Life is looking up for Lockerbie Street

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Vol 4 No • October 7, 1974

Life is looking up

A FUR

for Lockerbie Street

By H a rry Goodyear

BEFORE

A neighborhood com m ittee and the Histone Landmark Association have com e to

gether to give direction to a

“do your own thing” repair and rebuilding of the Locker

bie Square area The square, located between New York and Michigan Streets, just east of East Street, is listed in the F ed era l R e g ister of H istoric S ite s It w ill probably be on the tour for this city ’s bi-centemal cele

bration

But th is r e c la im in g of historic architecture is not an easy task There are seventy - five buildings in the neigh borhood They range in style from the magnificently m ain

ta in ed , p illa red m ansion museum of the Hoosier poet.

Jam es Whitcomb Riley, to s m a ll fra m e hom es w ith peeling paint and weathered siding. they include cinmmon red brick houses nestled in trees Like the museum and blood red two story homes

with church steeple and City County Buildings overseers Many of the structures are empty, unused and boarded up Some of the buildings have well manicured lawns while others are hidden by w eed- g ro w th s and un- trimmed hedges and trees Every block has one vacant lot grown up with this year’s crop of foxtail and crab grass which also, though trampled and dried, extends from the mortar between the bricks of the sidewalks. Asphault has been put on top of the cobble

stone streets, but here and there along the curb you can see the smooth round stone escaping their prison

Steps have already oeen taken to rem ove the m odem tar and gravel compound and nine of the area residents have begun improvements on their property These recon stru ctio n s a re d ir e c t e d » toward making the square a picturesque, gay nineties, gas

light scene from an inner city area existing amidst high- volume streets and a bustling perpetual motion society that passes within a block every day, but hardly knows of the squares existence. But re

corded there in the architec

ture and decorum of varied constructions in history

The v a st expanse of know

led g e that has occu rred before any given point in time is history. It offers only two divisions for study, philoso

phy and a r tifa c ts . P h ilo sophy, the printed aggregate of scientific and humani

tarian information is lost to dusty library shelves sought out by dedicated students only. A r tifa c ts, h o w ev er, exist for all to see, in the shape of buildings, gas lights, iron fences and front en trance pillars. History is there in Lockerbie Square, recorded in the p h y sica l manifestion of the philosophy

and technology that existed at the time of its construction

The Lockerbie Street Home of Jam es Whitcomb Riley was built in 1872 and is located in the square bounded by East and College and New York and Michigan Streets Don Bollinger, a property owner and historian in the square, spoke of its resident’s goals. “ A blighted urban area will soon become one of the finer areas of the city. It will take dedicated people with a mind to preserve the past to do the job ” He indicated that an effort was being made to keep profit Lakers out of the area while trying to en

courage the settling there of sincere people capable of re

searching the turn of the century history of the square and make it their residential life s ty le . He added,

“ Lockerbie Square is the only

single residence area close to

downtown, and one day it will

be a living 19th century

history and an elite part of

the city "

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October 7, lf74

editorials

What makes Saggy run?

"Be not intimidotod. therefore. by ony terror*, from publish i no with tho utmost freedom who tower con bo w or ranted by the low* of our country. nor suffer yourselves to bo wheedled out of your liberty by ony pretenses of politeness, detlcecy. or de

cency These, os they ore often used, ore but throe different nemos for hypocrisy, chicenery. end cow or due "

— John Adorns I7H We start getting quite a few questions this tune of year about how we get the Sopomore out every week So rather than ex

plain it alt twenty times a week we got together and decided to try explaining it just once

Fur starters the Soeomore is run entirely by students at Il'P l'l directly responsible to the IUPUI Board ai Publications which meets quarterly to disrusa questions of policy and for

mat We pay fur the publication through the sales of adverbs mg which explains why you see so many ads each week.

Advertising allows us to present you with a newspaper each week WITHOUT taking bucks out at your pocket in the form of student fees or subscriptions

We are responsible for getting copy into the newspaper, lay

out and designing the paper and getting it out to over twenty locations on the five campuses of the university

Which would he very simple if that was all we had to do But add tothis list thr "little things which make up the "gut work"

of

the newspaper

The Iron! page story that falls through just before deadline The car that breaks down in the middle of one af our four weekly runs to Nublesvile. Ind where the paper ui printed

The v a nous special interest groups on campus which frequently attempt to dictate thr policy of the newspaper for the other I8.0U1 of you

The quarter page ad that got last on the business manager s desk two hours before the last deadline

