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After the Budget Cuts Pages 34
In late 1982 the University voted a Five Year Plan
in which $20 million in budget cuts would affect the
schools of Art, Education and Natural Resources.
Now, just over two years later, Weekend examines
just how effective the budget cuts were. The cover
collage was created by Daily photographer
Dan Habib.
ENTERTAINMENTS
Happenings Pages 5-8
Movies, music, bars & clubs, theater and more can be
found in these handy weekly listings.
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In the world of music variations on heterosexuality
have been diluted, denied and ignored; however,
some "alternative-sexuality" bands and music do
exist. Two recent examples-the Smiths and Bronski
Beat-are examined for authenticity, both musically
and image-wise.
MOVIES
Alien on Earth
Page 12
BOOKS
Less Than Lively Page 9
Lives of the Poets is a collection of new, semi-
autobiographical works by author E.L. Doctorow.
Unfortunately, reviewer Andy Weine finds that Doc-
torows' latest prose is not on par with some of his
earlier literary successes.
Movies takes a look at John Carpenter's latest effort,
Starman. A sci-fi melodrama, it stars Jeff Bridges as
a likeable alien invited to earth but met with hostility.
It has its faults, but the human interest element
makes it worth seeing.
Dean Berger: Head of the changing Ed. School
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Friday, January 18, 1985
Volume 111, Issue 13
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OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
DEGREE PROGRAM
REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION ARE:
1. Junior status - 55 transferable credit
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3. Principles of Economics (micro and macro)
4. Mathematics: Calculus (one term)
5. Principles of Accounting: (one term)
APPLICATION PREFERENCE DATE:
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PLACE: Mary Markley Dorm - South Pit
DATE: Wednesday Jan. 23
Dance Theatre Studio
he willfully built up on The Smiths
unravels, and what's exposed is at
times depressingly, well, common,
though throughout he's in warm, supple
voice. A modicum of self-indulgence
does no real harm to the incandescent
pop bounce of "Wiliam, It was Really
Nothing" or to the melodically sinuous
"This Night Has Opened My Eyes,"
and Morrissey's phrasing is often
world-wearily inspired enough to make
the most awkward hunk of prose seem
fairly persuasive.
But it stretches even my abundant
capacity for forgiveness to endure
pomposities like g am the son/and the
heir/of a shyness that is criminally
vulgar, of which there are plenty wor-
se. When he gets conventionally cheer-
ful abokut something, as in the self-
explanatory "Accept Yourself," it's
just banal. Tunes like "Back to the Old
House" and "Please Please Please Let
Me Get What I Want," while pretty,
have an overripe singer-songwriter
sensitivity that isn't really so far from
Dan Fogelburgiand. Misogyny resur-
faces most clearly on "Girl Afraid"
(honest title, at least), and when
Morrissey finally lays down his cards
and admits to exactly what we already
knew, i.e. that the guy likes guys on
"Handsome Devil," the results are so
embarrassingly incongruous with The
Smiths' look-but-don't-touch image that
one wishes he'd kept his mouth shut.
Let me get my hands/on your
mammary glands? Help.
For all their faults, The Smiths are
still one of the most charismatic bands
to have surfaced in the last year. Hatful
of Hollow has its problems, but it's
neverthelesss easily good enough to
promise that Morrissey and his band
will be able to survive their potential
crises of sexual and musical identity
without too much compromising.
There's no sexual evasiveness on
Bronski Beat's debut LP The Age of
Consent, which lists the minimum age
of legal male-male relations in 31
Western-civ. countries (an astonishing
ten in Hungary; never in Central
Ireland, Cypress, Romania, Spain and
the U.S.S.R.). The innersleeve also
prints the phone number of the U.S.
National Gay Task Force, and pink
triangles - the badge marking
prisoners as homosexual in Nazi con-
centration camps - are the album's
dominant decorative motif.
The educational bluntness of this ap-
proach may seem a bit heavy-handed to
those don't need their minds pried fur-
ther open, but certainly at this point in
time it can't hurt everybody else. Even
MCA can't bring themselves to mention
the dreadful word itself (you know, h----
---1) in their official bio of the band.
The bio describes their current dan-
cefloor hit "Smalltown Boy," which is
ratherinarguably about persecution of
gays, as a "disturbingly good single"
involving "the loneliness/that
smailtown life can bring upon teenage
shoulders." Uh-huh. This is a very good
song in any case, synthpop with in-
telligence, unusual seriousness and the
requisitive danceability. It's too bad the
follow-up "why?" is, though equally
affecting lyrically You in your false
securities/tear up my life/condem-
ning me/name me an illness/call me
a sin/never feel guilty/never give
in, is considerably more resistable
musically.
And it's still more unfortunate that the
whole of The 'Age of Consent is fairly,
mediocre. It's OK-to-lame synthpop
generally burdened with all the right
idealogies in cumbersome form. One
wants to applaud their intentions so
badly that it's quite sad Bronski Beat
articulates them so clumsily. The titles
"No More War" and "Junk" say about
all this London three-piece has to say
about disarmament and con-
sumerism, respectively, in those entire
songs, while "Heatwave" and "Need a
Man Blues" celebrate sexual freedom
in the most banal terms possible:
Sweet sweet sweet/is the taste of a
man/and sweeter still/is the taste/ofJ
his sweet tasting love. I suppose gays
should be allowed like everyone else to
TAKE IT ANYMORE?
Classes in ballet,
modern, jazz, tap,
and ballroom.
New classes begin
January 14.
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write excruciatingly dumb pop lyrics,
but it would have been infinitely wise in
this case not to print a lyric sheet.
The music outside the two singles is
generally a clean but rather lulling syn-
th-based bluesiness that, like singer
Jimi Somerville's rather grating falset-
to wailing, reaches for true soul but
seems mostly antiseptic. Likewise, the
covers of Cole Porter's "It Aint
Necessarily So" and the Donna Sum-
mer hit "I Feel Love" are not as
much inept as merely unnecessary.
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