. r . 4B - Th~eichigan Daily - Weeken, etc. Magazine - Thursday;eptember 14, 2000 0 0 &The Michigan Daily - V kend, etc. Maga RENOVATIONS Continued from Page 3B External infrastructure renovations to the Rackham Building started in June will continue into next year and are expected to be completed in the summer. The Burton Memorial Tower will undergo renovations to brin the tower up to building code compliance. The completion, scheduled for fall of 2001, will include a new entrance on the cast side of the tower and restored windows. The Dana Building was expected to begin renovations in August, but con- struction was delayed due to the need for additional planning and budgeting. "Some (projects) are quite on time and some get delayed for a variety of reasons," Brown said. "The other pro- jects are pretty close to the original schedule." The Forest Street parking structure, for example, is expected to be complet- ed in time for the 2001 summer art fairs and will create 277 blue parking spaces. Reconstruction of the tunnels on State Street is neaiing completion. Everything visible to pedestrians and drivers has been completed and the remaining few months of work will take place inside of the tunnels. The medical campus will see the arrival of a new building named the Biomedical Science Research Building. A former party store and bank on Zina Pitcher Place will be torn down shortly to make a temporary parking lot while the final drawings of the building are drafted by the architect. Although these are some of the major construction projects going on around campus currently, there are hundreds of projects in some phase of construction management, Brown said. Brown said many upperclassmen are seeing more construction this year than they have in the past, but the amount is not unusual. "It's a bit more than the previous three years," she said. "There tends to be peaks and %allevs over the decades." The current projects will continue at full speed even with the impending winter. "They'll continue throuch Whatever weather condition they can." Brown said, adding that there are many interi- or renovations that can be done during the winter months. "It's no real big deal.' Sawyer said. "There's not really much we can do about it." Union S Magic Wok serves up inexpensive meals fast WRITE FOR WEEKEND ETC. CALL 763-0374 E From the Vault By Darren Ringel IDaily arts Writer All students, particularly those who possess the luxury of entree plus on their M-Cards, will be very pleased to hear about Magic Wok, a new Chinese/Japanese restaurant located at the food court in the basement of the Union. This restaurant, smaller in size than the typical residence hall room, provides quality fast food for any student craving a quick, healthy, and tasty meal. When I refer to the term "fast food", I mean that this place serves your fresh, made-to-order food in a matter of seconds. I don't think even the quickest McDonald's restaurants can serve food with this level of efficiency. Although intense speed is one aspect that struck me while eatinre at Magzic WVok, the other was the freshness and quality of the food. I've been to way too many fast food Asian restaurants that smother their entrees in thick, heavy sauces. This takes away from the balance of the taste of the food and the flavor of the sauce as it also makes the vegeta- bles soggy. Magic Wok's sauces are very light in flavor and in quantity and therefore keep the veg- etables crispy and do not overpower the taste of the food. Finally, as mentioned before, Magic Wok is one of the few restaurants on campus that allow its cus- tomers to pay with Entree Plus. Although this restaurant is inexpensive, if I'm low on cash or don't want to run up the bill on my credit card, I just swipe my M-Card at a restaurant like Magic Wok and sim- ply thank mom and dad. Magic Wok is a great addi- tion to the many student-budget restaurants on cam- pus and I definitely recommend it for anyone. SA n1( CL&n Color & DesignGroup GURU blends jazz, hip hop When "Jazzmatazz Volume: 1" was released in 1993, the rapihip- hop world w as becoming divided AI $/004 Sae& a, SC404e HEIDI ATCHISON Offers top quality spa Manicures & Pedicures etc Weekend, etc. Column Normalgiris win out on "Sex 208 E. Washington Ann Arbor, MI 48104 734.997.7030 Schedule a manicure and pedicure and receive 1/2 off the manicure Special good through Oct. 31, 2000 into two prima- ry camps. The west coast was still vibing off the hugely pop- ular "Chronic- album and 'gangsta" rap cenre. Out east. the sound was d i f f e r e nt. Groups like Us3 and Digable Jazzmatazz, Volume 1 GURU Chrysals EMi 1993 Re. v. e by Daly Arts wtier W:Jacarc Meton Planets beuan creat- All of my life, I have noticed two types of female: Boyfriend Girls and Normal Girls. That's not to say that Normal Girls are without boyfriends. In fact, they could be just as attached as the former. It's the attitude and trends of the Boyfriend Girl that make her so. You know Boyfriend Girl. She has not been single since the fourth grade (her awkward year). These boyfriends have overlapped. Her _-- -- ----_ _. 1 I I 1 I I 1 1 1 1 TI Cl Si I Subscribe to The Scoop, Michigan's free official e-source for campus news, events and cheap fun, and you'll get a free scoop of Ben & Jerry's ice cream.