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    Music
Review
'Baby Animals'
displays talent
from down under
By Chris Eklof
The Battalion
Baby Animals
"Baby Animals"
Imago
Sometimes it takes a while
for an album to catch on. Baby
Animals' self-titled debut album
was released about a year ago,
but has only recently started to
get much attention.
Late last year. Van Halen an
nounced that Baby Animals
would replace Alice In Chains as
the opening act on their tour. At
that time, few Americans had
heard of this Australian band.
That did not last for long as ra
dio stations quickly jumped onto
the bandwagon and started
playing songs off of "Baby Ani
mals." The listeners' desire to
find out who Van Halen's open
ing act was, forced the radio sta
tions to play their songs.
Baby Animals are a basic
four-piece band with Dave
Leslie on guitar, Eddie Parise on
bass, Frank Delenza on drums
and Suze DeMarchi on lead vo
cals. DeMarchi is nice-looking
lady and this album proves that
she can sing even better than she
looks.
The song that initially re
ceived the most notice was
"Painless," a slow, rhythmic
song that made Baby Animals
seem like an unusual choice to
open for Van Halen. However,
the rest of the album proves that
this song does not reflect the
true nature of the band's music.
Baby Animals do some
heavy rocking on about half of
their songs. These tracks are
driven by the guitars of Leslie
and the power of DeMarchi's
voice.
"Ain't Gonna Get" and
"Rush You" even have a bit of
thrash touch to them. "Ain't
Gonna Get" is the hardest song
on the album and it gives De
Marchi the opportunity to voice
her anger towards men's sexual
attitudes. She says, "If all you
want is a little piece of ass / All
you'll get is a little piece of me."
"Early Warning" kicks in
with a pounding drumbeat, then
Leslie's feedback-laden guitar
takes over the song and make
some serious noise (it is good
noise, though).
Two of the slower tracks
seem to borrow from the styles
of other artists. "Make It End"
could easily been mistaken for
an Edie Brickell song with De
Marchi's warbling on this ex
tremely slow moving song and
the guitars on "Break My Heart"
sound like they came straight off
of Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game."
The best of the slow songs is
"Working For The Enemy,"
which has a catchy chorus that
DeMarchi moans her way
through and the song's bassy
tone gives it a mystic quality.
"Baby Animals" displays the
talents of the people from down
under. This Aussie band rips
through their songs with a pas
sion on the hard stuff and han
dles themselves well on the
slower stuff, too.
The case of Baby Animals'
recent success once again
demonstrates the high value of
exposure. If they had not been
picked up for a national tour,
then this album would probably
have slipped through the cracks
and Baby Animals would still be
relative unknowns in America.
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Professor realizes
boyhood dream as
high-energy physicist
By Timm Doolen
HUY NGUYEN/The Battalion
Dr. Robert Webb, a high energy physicist, is working on projects for the super
conducting supercollider, scheduled to be operational in 1999.
The Battalion
Dr. Robert Webb wanted to be
a scientist ever since he was a
young boy.
"When I was growing up,
there was a lot of science in the
news, with Sputnik and the atom
bomb," he says. "Science was fea
tured on the news and television
shows. Science intrigued me."
Thirty years later, he's at the
top of his field in high-energy
physics, and is working on devel
oping projects for the new super
conducting supercollider (SSC)
which will become operational in
1999.
Although the field of physics
and science in general has
changed over the past decades, he
says it is still as interesting as
when he first discovered its attrac
tions as a boy.
"What I've learned is that
what I thought might be sexy and
exciting to do when I was a kid
has changed somewhat since
those times," he says. "Evolution
in the field keeps up your expecta
tions. I haven't become bored or
disillusioned. It's as exciting as
when I was a kid."
Currently he is working on
proposals for the supercollider,
which will cost an estimated $8.5
billion to construct and maintain.
And there are only two experi
ments planned for use in the SSC.
But don't get the idea that the
experiments, which run $500 mil
lion apiece, will mean the SSC is
under-used. The two experiments,
which involve hundreds of scien
tists from dozens of universities,
will be 24-hour a day experiments
that might last up to 10 years.
Although the high cost of the
SSC project has drawn criticism
from many sid'es, Webb defends
the expense as necessary for the
advancement of science.
"In pure research, it's like art,"
he says. "You do it for the sake of
looking at it. And in the future, it
might have economic impacts.
"In hard economic times, peo
ple might find it more necessary to
eat than buy a picture, but they
still appreciate art. A world with
out science is a world without
art."
The two experiments will run
simultaneously as protons are
smashed together every 16
nanoseconds, or 62.5 million times
a second.
The experiments are pure re
search, done for the sake of sci
ence itself, with no immediate
benefits to the general population.
But on the other hand, it's of
immense importance to physicists
around the world, because the ex
periments might help back up sev
eral theories, including the Grand
Unified Theory (G.U.T.).
The G.U.T. and the Theory of
Everything (T.O.E.) attempt to
unite the basic forces of the uni
verse (electromagnetic gravity,
strong and weak forces) into a sin
gle force law. The strong force is
what holds the nucleus of an atom
together. The weak force causes
the decay of nuclear particles.
Just within the past decade,
the electromagnetic and the weak
force were linked together. The ex
periments at the SSC will not only
back those findings up, but will
also make headway on the G.U.T.
Webb's other main area of re
search may be seen by some as
more interesting, because of
where it takes him - Italy - usual
ly twice a year.
Underneath a mountain in
Italy, Webb and other scientists
are constructing a cosmic ray de
tector that is intended to detect
magnetic monopoles. They do not
exist on Earth and cannot be creat
ed in the laboratory.
What are magnetic monopoles?
Webb describes them as magnets
with only one end. Instead of a
north and south pole, it has only
one or the other. This is similar to
the charge on particles, positive or
negative. While on Earth there is
abundant evidence of matter that
has a single charge (negative or
positive only), there is no matter
with a single magnetic charge
(north or south only).
The detector, which is about as
big as a football field, has been in
partial operation for three years
and has not yet detected a mag
netic monopole. After it comes
into full operation next year, there
will more likely be some activity.
The closest man will come to
achieving the forces that created
magnetic monopoles will be in the
new supercollider, which may
produce particles with masses on
the order of 1000 times the weight
of a proton, five times less than is
needed to help prove the Theory
of Everything.
In addition to his research ac
tivities, Webb teaches an introduc
tory course in mechanics, which
he has taught for several years.
As to the future, he has about
15 years of work ahead of him just
on the SSC project, as well as his
ongoing interest in the magnetic
monopole.
"Then I hope to retire," he
says.
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