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...reading period approaches undergrads search desperately for new ways to get their buzz on. But FM editor Kristi L. Jobson offers a word of caution to those depending on cramming, caffeine and some luck to get through reading period as she divulges the sickening details of her gluttonous java addiction...
...innovative coffee-pong competition outside of the Science Center last week. The playful coffee break doubled as an opportunity to raise awareness and to give out small Styrofoam cups of fairly traded brew. Bar Am swept FM in a one-on-one grudge match as he handed out java to passerbys. (FM refused to run a naked...
...then few dangdut performers have reached Inul's level of national popularity, and none so quickly. Inul (her real name is Ainul Rokhimah; Inul Daratista means "the girl with the breasts") was born poor in the East Java village of Kejapanan, Gempol. She started her performing career as a rock singer at age 12 but soon switched to dangdut, the beat-happy folk-pop blend of Indian, Arab and Malay music that has long been the sound of rural Indonesia. Originally the music of the lower class, complete with bawdy lyrics and sexually suggestive dancing, dangdut was cleaned...
...Inul wants to take it back. "The real Inul is the people's singer," she says. Her roots run deep in dangdut's heartland. Though she initially earned a mere 40? per gig, Inul built a strong following in East Java, where her slam-dancing style was hardly unique. "A singer like Inul is quite familiar there," says Bre, who's been following Inul for two years. "You could find so many Inuls in any small town in East or Central Java...
...East Java may have seen enough of Inul, but Jakarta was about to feel her heat. In January, Inul came to Jakarta and performed on Warung Tojedo, a national television program. Virtually overnight, Inulmania swept Indonesia, and within weeks, Inul was bumping and grinding on the cover of major national magazines and appearing on television more often than the country's President. Inul's concert fees rose dramatically, to anywhere from $1,100 to $1,700 per show. TV programs in which she appeared consistently drew 14 share points, well above the norm for music shows. Indonesians snapped up copies...