From: "A. Bushnell" Subject: (slap) City Weekly article on parents meeting Date: 03 May 2001 17:29:26 -0700 (PDT) Raving against the rhetoric Ben Fulton News flash: Youth who attend raves aren’t necessarily drug-crazed, sexual deviant insomniacs. Honest, they’re not. That was the predominant tune at a recent panel discussion inside Salt Lake City Council chambers attended by parents, rave promoters, disc jockeys and young ravers themselves. Call it an organized attempt to dispel the ongoing bad rash of media hype and law-enforcement sensationalism that’s quickly branded late-night rave dance parties as bacchanalian drug havens, followed by massage-induced orgies. Eight rave enthusiasts shot that image down. Each had a separate rhythm and volume level. Some spoke with so much earnest emotion, in fact, that the discussion almost evolved into feel-good rally of raving proportions. “The message we’ve all heard lately is that if your kids go to raves they must be bad people. We all know that’s not true,” said a barefoot Amanda Bushnell, a coordinator with the Intermountain Harm Reduction Project. “Raves are about people more than drugs. I remember that at the first one I went to someone bumped into me, stopped to apologize, and then we had a five-minute conversation. It’s a social atmosphere you don’t get anywhere else.” Kade “Troah” Gibb, an 18-year-old restaurant worker, painted a picture of the rave scene with almost Utopian strokes. “For me, a rave is one of the few places I feel openly accepted, loved and appreciated,” he said. “I’ve finally found the place I wanted.” Other panelists remarked that a place as conservative as the Salt Lake Valley simply doesn’t know what to make of all-night dance sessions hosted in warehouses with lights, booming sound systems and an open sense of camaraderie. So, naturally, it gets demonized. It’s not that raves don’t occasionally involve people on drugs. They do, panelists admitted. But, they pointed out, drugs are far too pervasive in society to be the sole domain of a rave. Like a rock concert of the ’60s or the soda stand of the ’50s, a rave is a cultural phenomenon centered around self-expression and social interaction. That’s a tough sale for many in law enforcement who patrol on weekend nights looking to shut down raves, which they see as traveling drug caravans of free-form massaging and open debauchery. As little as six months ago the city’s daily newspapers focussed on methamphetamine as the latest drug plague. Now the enemies are rave and club drugs such as ecstasy and nitrous oxide “whippets.” The rhetoric has grown increasingly alarmist, with everyone from school administrators to LDS church President Gordon B. Hinckley weighing in on the subject. Skyline High School recently prohibited the wearing of rave bead necklaces and other paraphernalia. After a Salt Lake County sheriff’s undercover detective made the incredible claim to Skyline students that one in three high school students take ecstasy, the school’s student council went into panic mode, establishing a new anti-drug campaign to fetter out so-called “drug-using” students. Presumably, that means anyone wearing rave beads. Long before that, at the LDS church general conference last fall, Hinckley vilified raves as sinful drug dens that lead nowhere. Enough already, said panelists. If the media and law enforcement insist on labeling raves as drug markets, it’s little surprise that youth go to raves looking for drugs and sex. Even some parents in the audience felt that raves are unfairly maligned. “I think the Salt Lake City police are the chief disseminators of misinformation. To say that your kid’s on drugs if you see him wearing rave beads is false,” said Ilene Done, a mother of one of the panelists. “Drugs are out there whether they’re inside or outside of raves. If we’re diligent parents, our kids will take appropriate action when it comes to drugs.” And if they don’t, law enforcement’s ready to strike. At the federal level, there’s talk of using the same anti-drug law aimed at crack houses to thwart the use of ecstasy. That means night club owners and rave promoters might be prosecuted even if, unbeknownst to them, ravers in attendance were selling or buying drugs. Locally, Salt Lake County Deputy District Attorney Sirena M. Wissler said her office has employed undercover officers at raves—even at the panel discussion, there were rumors of two vice officers sitting in the audience—and will vigorously prosecute ecstasy dealers. “We’re not out to stop raves. We’re out to stop drug use,” Wissler said. No wonder the valley’s ravers and warehouse revelers feel urged to mount a public relations offensive. Show respect for security and police officers who might show up to raves uninvited, they told all in attendance. There were admonitions against drug use and for open communication between parents and children. The future might even hold an invitational rave for members of the media, concerned parents and anyone else who dares judge without prior experience. Gibb, for one, sounded ready to host. “I’d love to see Hinckley at a rave,” said Gibb. ===== ************************************************************ "If I should live forever, and all my dreams come true my memories of love will be of you..." -Placido Domingo and John Denver, "Perhaps Love" ************************************************************ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ - To unsubscribe to slap, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe slap" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Alex H Subject: (slap) Meeting this week Date: 04 May 2001 21:16:27 -0700 (PDT) Hey all! Alrighty, Amanda's e-mail is being all cracked out so I'm here to deliever the wonderful news!! SLAP is having a meeting on this coming Wednesday May 9, 2001 at 6:30 PM We will be planning for the coming events and discussing other important news so be sure and be there! -Alex __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ - To unsubscribe to slap, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe slap" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "A. Bushnell" Subject: Re: (slap) Meeting this week Date: 04 May 2001 23:54:50 -0700 (PDT) Also, PLEASE RSVP and let me know if you've gotten these emails and are planning to attend. if I don't hear from you by monday, expect me to call and see what's up. Thanks, and please do your best tomake it. we haven't had a meeting in over a month, and there are things we are planning. your imput is wanted. Amanda --- Alex H wrote: > Hey all! > > Alrighty, Amanda's e-mail is being all cracked out > so > I'm here to deliever the wonderful news!! > > SLAP is having a meeting on this coming Wednesday > May > 9, 2001 at 6:30 PM > We will be planning for the coming events and > discussing other important news so be sure and be > there! > > -Alex > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "SBonage" Subject: Re: (slap) Meeting this week Date: 05 May 2001 12:40:44 -0500 yup yup ill be there _____________________________________________ Free email with personality! Over 200 domains! http://www.MyOwnEmail.com - To unsubscribe to slap, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe slap" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michelle Milliner Subject: RE: (slap) Meeting this week Date: 07 May 2001 09:16:48 -0600 I got your email, I have been horiibly busy at work lately but expect to be there. Michele A. Milliner ISC BioExpress 800.288.2901 x. 114 mmilliner@bioexpress.com -----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 11:55 PM Also, PLEASE RSVP and let me know if you've gotten these emails and are planning to attend. if I don't hear from you by monday, expect me to call and see what's up. Thanks, and please do your best tomake it. we haven't had a meeting in over a month, and there are things we are planning. your imput is wanted. Amanda --- Alex H wrote: > Hey all! > > Alrighty, Amanda's e-mail is being all cracked out > so > I'm here to deliever the wonderful news!! > > SLAP is having a meeting on this coming Wednesday > May > 9, 2001 at 6:30 PM > We will be planning for the coming events and > discussing other important news so be sure and be > there! > > -Alex > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "A. Bushnell" Subject: (slap) Fwd: failure delivery Date: 24 May 2001 15:08:21 -0700 (PDT) > Just a reminder to anyone: NO literature can be > distributed until it is approved by the newly formed > literature review committee. This is just to make > sure that IHRP is always being represented in the > best > possible light. > > > Thank you. > > Amanda > > > ===== > ************************************************************ > > "If I should live forever, and all my dreams come > true > my memories of love will be of you..." > -Placido Domingo and John Denver, "Perhaps > Love" > > ************************************************************ > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! 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