Thr space problems of trying to squeeze twelve pages of

•turves and articles into eight pages of newspaper And oc c as tonally. vice versa

These are the things which each week, determine thr kind af newspaper that you II read next week Our wnters are unpaid, their work is voluntary and the only form af remuneration that they receive is the pleasure of creating something not always good but something that wasn't there before them

We welcome your criticisms and suggestions Not that we re going to change the paper's policy every time someone disagrees with us But we will at least listen to what you’ve got to say and certainly give it consideration And if you think you have something to contribute to thr paper we welcome that as well

We hope that what we ve said has cleared up some of the questions that you frequently have about us And if it hasn't, we re still willing to try and answer anything else We re in the Cavanaugh Building at 925 W Michigan St.. Room IK and our phone number is JM 40MB

May br it s best to sum it up w ith a piece we printed last year We think it still holds true

•"If a paper prints jokes some readers say it is silly Without humor readers say thr paper is too venous

"If you ask for stones from others you are too lazy to wnte If you do not ask lor stones, you are too fond af y our own staff

"If you print pictures, you waste good space If you do not print pictures thr newspaper is dull

"If you do not print contn but ions you do not appreciate the value uf news and you spurn genius If you print all contribu tions. some say. the pages are filled with junk

"If you pnnt something a reader doesn t like, you can be charged with radicalism, fascism, liberalism, conservatism or any other kind of * ism“ except Amencamsm

"Now very likely someone will say that this viewpoint was swiped from some other newspaper It was "

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Editor M William Luthoitz

Managing Editor AT Chase" Chastain

Business Manager AJ Klein

Circulation Manager (Tup Purcell

Editorial Cartoonist Lou Northern

STAFF Jeff Buttrum, Ken Conway. Hex Davenport. Harry Goodyear. Mike Hudnut. Aaron Koenig. Steve Mattingly. John Schmitt. Gary Webb. Karen Zelite

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Who is Brer Rabbit1*

by Harry Goodyear

I suspect that each of you is familiar with the Uncle Remus story of “Brer Rabbit and Sis Caw" You remember, of course, that Brer Rabbit talked Sis Cow into butting her head against an apple tree to knock down apples which he wanted to eat Sis Cow s horns became struck in the tree and Brer Rabbit then at

tacked hu real goal, the milk in Sis Cow's udder

Now. if you let the apple tree play the part of the political head of this country, formerly Nixon, presently Ford. and. you let Sis Cow stand for thr people of this nation, then. Brer Rabbit takes the part of the profiteers milking thr public while the public's attention is stuck to the tree, which is, of course, the country's political leaders

Since we are well aware of this story which Uncle Remus told long ago. I wonder how we let it occur in real life, adversely ef

fecting thr whole nation It must be painfully apparent that we.

the people, encourage the profiteers to profit, the poor to suffer and those in between to complain but remain inactive in the solution of the riddle of Brer Rabbit and Sis Cow

To the Editor:

At the beginning of each year we see an influx of freshman roll into IUPUI and immediately thereafter the walls of the men's lavatories come alive with words of wit and wisdom extravagantly referred to as graffitti It is an occurs nee os predictable as national holidays

The reason for this letter is that the current crop of corny comings is particularly bad Racist remarks abound from both sides of the color line complete with crude carica

tures. These particular pieces of rabble plus the normally obscene rhymes and pictorial rendition of genitalia make it almoat impossible to relieve oneself in peace

The poor souls in house

keeping who have to scrub this trash off the walls can't seem to keep up with the supply, which means that the walls of the stalls will con

tinue to be eyesores until some administrative biggie realizes that the stalls without walls would be a definite improvement Of course, juvenile jerks who wnte on walls would un

doubtedly scream about their loas of pnvacy. And that, gentlemen, is exactly what I am screaming about

Chase

LIBERAL ARTS..? NEXT

SEMESTER..LIBERAL ARTS!

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October 7. 1974

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Nsws/vims

a little potpourri. please

From around the world, across the nation,

and down your street...

It may not answer all the problems of the energy crisis (?) but maybe it's a start. Captain Calculus and the Normal Street Mechanics Institute in Belvedere. Cali

fornia. 94920 are selling a little booklet for $1 25 entitled Chicken Deckle which ex

plains everything you always wanted to know and never thought you’d ask about how to convert your car's engine to run on — hold your breath - chicken shit

The plan calls for a cauldron, attached to the back of the car which heats the solid waste and produces methane gas Can you imagine what the Environ

mental Protection Agency is going to say about that one?

