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VBPA .e Wet dogs, random fires and 'Chicken Man' ByJIM STERLING The Graphic, Pepperdine U. 9/1/91. We moved in today. There are six of us in three bedrooms. It's a quaint little townhouse - perfect for hard-working college students. So I guess it was pure luck that we landed it. Tom, our landlord, was packing up his family and moving out at the same time we were moving in. He wore a USMC T-shirt and spoke in hushed tones. The already high level of confusion was heightened by three huge, drooling Alaskan Malamutes racing around the living room, rolling on the orange shag carpet, trying to dry off from the bath Tom had just given them. It was an ugly scene. Tom soon left us with nothing but a wet dog smell and a Georgia O'Keefe print used to hide a fist-sized hole in the drvwall. 9/3/91. Although it's been two days, the smell ofwet dog only seems to increase. Mindy said she has flea bites on her legs.Jeff said she was "probably just imagining things." The upstairs toilet runs all night and rarely flushes completely. 9/15/91. We had our first party last night. Our friends kept asking, "Where's your dog?" while cops harassed them in our foyer for underage drinking. Later, after we had all gone to bed, the police came upstairs to say hello. 9/16/91. I woke up to discover that one of Jeff's rugby teammates barfed on my toothbrush. Tom's son dropped by with the lease since we had neglected to sign one before we moved in. He didn't seem very comfortable being around us, so he just put it on the table and left. 10/5/91. All of the people who sleep downstairs, including Jeff, are covered with flea bites. They are arguing that they should pay less rent than Matt and me, who sleep upstairs. But Matt disagrees, citing the upstairs broken toilet. "Everything's even," he says. 10/18/91. The backyard caught on fire today for no apparent reason. 10/30/91. The garbage disposal has been ,: . -...,, G .5 broken for the past four days. The backed-up food is beginning to reconstitute itself into a creation Mike has named "Chicken Man." The lease hasn't moved from its original spot on the kitchen table. 11/9/91. The exterminator, who was supposed to show up and get rid of the fleas, didn't. The Home Owner's Association left a nasty note on our door warning us that we are subject to a $25 fine if we keep leaving the garage door open. 11/12/91.Jeff put small amounts of sulfur in the corners of the living room, claiming, "It will drive the fleas into the center of the room where we can kill them." The dryer broke today. 11/14/91. The plumber came to fix the toilet today. He told Doc that due to the accelerated wood rot, he wouldn't be surprised if one of us fell through the bathroom floor sometime soon. This news somewhat cheered up the people who sleep downstairs, who are still bitter about their flea bites. 11/29/91.Jeff crashed into the side of the BRIAN SHELLITO, THE DAILY NEBRASKAN, U. OF NEBRASKA garage with his car, nearly bringing down the balcony. He said he'd fix it later. 12/5/91. Chicken Man is still alive and well. Mike thinks he's neat and wants to keep him at least through Christmas. The persistent dog smell led us to the decision that maybe we should stop entertaining in our home. 12/7/91. The lease has been sitting on our table for months. It is covered with various mug stains and phone numbers. The word "BOOBS" is scribbled in blue magic marker in the upper right hand corner. It is still unsigned. 12/8/91. Fearing that we will be fined if we open our garage door, we park our cars in the visitors' lot and walk the rest of the way. 12/16/91. Tom came by today to pick up the lease that none of us had ever bothered to sign. We found it under the toaster, wiped off the crumbs and signed it. Tom asked if we were hasing any problems. We couldn't come up with anything that's unusual for off-campus living, so he left after wishing us a Merry Christmas. By NICK ROBERTS TheDaily Bruin, U.of California, LosAngeles Hev, all you metalbeads Out there: It's time to put away the Black Sabbath albums, stick in the ear plugs and make doubly sure there's nothing flammable around. Spinal Tap is back after a long, eight-year sabbatical. And as usual, they're louder than hell. Yes, be forewarned, the veteran British rock entity once destined for the "Where are they now?" file has resurfaced in the rock world. And though Tap's members have been keeping a decidedly low profile since their image