- - - - - - -~--------------- - - --- ---- Yo! We're back and bladder than ever, ou iss ants ... 20 September 1990 Vol. II No.1 MSU's alternative and truly inde endent voice What's shakin' : unzip your, er, lip - Dr. Sex is back! ofind out what's Op: ... oColumns! We got columns ... the Provoc .. . oRock with o uR-1 Fun Page is back .. . Ofind Out what's About .. . o Geek of the Week .. p. 4 p. 5+ p. 5 p. 8 p. 9 p. 11 Police use ·old law in new carnpa1gn • E.L. to students: Blind pigs won't fly Bv M.L. ELRICK uR-1 SPECIAL CORRESPOt«>ENT More than half a century ago, Prohibi tion-era police in big cities began using a new state statute to raid underground clubs, blind pigs and speakeasies where the key to the door was often a password whispered in smokey rooms by close ac quaintances. Today, police in some coUege towns are using that samelaw now 57 years old - to break up large student parties where $2 or $3 opens the door to all the beer you can drink. Last spring's arraignment of ELPD clears a student from MSU kicker John Langeloh's post-football party Oct. 21. He was one of several people arrested and charged for operating a blind pig. Hedman was the ninth time in the 1989-90 school year that a student had been charged for a See OLD LAW, p. 10 dents are an"gered by the under- cover operations. "I think for police to treat students like criminals before uR-1 photo/LEWIS GEYER 11 anything happens (at the party), to go in hunting for them, is wrong," says packaging major Greg See NOPE, ~- 2 20-year-old MSU student Bron fjif@j·1fllliii§§J.ltj•ii;(.]tili@ji·ZllltiJi'itHi'j·lilQ@Mj<·Jii·>«l(f:i!@@it@il~fi·lfll@WUft'iM11f&!iit·lil BvT1M '~ SILVERTHORN uR-1 MANAGING EDITOR The beer stops here. Students are irate that the under- ·cover blind pig operations that rolled large parties to a halt last year will continue this fall .. "Any opportunity we have to identify such activities will be utilized, and that's (the under- cover opera tions) pretty much the only way we have," said Tom Dority, East Lansing city manager. ~ · However, some stu- 2 • university Reporter-Intelligencer From NOPE, p. 1 Fomasiero. Fomasiero said that although it's ridiculous for people to go around having parties and not know who's coming in, people should still pretty much be able to do what they want. He also said that he wasn't sure that the felony charge is appropriate to the crime. Said Van Dam: "We're college 20 September 1990 "With the problem we have with people selling drugs all over campus, I don't think selling alcohol is as serious a problem; he added. "They don't need to come In here undercover; said business major Heather Van Dam, who lives on Charles Street, one of the primary areas targeted for en forcement. "Our house is private: . Dority said the operations are justified by rampant underage drinking and large, often violent parties. "last October, at the party where blind pig violations were issued at a house on Spartan Street, there were people all over the streets and complaints from several blocks away; Dority said. "There's nothing wrong with parties - in a college town you expect that - but when you get 400, 500 students, it gets out of hand," Capt. Richard Murray said. Dority also said that students attending blind pigs can receive a misdemeanor attendance ticket, though no such citations were given out last year. "If people were to obstruct or give officers trouble, those indi viduals would certainly be particu lar! vulnerable " Dori said. students. These are our last fun days - we're not hurting any body: 'What the hell else are we supposed to do; we're bored," said Leisa Thompson, an interdici plinary humanities major. "My life has been hell for the last few months," said Amy Allen, a 23-year-old from Grand Blanc who spent time in jail on a blind pig conviction this summer after graduating from MSU. Allen said that enforcement of the statute means a whole new ballgame in East Lansing. "I don't think partying in general is going to decrease, but I think people are going to think twice before holding a big bash that they charge money for," she said. "There's not going to be any more of this good old-fashioned charging at the door stuff like there used to be." Police Chief Tom Hendricks was unavailable for comment on the undercover operations or . violence at the arties. the uR-I is looking for a few good men (and women) - and we won't even send you anywhere sand will get in your undies ... WE NEED: •news and entertainment cor respondents; •photographers and artists; •advertising account execs. call 353-0040 or 372-6562 to enlist. ACT NOW, GRUNT! the university Reporter-Intelligencer ·Page Three The Second Front Page Police clear students from Cedar Village Oct. 14. The following weekend, the first blind pig arrests were made. - uR-1 photo/MATTHEW GOEBEL The Purple Gang and Black Hand moved on to a deserted spot in Nevada - which eventually rose from the dust to be crowned Las Vegas - and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's country thought that the days of blind pigs were a thing of the past. For decades, they were in fact right. But