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Twenty five-foot-tall video screens project the latest vomitous clips by such post-glam acts as Poison and metal's leading lady, Lita Ford. Beer-bellied bouncers stood twice the size of Hercules, and there was more alcohol than this campus consumes in a FURNITURE & VARIETY UNLIMITED ANN ARBOR'S UNIQUE RESALE SHOP MERCHANDISE ARRIVING DAILY 4395 Jackson Rd Open (Parkland Center) 7 994-3355 days " Buy & Sell * Delivery available State o Main - Wsttt o 4 Stadium SWa ner FURNITURE UNLIMITED month. The crowd was even more inter- esting. Peroxide blondes in spandex mini-skirts dancing on the multi- color disco dancefloor to Bon Jovi favorites, beer launchers drenching everyone within 15 feet of the stage, and more hair and leather than any sorority on campus. Harpo's is an entertaining, yet unruly, club. A friend of mine actu- ally got roughed up in the bathroom. Something about being stared down by some guy with a two-foot-high feathered hairdo. He got in a couple good punches but said he got stuck in the eye with somebody's spiked mohawk. There was probably enough gel on it to blind a cow, he said. I don't doubt it. A night not soon to be forgotten. The hysteria/isolated anarchy lasted throughout the opening band's set, a ridiculously simplistic batch of prepubescent hardcore, and well into the intermission between the sets. Suddenly the stage area was thrown into almost complete dark- ness. A moment of tense and confused silence fell over the crowd, and then, vaguely, we could make out forms moving across the stage now lit only with the lights shining on the enormous skull backdrop. An eery, organish dirge began to flow out of the stacked amps, and the crowd be- gan to pulse with obvious anticipa- tion. A fewseconds later the stage was flooded with a fury of lights, guitar chords, and drums, signalling the beginning of over an hour of ex- haustively energetic power metal. If this weekend's perfor- mance is anything like last months's, get set for hys- teria, anarchy, and beware of spiked mohawks (they could poke your eye out!) Glenn Danzig, singer/song-writer, stormed about the stage, beating the air in time to the music with one muscular arm while keeping the mi- crophone virtually glued to his mouth with the other. The tattooed and sideburned monster dominated the stage, roaring and belching out the Celtically influenced lyrics for which he is so famous. "Burn that heart of cold/Simmering in the samhain/Of my soul" from "Soul on Fire" (probably the best song on the self- titled, debut Danzig album) and "Blood/Like a crimson high- way/Spreading out/From his fore- head to the ground/Twist of Cain," from "Twist of Cain." His black- clad, stocky build enhanced his booming voice, creating a powerful stage presense yet unequaled by any- one short of (dare I say?) Henry Rollins. On either side of the stage Eerie Von, bassist, and guitarist John Christ (possibly the most lively and entertaining guitar player I saw last year) were positioned, dressed almost identically, wielding their guitars as mastered tools of their trade. Two almost-maddeningly precise musi- cians at the center of the madness that is Danzig. Von and Christ lurched back and forth in a musically induced stupor, grinding out the central tracks of each song with a unique melodic power. Von contin- ued to express the talent first seen in Samhain, and Christ proved himself worthy of playing with such a leg- end as Glenn with countless innova- tive intros and lacily ferocious riffs throughout the set. In the background sat drummer Chuck Biscuits, formerly of Black Flag and the Circle Jerks. He liter- ally attacked his set, nearly toppling it in his frenzied approach to drum- ming. The glasses on our table shook with the power of his pityless hammering, and his position at the rear of stage was overcome by his exuberance, making him no less the center of attention than Danzig, Von, or Christ. They zipped through the entire Danzig album, turning an hour into mere minutes, and giving the first show I've ever seen that I wanted to last forever. Thrown in for flavor were a few songs Glenn originally did with the Misfits, and a couple he and Von did with Samhain. Old fa- vorites like "Halloween II," "London Dungeon," and others brought out crowd participation in droves, including (ugh) stage divers and guest lyricists clawing at the micro- phone for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to scream along with Glenn. A great show. The best I saw in 1988. And this will hopefully be the best I see in 1989. I think it may very well be. Danzig will bring the earth to its knees Saturday night at St. Andrew's Hall, 431 E. Congress, in Detroit. Doors open at 8 p.m., and the open- ing band, Herecy, will go on at 9 p.m.. Tickets are $950 in advance, available at Ticketmaster outlets, and are $12 at the door. By Adam SchragerE With all the recent uproar con-1 cerning Proposition 48 and its latest revisions, the argument of makingt all first-year student/athletes ineligi- ble has resurfaced. Before 1972, the NCAA had a rule that did not allow any first-year1 players to practice, play, or be asso- ciated with the school's team in any way. Sports Illustrated ran an edito- rial at the time describing the change at the January,1972 NCAA conven- tion that read in part:t "In sum, the freshman rule is one more symptom of the economic crunch. Absorbing freshmen into varsity programs means that high- budget athletic schools canhave the same number of varsity players while reducing