was trounced in Marty DeBergi's 1983 rockumentary classic, "This Is Spinal Tap," this year could very well be looked back upon as a turning point in the heavy metal band's long, disastrous career. The members of the group decided to reform at a funeral ceremony held in honor of Ian Faith, the band's former manager. But Nigel Tufnel, Tap's temperamental lead guitarist, is the first one to admit that money is the prime motivation behind the band's decision to record again and embark on a two-month U.S. tour this summer. But does he really think that Tap's latest album, Break Like the Wlind, has a rat's ass of a chance of selling when placed up against the likes of Guns n' Roses and Metallica? "Well, no one knows, do they?" he replies, apparently a bit miffed at the question. "See, no one in the world can predict anything like that. You can't predict records, you can't predict movies. If they could, then they'd be making money and people wouldn't be getting fired every three weeks.", When asked if the members of Spinal Tap had a clear mind of what they wanted to do with the album when going into the studio, Tufnel quickly replies, "Yes, we knew exactly what we wanted to do - we wanted to have it come out so that people could hear it. That was our main objective." Derek Smalls, the group's mild-mannered bass player, voices a similar sentiment. "We're trying to get people to buy it - that's the idea this time. Before, we've said, 'Right, here's the album, buy it if you want it.' This time, we're saying, 'We really don't care whether you want it or not -jjust buy it. You can always discover you want it later on, but by then it's too late, so buy it now. Let it grow on you."' Does he mean like a fungus or something? "Well... yeah. Or like moss." Break Like the Windpicks up where 1984's ill-fated Smell the Glove LP left off - with the group plumbing the depths of musical bravura and lyrical sensitivity, as has been the case it seems with every Spinal Tap album in the past. other parts of ourselves back on, and (this time) it stayed." "You can't exist without creative tension (though)," Smalls adds. "A band that doesn't have any creative tension is asleep, is a sleeping band - a dead band - or the Grateful Dead band. We need that tension to keep our fires burning and vice versa. The difference was there wasn't any punching this time. There was fighting - I mean, Nigel bites and scratches still - but not closed fists. That was the difference." Even Tufnel admits that intergroup squabbles, especially those between he and lead vocalist David St. Hubbins, were kept to a bare minimum this time - perhaps due to the absence of the band's other ex-manager, Jeanine Pettibone (St. Hubbins' wife of six years and presently the owner of aNew Age boutique in Pomona, Calif.). "Jeanine is a handful," agrees Smalls. "But fortunately she's pretty much out of the picture. If she does make an appearance at any of the gigs, despite the instructions to the security guards, we have an instrument for her to play just to make her feel as if she's involved, which is a tambourine with all thejingly bits removed, and with no skin on it - just a circle of wood, basically." As for filmmaker Marti DeBergi (whom Nigel usually simply refers to as the "hack"), it is clear from talking with the two band members that they both share a special sort of disregard for the director. "We didn't really have that many problems last tour," says Tufnel. "It'sjust that Mr. DeBergi chose to show the mistakes, you see. People don't want to see good news. They don't want to read in the paper, 'Three babies completely healthy - everyone's all right.' If you say, 'Baby kitten run over by train,' they dash right out and buy it." As for the upcoming tour, which kicks off in May, both bandmates insist that what's happened to Tap in the past - the personal conflicts, the RECORDS sabotaged staging effects, the empty in-store appearances, etc. - has all been placed comfortably behind them. As Tufnel says, "You plan, you do the best you can, you go out on stage and something falls down - light falls down or a midget has a heart attack - but these things happen. It's show business." Tufnel's attitude sounds optimistic, but Tap fans beware: It seems rather unlikely those who buy the albums and who come around to see the show this time are really going to be able to truly realizejust what they've gotten themselves into. "Well," says Smalls, "everyone knows that we embrace a certain