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Monday, June 18, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Kantan Photo by BETSY RIORDAN
Itinerant Craftsmen Play Handmade Dulcimers
Traveling Musicians Strum for Students
The appearance of iterant dulcer craftsmans on Mount Oread may seem to some as unlikely as a visit by an abominable snowman, but the former strolled and strummed their way on to campus last week.
For those who missed the visit, Clyde Holifield, 29, and Stan Kramer, 22, arrived in New York Library to play instruments with duplicones; they played instruments played with two hammers held in the hand. They sat down in the shade and started playing, attracting a steady flow of admirers.
Hallifield and Cramer are hikchining from their home in Old Fort, N.C. to Tuscon, Ariz. They said they left Wednesday morning arrived at Lawrence Thursday night.
"My friend has a car that broke in tucson, Hollifield said. "We're going back there to see if we can start it and drive it back there to Old Fort. We figured that on the way we might see some of the country, but I don't know where to go up a few orders for dinners on the way."
Each time someone put money in the hat lying in front of the dulcimers, Holifeld asked them what they would like to hear. After he played for a while, he would ask the person to play instruments. In invariably, he would suggest that the person try playing the dulcimer.
"Until four weeks ago," said Kramer, "I had never played a musical instrument. Four weeks ago Clyde taught me how to play one and then how to make them."
The two operate a shop in their home in Old Fort. Holifield said they made duclimers, banjos, mandolins, auto harps, and much more anything other than guitars and violins."
They make several different types of dulcimers, including the Appalachian churner and the Pennsylvania churner.
The Appalachian is a smaller, simpler
the French instrument set for $190.
Their shop is in their home on a farm just outside of Old Fort. They have converted two rooms of the house into the shop. The house has been making dulcimers for two years.
"I used to think that music was just dead," said Kramer. "Most of it has been hard rock recently, and that's all the same, or you can get into bluegrass for a while, but then that gets boring. But with the duclimer you can make it sound like a guitar, or you can make it upright, or you just bring it down and make it really soft, mellow music."
By ZAHID IQBAL
"The fact of the matter," said Jerry, biking the last of the car that from his window rolled back.
Jerry the Cat Learns of Phase 3 $ ^{1/2} $
Kansas Associate Editor
I waited for him to climb, feigning disinterest. I was tired of Jerry's bating, day after day after day. I had hoped the food would open him up a bit: it was the first I had been able to get for him since he came to stay with me.
"That was good stuff." Jerry said, looking wistfully at the fridge where I had taken it.
"That's all you get, Jerry—if it weren't for the price freeze, you wouldn't have gotten any. I had problems fighting my way through the crowds of people at the convention hall last year, but only let me past when I really took them I had priority because I really had a cat."
"YOU MEAN actual pelle are being tested to eat cat food?" Jerry asked, burrowed.
"Oh, Jerry." I said, "you've been away so long. People don't eat meat anymore—that was a long time ago. But the President passed a law saying the supermarket owners couldn't remove all meat from their stores and so we now have whole rows of meat that are looking hunks of meat looking up at us. It's just like old times, except that . . ."
"Oh, these are just minorities and maybe students who have cat food on weekdays and go over to friends "over the weekend for fun," said Sarah "good." But Jerry was still a bit puzzled.
"What about all the lovely hunks of meat they used to have out at the supermarkets—don't you ever feel like getting your teeth into one of those anymore?" he asked.
My voice trailed off as I thought back to the meat-and-egg days and wondered if they'd ever come back. My grandmother had eaten all of them, and were simply scrumptious. But that was all we visited her for, and so when meat went off the deep end, so did she—and started eating again.
"As I was saying," said Jerry, in-
house not *good*, or *my own good*, that is:
1. I stared at the ceiling, appearing not to
terrupping my revere, 'I've left the White House for good. For my own good, that is.'
"MOSBY IS the one who inspired me, really, . . . he took off ages ago, saying something about the writing on the walls." I let Jerry continue, realizing that silence
I let Jerry continue, realizing that silence was one way of provoking him to speak.
"Mosby was the other White Cat cat, in case you were wondering—closer to the
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President than I was. But for some strange reason, he left. very Painly, he was—said if I didn't leave by the middle of the year I'd get kicked out anyway."
"Did you get kicked out?" I asked,
torgging my resolve to be silent while
"OH, HALF-AND-HALF, I guess," Jerry replied grudgingly. "I would have left anyway. My stuff was packed—most people 'round the President keep their stuff packed these days—but my departure was a bit unscheduled."
"What happened?"
Jerry frowned at me. It was obvious he thought我 pretty dumb.
"Oh-I redecorated my room a little while back, put up a few paintings, cheesechake wallpaper, a poster with my favorite proverb right over my bed . . . and then, bang—but I went, kicked into the lawn of the White House by a Presidential Boot."
