their state ments, I called them. Unfortunately, Greenbaum is not available to com ment because he is c:Urrently hospital ized. Gerard, though a busy rnan, promised to look for the literature he referred to in The State News inter view. After 1 O days of trying, I finally coaxed Dr. Gerard to speak to me. "People who use marijuana habitually, the so-called 'potheads', I think there's evidence that · marijuana harms them,· Gerard says. How? "There's a lot of literature in the texts to show that cannabis, or the active ingredient, THC, causes · cognative changes and users ability to think is impaired," Gerard continues. Could he name a study? No, he said, he was not a re searcher, and was too. busy doing other things to find hard evidence. "I did not conjure this up as a reaction to a drug; I read it in medical literature,· he insisted. Could he give the name of any of · the publications where he saw the studies? No. "I really resent the way you conducted this,· Gerard concluded. Good. I'm rather enjoying the same exhilaration H. Marcus seemed to exhibit when roasting a particµlarly blunt oaf in class. Now, to be fair, I re-checked a bulk of evidence, mostly published in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, a scientific journal with an editorial review board comprised regularly of about 4q researchers from Harvard, the University of Chicago, Berkeley and Johns Hopkins University, among . others. Here is what I found: •University of Miami study, · 1988. Fifteen-year study of use in Costa Rica states, "Previous studies of the longterm effects of chronic cannabis use have uniformly failed to demonstrate deficits in cognative and motor functions .. .ln addition, studies of neuropsychologlcal functions in North American chronic users who were not multiple drug users have also failed to reveal longterm effects specifically associated with cannabis.· The study itself concluded that, while there were consistent scoring differ ences between non-users and .chronic, longterm users, the difference could be called •sub-clinical·. •Stanford University study, 1988. Study of marijuana, driving and accident safety: • . .there is little hard evidence on the extent of marijuana involvement in accidents in the transportation industry.· Despite evidenee that roughly the same number of rallway workers use marijuana as alcohol, 73 accidents named alcohol as the sole cause. Marijuana was named twice, once in connection with alcohol and metham phetimine. Study states that blood levels of THC are present in 11 to 20 percent of drivers in fatal car acci dents, but because 81 to 87 percent of those were also drun~. the cause of the accidents was probably alcohol, not marijuana •University of Arizona study, 1988. "Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. ' In strict medical terms, marijuana is far safer than many foods we ~mmonly consume, (such as) raw potatoes: LO 50 and Therapeutic Ratio are ways of judging a subtances toxicity. These measures have not been established for marijuana, the study says, be cause, •researchers have been unable to give animals enough marijuana to induce death: Study says that, despite the fact that 20 to so· million Americans routinely smoke marijuana, a single death has never been re ported due to toxicity. By comparison, aspirin causes hundreds of deaths each year. •The Late Dr. Norman Zinberg, Harvard Medical Schoo1, 1979. "In any study ever conducted, students who smoked marijuana had better grades than non-smokers: Zinberg speculated that this was not because marijuana makes you more intelligent, but rather reflected that more intelli gent students would tend to be more adventurous and thus use marijuana Zinberg states that any number of learned commissions has disproved the idea that marijuana is a stepping stone to "harder drugs·, like cocaine and heroin. Now, I'm not saying that mari juana isn't necessarily harmful. Other studies in the Journal indicate that marijuana smoke harms the heart and lungs, though probably not even as bad as cigarettes. (Also, because marijuana isn't physically addictive, marijuana users smoke much less than cigarette users.) Also, though the bulk of evidence shows marijuana to be harmless by other standards, by the very fact that marijuana is illegal it is hard to study its health effects. There's simply no plethoral cornucopia of reliable research out there partly because the Drug Enforcement Agency controls licensing of independent studies of illegal drugs, and restricts .them. Well they should. If research continues to pile up in favor ofJegal izer's daims, the DEA stands to lose a chunk of that sweet budget pie. And as Bill Day, a James Madison senior, chortled at the East Lansing legalization rally, "The cops, the DEA, . (they) love whatever power you can give 'em: Also, whatever research is available