9 3 V U -W V7 V V I " Old job hunters. Urban job hunters. Vlo r tn il Rural job hunters. Job hunters with COVER A habit hard to break Pages 3-5 This week's cover story explores the serious issue of campus alcohol abuse. Daily editor Laurie DeLater has interviewed professionals, ad- ministrators and student alcoholics in order to examine the reasons for such abuse as well as means of identifying and coping with friends and classmates who have lost control of their drinkinig. This week's cover photo was taken by Daily photographer Stu Weidenbach. RESTAURANTS From tofu to truffles Page 6 Weekend staffer Neil Galanter recently discovered a campus restaurant/health food store which he highly recommends. Seva Restaurant and Market, located on E. Liberty, has everything from freshly ground peanut butter to dessert truffles. ENTERTAINMENTS BOOKS Out and about Pages 7-11 Check out the Happenings section when making your plans for the upcoming week. The staff compiled Cinena and Entertainments sections and the Eats & Drinks page are Weekend's handy guide to the busy University community. RECORDS A real earful Pages 12-14 Weekend spans the globe to let you audition new music from around the world. Daily music editor Dennis Harvey critiques and then comments upon the musical giants of foreign lands such as Estonia, Australia and California.. This week's Records is an international music primer for every discerning citizen of the world. How good is your parody? Page 15. What Color is Your Parody is a prime example of poor satire, according to reviewing P. Robertson. The review centers on the disjointedness of the book and cites examples of where Haas' formula just doesn't work. Comments and contributions to Weekend are welcome and should be directed. to the Weekend Magazine Editors. (call 763-0379). o f errors What Color Is Your Parody? Charlie Haas Price/Stern/Sloan Pub., $3.95 By P Robertson THE COVER proclaims that Charlie Haas' latest book is a self-harm manual for job-hunters and career- changers. And that is true if you're going to waste your time reading the book. What Color is your Parody? is a lackluster attempt at sarcasm arid satire. It fails miserably. Satire is based in reality and becomes hum ourous when presented in a way which is either dry or overdone. Parody falls between these two, and the result is unfunny and unentertaining. In the introduction Haas says: The job hunting techniques in this book are not just for white collar job hunters, nor for blue collar--they've been proven to work for everybody. Young job hunters. freckles. Job hunters without freckles... This senseless dribble'goes on' for another-seven lines. One should realize at that point what one is in for during the rest of the book-more of the same. I imagine the author had some sort of message to convey, but while I was wading my way through the text I lost sight of the passage. Upon examining it a second time I was in much the same predicament. Unentertaining. The only chapter with which I was impressed enough to comment on was "Dress to Impress,"'a six page chapter with four pages of illustration. The opening ditty is an abomination of a Bible verse, indicating that the chapter will be treading on tradition: And he spake unto them, saying 'Let us put on the raiment of Polly and Esther, with many bright plaids and checks that are upon them, and go forth as men of sales, selling the Lord's word.' -Carnegian2.16 Finally the attire of the Diag Preachers is explained. As promised, the chapter violates the tradition of interview at- tire. For men, Haas recommends long ties, short cuffs, and plaids - mixed and matched. He claims that these indicate genital modesty, honesty, and a power- ful person. For women, plaids are not the answer. This is °because women's bodies, on the average, contain 37 percent more curves than men's. The result is that plaids worn by women, tend to assume the look of 'op' art. What a novel idea. The illustrations for this chapter, unlike the ones in other chapters, are pertinent to the subject matter. They are also done in a lighter style which perhaps in- fluences the reader into a lighter mood, and makes him better able to enjoy the book. This is, however, the only chapter worth reading. As for the majority of the, book, the pace is very slow and monotonous. Millions of job vacancies are going unfilled, partly because so many job applicants have been bludgeoned by street criminals and left bleeding in alleys, a frequent occurence in neighborhoods where job interviews are held. 'Not only is this sentence long and awkward and blatently un- true, but it also does not pertain to sen- tences before or after it. The passage must be reviewed again to determine if something somewhere has been missed. Upon finding out that it hasn't, you are confronted with a dilemma: Does this published work not make sen- se? Or am I just not understanding it? The answer: A combination of both. One cannot understand something that does not make sense. Why tax your brain with such a work? I've read bet- ter books for courses. The illustrations, with the exception of the power play section, are generally ill-fitted and nonsensical, interesting if not distracting. Mostly old heavy pen and ink sketches, they don't do a thing to make=the book more enjoyable. On the other ha that give P black and w an ingeniou unstructur< cohesive bo doesn't work With this always sear( worthwhile. clusion that nothing can