as police in college towns sought to control the excesses of the 60s and 70s, the blind pig law niade a comeback. In the 1980's, Kalamazoo and Mt. Pleasant police began to crack down on their respective Lafayette Street and End of the World parties, with some success. Until recently, though, East Lansing's semi-annual Cedarfest remained a blight in the college town of more than 53,000. Enter the blind pig statute. To wipe out the party, city ordinances were passed and police patrols beefed up. Last fall, after a one-year Cedarfest lull, East Lansing and state police staged a massive mobilization to prevent a recurrance of the destruction and violence which caused about $5,000 in damage when 3,000 people rampaged after the MSU-U of M football game. Hoping to stop such mass partying, which often spills over into residential areas where loud noise, littering and trespassing have caused residents to complain, Ingham county prosecutors found - and East Lansing police invoked - the blind pig law. Last spring, like in many college towns, large parties were conspicuously absent in East Lansing, Capt. Richard Murray says, in part due to city efforts to inform students that big parties will be broken up. Police are also using undercover officers to break up the big parties that do occur, he said. Trombley said Mt. Pleasant has seen large-scale partying decrease, and students are accepting the philosophy that bigger is not better. Kalamazoo has also seen partying fall off, and DoHman said the Lafayette Street party is basically a thing of the past. In Ann Arbor, partying "seems if not, at to be on the downturn - least it's controlled at an acceptable tolerance," Conn Said. "I credit that with the students," he said. However~ all agreed partying would continue - even if on a smaller, more controlled scale. / Blind pig law is gone, but not forgotten and now back again Bv GREG GILLESPIE AND M.L ELRICK uR-1 CORRESPONDENTS From Prohibitions roots, the blind pig statute has come a long way. Originally used with laws designed to halt the illegal liquor trade across the Detroit River, the statute has been brought out of the closet to prosecute students in college towns. When the statute was passed, it is almost cerain that legistators didn't envision its use against college students. Rather, the blind pig law was the offspring of Prohibi tion, brought about in Michigan in 1918 by a combination of a growing nationwide temperance movement and the influence of tea-totaller Henry Ford. Michigan was the first state to ban all production and sale of.liquor. Two years later, the Prohibition Act became the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. A proponent of Prohibition, Ford was worried that thousands of immigrant workers flooding into Detroit would fall prey to the demons of tobacco and liquor. He formed a Department of Sociology within the Ford Motor Company to check his employees' homes and awarded bonuses for clean living. However, the "noble experi ment" backfired. Rum-running across the Detroit river became rampant and hundreds of saloons, coined blind pigs and speakeasies, sprung up throughout the city of D.etroit. The illegal liquor trade employed an estimated 50,000 people in Michigan alone, making it one of the state's largest employers - Company. second only to Ford Motor This caused a dramatic about face. Prohibitionists who actively campaigned for the law were now calling for its repeal. By the late 1920s, organized crime had moved into Detroit and was contributing to the lawlessness and corruption already tearing the city apart. Detroit's notorious Purple Gang was the first mob to move into the illegal liquor trade. Led by the Bernstein brothers; they murdered and bribed their way to being nearly the exclusive supplier of illegal liquor. They were eventually overthrown by the Black Hand, a group of Sicilian immigrants linked to Mafia families in Chicago and New York. Ironically, Michigan, the first state to enact Prohibition, in 1933 became the first state to repeal it. Repeal proponents said that legalizing the liquor industry would pull the country out of the 1929 Depression. Legitimate saloons · reopened; and the most popular song of the times became "Happy Days Are Here Again." the university Reporter-Intelligencer ?O September 1990 E.L. officials blind to those pigs! reason f . l -- ;- -· ---·- So, you want to have a party. Call some friends and tell them to invite some friends. You'll want to buy a keg for sixty bucks at the local party store and to defray the cost, · of course you'll ask that partiers pay 3 bucks to drink all they want. After all, you're putting your house up for grabs for a night- you shouldn't have to pay for beer too, right? Well, that alldepends on whether you 've always wanted an all-expenses paid trip to Dewitt's fabulous 1,000 bar hotel, the Ingham County Sheratime. Oh, and don't forget your bail money. I - -;Jr · Jail? Yes, that's the price several MSU students paid last school year for being the menaces to society that they were by hosting this type of party. Regular convict material, those two