70 I 0 0 BETTER THAN THE BATHROOM WALLS! C> '.'>~''Give your message a VU(DPerTouch..... '~~idfott utI baitWPersonals n ail Read ad WLe Student remembers Syracuse-abroad program participant reflects on tragedy Pseudo-mintel lectuali rock? Reed must cl WASlINGTON - / 663-0070 114 E. WASHINGTON Bring in this cartoon and get 2 for 1 on ALL bar food after 10:00 p.m. PLUS downtown's BEST HAPPY HOUR. Reduced drink prices- EVERYDAY-from 4:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., and 10:00 p.m. to close. DRAFT BEER $1.00, HOUSE WINE $1.50, HOUSE DRINKS $1.50 LUNCH * DINNER * LATE NIGHT BAR MENU PASS sports in the lounge. FINAL WINTER MARK-DOWNS 50- OFF By Eileen Berg Lucky - a term that can be ap- plied to lottery winners, your roommate who landed that great job, or people who find money in the street. Or the other "lucky"- the only survivor in a car crash, an or- gan transplant which came through at the last minute, or the person who missed a plane which crashed. John Perry is the second kind of lucky, the kind that saved his life. Perry was supposed to fly home with his best friend Ken from Lon- don on December 21, but changed his flight to two days earlier, be- cause he found out the University's Christmas break was shorter than he expected and he wanted more time to relax before school started again. He was homesick, and tired of traveling. Perry felt guilty, because the day he was leaving was Ken's 21st birth- day, but he and Ken decided they would celebrate the birthday on New Year's Eve with a bottle of 40-year old malt scotch. They would toast their semester on the Syracuse pro- gram in London, the new year, and their friendship. On Dec. 19, 1988, Pan American Flight 103 left Frankfurt, West Germany, made its regularly-sched- uled stop in London, and landed safely at Kennedy International Air- port in New York. About 9:30 p.m. John Perry, 21, of Livingston, N.J., hugged his parents for the first time since September. Two days later, Pan American Flight 103 again began its journey to New York. In London, Ken Bis- sett, 21, of Hartsdale, N.Y., boarded the plane. While at home, his mother planned to surprise her son with a birthday cake at the airport. Flight 103 blew up about 7 p.m., 31,000 feet over the small village of Lockerbie, Scotland. There were 259 passengers on board, and all were killed in the crash. This time there were no arrivals. It was the worst recorded air disaster in British his- tory. Perry, a senior concentrating in General Studies, decided to go on the Syracuse program - a semester of classes at an extension of Syracuse University in London - because he wanted to meet people, travel and get a break from the University. After three years, he was bored with school and Ann Arbor. If he had been asked about his semester abroad when he stepped off the plane, Perry would have said he just completed the best experience of his life. Two days later he would have to think twice before answering. Thirty-eight students from the Syracuse program were aboard Flight 103 on December 21. Perry knew about half of them, including his two roommates, Ken Bissett and Tim Cardwell. Eight others lived in his apartment building. Later, studying a photograph taken a few nights before he left at the Hard Rock Cafe, John realized that almost all the people in the photograph were dead. "It's still hard for me to compre- hend I'm never going to see these people again. Especially with my two roommates - I still think about Ken everyday. I didn't like going to sleep for the first week after it happened, because I was waking up in the middle of the night. I had nightmares about voices of Ken's friends... people I didn't even know... just asking me questions about him, what happened to him." Perry leans his 6-foot frame back in his chair in an upstairs room at Dominicks'. The midday sunlight catches the highlights in his brown hair, and his deep blue eyes, unwa- vering and stoic, look forward as he talks. He seems to choose his words from lists in his head and frequently 'I was a wreck. I couldn't stop crying and I couldn't stop thinking that I should have been on that plane.' stops as if he's carefully putting each sentence together before actu- ally saying it. His voice, steady and strong, echoes in the wooden paneled room, filling the area with soft vi- brations. He's in control, but when he first heard about the disaster, he wasn't. "I was a wreck. I couldn't stop crying and I couldn't stop thinking that I should have been on that plane. Not that I felt guilty, but just how close I came to dying." Perry became anxious to change his travel plans about a week before he was originally supposed to leave, when he found out another room- mate cancelled his Austrian ski trip to go home early. "That night I couldn't sleep. I remember lying in bed thinking about it for two or three hours... until I finally fell asleep from ex- haustion," he said. The next morning at 8 a.m. he went to the Pan American office and switched from the ill-fated December 21 flight to December 19. Although he's outwardly com- posed and almost too calm, Perry says he is still troubled by the weeks leading upto the crash. He says he and a friend had been joking about the series of bad luck Ken had Snow falls is Brian Keane Snowfalls Flying Fish Records Snowfalls is a collection of nine pieces performed solo by New Age guitar wiz Brian Keane on his 6 and twelve string guitars. Each cut is a virtuosic display, simultaneously using bass lines, melodies and counterpoints all intertwined to cre- ate a whole. Considering all the cuts were recorded live and alone, with no overdubs, his playing prowess is all the more impressive. However, Snowfalls is difficult to listen to actively. It's fine as background, "atmospheric" music (great to study to, not distracting at all), but it's difficult to pay attention to. The al- bum is just non-stop noodling, which isn't interesting, no matter Martha Continued from Page 4 "Heatwave", "Quicksand", "Nowhere To Run", "Jimmy Mack", and "Dancing In The Street". In 1968, they achieved the ultimate accolade of being namechecked in a Velvet Underground song, "Inside Your Heart" However, things started going awry in 1967, when Reeves, appar- ently, became 'troublesome', de- manding more artistic autonomy. Like other Motown defectors, she voiced concerns over the creative straitjacket Berry Gordy kept on much of the label's talent. The group disbanded and Reeves' life took a turn for the worse. She suf- fered years of depression, alcoholism and two broken marriages before making the proverbial 'comeback'. Reeves now lives in Detroit and plays gigs in the immediate area, as well as making regular tours of England. She's busier and happier today than at any other time since she left the Motown family. Tomorrow night, I just hope Reeves makes use of her gospel training and sings her soul out. Soul singers don't age, they just get bet- ter. So Martha, please spare us the medleys and let's have some funky, uptown r(h)apsodizing. Lou Reed New York Sire Records Try hard not to swallow your tongue reading Lou Reed's message on the back of the record jacket. "It's meant to be listened to in one 58 minute (14 songs!) sitting," he instructs, "as though it were a book or a movie." The thing is, New York ain't no novel. It's a rock 'n' roll album. It contains a few great cuts, a few near misses, and a couple of stinkers. Any narrative unity that Professor Reed was trying to imbue in this, his piece d' resistance, is lost on this bystander. The arrogance of the claim that he makes to literary significance could only be surpassed by, say, putting five pictures of himself on the album cover. "Halloween Parade (Aids)" and "Xmas in February" should go down as two causes for quiet celebration on the record. But for every tune which reminds you that Reed is one of the most honest and clear-headed mood music how impressive the technique may be. It's difficult to differentiate the cuts; they could have been called "Noodle One," "Noodle Two," etc. Snowfalls is very nice, and techni- cally very well performed, but also very boring. 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