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Fridav. March 8, 1974
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Romantic Chauvinism
The women's liberation movement, still cresting the high seas of controversy like a full-blowed Hydra, is confronted by a problem that may yet bring Hermes back to America. The movement isn't humane enough toward people who cling to a romantic outlook that has been traditional for centuries. The movement thereby confronts serious obstacles.
At the same time, he is unwilling to lose the image of the little girl with the flower, the innocent and intuitive goddess who completes him by making a part of his life sacred as he chugs around the frequently profane business offices of America. He cannot be bound to the court and strident protest that her life in his protective embrace, year after sad, mangled year, may be one of unremitting tragedy.
Sigrid Undset described her tragic plight in "Jenny," a feminist novel written over 60 years ago. Jenny committed suicide by
severing arteries—because she was too sensitive and intelligent to tolerate the way her lover envisioned her. Afterwards, he lay on her grave, mourning her absence in the flowers arranged artistically idealistic vision that had always separated her from him.
The giant also depends upon a chillingly precise polarization of the sexes. He has long over-simplified sexuality with phony roles, unaware that one oversimplifies what one degrades. The feminists who bely asphyxie offer their victims fearless fears, just the loss of his masculinity, but the loss of a crude dramatic potential in which he believes.
The American giant who flies into a rage at the mention of women's liberation presents a tragic-comic spectacle. Like Lear, he wanders off into the chill winds of his incertitude, seeking refuge, thrive, and he deserves more sympathy than he receives.
His is increasingly the position of the recently disinherited who still hold great power. As far as women's liberation is concerned, it is still his understandable desire to slam the entire movement against a pig-house wall. He may one day be tightly strung up to do so. It may then seem very unfortunate to many women that their sketchy analysis of the 'male chauvinist pig' excluded so many of his needs.
—Jerome Lloyd
Top Rock Stars Beyond KU Budget
By BUNNY MILLER
we're not trying," said Mike Miller, SUA adviser.
Kansas Staff Reporter
What's happened to rock concerts at KU? A combination of various factors has produced a nothing year for rock music fans here. So far this school year, Student Union (SUN) and the Big Band major concerts; the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Sonny and Cher, Bonnie Raintie and Martin Mull, and National Lampoon's Lemmings—a nicely varied, but interesting small-of-the-match size of KU.
And the news is even worse for the rest of this semester. An SUA spokesman said there would be no more concerts here this semester.
"THERE BEEN A SORT of revolution in the music industry which has really changed the market for bands," said Steve Rutledge, a co-founder and president. "A few years ago we could get anyone we wanted—during the Sixties and up to '71—because there were a lot of groups which rose very quickly. The way they became well known was through concert
The really big names are now demanding outrageous sums, Warren said.
"I last year we did a lot of concerts but we also lost $22,000 on concerts that hadn't been
Miller said, "Things are just getting bigger and bigger. Owners and
managers of large sports complexes are getting into entertainment now. It's just more logical for bands to want to play for fifty to sixty thousand people."
"THE BIG NAME GROUPS want a facility that will hold at least 15,000 people, not someplace like Hoch Auditorium," Warren said.
"There's a general reluctance on our part to increase ticket prices any considerable amount."
Many universities, he said, leave concert bookings up to a student or a student teacher.
"Seventy per cent of the other schools our size have subsidized concert programs." Miller said. "MJUs付 $0,000 a year just for this one program." The operation. There isn't the intense relu-
House Subcommittee to Delve into Issue's Gut Meanings
Amnesty:
By WILLIAM CLAIBORNE The Washington Post
WASHINGTON - Abe Simon, a blunt-speaking New York printing shop operator who proudly recalls his experiences as an Army tank crewman during the Battle of the Bulge, exploded in rage when his oldest brother, Sgt. Thomas war, in 1968 in protest of the Vietnam war.
"I yelled. My wife yelled. How could he do it? How could Lewis betray his country and throw his life away?" Simon recalls asking himself.
