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The Como neighborhood, with its train tracks and industrial-strength
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beginning to look at the area as a place full of possibilities, including a
proposed throughway that would re-route noisy trucks that come off of
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Volume 4; Issue 11
The poll on the Student Activities Office website asks everyone
what they’re most exited about in the spring semester: the U of
M student film festival, Spring Jam, jaMPACked week, spring
activities fair, campus arts festival or the student service fees
process. The winner, obviously, was Spring Jam, the last time I
checked.
What you don’t know about the dance team could kill you
Athletics ......................................................................................... 7
Of course everyone is exited to drunkenly stumble to an outdoor concert to see a band—honestly, any band will do—in
warm weather. This is what students live for. Although officially
the event is to promote school pride or something, I’ve never
seen anyone less than completely wasted at the events scheduled for Spring Jam.
So Spring Jam won because of the rising binge drinking reported last week in the Star Tribune … or students just don’t
know what the other things on the list are. jaMPACed seemed
to be some extension of Gophers After Dark, complemented by
the postponed Martin Luther King III speech. The student film
festival, although cool, seems to be a little under the radar. The
same goes for the spring activities fair and the campus arts
festival. And let’s face it. Students don’t really understand how
student services fees work unless they are requesting fees for
a student group. It’s just the $3 tacked on to several thousands
of dollars of tuition.
So, as the heating bills rise this February, curl up under your
blanket as you skip class and think warm thoughts about the
week-long drunk fest known as Spring Jam. Sweet dreams,
fellow students.
KAY STEIGER
Editor-in-chief
ksteiger@wakemag.org
More sex is better than less
Voices ........................................................................................... 10
Too late to save Ferdinand, too early to save Jesus
Campus .......................................................................................... 4
Beauty in gray
Photography ................................................................................. 12
She begged for death three times daily
Literary ........................................................................................ 16
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, members wanted
Sound & Vision .............................................................................. 18
Hey-hey, we’re the Monkees
Bastard ........................................................................................ 22
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Upcoming Athletic Events
Feb. 16, 7 p.m. Women’s Basketball vs. Ohio
State Williams Arena
Feb. 17, 5 p.m. Men’s Track, Snoeshoe Open,
University Fieldhouse
Feb. 17, 7:07 p.m. Men’s Hockey vs. Denver
Mariucci Arena
The Wake: Why is the U’s dance team so
dominant? Basically, what sets the U apart from
other schools?
Tara Peckskamp: I think it is a combination
of both work ethic and talent. Our first and second year was definitely our talent. Overall, what
our team brings that other teams don’t bring is
the emotion behind the routine. You can see a
clean routine and you can see skills. Everyone
can do the same skills. Everyone can turn, they
can jump, they can perform a dance, but not
necessarily portray what is coming through the
words. That would be more of the artistic form of
dance. Some people consider dance as an art and
some consider it a sport, but it is kind of a combination of both. We combine the athleticism with
the art and we portray that on the stage and that
is what sets us apart.
The Wake: What is it like to win four consecutive national championships?
Tara Peckskamp: It is the biggest sense of
accomplishment and I don’t think I ever felt that
in anything I had ever done before coming here.
The first year you don’t really know what you are
doing. You are along for the ride and you’re just
going to another dance competition. The years
after, you really see what goes behind it and
what goes into it and what it actually is. Winning
a national title is so cool and it’s a big deal and at
first you don’t really realize it.
The Wake: Do you think the dance team
received enough coverage and publicity for winning four national championships?
Tara Peckskamp: I don’t want to say that
we are just the dance team, but that is how a
lot of people look at us. I guess I don’t expect to
be like the football team or the basketball team
because we don’t bring in revenue. It would be
nice because we do work so hard, just as hard
as the football, basketball or hockey team and
sometimes it seems like we are the only ones
who know, but sometimes that is all you really
need. As long as you know your own sense of
accomplishment and the things you have accomplished over the years and how hard you worked
for it.
The Wake: What is one misperception people have about dance?
Tara Peckskamp: I think people think it
is really easy and it’s not. They think it doesn’t
take athletic ability and it is something simple.
It is supposed to be pretty, but the whole point
of training while you’re younger, like ballet, is to
make it look easy. You’re not supposed to make
it look like you’re struggling. It is supposed to be
elegant and beautiful, not rough and tough.
The Wake: Did you feel any extra pressure
this year being co-captain of a team that had won
three consecutive National Championships?
Tara Peckskamp: Yea, oh definitely. I felt
the pressure in the sense that I wanted it for myself so bad that I had to do it. We had to lead
them in the right way. I wanted to do the things
that would be right since everything was so new.
I didn’t know if the way we were going about it
was going to be the right way or if Casey Horton
and I were leading the team in the right direction and motivating them enough to get done
what we needed to get done. I felt as if we didn’t
win, it would kind of be on our shoulders.
The Wake: When the U’s dance team goes
to the Dance Team National Championships in
Orlando, Fla. are you guys seen as the studs of
the competition?
Tara Peckskamp: Yea, kind of. You can feel
the aura around our team. I don’t think we are
cocky by any means and I think that we are very
humble considering how we could be winning
four national titles. It is pretty cool. I am not going to lie.
The Wake: Can the Dance Team win a fifth
year in a row?
Tara Peckskamp: I sure hope so. I want to
see the legacy I saw as a freshman continue on
and I think it will continue on because our choreographer is amazing. She has new ideas and
I feel like that will keep up the excitement. It is
something new and fresh and will not get stale.
From what I hear, the talent coming in this year
should also be pretty good.
The Wake: What have you learned from
Dance at the U?
Tara Peckskamp: I have learned a lot from
my coach in how to handle certain situations
that go on in life. I have learned that if you set an
attainable goal and the right steps underneath it,
that anything is achievable and, that definitely,
hard work pays off more than anything. If you
don’t have hard work or a good work ethic,
you’re not going to get very far. I think it is important that you don’t give up either. Even if you
have doubts it is important to keep going. And
my team members are so much fun. To have fun
while you’re doing it is important too.
Feb. 18, 3:30 p.m, Men’s Basketball vs. Iowa
Williams Arena
Feb. 18, 4:07 p.m. Women’s Hockey St.
Cloud State Ridder Arena
Feb. 18, 7 p.m. Men’s Gymnastics vs. Nebraska Sports Pavilion
Feb. 18, 7:07 p.m. Men’s Hockey vs. Denver
Mariucci Arena
Feb. 19, 10:30 a.m. Women’s Tennis vs.
Dartmouth Baseline Tennis Center
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Voices
February 15, 2006
NIX WURDAK
Gender is a thing of the past
illustration BY jeremy sengly
This week, I watched The Notebook for
the first time. I stretched out comfortably on a
yellow suede couch, drowning in blankets, my
stomach packed with chocolate cake. I had my
best female friend on a couch beside me, tissues
on hand. It was going to be a real estrogen fest.
Throughout the film, she cooed at all of the
romantic moments. She babbled about how cute
the blond boy was. She yelped when they broke
up, seemed like they might break up or engaged
in any non-gushy relations.
I quietly made gagging sounds.
At the end of the movie, I glanced at her,
curled up on her couch and, with slow deliberation, she turned and gazed at me with glassy
eyes, tear-drenched lashes and a quivering lower lip. She asked me if I liked the movie.
After some thought, I came to the conclusion that I…prefer porn.
I prefer porn. I drink beer. I belch. Once,
after a night of romance with Jose Cuervo, I peed
in a urinal. Well, mostly in the urinal.
I am a woman, but, not particularly womanly. Yes, I have boobs and I have a vagina, but
I’m not going to drink a chocolate martini.
I don’t want to remain locked in this pink
floral box and play along with this dichotomy.
It’s time to go beyond “boys” and “girls.”
