,w w qw wVI -W mr w I COVER RECORDS 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. Unadmiecohla Z?..nu V 1 a1UiiilaPUJi ]MUCK Page 10-11 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 I Weekend Friday, January 18, 1985 Volume 111, Issue 13 Magazine Editors ....................Paula Dohring Randall Stone Associate Magazine Editors.......Julie Jurrjens John Logie Arts Editors............................Mike Fisch Andrew Porter Associate Arts Editors ............. Jeff Frooman Movies....................... .Byron L. Bull Music ........................ Dennis Harvey Books............................ 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Principles of Accounting: (one term) APPLICATION PREFERENCE DATE: January through March 15, 1985 Applications can be picked up in The School of Business, The Office of Admissions and Student Services - Room 158. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON THE BBA PROGRAM, COME TO AN INFORMATIONAL SESSION PRESENTED BY THE BUSINESS SCHOOL 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. ..t. A HAVE YOU BEEN DISHING 1 IT OUT_ BUT JUST CAN'T - For current class schedule and more information call 995-4242. 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. Producer Mike Thorne, generally a swell guy, provides the ocasional nice touch,( on "He sent isi like me some v sound, especia hasn't k more th to a mo proach. laudabl with a Too ba comma C. "1 1 : , iN ." t_ iji r " L r" = + . ' j . r ya .' .- r "".r _Y ix . Avoid that sinking feeling and come to any U-M dining hall or residence hall snack bar for a good, hot meal. And a good deal, with Entree or Entree Plus. Choose Entree, our regular dining plan. Entree is available to all U-M students. You may choose a full, 13-meal-per-week lunch & dinner plan (the same plan residence hall students re- ceive with their "board" contract), or a Dinner Only Entree Plan, good for seven dinners a week. Or choose our pre-paid supplemental meal plan - Entree Plus. Sign up for Entree Plus - available in contract amounts from $100 to $400 - and use it for any meal, whenever you're on campus. Or need a break from apartment cooking, fast food, or high restau- rant prices. As an Entree Plus customer, you'll also receive: " Cancellation and refund privileges " Delayed billing, so you don't have to pay into your account until you receive a statement " Free guest meal passes and dining room discounts For more information, or to sign up for Entree or Entree Plus, go to the Entree Office. Or call 763-4632. 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