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Debategate Birthdays are a time for taking stock, and America's 207th birthday, celebrated on Monday, should have been the spur to a nationwide consideration of America's future, how to make the United States into the better country it is capable of being. Generally speaking, though, this did not happen, as the attention of the Federal government, the news media, and the public at large was concentrated on the question of whether or not Ronald Reagan knew what Jimmy Carter was going to say at their campaign debates in 1980. What has been revealed is that Reagan's staff, but apparently not Reagan himself, had access to hundreds of pages of Carter's debate notes, and used that information to prepare their candidate for the debates, outcomes of which were apparently far more favorable to Mr. Reagan than Mr. Carter. It is not yet known just how they got that information. White House Chief of Staff James Baker says that he was given the material by William Casey, now CIA director, who was then Reagan's camBaker was in charge of the paign director. debate preparations team and purportedly found the information mildly useful, but of no overwhelming value. Even members of Carter's staff agree that the material did not play a deciding role in the election. It depends how Casey got the information. There are three possibilities. The first is that, as Reagan himself has suggested, a disgruntled Democrat, possibly a Kennedy supporter involved with the Democratic campaign got the papers and gave them to the Republicans as a way of getting back at Carter and his people. it is difficult to imagine the Republicans turning down such an offer. Would you? The second is to suggest that the Reagan campaign planted a "mole" in the Carter campaign, a person loyal to Reagan who would attempt to infiltrate and rise up in the Carter staff, all the while funneling information back. This is considerably more morally culpable, but the plain truth is that "moles" have existed since the birth of democracy, and while they may be unethical,

main problem will be the infighting in his staff. Mr. Casey, you see, has categorically denied that he ever saw or gave to Jim Baker any According to Casey, Carter campaign notes. "I wouldn't tolerate it. I wouldn't touch those papers with a 10 foot pole." Either Mr. Baker or Mr. Casey is wrong, and quite possibly is deliberately lying. Reagan has to find out who right away and stop them. Baker and Casey have been longstanding antagonists, with Baker leading the moderates among Mr. Reagan's staff, and Casey the conservatives. Reagan has been in the unenviable position of holding these two wings together over the last two and one half years and it is possible that one side or the other may lose big by being shown to be lying here. If Reagan is smart he will get rid of anyone involved in wrongdoing, and keep the office of the President relatively clean. He certainly has lots of examples of the wrong way to handle an investigation of a minor election wrongdoing.

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The Stony Brook Press unless this mole leaked classified government material (and there is no hard evidence that he/she did), then they probably broke no law. The third possibility is that someone broke in and stole the stuff. Almost everyone believes that Reagan's people are not so monumentally stupid that they would risk another Watergate over some debate notes of dubious value. Reagan has ordered a justice Department investigation to determine just how the material was obtained. If he keeps the investigation legitimate, and does not attempt to protect any of his people from responsibility for their actions, it is likely that the whole matter may be forgotten long before the end of the summer. His

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SunMoney Sum m er Budget Passed by Al Bosco The Polity Summer Senate approved a summer budget this Tuesday night in one of the smoothest and most orderly Senate meetings in recent memory. Debate on the $50,250 budget was largely restricted to the two issues of summer stipends for the Polity Vice President and Secretary and the question of the amount of money to be allocated to the residential colleges. The Polity President, David Gamberg, and Treasurer Theresa Gobin were already stipended $1500 each for the summer, in line with past practice, but the Senate voted a new stipend of $1500 for Vice President Barry Ritholtzfor the

summer term and $300 to Secretary Belina Anderson for the first three weeks of the summer. Ms. Anderson explained that she would not be on campus for the rest of the summer term and hence did not ask for a stipend for that time. Benedict Senator Neil Pierson led a successful effort to increase the college funding for Benedict and Langmuir/ James (considered one unit for summer funding) to $1000 each. The full budget is as follows: Polity Admin Ambulance Corps Softball SSAB Co-Chairs

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SCOOP, Inc., a student-run not-forprofit corporation, is proud to announce its annual board meeting will be held on Sunday, July 17 at 4:00pm at 54 Quaker Path in Stony Brook. The meeting is open to the University community, and further information can be obtained by calling 246-8262 or 751-2312.