isn't as good as it should be. People lie to their doctors and insur- . ance companies, freaked out about losing their jobs, paying high premi ums or the police. How many people, do you think, mark "yes• in the box asking essentially whether you are a junkie, fiend or high-on? This means that large chunks of vital health statistics are unavailable to researchers in evaluating marijuana's possible effects. More frighteningly, countless other unrelated health studies will be flawed by not taking into account the 15 to 20 percent of their test subjects who smoke mari juana regularly and don't report it. Finally, I would like to acknowl edge that half the blame for the incorrect statements made in The State News article falls on Matt Tanguay, the reporter. His inability to locate real, knowledgeable sources for his artide has helped to perpetuate dangerous myths about marijuana This is reflective of negligence and, as such, is poor journalism. At any rate, I'm offering your choice of 20 Washingtons, four Lincolns or two Hamiltons to the first person who can present to me one · credible, (i.e. university, clinical, non govemment) study done since 1974 documenting that marijuana use either: A. damages cognative functions. B. ·bums out• short term memory cells C. kills brain cells D. makes anyone impotent E. leads to harder drugs F. Causes a demonstrated amotivational syndrome. (Note that in Jamaica, smokers use the drug in the morning like we use coffee - motivated.) to get Now, Dr. Gerard, students and public, there's a little incentive that I bet you won't find MSU's "Independ ent Voice· laying out. I suggest that everyone begin their search by dailing 1-202-633-1000. I'm waiting .. You know how addictive sweets - Silvetthorne Is a uR-1 issues co"espondent. are. ·.·.~. · 1111 : 18 April 1990 university Reporter-Intelligencer 0 7 Make every day Earth Day materials for Mure generations. So why do 70 percent of American households still refuse to recyde goods? It's the same old story - mere laziness accounts for most of the unrecycling population, while igno rance accounts for the rest. The problem is, it will be far too late a few hundred years down the road for all the lazy people to say "Oops, sorry" when the resources are gone and all our homes are built on landfills. A truly lovely picture, and one that we have to act now to prevent. Home recyding is a lot easier than you think. To begin with: -Contact your local recyding group. (Most cities are ecologically-hip enough to have one by now.) lhey can advise you on what and when they pick up, and how to prepare for it. In East Lansing, the Recyclers of Ingham County offer curbside pick-up to the •college ghetto" area Call 337- 3040 to see if,you qualify. (And hey kids, it's FREE!) •Sort newspapers, tossing out that slick, glossy crap that doesn't recyde. Stack or brown-bag newspapers (like the lovely uR-1) in a comer. •Tear the labels off tin cans, take the ends off, and crush them. It's fun and smart, too. or corks, but don't worry about paper labels. •Rinse out and crush plastic milk and juice containers and place them in their separate bins. (With each American using _about 190 pounds of plastic each year, it's nice to know that this environmental bummer can be recycled.) -Crush corrugated cardboard boxes and stack them separately. They can be recyded, too. For the truly dedicated, a little bit of "pre-cycling thought" can go a long way. Most people don't think twice about packaging when they shop, but If you knew that about one out of every $11 you spend on food goes to unnecessary plastic packaging, you might take a few extra seconds to precycle. So: •Buy in bulk whenever possible. Generally, it's cheaper, and it uses minimal packaging. •Buy eggs in cardboard. - not those dreaded styrofoam - ers. contain •Bead labels! Stay dear of such things as phosphates in detergents and CFC's in aerosols. In general, the more cosmic the chemical sounds, the better it is (for the Earth and for you) to stay away from it. •Buy groceries in glass rather than •Sort glass bottles according to color. Take off any m~tal collars, caps plastic containers whenever possible. The reason Is simple: Glass will eventually biodegrade; plastic never will. True, that jar of peanut butter might break rather than bounce when you drop it - but at least it won't bounce after you forever. All this might sound bothersome and time-consuming, but the little extra effort that it takes. is well worth it. The American Paper Institute esti mates that if everyone in the U.S. recycled even one tenth of -their newspapers, we could save about 25 billion trees every year. And if 1 O percent of Americans purchased less plastic products just 1 O percent of the time, we could eliminate about 144 million pounds of plastic that might otherwise be destined for