In traditional Native American culture there
is one additional gender allowance, called winkte. Winkte were men who were not particularly
masculine, such as those who had effeminate
tendencies or transgender people born as men.
The winkte were greatly revered and respected
by others as it was thought that their atypical
conduct and habits coincided with special talents and spiritual powers.
In India, they have the hijra. Hijra are often
eunuchs or transsexuals, men or women who
wear non-gendered clothing, participate in nongendered jobs and make no attempt to fit into
any gender role. They are known for their sharp
manner of dress and dignified personas.
People living this genre of alternative lifestyle often do have some biological background
to their behavior. Studies have shown that differing hormonal levels in the uterus can affect
the sexuality and gender expression of the child.
In addition, some people who live in this third
category could be the proud owners of chromosomes beyond the XX of chicks and XY of guys.
People who have, for example, an XXY or XYY
string of chromosomes, often exhibit manners
and potentially different body composition than
what we consider to be normal.
Though body composition and hormonal
levels do affect certain habits and abilities of a
person, I am confident in my assumption that
they do not have the final vote in determining
what I drink, say or wear.
Theorists and social scientists from here
and abroad have concocted different not-relatedto-sex genders. Some argue that the concept of
gender is only theory and not tangible in the
least; others vote for the current two gender system, while still others have claimed that there are
as many as 30+ genders present in the world.
I reckon that figuring out placement on a
30-gender system would probably require energy, time and effort. I am far too lazy for that.
Why do we need to fit into a gender box
anyway? Perhaps useful in historical times for assigning different community or tribal tasks, any
of these needs have been outdated. I can understand that it is likely that a born man is stronger
than I and would thus be more able to perform
strict physical labor. Now, we get our crops from
machines. Construction workers, though often
beefy, can accomplish a great deal regardless of
their size. These gender roles were also given as
reason for discrimination expressed by preventing women from voting or receiving an educa-
Yes, I have boobs and a
vagina, but I’m not going to
drink a chocolate martini.
tion. That’s not something we need anymore.
The need for this theoretical concept of
“gender” is passé.
Acclaimed feminist and gender theorist
Judith Butler said, “There is no gender identity
behind the expressions of gender; ... identity is
performatively constituted by the very ‘expressions’ that are said to be its results.” Gender is
what you make of it. I think of it as a six-letter
word, worth eight points in Scrabble.
So, I suggest that we get rid of all this gender and gender roles. People born with girl parts
don’t have to paint their nails, read romance novels or enjoy bubble baths. They should be able
to wear baggy jeans and shirts and baseball hats
without being called manly. Those toting their
own mini-sausage should be able to gossip, cry
and watch the Hallmark channel without having someone tell them that they’re acting like a
chick.
This rant could continue, but I am very
busy. First, I have to scratch myself in an inappropriate manner, then I intend to play Grand
Theft Auto for an irrationally long time and finally I will leave odd stains of bodily fluid on the
walls of my shower. Just kidding. Fortunately I
am quite busy painting my toenails a very cute
shade of pink.
Dorothy Cheng is a Voices guest columnist
and welcomes comments at letters@wakemag.
org.
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illustration by miranda peterson
Yale University ponders
jumping on the handwashing train
Wash Your
Hands, Please
Soap: A cleansing agent
made from a mixture of the
salts of fatty acids of natural oils
and fats.
Humans have been cleansing themselves
since prehistoric times; even cavemen figured
out that washing mud off their hands with water
was a good thing.
Soap-like substances are known to have
been used in ancient Babylon, dating back to
2800 B.C. Ancient Egyptians combined animal
and vegetable oils with alkaline salts to create
soap for treating skin diseases as well as for
regular bathing. The early Roman civilization
bathed sans soap, but as the culture evolved,
the Greek physician Galen eventually recommended using it for medicinal purposes. Every
great civilization has come to realize the benefits
of soap (though it did take Europe a plague and
three centuries to figure it out).
It seems, though, that Yale University has
yet to catch on to what those ancient Babylonians thought of tens of thousands of years ago.
In fact, at 305 years without soap, Yale is beginning to rival even 17th century Europe.
Students began agitating a decade ago for
soap dispensers to be installed in Yale buildings,
complete with exclamations of “We still hope for
soap on a rope,” and “Germ free is the way to be”
echoed through the Ivy League halls.
Prior to this month, soap was a scarce and
precious commodity at Yale, and students began
to form a community devoted to keeping soap in
the bathrooms. Students and parents would buy
it and leave it in a bathroom, hoping that others
would do the same. Unfortunately, not everyone
cooperated and soap became an obscure product.
Soap thefts became commonplace. “I put a little
dispenser of liquid soap out and now it’s gone…I
hope someone else will put one out,” said Steven
Engler. Naturally, these thefts caused students
much distress.
James Ponsoldt also commented on the
situation. “It’s pretty gross not to have soap in
the bathrooms.” He’s right. According to the
Mayo Clinic website, “[Hand washing is] one
of the best ways to avoid getting sick.” The site
also informs us that many ailments such as the
common cold, the flu and some gastrointestinal
disorders (one of which is infectious diarrhea)
are spread through hand-to-hand contact.
Hopefully Yale students will no longer live in
fear of contracting a debilitating case of diarrhea
from doorknobs, hand holding or finger foods.
Yale has instituted a pilot program that includes
the introduction of University-sponsored soap
in the bathrooms of a whopping three of twelve
residential colleges. This experiment is breaking 305 years of tradition, potentially ruining
the aesthetic appeal of the bathrooms on campus, and digging very shallowly into the $15.7
billion dollar budget in order to fund and maintain soap dispensers. If the venture is affordable
enough, next fall students will be welcomed to
Yale with soap dispensers in all twelve buildings,
a new Yale; a clean Yale; a Yale where students
will greet each other with high-fives and handshakes, rather than small waves between dashes
for the nearest toilet.
Dorothy Cheng is a Voices guest columnist
and welcomes comments at letters@wakemag.
org.
DOROTHY CHENG
Photo Poll • By Stacy Bengs
What is the most harmful gender stereotype?
Keita • Junior • Liberal Arts
Julian • Junior • Architecture
Keita • Senior • Bio-chem & Genetics
Carli • Junior • Nursing
Power differences. I am from Japan where some discrimination against women happens. Men are assumed to have all
the power and get to do what you want, whereas women
struggle to get jobs and are often socially confined.
It disturbs me that gender stereotypes exist at all, that there is so
much emphasis put on this one aspect of human existence. There
are obviously biological differences between the sexes but there
are also huge biological differences between same sexes (like
eye color, hair color, sexual orientation, etc). Why do we focus so
much on this one element of difference?
The most harmful stereotype is that an intelligence gap
exists between women and men. The most insulting
stereotype is that women can’t drive.
The typical expectation is that men are supposed to
be tough and macho, which leads to overaggression.
Whereas, women are supposed to conform to this mediaprescribed beauty.
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Campus
February 15, 2006
Society for Creative Anachronism
Recreates Days of Yore
 BY Rachel Drewelow
 photo by Brennan Vance
Ignore the script. Imagine that Marty
McFly and his comrade Doc Brown, wacky
inventor of the plutonium-powered, time-traveling DeLorean, could have traveled to any
time period.
Are you picturing them blundering around
in the Middle Ages? If so, you might just be a
member of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA), also called “The College of Tor
Aerie.” The student organization has been reenacting and researching the Middle Ages for over
twenty years.
“If there’s something that was done in the
Middle Ages or medieval times, you can find
someone [in the SCA] who does it,” explains
Breena Stanton, the group’s president (in medieval terms, she is Seneschal, Breena of Tor
Aerie).