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Report From The Ba rricades by Mitchel Cohen [Rolling Meadows, Illinois, June 20th, 1983] -- Outside Chicago. I was forced to trade the cops a $50 bill and a complete study of my fingerprints in black and white early this morning for a Bastille Day arraignment date and a swollen black, blue, and bloody whelt in my pitching shoulder, as one of Chicago's finest tried to separate me from my right arm. "They always need more arms," said one of the 37 of us arrested for blockading the Northrop Corporation's war factory. 150 others, partaking in the legal rally a dozen yards away, chanted anti-war slogans, and cheered us as we were dragged to the police vans singing: "No nukes, no war, U.S. out of El Salvador!" After months of planning, and years of boring and sometimes futile rallies, the anti-war Movement exploded June 20th in a series of nationwide, coordinated, and well-planned direct actions against the war buildup, nuclear madness, and U.S. intervention in Central America and Africa - something that you would never know if you just watched the TV or read the papers. Only the New York Daily News, with a front page photo of the Chicago Disarm Now Action (DNA) affinity group, reported that the actions were as much directed against U.S. presence in El Salvador and Honduras (and our government's brutal policies towards Nicaragua and in Guatemala), as they were Contrary to against nuclear weapons. distorted media reports, our purpose was not arrest, but to blockade, impede, and disrupt military business as usual. In Chicago, we attempted to use locks on corporate doors, chains across roadways, cement blocks and fallen trees as well as our bodies, as barriers in a serious -- and not simply symbolic -- effort to shut down the Northrop plant (which makes, among other things, guidance systems for MX missiles). DNA members had been leafletting Northrop workers for weeks before the

country we have those three unspeakably action, taking pains to explain that our precious things: freedom of speech, battle is not with them, but with those freedom of conscience, and the prudence who make the decisions about what is never to practice either of them." There to be produced. During the three days is a higher law to which we all must I was in Chicago representing Freeze and answer than the legality of governmentScream and the Red Balloon Collective, guaranteed murder for profit, as exseveral workers phoned in inside inforpressed in innumerable documents, of mation that proved invaluable to us. We which Nuremburg stands as but one learned where buses would pick up recent example. The sanctification of the workers to carry them to the plant the law as a means to deal with crises has morning of June 20th, and that manage"proved a failure in the two greatest ment had threatened to fire any worker crises in American history. In the 18th taking leaflets from us. We learned that century," writes Prof. Howard Zinn of Northrop was forced to spend tens of Boston University, "we had to go beyond thousands of dollars -- installing cameras, British and colonial institutions in order hiring guards, digging and paving new to gain independence. In the 19th cenroads overnight -- to counter our Movetury, we had to go beyond our own conment. And we also discovered that the stitutional limits to end slavery. Those American Nazi Party announced plans crises were followed by what seemed a to physically support Northrop at our peaceful and successful national developrally. Management made no attempt to dissuade or disassociate itself from the ment, because American liberalism buried its corpses quickly (Indians, blacks, the Nazis. The Chicago action, like the scores of young sent off to war) and kept its inothers across the country, not only gar- justices (the human debris of racism, innished extensive media coverage, but dustrialism, urbanization) locked in the helped move the Movement, in at least basement of the nation, where millions (from Dislived, silent and invisible." three significant ways. First, as already mentioned, we were obedience and Democracy, Vintage, The merchants of holocausts prepared for arrest, but the success of the 1968) selling their machinery of death to the actions was not contingent upon it. Unlike civil disobedience, direct actions highest bidders always seek to find "rational" ways to justify the destrucare not designed to simply influence the electorate or the policies of the powers tion of our planet and the decimation Direct actions recognize the of whole populations of people. They that be. strong link between corporate profits cast those who confront the anti-human and government policies -- and the greed, insanity as "violating the rights of others immorality, and in fact economic neces- (the "right" to murder?)", "criminals sity (from the point of view of capital- who put themselves above the law", "communists/terrorists/anarchists", and ism) pressing for expansion of the war machine -- and thus, we make no "fifth columnists sabotaging our national demands! We simply act to disrupt the security, in the employ of Moscow." "military-industrial-governmental" com- (Oh, for that illusory shipment of the plex as much as possible as long as they hallowed Moscow gold, to buy pizzas Under such circumstances, go on building and deploying their for all!) I'm proud to be a saboteur. Saboteurs Pershings and Cruises, MX's and tanks, of the war machine unite, you have Neutron bombs, and Rapid Deployment nothing to lose but your bombs! SaboForces. tage means never having to say you are We refuse to be included as part of sorry. Mark Twain's astute observation: "It Secondly, the wave of direct actions is by the goodness of God that in our

