The Michigan Dai[~- Weekend, etc. .t" The Michigan Dail- Weekend, etc.,M 46 - Michigan Daily - Weefnd, etc. Magazine - Thursdf January 11, 2001 A'' As J& I MEET THE SURVIVOR CONTESTANTS -1 SNACK CAKE FACE Hostess treats students to el1 a Kucha Tribe Blue Flag Named or the Aborgine word for "kangaroo" 7 W]Ogakor Tribe Green Flag I " Named for the Alicia Calaway AfntiS tatus: Single Hometown: Fairfield, CT Occupation: Personal Trainer Owns degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. An amateur bodybuilder. Debb Eaton Age: 45 Marital Status: En a ed Hometown: Milan, N Occupation: Prison officer Fiance also a prison officer at the same facility. Likes the Backstreet Boys and the New England Patriots. Elisabeth Filarski Age: 23 Marital Status: Single Hometown: Boston Occupation: Shoe designer Played college softball, boyfriend is Boston College quarterback Tim Hasselbeck. Fansite: ElisabethFilarski.net Kimmi Kappenberg Age: 28 Marital Status: Single Hometown: Long Island, NY Occupation: TV commercial production freelancer Loves animals (owns four cats and two dogs). Hopes to become an actress. Michael Skupin Age: 38 Marital Status: Married Hometown: White Lake, MI Occupation: President of a software company Married twice, runs a Detroit- based company called Copier Depot. Very athletic. Nick Brown Age: 23 marital Status: Single Hometown: Steilacoom, WA Occupation: Student Studying law at Harvard and works as an Army offi- cer. Hopes to work for the Judge Advocate Office. Rodger Bingham Age: 53 lfarital Status: Married Hometown: Crittenden, KY Occupation: Teacher Viewed as "A regular guy." Grew up on a farm and con- tinues to work part time. CEO of a bank for 10 years. Jeff Warner Age: 34 Marital Status: Single Hometown: Greensboro, NC Occupation: Internet Project Manager' Former cheer team captain at North Carolina. Had con- testants sign T-shirts so he could sell them for charity. Amber Brkich Maritai Status: Single Hometown: Beaver, PA Occupation: Secretary Just graduated from Westminster College, where she was Alpha Gamma Delta Sorority president. Jerri Manthey Age: 30 marital Status: Single Hometown: Hollywood. CA Occupation: Actress/bartendei In 1999, casted for "A Championship Season" on Showtime. Grew up as an "army brat." Tina Wesson Age: 40 Marital Status: Married Hometown: Knoxville, Tenn. Occupation: Nurse Has a very strong accent like Susan on the original series. Triathlon runner. Mother of a girl and a boy. Maralyn 'Mad dog' Hershey Age: 51 Marital Status: Single Hometown: Wakefield, VA Occupation: Police officer (ret.) Described as "Mad Dog" for her tenacity in apprehending criminals. Has a horse named "G-Man." Aborgine word for "crocodile" Mitchell Olson Age: 23 marital Status: Single Hometown: Union City, N.J. Occupation: Musician/writer Seven feet tall. Was a con- testant on the Price is Right. Once tried out for the Harlem Globetrotters. Colby Donaldson Ae:"25 Marital Status: Sin le Hometown: Dallasexas r Occupation: Auto designer A strong athlete, enjoys water skiing and mountain biking before gathering with friends for a barbecue. Keith Famie Age: 40 artal Status: S mnge Hometown: West Boomfeld Occupation: Chef Owns several restaurants. Traveled the world working in hotels such as Brussels, Monte Carlo and New York. Kel Gleason Age: 33 marital Status: Single Hometown: Fredericton, I New Brunswick Occupation: U.S. Army intelligence officer Mother is from Peru and taught him cooking. Moved to the U.S. when he was two. 11 p "With Our Very Own Names"' Carmen Tafolla A one-woman dramatization of multicultural voices and visions, problems and promise 2 p.m. Monday, January 15, 2001 Michigan Union Ballroom A free MLK Symposium Event Sponsors: University Library, School of Information, and Office of the Chief Information Officer CASTAWAYS VS. CBS is going for the Thursday night kill when it pits Survivor II against NBC's Friends start- ing with the second episode Feb. 1. For the past decade, NBC con- trolled Thursdays with its "Must See TV" lineup. SeinfeldN and Frasier are gone, and the 8:30 and 9:30 followups to Friends and Will and Grace have performed poorly. Plus the Friends' cast may be pushing their 'trying to pretend "Hov they're hip 21-year olds" act." kik FRIENDS etc From the Vault Nas' first marks his pinnacle The ear 2000. Commerciality reigns supreme in the music industry. Talent these days is substituted for the good looks, catchy phrases and nice beats. Actual skill seems to be at a premium, and those who do have it seem more will- ing to jump on the bandwagon of sheer wackness in order to get their buck. Man, I don't like it here. Let's go time travelling .. The vear' 1994. In the hip-hop world, skill and substance still had a place. Wu- Tang and Outkast were still young and hungry. The w orld did not vet know what a Master-fucking-P w~as, and you could still nod your head to the likes of Eric. B and Rakim or Illmatic Pete Rock & CL Nas Smooth. In this year, a young buck Sony Mus c :994 \ith a vicious flow Re.e&edby hailing from the Daily Arts Writer Queensbridge pro- Dustin Seibert jects placed his name on the map with a ten-track album that would prove to be a ground-breaking piece in the world of hip-hop. A masterpiece. A Magnum Opus if you will: Nasty Nas' I/lnnatic was and remains the definitive blend of vivid strect-tales and well-craft- ed rhymes over some the coldest beats from the finest producers the genre has to offer. From "N.Y. State of Mind" to "It Ain't I lard To Tell," every single track on the LP stands with