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)RDIAN D March 13, 1987 D PAGE 7 Roger Rose stands out in Mad at the World Quick Spins by Terry Carr MAD AT THE WORLD/MAD AT THE WORLD Mad at the World's greater half, Roger Rose, opens up his heart and mind and lets everything pour out in a torrent of synthesized dance-pop. What results from the improbable com-bination of enraged lyrics under a calm, cool and polished packaging is a listenable album with the subtle power that is reminiscent of Depeche Mode. Rose shows great talent in layering the keyboards under his sometimes wavering, sometimes strong and always emotionally manipulating vocals. The first track, "Living Dead," is one of the strongest on the album. With simple staccato synth interjec-tions and a steady, driving bass, Rose berates of people who "think they are alive, [when] they're only living dead." "All the Lonely Sheep" is an eccentric pop/half rap, complete with scrat-ching, that speaks of romantic futility. The first side ends with "Taking the Easy Way Out," a compelling anti-suicide ballad of sorts where the impassioned Rose plainly states that "taking the easy way out, isn't the easy way out." Side two is equally strong. "No More Innocence" is a tightly wound, intense piece that fran-tically scrambles for the youth that has been lost. The story is continued in the next track as Rose desparately searches for a ray of hope. The multi-talented Rose also did the production work on the album. He uses the opportuni-ty to communicate his feelings of alienation and isolation that are the prevalent themes throughout the LP. If it seems that the album is almost in crass excess of emo-tion, it only serves to show the extremes to which Rose goes to get his point across. * * * * * RATING SCALE: * * * * * A must * * * * Better than most * • • Worth a listen * * For diehard fans only * Celluloid frisbee Finally, as we get ready for the summer and the groups start touring in support of their albums, look for hot new releases from these bands: U2, The Cure, 10,000 Maniacs and Grand-master Flash. NION Don't hang up on good sense Phone pranks may cause trauma Guest Column by John Hoff Somebody, somewhere will be shocked to see the whole story in print, right where anyone can read it and speculate. No matter. It hap-pened earlier in the school year, and the time has finally come for the tale to be told. There is a female student, a frosh, I'll call her Jane. One day Jane was loudly and angrily telling several friends and bystanders what had taken place one night. She didn't notice me quietly taking notes. Never completely trust someone who begins writing down everything you say, folks. Especially if you do the kind of things Jane does. Jane lives in one of the women's dorms. On this certain night she was sitting in her room with a few friends when conversation began to lag. Jane sulked. "I'm bored," she pouted. Then her face lit up. "Let's do something really outrageous!" she said. Jane picked up the phone. Now, I'm not sure exactly what organization she called. It was one of those numbers people call to talk about their problems, some kind of hotline. It may have been Suicide Hotline. Apparently, Jane can act She has been involved with some drama-related activities at school. But whether she could win an Oscar is not the point. Jane can act enough. She acted enough to convince an underpaid, overworked staffer on the hotline that she was bent on suicide. Having convinced the staffer of this, and resisting all attempts by the staffer to get her to talk to her about her problems, Jane said she had to go, now. It was about that time and she had to go do herself in. "Wait!" said the person on the other end of the phone."Give me your number!" Now comes the tricky part, the part that did Jane in. Jane was go-ing to give the number of "some guy" that she knew. Wouldn't that be a nice surprise? But Jane messed up. You see, there was this girl on the floor, whom Jane knew, with a phone number very similar to the guy's number. In fact, only one digit was different Jane accidentally gave the number of the girl on her floor. "I knew it the moment I hung up," Jane pouted. "I could hear the phone ring down the hall." What finally happened was that the hotline person found out this number was in a women's dor-mitory, even though the young lady who answered knew nothing about suicide. Finally, the hotline people got in touch with the resident assis-tant or the hall manager, someone like that Jane wasn't exactly clear on that part But "they," meaning Concordia's powers-that-be, found their way to Jane and got the whole story out of her. And boy, were they mad. Jane was pretty steamed, too. "My God," she told her friends later, "other people do stuff like that all the time and they never get caught. This was only the second time I ever did anything like this. Only the second time!" Jane raged for a moment about the utter injustice of it all, until a listener to the conversation posed a question. •See page 8, column 1 Arms talks should not be for polls On The Right' Track by Jeff Johnson Okay folks, here's the scoop: Last October in Reykjavik, Iceland, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gor-bachev met to discuss arms control. After much debate, the leaders of the first and second worlds seemed to come to an agreement. As the story goes, the two sides agreed in principle to eliminate all medium-range missiles from Europe — an idea proposed by Reagan. The talks, however, were later doomed by the Soviets, who refused to sign #ny European agreement unless the U.S. would scrap any plans to test or deploy a space-based missile defense system. Reagan refused to back down, and the scene sadly con-cluded with both men going home empty-handed. Now, five