amount of evil, just for the purpose of putting on a good show. If you've seen the name Spinal Tap on a record by this point in time, you know what it is you're getting into. You don't have to be warned any further. We feel the name Spinal Tap is warning enough." COURTESTY OF MCA Tracks like "Majesty of Rock," "Bitch School" and the guitar-anthem title track (featuring a whole slew of guest soloists including Slash of Guns n' Roses, Jeff Beck and Joe Satriani) represent a "newfound maturity" in the band, says Smalls. While that may not seem a fitting description for a group of musicians who've been known to kick and scream at each other in the studio, Smalls attributes the new album's strength to the presence of "a more mature version of the old feeling" felt on the band's previous work. "I think we gave ourselves permission on this album to be all the people we are," explains Smalls. "We were always very conscious (before) of being a sub-people of that. You know those people who get their arms sewed back on after an accident? It's like that's what happened to us. We sewed the U. VIEWS 1-800>62-5511 Landlords and students often are at odds over housing conditions. Students contend they don't get enough respect as tenants. Landlords claim students are irreonsible. Do you believe students are responsible tenants? Call our toll-free number today to vote yes or no. February results This one wasn't even close. Students almost unanimously said that raising the drinking age has not curbed underage drinking: Hasn't worked, 96.2%; Has worked, 3.8%. ° "' ' - ;tom' ' , ' - = t + ark ,:' * r Oh no, not another British invasion As the racefor the White House is heating up, we'd like to know who yourfavorite candidate is in this year's presidential election. Call and tell us what you think. C ege te If the presidential election were held today, which candidate would you vote for? Call our toll-free number today to cast your vote. By ROBERT REID The Oklahoma Daily, Oklahoma U. The English pop band Lush could probably "ooh," "ah" and "yeah yeah" their way through the band's second full-length release, Spooky, and it wouldn't make much difference to the listener. The record's 11 songs are composed of spaced-out/mucho-effected guitar parts with chorused, murmuring vocals falling into an indistinguishable haze. All this rides just above a downplayed, but still peppy, rhythm section. It's the newest revision of an age-old "British invasion," with bands like My Bloody Valentine, Ride and Swervedriver fighting for American ears. Some call it "dream pop" played by "shoe gazers." But Lush's singer/songwriter/guitarist Miki Berenyijust calls it what they do. "I'm not entirely sure what 'dream pop' means," Berenyi said over the phone during a recent break from Lush's European tour. "You'd be better off asking a journalist in (England), seeing that they formed that sort of label.... Do you know anyone that can describe their own music?" The most common descriptions of Lush, since the band's first recordings in 1989, have relentlessly compared the band with the '80s pop gala Cocteau Twins. The fact that Robin Guthrie, producer for Cocteau, also produced Spooky, doesn'thelp much. "We sort of get a bit irritated because people can be a bit lazy," said Berenyi, who shares song-writing credits and vocals with longtime friend Emma Anderson. "They'll just listen to the record and they'll go, 'Oh yeah, Robin produced it.' They'll immediately say, 'Oh, don't you think you're just like a sub-standard Cocteau?' Obviously we don't, or we wouldn't put the record out." Lush's pop product is a refreshing change to the Manchester-manufactured hip-hop drivel that has dominated America's overseas interests in past years. Yet, Berenyi claims that the Manchester scene has actually been "dead for about two years" in England - surprising news for Manchester nativesJesus Jones, EMF and Happy Mondays. "Some of the music (from Manchester) was really good," Berenyi said. "But it was incredibly made for boys who go to football matches. No women involved at all, which pissed me off a bit." Lush will continue their American tour this month - something they love to do. While Berenyi insisted that America "pisses all over Britain," Drummer Chris Acland said, "Every time we went (to America) we've had a brilliant time. The audiences are a lot more open-minded out there. They're a lot less bothered about what's in and what's out. Theyjust like to listen to the music."