The group of about fifteen students and
friends meets weekly for various activities like
crafts, dressing up, dancing, and fighting pre17th century European-style. (Actually, any
country Europe had contact with during the
time period is also fair game). They invite guest
speakers to meetings as well—a lecture on leprosy last semester was especially appreciated,
Stanton says.
“My favorite part [of SCA] is learning about
historical music,” says Mary Jane Thillen, a third
year math major. Thillen has been involved with
the SCA since her sophomore year in high
school, since it isn’t just a campus club. “People
raise their kids in it,” she says.
SCA is an international non-profit group
for people of all ages, with over 24,000 official
members worldwide. In the medieval spirit, the
SCA has a feudal-like structure. The university’s
College of Tor Aerie is a branch of the Barony
of Nordskogen, which includes all of the Twin
Cities and in turn is a part of the Kingdom of
Northshield. The Kingdom of Northshield includes much of the upper-Midwest and some of
Canada.
Naturally, there is a king and queen, who
achieve royalty by winning a tournament. All
members, even those who are not royalty or nobility, take on a name from the Middle Ages.
Through the larger group, the College of
Tor Aerie is invited to big events like medieval
feasts, classes on manners and skills and combat
tournaments. Some SCA members are trained in
the art of medieval battle. For safety, they sport
real armor and scrap with rattan (fake) swords.
“We’re all here for the same reason—to
play this game,” explains Margaret Broz, a sixthyear SCA member and a Ph.D. student. One of
her favorite parts of the SCA is the “different sort
of feeling to the way people act. There’s a sense
of courtesy and chivalry,” she says.
The College of Tor Aerie is currently planning their annual major reenactment event, a
dance seminar, tentatively scheduled for April
29th. The affair will be held in Coffman Memorial Union, and will feature live music, dance
lessons and a ball. Guests will, of course, don
medieval garb (costumes). The group will invite
university students as well as members of the
SCA from outside of the university community.
Participation with the SCA is free, but official membership is $35. Only members can be-
Naturally, there is a king and
queen, who achieve royalty
by winning a tournament.
come officers and receive training and authorization as a fighter.
Note: Unlike in the ’80s flick Back to the
Future, the SCA does not literally travel through
time. Opting to enjoy mock Middle Ages, they
skip out on the plague, pass on heinous torture
and sidestep religious persecution.
The SCA meets Mondays at 7 p.m. in the
Boardroom on the third floor of Coffman Memorial Union. Newcomers are welcome and
more information can be found at www.tc.umn.
edu/~sca/.
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Events Calendar
Wednesday, February 15
Learning Abroad Fair
10:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m. (Great Hall Coffman Memorial Union Minneapolis Campus)
Contact: Call 612.626.9000 for more information or lorti001@umn.edu
David Felton
1:00 p.m. (MCAD Gallery 2501 Stevens Ave S, Mpls.)
The MTV Vice President and editor discusses his career. Free. 612.874.3700
Mayors Summit on Affordable Housing’s GREEN Issues:
Environmental and Economic Sustainability
3:00 -5:00 p.m. (Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H. Humphrey Center)
Seating is limited. To reserve a space, RSVP at 612-375-9644 or miko@fh
fund.org
The Rosa Parks Story (Film/Discussion)
7:00 p.m. (Coffman Theater)
Mother of the Civil Rights Movement and how her courage changed the U.S. Discussion: Rose Brewer, Afro-American Studies
Thursday, February 16
Love in the New Millennium (Lecture/Discussion)
3:30 -5:00 p.m. (Jackson Hall 2-137)
Electronic Dating. Gender Roles. Cyber-Sex. How have the rules for dating changed? Dr. Wayne Caron, Family Social Science.
So Far From Spain
4:00 -6:00 p.m. (Exhibit Gallery Elmer L. Andersen Library Minneapolis Campus)
An exhibit of rare books and manuscripts from medieval and early modern Spain from the special collections of the University Libraries. Special exhibit opening on Thursday, February 16 from 4 to 6 p.m.; refreshments will be served.
Zoot Suit & La Bamba
6:00 -10:00 p.m. (Room 211 Coffman Memorial Union Minneapolis Campus)
Every Thursday, starting February 2nd until April 20th, University community members and off campus supporters are invited to join the Chicano Studies Department and La Raza
Student Cultural Center for a film series that will meet in conjunction with CHIC 3223: Chicana/
o and Latina/o Representation in Film. Join us for meaningful films and fun!
Friday, February 17
2006 Minneapolis Nonprofit Career Fair
11:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. (Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs)
“Vital Signs: Images of Healing in the Middle Ages”: A Lecture by Melanie E. Holcomb
7:00 -9:00 p.m. (Room 125 Nolte Center for Continuing Education Minneapolis Campus)
Illustrated lecture by Melanie E. Holcomb, Assistant Curator, Department of Medieval Art and the Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of New York. Reception will be held at 6:00
p.m.. Part of the symposium Medieval Inventions: The Hospital?
The issues surrounding abortion rights
highlight a more intrinsic problem with our society as a whole, according to the fourth annual
Faith and Bioethics Lecture held on January 27
at the Moos Tower. The lecture, given by Dr.
Robert Spitzer, president of the catholic Gonzaga
University in Spokane, WA, was part of the MacLaurin lecture series whose goal is “dedicated
to bringing God into the marketplace of ideas.”
In his lecture, entitled “Toward a Philosophy of the Pro-Life Movement: Personhood,
Rights and Purpose in Life”, Spitzer said that
the “violation of the silver rule,” which is “do not
do harm to others that you wouldn’t have done
to you,” was a symbol of the case for abortion
rights. He added, “Why wouldn’t you consider
that every human being is deserving of human
nature?”
The government is a key player in the debate over abortion rights, according to Spitzer.
“When the people [of the government] try to
decide the definition of personhood, they get to
decide who deserves to live and who deserves
to die,” he said. However, Spitzer added that the
“intrinsic right” of human life is a power that “no
government can take away.”
Spitzer also brought human rights into the
discussion by calling the similarities between the
slavery issue and the pro-life issue “uncanny” as
well as using quotes and ideas from Bartolomé
de las Casas, a Dominican priest who, according to
Spitzer, fought for human rights in Central America
in the 1500s. “If one human being is to be considered sub-human, than we [as a society] have committed an atrocity,” Spitzer said, using quotes from
Las Casas. He added that, in today’s pro-choice climate, “We are right back at the mid 1500s—right
back.”
The audience, mostly middle-aged adults,
included University of Minnesota undergrad Matt
Kaul, a member of Mars Hill, a student group that
“is dedicated to thinking about issues of faith and
reason.” Kaul was very pleased with the lecture.
“Dr. Spitzer is a brilliant speaker and a bright
philosopher,” Kaul said, adding that the lecture also
“offered a basis for a conversation to take place, to
bring in base issues of human rights.”
Kaul also said that, near the anniversary of
Roe v. Wade, there was a general need on campus
for more lectures like Spitzer’s, “because the atmosphere tends to be more liberal and pro-choice.”
Towards the end of the lecture, Spitzer gave
advice on how to get his message of the “egregious
culpability to the silver rule” in today’s society
across to other people with “alternative views.”
“You must use love, goodness, and kindness to
optimally define human nature,” he said, adding, “I
think it’s important to show passion about this, but
you must be utterly respective of those with alternative views.”
Sunday, February 19
Israeli Folk Dance
7:00 -10:30 p.m. (Auditorium Hillel Off Campus)
Sundays, @ Hillel, Beginners’ Instruction: 7 to 7:45 p.m., General Instruction 7:45
to 10 p.m. Come and learn the newest Israeli dances. Meet new friends and celebrate Israeli
culture. Latin, hip-hop, lyrical swing—Israeli dance incorporates elements of them all. Great
teachers and fun!