landfills. The message is dear: if we want something done, we'va got to do it ourselves. Get into the recycling habit, and take a little extra time to think about what you're buying when you shop. Only through direct action can consumers tell manufacturers what they want -to see on the shelves. Everything that you do has .an effect on the environment, so try to make it a positive one. · - Carter Is a wrlterlphot0gra pher who covets environmental Issues for the uR-1. Numbers cited In this piBce were obtained from JHE EARTHWORKS GROUP. BETH CARTER - •FACT 1: It takes an entire forest - over 500,000 trees - Americans with their Sunday newspa pers every week. to supply •FACT 2: We throw away 28 billion glass bottles and jars each year · - enough to fill the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center every two weeks. •FACT 3: There is a better way to make use of the Eartt:i's dwindling resources - recycling. With the ratio of landfills to rainforests increasing, and the number of dispo~ble diapers-clinging to the face of the Earth already outnumber ing the people, you'd think that people would get the hint: things are way out of hand. It seems so simple that it uses less recycling makes sense - Qnergy, saves more money in the long run, and saves valuable resource 8 • university Reporter-Intelligencer SN advocates ignorance lie. The memo, which refers to Farrakhan's bOdy guards as "Uzi toting boys," tells his editors to "track down" Ezra Hyland and only lists Jewish leaders as "experts on Farra khan." The student group As One was viciously maligned by the series of articles that The State News ran during the Farrakhan controversy. At the trustee meeting, people compared Farrakhan to Hitler and As One to the Aryan Nation. The SN reported this, but didn't give As One a chance to refute the comparisons. The SN told us that in spite of what As One claimed, other RSO's like the NAACP didn't suppon As One bringing Farrakhan to MSU. Their front page headline, "Con flicting Accounts: As One claims minor~y support,· (SN 216/90) makes As One out to be liars. Individuals from campus minority (and majority) groups signed a petition to bring Farrakhan here. That is all As One claimed, but that's not the impression that the SN gave. The SN consistently used biased wording when referring to As One; saying that Victoria Lyles "allegedly" wrote a letter to the assistant provost that said As One had support from ''the vast majority of the minority student groups." (Note that does not say "from minority RSOs.") Four questions come to mind from the use of the journalistic taboo word "alleged:" Did Vicky send a letter or not? If she did, then why did they imply that she didn't? If she didn't send a letter then how did they quote what the letter said? Why didn't the SN just get a copy of the letter if they didn't believe her? integrity. This cannot be excused as sloppy reporting and editing because it's coming from our single biggest source of campus news and it is lying by omission. For the SN to facilitate these false images has soiled this new group's image, isolated them in the minds of the public and caused them the pain and frustration of being misrepre sented in a worthy cause. Where are black people supposed to turn when the media alternately vilifies and ignores us? The SN has a terrible track record when it comes to black people. Last year their stories were so one-sided and hostile that one of the Study-In demands was for them to stop race baiting. Th is year they did create a "minority representative· post but that reporter wasn't allowed to C:over the story when black students were assaulted by police at Tango's this fall. Instead, the SN said football players were arrested and left the story at that (SN 1117189). You'll notice that in their account police and white bar employees tell the whole story. However, there were · more than 200 Blacks at the scene of the crime. Minority students are not the only ones to lose from "advocate" report ing. We all lose when our media breeds conflict. - I respect the Jews and Hillel and anyone who is willing to fight for what they believe in. But all of the white students who didn't know who Farra khan was before the controversy, STILL don't know who he is due to the SN's aha-sided accounts. "Alleged" was used to manipulate The SN is supposed to report the us into doubting Vicky and As One's objective facts. But it seems that they Trebian Shorters .......... .......................... ·.