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Urf'fcto" 44*4**** UvCOA* BONFIRE ’88 pictures tu SCOREBOARD ’88 pictures The Fish Drill Team will be Selling 8x10 pictures of: Page 12 The Battalion Wednesday, March 8,1989 Bush decides against settling Eastern strike by intervention Bonfire '88 tu Scoreboard ’88 5 in A Row Scoreboards Pictures for sell in the MSC Monday, March 6 thru Friday, March 10 Spring Break for Sale WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi dent Bush on Tuesday virtually ruled out intervening in the Eastern Airlines strike, saying “man-to-man negotiation” is preferable to a gov ernment-imposed settlement. While he didn’t flatly rule out stepping in to end the walkout, Bush said his policy “will hold firm” de spite pressure in some congressional quarters to force him to act. Fielding questions for more than 40 minutes in the White House briefing room, he insisted that “there isn’t malaise” in his adminis tration because of the drawn-out fight over confirmation of Defense Secretary-designate John Tower. “A lot is happening,” the presi dent said. “Not all of it good, but a lot is happening. . . . We’re on track.” Bush defended his chief of staff, saying John Sununu, the former New Hampshire governor, knows his way around Washington and is doing his job well. Bush said he has “total confidence” in Sununu. Bush noted that Tower has pledged not to drink a drop of liquor if he gets the job and told his nation ally televised news confreence, “You’ll have 25,000 people in the Pentagon making sure that’s true.” The president said his backing of Tower against Democratic opposi tion in the Senate “isn’t iron-willed stubbornness; it’s a question of fun damental principle here.” The president had spare time in his schedule Tnesdav berause in- news conference statement to “res tate my belief that free collective bar gaining is the best means of resolv ing” the strike. He exhorted Eastern manage ment, the Machinists union and other unions to conduct “head-on- head, man-to-man negotiation” and said he thought that would be “bet ter and more lasting . . . than an im posed government settlement, which could cause the airline to totally shut down.” On other subjects during the more than 40-minute question-and- answer sesion, Bush said he vvoui like to see Palestine Liberation Or^ nization Chairman Yasser Aral “speak out” against raids that hai( been carried out by Palestinian rillas against Israelis in souther Lebanon. Bush said he hoped these inc dents would not jeapordize US talks with PLO representatives said he thought that Arafat shouli “forthrightly condemn any terro: that might be perpetrated by the Fat estinians.” President intends to replace immigration head, source says WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration will replace Alan C. Nelson as head of the Immi gration and Naturalization Service, an administration source said Tues day. Attorney General Dick Thorn burgh, who recently received a de partment audit that criticized man agement and operations of INS, is searching for someone to take over the agency, said the source, speaking on condition of anonymity. The source confirmed a report in Tuesday’s editions of the Los An geles Times that Nelson would be not T TSJSL rvAmroiccir^rwav i n 1986 immigration reform law, whict provided for massive amnesty fori legal aliens. INS became embroiled in a nuiir ber of lawsuits charging that it improperly making it difficult fori legal aliens to obtain legal status uir der the new law. The Justice Department auds completed two weeks ago, cited IX! for its failure to conduct backgroim: checks on many applicants for izenship and found that 23,000 vak able naturalization certificates ha: been lost by the agency’s Miami k gional office. TeX5 VqI. 88 WASH lican Lea off reject defense night an > firination whether pledge. Senate Mitchell t cents” ov consider i Dole m nommatu draining ing it woi mation.” Under confirmet W an 10 U. THE NATIONAL COLLEGE NEWSPAPER Life And Art ■ SPRING BREAI 5 BREAK 19£ Great Rates f Make your spring break affordable! Ore tbe whole family. $88 per nlgh.t/gets you $88 Emerald Beach - the best that Corpus • Located on 600 feet of whit • Relax & play in the surf, jo • Indoor pool, whirlpool & sat • Indoor playport for the kids Call 1 800-Holid (Not available on oceanfront rooms. Must LIFE AND -5^ -^pfcu&cu) ART 1102 S. Shoreline, Corpus ( Column Elmer Fudd Gantry Billy Gene King Claude .If 1 mbuniun uiiu ""'tMCMlS “"BiSI PG PARENTAL GUIDANCE SUGGESTED »SS> mol FREE MOV THURSDAY, MARCH 9 8:00 PM RUDDER AUDITORIUM \ACCII To know a friend again By Brian McCuskey ■ The Daily Tar Heel U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The phone rang early Wednes day morning. “Hello?” I gurgled, wiping the sleep from my eyes. “Hello . . . Brian?” Immediately I got that ominous feeling some telephone calls have, when you know the voice but can’t place it, when there is an overly long pause between the “hello” and your name, when you feel that something totally unexpected is ab out to happen. “This is Brian,” I said. “Brian, this is Alex Delarge.” Alex Delarge. A rush of high school nostalgia forced my head back onto the pillow. Alex and I rac ing down Sunset Boulevard in his little white MG, huge movie bill boards lit up against a purple mid night sky. Budweiser and playing poker in the basement of Alex’s house. Alex “Cameo” Delarge driv ing 100 miles every Saturday night to appear for five to 10 minutes at six or seven parties. Me shaking Alex’s hand in the reception line at his mother’s funeral and feeling helpless as I looked into his distant eyes. Alex and I suffering through classes together until graduation. I hadn’t seen or spoken to Alex since graduation day. No explana tion, no excuses, no reason. I hadn’t gone back to Los Angeles much, but that wasn’t it. We just drifted. “Alex,” I said, “how are you?” I could think of nothing else to say, and hated having to say it. How are you, as if I were meeting