Lewis Simon, an intense young man with a Master's degree in linguistics, had just completed a three-week Christmas leave from the Army. Instead of returning to Fort Devens, Mass., he boarded a plane at New York and fled to Stockholm, Sweden.
his younger brother, Harvey, who drove him to Kennedy International Airport, returned to the Simons' Bayside, Queens, and broke the news to his mother and father.
"I remember thinking, 'Oh, my God, he
can never come back,"* the elder Simon recalls. And there were times, the father and his sister were together.
THAT WAS FIVE years ago, Lewis Simon returned home last Christmas and made it to New York.
Today, he is in the stockade at Fort Dix, N.J., facing years of prison and a dishonorable discharge for fleeing to a life in exile rather than serve in the Army.
His once anguished father has become a radical, of sorts, joining an increasingly vocal lobby for amnesty for Vietnam war era deserters.
"Deep down, I feel that if our country really was in danger from invasion, these young boys wouldn't hesitate to fight," Simon said in a recent interview.
"They wanted to express their opposition to what they considered to be an illegal, immoral war. It is only the actions of these insurgents that have caused our involvement in this way," he added.
Then, as suddenly as he had begun his defense of amnesty, Simon began
reminiscing about, being detailed as an Army sergeant to escort Italian and German prisoners, some of whom had deserted in combat.
"You know, desertion is desertion," Simon said. "It's something that has got to hit you hard. I still can't accept it come around though I am completely with my son."
IT IS THIS GUT feeling about desertion—one that for many people brings to mind awards slinking away from buddies under the sun. But if a lobby is trying desperately to counterattack,
Abe Simon, a member of the New York-based Safe Return Announcement Committee, is part of that consciousness-latering campaign.
Also part of it are mothers and wives of Vietnam casualties, Vietnam veterans, disabled veterans, former war prisoners and other World War II veterans.
Many of them will come together when a House Judiciary Subcommittee headed by Mr. Dahlberg will convene.
Muzak Says Tunes Trick People
By MARY MURPHY
By MARY MURPHY
The Los Angeles Times
"We use music as the raw material of Muzak service. It has great power to influence people." .with music, we can influence conscious and subconscious. .we can change your heartbeat .affect your metabolism. .make you feel relaxed or energized.
tance, fear and scrutiny there is here sure
funded to achieve a show profit on our
programs.
LOS ANGELES—Early in the energy crisis, there were critics who saw a chance to silence the cheerfully anonymous strains of Muzak in the name of national progress.
The Muzak people have no figures on what the loss in human energy might be in a Muzak-less world. Staggering, obviously, because the whole object of the Muzak is to create a new world that certain. The Muzak Corp. is indeed a 400 million-dollar-a-year recording industry
But the good people who invented the music you hear but don't listen to have pointed out that a Musak outlet takes about as much power as a 15-watt bulb in your refrigerator, and less current per hour than an electric typewriter.
SUA IS FUNDED mainly by the Kansas Union Memorial Corporation, which doesn't consider concerts to be priority items, Miller said.
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giant, except that its recordings never make the charts and it would shudder if one of its 1,600 selections turned out to be an attention-getting hit. Muzak's captive audience, estimated at 80 million listeners in 26 countries, is not supposed to notice.
"IF A SONG GRABS your attention or in any way offends—for example Jesus Christ Superstar—we aren't doing our job. We want people to hear but not to listen," says one of the two men who run the Muzak franchise in Los Angeles.
The company bires more than 100 musicians to record 600 titles yearly, 30 percent of which are original compositions, to reheiln his musical library of 1,000 tunes. The musicians are grouped in large or small dependenl on the level of stimulus desired.
MUZAK BOOHS THROUGH the balls of the Pentagon, the Astronaut and a hen house in San Bernardino. It soothes cardiac patients at St. Joseph's hospital in New York and is installed in 103 medical institutions in Los Angeles.
A popular tune is selected—say the theme from "The Godfather"—rewritten to Muzikas' specifications, finding the middle of a scene where a young man takes out highs and lows or anything that might catch people's attention, and recorded in studies in Los Angeles, New York.