meek girls who visited Ingham County's most popular trade school this summer. One of them, Amy Allen, declined to be interviewed except to say that her life has been hell for the last few months. But wait, isn't hell for eternity? Well, had Allen wanted to even think about this nightmare anymore, undoubtably she would have brought up the fact that this FELONY CONVICTION will follow her for the rest of her life. Well, maybe if it keeps her from getting a job, she can go into one of the many trades she may have learned informally at the house 'o doors. Anyway, Amy didn't kill anybody for their gym shoes. Didn't steal from an old lady to feed her crack habit, either. Heck, there weren't even any fights at her party, nobody hurt. All Amy did was sell cups to undercover police at the door of her shin-dig. Clink. .. The reasons that the East Lansing Pohce Department give for their under cover campaign to end blind pigs are that alcohol drivenviolence and under age drinking have run rampant through street. Book 'em, Dano. Underage drinking? Are they serious? Dear -·-I ----- -,- 1 --· ,_.,.:;...;. __ ..;·:.-..-.:.A. .'1l,-Arr 1 le.·, ,, rLcn'>c; {Ttc..r A It} 1'~''1A#r-£.1£fJ C /v v' v ~ PCUCJ .l · 1 ' - ·· L- --r,.· . · - - I___ -I -~---.!! -.- __ J . . . l .. --, ,- · l Police: This summer students from --- c· : · Okemos and East Lansing High School held 200 to 500 person blind pigs practically EVERY NIGHT at a place called The Trestle. It is in East ;_~ 1 Lansing and if you ,. '· didn't know about it, feeldum~ because you are. Or are you just inter ested in roaming around in your civis .. --------------.....-...... .....,,..,,,,,========-_J looking for an easy -- - ---- -- mark. These are I - --::i--- - uR-1 artwork/JACK WHEATLEY felOnies you're town, largely as the result of large, uncontrollable pay-for-drink parties. The first problem is that the ELPD hasn't established that violence is directly related to blind pigs in particu lar. What abqut other large parties where the beer is free? What law would cover those? Under the current laws, a peaceful blind pig would put students in jail while a violent party with free drinks .... well, the 'ol wrist slap-unless you are a repeat nuisance, which is a $1,000 fine and an extra hard wrist slap. Besides that, eyewitnesses report that at least three of the five or six parties broken. up were peaceful, ordinary college parties. In fact, the only roughing around was reportedly done by the cops themselves. ls.this starting to sound more and more like a war on peaceful, ordinary college parties, or what? While we're at it, maybe this is a good place to mention that the cops failed to return, say, a hundred zillion calls we made over the last three weeks while we were just trying to get their side of the story. Since when is EL.Vice so flinchy? Since when is Chief Tom Hendricks only the public servant of people he wants to deal with? City man ager Tom Dority painted a pretty gruesome picture of the E.L. party scene, though. Dority said that one party that was busted on Spartan Ave. actually had people standing in the handing out here, guys, so shouldn't you at least prioritize them? Okay, back to the Edtorial. Officials in East Lansing and elsewhere have admitted that the crack-down's primary effect is to make parties smaller and more numerous. Well, would they rather have drinking in a nice big social setting, or people sitting around alone in their rooms getting drunk. Because for one thing, large parties don't cause massive alcohol consumption-bore dom does. Low self-esteem does. Stress does also. By stifling the only outlets available to young people for release of these pressures, officials are only perpetuating the problem. How about exploring positive alternatives to boredom, low self-esteem and stress? Hell, before, we were drunk and a little rambunctous, but now we're just listless, bored and stressed. Out of the bottle and into the gutter, so to speak. But watch out, this just might be the year that the students take back this town. This is our campus. This is our city. Our numbers say so, our dollars say so and we will say so. And to the people who file noise complaints on Saturday night from five blocks away from these parties nobody made you buy a house in a college town, dipshit. 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Nothing has changed all that much in 2,000 years, especially when it Gomes to men. It is hard to believe that I have done 23 fall football seasons at MSU but I have. I was thinking the other day of all the tailgate parties I have been to, how tanked up we used to get before a game, and how great football games used to look through the bleary haze that comes over the eyes after two or three six-packs. Watch any beer commercial and it is obvious that football and beer go together. What really bums me out, though, is how beer has been replaced by steroids these days-real men don't tarik up on beer before, during and after the game-they go to the gym and get huge. I understand the season ticket people are having to assign two seats per peson to some fraternities