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I DON'T WANT TO PAINT IT BLACK
There's a black ribbon in the middle
of one of Ben's fraternity's composites.
It'sone of the older ones from the early
'90's, and the ribbon covers the coat of
arms. There's a smaller black ribbon
on one of the brothers' head shots
slightly to the right of the big ribbon.
It's in the fraternity's brotherhood
room above the leather couches on the
gray walls across the room from the
pool table.
"What's with the black ribbon on
your composite?" 1 asked him, before I
shot the break.
t wasn't quite sure until a few days
ago," Ben said. "I thought a few of the
brothers had accidentally broken the
glass and the ribbon was tape to pro-
tect the composite. Then I looked a lit-
tle closer and asked around. It means a
brother died. The little ribbon on the
individual photo signifies which one."
"Did you know him?"
"No ... He was in and out of the
house well before I graduated from
high school. He looks a lot like any of
the other brothers in most of the other
composites, wearing a black sports
coat and red tie with dark shot hair."
"I guess by the year he would be 28
or 29 now. I wonder howl he died? Did
he have a wife and kids?"
"His wife is expecting and his house
is on a lake next to his marina. A
month ago his dog fell through the ice
so he slid out on his belly to save it.
The police arrived too late to save him
from drowning. The older brothers
who knew him put the ribbons up. I
didn't know the guy. I really have no
idea what kind of a brother he was, but
I still feel bad that he died so young.
"It really isn't expected of you. I
mean he graduated about the same
time you were a freshmen in high
school."
"Yeah. I know. But during college
I've seen six friends face death, and
only one has looked back," Ben said,
shooting the two ball hard into the cor-
ner pocket.
"Six? Aren't
you being a little
melodramatic?"
"Yeah, please
stop me when it
sounds like m
telling wa sto-
ries. But in four
years, fiac
friends haae
died, and one
has come closer
than he would onZemke
have liked."
"Damn, six is St. Michael
a lot. Well -.
let's say most Spea iii
people have had
a friend pass away before they reach
the legal drinking age. but six? How
well did you know these people?"
"I remember Chris Giacherio a week
or two before he died at a house party.
He was tall and lanky like any other
male Pioneer graduate, but he had
those long sideburns that went all the
way to his shaven chin. We laughed
and compared beer bellies that night.
The last time I saw him he was walk-
ing a few girls home down Sylvan
Street early in that morning. His funer-
al was so crowded you couldn't see the
walls because they were lined with his
friends."
"Sorrv, man..."
I met Courtney Cantor once, but
everybody else I was living with in my
fraternity house knew her well. There
were rooms filled with brothers, quiet.
staring in disbelief or shock. Some
cried and some were just mad and frus-
trated. They couldn't believe it."
"All right. You don't have to do this,
you know."
"It feels better to talk about it. The
end of my freshman year a friend of
mine at Michigan State, someone I
played football and basketball with
who I always looked up to, took his
own life. There wasn't any visible rea-
son or a funeral. I remember being
very upset with the world that week. A
month later a friend of mine from ele-
mentarv school I hadn't seen in years
hung himself. We used to play football
and basketball during recess. We hated
each other in fourth grade and were
best friends in fifth. His family had a
private funeral."
"Who was the fifth?"
"Leta lost out to leukemia just
before her junior year in college. She
was one of those kids labeled a freak in
high school, because she dyed her hair
orange and was a little different. She
was a great writer -- a result of work-
ing on her writing every day. I read her
obituary and talked a few friends into
driving me to the funeral. When I got
there it was empty. It turned out I mis-
read the article. Her funeral was a day
earlier."
"So, Ben ... who was the sixth?"
"Corey. Corey is the best news I'xe
had in a while. He's one of the finest
brothers in our house. He helped saae
our fraternity when we were close to
losing our charter by bringing in a phe-
nomenal pledge class.
"So what happened to him?"
"This fall he was diagnosed ith
testicular cancer. lie faced it like a
man though. He didn't crv, bitch or
blame the rest of the world. He beat it.
He had a job to do and he did it. The
strange thing was. the tall kid with the
curly black hair and glasses from
Jersey, who didn't know w hat a cres-
cent wrench was when I helped him
move in last year. was already one of
the best brothers in the house. His
struggle only confirmed what every-
body already knew. He's more than a
brother in our bond. He's still, and will
always remain, one of my good
friends.-'
"Where's his picture?"
"O er there on last year's composite.
top row, center, right next to the presi-
dent's picture. It's the one without the
black ribbon
-E-mail .ore Zemke at jfemlkei
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By Matthew Barrett
Daily Film Fditor
"The Source," di
Workman's ode to the H
examines the lives of t
Beat writers - JackI
Ginsberg and William S.
documentary film blend
casts, historical footage, i
intcr\views to give us ar
The
Source
Michigan Theater
Jan. 27-28
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3
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between interviews and stories involving
the three writers. Those interviewed
rector Chuck include Ginsberg, Tom Hayden, Philip
3eat generation, Glass, Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey.
hree influential The makers of the film were wise to
Kerouac, Allen include names for the majority of the
Burroughs. The interviews, another case where they go
s bits of news- the extra mile to keep more aiewers in
movie clips and the loop. For the most part, these inter-
n idea of what a iews are conducted in a laid back man-
these men ncr and are verv informative and inter-
meant and still esting to listen to. There's just something
mean to wi- so cool about a modern day Ken Kesev,
ers and people in a blue cotton shirt and a floppy white
in general hat being interviewed on the side of a
around the highwa% about way back when.
world. Through its inclusion of so many dif-
The film ferent txpes of footage_ the film de elops
starts off with a rapid and scattershot feel that seems
a teacher talk- well-suited to the material. This momen-
ing to his class tum is lost, however, in sequences where
about Jack different actors read work b- the three
Kerouac and authors. Johnny Depp (reading
his quest to Kerouac), John Turturro (Ginsberg) and
find truth and Dennis Hopper (Burroughs) all fail to
meaning in bring anything other than their respect
ormation is use- for the material to the film. The action
viewers who seems to come to a standstill during the
th the author or three readings, where the actors stare
aped jumpstart. into camera and recite the work. Hopper
appearance on is by far the worst of the bunch, as he
where he dis- tries to bring some of his usual, over-the-
nusual writing top intensity to the performance. In addi-
at it took him tion, the bright look of the readings is too
vrite "On The stark a contrast to the beat-up and grainy
look of the rest of the film.
ounces around "The Source" also gets a little bogged
life. This background inf
ful in that it orientates
might be less familiar wi
the movement that he he
We soon see a Kerouac
"The Steve Allen Show'
cusses his somewhat u
techniques and states th
only three weeks to w
Road."
From here. the film b
Johnny Depp ispasoaebtntpriumyisgtuabuthwrkf
down in its section on LSD, where plen- However, these two sticking p
ty of people have plenty to say about the minor drawbacks in what is, for
drug. At this point, there's really nothing part, a very entertaining movie.
new to discuss, although Leary offers up the end of the film, we t
the news that "I try to take ever illegal Kerouac's grave and see that i
drug once a year." Kesey attributes some decorated by beer cans, flow
of his success to the drug, saving "I
would have never written 'Cuckoo's
Nest' without LSD."
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from those remote computers - and"
vice versa. This in essence creates a
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diverse than anything offered by the
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The problem for Napster is they
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Anyfiles - MP3s, movies, images;
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The RIAA has also sued Napster i
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MP3.com suit.'
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