"You mean without any explanation whatsoever?"
"THE PRESIDENT Is Answerable to Nobody," he said loudly. "Whether he puts his boat to the rear of a former pet or his ear to the ground, it's all with a Purpose that is above the comprehension of the likes of you and me.
"But he did say something about my not ever returning until I was ready to scrap the
new look I'd given my room."
"HMM-mm . . . " I must confess I was puzzled. I had never thought Presidents concerned themselves with what went on inside rooms they never went into. I realized I was even more stupid than I'd realized myself, but I couldn't let Jerry find that out.
"I know—something in your room upset me," I said. "What was the wallpaper like?"
"OH, IT HAD yoy cheeses all over the place against a background of herring-brown . . . on the back of my door I had a Swedish mouse with a fantastic tail . . .
Jerry turned to the huge poster of the $10,000 Pantera sports car over my bed and asked if he could buy it.
"You guys really go in for funny sex-symbols." he said.
"We were talking about your room, Jerry. I pointed out. "Let's not stray from the room."
"OH-OKAY—what else did I have. . . I had this massive oil painting of Nigra Falls, I had a huge portrait of Checkers, late-lamented companion to the President;
KU Music Prof Lauds 'Otello'
"Oh yes, I also had this thing in on English type—the proverb I told you about, 'Curiosity Killed The Rat,' and that's about all."
friend, philosopher and guide to all White House Animals . . .
I racked my mind trying to figure out what it was that had caused Jerry's exile from the White House, but none of the things I knew in a room struck me as being objectable.
I was about to delve hurrier into the mystery when I heard the wind outside as it came roaring down the street, knocked a couple of trees across the road, smashed a truck, tore a piece off a nearby house and vanished as suddenly as it had come.
a forum for their own point of view.
For a minute I thought I was seeing things, and so did Jerry. But a few minutes later came the lifting wall of a siren to shout at me, hit us, and that it wasn't all imagination.
Jerry and I smiled at each other. Whatever we might have to complain about, there were still things we could be thankful for.
quoting. But one poetic product is quoted. *Quoting*: Be not a man who was said of Shakespeare, "He was not for an age, but
(To Be Continued)
Edward Williams, associate professor of music history, used a blend of 19th century opera and 20th century scholarship and technology in his lecture on "Shakespeare and the Romantic Composer" Sunday in the Kansas Union.
The lecure, the third in a series of exhibits, concerts and talks in the second annual Shakespeare Festival Festival and Gliuseppe Verd's masterpiece "Otello."
And, he might have added, for all art.
of a gifted artist like Verdi.
He said Verdi's music focused on emotions in Shakespeare's "Othello" and eliminated ambiguities, as well as providing the two Romantic composers with
About 30 persons attended the lecture.
Williams enhanced his lecture by using a piano and tape recorder to document the life of Boito's opera to life.
Williams said the opera developed Shakespeare's characters with more clearly defined, broader strokes, but he has always had a strong point; images could epitomize drama in the hands
King Makes Confident Comeback
By ROBERT HILBURN
When Carole King walked on stage at the Inglewood, Calif., for forum last weekend for her first nonbiennial appearance here in October, she was delighted. She cheerful and, most significantly, confident.
The confidence was important because it had less to do with her music than it was a
To the Editor:
readers respond
A headline in today's Kansan disturbed me. As a summer Grad student I seldom read the student newspaper because I sometimes find the headlines and the news "slanted," When I was training for the Kansan staff many years ago, one of the cardinal rules of good journalism was that you must have no hint of personal opinion or skepticism. Surely we don't need more journalists trained in the art of "news slanting."
I enclose two headlines from mature newspapers which headed up the same story, and to serve Kansas, Dykes Says, the Kansas-Chancellor KU Beloussas to Kansans."
The headline which I refer to is the one which captions the article reporting chancellor Dykes' speech in which he called for a federal investigation of people of Kansas. . . . "Your headline went something like this, "Dykes Insists to Businessmen University to Serve State." I propose that the connotation of the word insists in the context of the headline is fascist.
KU does, indeed, belong to the people of Kansas; past, present, and future. It wants them who have loved and nurtured it and those future generations which will do the same.
B&G Builds Fan
Surely the word "Kansas" should not be obnoxious to you since one form of it is in the plural.
Joan Cook
929 Klemp, Leavenworth
Harold Bilch, supervisor of grounds and landscaping, said that they were building an exhaust fan to cut down heat in an underground tunnel.
Students who went by Walton Library last Thursday may have wondered what the building and grounds crew was doing with a yellow box on the lawn.
He said that they didn't want to leave the fan completely exposed, disturbing the lair.
Instead, Bilch said, they will build a
tower on the top of the fan. He added that
they also plan to install a new fan.