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Administration, Faculty, and Staff Salariies

Like those of all public employees, the salaries of all University personnel are public record. The following is a listing of the annual salaries of Stony Brook's chief administrators, along with a sample of faculty and staff salaries, for the period March 31, 1982 to March 31,1983.

C.N.Yang

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Roger Dee

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William Abel J. Howard Oaks

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Associate Professor of Surgery Vice President for Health Sciences Center

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$49,135 Bob Francis

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$52,244 Jim Black

58,160 54,784 54,526 53,928 53,380 53,030 53,018 52,479 52,396 52,244 51,859 51,207

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$64,910 Homer Neal

$53,928 Fred Preston

Dean of Engineering Dean of Physical Sciences Dean of Social Welfare Vice President for Student Affairs Assistant Vice President and Business Manager Executive Vice President for Campus Operations Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs Clinical Physician Assistant Vice President/University Controller Vice President for University Affairs Associate Professor Oral Surgery Dean of Biotogical Sciences

$40,004 Gary Barnes

Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Studies Vice President for Campus Operations Associate Vice President for University Affairs Professor of Social Science Director/Economics Research Bureau Director/Physical Plant Director of Personnel Professor of Mathematics Budget Director Associate Dean of Microbiology Chief University Accountant Director of Public Safety

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Joel Rosenthal Dallas Bauman Beverly Harrison Sam Taube Ted Goldfarb James Kleige

39,578 37,060 34,989 32,970 32,654 32,451

Professor of History Director of Residence Life Affirmative Action Officer Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs Associate Professor of Chemistry Associate Professor of Art

David Maier Helen Lemay Herb Petty Josephine Alvarez Robert Stafford Brett Silverstein Aaron Godfrey

28,583 28,119 24,640 21,800 20,606 20,079 20,070

Assistant Professor of Computer Sciences Associate Professor of History Assistant Director of Public Safety Nurse Investigator, Department of Public Safety Assistant Professor of Physics Lecturer/Comparative Literature

Andreas Mielke Franco Jona Gerald Lenox Donald Dinnen Vincent Terminme Mildred Alhofen Martin Albrecht James Calcanes George Clark Kim West Juan Marmol Sheryl Hislop

18,000 17,460 17,280 17,027 16,604 15,451 14,709 13,739 13,715 13,298 12,374 10,038

Assistant Professor of Germanic and Slavic Languages Public Safety Officer Locksmith General Mechanic Public Safety Officer Senior Stenographer/Provost Office Electrician Motor Vehicle Operator Bus Driver RHD/Benedict Groundsworker RHD/Douglas

