. 10 U. THE NATIQNAL&)LLEGE NEWSPAPER 9 Lif d Art SEPTEMBER 1989 SEPTEMBER 1989 Lars and Sense U. THE NATIONAL OLLEGE NEWSPAPER 1 -I- Acid House reaches America I I The subtk problens Of race By David J. Neal . Indiana Daily Student Indiana U. I can't skip class. That's the first thing I think of when someone asks me if there are any disadvantages to being black at a large university. Broad problems like the dearth of minority faculty and the barbs of obnoxious racists don't really affect my day-to-day existence, but the everyday things that touch minorities are small and irritating. Like the attendance situation. I can't skip class with any sort of impunity. As soon as an instructor looks over the class, he knows if Im there or if I decided the adultery and mental cru- elty on Divorce Court was more inter- esting than whatever he had to say. One of my classes has a lecture section with roughly 150 students. Any of the other 149 students can take the morning off, knowing their absence will not be conspicuous. Not me. I'm a footprint in the snow. The professor once identified me solely on the assistant instructor's physical description of me. I'd bet my StevieWonder albums he couldn't do that with anybody else in the class. Can you see the assistant instruc- tor trying to come up with distin- guishing characteristics for one of my classmates? "He's kind of between 5-10 and 6 feet, has black hair ... wears a corduroy hat ... uh, I think he has blue eyes ... maybe wears a Cubs jacket ..." Tough job. But with me, Im sure it was easy. "Bout 6-2, 6-3. Black guy" "Oh, yeah." Then there are those times when people say something, notice you're there, and think they've become this year's Jimmy the Greek. I was scanning the magazine rack for the latest issue of Women's Physique World while three Caucasian junior high girls in front of me flipped through a magazine. One said, "Tracy Chapman is so ugly. I mean, her music is good, but she's just ugly." The other two girls turned and See RACE, Page 15 By Darren Cahr and Stacey Bashara a The Northwestern Review Northwestern U., Chicago An NU student strides down Sheridan Road, her chest covered with an enor- mous, yellow, smiling face. The eyes on her shirt are oval and the smile turns up at the sides. It looks like a visual homage to Bobby McFerrin, except for one ele- ment: a bullet hole and blood sit where the nose should be. In a dormitory room, hunched over a Macintosh computer, senior Adam Buhler manipulates beats and mea- sures, baselines and samples, until a mass of rhythm and noise pours from his speakers. What these images have in common is acid house, a movement of music and fashion, philosophy and social politics that has already swept across a great deal of England and which is now mak- ing inroads in the United States. "I like acid house because it allows you to see nirvana and jack your body at the same time," says senior Jay Haesly. And it is that concept of pure hedonism which underpins the appeal of this throbbing collage of sounds and sensation. Buhler, whose in-room studio is an acid house laboratory, says the music is a catylist for "forgetting the superficial class structure and fundamentalist atti- tudes" of modern life. Many music critics and trend-watch- ers dub acid house a re-emergence of drug culture (though some would argue it never died). A great deal of the move- ment involves consumption of large quantities of either Ecstasy, a pill-based drug similar to LSD, or plain old LSD. Since arriving on continent, acid house has left a distinctly bitter taste in the mouths of some local musicians. NU grad student John Kezdy, vocalist for Chicago punk band the Effigies, says acid house may be fated to fizzle out in the United States. "The acid house movement is just the most superficial and vapid thing," Kezdy says. "It's not like punk, which was more politically-based. It's a very fashion-ori- ented and hedonistic thing. It realistical- ly couldn't be anything but superficial." Buhler is also skeptical of the move- ment's domestic longevity, but insists there is a message behind the music. "The fashion element is unavoidable," he says. "It's all that people tend to see because it's all that's shown to them. But DARREN CAHR, NORTHWESTERN REVIEW, NORTHWESTERN U. The mutilated smiley face has come to represent the nihilism and nirvana of the American acid house movement. Career& Educational E ADire ctry THE NATIONAL COLLEGE NEWSPAPER I. V L. 5,,. -'-C MB PROGAMS UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA MBA Located near Atlanta, the South's business hub, the Georgia MBA offers: " One-year MBA program for exceptional individuals with business degrees . 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