· ...... ] by Trebian Shorters uR-1 special correspondent The State News uses its power as MSU's institutional student newspaper to contribute to racism and divisive ness on cam pus. I was recently speaking with a writer for the Lansing State Journal about "Advocate" newspapers. He said that advocate papers were the least respected of newspapers because they have strong bias in their stories. Advocate papers do every thing but lie to you ta get their special interests met. The State News is, unfortunately (for all of us), guilty of this. The group that the SN is an advocate for is not white people, it's ignorant people. That leaves many of us skeptical and offended by their publications. The SN is in an excellent position to educate .and promote our culture of diversity at MSU, but they fail to do this. This failure hurts all of us, Black and White, Muslim and Jew. A memo from SN editor-in-chief John Secor to his editors (2-1-90) shows where Secor's special interests 18 April 1990 would rather set Blai::k against Jew and White against Black than work to pull us together. · Hillel's goals and As One's goals came into conflict over Farrakhan, but it was the SN that divided and scarred the whole campus. They nave( explained what the "positive aspects" of Farrakhan's message were. They never explained the reason that As One wanted such a controver sial speaker to come to MSU. They never gave the other side of the story. What were the SN's readers left to think after hearing it their way? I suggest that they apologize to As One for everything from leaving the group's press meetings after only 15 minutes to ostracizing and scapegoat ing them during the controversy. Then I suggest they get serious about their public trust. I am not opposed to the SN as a body. But I am opposed to being victimized and watching others be victimized by a party that claims impartiality while it beats us in the face with a big stick. In 1947 a National Comm ission of Freedom of the Press wrote .Ibil requirements for a Free and Respon sible Press reflecting concerns that Jewish people should not be discrim i nated against in the media. "The country has many groups which are partially insulated from one another and which need to be inter preted to one another. Factually correct but substantially untrue accounts of the behavior of members of these social islands can intensify the antagonisms of others towards them.· The observation made here could save all of us the pain and confusion caused by a controlled and irrespon sible press. the ole Provoc, ~nlike youses, refuses tO lay a chocolate egg at least the other holidays have some logical symbol - such as Halloween, which has goblins and ghouls and witches and curses, and is my favorite holiday. But Easter? Sure, I do remember reading something in my copy of the illustrated children's Bible about a rabbit laying some chocolate eggs. Yep, great text, that. Co-authored by, and even autographed by, none other than Rex Humbard himself. Praise be. Yep, this Easter was like all the others, but I love it. We sit down around the ham we stole from the mission, shout grace, rob the poor box at church (Our Lady of the Truly Tolerant and Slightly Deaf), and Uncle Legs - who gets let out for holiday - carves up that pig just like he did to his fourth wife. Brings a tear to my eye . While we're on the subject of legs and things at the end of them (hey, that's not what I'm thinking), the Easter Bunny means more to me than to most kids my age . . Speaking of Humbard and his fellow men of the (silk It means four new good luck charms . pajama) cloth, it's been at least a month since one of them was up on any kind of charge. Not bad. That may all change soon, though ... Seems Jim and Tammy started a new church: "The People's Church of the Stupid and Gullible Who Want Us to Be Rich." Sounds like the Bakkers are sticking to the truth and advertising clause in the Bakker's plea bargaining case. If they hadn't agreed to it, they would have locked Jim up with James Brown, who would have put Jimbo in a world of gun-slingin', state line crossin', wife-threatenin', funky dancin', hellacious preaching hurt. Sorry, Bugs. By the way, even though George "Boy, You Got Big Fast, Brudder, Musta Been Good Family Values and Not Steroids That Done It" Perlas hasn't shown up in this space lately, he's still myfavor~e coach . Next to Jim "Rules, What Rules, MeNo SpeakaDeEengleesh" Valvano, that is. Jud and his hair are cool, though. And when I say ·hair" I don't mean "hairs." • .-~~~i~~;ii~i Hey, you festering, Eastering public/ Did y'all miss me last week? YOU SHOULD HA VE, DAMMIT/ Anyway, after being released from the Vet Clinic, where I was incarcerated -er, um, hospitalized- for a terrible diaper rash, I'm back, content to be a malcontent spreading discontent - So let's have a tit, you a/1-ready-been-chewed bubble-gum-and-stringy-saliva lovers/ Here goes no thing (that means you) ... What's the deal with this Easter gig anyway? 