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Letters to the editor

Chunk it

Editor:In response to Michael Nazarinia's article, ("Superchunk brings their

populist punk to the Whiskey, " Oct. 23): Michael, pull your head out. I

don't know what your expectations were for the Superchunk you saw last

week, but they were obviously very far off base. Superchunk punk? Ha. I

think that you would be the target of their personal public ridicule if

they ever heard that.

And to compare them to either Green Day or Offspring is laughable, at

best. Neither one of those bands has either the musical talent or the depth

to create the rich harmonies that Superchunk creates. Other power pop bands

in the same genre would be along the lines of Christie Fron Drive, the

Nation of Ulysses and Air. I guess we can be thankful that you did not

mention Quicksand or Pennywise, two more of the great punk revivals of the

'90s.

Get your head out of Rolling Stone and get thee to a record store.

Clueless people such as yourself are responsible for the sham that both

college music and college journalism are.

By the way, the last time I withered any type of moshing at a power-pop

type of show, the guilty parties were expunged from the crowd and given a

serious dressing down by others who were there for the music, not some

jock-core, testosterone smash-up.

Get the Superchunk singles album, and have some fun.John Fracisco

First-year graduate student

Engineering

Subliminal publications

Editor:I've noticed the Daily Bruin has made it a practice only to insert

Together and TenPercent within its pages.

What gives? Why do the other student papers not receive this special

treatment? Is this the Daily Bruin's thinly veiled attempt to stuff its

point of view down the reader's throat?

I suggest that the above publications be set out alone as the others.

Let the "marketplace of readers" determine if the two papers are worthy of

the readers' time and attention. Thank you.Mark Lum

UCLA Medical CenterGet a clue!

Editor:By the end of the year, Eric Branch should be awarded the "Most Original

Sports Writer Award." Gee, I don't know if I could even be as cynical about

college athletics. How did The Bruin land such a talent?

After reading about 2,500 Bruin sports columns over the past 14 years,

about three-fourths were cynical about Bruin athletics. Wouldn't it be more

original to praise the athletes, or the band, or those diehard fans who

always show up?

Branch, hopefully your next column will be a fund-raiser to buy you a

writing style. Hey, look at me, I'm cynical - put me in The Bruin. Ha.

Ha.Kevin Schraven

Sixth-year

Biochemistry