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Murder on the Orientation by Brian T. Ehrlich Once again it's summer and at Stony Brook that means orientation. All over campus hundreds of teenagers fresh out of high school are wandering about the university with aimless looks on their faces. (Most seniors still look that way.) Seeing these unfortunate, mindless souls reminds me of when I first came here for orientation. I had previously been to Stony Brook so I knew how to get to Kelly Quad. That was the last time I ever wanted to go there. Anyway, I was immediately introduced to a Stony Brook trademark: long, unending lines. After waiting forever to check in (the guy in front of me was still checking in for the year before), I made my way to the suite. I can't begin to describe its condition but rm glad I took pictures of it. I hang them in my kitchen and the roaches are afraid to go in. To this day I still wonder where our money goes; it certainly isn't used for dormitory repairs. The next event was to assemble in the center lounge and meet the other people in my group. I don't know about other groups, but mine had the strangest collection of people in it. Biff was an axe murderer, Bertha had been married four times, and Angus' trial was still in deliberation (something to do with little children). Our group leader was always on top of things, never anything important or beneficial to us, but nonetheless she was there when you never needed her. She did give some advice, though. She told us to take early classes so we would have the rest of the day free. Being a stupid freshman, I believed her. What she didn't tell us was that we would be going to sleep about six in the morning every day, which meant sleeping through about A week into school I half our classes. realized why we were told that. It was so the other people already in school (like my group leader) wouldn't be closed out of their classes, which were usually later in the day. We were allowed to do whatever we

Ramblings by Hubert Moore It's summer. I know it's summer because I'm sunburned. In fact, this Tuesday, when I was standing on the corner of Nicolls and Nesconset, fourteen cars waited for my nose to turn to green. When I'm afflicted with this scarlet skin (every summer, all summer), I am in agony. In fact, last year I refused to breathe for a week. Every night I slept in a bathtub of cold water, with my hair tied to the towel rack to keep me from drowning. But there is one good thing about sunburn: the heat rising from my body creates such an updraft that it is impossible for a mosquito to get close enough to shoot his snoot into me. My own summertime joy is watching them zero in on my person with that hungry glint in their tiny mosquito eyes, only to get caught in the rising thermals, as they near what had been lunch.. Suddenly, the blood sucking bastards are bashed against the ceiling, where, for some reason they adhere, more dead than alive, one wing Then, of course, I twirling aimlessly. have to get their buggy bodies off of my ceiling. Needless to say, the prospect of washing the ceiling doesn't delight me in general. But this particular Wednesday, when my birthday suit should be in intensive care, the notion was particularly Suddenly, a plan came to abhorrent. mind. All I had to do was fill a squirt gun with soapy water and shoot the ofI fending carcasses from my ceiling. wouldn't even have to get up, Sir Fredrick could fetch everything I needed. I called out to Fredrick. "Sir Fredrick. . . Sir Fredrick is my pet Here Freddy." ardvark -- not much personality but a Normally he is quite superior mind. obedient, but when I called him Wednesday, he didn't come. I called again. In fact, I called 32 times, and then I decided that my personal comfort was less important than finding my poor Freddy. "He could be injured and in need of my assistance," I thought, worry lines furrowing my sunburned brow.

wanted that night, so I did what was natural. I invited the rest of the orientation groups to my suite for a party. At last, my first real experience of college. For the first time, I was able to have fun without paying a lot of money. Not many people realized how much fun fire extinguisher fights were before that night. The next two days were scheduled for the English and Math competency tests and also for registration. I failed to bring my alarm clock but my suitemates came up with a remarkably innovative idea: a garbage can filled with ice cold water (I still remember what you guys look like). The one good thing about the tests was that you were able to apply your previous knowledge about exams to these. I mean cheating. It felt good to be able to finally use something I learned from high school. The rest of the activities were too numerous and (ho hum) boring so I'll just briefly mention one that stands out in my mind and stomach. The food was atrocious. Supposedly it was to be the best we would ever have; but if that was the best then I'm all in favor of hunger strikes. It's nice to see bright, invigorating colors in the morning, but not all in one spoonful. Don't get me wrong; I have nothing against orientation. Where else do high school graduates get to become completely irresponsible? It's a great way to prepare them for their next four years. But they should introduce new activities during orientation that better prepare the individual for the rest of university life, like roach killing, beer chugging, and bureaucratic-aerobic exercises (you have to do something when standing in line for an hour). For those of you that aren't freshmen, try to be kind to them. Remember, you were once one, too. But if you're like me and can't resist a little fun, try selling them monthly passes to the fifth floor stacks. My favorite is giving directions to the Lecture Hall. It's next to the Physics building, isn't it?