whose names I will not publish here since such illegal drug use would probably bring down a raid from that most dreaded police agency: East Lansing Vice. Way to go guys- go out there and get really HUGE> But I digress. Twenty-three years of football and starting classes in the fall. When I first came here from the University of Minnesota (where I earned my Ph.D.), I was shocked by how warm it was in October. Shoot, by October at the U (as we called it) we already had 30 cm of snow and the . temperatures were already pushing -8 at night. It wasn't until I had lived in Minnesota for a year that I realized there wasn't even one single tree between Minneapolis and the damned Arctic Circle. Those winds would come howling down Hennepin Avenue and across the bridge linking the East and West Bank campus. We have nothing' like that here (Unless you are waiting for a bus on Michigan Avenue .just east of the Capitol or standing outside the. East IM waiting to pump up). I was into science in a big way when I came here, especially the science of sex and aggression, because I had discovered as a Yale undergrad that making people angry makes them more likely to engage in sex. None of my friends at Yale c:Ould understand why my dates always appeared to be so angry. Simple, I would always tell them the rotten things other women in their dorms had said about them. It was better than sending them flowers or a funny, huggy greeting card. Of course, they were pretty angry on the way home W:t.er the date too. Be that as it may, I have always been into sex since I discovered it about the age of two (at least that's when I remember discovering it. My aunt says she met me when I was 14 months old . .I laid my head in her lap and tried to hit on her). But let me be the first to point out that most men are like this, we discover sex early and spend the rest of our lives trying to figure out what the hell to do with it. I don't know why, but since I was a youngster (I was going to say "small" but I don't like using that word in the same sentence with "I" or "me,") people always came up to me and began conversations having to do with sex or their sex problems so I figured: Hey, why not write a newspaper column or teach a class about the things that most interested me and that is when DR. SEX was born. For a while the ITV people even had a videotape that showed DR. SEX emerging full blown, as it were, from my head a lot like Athena coming out of the head of Zeus, but I think the Provost's Office made them burn it. Thank God in his, her, or it's miracu lous wisdom for small favors . Which leads me to one of several letters I recieved last year but couldn't answer because of a lack of space and time to wit: · Dear Dr. Sex, makes him fall asleep after we have sex? I love to talk or cuddle afterward and it seems like no sooner do I have an orgasm when he is out like a light. What can I do to keep him awake longer after we have made love? · -Dorrie Dear Dorrie, This happens because men's first orgasm during sex comes from tension held in their muscles. The orgasm releases the tens.ion and, once the muscles are relaxed, it is easy to drop right off. Many men learn to fall asleep as a youth by master bating to relieve the tensions of the day and it becomes a habit. Even when we are involved in a more serious relationship, this habit may persist. Break the habit by rubbing his muscles (let him rub you too) to relax when you want to go to sleep. Save sex play for times when you are going to stay awake. Try doing it earlier in the day like first thing in the morning or a nooner. Many people find daytime sex energizing rather than enervating. Interestingly enough, women's muscle tension often blocks an orgasm while men's enhances theirs ... another interesting and often conflict-producing difference between the sexes. Actually, you are very lucky he stays awake long enough for you td have an orgasm yourself. Zzzzzz. Questions for the good doc can be sent through campus mail to his office at 454 Baker, do Vickie and Cheri. Dr. Barclay's column shows up here each and every week during the term- and only in the UR-I! Hocus Pocus ... rhymes with mucus! Horror Transvestite Show is about to be re leased on home video. Sounds good to me, let's keep all the weirdoes indoors, like, say, those geeks at The State We're-Really-An lndependent-Paper,-Really!-lgnore-The-MSU Tax News. Hear about the shanties coming down? Appar ~ntly they were detracting from the beauty of Wells Hall. Yeah, right. That's like Madonna detracting from the beauty of Sean "Glass Nose" Penn. Nice job in Shanghai Surprise, though. Cheap shot you say? Not at nearly a half million a year, it ain't, chuckleheads. Good news, dudes! Forget the Ninja Turtles, Speed Racer is out on home video. Got my first cartoonal rise watching Trixie lube Speed's Mach 5. Vroom! In case you missed it over the summer, tuition went up again. So what else is new? Definitely not DiB's hairdo .... still looks like Granpa Munster to me. Don't even think about coming over and doing anything about it either, Drac, er, ah, Mr. President - Block nightshirt. But if you wanna come over for some stake, just phone ahead, willya? Hey, who let that bat in!?! I sleep in a garlic New Kids on the What's with the Breslin Center anyway? First Diana Ross, then Milli Vanilli, next The New Kids? I could kick Donnie's ass with one arm tied behind my back. 