ARTS The Michigan Daily Thursday, October 27, 1983 Page 5 Just the Tylenol we're looking for By C. E. Krell F IRST OFF, I want you to know that someone is typing this stuff and it is just 'not run off the inane press releases that the promoters of these events send. That said, what do you do when you can't stop convulsing all through your entire trunk? I mean it. Walk around for a while with a big black opaque cloud developing an aura of^"get this jerk away from me." He swears a lot. frowns, scowls, and generally is not pleasant. Give him 40 ounces of Old English 800 and send him off to a depressing teenage angst film. Send off to more beer, more scotch, anything. Just get him to leave us alone. Lacking that, sit him down at a table, with bad grammer and attitude the only resources at his disposal. Don't talk to him. Don't let him touch you. Send him to the Power Center on October 27 at 8 p.m. At the Power Center, the musical per- formers will be Third World and Hiroshima. The former is a reggae/funk band signed to a big record label and making videos. They make OK music and probably will be fun to watch. There is no reason for them not to be. However, can you really say that they will serve as some sort of depression panacea? Who knows, eh? It seems Third World do have a knack for putting across the occasional good number (whoever thought of the word "number one" for a musical piece wasn't thinking. I don't care if that's what Brahms, etc. did - it just doesn't make sense. Numbers and notes hate each other). Imaginary numbers can be fun though. Here Hiroshima will be the imaginary number. They are reported to be a mixture of "Japanese folk mood music and jazz ballads." (Press release slips in oblivious). But if you're shaking and don't feel you can understand what people say anymore, and have wierd dreams about unexplainable groupings that don't get you anywhere, this doesn't tell you much. Hiroshima may be just the Tylenol we are looking for, but if he doesn't like it who will he at- tack next? He may be done shaking, but it is still cold and wet and he doesn't feel well. Forget him and check the Third World band and guest. He will be the slumped in the seat one. PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT J O ST,1 z y SPRO, G The U.S. Environmental Pro- tection Agency has multiple openings for undergraduate students who meet our finan- cial need criteria. Opportuni- ties exist in engineering and statistics/computer science. Salaries range from $5.10 to $5.72 per hour. Contact the Student Employment Office, 2053 Student Activities Building, for information and application material or call Beth Laird at 668-4220. U.S. EPA Motor Vehicle Emission Laboratory 2565 Plymouth Road ANN ARBOR, MI 48105 An Equal Opportunity Employer pitch for minds & other waste products GARBAGE. All the societal rejects pile up outside the doors. Old chums, old news, old hat, old business; discarded lovers, spoiled memories, rotten cores. Throw them all out; there's a space for every waste, a place for every paste case. Body waste, chemical waste, waste of time, waste of mind. Leftover popover, daily coffee grind, orange rind. Refuse and refusals, discards and innards, table scraps and marital scraps, clothes in tat- ters, printed matters. A jaundiced eye colors the yellowing pages; a withering voice asks what to accept, what to reject. And where does all the stuff go? In Ann Arbor the junk gets dum- ped at Platt and Ellsworth. 300 tons returned to the earth every day, 300 tons of pure, solid (as opposed to hazardous or liquid) garbage. 275 acres of mouth, waiting to swallow the past our fickle fingers flick behind; a big hole waiting to be covered, a landfill. 'The hole was opened in 1959, for- ming the core of the city's long- range disposal plans. Today, the site remains the place where the bulk of our tired, wretched, and poor even- ttually immigrate according to the man who directs the trash traffic. "I'm looking at that site being able to take refuse for the next 10 to 15 years, depending on the refuse volume and the final engineering," says John Newman, director of Ann Arbor's Solid Waste Department since 1980. "Final engineering" refers to the daily compacting and constructing efforts of a currently 10-member disposal staff. As the mouth masticates, the staff shoves the bolus together, always trying to stuff a big load in a small space. "Construction is a constant operation," says Newman. Walls are erected, sections- filled, then walled in again. And there's always more. "The volume of waste generated has been varying," Newman notes. "Up to 1979 and 1980 the waste had been on a constant increase. Then the volume dropped off and now it's stabilized." The levelling off of waste flow is due less to conscientious conser- vation-oriented ' attempts to decrease consumption than to a economy slowdown in general and a decrease in industrial construction in particular, according to Newman. Recycle Ann Arbor, a valiant organization which is partially fun- ded by a annual city grant of $32,000, collects about 1400 tons of recyclable material - mostly paper - every year. That total represents about a week's work for Newman's staff. The conservationist group currently covers only about 50% of the city, says Newman, although it has plans to expand operations. Alternatives to landfill dumping will become more urgent within the next decade, as more of the Platt and Ellsworth site fills up. The city currently plans to turn over 175 of the 275 landfill acres to the Parks and Recreation Department; 100 acres will be released for redevelopment within the next three to four years, with another 75 acres changing hands during the 1990s. To ensure public safety, any develop- ment plans must receive prior ap- proval by the Department of Natural Resources, says Newman. As part of what Newman calls the "master waste plan," the city recen- tly formed three seperate commit- tees to examine aspects and alter- native forms of refuse disposal. One group will look at recycling methods, another at landfill proposals, and another at energy recovery possibilities. Approximately 75% of all solid waste is combusible, according to Newman; this includes recyclable material, which constitutes about 6- 8%. Several studies have cited energy recovery through burning as a viable alternative, but all available methods are too expensive to suit Ann Arbor's purposes. And so we continue to dump. "Landfill is going to be a part of any disposal system," Newman says. The disposable diapers cuddle next to the throwaway lines and littering fines. The man comes every week and grinds it up with a big noise. Then he drives away. Garbage. 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