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University Daily Kansan, January 18 1983
Alto Madness makes mellifluous melodies swing at the Jazzhaus
By LAUREN PETERSON
Staff Reporter
When Richie Cole reaches his alto saxophone blowing a beop-tune, he touches everybody, including a sell out crowd Saturday night at the Jazzhaus of Lawrence, 926 $ \frac{1}{2} $ Massachusetts St.
"Richie Cole is one of the most exciting players in jazz today." Wright said enthusiastically.
And the audience of 125, seated at round, white-clothed tables that started at the far east end of the room and pushed right up to the wooden stage, certainly agreed. They waited in line for the applauding fingers not swaying shoulders during its performance.
Cole's dazzling work seemed effortless as he and his trio blasted out three and a half hours of be-bop jazz, including "Sophisticated Lady" by Duke Ellington. "Fog O My Heart," a saloon song of the 30s, and an explosive rendition of the
Cole's solos, in the style of the great 40s be-bop man, Charlie Parker, clearly stole the show. But each member of the quartet added his own smooth quality to the performance.
Pianist Dick Hindman shined in his solo moments. A square mirror strung above him reflected his keyboard ability.
Bassist Paul Warburton and drummer Vic Jones encour-
aged a lot of "vahs," and "all rights" from the audience.
Richie Cole, jazz saxophonist, blows away a self-out crowd Saturday night at the Jazzhaus, 92% / Massachusetts st., with his style of "be-bop." Cole and his trio, "Alto Madness," were in the Midwest for the National Association of Jazz Educators convention in Kansas City, Mo.
Rick McNeely, owner of the Jazzahus, said Cole's performance was planned five months ago when Cole's agent knew he would be attending the National Association of Jazz Organizations' meeting, during the week of Jan. 10. The convention ended Sunday.
So far. No. The soft-spoken Cole, dressed in a brown-and-white plaid shirt and sand-colored corduroy slacks, said he had a new album, "Return to Alto Acres," coming out in February, and another in May called "Alto Annie's Theme," named after his 10-month-old daughter.
He and his family live in Monte Rio. Calif.
After receiving a standing ovation from a hollering crowd, Cole said he liked playing in clubs most of all.
"I had a ball tonight," he said with a smile. "I'll never forget Lawrence, Kansas."
On campus
TODAY
SENOR RECITAL by David Simmons, piano, will be at 8 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
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BLEVEN STUDY with the Campus Christian Fellowship will be on 7:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union
CAMPUS CRUSADE for Christ's weekly meeting will be at 7 v.m. in the Alderson Auditorium in the Union.
TOMORROW
UNIVERSITY FORUM "Excuses: Masqueader in Search of Grace" with C. Richard Snyder, professor of psychology, will be at 1:45 p.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center, 1204 Orest St.
Artistic Creativity, East and West," will be at 3:30 p.m. in the Javahawk Room in the Union.
CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER session will be at 7:45 a.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center.
SLIDE AND LECTURE presentation,"Soviets in Space," by Dr. Lewis McKinney for the Ad Astra L-5 Society, will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Council Room of the Union.
Handmade canes, quilts abound at folk art exhibit
By LADONNA LONGSTREET Staff Reporter
In the Lawrence Arts Center, Ninth and Vermont streets, a beaver sits chewing on a log about a fool away from a bear. Neither seems concerned about the porcupine squatting between them bristling with quills.
MELLON FACULTY Development Seminar, "Aspects of
These animals are part of a folk art exhibit of the Kansas Grassroots Art Association, that includes wooden carvings, an animal sculpture, and a display of woodworking tools.
According to its president, James Holmes, 500 Louisiana St., the association owns some of the items and borrowed some from artists who live in Kansas, Wisconsin and Oklahoma.
The association has usually held an annual exhibit for the last eight years. Holmes said its purpose is to increase public awareness.
The director of the Lawrence Arts Center, Anne Evans, said that many people had come to see the exhibit.
One of the items on display is an old, fried quilt composed of unsymmetrical squares of material. The seamless who is
"The people who have come have been very excited," she said.
unknown, embroidered all kinds of flowers, both blooms and buds, as well as a butterfly, a horse and a lamb in the larger
An unknown artist carved two winding snake canes with gaping mouths. Another snake, made completely of beads looking, equally venomous, had a label that read "Turkish Prisoners of War, 1918."
Larger representations of fish, pigs, dogs, a skunk and an elephant surround the room. Many were carved out of solid wood.
The cavings ranged in size from a five-inch bird to a 27-inch beaver that balanced on its broad tail and haunts white
Miniature figures of cows, birds and other animals were in another case. Most of the birds perched on little stumps of wood, clutching the edges with their talons.