'Course, that's if I'm not strapped into my plane seat. Hangin' tough (just like one of them dried up rock snots you always pull all your nose hairs out trying to pick}. Yeech. Guess what my mom gave me for my birthday? · A clue to her identity. Ouch. At the end of newspaper stories we usually put the rough equivalent of a football player's IQ. We type "30.' Ok, so we estimated a bit on the high end ... it's going to Greetings, blister-lickers! So you see it's a new year and I've already snuck mucus into a headline - be a great year, I can feel it in my diapers! But you missed the ole Provoc, didn't you? Without me watching and persecuting you, life was pretty dull, I'm sure. Enough of this snivelling, though; MSU's already not-won a football game and there's lots of George Per/es bashing to be done, right brudder? so LErs DO THE TIME WARPed AGAIN! Which brings me to our first item ... Yep, Rocky 6 • university Reporter-Intelligencer 20 September 1990 For those who need permission to rock (V\Je salute you) My roommate, somewhere to the right of Genghis Khan: "Bring your gun. I heard on the radio there might be violence •. and the tube station will probably be closed: (Of course, you've got a finance degree, and you support the Republican Party, which basically convinced voters last November that it's all right to electrocute and poison blacks, even while aid to the inner cities is non-existent, so what would YOU know, you pinstriped stormtrooper?) The manager of my hostel: "I'd avoid that area if I were you, and ! wouldn't bring my tape recorder there .. it's going to be too heavy: (But the fact remains: I don't care if Charles Bronson's playing Brixton Academy and machine-gunning the audience, as long as I get a good quality bootleg tape out of the experience!) A University of London co-worker: "I heard there'll be a big Jewish demon stration: (Fine. As long as I can step over their pickets and wave my ticket to get inside.) After all this hysteria, I must ask myself, has the Ayatollah taken over. Mrs. Thatcher's job from beyond the grave? Still, Public Enemy have shot them selves in the foot lately. For those who don't know, here's a crash course. Public Enemy contain a notorious "Minister of Information· in their ranks, a mild-mannered fellow named Professor Griff. Last summer, he caused an uproar by telling a Washington Post reporter that Jews "were the source of wickedness in the world," and that ldi Amin "was a great leader: The group fired him, then reinstated him in a minor role, where he has since remained. Unlike last year, when Public Enemy played England, Professor Griff will be allowed into the country, so we can assume he's along for the ride. A~ the tour becan this week in Birmingham (March 21 ), council authorities there tried gently "persuad ing" the club owner to call the show off. Manchester councilors attempted the same stunt. The end result? well, as far as I know, Birmingham and Manchester are still standing, and we're all unscathed. I've not seen this kind of hyseria since the Sex Pistols toured America. Whether it's in Arizona or Manchester, authorities overreact whenever a band says mor than "Darlin', I love ya till the day I die: In England, this leads to ludicrous consequences. As part of a local government bill last year, Mrs. Thatcher's minions rammed Clause 28 through parliment, which prohibits coun~ils from funding projects which "promote homosexual ity: Is this done by passing out "BE GAY TODAY- leaflets? I would like to know! When conniving career politi cians decide what's good or bad for the rest of us, we slide down a slope from which no recovery is possible. Isn't it strange when paranoid ex Communists actually trust their citizens a little more, while American and English political hacks trust us quite a bit less? that people instinctively fear what they don't understand, but reaching for the chastity best will hardly solve our problems. If those 12 state legislatures really wish to do more for American teenagers, as they claim, why not allow them such options as contra ception, better education, and funding for local arts? The same Wednesday issue of USA Today tells me that an American chi ld is five times more likely to die by violence than a European child. This is a sad statistic, and somehow, I'm not sure that dayglo warning labels will dent it. Meanwhile, I intend to go to Brixton Academy, and see what the fuss is all about. When I've seen shows there, I'm amazed at the scene: policemen every couple feet, metal barracades facing the front steps, an ambulance parked nearby, and a sign on the door: " ANYONE CAUGHT DEALING DRUGS TO NIGHT WILL BE HANDED OVER TO THE POLICE: Yet, I've seen no violence, no drugs (except pot) being dealt, and the ambulance driver has been left to peacefully ogle his favorite