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...what happened to those lazy, listless baby busters who supposedly typified the new generation? Beavis and Butt-head were their icons; Beck's Loser was their song ("Savin' all your food stamps and burnin' down the trailer park"); Richard Linklater's Slacker, with its Austin, Texas, deadbeats, was their movie. This was the MTV generation: Net surfing, nihilistic nipple piercers whining about McJobs; latchkey legacies, fearful of commitment. Passive and powerless, they were content, it seemed, to party on in a Wayne's Netherworld, one with more antiheroes--Kurt Cobain, Dennis Rodman, the Menendez brothers--than role models. The label...
...Guide is meticulously edited to avoid biases of any kind. We make every effort to assure that the publication is as representative as possible of student opinion," writes CUE Guide writer/editor Jared H. Beck '99 in an e-mail...
Folk music is all over the place these days. There's Beck with his hip-hop folk, Ani DiFranco with her punk-folk, and Jewel with her sexy, wet-lipped pop-folk. Relative to that lot, the veteran duo Indigo Girls and newcomer Laura Love sound almost like folk traditionalists...
...economic priorities and the College's complete lack of financial support. However, there are innumerable ways that $7,500 could have benefited the student body, from more MAC treadmills to massive Council-sponsored study breaks to increased funding for student groups. If you've got the money for Aerosmith, Beck or A Tribe Called Quest, go for it. If not, let student bands play and spend the money elsewhere like alcohol...
...stardom with the company, he has gone through a long list of lawyers and handlers. Former Lord of the Dance publicist Mark Borkowski left Flatley this year. "He's focused on one thing, and that's himself," says Borkowski of his former client. "I can't be at his beck and call every moment of the day. He wanted me to stay, but I have a business to run." In January Flatley fired his manager John Reid for not being sufficiently film oriented...