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Art student finds dumpsters double nicely as canvases. See page 3.
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.
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.
Mustrage, 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 hold was stolen before the ceremony he said.
Tom Anderson, director of facilities operations, said his staff worked to replace the pole in time for the concession ceremony Monday.
Musgura said he first considered the theft of the pole a random act that could result in death.
"But of course, that's not the case now," Musgrave 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."
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.
Musgrave said that formost 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
"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."
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House, Senate buy time to hash out
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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.
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.
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TOPEKA - The Kansas Corporation Commission yesterday denied a rate rehearing to utilities that own the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant, but did adjust its order to permit two of the firms to earn an additional $6 million.
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William Easey and Jeff Polack, student body president and vice president, and their terms next Friday. The two say their greatest accomplishment was to "restore organization" to Student Senate.
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Led by the lovely and talented Maria McKee, Lone Justice has been the most-ballyhooed, although it's even money whether this bourbon 'n' branchwater voiced thoroughbred wouldn't be better off doing pure country material rather than the corporate rock she's saddled with.
My money, racing fans, is on the Long Ryders, who take off from such second-generation country-rock acts as the飞龙 Burrito Brothers, the Gram Parsons-era Byrds, the Buffalo Springfield and the Band.
And, if that ain't rock 'n' roll, or roots rock, or whatever you wanna call it, what is?
And, if it isn't, then whadya call Zoo City's Fleshones, other than "the wildest band this side of Birdland?" Or how 'bout the Bangles, the Del Fuegos, Three O'Clock, the Rain Parade, the Del Lords, the Droops, True West or the Pandoras, all of which are bumped with varying accuracy under the generic heading of 60's influenced, semi-pseudochelle, boom-boom revivalists?
After all, who would've thought that the biggest bands come out of the "punk rock revolution of 77" would be the Police and the Talking Heads? Only those hip enough to trap the rap of that great rock 'n' roller, Heraclitus, who said, "You can't steal in the same river twice."
Or, let me put it to you another way. If Bob beger came out with his debut album this year and it sounded exactly like his 1976 "Night Music," would peopleh it as a "triumph of hauntings accessible roots rock?"
And what about R.E.M., drawing on the Velvet Underground and Byrds for inspiration, and winding up the most successful act working this particular side of the street?
Which means that guessing which of the aforementioned acts' songs will still be bar band standards in the year 2010 is a task better left to those with crystal balls.
In the words of that ancient Greek philosopher, Lou Reed.
Despite all the complications,
You could still dance to a rock 'n'
roll station."
And it was all right...
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DISCOGRAPHY
10 Hot Historical Tracks
You won't find Elise Presley, even Muddy Waters. Here, rather than roundup the usual list of seminal rocksters (Little Richard, Chuck Jenkins, Lee) or simply rehearsing the past glories of such household names as bank William B. B.B. King, what follows is a purposefully placed shook-up set of sights that will even the nomiest of dorms into the highest room in town.
> **The Jackie Wilson Story.** Jackie Wilson (Epics / 2 Wkls). Aguagliy the greatest vocalist of his generation, the late Wilson is also among the most underappreciated. This package includes the tape with which his producers often satisfied him of love in their more than we say upworn” -performances gospel blues, BRS, soul, smiling like his lovely *Lovein' Illipards*. That sound at the end of Willem’s rendition of “Danny Boy,” in which he wring “24-cord” —more tense of the single subtlety —is your gift. Live at the Harlem Frost Cabin 1983. Sam Cronin / BCA (Tape).
Lou Reed
Close at his most useful. Playing a small Miami netsport, Cook reworks his then current hit with a gospel drenched intensity that sacrifices none of the ichh rone, fud pressing and calculus casuald that impired tame simulators from Olsen Reading to Rod Stewart. Finger popping soul never sounded better.
**Grossein* the Blues, Ozrs Italiw (Righty English Import), industrinl strength guitar base from the beginnin of this singertificate is *i*staranced cover, when Jimmy Page taught "I Can't Dulcet Baby." Hair when Eric Clapton taught "All Your Love." Heir Rush takes sales soough if you don't have to shave them with a browchuck. Heer **Chicken Shack** Africa Milton (Righty English Import).
▶ V.U. The Velvet Underground (Peyramgaz) After sitting in the vaults for 15 years, this recently released album still sounds all its time. Univariate will find that this first, self-conscious board of art品的媒介 was not only capable of a wider range of styles as it is commonly understood, but also that leader Lou Reed once sang as she — or at least the character he portrayed — really meant all the tension, mystery and bright beauty packed into these grooves. Often imitated never duplicated.
The monarch, *stormin* title track dates back to 49 and ought to conclude once and for all that rock 'n' roll did not turn up from Evis Presley's ducktail Miwanna from the brow of Jove, "Downthe Road Apiece" (inspectably not included theme) goes back even further to 1948, when *Miss Biodoom* blissed the West Coast jump blaze scene, whereas small, form-driven combo bobbed their wagons around such adult topics as rockesting and eyeballing highbailing.
▶ Nuggets, Vol. 1, Various Artists, (Rhino). This collection of Knickass garage-rock lots of the 60's bats 10 for
energy, runch, suburban punk postings and vested references to taking tea with Mary Jane make you wanna tune it on and on dop, then join the Standale, the Leaves, the Seeds, the Count River, Music Machine, Chocolate Watch Band and many more in Wonderful Wig City, just under the Shadowline from Awyrenhey, U.S.A.
* **The Johnny Burmese Rock 'n' Roll Trio** The Johnny Burmese Trio (CharlyEnglify, 2 I.P. import) the wildest, highest, slobberiest, most manic rockily ever recorded Diggastal Paul Burmeson's accidental zonation on the *Train Agent Kick* ("The Yardbirds and Amorid bird") done these redux, hot white and blue Memphis piccadillo colors, READ, gone.
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**> Hooker Up Midnight, Roller Up Dawn. Don & Drew (Special!) The dynamic duo of sound clinicians lam Sage Daw-Don not to mention the RighteousBrightons—everything they know. The爽酷 assent of a bar fight, this taped disc contéments contain the original 'the wrist ten'-versions of all off-couple classics as 'Justie Bigh Joe', 'Koko Joe', 'Farmer Joe', and 'Leaving All Up to You'. Whose **> Lunatical Blues and Zydeco, Cilton Charles (Antoine) You can substitute just about any of this accidental's several album for the 60s' or whether you're French in American or Japanese, playing swings IRB or smoother twieses, this legend has been the unquainted k歌 of zydeco, a highly rhythmic form of indigenous African music, from the 50s on tonus.**
**> The Wild Tchoupichoutines, The Wild Tchuopichoutines, (Antilles). In honor of Indian tribes that helped Native Americans escape, it's a Mardi Gras tradition that certain African men dress up at Native American warriors. They have more—mournically—charts that have been harried down from generation to generation to go along with the spectacle. Pulsating with polythymic power and—again—a uniquely American expression, this music is the perfect antique for a hot summer day. You don't have to know that the Newbie Brothers are members of the tribe to believe that when the Wild Tchoupichoutines bring them "gone some bump from here," Jack, they back their way.**
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