Page Three Girl. Either Brixton's inhabitants are far more peaceable than anyone imagined, or else the police simply fear blacks more than they admit. I don't like Professor Griff or what As for those unfortunate enough he purports to stand for, nor do I approve of Public Enemy's indecisive handling of him. But no council au thority in Birmingham or Manchester should decide my right to see them. My own experience has taught me to live in Arizona, of Florida, or Missouri, I only say: For those who need permission to rock ... we salute you. Shanty vet: Police need charm school! Ralph Heibutzki I 11•,1~m;~' I BRIXTON, England - As I write this week, USA Today tells me that 12 states may pass laws which would require record companies to slap warn ing labels on their albums. Record covers in Arizona, Florida; and Missouri (to name three of the states) would carry yellow stickers, glowing like radioactive waste, warning you if little Johnny's idol enjoys straddling sheep and goats. Now all you New Kids On The Block fans should sleep easier tonight! Here in England, we all await what happens when rap's reigning gods, Public Enemy, play Brixton Academy tonight. For those unfamiliar with the area, Brixton is a heavily ,black district in south London whose image prob lems are comparable to Detroit's. I've seen four shows since I came over here, and I've never had any problems, but nobody's believed me--ever since I bought my ticket. Here's what everyone's been telling me ever since: A ticket agent down at the Univer sity of London: "Oh, man, you're going to Brixton? Better bring a knife!· (Whether he's ever been to Brixton, I'm not sure, but the only knife I could bring is from the hostel kitchen ... and I doubt if that'll do me much good. ) Deb Miller About 20 assorted Michigan State University administrators, Department of Public Safety officials and grounds people must have had a good time the morning of June 12. They must have gotten up early. Th~y must have eaten well-rounded breakfasts - the flavors further accentuated by their gleeful anticipation of the morning's agenda Finally. they were going to get those radical disturbance-causing peace-mongering delinquent students who had been marring the pleasant beauty of the hallowed environs of the MSU campus. Approximately seven a.m. of this portentous morning I was awakened to the sound of voic~s outside the CELA (Committee for Education on Latin America) shanty protesting · military aid to El Salvador in which I had been sleeping. A disembodied arm reached through the blanket serving as a door to the shanty, ominously flourishing a silver DPS badge. A voice from beyond the blanket intoned, "Time to get up folks. Get your things packed up and come on out." Groaning to myself incredulously, I rolled over for a more comfortable position and tried to go back to sleep. It had not been an easy night due to the necessity of constructing a make shift roof during a sudden and steady rainfall. It was still drizzing and I now had a cold and wanted my sleep. Besides, I had not had my breakfast. Our rather rude visitor5 had no sympathy for all of this as they began lO~IJilcaU 20 Sept.: Big Red 21" We Be Cats 22: Born Naked . 23: Crosstalk 26: Extreme li'l!!h7w li'l!®4Mlnl loao~• 21 -22 Sept.: Straight Ahead $00\¥J@IJ' ©©00~11 $~0©©11il 20-23 Sept.: Axel Brice fez 21 Sept. : Sam Kinison chec~ us out at Mariah Productions if ~ou'd li~e to ~et involved in live alternative music production/promotion no experience necessary r! 318 Union Bldg. 3~3-46~4 ,A.~~~~~1 • 1 O. university Reporter-Intelligencer From OLD LAW, p. 1 blind pig in Ingham County as East Lansing police cracked down on keg parties at MSU. Looking for a way to bust up large, often destructive parties, East Lansing police turned to the 57-year-old statute: Capt. Richard Murray said. "We checked with the prosecuter's office and they said 'let's go with the blind pig rule'." The 1933 law prohibits the sale of alcohol without a liquor license, which must be issued by the Michigan Liquor Control Commission. The statute was amended in 1980 to prohibit cover charges and other con sideration, said Kim Eddie, Ingham County chief assistant prosecutor. It is a felony, carrying a maximum sentence of one year in jail and a $1,000 fine. Amended, the statute covers parties common around college campuses. It forbids the sale of beer in package deals, such as free beer in exchange for money paid for · raffles, donations or cups, Eddie said. Murray said police gave been very successful using the law. East Lansing also isn't the only college town armed with the statute to eliminate large "Animal House" style parties - characterized by numerous kegs, mass beer consumption and rampant destruction. Although East Lansing's nine cases are the city's first in years using the blind pig law, the uR-1 i looking for advertising account executives! you don't need experience, just a pulse &enthusiasm. call angie at ~ 353-0040 0 Mt. Pleasant, Kalamazoo and Ypsilanti police routinely send undercover officers to investi gate suspected blind pigs. "We've been investigating blind