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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, NOV. 14, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 59 (USPS 650-640)
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Vietnam vet angered over drawing's theft
By Karen Blakeman Of the Kansan staff
Within 24 hours of its being placed at the site of the planned Vietnam memorial Monday, an architect's drawing of the memorial was stolen. A Vietnam veteran says this isn't a typical college prank.
The drawing, in a Plexiglas and stainless steel frame, was placed on a metal pole at the planned memorial site during a consecration ceremony at 3 p.m. Monday and was discovered stolen at 7:45 a.m Tuesday, KU police said.
Police said they had no suspects. "I don't know why anyone would do something like this," Lisa Ashner, a member of the KU Vietnam Memorial Committee, said yesterday.
Police said they had no suspects.
John Musgrave, a veteran of the Vietnam War, said he remembered a time when people did this sort of
thing too frequently, and why they did it.
"This is a cowardly act made by a person or persons wishing to make some sort of twisted statement about the war or the policies that led us there by attacking the first physical evidence of the memorial," he said.
Musgrave, who has worked for two years to see the memorial become a reality, said the theft had not been the first act against the memorial project. The pole the drawing was to be placed on was stolen before the ceremony, he said.
Musgrave said he first considered the theft of the pole a random act that had nothing to do with the memorial.
Tom Anderson, director of facilities operations, said his staff worked to replace the pole in time for the concession ceremony Monday.
having made a mistake.
"But of course, that's not the case now."
Mustgrave said. "Speaking as a Vietnam veteran, as a member of
the committee that has worked for two years for this memorial, my impression is that this is not a random act of vandalism or a high-spirited college prank."
college professor Musgrave, who joined the peace movement after returning from Vietnam, said he thought whover took the drawing was behaving in the same way some people behaved during the war — blaming the veteran for a situation he had not created.
"Far too often the Vietnam vet has been held up to ridicule and to blame, when we did nothing more that what our forefathers had done — we served our country."
Musgrave said that foremost in his mind when he heard about the theft were the faces of some of the people who had attended the consecration ceremony — the widow of a man who was killed while serving with the
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House, Senate buy time to hash out budget plan
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House and Senate yesterday approved different versions of a small increase in the federal debt limit to buy another month to work on balanced budget legislation and avert a U.S. default while President Reagan is in Geneva
But because the two houses failed to agree on how to approach the short-term increase in the government's borrowing authority, the issue was still unresolved.
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William Easley and Jeff Polack, student body preside and vice president, and their terms next Friday. The he say their greatest accomplishment was to "recreate organization" to Student Senate.
Behind The Scenes
When They Say Rate the Records, They're Not Talking American Bandstand
Can you imagine having records rated like movies? The idea would be laughable if a lot of influential people are making it happen.
weren't mean on 45 record labels received a letter from the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) asking that lyric sheets be included on all new releases sent to radio stations. Over 800 TV and radio stations received a similar NAB letter requesting they censor sexually suggestive lyrics.
Another organization, the Parents Musical Resource Center (PMRC), is currently lobbying Congress to force a ratings system similar to the one used by the movie industry. Among the members of the PMRC are Susan Baker, wife of Treasury Secretary James Baker, and Tipper Gore, wife of Tennessee Senator Albert Gore.
For years, politically and religiously conservative have tried to censor music for being sexually explicit or satanic, but other than banning a Kiss concert here or there, they haven't had much clout. With political heavyweights involved in the new censorship movement, the tide appears to be turning
MCA Records recently pulled a single called "Let's talk" ("Let's Talk about Sex") by One Way off the air. More substantial was the announcement by the Recordings Industry Association of America that 19 major record labels had agreed to put a disclaimer on the jackets of all records deemed "offensive."
the censorship movement may also be gaining because it has alies in the recording industry itself. Smokey Robinson, for one, declared "Something has to be done about socially explicit lyrics."
Dave Marsh said in Rock & Roll Confidential, the PMRC, the PTA and television evangelists are the descendants of the forces that tried to "protect us from Elvis, Little Richard, the Beatles and the Stones."
the beaches two months in late September, the PMRC, Fqnk Zappa, Twisted Sister's Dee Snider and RIAA President Stanley Gorikow testified against ratings before a Congressional committee. The ratings battle is healing ep.