Talk about “fowling" your engine1

W A N T T O P L A Y SOCCER?

Anyone interested in playing extramural soccer, call Jeff Vesaely at the Ptiys Ed office. 264-3766

A $50,000 study of the public relations image of Indiana U n iv e rs ity has been r e peatedly touted by adminis

trators and I.U. trustees as an objective report by an out

side agency with no reason to gloss the picture.

Some skepticism could be raised by those remembering that the Hill in the Hill and Knowlton Inc of New York which did the study refers to John w. Hill, an I.U. student many years ago

Form erly a well-known business-economic jo u r

nalist. Hill attended I.U. from 1911-12 without receiving a degree until 1971. when the trustees voted to award an honorary doctor of laws degree to him

Though the study does include plenty of criticism about I.U., questions of ac

curacy could be raised about the survey's "innovative"

interview and data-collection procedures The survey cost was paid from nontax funds

Tryouts for 1974-75 cheer

leaders for the IUPUI Metros will be held Monday, October 14 at 5 00 P M in the School of Physical Education gym at 1010 West 64th Street Practices will be held Oct. 7 to 10 (Monday to Thursday) at 5:00 PM Anyone in

terested in trying out should attend at least one practice Six cheerleaders and one alternate will be selected Contact Nick Kellum at 264- 3766 if you have any questions To be eligible you must be a fulltime (min 12 hrs.) undergraduate student.

The OVA has been reorganized and moved to the real estate house directly west of the CA building According to Mike Hamilton, coordinator of veterans' affairs, the reorganization of the office includes the addition of the veterans' certification personnel. Mrs.

Dolores Policy and Mrs.

Barbara Bellville from the registrar’s office This came about as a result to provide better service to the veterans at IUPUI

The veterans' administra

tion representatives (VET REP) are omc ided om tje reprgamization and they are now located in the office of veterans' affairs There is a real need for a vital office like the vetemas affairs office, especially since IUPUI leads all schools in Indiana in veteran enrollm ent The benefit of the relocation is having a complete OVA m one facility.

Mr Hamilton staled that the vets association is moving with full speed and any veteran interested in joining the organize bon should come to the next meeting, October 14 1974, in room 126, Cavanaugh Hall

Wednesday, October 30. Dr.

Richard C. Kagan will be the guest of the Political Science Department Assistant Prof of History at Hamline University, Dr Kagan has studied, written and travelled in the area of Far East, his speciality is U .S .— China relations. He will speak to a faculty-staff luncheon in Union Bldg room 104-5 at a noon lunch (brown bag.

cafeteria, no cost).

The veteran's placement counselor will maintain evening hours on Thursday of each week from 5:30 to 7:30 pm

This new service is designed to assist veterans who attend evening classes and work full-time during the day Veterans are free to walk-in without an appointment and discuss matters pertaining to on- campus recruitment, career planning, job placement or c a s u a l e m p lo y m e n t opportunities

The veteran should contact Mr Paul Elliott at the office of Career Counseling and Placement in room K060 of the Krannert Building on East 38th Street

According to Dave Mann- weiler in the Neup, Oick Lugar sent Kurt Vonnogut a letter Kurt Vonnegut sent Dick Lugar a reply which wished that “you go far politically

The Republican party printed Vonnegut s letter in the Youth for Lugar Newsletter And at that point, Vonnegut sent Birch Bayh a telegram wishing him luck in his campaign against Lugar and informing him that a check for his campaign was in the mail. It's not nice to fool mother nature

There will be a meeting to form an extra-m ural wrestling team for IUPUI on Wednesday. Oct. 11 at 4 p.m at the School of Physical Education. For further in

formation. call 264-3764 Grad Dent Wives’ Club will have a speaker from Indiana Repertory Theatre at Park Lafayette Clubhouse October 8th, 7:15 p m

Cadet Colonel Lance Ed

wards. presently commands the Cadet Corps of Det 210 AFROTC The detachment is comprised of students from IUPUI. Marian, and Butler Colonel Edwards will graduate at the end of the fall term and receive a com

mission of Second Lieutenant in the I S Air Force At this time he is a navigator candi

date. however, if accepted to medical school he will attend med school as an Air Force officer on active duty

Five other IUPUI students serve in the Cadet Command structure Cadet Major Ron Anglea is Education and Training Officer. Cadet Major Michael Frame is A d m in is tra tiv e O fficer.

Cadet Maior John Easley is Personnel Officer, Cadet Captain Joel David is In

spector and Cadet F irst Lieutenant Kenton Ward is Information Officer Cadets Anglea and Frame are both pilot candidates and are pre

sently receiving 25 hours of flight instruction through the AFROTC program.