it's own special state of grace. The album also marked the begin- ning of AZ's career, and is.one of the few albums in existence featuring the musical stylings of the two finest hip-hop pro- ducers EVER: Pete Rock and DJ Premier. Alas, Nasty Nas turned to Nas Escobar and again to Nastradamus, and hie increasingly dumbed down his flow= to keep in tune with who'? The commnefrcial audience, that's who! Nas lost much of his original fanbase for this reason, and chances are he will never again make an album that will come close to Il/matic. Though '94 was not !ong ago, it was an entirely different era in hip-hop, and Nas' first album was a cornerstone in the 25- plus year old history of the game. If you don't own Ilhatic, chances are you are not a true hip-hop afficionado. Recognize skill, and go and cop this one noW /4 ~.t Y; ' By Autumn Brown For the Daily Once upon a time there was a girl who sold cookies and pies and breakfast pastries and candy. Her name was Little Debbie, and every day after school she would watch her mother meticulously roll out the dough for each treat and after it was baked, sprinkle just the right amount of cinnamon and sugar-- not too much and not too little. By Jenni Glenn Weekend, Etc. Editor No childhood would have been complete without lunchtime treat trading - that perfect time of the ele- mentary school day between morning class and recess. Hands would eagerly reach across those imitation wood tables that filled the cafeteria when everyone brought out extra goodies to trade. It was the perfect time to grab that tasty morsel your friend didn't want but Mom had refused to buy you at the grocery store, no matter how hard you begged. Hostess TIvinkies operated as the central currency in this sugar-based elementary school economy. Any other variety of Hostess snack worked almost as well, though, whether it was a Sno Ball, a Ho Ho or a Fruit Pie. Hostess spent time on the little things, such as the per- fectly curling white line of frosting across the top of each chocolate cupcake, and kids everywhere respected that attention to detail. Hostess packed tons of sugar and calories into every dessert. The resulting hyperactivity met the high expec- I tations of hungry kids everywhere. A 400-plus calorie Fruit Pie held almost as much allure as pixie sticks for the kid who wanted an energy boost. In addition, Hostess can claim better spokespeople for its snack cake line than its competitors. Regardless of that cute little girl scout's picture gracing the box, Little Debbie - ; hasn't got anything on Hostess snack cakes in terms of its spokesperson. As Hostess introduced its cakes, each one became an animated figure to star in its own commercial, such as the infamously sweet cowboy Twinkie the Kid. It's been twenty years since these -Zz figures debuted on television, but those characters are probably still floating around on E-Bay, wait- I ing to kick some Little Debbie ass. No way that girl could take on the cast of Hostess snack char- acters, particularly the double team of the pirate Captain Cup Cake and his majesty King Ding Dong. Going beyond its stable of sugary super heroes, Hos tess I Little Debbie history reads lii From the first, Little Debbie had appreciated her mother's cooking, and that was why she shared the treats with everyone she met. From her playmates at school to the burly construction man who winked at her mother to the big, scary college stu- dents who were constantly on Latte highs,everyone loved Little Debbie and her delicious bakery goodies. However, just when things couldn't be more "peachy keen" along came hostess with her homemade mini-muffins and chocolate cupcakes. Fortunately for Little Debbie, folks seemed to prefer the taste that they knew and loved over the stale products made by I Hostess. Also, by that time Little Debbie had formed an alliance with her playmate, Mattel. One day Little Debbie's mother and Hostess' mother became verv ill, and even- tually they both died. Unlike Little Debbie, Hostess had never spent time in the kitchen watching her mother up candy brothers, Hershey a thing about baking and was: the baking. Little Debbie on the other work and had no problem fi Thus, Little Debbie continu Pies and other such fine de turned out rich and moist an the treats for fear that the car In later years. Little Debbi the movie "Honey, I Shrunk to survive in the wilderness door.Oatmeal Creme Pies a Little Debbie. Swiss Chocol two. In addition, Little Debbie lv she has introduced Strawh ful consumers. Despite the failure of Littl a taste test. any half-decent 1 baked effort put out by hlost w you doin"' Not so well, if Survivor II s Friends' butt in the ratings Feb. 1. I I 1 *1 Carmen Tafolla tailors her dramatic "With Our Very Own Names" drama to the experiences and perspectives of each audience. Tafolla selects the par- ticular "voices" - actually dramatic monologues - that will compose the performance and then constructs their order in such a way as to reach each audience with her messages of acceptance, exploration, and celebra- tion of diversity. This moving mosaic of barrio voices tells the struggles, perspectives, and experiences within schools, universi- ties, and society. 747-9400 1220 S. University Above McDonalds SPRING BREAKERS etc.Site of the Week Wild getaways present vacatic H'04u '10r gULUSr, Tanning all seneste one month unlimited1l $49.95 II $39.95 rst 200 only+$1 per session C7 l No service fees. Expires 1/21/01 C10l By Jenni Glenn W"eekend, Etc. 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