pig arrests since I came here in 1980," said Martin Trombley, Mt. Pleasant direc tor of Public Safety. He esti mated that his officers make roughly a dozen arrests each year on blind pig charges. Kalamazoo police Capt. Scott Dolfman said his <;fepart ment started to crack down on heavy partying in 1984, charg ing partiers with sale of liquor without a license. Similarly, Ypsilanti police have sent undercover police into Eastern Michigan Univer sity parties, but haven't had problems with excessive partying, said crime prevention unit Officer Joe Eberle. In neighboring Ann Arbor, police haven't had trouble with large parties at all, according to Capt. Robert Conn. Ann Arbor hasn't explored the blind pig law, Conn said, because students have coop erated with police in controlling their parties. Since East Lansing police began using the statute last school year, Hedman has been arraigned on blind pig charges and four other stu dents have pied guilty to mis demeanor charges. Of the remaining four, two spent weekends in the Ingham County Jail. The other two, MSU placekicker John Langeloh, and Paul Butland, brother of MSU punter Josh Butland, who were arrested for a keg party I STUDIO 241.-J 24 IEast Saginaw•East Lansing lower lcvd 241 Building hair/nail care for women/ men,chlldren -bcardlmustachc trims •foil higbli&htin& -spiral peons •facial wuin& ~lc:lcmil Cln: maaicuresJpcdicurca -sculpcured nails/nail lips -silt nail wrapslrcpeirs •French manicurcl •Frcnchbnidin& 351-9330 8-8 Mon-Fri 8-4 Sat that drew about 400 people Oct. 21 await sentencing this month. Representing Lange loh and Butland is Lansing attorney Fred Abood, who argues the pair were not ar rested for a blind pig, but for holding a postgame celebra tion no different than those for fraternities and organizations announced over the loud speakers at Spartan Stadium during football games. "To turn that event into a blind pig is absolutely absurd," he said. Although food and beer were provided and contri butions accepted, Abood says no one was denied entrance to 'the party if they didn't pay. Abood said police - money, no drugs and no contraband - may have decided to make an example of Langeloh, a high-profile student. finding no He said the presence of a large media contingent at Langeloh's arraignment is proof that someone wanted the case to get a lot of publicity. Notifying the press "was done in advance by those connected with t.he govern ment," he said. Abood said the blind pig charges are part of a city effort to reduce the use and abuse of alcoholic beverages. "I agree with that objective, but I don't agree with the pro cedure," he said. But Doreen Koenig, a Thomas Cooley Law School professor and former chair of the ACLU's Lansing branch, said Abood may be fighting an uphill battle." What the city of East Lansing seems to be SPRESSO ROY ALE CAFFE Featuring fine Cappuccino Excellent service and 20 September 1 doing is going to parties that are advertised as open to the public, then purchasing alcohol - and since it's illegal to sell alcohol without a license, I don't see any constitutional barrier," she said. Koenig, who as an ACLU attorney successfully fought East Lansing's Cedarfest · ordinance and a court injunc tion setting guidelines for sealing off the party's site, said she didn't think the blind pig laws could be fought unless police start breaking up small, private parties. "It's a difficult cine to de fend against," she said. Both Koenig and Eddie said entrapment charges against undercover police who go into parties to buy beer don't hold water because the parties are open to the public, and police don't encourage or aid in the partying. Of unsuccessful appellate court challenges to the blind pig statute, Prosecutor Eddie said: " It's been tested for a number of years and it's fairly tight." Much to the chagrin of stu dents, police vow to continue using the statute. 1 ~~~~~~~~i- """' dlai4/l MeM? Let Us Help You Out-Corne To GARY'S CAMPUS , HAIRSALON $9.00 Uni-sex Hair Styling . "4Cut11~ '!feL PW:ed ~" 351 -6511 • 549 E. Grand River (next to Confection Connection) M-F 8am-7pm •Sat 9am-2pin EAT CHEAP ----.--------, FREEDOG 1 1 I w I purchase of an equally I I priced coney, kraut, corn or I I plain dog. Untill 11 p.m. thru I L----2Lll----.J All You Can Eat Coneys Every Tuesday 12-9 p.m. $2.49 plus pop purchase --,-...,---,-/ ~~,) , - ::'6 UBOT ROAD ''E.U: IEGCU'S Cft:N l.1'11"TU. MIDNJGKT 20 September 1990 From MILLER, p. 6 "Get your things together now. I need to see identification. I need to see your identification now." After pulling my pants on in a daze I found my driver's license and began to pack up my things. I respond to orders betterfirst thing in the morning when I can't think. As I picked up my camera to stash it in my bag I realized that I would want to record this great moment in free speech for my grandchildren - or at least my friend 's grandchildren - so that they could perceive how open, caring and democratic my alma mater really was. , As I appeared out of the CELA shanty. snapping photos of our assembled callers, their rather derisive smiles turned