the total number of scholarships given. Because an ath- lete now has four years of eligibil- ity, instead of three, the college gets a 33.3% greater return on the field from its investment in each athlete. It is good business when you can pay less and get more, and one must never forget that big time college sport is very big business." Since 1972, college athletics have become even bigger business. The Big Ten conference took in around $25 million this year from televi- sion contracts alone. And while col- lege sports have become bigger business, academics have been left by the wayside. University of Georgia professor Jan Kemp was fired because she would not change grades for athletes in the school's remedial education program. The University of Nevada at Las Vegas basketball program graduated two players in a span of 15 years since the rule was changed, one of them the coach's son. Memphis State University was no better - not one Black basketball player was graduated from 1972-85. And last season's Big Ten Newcomer-of-the- Year, Jay Edwards of Indiana, was declared academically ineligible fol- lowing the basketball season and also enrolled in a chemical depen- dency program last summer. "Since the rule was passed back in '72, academics have definitely slacked off," said Grambling State basketball coach Bob Hopkins. "I don't feel that freshmen should be allowed to play. I know that it would hurt my team because I need my freshmen to play right away, but there are so few freshmen that can make an impact right away that it is not worth it. "Too often, I see students who have difficulty adjusting to their new ched? environment as a whole. They have problems as a basketball player be- cause they are not team-oriented, and they have academic and social prob- lems like a great majority of college students." It is the academic problems that have frightened academicians every- where. It has gotten to the point where, at the annual NCAA conven- tion last week, a rule was passed negating financial aid to athletes who do not meet their standard aca- demic requirements. With sophomore guards Sean :E Higgins and Demetrius Calip forced o to miss the Big Ten season last year o because of academic ineligibility, Y Michigan players and coaches have definite viewpoints on the subject. "It's a big jump from the educa- tion at the high school level to that of the college level," said Calip. "You have to give freshmen the op-; portunity to adjust academically andt socially as well as athletically. With playing all the basketball I did last year, I got my priorities mixed up." "If you made freshmen ineligible, it would solve all the problems," said Michigan basketball coach Bill Frieder. "It's schools concerned with filling seats that vote against this policy, which is why I don't ever think it will pass." In essence, it all comes down to money, since no one should oppose a student/athlete receiving an educa- tion. To keep matters down-to-earth, the most recent Michigan study showed that 55.7 percent of the stu- dents who started in 1981 graduated in four years. Only 74.3 percent of them graduated in five years, which is what would be guaranteed for ath- letes if the old rule was ever reim- posed. Assume that the average out-of- state tuition is $5,000 per term and the average in-state tuition is $1,300 per term. Calculating the figures for the football team, which consists of 57 out-of-state and 22 in-state play- ers, the approximate amount of tu- ition being paid by the school is $627,200. Add to that figure one- I 4 ... Sophmore guards Sean Higgins (left) and Jay Edwards (upper right) were named academically ineligible for their first seasons K 712,500 * *570,000 Scholarship dollars paid annually by 'U' quarter of it, which is a fair assump- tion of another year's tuition, and the University would be paying about $784,000, or an increase of approximately $156,800. With their first-year ineligible, but still on scholarship, the women's basketball team of nine in- state players and five out-of-state players would cost the University, in round figures, an extra $18,350. The men's basketball team of seven in- state and seven out-of state players would run the University an addi- tionaly $88,200. These figures do not include room and board or book money doled out to each athlete. While the increase may not amount to much money for Michigan, as Frieder commented earlier, it is a big deal for the smaller school. "You look at the Ohio States, the Michigans, the Oklahomas, etc, these are the schools that can afford to do what they please," said CBS college basketball analyst Billy Packer. "They can schedule and re- cruit at will because they have the money. The smaller schools are at a real disadvantage." This disadvantage is not only evident athletically, but also aca- demically. "We cannot hire a tutor for our players like John Thompson did at Georgetown," said Grambling coach Hopkins. "Our players who are forced to play their first year suffer an emotional strain that is unbelieveable and that is why I think so many undergraduates turn pro- fessional early." Unfortunately as Calvin Coolidge once said: "The business of America is business." As long as that is true, it looks like even academics will have to take a back seat. 100,000 ------- ------ --- - - I 80,000- 60,000- 40,000- $20,000- 0 Current ° expenditure D Additional cost of frosh ineligibility 4's 0% 0 0 0 4% f° // ,- 'pd / s Q std d 's F s, 6 6dii d// lb ICI Weekend grq tc by Miguel Crwz -.PAq 6 WEFKEND/JAARY 20,1989 WEEKEND/JANUARY x,1989,