Monday, February 20
U of M Job and Internship Fair 2006
9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. (Minneapolis Convention Center Off Campus)
Meet over 150 employers at the largest collegiate Career Fair in the State of Minnesota. Open and free to current University of Minnesota students and new University of Minnesota graduates from all campuses. Free transportation will be provided from campus to the
Minneapolis Convention Center where the event is held. For more information on who is attending and to register for the event visit www.umjobfair.org.
“From Nation to Neighborhood: Imperialism, Colonialism, and American (Indian) Studies”
3:30 -5:00 p.m. (Room 101 Walter Library Minneapolis Campus)
Philip J. Deloria is a Professor of American Culture and History at the University of
Michigan. He is also the Director of the Program in American Culture. He received his Ph.D.
from Yale University in 1994. His recent publications include Indians in Unexpected Places
(University Press of Kansas, 2004) and The Blackwell Companion to American Indian History,
co-edited with Neal Salibury (Cambridge: Blackwell, 2002).
Wednesday, February 22
“Rethinking Secularism and Tolerance in India “
3:30 -5:00 p.m. (431 Heller Hall)
Priya Kumar, English Department, University of Iowa
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 1967-1968: What ABC News Won’t Tell You
4:30 -5:30 p.m. (Room 330 Anderson Hall Minneapolis Campus)
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The transitway between East Bank and St. Paul screams for attention.
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Any student traveling from the East Bank
to the St. Paul Campus on the transitway can see
that industry is alive and well in Minneapolis. As
you zoom to our rural neighbor campus you pass
tall, ugly buildings shooting out steam. You look
to the ground and see a mass of railroad tracks.
The industry of private businesses and railroads
north of University Avenue is not always a pretty
sight to see, but this area shouldn’t be ignored.
The University of Minnesota transitway was
built in 1992 and the bike path that runs along
the road opened on Oct. 29, 1996. In contrast,
most of the buildings in the area have been there
for most of the century and the rail lines were
built in the late 19th century, says John S. Adams, professor of geography, public affairs and
planning at the University of Minnesota.
The industrial part along the transitway
stretches from 25th Avenue SE and 4th Street
SE in Minneapolis to Energy Park Drive and
Raymond Avenue in St. Paul. The main industrial area along the transitway is found in the
University Bioscience Zone. This area is called
University Research Park and is also known as
the South East Minneapolis Industrial Area, or
SEMI. This 700-acre area lies north of the transitway and south of the train tracks.
The spot for this industrial area was chosen
because it is between the two downtown cores.
The distance between Minneapolis and St. Paul
was 120 miles by river and only eight miles by
land in the late 1800s when the area was industrialized, says Adams. The railroads also follow
a route at a low point between the two cities, he
says.
University Research Park was once a center for transportation for the trade exchange that
helped Minneapolis become the milling capital
of the world, according to city documents. Prior
to European settlement, the area was a wetland
part of the Bridal Veil Creek Watershed. This
wetland was eventually drained and replaced
by the railroad tracks, milling companies and
manufacturing support facilities, the documents
state.
SEMI includes one city-owned property and
24 properties held by 13 private owners. Among
these private owners are Lighthouse Bay Foods
Inc., Fleischmann-Kurth Malting Co. and Harris
Machinery Co.
While most of the area is owned by private
businesses, there are some buildings owned
by the university. The MAST facility, part of
the National Science Foundation’s Network for
Earthquake Engineering Simulation is located
between the transitway and University Village.
This facility is used for gathering information
about earthquakes and is one of 16 around the
world.
Most notably in this stretch along the
transitway are the multiple train lines owned
by both Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway
and Union Pacific, according to city documents.
These train tracks connect Minneapolis to Chicago, Seattle, Dallas and California, among
other places. According to the company’s Web
site, Union Pacific is the largest railroad in North
America operating in the Western two-thirds of
the country.
Much of this land is privately owned by
these railroad companies and therefore is unattainable to the Prospect Park East River Road
Neighborhood. Dean Lund, the PPERR representative for the Southeast Economic Development committee, says that the railroad companies are holding onto the land for no reason, except for that it may be worth more in the future,
and have been “very frustrating to deal with” in
selling negotiations.
PPERR is working to improve the area. A
master plan to clean up the area of grain elevators and various industries was approved about
eight years ago to provide the area with infrastructure, mostly new roads and a storm water
drainage system, Lund says.
One of the suggested improvements is a
road that would extend east and west to bring
semi-trucks directly to and from Highway 280.
This would keep the trucks off of University Avenue and out of residential neighborhoods that
surround the area, Lund says. This road has yet
to be completed, but residents, such as Kari Simonson who lives on 4th Street by Malcolm Avenue, would welcome the new road. It would be
extremely helpful if a truck route were built from
Highway 280 to the transfer station and North
Star Plant areas so that all those trucks could be
taken off of University and Malcolm avenues,
she says.
Another improvement the PPERR hopes
to make is the installation of storm water drainage sites. The area often fills with standing water, which can stall rail traffic as well as make
the area unattractive to future developers, Lund
says. PPERR is hoping to build a pooling area
and facilities that would allow the water to drain
into the Mississippi River, he says.
If the area were to be restored, certain
grain elevators would stay put because some are
historic structures, Lund says. Others no longer
in use due to the decline in the milling industry
have already been removed.
No matter what happens to the area, apartments are unlikely to go in. The Zoning Committee opposed the building of new apartments in the
industrial area because it would have gone against
current zoning, says Karen Murdock, a member
of the Prospect Park Zoning Committee.
Overall, Simonson says, the industrial area
makes for a good neighbor that is sometimes
quieter than student neighbors—but there are
exceptions. The North Star Plant emits methane
gas, which smells bad and could be harmful.
Even with frequent calls to the plant manager,
the smell continues, she says. In addition, the
lumberyard found at the intersection of Malcolm Avenue and the transitway sometimes runs
equipment as late as 9 p.m., annoying residents,
Simonson says.
Whether you’re headed toward the river
or to the capital city, as you wait for your fellow
passengers to get on the Campus Connector by
the parking lots found in this area, take a look
around. Notice the buildings and their historical
meaning because, although this area may be unsightly, it won’t be silenced.
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Williams Arena:
The Legacy of a
Legendary Barn
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 BY photos by jessalyn Courtney
As technological advances allow for revolving stadium-ceilings and rubber-induced field
surfaces, one campus venue has maintained its
mystical sense without such changes.
With its 79-year-old rafters and one-of-akind raised floor, Williams Arena has become an
emporium of rich memories for countless fans,
players, employees and visitors of all kinds.
“I think it has that barn look to it,” says
used for basketball, off-season winter football
practices, tennis and indoor track.
In 1950, the wide-framed building was split
in two distinct playing areas, one for hockey and
one for basketball. During this time, the famed
Gophers gym changed its name to the wellknown title it bears today. Since then, Williams
Arena has become known as one of the nation’s
premiere basketball arenas.
The first game played at the Barn came in
the midst of some rough years for the Gophers.
Minnesota transferred its team from Cooke Hall
Constructed in 1927, “The Barn,” as Williams Arena
is commonly known was first titled, the University of
Minnesota Field House.
Chuck Mencel, Gophers basketball guard from
1951-55. “It’s a very visually appealing place and
has been a popular place for Minnesota families
to come to.”
Constructed in 1927, and first used in 1928,
“The Barn,” as Williams Arena is commonly
known was first titled, the University of Minnesota Field House. In these times, the facility was
(which still exists today, used for kinesiology
and sports studies) to play Ohio State at their
new gym on Feb. 4, 1928. The Gophers lost the
game in double-overtime and finished its season
4-12 and ninth in the Big Ten.
In the 1930s, coach Dave McMillan led his
team to its first Big Ten title at Williams. The
team took out Wisconsin and Northwestern to
Above Left and Above: The inside of an empty Williams Arena.