Tina Turner says she is negotiating with several producers for a "movie of my life." Turner will not act in the movie, but will choose the actress to portray her and retain creative control. The movie will presumably be based on her recent autobiography, "I Tina."
Rod Stewart will finally launch his long-talked-about acting career with a starring role in a British soap opera. Stewart
would not disclose many detritus, but by the way he describes it, the show is from the same laboratory that produced Dallas Dynasty. "There'll be plenty of cutting ties, lies and decept and passionate romance" Two songs on ex-Go Game Jane Wilin's solo album were written by her high school sweetheart—Kevin Hunter of Wire Train ... Jimmy Ciff says that Keith Richards and Ron Wood of the Stones are talking about doing a record project that would also feature Police McStewart Copeland on drums ... Boy George reportedly will be organizing a charity concert over the Christmas season to help fight AIDS in the U.K. He has already contributed some $20,000 to a British AIDS charity. · Mandy Meir, formerly of Kroken, has replaced Steve Howe in Ana's line up. Howe is told to be working with ear
BY GREG PTACEK
MUSICAL NOTES
ly Genesis member Steve Hackett in a new group called GTR .. Master re-mixer Jellybean Benitez has pro-duced a demo tape featuring Madonna, and Ashford and Simpson tunes for a proposed contemporary musical based on the novel "Oliver Twist."
Record Watch
Coming Soon To a Record Store Near You
Barbain Streisand (a duet project with Run D.M.C.,"Babs Baps"—just kidding!) Flock of Seamills, Red Hot Kel
of Seagurs, Rokane Chili Peppers, Dance Society, Steel Pulse, Linda Rossstadt (first country album in years). The Eagles (yes, dummy, they have broken up; this is an anthology), Metalloid, The Triplets (they are what their name implies), Lindsay Buckingham (will we ever see another Fleetwood Mac LP?), Dokken, Peter Gabriel, Rocaez, Steve Winwood, Quincy Jones, James Ingram, The Ramones (compilation), Phil Alvin (of the Blasters), Harold Malefire, Van Halen, INXS, John Parr, Genesis (if they stick together, that is the Fixx, Guillfix, Oingo Boingo, Joan Jett, Boston but, then they've been saying this for 10 years). The Damned, Tom Watres, Thomas Dolby, Steve Miller, Julian Lennon, Twisted Sister, Sister Sledge, Graham Nash and Bad Company
(Since recording artis are creatures not known for meeting schedules, consider this list advisory.)
"When I got married at 15, I become an Air Force wife, to want Florida, and lived in a little shock in a little white ghetto of a runaway. No phone, no radio, no television. All I had to do was怀 baby.
Marthe Davis, the sultry singer/songwriter of The Molets (currently on tour), at 34 has two teenaged daughters. No doubt, managing a career and a family was trying at times, but she wouldn't have had it any other way.
"When I decided to do music, one girl was old enough to watch the other. I would take them to rehearsal, bring along a little black and white TV, and they'd curl up in front of it. They were never without me for a very long time... and they still aren't."
In addition, Green and his band Scritti Politi (Italian for "political writing") produce some of the most original music on the market today.
Green—just Green—the leader of Scritti Politi, is known for his musings on pop music and Western Civilization and is widely quoted in the British press.
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About the photo of a piece of wrapped meat on the back of Scritti's latest album, "Cupid & Psyche," he says. "Artist Marcel Duchamp was asked to do a Vogue cover in the 1920's. He did a piece of meat, wrapped in cloth with paper stars, a portrait of George Washington.
"See, a lot of people think that Scritti's music is very sweet, vaporous. I think there's an element of that, but at the center there's something more substantial, like meat at the center. And the butterfly represents the sweetness. Of course, it has a pin in its head, which means it's dead. Symbolic Yeah."
"They said, 'This doesn't look like George Washington', but it did! It looked a lot like George Washington. They decided not to use it, but I thought it was a very beautiful thing."
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