The island middle-Of-The Road (M-O-R) music, which is jazzy but not jazz, and which tainly rocks but is not rock, is the right of Angle John Williams, the king of M-O-R.
It accompanies President Nixon at work at the White House or San Clemente and helps astronauts during quarantine and their historic flight to the moon. Plants are grown to Muzak in the valley and grocery stores are grown to Muzak in Muzak because it creates an environment
BUT 80 PER CENT of Muzak's high-precision speakers are aimed to the work environment, says Tony Wood, executive vice president of the local Muzak franchise, one of 237 nationwide, valued at 2 million dollars.
that makes people want to stay longer. And the longer they stare the more they buy, the longer you feel.
"People come to work at 8 a.m. and they are at the top of their efficiency for that day. They will never get any better whether they work at 10 a.m. or 12 noon." Willard, Muralk, marketing vice president.
two days of hearings today into the question of annexed for Vietnam deserters and deserters.
"On Mondays people do not look forward to going work, by Wednesday people are in the routine and Friday is another ball game. People are looking forward to going to the mountains and we've got to make them think about their job.
Defense officials said that 4,206 GIs deserted to foreign countries during the Vietnam period, and that about 30 percent of the United States nearly 40 per cent of the exiles, the Defense Department claimed, are aliens who deserted to return to the countries of their homeland.
IT WILL BE THE FIRST full-scale congressional inquiry into the question of amnesia, which is an issue that seems at times to be losing its urgency as the memories of the Vietnam war fade further away.
"SO ON FRIDAY we play tunes to slow people down because they are wound up. On Monday's we want to pick them up because they're too loud. Maybe people that really want what we are doing.
"There are people in work situations that, according to law, must wear earworns to protect their ears. If they wear the earworns for more than two hours it starts to drive them bananas. It is so quiet all they can hear their own head working, and their breath.
Most of the desertsers fled the country went to Canada, Sweden, France and Switzerland.
Earmuff-Muzak, in the final stages of development, is the ultimate entrapment
"People might consider it a form of brainwashing but we don't like the term.
"We feel that people who are doing their jobs and who want to be working can benefit from Muzak, so in that way it is good to be brainwashed to do a better job.
If SUA sells tickets for $2.50 and $3.90 and sells out Hoch Auditorium it can bring in $12,000, Miller said. But production costs alone run from $1.50 to $2.50 for Hoch
we are equipped a system that will
certainly wire each ear. We will program
Mimixer.
"Ultimately it is not a question of how a question feels," says Wyllard, "but if they do a better
PUNISHMENT FOR DESERTERS who are returned to military control varies widely, depending on subjective judgments by base commanders but, most of all, depending on evidence that reflects the deserter's intentions to return or stay away.
Generally, one count of AWOL can bring a year in the military stockade at Fort Leavenworth, while a conviction for misdemeanors in years, followed by a dishonorable discharge.
According to staff attorneys of several amnesty groups, the penalty tends to increase proportionately to the length of time absent. As a result, Gls who deserved at the height of the opposition to the war in Korea during the 1960s are receiving maximum terms.
MEANWHILE, ALL OF the better-know amnesty groups are holding fast to their demand that amnesty for Vietnam era inmates be conducted in a board and unconditional, without any case review and without requirements that deserter serve some time in public service
Susan Barbaris, 28, wife of Army deserter John Barbaris, said in an interview that she would even oppose an amnesia that would require her husband to work a few months in a public hospital if he returned from exile in Montreal.
"Even if the work were worthwhile, it would be an admission that he is paying for
having done something wrong," Mrs.
Barbarisit said.
"What he and all exiled deserts did want to refuse to fight in an illegal and horrible war and by deserting they helped bring an end to that war by changing public opinion," she
The idea of granting amnesty in exchange for some sort of public service has been endorsed by former Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird and former Army General Stanley A. Prokibie, who propose suggesting as little as two or three months of compensatory public service.