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finish its season 14-6 (10-2 conference).
The year 1946 marked the arrival of a young
Myer “Whitey” Skoog, the man many basketball
historians would suggest originated the jump
shot.
Don Knauer, a resident of Eden Prairie and
U of M alum, shared some memories of Skoog
and the 1948-49 Gophers.
“Whitey Skoog invented the jump shot,”
says Knauer, recalling the All-American he
watched in his collegiate years.
“It was the first time I had seen it used,”
adds Knauer, who as a member of Phi Sigma
Kappa – a fraternity still in existence on 18th Avenue Southeast “We (Gophers fans) always felt
it was quite the treat to take a walk over to The
Barn.”
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hallways.
“The public support was amazing,”
says Mencel of the excitement the city had
surrounding the team. “At that time, it was the
largest attendance of any basketball game in the
country.”
Mencel spoke passionately of the uproar of
Gophers fever that day, saying the famed game
led some of the local Minneapolis theatres to
shut down their daily operations so they could
offer ticket-less Gophers fans a chance to watch
the game on their big screens.
Williams could seat 18,025 at the time,
but the excitement of a Big Ten championship,
Minnesota’s 15-5 record and its interstate rivalry
with Iowa, led to masses of Maroon and Gold
maniacs. Unfortunately, for the team and its
throngs of fans, Minnesota lost the game 72-70
and would finish the season in second place.
Moving into the 60s, “Sweet Lou” Hudson
would grace the Williams hardwood. Arguably
the best Gopher ever, Hudson did not win any
championships, but did average 20.4 points per
game in his three years before embarking on
a 13-year NBA career that included six All-Star
performances.
Years after Hudson made his departure, another player, who is often considered Minnesota’s best ever, Kevin McHale, entered Williams
Arena’s confines (1977-80).
McHale, who was a Minnesota-grown boy
from the northern town of Hibbing, is definitely
the most remembered. The Boston Celtics’ great
helped his NBA team to three championships
and eventually earned a spot in the Naismith
Memorial Hall of Fame.
A few years after McHale’s days as a Gopher concluded the Clem Haskins era began.
The coach of Minnesota basketball for thirteen
years, Haskins is remembered for two things;
the team’s Final Four appearance in 1997, the
other, sadly, is an academic scandal.
“I was then hired by Clem as a student manager,” says Michael Dale, a Williams Arena facility manager of six years.
Dale, who was prepared to leave his hometown of Rochester to come work for Haskins,
years] possesses the character and charm that
are lacking in the new multi-functional arenas on
other campuses.”
Lee—a local radio personality of 16 years—
and Lynch have been WCCO 830’s radio broadcasting tandem for the past five years. Dick
Bremer, a television commentator, has done Gophers basketball games since 1986. Serving as
the Gophers television voice, Bremer recalls the
opportunity he had of capturing up-close-andpersonal memories of the much adored ’96-97
Gophers.
“I thoroughly enjoyed the Big Ten championship season,” says Bremer. “I remember
the dogged determination of Bobby Jackson; he
was one of the players who separated Minnesota
from the rest of the
conference.”
Jackson, now a
nine-year veteran of
the NBA, played point
guard for this special
Gophers squad. A junior college transfer
from Salisbury, N.C.,
in his second year at
Minnesota,
thrilled
many hometown fans
with his mind-boggling
passes and his rimrocking dunks.
“I remember coming up here to watch
the men play and
watching Bobby Jackson,” says Jamie Broback, a native of Apple
Valley and forward for
the Gopher women’s
basketball team. “I
think Bobby was one
of my favorite athletes
to watch, then seeing
Lindsey Whalen, she
was my favorite female
player to watch.”
Broback was a senior in high school when
she saw Whalen play on the Minnesota womens
team’s first full season at Williams (it previously
played in the Sports Pavilion). Coincidentally,
this team’s inaugural year at its new venue (20022003) was also current coach Pam Borton’s first
year at Minnesota.
“It’s definitely a great arena,” says Borton.
“It’s a tough place to play for opponents because
of its mystiqueness, because the fans feel like
they are sitting almost on top of the court.”
Borton has been instrumental in building
success for the Gopher women, lobbying and
eventually accruing the help (which included
much fundraising by her players) to get the
team’s new locker room and team room built.
These additions, combined with much of
the work Michael Dale and the facilities team
have contributed greatly to the renovation, remodeling and restoration of a treasured Arena.
While the Gophers men’s basketball squad
has struggled this year, the 2006 Gopher women
have flourished. Either way, Williams Arena
will undoubtedly continue to be a magical atmosphere for students, fans and the Twin Cities
public for years to come.
There’s been many great years here, a great place with a
wonderful atmosphere for basketball. It still possesses
character and charm.
never would get the chance to work with him
due to the aforementioned scandal.
“My only personal memory with Clem was
my senior year in high school,” says Dale, “he
took two hours of his time to sit and talk with
me.”
Reverting a few years back in Clem’s coaching regime, there was a young man named Kevin Lynch (Gophers guard 1988-91) who lit up the
maple floor of the Maroon.
“Oh man, this place was rocking the time
we beat Illinois,” says Lynch, recollecting a favorite memory.
Lynch was referring to his Gophers 91-74
upheaval of the 4th-ranked Illini Jan. 6, 1990,
another of a myriad of great memories this treasured arena has witnessed.
Now a radio commentator of Gophers basketball, Lynch and his partner Dave Lee, happily
spoke of a place they’ve both spent several years
in.
“Just look at the rafters, the atmosphere,”
says Lynch, following the duo’s Jan. 29 broadcast of Minnesota’s 61-42 defeat of Indiana. “It’s
just a great place to be at.”
“There’s been many great years here, a
great place with a wonderful atmosphere for
basketball,” says Lee. “It still [after nearly 80
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Literary
She begged for
death three times
daily
 BY andrew noyes
Once in the morning
When we pushed, pulled, and wiped
Her spotted yellow skin.
Again in the afternoon
As we hoisted her fetal body
From chair to bed.
February 15, 2006
Insecurity
 BY robyn hjermstad
So you hear it –
Do it until you hear it!
He continued to band his head against
the trunk of a tree until he heard it, until
he heard nothing.
For
her
he
clenched the tree’s base, awaiting the eyelet’s
satisfaction,
no
cries came. Then he hovered until the space
Editor’s Note
In this week’s issue I have included a
movie review, which is not typical for the
Literary Section. However, Slam features
poet/musician Saul Williams and the movie
makes a case for poetry in modern life. With
that said, I hope you enjoy the review. I also
wanted to invite all the writers out there to
continue to contribute their work. You can
send your work to literary@wakemag.org.
Kim Gengler
Literary Editor
underneath his fingernails bled.
She couldn’t yell loud enough;
he couldn’t impulse hard enough.
And once more in the evening
While we stripped her,
Snapped on her gown, and bid her a goodnight.
She didn’t work anymore.
I heard once that she had been a teacher
Years ago.
She never played although I assumed
The faded black and white photos
Of a vibrant young girl were her.
I hadn’t heard her talk much
Except, of course, to plead with God
Or to curse me as I wiped the feces from her body.
I asked her once about her family;
Having never seen anyone visit, I was curious.
She said, “This is a nice room; is it for rent?”
Occasionally her heart would stop
And I would think her prayers had finally been answered.
Then her Pacemaker would kick in and she would go on begging for death.
Four times a day now.
House
 BY jeremy keller
My world was carpet and tiles.
I could never see the floorboards
beneath: ascetics, prostrate under feet.
I asked my Mother questions and I
could tell it was Sunday by the way the sun
soared through the windows and landed
on the backs of the unreasonable
couches. Terry cloth capes,
plastic swords, and I was David.
