0 0 Read Weekend -t's Because Weekend was printed a full 24 hours before the rest of the Daly, our ink had plenty of time to dry and will not come off on your hands -unless you moisten them. .. .. ... ... .. ... ..... \IJAILNPI\S BEATI He-s mean. He' He's the Turf N Don. get juked We block the T pizza to your te we 'lltoss it to; l Domno's Pizza a.g -~ Fg SAYS G CO BLUE! 11110 STATE! s lean. He's got grass stains on his knees. OlD. And he's out to tackle your pizza. . all Domino's Pizza*. urf NOID and rush a hot, fresh, made-to-order eam in 30 minutes or less. Guaranteed. And you at a price that won't cause you to fumble. . Nobody Delivers Better". 00 Three Cheers for Student Apathy Michigan Student Assembly elections have come and gone, and most students, being good Americans, do not give a shit. I almost forgot to vote myself, and I'm a political junkie, the sort ~' ~' ~of person who watches C-SPAN for fun. About the only thing worthwhile to come out of this campaign was one candidate's unique platform: we should vote for him, his literature '9informed us, because there was a picture of a moose on his poster. Let it be said right here and now that he JESSE got my vote. Mooses (meese?) are a good WALKER platform. We could use a moose or two around Ann Arbor. When I was little, my favorite character on Captain Kangaroo, after that undersized marching band, was the moose. So I voted for the guy. Why not? I mean, what the hell. I didn't vote for anybody else. They didn't deserve any encouragement. I had more fun casting my ballot last year. For president, I wrote in "Scruffy the Bowling Ball." Then I carefully voted for Michigan Review bile-spitter Jeff Muir and for the candidates of the Anti-Imperialist Action Caucus, a front group of the infamous Revolutionary Workers League. ("Try Bush, Engler, my father for war crimes! Nationalize health care under worker/patient control! Pay for my tuition!") Only Muir won, but I still fantasize about how funny the Assembly would be now if my ticket had triumphed. I did not always abuse my voting privileges. In fact, I used to run for MSA myself, back when I was younger and didn't have to worry about the real world. It seemed to me, then as now, that the place was a joke, an embarrassment to the university, a bunch of strutting junior politicians on a power trip. Mercifully, MSA was not a very powerful body, so the authoritarian types that flocked to it couldn't do much harm. But they were trying to, if only because that would make the rest of us sit up and pay attention to them. Two student organizations, a pro-Israel group that had offended some Arab students and a fundamentalist Christian group that had offended some gays, barely survived attempts by the MSA administration to "derecognize" them. I am neither pro-Israel nor a fundamentalist Christian. In fact, I am a pro-intifada agnostic. But equal rights are equal rights, for my political enemies as for my political friends. A piddling group like MSA has no more business stepping on student liberty than the regents do. So, fed up, some like-minded friends and I formed a political party, the Abolitionists. We ran on a platform of voluntary funding for MSA, automatic group recognition, and replacing the elected assembly with a etwork of commissions that anyone who wanted to could join. We also spoke out against those policies of the regents that we felt interfered with students' private business: the speech code, the proposed code of non-academic conduct, and deputization of campus security officers. We lost, of course. Four times. It's probably for the best, too. I've done a lot of worthwhile things in the last three and a half years that I might not have had time for if I had had to bother with the Assembly. Times have changed, most notably in that MSA is no longer run by the left. Now, instead of taking our money and spending it on projects a lot of students would not support, it takes our money and does nothing with it. Which I suppose might be considered an improvement, except that it's still taking our money. But why not? It's not much money. They can have it. Let the damned overgrown Model UN stuff their resum6s with it; I can afford to let them. This year, only two parties contested the elections, along with scattered independents. One of them is the incumbent team, the Conservative Coalition. There isn't much to say about CC, except that they're boring and that they make obnoxious posters. ("Exterminate the Radicals" is one of this election's entries, implying that someone or the other took the infamous Holocaust Revisionist ad that ran in the Daily last month to heart.) The other contestant is the left-liberal opposition, the Progressive Party. They're a whole subject in themselves. The leftists and the liberals always run separately in the winter elections, instead of uniting behind a presidential candidate, thus splitting the left-wing vote and, in two of the last three years, allowing the Conservatives to win. Realizing their mistake, they merge into one party for the fall election, when there's no prsidentialvoe to split. By the winter,they've broken back into two, and the Conservatives win again. By the time you read this column, we'll know how the election came out. Either the Progressives or the Conservatives will have a majority on the Assembly. Do you care which? Neither do I. Continued from page 4 On this record, it's obvious that the band has really come into their own as a unit. The Peppers rock with a confidence and self- assurance sometimes lacking on their earlier efforts. "It's the first time the foursome's been together two records in a row. We know each other really well musically," says Flea. Keidis agrees. "Before, we were like this unhardened bowl of Jell-o in the fridge. Now we are one solidified unit of sound." Songs like "If You Have To Ask" showcase Flea's true genius at funk, substituting the usual "how many notes can I fit in?" style with a steady, rhythmic groove that does a slow burn instead of exploding all over the place like an errant pack of firecrackers. They even go from metal-tinged anthems like the title track, to genuine ballads like "Breaking The Girl" and "Under The Bridge" in an almost effortless fashion. The Peppers current tour, featuring two prime opening acts ( post-mod surreal acid-rockers Smashing Pumpkins and Seattle's new messiahs Pearl Jam) is the hottest ticket of the fall. They have been playing to sold- out clubs across the country, including a four-night SRO stint in New York City. Flea's daughter Clara even made her onstage debut there, leading the crowd in a raucous rendition of her "ABC's." The Peppers' show that night in dreaded Spartan territory was a blast. Songs from all five of their albums were featured, as well as their usual Pepper-ized cover or two. This night, they shredded the Stooges' "Search and Destroy," a track which they recorded but left off the album. They tore through older songs like "Me And My Friends" and "Blackeyed Blonde" with a newfound vigor, matching the slam-dancing mass of bodies at the front of the stage with their own. Keidis even displayed a new talent - spitting straight up in the air a good six feet and then catching the gob in his mouth. New tunes like "If You Have To Ask" were stretched, twisted and turned around, as the band got a feel for them. Flea's and Frusciante's funky groove at the end of that song was comparable to funk legends the Meters. Kiedis even did the old "lead singer straps on a Strat guitar and doesn't play a lick" trick during "Give It Away." The P.I.C. (Politically Incorrect) anthem "Special Secret Song" was a highlight, as the crowd lustily joined in for the pleasantly perverse chorus. It was hard to believe that it was the fourth show on the tour, as the Peppers were as tight as if they'd been on the road for months. Even Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and Smashing Pumpkin's goddess- like bassist D'arcy could be seen banging their heads down front. It seems that these boys have it all. They recently did the "buy big houses on the same block" thing, new cars, features on the MTV music news - heck, they've even got their own Nike commercial. It couldn't have happened to four more deserving freaks. As much as it hurts to see one of "my" bands accepted by the masses, I'm learning to let them go. Bands as good as the Red Hot Chili Peppers should be huge. Why should those contrived, big- haired, company-created, no- talent poo-faced pretty-boys get all of the glory? 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