Well, after a few minutes of searching I found him, and he was indeed in need of my assistance. Apparently Fredrick had gotten bored with ants and decided to try his "hand" at catching flies (flies are another summertime pest). He had zotted one just as it was about to land on the flypaper we have out on the patio. There he stood, whimpering softly, the captive of his own tongue. Fred's eyes welled with grateful tears as I unstuck him, but all was not right with my long His tongue, which nornosed friend. mally snaked back into his mouth, just sort of hung out. I packed up my aardvark and went to the vet. I waited 22 hours in the vet's hot waiting room with Fredrick on one of my knees and his tongue on the other. Fred was terribly embarrassed. After a hasty examination, the vet told me Sir Fredrick had sprained his tongue. His prescription: rest. "Rest" cost me $40. I hate the summer. In the summertime everyone is in . except me. Not that I don't love. Many of those who are on the try. th~icker side of average are too selfNot me. conscious to make dates. Last week I made a date to go to the beach. I met this truly knockout-type bio-chem major in the library. She was studying the behavior of lippids under I was enjoying the air extreme heat. conditioning. I spent all week getting ready for this beach date. I went on a diet and lost five pounds. I bought a new spandex swim suit designed to give support and glistening highlights to my magic parts. I even got some tanning makeup guaranteed to make me look like a bronzed god. Well, I got to the beach, as bronzed as my baby shoes. She took one look at me in my glistening highlights and said, "Gee Hubert, I never realized how incredibly fat you are." I really hate the summer.

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For my first dozen years, I hated it. Now I seek it out adamently. When I was a short, fat kid, my shortness and fatness prompted ridicule from the other kids. "Hey

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The Stony Brook Press

Stevie Nicks

The Wild Heart Rocks by Tony White It's easy to see Stevie Nicks as a mainstream mystic, dishing out pretty platitudes and poetic pablum - a woman not just out on a limb, but floating about three feet above the trees. Stevie's second solo album The Wild Heart should help to change her image. The previous album Bella Donna with its doves and highwaymen and pretty poison, crammed wispy, ecstatic imagery into every groove and lyric. On the new album, the sensibility is still strong, but Nicks has matured as a writer, learning not only subtlety but how to really let go and rock 'n' roll. The potential has always been there, both in her work with Fleetwood Mac and on the first solo album, but Wild Heart turns this talent loose, bringing Nicks to the front rank of women singers on the pop scene. There's a new drive and energy in the voice, a richness and range it hasn't had before, as it gallops from a soft sexy growl to a Bette Midler like wail and back again, without missing a beat. Even a song titled "Enchanted" is a knock-emdead country rocker, with bright, tight harmonies and honky-tonk piano glides --

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no castles in the air here. Similarly, "Nightbird" brings us no airy, twilight creature, but a woman who shuns eyeshadow and wears "boots all summer long". And if "Gate and Garden" looks a bit wispy and incoherent on the lyric sheet, it doesn't sound that way. Nicks teams up with Tom Petty again on "I Will Run to You", and as with "Stop Dragging My Heart Around" from Bella Donna, the partnership sparkles with an electric sexiness reminiscent of the Nicks/Lindsey Buckingham duets in earlier days. The album closes with a lush, stringsweetened ballad that brings the listener back full circle to the wild heart image of the opening and title cut, but here the wildness is hushed, somehow contained. Entitled "Beauty and the Beast" (according to the liner notes, after the film by Jean Cocteau) the song is a surprisingly effective tone poem on the contradictions of love, on being caught between innocence and experience as beauty and beast become shifting mirror images of each other. That's what I call a solo heart-stopper, from Stevie Nicks.