The ceiling, the floor above it, the roof,
were held up by angles more than walls.
The Smiling Catholic, towering, always
coming home, never leaving.
I saw the next one made.
I saw the cement, the timber,
the glass that went into it.
The walls, the stairs, the nails.
I cut its umbilical chord,
but, being young and foolish,
I cut it improperly.
A professional has to finish the job.
But I hung on to my little bit of it.
Didn’t I? Is it not the stone in my sling?
I am witness, captive to the memory:
I saw the figures and angles
that murdered the angels.
Winter’s
Despair
 BY andrew noyes
We march through snow
In blinding strides.
The wind is fierce
And sun is gold.
Why must cold
Bite so
Silent
In my flesh
To rivers
Violent.
Literary
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Slam, a Fresh Bang of
Poetry
 BY kim gengler
It would seem poetry has fallen off the face
of pop culture. Modern music, film and television
have no time for line breaks and meter. These
forms of media have even taken poetry’s place
when it comes to entertainment. But maybe we
aren’t looking hard enough and poetry still finds
its way into modern culture’s consciousness.
Recently, I came across the movie Slam, which
stars poet and musician Saul Williams. The movie won Dramatic Feature Grand Jury Prize at the
Sundance Film Festival and the Golden Camera
at the Cannes Film Festival in 1998. After watching the movie, I realized poetry still has a presence in today’s entertainment.
Slam illustrates the redemptive qualities
of poetry and, more specifically, spoken word.
Through the eyes of Williams’ character, Ray
Joshua, the power of words becomes clear. After finding himself in jail on minor drug charges,
Ray feels pressure from the other inmates to
either join a gang or face violence. Soft-spoken
Ray only wishes to write poetry and be himself
without the confines of the drug game. Yet the
gangs want Ray and in a haunting scene he
uses a spoken word piece to advert a physical
confrontation. His words shock and appease the
other inmates, who see the truth behind what
Ray has proclaimed.
This moment also attracts the attention of
the jail’s writing instructor, Lauren, played by
Sonja Sohn. Seeing Ray’s sincerity and talent,
she invites him to join her poetry class. Unfortunately, Ray’s first visit is his last because funding for the writing program has been cut, which
exemplifies just another hardship facing African
Americans in the judicial system. In a poignant
speech by Lauren, she encourages the inmates
to rise above their impoverished circumstances
and reclaim their lives once they are out of jail.
Their freedom is in their hands and it is their
choice to get out of crime.
Ray seems to take her speech to heart since
it is what he desires—freedom from the socioeconomic adversity he knows all too well. In
this scene Ray and Lauren begin to feel a connection that only strengths once Ray has posted
his bail and he goes to see her. Once Ray is on
the outside he considers not showing up to his
trial, where he faces up to five years in prison.
He and Lauren get into a heated disagreement
about what he should do. She believes he should
serve his time and rise above his circumstances,
but he cannot bear the thought.
Despite the argument, Ray goes to the spoken word event Lauren invites him to. There he
is introduced to the healing and redeeming qualities of spoken word. Through expressing himself, Ray sees the hope that has eluded him as an
inner city drug dealer. The violence, poverty and
despair of Washington D.C. falls away. Through
words, not actions, Ray finds himself.
As for the acting, Williams brings passion
to the film, as does Sohn. Both performers bring
the social problems confronting those who live
in inner city neighborhoods to the forefront.
Though the film may seem idealistic, it does
present a message for everyone: poetry and art
are relevant and have power. Williams’ work certainly takes this into consideration. He has published three works of poetry, in addition to creating music and movies. Williams brings tradition
to modern mediums and forms, which can be
seen in Slam when hip-hop meets lyrical prose.
Overall, the film inspires a contemporary notion
of poetry and its relevancy, which also makes for
great entertainment.
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Free Live Lit Calendar
Ernestine Bradley
Wednesday, Feb. 15, 12 p.m.
Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public
Affairs (U of M)
301 19th Ave. S Mpls.
Professor Ernestine Bradley lived the kind
of life that would put Ayn Rand to shame and
leave feminists like Camille Paglia smirking
with approval. On February 15th, she will tell
about her life, her education, her struggle
with breast cancer and she might mention
her marriage to former senator Bill Bradley
somewhere along the way.
Gary Clayton Anderson
Thursday, Feb. 16, 7 p.m.
Augsburg College, Christensen Center
2211 Riverside Ave, Mpls.
(612) 330-1000
It is often said the winners write history.
Anderson’s book, The Conquest of Texas:
Ethnic Cleansing in the Primised Land,
takes a closer look at the tumultuous history
of the west frontier. It examines the ethnic
violence that emerged for land battles
between the Native Americans and Anglo
settlers, creating a more detailed history of
our country. Anderson, a history professor
at the University of Okalahoma, will dissues
his works.
N.M. Kelby
Thursday, Feb. 16, 7 p.m.
U of M Bookstore, Coffman Union
Kelby has been interested in mysteries since
her childhood. A devout fan of Nancy Drew
in her younger days, she pursued a career
in journalism and encountered gruesome
criminal acts first hand. You can trust from
her credentials that her new novel, Whale
Season: A Really Good Story, is as good as
the title claims. She will be discussing her
book, as well as her life as a journalist.
Bernie Saunders
Saturday, Feb. 18, 2 p.m.
IFP MSP Center for Media Arts
2446 University Ave. W
The Wake is blogging.
http://internal.wakemag.org/content/blogs/hiddeneye
Bernie Saunders and his mother Kay are an
interesting artistic duo. She writes poetry to
which he befittingly adds his nature photos.
In a recent book, The Grace of Ordinary
Days, the pair tell stories of memories
they shared from their own individual
perspectives. Bernie will be discussing his
work and giving a brief artistic workshop as
well.
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Sound&Vision
Softer Sound
Re-invents
February 15, 2006
Sound & Vision
www.wakemag.org
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Turning Up the Graphic Noise
 BY STEVEN HALL
Black Rebel
Motorcycle Club
speaks about the
paranoias of life
PHOTOS BY KEN SCHLES
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY ERIC PRICE
By Jenny Odegard
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s Peter Hayes
has a sloppy sort of drawl. We spoke on a phone
for almost 20 minutes on a grey Wednesday afternoon about what lies ahead and behind of Black
Rebel Motorcycle Club (BRMC). The band’s story, much like my interview with Hayes, has been
through several ups and downs and incarnations
since its inception in 1995. BRMC was discovered via a demo that somehow ended up in the
hands of an LA radio station. “It wasn’t even
written up. Just a paragraph that said, ‘Oh this
is a good CD.’ And then someone from a record
company read that,” said Hayes. After one record
company found out about BRMC, an onslaught
of record companies found out, and so began a
bidding war. BRMC eventually signed with Virgin, a deal that didn’t work out in the long run,
but allowed the band to release two albums and
gain a little notoriety. Howl, their third and most
recent album, has broken the mold of what fans
expect out of BRMC, which to a certain extent
is freeing them the criticism doled out to their
music in the past.
BRMC’s first album gained them a reputation as a Jesus and Mary Chain rip-off band,
or “Black Rebel Mary Chain” as Rolling Stone
Magazine put it. When asked about the making
of their self-titled debut in 2000, Peter said, “In
the beginning we just figured we’d do it our own
way. We always kind of pictured it as we were
jumping down the belly of a beast and we were
gonna cut our way out.” The cutting-out process
has seemed to come to a close with the release
of, Howl.
“Accepting money for your art and … what
comes with that as far as the expectations from
a record company—our expectations are that
we can’t let that affect our music,” said Hayes of
the way that BRMC responds to pressure from
the label and the media. He portrayed a sort
of “fuck you” attitude toward comparisons and
expectations, asserting in several ways BRMC
was not trying to do any one thing in particular.