A total of 24 IUPUI students are enrolled in AFROTC Eight of this number are on AFROTC scholarship which pays for the complete educa

tion of the member The past Cadet Corps Commander. 2nd Lieutenant Robert Gerhlich. graduated from IUPUI in May 1974 He will report to Moodv AFB.

Ga . 29 October 1974 for ac live duty and undergraduate pilot training.

Attention All International Students'

In te rn a tio n a l Student Conference — Indianapolis on October 11-12-13 at Speedway Baptist Church. 2966 Moller Road. 291 8570

The program will be led by Dr Joe Chapman. Chairman of the Biology Department of Carson-Newman College.

Samuel Mathai. Director of Fellowship of International Fnends. Dallas. Texas, and others

Cost: $5 00 includes some meals

For more information contact: Stan Smith. 310 S Vine St.. Plainfield. Indiana.

839-6494 or 839-6815; or Don Herman. P O Box 24038.

Indianapolis. Indiana, 241- 9317

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Every year about this time on the fifth floor of CA building the G raduate School of Social Service SSS conducts ita own lively veraion Boot ( am p for incoming first year atudrnta For those of you not fam iliar boot cam p in the arm ed forces and those th a t'd o you might get a tickle out of the parallels between lh r two organisations Allow m e the opportunity to make some com parisons

The m ain objective of m ilitary boot cam p is to produce m ass conformity in the desired direction The SSS attem pts tins by stifling any signs of creativity and individualism that conflict with their picture of a professional Social Worker Recruits I mean students soon learn that the beat way to a a m o ^ r r sem ester and b etter grades is either to be completely sile n t or to drvelop in Transactional Analysis, what is referred to as a

‘ Please Me Script ' It works something like this Whenever the D I . I m ean the professor looks at a student, she or he simply nods and sm iles approvingly This great technique called tuck axung in the m ilita ry . is a great way of aayuig you're o k and me to Attitudes of conformity are easily produced that kelp build a sense of group solidarity so that deviants are easily vtsable

The second technique used by the SSS is the Divide and ( onquor principle The first and second year students seldom see each other and rarely if ever share a class together This is controlled to prevent contagion Second year students have already been shaped, and the first year students have barely begun the process So it is necessary to se p a ra te the two groups % This point is even carrie d to an extrem e For exam ple there are two sep ara te student associations for a school with s student population of about 225 The first and second year student

associations seldom interact, except at adm inistration span sored m eetings and com m ittees

Other techniques are ueed to tear down the tdanUto and mental stam ina ef the students that have the sam e effort m m ilitary boot cam ps Anxiety is created in first year students with the help of aw kw ard class scheduling vague and changing course requirem ents and shifting school expectations These techniques help r i a e the level ef anxiety in students which m essential Artificial conflicts are created within the student by the adm inistration which h d p weed out unwonted and uneuited students Essentially the first sem m tar and m tm 4 m m astar to leaser degrees is a shakedown cruise with two giectflc abjer tives in m ind They a re : <11 to raise the level ef anxiety so the students can be molded and shaped to professional expectations and (2) to locate and persuade those individuals the S S deter mines unfit for duty in the ranks ef Social Work, ta either Wop out or tran sfer out of the school

The last parallel between m ilitary Boot cam p and the SSS applies to all first and second year students In mU inry com mends things are said to be running along smoothly and w ith out problem if there la a high level of bitching moaning and y e n n in g This it a norm al and hnnlthy condition If this be the cnee then things are indeed are going grant guns on the fifth floor F u rth e r, the current hatch of students in school should be some of the boat ev er trained -

Despite all of these tactics used ta m anipulate control and shape prospective Social Worterm, ttmre etlll estate a Mhtamd degree of nonconform ity In many cases, the tactics mentioned previously have the opposite effect, and produce higher deg r ees of dedicated individualism Which when you stop to think about it. is just what the Social Work Profession needs the meet

Name WithheUl on Request

l

Lawrence F Broderick

Sheriff race:

Broderick vs*

Hunter

ly John F. Schmitt In every m ajor election, there a re som e local races of

BRODERICK Broderick. 59 retired after 20 years with the Indiana State Police, achieving the rank of Lieutenant For eight years a fter leaving the ISP he served as the m anager of th e. G le n d a le Shopping ('enter

He was elected to the old City Council in 1097 Under the Unigov s y s te m , the fo rm e r C a th e d ra l High School and Butler University athlete was re-elected from the 17th D istrict on the West side .