a friend of a friend, instead of someone I had known for almost half my life. “Not bad,” he said, and now his voice was unmistakable; how had I not recognized it? “Guess where I am?” “I don’t know. Chapel Hill. Down stairs. Where?” “Raleigh-Durham airport.” “What the hell are you doing there?” “Coming back from nine months in South America,” he said. “Hey, I was just down there too!” “I know, I heard. I tried to find you.” See FRIENDS, Page 13 LIFESTYLE 1 FILM | BOOKS | MUSIC Make Today Count Critiquing the critics Life In Hell Just say mooo! " Group helps out students Are today’s film reviewers A look at Matt Groening, Hilarious commentarfel who must cope with death helpful or just an the mind behind the contro- and manic music from’jW 1 or fatal illness. annoyance? versial comic. Dead Milkmen. fra Page 11 Page 12 Page 12 P3ol STRAIGHTEDGE Group dispels stereotypes; excels by tapping into a life free of drugs By Margit Detweiler ■ The Daily Collegian Pennsylvania State U. The inner walls of their brick house are haphazardly plas tered with cartoonish drawings. A stickered skateboard leans against the wall. Six guys, some with mohawks and skinheads, others with equally unconventional appear ances, sit around a kitchen table. Hairstyles and attitudes? Perhaps, but not what their outward displays would suggest. All but one have not had a beer, smoked a joint or engaged in casual sex in over a year. Their stand to not partake in what some consider a part of college life is a lifestyle philosophy they know as “straight edge.” Sophomore Kurt Zettlemayer was sick of being a “void” person. Sporting a shiny “We have 10 times more brotherhood than people in fraternities. Our brotherhood isn’t ‘All for the king of beers’ ” — AARON ROSENBERG black mohawk and bright eyes, Zettlemayer said that, “Before I went straightedge, I was pretty much of an alcoho lic. I drank by myself in my room a lot. I wasn’t going any where and I was pretty un happy about it. I got help and I went straightedge.” To many straightedge adherents, a black “X” is the symbol of their affiliation. A eth Gra> Nexus California, le often ins immunity, Inted with tl When the IzersofMak ipport groi leal with en ith of a love ir own terrr lat we offei pit from an sn't give a | of death, t Bator and l •a (UCSB ivolved af ’s not alw; persona] ed From Pac Aaron Rosenberg, George Dragons and Mike Banfield upid.” len sophomi | to college, h was intense ire. But itm, if the things carding am le eventually that they a: its say that instructive] irity. everyone si le straighte Lance Shieh black “X” tattoo on the shoulder of Dave Smallie, singer for the band All, tells the world he is a member of the straight edge society. Though some straightedgers convey their belief with the black “X” on the back of their right hand, none of these Pennsylvania State U. students do. Straightedge, they say, is a philosophy defined individual ly. Each person has their own way to show it and their own reason to believe in this pure way of life. “There is no rule- book for it,” said sophomore Mike Banfield. Banfield has long, frizzy curls that hang over his face. He explained that the straightedge movement began in 1982, inspired by the hardcore punk band Minor Threat and ly all agreed leal social see: of it revoh its lead singer Ian McKaye. The lyrics to a on a wall in their living room: Tm a person just like you / But I’ve got better thii do / Than sit around / hang out with the living deoil white up my nose / pass out at the shows /1 don’t em^ about speed / that’s something I just don’t need I I’ve $ ^ 01 straightedge.” ? > j 3 The music is raw, powerful and seemingly violent! connection does exist between the peaceful and he ideology these students share and the harsh music. “Punk isn’t violent. . . The music (punk) is total en«. j *• which is more related to straightedge. You can’t be enei? , , when you are screwing up your body with drugs,” Bafi said. H j e ga . ( j Banfield said that for a time the movement and them e ,, went downhill, but that it is now starting to make a( lr P 1 OSO P eback, primarily on the East Coast. It is not so n)ii ; ^ fo^enco movement now as much as it is an individual religion Sophomore Aaron Rosenberg said that he bets s es ® men straightedge early on. At age three, his babysitter got dm r^ggg 11 ^ See STRAIGHTEDGE, jWstionnairi iften the pen Comedian Gary Heflin has secured him self a future with Columbia Pictures. Film deal gives comedian last laugl By Theresa Livingston ■ The Daily Egyptian U. of Southern Illinois, Carbondale “I’m doing something that other people dream about,” said senior Gary Heflin. Indeed. The aspiring comedian has turned a hobby into a career by signing a multi-picture con tract with Columbia Pictures. Heflin, a marketing and manage ment major, has been involved with comedy on the local level for two years, but it was only in the last year that he began to take it seriously. When he graduates in May, Heflin will review scripts. In September, a “decision will be made, with casting hopefully starting in October and pro-. duction in December,” he said. Columbia allowed Heflin to plete his degree before begii work. This was crucial in hisdecii to work with them, Heflin said, si his education is “very important He describes himself as more if,'; 1 storyteller and a satirist stand-up comedian, since ie lowest choii was there no e test,” he sa >ugh they hat the straighte strong sense have lOtim people in erhood isn’t Rosenberg wever, he s can crack a joke.” In the offehs ’ , e £ e 01 " that being a star doesn’t work :,in ^ Heflin would go to law school,he5 1 ®° 1 n ^ a 1 And his plans go beyond hiscar*; o wl ^ e s rc “I’d like to be a role model fo:l lr i )' es - see children, especially black childir 6 ^ 10 ar ® ® tr Heflin said. “They don’t have®,’ aesai d'hr models. All they see are peoplev ; r strmghei wrong things. They don’t seepf^ Straigr like us who are going to school ® 0 cosmic ho making something of their live; f ! ae y be ne.