The sounds of Howl are markedly different from
those previously embraced by BRMC fans, a
change which has left some wanting more and
others disenchanted. Hayes said that the new
songs were not a change at all, but just a different part of what they had been doing all along.
“A lot of songs were written on acoustic guitar
and a bunch of them … were written for the first
album, but we never put that on there because
they didn’t work as electric songs. So we held on
to them.” Holding on to the songs turned out to
be a wise move, as the sounds of Howl seemed
to have made many of those who had dismissed
the band reconsider. The album is roosty and
reminiscent of the Depression-era folk music
that influences modern folk singers. This is a
bit unexpected, given the previous heavy synth
and electric guitar sound of “Black Rebel Mary
Chain.” “It’s just an addition to what we do.”
Hayes commented. As for the future of BRMC,
“it all kind of is under the realm of song writing,
rock and roll. There won’t be any disco on the
next album.”
Hayes also discussed the listener friendly
sound that he feels characterizes the new release. “I like that we got it out of our systems
and were able to get it out to the public. It was
something that we wanted from the first two albums … it sounds more inviting to the listener.”
He also talked about a sense of nostalgia that
the band members themselves feel for rock and
roll days gone by. The original, inventive sounds
that bands like the Beatles and the Beach Boys
produced, and the way those bands reinvented
themselves is something that Hayes said BRMC
are working towards.
To wrap interviews up, I always like to ask
the musician or artist if there is anything else
they’d like to include in the article or any other
things they want to say about their album or
tour. Hayes and I had covered most of the band’s
history and goals, and his suspiciously sloppy
speech had sharpened over the past quarter
hour. Just as I was feeling content to wrap things
up, Hays responded to my question by slipping
back in to a tired, possibly intoxicated slur.
The Wake: Is there anything else you’d like
to talk about?
Peter Hayes: Well, let’s see. I don’t know.
Do you want to talk about the paranoias of life?
The Wake: Do I want to talk about what?
Hayes: The paranoias of life.
The Wake: Do you want to talk about it? ... I
can be here to listen.
Hayes: You can be my, what do you call
that? My sympathizer.
The Wake: (Uncomfortable laugh)
Hayes: That’s just I don’t know. There’s
nothing else to say. This is an opportunity to say
something about culture. You’ve got to watch
out for the culture of capitalism destroying the
culture of art. Watch out for that.
The Minneapolis College of Art and Design
presents “Graphic Noise: Rock Posters at 1000
dBs” for anyone who has ever glanced with caution over their shoulder as they ripped down a
gig poster or riddled an innocent telephone pole
with staples and flyers to herald an upcoming
show. Casual fans of the screen-printing magic
will enjoy the exhibit as well. Scaling the walls of
MCAD’s Main Gallery through Feb.19, the expansive collection of contemporary rock posters
brings together varying artists and graphic design techniques from all over the world to rock
your optical senses. True to the exhibit’s name,
the gallery walls are draped in excess, with varying degrees of color, shape, and psychedelia
screaming from all directions.
Like the music it aims to promote, the posters on display are not modestly illustrated. To
take in an entire wall of the pop-meets-impressionism that many of these works embody, can
verge on visual overload. Each successive wall
offers an abundance of inspired pieces, some
boldly original (such as the Animal Collective
poster featuring a mutant whale, his blow-hole
replaced by organ-pipes, spouting multi-colored
handprints into the sky) and others reminiscent
of vintage screen print styles (the Har Mar Superstar at Dixies poster by local graphic design
team Squad 19 evokes the poster art of 1960s San
Francisco). Close to 500 posters represent more
than 100 artists from 8 different countries, and
feature musicians ranging from the locally obscure to the globally legendary. “Graphic Noise”
is diversified, eclectic, and still running strong
after an auspicious debut at Atlanta’s prestigious
Museum of Design.
With popularity of the once-underground
art form growing in magnitude beyond the
function of hipster urban wallpaper, rock posters have found shelter from the weather-beaten
street posts of First Avenue inside the swanky
offices of the corporate cool and the less swanky
living rooms of Joe and Jane College. With many
artists selling their works online at reasonable
costs, “Graphic Noise” offers a taste of the art
world that you can afford to take home with
you.
Opening for “Graphic Noise,” so to speak,
is “Post No Bills: Gig Posters of the Twin Cities,”
MCAD’s injection of some local flavor into the
exhibition. On display in the Corridor Gallery, local design teams and artists including Burlesque
Design, Big Time Attic, and Squad 19 are showcased with artist information to highlight some
of the brightest talent that the Twin Cities has to
offer. As many of the featured local artists have
successfully expanded their trade nationally, it is
no surprise that many of the homegrown pieces
hold up strongly next to the works of their more
renowned peers.
If you are one prefer Modest Mouse to
Monet, and are interested in indulging your rock
and roll lifestyle, The Minneapolis College of Art
and Design is located at 2501 Stevens Ave, and
the gallery is open weekdays 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.,
Saturdays 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sundays noon
to 5 p.m. The exhibition runs through February
19th, and like all good things in life, “Graphic
Noise” and “Post No Bills” are free.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF MCAD
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Sound & Vision
February 15, 2006
Exhibit at Augsburg
portrays hate and
compassion
Art Puzzles Over Gay Rights
 BY amy fink
 photos by stacy bengs
Politics have the power to invade the sanctity of a citizen’s privacy when controversial issues warrant public attention. Photography can
capture this along with the emotion lost in the
political conflict. This is the case with Terry
Gydesen’s exhibit Justice For All, on display at
the Christensen Center Art Gallery at Augsburg
College until Feb 18.
Gydesen’s exhibit portrays two decades
worth of conflict between gay rights activists and
their opponents, contrasted with reactions from
apathetic policy-makers.
While some photos portray compassion and
happiness, others are wrought with frustration
and pain. Toward the middle of the exhibit is a
striking image of a man holding a sign amongst
a crowd. His sign, “No queers or baby killing
feminazis,” displays the harsh intolerance that
comes from xenophobia.
“Death penalty for homosexuals 2004,” depicts the magnitude of this prejudice with an image from a rally at the Capital of about 3,000 people against gay marriage. “It was the most afraid
I’ve ever felt at any event I’ve photographed over
the years,” Gydesen recalls. “I thought about
Germany at the time of Hitler’s rise to power and
thought it must have felt the same way then for
people threatened by rhetoric.”
The final composition mixes the realty of the
picture’s setting with the details viewable in the
print. Placed on the streets of New York during
a rally against Bush, the image shows an ad on a
bus shelter with a man approaching on the sidewalk. The ad consists of a body-builder in front
of a blue backdrop and the words “Vote 2004.”
But since the man approaching is overweight instead of perfectly toned one could interpret it as
a message about image, more specifically what
American’s perceive as the perfect image. “Vote
2004” is actually part of the text “Vote for Mr.
Gay NY 2004,” bringing to the table a completely
different context.
Gydesen describes this piece as “one of the
most successful, in that it’s loaded with many
different elements and can be interpreted in different ways.”
“My favorite images are ones that are like a
puzzle,” she adds, “an image that instantly grabs
you but has additional subtle details to give lasting intrigue.”
The exhibit creates an emotional montage
of conflict surrounding the fight over equal
rights for the GLBT community. It includes
images from the 1987 March on Washington
and the 2004 legislative session, at which gay
marriage was a hot issue. Some of the images
stray from an otherwise chronological order to
create emotionally poignant pairings that reflect
the contrast in drastically different worlds of
thought.
While Gydesen shoots with a subjective
camera, her exhibit is an expression of not only
her views but also those of a vast group of activists and affected groups. “I do get caught up in it,
and that’s why I’m not a photojournalist—I’m not
neutral.” In the end, Gydesen’s exhibit raises the
question: “Can a nation really ever have justice
for all?”