"Visually, it is wonderful to look at," Evans said. "It's one I'm extremely fond of."
One of the artists painted a blue fish on cracked, green linoleum that resembled water.
Bill McConnell of Olathe entered a carved cow and duck in the exhibit.
"There's no end to (wood carving)." McConnell said. "It
rats to you, and you see more things to do."
Television use worries parents
By JOHNNIE BETH FISCUS Staff Reporter
Since it was first introduced in 1950, television has become an influential part of a child's life.
By the time a child enters kindergarten, he will watch more than 30 hours of television a week, said Kate Moody, author of "Friday at School."
And because of the amount of time children spend watching television, parents are concerned about the content of programs seen in their homes.
Moody estimated that 18 million children are in the viewing audience between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m., and no fewer than one million are still watching at midnight.
It is not surprising to learn that sleep is the only activity that takes up more of a child's time, said John Wright, KU professor of human development and psychology.
As television watching increases, many parents think it is their responsibility to control their children's television use, said Wright, who is also the director of the Center for Research on the Influences of Television on Children.
Last June, General Electric began selling a remote control device with which parents can block out objectionable shows.
Using a secret code, the device can block out regular and cable channels for up to 12 hours, said Robin Peyton.
Even if the set is unplugged and then plugged in again, the channel will remain blocked.
Enabled with remote blocker. The GE channel blocker, which is not adaptable to existing sets, is available on remote control receivers selling for $650 and more. Pevton said.
Television sets with the channel block-out system are available locally at General Appliance Co. 1103 Massachusetts
The block can be broken by inserting a secret code, she said.
Although GE's channel block-out device promotes more individualized television watching, Wright finds one big fault with it.
Current technology is giving viewers more channels to watch and more time to see programs they like, Wright said.
Because it can only block out an entire channel and not a specific program or time slot, many shows suitable for children are blocked out also, he said.
watch and more time to see programs they like, Wright said. With channels becoming more specialized, the broadcast industry will begin to look like a combination of FM radio and record stores, he said.
"Nickelodeon", produced by Warner Communications, is a special channel for children already available. Wright
Nickelodeon is non-violent, non-commercial, non-sexist and non-propagandistic. The programming includes animation, vintage movies, films produced for school, read-aloud comic books, music and teen-age forums.
"Watching television in the future is going to be more individualized." Wright said. "The viewers are going to have a lot more choices and a lot more say."
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ARE "LIFE-LINE" RATES JUST ANOTHER SUBSIDY?
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Benefit district financing is a notorious local example of this kind of subsidy. In benefit district financing the developer of a particular area asks the city to classify said area a "benefit district" so that public funds can be used to pay for the new streets, sewers, curbs and other required improvements. The property owners, i.e. the beneficiaries of these improvements, within or of these benefit districts are then supposed to repay the city their share of these improvements' costs usually over a ten-year period. When these special assessments are left unpaid the property tax levie in the city will be borne by the taxpaying public. The public funds left unpaid—approximately $260,000 in 1981 and $380,000 in 1982—will be assumed by the public in 1983 and 1984 respectively. Benefit district financing is a gross misuse of public funds and governmental power because it subsidizes the private mistakes of a relatively affluent group.
After having watched our national government subsidize the dairy industry, compliant farmers, and enterprising abortionists despite its avowed respect for competition in the marketplace and innocent life, many citizens have acquired an irrational hatred of all subsidization. This blanket hatred results from recognizing that such governmental subsidies as the aforementioned are inherently unfair because they reward a particular group for some theoretically unacceptable practice.
"Life-line" rates, however, differ completely from the other subsides mentioned thus far because they are designed to help the dependent and needy among us. The amount collected in the phenomenally successful Warm Hearts drive is not sufficient itself to achieve this worthy goal. This is why the enactment of "life-line" rates is an inescapable governmental function. FDR once observed that:
According to the January 5th issue of the Lawrence Journal World:
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much: it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
Many of those who spoke Tuesday night (at the January 4th meeting of the City Commission) said they don't mind contributing voluntarily to help the city's needy. But they said they resent government deciding that citizens must subsidize programs such as life-line.
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"All the world's a stage" at Worlds of Fun. This year, in addition to singers and dancers, we are searching for barbershop quartettes, jugglers, magicians, comics, belly dancers, mimes and bluegrass bands.
THE CLOSEST AUDITIONS:
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Thurs., January 27, 1983; 3:00-6:00 p.m.
Kansas Union - Big Eight Room
Should you be unable to attend this one,
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