! ! wV- w ,7 7 1 - _ M ich-el Ianv 't { ai'Y tt:' } ."n .ii ;4ik". i"~" "" -." .s': Y:"?{zi::;:?v :L ~i"4;;w"g.."vs'" . '{s:'v{ s"=:s ": { . } :;ys~ss s}:i;' ~sfs"'i "hs vn44""Ss v? v.,wvssi;;v;ses"{::'%' :';;s~s".'"ysi":{.' "v s,...y~ ! 11 i; "J :1: t:"}yy1t{ fy}"..{ . :t "1"" . ..L.:i";:i4":Kl{.1y'.1":"}1" i't; y "" ."Lt's? }sh"."?""ss" s;;,y4 1°: '., f'.4"i .};:i'."..;.:;.s\;S.......s? }"s~ ,' t'" : "s S}{ f"Y's{":;r1 "'sv," s ." i1 s""'" r Vst WA..J.s: %s v;:rsr s\" ASt+ ':w ". "_% i """ ":C s.{lssr?}sv :$ ^{. v3{s s ns{ir 4":v:i}'.:ts ~i.. "~sS.dAk -- . .. - Welcome Every school worth its salt has a school mascot. And usually, the mascot embodies the very essence and spirit of its student body. Notre Dame has its tough Fight- ing Leprechaun; South Carolina has its Cocky the Gamecock (you fig- ure it out); and Michigan State has its goofy Sparty the Spartan. Look into the eyes of any of them and you'll see the reflection of the stu- dents sitting in the stands on a fall Saturday afternoon. And Michigan? The most presti- gious school in the Big Ten? Well... we don't have a mascot.- "Just never had one," explained cheerleading coach Annette Schmidt.j Not in the 171 year history of the school. But this fall, that may change. The school whose football and bas- ketball coaches aren't happy unless they win by 30 points; the school that has more grass in the dorms than on the ground; the school called by many "cold" and "cut- throat," hasa new figure on campus who would like to be our mascot Men and women of Michigan, meet your would-be guru of good times, your would-be ambassador of good-will to all the football fields across America. b" W illy V ,~ 1 JOHN SHEA His name is Willy. Willy the Wolverine. I was skeptical when I first heard the name. In fact, I think I laughed out loud - what an oxymoron! "Willy the Wolverine." Think about it. What do you picture when you think of a wolverine? I picture an oversized rat foaming at the mouth. And what do picture when you think of Willy? I picture that little runt in grade school who al- ways wore a neon orange hunting cap and got the crap knocked Qut of him every day after class. Really. How oxymoronical can you get? You, the students, ultimately de- cide whether to embrace Willy as your mascot or let him back out- side. I guess it's not fair, though, to judge the mascot by name alone. The fact is, few people know any- thing about the Wolverine Who Came In from the Woods. And the more you get to know about Willy, and more you get to know about the people behind Willy, pushing Volverine for his official mascotship, the more you can't help but like him. To judge, you need to know. The following is his story: Willy was born last fall in the young, entrepreneurial minds of ju- niors Adam Blumenkranz and David Kausman. Kausman, a 20 year-old political science major and Blu- menkranz, a business major who turns 20 tomorrow, decided they had done so well selling novelty T- shirts in dorms their first two years in school that they would turn pro- fessional and open a store of their own - while still in school, no less. Nice. Not quite Risky Business, but nice. Yet their marketing sense told them if they were really going to make it big, they needed some kind of an angle. "And that's when we thought of Willy," Kausman said. "We dis- covered a niche in the market: Michigan is the only school in the Big Ten that doesn't have a mas- cot." "Yeah," Blumenkranz said. "And we asked ourselves, 'How come we don't have a character like that?' We've just had a normal mascot for years. See SHEA, Page 11 BIRD Continued from Page 5 scheduled. At one point he did tour some of the Southern states - Al- abama, Georgia, etc. - and pro- moted the concerts by billing the sole white man in his band as an albino blues singer. This provided the one moment of levity in Bird, but after wading through more than an hour of monotonous, dimly-lit scenes, this is more a necessity than a pleasure. Bird feels that he is able to sur- vive in the States because both Dizzy Gillespie and Duke Ellington have been doing so well, and they are both Black. What he doesn't re- alize is that to the American public, two is company, but three is much too much, and he was the third. Yet, he did find success in Paris, a city that loved jazz because the citizens listened to it with their ears, not their eyes. But both jazz and Parker were born in America and he felt the need to succeed here. Instead, his drug dependency brought him to his