Brand, ASUO call for calm over mustache issue
If you thought the now-famous Clinton/Corn quick-re
sponse team operating out of the "War Room" In Lit
tle Rock. Ark. was fast, you haven't iioen paying at
tention to University politics
The ASUO and University President Myles Brand
called a press conference Thursday to nip In the hud a
controversy concerning the facial hair of the University
administration's top banana.
The confab of politicos and hluhor-ups was respond
ing lo a lottnr printed in Thursday's
Emerald railing for an end to the
"madness" surrounding the Brand
mustache question
in the letter, failed ASUO presi
dential candidate Chris Phans
called on current student leaders
Bobby Let? and Karmen I'oro to take
a stand on the tough issue of presi
dential facial hair
The ASUO did. saying the stu
dent government supports every
one's right to choice, including th.it of Brand's facial
hair.
But Loo refused to slam the door completely shut on
the issue by adding. "Whether or not his choice w.is
wise is another question.”
Whew, these kids are quick.
The "Myles Brand mustache question," .is I’haris so
eloquently coined it, got its beginnings in an Emerald
“Streetwise” printed on Page 6 of the Nov 2 Issue The
person-on-the-s tree l piece posed the question. "Do you
like President Myles Brand better with or without his
mustache?”
It was an irreverent and silly question designed to
add a light moment to the stressful and tension-filled
day before the climax of this stressful and tension tilled
election year.
It was a joke.
University President Myles Brend (left) end ASUO
President Bobby Lee met with reporters Thursdey to
explain the mustache-removal phenomenon.
But reflecting the oft-times iai k of humor pervasive
on this campus, several respondents used the opportu
nity to be downright hostile toward Brand and ins fa
cial-hutr decisions
Lee took offense
"There have iieen too many flouting rumors and out
right speculations on the topic, and it would appear our
University is bitterly torn on this hotbed of controver
sy." Lee said as he stood on the steps of Johnson Hall
"To all those students planning to rum Homecoming
this weekend by rioting and attempting a hostile take
over of Johnson Hull: Please, let's see tins through to
gether.’’
I believe Lee was being sarcustii . hut having listened
to ins speeches on other Issues, it's hard to sav (or sure
For his part. Drum! appeared to ini distancing himself
from the controversy by Invoking the supernatural
"Last year my wife and 1 were hiking in Sonora, Ari
zona." Brand said "It turns out to lie the center for New
Age ( New Age. folks, last repeated for emphasis ). We
were walking in the woods minding our own business
and we came across a vortex 1 knew it was a vortex be
cause of all the carvings on the tree, and there was a cir
cln of ro_ks
"A vortex is ti place
in tin1 universe whew
•ill the energy is fo
cused I walked Into the
middle of the vortex
kidding around and
making jokes." he said
'' T w o d ays I a I e r I
shaved my mustache "
Insert theme from
Twlliflht /.one here
The vortex Uh, huh
Sure This might ex
plain why the athlete
‘Some people
don't have a
(facial-hair)
choice. Like me.
So others are
fortunate to have
a choice.'
Bobby Lee,
ASUO president
urjj.irimrm * i u nap ^
pirns” slogan for lhi> lwisW«-rb«ilI team was mil killed
while Mill in tlir hriiinsiormlng stage
Hut Lee pressed on liirlorn sui:h questions could In'
asked
"l.i-t's tn.ik.tr one tiling i lear. I,re said "Some people
don't have a (facial-hair) t hole e lake me So others are
fortunate to have a choice "
Mrand and l.ee were also going to go on and offer so
lutions to the issues ol |olrs \s spotted owls, welfare re
form, health rare legislation and the environment, hut I
wanted to get hei k to the oltu r and listen to niv Duls\
Chainsaw tape, so I left
I’.il Miilinh is t'tlllor ut f/ii'l merald
ID
TTERS
Enemy mine
Public Enemy is arguably one
of the best rap groups over. l>o
ing both original anti innova
tive They draw thousands to
concerts across the country.
They also have a member who
is virulently anti-Semitic.
And they're coming to the
EMU Ball mom stxin I hope we
don't forget their antl-|owlsh
sentiment when they come.
Prof. Criff of Public Enemy has
said, "the majority of wicked
ness that goes on across the
globe" is the fault of jews, and
Jews "have a grip on America."
He said "the Jews come against
me they can send their faggot
little hit men I mean that don't
move me."
He also has in a May 22,
1‘JH‘I Washington Timas inter
view, created a linguistics and
philosophy argument, for he
stated, "is it a coincidence that
the Jews run tlw jewelry busi
ness. ami it's named Jew elry?
No coincidence "
They might make great mu
sic, they might stand up to the
"white power structures of the
United Stales of AmerlKKKA!"
But they do so at the expense of
Jews, and in my book, that
"ain’t cool."
Though they tried several
years ago to distance them
selves from this hate speech,
Griff and Public Enemy carry
the same message I hope you
will take a moment to think
about it
Jonah Bookstain
Jewish Studant Union
Clearing up
i <>iii writing to c dear up mis
conceptions from last year's
budget process with regards to
funding for the EMU. There has
been some discussion about the
EMU administration electing to
cut student jobs in order to
save their own This isn't so
The EMU Board of Directors
requested last March from the
IFC a budget quote that would
allow us to prepare a budget
that met their income projec
tion They refused to give us a
firm number until two weeks
before our budget wuis due for
review in May
At that time, they gave us a
quote which, due to mandated
state salary increases, required
us to either consider closing the
building or laying oil people in
order to meet this budget quote
We i hose to consider hiving off
student employees and have
since been blamed
Our recommendation for our
budget did not include any stu
dent layoffs We recommended
cuts to programs where we fell
they would not overly impair
student access or adversely af
fect large portions of the stu
dent (tody. We felt we hail pre
pared a gocal budget proposal.
This proposal was ignored by
the IIC and replaced with
terms we could not meet with
out hurting people.
It was never our intention to
hurt people
1 Jon Organ
Political aclanca
It's not over
Todd Motion's (()l)i:, Nov f>),
twrli. f that "it's ovor" iiflor tho
election results uro in couldn't
lie further from iho irulh It's
lust licginning
Clinton's tigondii is for
chan go That moans work and
action iho (K!A Inis a now
agenda li Is not stopping to
rost Wo can't sit buck and
srnilo thinking tho issues uro
"hopefully resolved."
Tho elections are ovor. I
ugroe, but lot's prove our point
and lot our post-election ac
tion* rufloct our powerful vote
Morgan Fisher
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