Broderick, whose son Mark attends I C P U . feels that his diverse background m akes him the b etter candidate "A sheriff should be s policeman and adm inistrator I have the necessary experience in both areas "

His plans for the depart ment include expanding the

•octal se rv ices begun under Lee E ads and putting m ore

men into community re la tions "

He feels that a realignm ent of priorities is also in order

“ I want to fight crim e, and that m eans concentrating on thieves, b urglars and rob

bers

T here a re tim es when men a re working in traffic when they should be working on m ore im portant things S3 per cent of the cases in City courts in the first six months of this year dealt with traffic offenses

“ P a rt of the bad im ace that p o licem en h av e today is based on th r treatm en t that people re c e iv e in tr a ff ic courts They get stood in line like cattle and usually get no real hearing a t all

T h ese p eo p le a r e n 't crim inals and they shouldn't be treated as if they are If you get m ore men working on serious crim e, you can ^get more done in that area and gam som e good public im age a t the sam e time ”

great im portance which tend to be ignored One such race this year is the contest for the office of the Marion County Sheriff

There w as a considerable amount of publicity general ed in the respective party pri

m a rie s . b u t th in g s n a v e subsequently died down

The focaJ point in the Dem ocratic prim ary was the la rg e n u m b e r of s e rio u s c a n d id a te s se e k in g the n o m in a tio n L a w re n c e F

L a rry '' Brodenck an in c i m b e n t C i t y - C o u n t y C o u n c ilm an , b e s te d four other prim e contenders and some also-rans to win the D em ocratic nod

E A llen H u n te r, the eventual Republican winnsr.

w as the m ld d h m an in a b a ttle b e tw e e n in c u m b e n t sheriff Lee EAds and the Keith Bulen m achine

Eads who cannot succeed himself under Indiana law.

th ought G O P c a n d id a te s should h a v e so m e p olice experience, and He didn’t think Hunter filled the bill

HUNTER Hunter. 03. contends that his service as the Mayor of Beech Grove, and head of the

He also feels that his p n o r se rv ic e a s th e County A uditor. T r e a s u r e r , an d Clerk give him the a d m in s trative background needed He is Dre'trntly finishing his second term as Clark and.

like E ads, cannot run again Hunter adm its that he and Eads a re not bosom bud diaa" and feels that the prim ary problem cam e about because "L ac was h u rt be

cause be wanted to dictate to the P arty who hu succraaor would be Over the y ears. I've found out that you c a n 't do i t "

Both candidatoa oppose the proposed consolidation of the S h eriffs D epartm ent with

th e In d ia n a p o lis P o lic e Therefore, th r race com es down to d eferen ces in expert e n ce a n d p la n s fo r the D epartm ent

Hunter has a three-point p ro g ra m th a t he w ould concentrate on if elec led

One 1 would hope to utilise women officers in rape

Twe. "W e should pay m ore a tte n tio n to g iv in g th e y o u n g er p e o p tf s e p a r a te crim inals "

T h re e . M a in ta in th e present policies, form ulated b> E ads who Hunter feels by and large has done a good job "

Hunter bebeveo that tat years in the Clerk s a re an a s s e t b e c a u s e " I n d u e D epartm ent, we keep d o se to the activities in ail M County courts

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October 7, 1974 v

Nugent's

by Karen M. ZiliU Tooth, Fon«, and Claw is Ted Nugent's and the Amboy Dukes' latest lp. Sorry to say their vibes aren't quite as wild as the title implies, unless you consider acoustic barbarism THE form of wild

m u sic. N u g en t's b a sic rhythm prem ises are good, but variations of that premise are so poorly disguised that m ost so n g s sound in d is

tin g u ish a b le from one another.

Fortunately there are two exceptions Chuck Berry’s

“ May belline has undergone another rendition, and this one is tops The arrangem ent has got more drive ana power than an Offenhauser engine;

and w ith V ic M astrian ni reving up the percussions, it would be impossible to keep toes from taking off in a Boogie-land frenzy During the last part of the chorus, N ugent sou n d s a m a z in g ly like the Sha Na N a’s version of “ At the Hop." which is a great com pensation for his otherwise incomprehensible vocals The middle of the song som ewhat resem bles a surge of electronic farts, but sooo segues back into finer instrumentals. Wonder what Chuck Berry would say.