1 mean, A-Owwwwwl 1 From EDIT. p. 4 success of awareness and sensitivity at the paper. And what of the sexual harass ment charges? What measures to deal with them were put forth? Zip. In an environl"{lent freely deem~ "touchy-feelie" by the editor, there will be no changes. Instead, ike Mikhail Gorbachev Mr. Secor looked into the bowels of adversity, got farted on, and ended up solidifying his position. It was truly a master political stroke. Congratulations, Mr. Secor, you get your last eight weeks. So the paper didn't really win; there will be no improved working conditions. As much as he may believe he won, and the out-of-touch board of directors may say he did win, Mr. Secor didn't win. Neither did his enemies. No; the strikers falled, and dis mally at that. They sacrified a week's pay and ~ny chance for advancement or entry into the paper's power clique for a set of meaningless concessions and a new way s:>f referring to one minority group of the many at MSU. They sacrificed their impartiality by choos ing a source - renowned for his abundant love of the spotlight aoo scant affection for concrete facts regarding issues he represents - and sacrificed their credibility for failing to provide any specific cases of discrimi nation and harassment; even though non-striking staffers as well as walk outs admitted that Mr. Secor (ironi cally, a phoenetic equivalent of Gen Al Secord, renowned Iran-Contra liar) lied about not being approached by staff members with problems. That all is too bad. They lost their chance and strengthened their opposition. Worst of all, they sacrificed their principles. And that, we can unequivocably condude, makes them losers, too. ( Want the real poop? read Op: weekly ] From MASTER, p. 11 Eric was joined on stage by none other than Stevie Ray Vaughan, who drove Eric's playing to a higher level of excellence. In the above number and in the dassic "After Midnight,· yaughn's fast, distorted, and scream ing solos contrasted, yet compli me.nted Clapton's jabbering runs, crying highs, and perfectly spaced · solos. After a long and thunderous applause, a beaming Vaughn returned to his seat as Clapton tore into a emotional and gritty blues tune, "Old Love· from the Journeyman album. In this straight forward song Clapton left the entire crowd, induding Vaughn and Detroit's own Bob Seger in awe with his blurry finger moves and string bending harmonics on the high note runs. In his next songs his new drive never faultered, as he played the new yet blistering, "Bad Love" that recalled, the classic "Badge," and a killer version of "Tearing Us Apart" that had the whole Palace jumping. Then, in contrast, Clapton rendered a slow yet emotional version of the love song 'Wonderful Tonight" left tears in many an eye, including Tessa Niles, who dueted on vocals with Clapton on the song. The set continued with a peppy version of "Cocaine· and ended with a very true to the studio version of the epic, "Layla" which emphasized Clapton's main lead riff throughout and combined this with a sweet melody note and fade out high notes similar to the kind played by Duane Allman on the original. For the encore, a slow version of "Crossroads" exceled, and a great solo and riff combination by the whole band joined together trading the vocal duties for Cream's heavy classic, "Sunshine of Your Love", which '!lusically sounded like a copy of the hve _1968 version. This was helped by a Ginger Baker-style drum solo by · Steve Ferrone and by Clapton, bassist East, and guitarist Phil Palmer doing an improvised jam to the intro of the song ."Superstitious• in tribute to a happy Stevie Ray Vaughn at the.end. After a shaky and cluttered start, Clapton proved that in being the guitar diety that he is, less counts for more. In th_at the simpler he kept things, by playing his guitar with little or no backup, his true skill could be seen. Moreover, his singing was top-notch and from the heart while he proved he could still sing and play the blues .. This concert might perpetuate the "Clapton is God" myth , yet it again proves that Clapton is a true Journey man at his craft. He is truly a long way along the never-ending road to perfection. r • 9 universit Re orter-lntelli en ··.·.·.·.· F.1rom::ttaat•en2 •••··•·• I~~~;;;;;;~-,.;;-~~~~ ........ :•:•:•: • • • • • • ••••••••••••••••••• • • • • • • IW@ . 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Watch the bagel board behind the counter at the Bagel Fragel for daily updates! ... .. ·· ·.· · . ........ ·.·.· name of tne fate 4im·i ·Hendrix · agel Fragefue1· What Do You Think Of The State News Walkout? a. I'm glad it's resolved. b. What walkout? I read the u-RI. c. I would've rnn·out. d. Time heals all wounds. ··········-·········· • • : 1/4 lb. Ham : : Sandwich, : • • • • fragel, : : medium pop, and : : bagel chips : : $3.85 ~· • • • exp. April 18. 1990 • • • •................... : •••••••••••••••••••• • • 2 Fragels : : • • • & • • • : Small Regular : • • Coffee : : • • : : $1.00 . • • • • : • : exp. April 18, 1990 • • •.............•.... ~