to looks of dismay. Apparently they didn't appreci ate pictures at this time of the morning any mor than we liked rude company. Appar ently, that was why they had paid this visit so early. Talk about camera-shy. From here the occasion went downhill even further as our guests seemed to have rather strange ideas of fun. They proceeded to tear down our shanties expressing free speech in Peoples's Park. One brave soul crawled up on top of one of the structures hoping to dissuade these rude people from their rather brutal behavi our - to no avail. He was arrested. Later we returned to the site to erect at least a temporary shelter - what we called a "Peace Tent". Again our guests went wild - this time not only ripping down and confiscating our structure, but also arresting four more of our People's Park denizens as well as arresting the first one again. This time I wasn't the only one recording the memories - it seemed local television stations and newspapers also thought it would make good popcorn and video material someday. One of my favorites will surely be the shot of one male DPS official with his hand up the back of the shirt of handcuffed Michelle Tinti - some sort of strange display of af fection, I suppose - while she screamed in pain from the cuffs. Well, I guess they sure showed us radical peace-mongers. They showed us that MSU administrators and DPS officers are the last ones we would want to invite to a free-speech party. I feel that perhaps they would fit in better at a CedarFest. Perhaps a little charm school ... ? -Afller i1111 member of the Committee for Education on Latin America. university Reporter-Intelligencer • 11 . I { '.. .; i \ /, . \I ~L~--... ~- What do you get the man who has everything (except brains)? Kuwait? Nope, Geek o' the Week dishonors! Congrats, Saddam Hussein, or is it Madman Insane? The fellah who couldn't keep his country out of a war for ten min utes. Wow! What a resume! Maybe someday they'll make you a garbage man In South Africa. You folks oughtta get along fine. In the meantime, the toughest man In the worid - next to Hulk Hogan and Donatello the Ninja Turtle - George Bush, has finally found a way to get the army drinking bottled water. Afterall, if Evian's good enough for the Kennebunkport posse, why not the military? 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If each song is one idea, then "Radharc" is all of these ideas put into one song. Aion is the history of all music today, and the future. Dead Can Dance have taken the Music of the ancients and made it timeless. - Angie Csrozzo • ancient roots of all music on their latest 4AD release, Aion. Dead Can Dance have never been known as a cover band. But on Aion, they cover an Italian 14th century instrumental danse (Sal tarello), and a 16th century Catalo nian traditional piece (The Song of the Sibyl). • Now, picture if you will, the days of King Arthur with the minstrel playing happily in the background. Add a Middle East- ern touch. "Saltarello" is this song. It takes a drum beat that is reminiscent of the Middle East and blends it with the minstrel's pipe to create an upbeat traditional dance piece. Another outstanding track is "The Song of the Sibyl [prophet ess]." As a prophecy it seems bleak though. Lisa Gerrard portrays the sibyl who knows what's going to hap pen. _But as her voice floats along effortlessly, you can feel her pain at knowing what's going to hap pen. Gerrard truly shows the range of her talents on "As the Bell Rings the Maypole Spins." A Middle Eastern melody is played on the bagpipes and Gerrard's yoice shrills along with them. "The End of Words" sounds like a traditional church hymn with a Gerrard's voice standing out the Toss your popcorn during this awful Toy Matinee 'iT®W OOtt1.UDl1il~ Toy Matinee Toy Matinee's debut album of the same name burns with the sounds of Peter Gabriel and Squeeze. But it sounds more like a rip-off than an influence. "Queen of Misery" is the epitome of their inconsistencies. The song contradicts itself with Squeeze-style funk music with a good beat (you can dance to it) and bass sounds like a Peter Gabriel rip-off: But the lyrics tell a story of a girl's loneli ness and pain. So where's the connection? Toy matinee does briefly step out of this genre though. "Things She Said" starts out promising with more of a folk influence, but when the chorus comes in, they dive back into the ocean of mediocrity. By far, the most outstanding song is the title track. The guitar floats along in the vein of Pink Floyd. Surprisingly enough, this isn't a rip:.off though. The song rolls along with a soft guitar and an emotional keyboard line. After being beaten on the head with the first four songs, "Toy Matinee" is both a breath of fresh air and a good song to relax and think to. With the seasoned talent that appears on this LP - Pat Leonard, Kevin Gilbert and it would seem that they producer Bill Bottrell - could have come up with something more origi nal. One song, "Toy Matinee,'' is not worth buying this album for. -Angie Carozza ac wee , every wee , t 1s wee , next wee , we re ere. e re t e u - .