The other number of saving grace (or face) is a superbly mellow love ballad: “Sasha "

It's only shortcoming is just that: at 3:06, it s the shortest song on the disc Pity, since it's the only songiwhere any vocal qualities of Nugent come through

To mention the other cuts, the three songs on Side I could be made into one decent number instead of being the redundant entities they are Surging a c o u s tic s open

“Lady Luck.” and far almost six m in u tes tak e turns sharing the audio limelight with Nugent's grunts and im ita tio n " J im D and y"

(B la c k Oak A rk a n sa s) v o c a ls V ery m onotonous licks and lyrics. “ Livihg in the Woods ' should be com bined with “ Hibernation.”

Nugent should take the ad

vise of these titles and do exactly what they describe

" H ib er n a tio n ," I m igh t add. does h a v e a m ore original opening, even though it eventually drowns in the pits of the acoustic - and • bass - guitar m ire The open

ing is a decent display of

Swim Lessons

The Student Union Building will begin giving all IUPUl students free Learn To Swim lessons in classes starting October 14, 1974, from 4 P M to 5 P M every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon,

All students who are in

terested should contact OUie C. Craig, Pool Supervisor no later than 4 P M October 7, 1974 for enrollment

Each class will be limited to ten (10) persons on a first com e first serve basis.

5 noise not new

electric Spanish guitar licks, which is a bit rem iniscent of SR C s “ Milestones ”

As for Side II, " F r e e F lig h t" and "T he G reat **White Buffalo'* are re-caps of Side I. the more im pressive** of the two being "Buffalo '*

From what lyrics I could discern, the story line follows the plight of starving Indians faithfiuly following the paths of the Buffalo herds. How

ever, I can't guarantee this historical saga Nugent might have been talking about our

resident buffalo chips next column from all I could tell

D uring the 1960's. The Amboy ftik e s < before Nugent got lead v o c a lis t b illin g ) thrilled their cultist admirers **with som e down - to * earth hot rock All their little ditties had the basic late-60's acid sound s, c o m p le te w ith acoustic drones, bass vibra**

tions. and heavy percussions The Dukes had it together in a lot of w a y s then. T heir problem now is that they’re still together...in the sam e

Jon Voight and Burt Reynolds are co-starred in Warner Bros exciting production “ Deliverance" which opens a local and area engagement October 2 throughout the Indy area.

you'll

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Discounts!

up to $3.00!

Records

Top artists!

Major labels!

Hundreds o f records! Classics included!

M any, many selections in this special purchase.

Campus Bookstore 38 th St. Bookstore Medical Bookstore

Monday, Oct. 7 thru Fridoy, Oct. 18

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6 "Da blues is back": Hound Dog Taylor

By Michael Hudnut Mound (>og Taylor u living (root that da blurs (black.

Chicago, delta, the real blurs i aren't a vanishing species There re all sorts at blues imitations, but there ain't a white) this side at Memphis who can measure

up to Hound L>og or Jimmy Heed or KI more James or John la * Hooker or Howlin Wolf or Little Walter or

I have wondered what will become at the blues once these men. tor the moat part beyond or pushing their fif tieth year pass on If may be that the book is almost

written, pushed along for better or worse by the advent at technology and visions at grandeur that have never played much at a part in the lives at the original southern artists could one really last the blues sitting in a suite at Motown Records putting one’s signature to contracts7 The small lounges and clubs doting Chicago's southside have seen many a birth and death at blues men and for this reason they are tuaries

Hound Dog picked up electric guitar after it had worked so well for the raw style at two of the greatest b o t t l e n e c k e r s . R o b e rt Johnson and Elmore James His style is relatively naked

"Harrowhouse" not

at improvisation, but there have been some (Muddy Waters. B B King. Tat Mahal 1 who have expanded it Hound Dog's sidemen. the Houserocken. consisting of second g uitar (Brew er Phillips i and drums < Ted Harvey i . make up the classic blues band of vocal and the barest accompaniment The slide is all important as is speed when the pace becomes boogish

Natural Been is Hound Dog's second release with Alligator and like his Tint the music is goodtime and oc casionally crude and shrill As always the songs reflect a man who has been through the w orld's mill, whose primary means at expression

is s sand papery voice and an old custom made Japanese guitar. The combination is mundane and urban: your woman's home. your woman's gone and there ain't enough money to pay the rent

“Me and my baby was talking

And what she says is true Seems like time's gettin' tough

Like it was in '32 You don't have no job

hit bills is past due So now tell me baby what we gonna do '

Elmore Jam es, “ Tough Time”