British Correspondence School Offers Mail-Order Doctorates
By DAGMAR PADEN
Kansan Staff Writer
For $100, the London Institute for Applied Research will mail any of 10 types of honorary Ph.D.s to anyone who can pay the price.
The Institute made this offer in a June issue of "National Review" magazine, with an advertisement headlined "British Doctorates for Sale."
According to the ad, the London Institute for Applied Research is a correspondence school which accepted its first students in the spring of 1973.
THE SCHOOL advertises "one-to-one postal relationships between students and faculty," adding that "a 'course' may consist of anything from a long series of telephone calls to several years of directed studies in a variety of fields."
The school says it is selling honorary doctores to "finance the development of our institution," and contending that 'a significant proportion of honorary doctores given each year by major American and British universities go to people who donate large sums of money
"When a predetermined number of faculty have been satisfied," the promotion continues "we award a legitimate earned bachelor's degree."
Honorary doctorates are awarded by many American universities. An honorary doctorate is usually given to a person who has achieved something without advanced formal education. These achievements allow the equivalent of formal work on a degree. Peter Casagrande, director of North College, and associate professor of English.
The University of Kansas does not give honorary Ph.D.s. For many years, it was against Kansas law for KU to do so, according to Charles Oldfather, university attorney and professor of law. The law was repealed in 1970.
EVERY CONCEIVEABLE way of paying your $100 to the school is acceptable. They will accept personal checks, money orders, or checks issued by Express and Master Credit cards.
KU HAS ITS own tradition of honoring outstanding people. Each year at commencement, the Alumni Association animate a service for each KU's Distinguished Service Citation.
KU can now give honorary degrees on the condition that the Board of Regents approves each one, but tradition is now against KU's giving honorary degrees.
honorary degree is that the person receiving a citation is not entitled to put the citation on his or her resume and is awarded only to living persons and is awarded nominees on the basis of their having led a life of humanitarian work. The Honorable Jerome Hermerole, director of the Alumni Association.
realization that she has not fallen victim to the show business pressures that threaten so many who achieve the heights of stardom to which her music has taken her.
There is no specific rule, but custom decrees that of the 7 annual recipients of the citation, 5 be alumni. 214 persons have graduated since 1914, according to Wintermate.
The difference between a citation and an
KU's first citation was awarded in 1941. Initially, only those who had attended KU were eligible for the award. Since 1969, however, non-alumni have been eligible.
High Grades Raise Society's Minimum
Besides achieving national notice through an Associated Press editorial-pictorial feature, the class of 73 also had some high scholastic marks.
Election to the KU chapter is limited to the upper 10 per cent of seniors in the College of Liberal Arts and those students in the Graduate Liberal Arts requirements for graduation.
With her "Tapestry" album in 1971, King became one of the record industry's genuine superstars. Not only did the album become one of the biggest sellers of all time (more than 10 million copies), but it helped reshape music toward a softer, more reflective sound. It also earned King four awards in the field and a yearly dominance by a singer-songwriter in the history of the record industry awards program.
Reasons advanced for the sharp rise are a greater number of superior students, the 'alternatives' in 1970 and use of the two credit option for the four-year period.
The minimum GP4 for election to Phi Beta Kappa rose to 3.65 this year. 3.60 was the previous
ALL THIS acclaim and popularity understandably led to a series of offers—
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a barrage of press interviews; the usual activities in the frantic, calculated, superstitious world.
But she wasn't going to have any part of it. King, whose songwriting career had given her a glimpse of the disruptive influence stardom can have, wanted to retain her personal, private identity. Her concern was quite real. In "So Far Away," she noted: Traveling gets me down and the storms persist. I mind sure the road doesn't get to own me. There are so many dreams I've yet to find."
BECAUSE her feelings were widely know, it was something of a surprise when her recent 12-city tour was announced. Lou Adler, who has guided her career with the band, spent much of such a good time working with the musicians on her new album that she decided to tour when she found that the musicians were free to accompany her. The tour was a free concert May 26 in New York City, park that drew upwards of 100,000.
musicians (bass, guitar, drums, electric piano, congas and six horns) to back on her eight selections from her new "Fantasy" and her most important album since "Tapestry."
At the Forum, King opened with
staccato, one of eight songs from the
"Tasteful" album.
"Fantasys" isn't the consistent, universal work that "Tapestry" was, but it shows she is beginning to move from the shadow of her childhood to a new step for the reluctant, but gifted star.
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There was a welcome, informal air about
wear. Wearing a patchwork ankle and jeans,
she wore the boots she bought for her.
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THOUGH some had predicted the huge Forum would be too impersonal and cold for someone with as intimate a musical message as King, the strength of her music was evident in the way she wandered the arena's vastness. But the highlight of the evening was when she brought out some
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