* Written by Michigan students like you, The Scoop e-newsletter has the insider info and success secrets you need to make the most of your- college life-certified spam-free and delivered right to your email account. All from your Student Alumni Council. Sign up today! just send an email to get-thescoop@umich.edu. 1 I I I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ng hip-hop with a heavy jazz influ- ence. This newly found interest in jazz by the hip-hop generation helped spawn the project that GURU of Ganstarr deemed an experiment. an experiment that proved to be an innovative success. Unlike prior hip-hop jazz collabo- rations. GURU set out to introduce young hip-hoppers to the people-who created those samples they loved. He recruited '70s funk jazz luminaries like Roy Avers, Donald Byrd and Lonnie Liston Smith to lend their tal- ents to the project. In addition, he brought in acid jazz stars like N'dea" Davenport and Ronny Jordan to showcase the jazz sound of the '90s. The music created was like very little else out at the time. Just imag- ine, hip-hop you could sit back and listen to without worrying about curses or gangster tales. Tracks like "Loungin" and "Trust Me" could relax the most tense person. Also, GURU gave loyal US hip-hop fans a taste of how emcees flow in other countries. MC Solaar, a French rap- per, showed that hip-hop had defi- nitely become a worldwide phenom- enon when he rhymed on "Le Bien, Le Mal." Looking back, the influence of .Jazzmatazz" on hip-hop can been seen in many areas. The most impor- tant, though, was that hip-hop fans gained an interest in jazz, a genre that until then, seemed to be dying. This project helped forge a musical partnership that is still thrivingt today. acqUaintances are many; her real friends are few. She has little or no ambition. At M i e h i g a n, these girls are after their MRS degree. She has a constant need for male atten- tion. So, like Quinn of M T V ' s "Daria," she prefers a harem of willing boys swarming about. Yet she is Gina Hamadey Caught Provoking hopelessly devxoted Angeles for an important business trip with her two friends. This simple act declared her a Normal Girl because it showed that she has tight girlfriends and a flourishing career. In fact, she makes enough money writing her sex column to be con- stantly clothed in Versace. And she left the two leading men in her life at home. Carrie i.s making her way through the tough New York City streets (read: Dating scene) and looking fabulous while doing it. She is the woman that every Normal Girl strives to be. Successful and sexy, Carrie is Super Normal Girl. Miranda, one of Carrie's friends, embodies the ambitious side of Carrie. She is a lawyer with a no- nonsense hairdo. And in this episode, she whines about being tossed aside for breastier, sexier, more confident women. Samantha. Carrie's other travel partner. epitomizes Carrie's promis- cuous side. She epitomizes sex itself, actually. She has done it with a fire- man, a rock star, a younger guy, a very old man, (the list goes on and on) and this time she shacks with a dildo model. Samantha is an interest- ing character in the fact that for the most part, she gets away with, well, being a slut. She doesn't have any STDs and her friends laugh about it, as does the audience. She is encour- aged to fulfill any sexual fantasies we (as Normal or Boyfriend Girls) have ever had, without the mess. There seems to be a trend of larg- er-than-life, sexpot, successful chicks. Take the blockbuster movie "X-Men." Halle Berry, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos and Famke Janssen were undeniably hot and played mutants, a whole new take on power And "Coyote Ugly" was arguably the worst movie of the summer, yet the stars were in-your-face sexy and did- n't take shit from anyone. Plus, they knew how to blow fire on top of a bar. Not only did guys like 1 of powerful women in tight they put these girls-on the J August covers of their "Maxim." Carrie, like these girls, is i and confident. Mirand Samantha deal with real-lif tions and could be labeled Girls if not for the fact that typecast into these roles. But I've forgotten all al fourth in "Sex and the City some. Charlotte is an extr< Miranda and Samantha. Wannabe Boyfriend Girl. I episode, she was so laugha band-hungry that she bough on how to utilize one's skills in the dating world in find a husband. When Charlotte finally down that much-anticipate was there a warm, satisfied ever after feeling? No, c emptiness resulting from h tence, the worst thing Manhattanites could imagin again doomed for singleho afraid. Yet Charlotte says what th thinking at times: Will I e% down? At the end of one Carrie calls this feeling ness." The feeling that mayl cessful career, sexcapades other are not enough. Man: feel the same way, seei according to a TIME maga vey, 25 percent of female the City" watchers most identify with Charlotte. These feelings resonate i the most talked about book year, Helen Fielding's Jones's Diary," which ht birthed a sequel and is soo movie. Bridget is constant as smart and funny, yet all s doesis nag, nag, nag abou lack thereof Similarly, la 4*' to her one and only, just as she was to her last boyfriend. What's more, she is willing to mold her life and her interests around him and his. One such girl that went to my high school filled out a questionnaire for the yearbook and under "hobbies" she wrote ice fishing and surfing, activi- ties she had partaken in only a few times, and always with her boyfriend, who had grown up ice fishing and surfing. Television provides us with plenty of this type of girl (Dharma of "Dharma and Greg," for example), but not enough Normal Girls. 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