As a member of the post

war blues faction. Hound Dog Taylor's contribution is clearly defined, standing alone his primitiveness be

comes sophisticated in a world of change

so harrowing

By Bari BroaOBead Latest m today s movie trends appears to be a curious fixation toward treat

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comes li Harrow House, the latest in super crim e comedies Although Jeffrey Bloom is acknowledged with writing the screenplay. actor- writer and the film's star Charles Grodin (the “ Heart break Kid'' himself) is credited with the adaptation, whatever that is

In any case Grodin's throw away, style furzes up his role

as the gem dealer who masterminds s twelve billion dollar diamond rip-off The Consolidated Selling System, a large l^ondon dealership, is the intended target. Groom's partners in crime include Jam es Mason. Trevor Howard, a trained cockroach, and a blonde bombshell with nerves at steel whose driving ability would frighten Bobby L'nser

As the girl. Candice Bergen is trapped in s role which would be better han died by a scatter-brained comedienne such as Goldie Hawn Meanwhile Grodin's non stop soundtrack com mentar) tries unsuccessfully to fill in the intricacies of Browne's novel Frequent flashes at wit are absorbed by the film's credibility gaps Cheer up though, the wit wasn't that flashy to begin with An example of Grodin's failing attempt at humor is best illustrated in the scene where Consolidated's head haunch. John Gielgud reacts to the news that two of his di

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Melanie Hamilton. Ellen J . Henkel end Shell* Burchett play the three marrispeebie daughters in “ Fiddler on the Root,"

next state production by the Repertory Theatre at Christian Theoieptcal Seminary. The musical opens Oct. It, with per

formances Thursday through Sunday nights plus a Sunday matinee tor three weeks. Student tickets ere U .M each.

By R E X D A V E N P O R T

A couple of days ago. a young girl walked into my favorite record store and said. “I want that new Beach Boys album that everyone is talking about.” Well, that “ Beach Boys album”

everyone has been talking about is not new at all. It is of course s big collection at SURF MUSIC, sod very old surf music at t that

It is the first album to get television commercial exposure, outside of the late night rock show tone slots As a result of thu.

Capitol Records has created a market for those millions of surf records they must have stored somewhere in California Do we really have to put up with this tripe again'’

Since we could not find the Captain at press tune, I thought I would talk to you people a little about some of the singles that are getting played these days.

First of all, I do not own a single Bachman-Tumer Overdrive album, even though I like their singles Did that make any sense'’ I think they play the kind at music that makes driving around looking for cheap gas fun. “You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet”

is a good example of thu kind of music.

Gordon Lightfoot’s “Carefree Highway" will probably get as much airplay as the recent “Sundown ” And believe you me. he will need every cent he makes to pay off his divorce settlement, the biggest in Canadian history Lghtfoot finally scored really big with his recent album < also titled Sundown) but bis wife was in court beating him out of the money he would have made on it.

Joni Mitchell would appear to have a solid hit with “Free Man in P ans " It was the opening song on her recent tour.

America u still trying to sound like CSNY. but I will have to admit that “Tinman” is probably their best single yet I want to have a contest someday to name all the different times people have made reference to the "Wizard of Oz” in songs If you are interested, send your lists to the SAG office. Maybe we can run the results in a couple of weeks. I can think of five or six right off band

Carole King's “Jazzman” is probably her beat in four years.

Tom Scott and hu saxaphone have a lot to do with th a t It first appeared on BILLBOARD'S Hot 100 chart at number OB. You can't ignore things like that. It is getting a lot of AM play, e s

pecially on WIBC

Somebody once described the Eagles as “ a bunch of whimps from Marin County " That, of course, in reference to the west coast county-rock sound. Well home listeners, the Eagles play rock and roil now. “James Dean" is one of the better cuts from their recent album. On the Border. Only the title cut is better With any luck, you will hear it an the radio soon.

You may not believe this, but we would like to hear what you think about all this miaic business in the SAG. If you have any kind of opinion at all, jot it down and send it in. Or just come by the office.

Otherwise, we hope to see you all at the big Gem Rock Festival The SAGAMORE will have an exclusive interview with Rock N. Roll, lead singer for the outrageous new group, Atomic Feedback Look for it here...soon.

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7 Eros & l i . O j good combo

By M . W illiam Lutholtz This was supposed to be a review at last Friday's John Denver concert but at the exact time that John was singing, I was standing at the comer of 42nd and Illinois soundly cursing my car's radiator hose which was merrily dumping its contents across that intersection.