months later, the Soviet government seems to have had a lit-tle change of heart. Gorbachev an-nounced last week that he is willing to sign an agreement on the Euro-pean missile plan without stipula-tions concerning any other area of arms control. An accord could be made, in other words, without in-terfering with the Reagan ad-ministration's Strategic Defense Initiative. Things are looking pretty rosy, right? Well, if you think that's the case, you're not alone. To many, it ap-pears that the time is very ripe for an arms agreement with the Soviets. They believe that it would be an in-excusable sin for the president to pass up this golden opportunity. A lot of important administration of-ficials are preoccupied with finding a quick fix to the president's popularity problems and feel that they have finally come upon the answer — an arms agreement with the Soviet Union. The idea, however, of seeking an arms accord simply to boost the approval rating of our president is a little frighten-ing, to say the least. Nevertheless, the attitude of seek-ing an arms agreement primarily for public relations reasons seems rather abundant One prime exam-ple was found on the front page of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune last week. The story concerned Nan-cy Reagan's increasingly influential role in the administration and her plans for the use of that role in the future: "Nancy Reagan reportedly plans to focus her attention on seek-ing an arms control agreement with the Soviet Union. Her friends say that while she knows little about the details of arms control, her interest in the issue stems from her percep-tion that an accord would put to rest criticisms that her husband is unable to govern." It was also printed that Mrs. Reagan had told her friends an agreement limiting nuclear arms would 'lift her husband's standing in the polls." In citing this article, I'm not criticizing the first lady or her role in the Reagan administration. Ad-mittedly, I'm not very close to Nan-cy, but one has to doubt that she really has enough influence in the White House to forge any sort of policy or agreement I'm always a bit skeptical about the accuracy of ar-ticles that quote "friends" as their prime source. The point is, however, that regardless of whether the story about Mrs. Reagan is true or not, the alleged attitude seems to be widespread among many people close to the president. There have just been too many notables on television interview shows telling us about the whopp-ing opportunity Reagan has in this newest offer. Of course, they argue, an agreement is just waiting to be signed. There's no reason to be skeptical because we all KNOW the Soviet government is sincere in its efforts to make this world a safer place. Heck, just look at all those wonderfully humanitarian policies being instigated daily by the USSR's ever-caring leader Mikhail (you can call me Mike) Gorbachev. The impression is artfully con-veyed that there is little reason for the president not to lunge at this oc-casion to improve his approval ratings. The concept of caution as well as the belief that an arms agree-ment should be made to benefit more than just the status of one man doesn't seem to enter the picture. It really makes one wonder just how much officials might be willing to •See page 15, column 4 Spring break exploits women as wet meat Beyond Eighth Street by John Stromvoll I went to Daytona for spring break. After riding on the bus for about 36 hours it felt really good to get into a decent bed and stretch out. 1 was really getting excited over the thought of a week with sunshine, beach and all that. Oh, I almost forgot, all the partying- It would almost have been a sin if I would have forgotten to mention thatl When I got out of bed Sunday morning 1 went down to the sundeck and got ready to enjoy the sun. As I was laying there,! noticed that the people at the hotel next to us were having much more Ain than we were. Over there they had loud music, and people were dancing, drink-ing and really enjoying themselves. All of a sudden I heard the disc jockey announce a wet T-shirt contest. The peo-ple on the sundeck I was at started moving over to the hotel next to us. We did not want to miss out on that, did we? Boy, was that an experience! 1 had never seen a wet T-shirt con-test before. You should have seen all of those beautiful women and how they exposed themselves to the rfiythm of the music, cheered on by the crowd that was getting pretty big. I guess it's not surprising that the crowd consisted mainly of men. Some of them were almost drool-ing when they were looking at the women. In the evening (and most even-ings) I went to a place called '701.' It was a dance bar with video screens, good music, etc The first night I was there they had a miniskirt contest All the girls that participated had to gd on the dance floor and dance one by one to the music chosen by the DJ. After they all had danced, the crowd got to decide by soreajning and yelling which #rb would go to thdbial round; This place also had leg con-tests and bikini contests. Only women could participate, of course. : Now, -f totnt goingto say I did'] not watch, fry no meansj;- However, I think that it must be pretty degenerating for a woman to be viewed as a piece of meat Even worse, there is a crowd whb is standing there cheering them along. Since th£se kind of con-tests exist, why not have them for men, too? I wonder how I would react if a woman told me in aS seriousness that I look great, T?ut thaf s it? I would probably be very insulted. I am so glad, however, that here at Concordia there could not possibly be anyone who would look at someone else as a piece of meat! I'm also glad that nobody here thinks it's great to have these contests just for (ua