Sound & Vision
movie review
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ALBUM REVIEWs
P.O.S. Audition
 BY deric brown
Rhymesayers Entertainment begins the
year with a burst of much needed energy for the
Minneapolis hip-hop scene. Audition proves that
P.O.S. isn’t just another rapper destined for mediocrity. Starting strong with the bouncy “Half
Cooked Concepts,” P.O.S. immediately succeeds in establishing his persona as he rhymes,
“P.O., you know the dirty one disturbing all the
categories / the matador in black, killing bullshit
allegories.” Similar energy is found on “Stand Up
(Let’s Get Murdered)” (produced by Lazerbeak)
and tracks like “A Teddy Bear and a Tazer” and
“Living Slightly Larger.”
Guests appear in tasteful doses, and usually working to the album’s advantage. Slug and
P.O.S. trade rhymes over two of the album’s
most accessible cuts, “Bush League Psych-Out
Stuff” and “Bleeding Hearts Club (MPLS Chapter).” “Safety in Speed (Heavy Metal)” features
a lingering Craig Finn monologue and some of
P.O.S.’s best material: “Welcome to Hollywood
DC / where Reagan youth grew up cowboys off
Ronnie’s Westerns.” This isn’t to say the album
is flawless; Audition contains many moments
overshadowed by the stark vocal similarities to
Eminem.
Fusing punk, metal, and hip-hop hasn’t always yielded positive results, but it is obvious
P.O.S. isn’t worried about labels. Instead, he
seems to be kicking down any barriers in his
path in order to genuinely express himself. Once
again, Minneapolis offers an impressive hip-hop
release that will undoubtedly retain its buzz for
much of the year.
The Minus 5: Minus 5
 BY michael mitchell
As usual, Scott McCaughey (formerly of
Young Fresh Fellows) finds himself in good company on the latest record from his pet project,
the Minus 5. His friends on this outing include
R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, The Decemberists’ Colin
Meloy and Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy among others. In
addition to containing a stellar guest list, the CD
comes filled with classic sounding songs penned
almost exclusively by McCaughey. Drawing on
years of experience and an obvious love of ’60s
pop, the music is familiar and accessible.
The subject matter also evokes a feeling of
by-gone days, covering the topics of gun-toting
and drinking. But don’t get me wrong, the music is more than pure nostalgia. Like other super
group side projects such as Golden Smog, the
Minus 5 offers a glimpse into where these musicians find their roots. On a handful of tracks, McCaughey and friends try unsuccessfully to add a
sense of newness to the formula, mixing distorted guitars with Byrds-style hooks in a combination that sounds as forced as it does painful.
While it’s far from an essential addition to
your record collection, the self-titled disc from
the Minus 5 (available on Yep Roc records) assuredly has some great moments. One listen to
“With a Gun” will make you want to go back and
give the rest of the record a try.
The Minus 5 will be at the 400 Bar on
March 21.
Various Artists: Otis’ Opuses
 BY michael mitchell
When a record label like Kill Rock Stars
puts out a sampler, it’s bound to please fans of
just about any style of music. It’s also bound to
be a little weird. Otis’ Opuses, featuring a staggering 22 tracks, is a retrospective of the label’s
2005 releases with a few new songs as well.
From folk to hardcore, noise to electronica, Otis’
Opuses is at once schizophrenic and cohesive,
jumping successfully between these genres
without batting an eye.
The sampler features mainstays of the label
like The Decemberists, Jeff Hanson, Deerhoof,
and Harvey Danger along with lesser-known
bands. But I was pleased to discover The Gossip
and the Old Haunts. By incorporating so many
sounds into one album, Kill Rock Stars proved
not only the diversity of their acts, but also that
they can win fans from many genres by giving
them a taste of something they wouldn’t expect.
Listening to “Cream and Bastards Rise” by Harvey Danger and “Cute Things” by Nedelle and
Thom back to back seemed like a stretch at
first, but its this sort of strange sequencing that
makes this album work.
2006 should be an interesting year for the
Kill Rock Stars label as The Decemberists bid
farewell and head to Capitol Records. Nevertheless, Otis’ Opuses showcases the label’s potential for the year to come.
 BY chris wilson
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The
Fog
of
War
Yes, it’s that time of year again. Summer brings us the blockbusters, fall and
winter give us the Oscar contenders. Now
with spring we can expect all the crap Hollywood chose not to pawn off on us during
those other two seasons. And considering
how much crap came out the other two seasons, this is shaping up to be a long spring
for movie goers. So instead of shelling out
a ten spot for Big Momma’s House 2, I decided to stay in this past week and check
out a documentary I missed a couple years
ago called The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons
from the Life of Robert S. McNamara.
The Fog of War isn’t exactly a retelling of Robert McNamara’s life story. More
accurately, it’s a fairly candid look at one of
the 20th century’s most infamous and complicated figures. McNamara was Secretary
of Defense under John Kennedy and subsequently Lyndon Johnson. While Vietnam is
a major part of the film, it also looks at McNamara’s involvement in World War II as
well as his time spent as president of Ford
Motor Company. This is McNamara’s version of history as interpreted by filmmaker
Errol Morris.
The majority of the film is a series of
interviews done in the late ’90s with a then
85-year-old McNamara. Morris conducted
these interviews using an ingenious camera setup nicknamed the Interrotron. In a
sense, it makes it appear that McNamara
isn’t so much being interviewed as he is
talking directly to the audience. It’s amazingly effective. Interspersed is useful and
often chilling archival footage. The editing
is fantastic as are the music and art direction. The Fog of War can be appreciated as
film art as much as it can be as an amazing
documentary. This is a lean and compelling
film that doesn’t especially have a message
or agenda.
In fact, I found that rather refreshing.
Errol Morris seems to be the opposite kind
documentary filmmaker as Michael Moore
or that guy who ate McDonald’s for a month.
Whereas those two seem to have their messages before filming begins, Morris’s documentary is entirely centered on its subject.
McNamara is not necessarily a well-loved
man. But viewed through Morris’s lens,
he’s given a more complicated and compelling portrayal than many would allow.
This is what documentary filmmaking
should be about. If history, politics or beautiful filmmaking are of interest to you, this
is a must see film. Besides, we’re all going
to run out of good movies to see in the next
few months. Admit it—you can only watch
Final Destination 3 so many times.
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Bastard
February 15, 2006
This Week in UofM History
• February 18, 1789 •
The University of Minnesota did not yet exist, so nothing happened at the
university during the year of 1789. However, several deer hooked up, and also
several squirrels got into a tizzy over missing nuts, and it just turned out that a
hungry raccoon had taken them when the two were out for an afternoon stroll.
Also, a crow sat in a tree and waited for the squirrels to starve to death. The
crow’s patience persevered and the squirrels died two weeks later. The crow,
however, also died of starvation while flying down to feast upon the squirrels.
It was tragic and funny at the same time.
February
21-26
a mix of the latest in electronic and electroacoustic music, video,
powered installation art, dance and other interdisciplinary events.
alvin lucier
Lucier has pioneered many areas of
music composition and performance,
including the notation of performersʼ
physical gestures, the use of brain
waves in live performance, the
generation of visual imagery by
sound in vibrating media, and the
evocation of room acoustics for
musical purposes.
British artist Robin
Rimbaud traverses the
experimental terrain
between sound, space,
image and form, creating
and absorbing multilayered sound pieces
that twist technology in
unconventional ways.
scanner/robin rimbaud
with free103point9
also
Maja Cerar
Randy Jones
Brian Sacawa
Ben Nevile
...plus Electropolis
and more!
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COMPLETE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS AT :
www.spark.cla.umn.edu
Major funding granted by
the McKnight Arts and
Humanities Endowment.
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