So as things worked out.

this is s review of the Satur

day evening concert of the In d ia n a p o lis Sym phony

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Orchestra — so much for John Denver, although I understand from a couple of reliable sources that his concert was all right

The I.S.O. featured Peter Ero6 as the evening’s guest conductor and Ruggiero Rucci as the guest violinist.

Had Napoiean turned his interests to music instead of nations in 1806. he might have turned out something like Mr Eros. Indeed, at times during the Brahms First Symphony, there did seem to be a re

markable physical resem

blance to Bonaparte.

Talking with other people who were there, I heart! other comparisons to “Coiumbo"

and “ a b e a r." I would suggest that all of these

might apply. But whatever you wish to compare him to.

it all adds up to s man quite capable of putting the I.S.O.

through its paces.

1 was disappointed by the selection of Mendelssohn’s Concert for Violin and Or

chestra in E Minor. Accord

ing to the program notes on Mr Rucci. he is well-versed in both Bartak and Hinde- mithe; why then must we listen to Classical Too Forty?

If the concert with Eros proved any thing, it showed a bit of the sound that our or

chestra is capable of. Eros got a better sound with more body in three numbers than Dr. Solomon has gotten from them in three concerts

The "pure music” of Brah

ms made a nice contrast to last week's Wagnerian selection and. curiously enough, this weekend's concert selections with Shirley Verrett include two pieces by Berlioz. It appears that this season may be given over entirely to a contest between the programists and the devotees of "la musique verite.”

Whatever: at any rate, it doesn’t look like a boring season.

The first of five greet performance specials to air nationally over the Public Broadcasting Service will feature Leonard Bernstein conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood in a performance of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.

S. These musical events may be seen Thurs., Oct. l| at »: JO p m on Channel 20.

Bad Co. good company

Stella's Sound

By Mike Stella One of the questions most frequently asked by the prospective Hi Fi buyer today is Should I go disc or tape?"

There is much confusion caused by the street corner authority in his "expert"

advice to the layman The purpose of this article is to put the tape recorder in its proper perspective

To begin with, let's discuss some of the advantages of . tape Most of the "street comer experts” statement are indeed true.

1 Tape will last longer than records. For practical purposes it does not wear out.

2. It can be re-recorded and used over again many times.

3. It is more convenient to store, physically

4. Stereo tape has greater channel separation than the stereo disc

As you may begin to suspect, there are also some disadvantages of tape Some of them are:

1. Initial cost of machine is much greater.

2. Pre-recorded tapes are much mare expensive than records. Si

3. Some machines are less convenient to operate than the record changer

If we observe certain condibonal criteria to the purchase at a tape recorder, however, we can negate most of the disadvantages of tape and be left only with its advantages. These conditions* * are:

1. A tape deck is never used

in a system in place of a record changer and stereo FM tuner, but only used IN ADDITION to same.

2 The prospective buyer be willing to take an active interest in tape

The two above conditions negate the disadvantages of economy by permitting the user to record his own music from FM and stereo discs borrowed from fnends. the library, etc In so doing, the user can add music to his library at a cost as low as

$1.10 per disc equivalent (length of time). This is approximately one fourth the cost of disc and a far cry from the $8.00 per reel cost of pre-recorded tapes Being used this way. the machine can pay for itself in a very short time by saving fantastic sums of money on record purchases

If the user will take an active interest m tape record ing and properly label each of his home made recordings, he will find that tapes can become as convenient to use as the phono disc Inconven

ience is also greatly reduced by the auto reverse features found on many of the home machines

We can summarize the position of tape vs disc by em phasizing the most important point made in this article. Tap* is not us*0 in plac* of Disc or F M but is used in addition to sam*.

By Rob Perdu*

The first album by this newly formed group could very well turn out to be one of the years best Bad Company, led by Paul Rodgers. ex-Free lead singer and Mick Ralphs formerly of Mott the Hoople Both share equal influences on the album. Rodgers through his versatile singing and Ralphs by writing the better of the albums tunes and his consis

tent and inspired guitar playing

The album starts off with their current single “Can’t Get Enough" a steady rocker by any rollers standards

“ Rock Steady" and "Ready For Love" follow keeping the

pace with good clean rock 'n roll of quality which is untir

ing

Side two opens with "Bad Company" a pace changing tune in which Rodgers voice is given a chance to shine The album moves gently into

"The Way I Choose" one of the best songs Rodgers has written in years

The highlight is somehow reached next in "Movin On."

a song in which Ralphs describes a bit how he feels while rushing from city to city on the groups current nationwide tour now in process Bad Company have taken a giant step wiih this fine album and let's hope they follow with equally exciting music in the future

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