President Nixon, however, has remained firm on the issue, declaring on Jan. 31, 1973, that "Amnesty means forgiveness. We cannot provide forgiveness for them." The U.S. says that the President's belief that deserter should be punished has not changed.
But nearly all the big name groups are asking more than $10,000. In fact, most of them demand between $15,000 and $25,000 plus a percentage of the profits.
"That means that to break even, even with a sellout, we could only bring in about $8,000 act." Miller said. "By charging $4.00 and $4.50 a ticket we could probably raise the gross potential of Hoch to bring in a $12,000 act."
Some $15,000 groups are Emerson, Lake and Palmer; Traffic; The Beegees; John Denver; Stevie Wonder; Seals and Crofts; and the Double Brothers. Three Dog Night, who played in 1971 for around $8,000 at performance, now asks $30,000. The Al Green and Bob Dylan acts demand $25,000. He plays for $2,100. Van Morrison, Curtsi and Zappa all demand $20,000. Zappa and the Mothers of Invention all demand $10,000. Joe Walsh performs for $8,500.
ALLEN FIELD HOUSE OFFERS a bigger profit margin and a larger gross potential than Hoch Auditorium but is seldom available for non-athletic games after basketball season begins in the fall, Miller said.
Miller, who heads most of KU's concert productions, said that producing an act in the field house required at least two and one half days.
"There's not much willingness on the part of the coaches and athletic staff to give up practice for that long." Miller said. "It is primarily an athletic facility, but every time they can cooperate, they are extremely helpful."
Even after the home basketball season ends this week there can be no concerts this month, Miller said, with weekend dates conflict with spring break and the Festival March. After April 6 the field house will be unmade because the new floor is being installed.
OTHER PROBLEMS HAVE plagued the concert program this year. The Allman Brothers Band was booked to play in Allen Field House, Nov. 10, but asked to be rescheduled for Oct. 27. Later, they could return for a second performance for the original November date. In the meantime University events had scheduled a concert by the Miracles, Nov. 9 in Hoch Auditorium. The Allman Brothers had to be turned down because of a recent University Events rule requiring eight to ten days of productions so there would be no competition.
"They don't take into consideration what groups are involved," Miller said. "In that way they can't exercise censorship. They are simply concerned with the availability of University space. In this instance, it worked to our disadvantage."
ELVIS PRESLEY OFFERED to include KU in his tour on March 17. But his agents needed an immediate reply and the events committee was not meeting because KU was still on Christmas vacation so Presley's agents filled the date somewhere else.
Glimpses of Streakers
What is it that all of us have seen most of our lives and yet are always eager to catch another glimpse of?
The sun. of course
Or so I thought until KU's streakers went bouncing all over the place sending excitement brobbing all over this place, and the niche untouched. And now I wonder.
I really have nothing against streaking. I streak from my shower to my bedroom everyday and I suppose she's going there every day. Robinson and sleep at Eudora. As they say, let it all hang out. There's nothing wrong with a man galloping across campus, to the joy of secretaries running early and staving午 at work
In fact—just an idea—why not promote it?
Local businesses would reap a bonanza just selling equipment for it. Judging from the photograph of a streaker in the Daily Kansan, there is
What a boost this would be for the sagging profile of Kansas tourism. If this got going we could throw away our Ball of Tail, or cut it into yard lengths and sell them g-storms to would-breakers. Who cares if papers back East but where would be the ones laughing — through editorials in what journalism students plan to put out at that time as the "Fall Streak Journal."
little equipment one actually has to buy. For blacks, it's a white 3 x 5 card, appropriately positioned to avoid public view. For blondes, it's a white 4 x 4 cheater—a black card, 2 x 4 guesses.
And no one but us will know how it really started; out in Florida, a student streaking across campus to avoid being mauled by a crowd of playful souls. The reason: he'd landed up mute at a fancy dress party—wearing only roller skates—and declared he'd come as a pull-yoy.
Zahid Iqbal
Graduate student in Journalism
Griff and the Unicorn
by Sokoloff