POP/ROCK - Sept. 26, 1989

An ad decrying bigotry in pop music placed last week in entertainment industry trade magazines and college newspapers by the Simon Wiesenthal Center has generated more than 700 calls of support to the Jewish organization and only two negative responses, a center spokeswoman reported. The ad, which quotes anti-black lyrics from a recent album by Guns N’ Roses and a statement by rap group Public Enemy’s Professor Griff that Jews are responsible for “a majority of wickedness” in the world, ran Thursday in Variety and the Hollywood Reporter and at Stanford University and the Universities of Massachussetts, Michigan and Wisconsin, four campuses that have experienced racial incidents recently. The same ad is scheduled to run this week in seven more college papers and--if funds are available--major city dailies.