death. This film would have worked much better if it had created a char- acter loosely based on the life of Bird rather than trying to be a straight biography. Instead of look- ing for Parker's spirit on the silver screen, listen to it on black vinyl. That is where you'll find the real essence of Bird. BJRD begins today at Showcase Cinemas. II I WEEKEND/ROBIN LOZNAK Jeff Brown Hip, hoppin' Eclipse Jazz co-coordinator . talks about America's classical music INTER VIEW Jeff Brown has been the co-coordinator of Eclipse Jazz, a student run, non-profit organization for the promotion of jazz, since September. Brown recently spoke with WEEKEND Editor Stephen Gregory. WEEKEND: Can you tell some of the history of Eclipse Jazz? BROWN: Well, it started in 1975. There was a group of really commit- ted students who were into jazz, and they decided to get together and bring jazz musicians to Ann Arbor. Then, the way things were working, jazz musicians were only playing both coasts, and there wasn't support to bring them to the Midwest. And about a month after they got together, they had their first show; they brought McCoy Tyner to Ann Arbor, and that was such a success that Eclipse was born from that. The name Eclipse comes from a song by Charlie Mingus written in 1960. He was one of the performers the original people liked a lot, so they brought him back to town about three times before his death, and he wrote a lot of great things about Eclipse. W: What kind of reception did Eclipse get at that time? B: When Eclipse started jazz was a lot more popular, but it was a fusiony type of jazz like Sypro Gyra, Weather Report, and Eclipse was able to book them and other fusion-type bands into large venues such as Hill Auditorium and sell them out. They were also able to do big summer fes- tivals, but those days for jazz have long gone. W: Those days for fusion jazz have long gone? B: For fusion jazz there's still a large audience. Those bands are able to play at places like Pine Knob and other venues but the days of jazz as a popular music, whether it was back in the '20s and '30s with swing or in - the '70s with fusion, jazz is no longer a popular music. It's an artform that we still care about and want to promote. Back then, when jazz was being promoted, it was more of a popular music. And now today jazz is being promoted as an American treasure, not as popular music. And through the years Eclipse has been able to bring a lot of performers to town who would otherwise not be able to perform in the Midwest because of their relative popularity. We're committed to presenting jazz because if Eclipse weren't here a lot of these shows would not happen otherwise. And that's something that we can't lose. Jazz is too important of an art- form. It's really an American treasure and meanwhile we want to make sure that it survives. That's why we exist. We get funding from the Na- tional Endowment of the Arts because presenting jazz concerts just is simply not profitable. With our ticket sales and the fact that we're non- profit, we stilf need a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts just to break even. W: So that's where you get all your money from? The University doesn't give you any money? B: We're not funded by the University, but the University provides sup- port, for example, in giving us this office. We also work closely with Major Events, who help guide us through the business aspects of it. Peo- pie are learning skills. We don't have the skills going into it. We just See INTERVIEW, Page 12 N- Let Them Know How You Feel I I DAILY PERSONALS 764-0557 'Bird' suffers from Eastwood's' cinematic trickery. ,oa u Celeb ration Of Jewish Arts Yoram Boker Mime Troupe Saturday, October 22 - 8:00pm Lydia Mendelssohn Theater, Michigan League The mime artists utilize the universal language of pantomime to comment on the often humorous and sometimes contradictory circumstances of life in Israel today. This show is part of "Independence and Interdependence," a program of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture with major support of the CRB Foundation of Montreal. Sponsored by the Marcel Marceau World Mime Centre. Tickets available through TicketMaster in the Michigan Union - 763-TKTS. iA im~ OFF THE WALL SKETCHPAb F ZINN U Will I "YV-9 We are amazed but not amused by all the things you say that you'll do, though much concerned but not involved with the decisions that are made by you. 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