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feminine voice drops the hint via your car radio that her club is the only place to be if you are anyone worth being. The major business of one particular new wave radio station is to promote the thousands of dance clubs in the metro Since the competiNew York area. tion to relieve you of your hard earned dollars is so fierce, each commercial is more enticing and suggestive than the last. We were bored this weekend and decided to investigate the true identities of the clubs behind the adverThe voice announcing "I tisements. be there" was too promising know I'll to pass up -- especially when the rest of the spot explains that where she's definitely going to be is at Man Attack She's Night at Reds in Levittown. right about checking out the club, but not for the reasons she infers. Despite what you might think, Man Attack Night is merely men's night free admission for males over nineteen who tacitly promise to buy seven or eight drinks during their stay. "Guys, you won't know what hit you," the commercial promises, and we had to see what was going to happen, perhaps a frantic hormonal free-for-all or total fantasy fulfillment for all the men. In search of the truth, we braved the amused insinuations of our friends and relations, polished out dancing shoes, and ventured out to Reds. While the bouncers were checking our height and wrinkles against the info on our license we had a moment of doubt as to whether we were obligated to attack various males in accordance with radio advertising. We didn't feel particularly aggressive, but decided that the night would not be noticeably affected by any

lack of violence on our part. We passed the age test, paid our $3 cover, and walked into a wall of sound. Reds decorates with balloons, which is a nice touch and gives people something to do when not attacking each other, which was most of the time. Plenty of gentlemen had been corralled in by habit, friends of the ad and were standing around staring at the bar, the dance floor, their shoes, and perhaps a furtive glance here and there at a passing female. We wandered around a little, looking for signs of riot and generally taking in the view. A more than adequate dance floor all down the left side of the place provided plenty of room for dancing. Continuous, marginally exciting videos, interspersed with annoying cuts from the Wizard of Oz (Dorothy Go Home) and Flashdance vied with the balloons and lights for attention. The bar ran down the right side so you wouldn't miss it and possibly spend your money somewhere else, and in between were lots of unattached young men, gathered in small groups working out tactical plans for the evening, We were slightly worried that if we stood around with nothing to do, the management would come up and insist that we attack some men, so we made our way to the middle of the dance floor. While scuffing up our newly polished shoes we noticed that most of the women were dancing with guys that they'd probably arrived with, so that all the subtle inferences of a late mating season were slightly misleading. The dancing however was terrific, That is to say that it was fast and agEvery club has its own DJ's gressive. and, therefore, a semi-unique musical style, if you don ' push the definition too far. Rtds, at least on Sunday, was

fast and furious, a welcome relief from trying to do something intelligent with one's feet while the DJ spins "Sweet Dreams" or "Safety Dance" -- great songs but hard to bop to. We have given up demanding anything but danceability from club DJ's -- ideological standards are formed to be disappointed, but a dance beat can be invigorating even while the lyrics make us want to cringe and slink away. Our experience of Reds' taste in happy feet tunes included "Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio", "What I Like About You", "Goody Two Shoes", "Buffalo Gals" as well as the mandatory "White Wedding" and "Beat It". Especially well received by us was Motello's "Jet Boy Jet Girl" wherein the male vocal sings "Jet Boy. ..Gonna take you round the world/Gonna make you like a girl". We thought that this song was rather daring of the DJ, considering that most of the men in attendance were alone and looking just a touch lonely and might feel a bit threatened by the song. We thought it wasn't such a bad idea but refrained from telling this to a few of the more desolate-looking characters, although we were sorely tempted. We thought we might be asked to leave before we were quite finished dancing. So we smiled instead. Things began winding down about two without any blatant display of man attacking, but the parking lot was glass free, and the drinks were relatively inexpensive as these things go, and all the dancers had looked completely happy and content with the evening. There's another Man Attack Night next Sunday, so you're free to check it out for yourself, especially if you like to dance in a place with a low meat market atmosphere quotient. And those balloons.

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Pete Shelley (Millions of People) No One Like You (Genetic) The exBuzzcock is almost in a class by himself these days. Few are those who can so skillfully combine sophisticated electronics, rock and rollish power and intelligent lyrics around an attractive pop song. This is a real song, a million changes with all the Shelley trademarks: controlled synths, pent up energy and desperation in the singing. Possibly, Shelley's boyish voice may turn you away at first but it's well worth getting used to.

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