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Wednesday, October 8, 1980 Vol. 91, No. 33 USPS 650-640
Classified Senate votes to endorse candidates
By CINDI CURRIE Staff Reporter
The Classified Senate voted yesterday to endorse candidates for the Kansas Legislature in the November election.
Before the motion was passed, the senators listened to presentations by eight of 10 Douglas County candidates for the state Legislature.
Jan O'Neill, Classified Senate president, also announced her resignation, effective immediately. O'Neill said she resigned because of personal reasons.
Joseph T. Collins, classified senator, said a new president would be chosen in a few weeks.
The Senate voted to endorse candidates only if a candidate received 80 percent approval of the senators. A mail ballot will have to be answered by at least 27 of 30 senators for a candidate to be
Democrat, and Kent Snyder, a Republican, for
Wilson, and William W. Dahl, a Democrat, and
William Aaron Jr., a Republican.
The candidates for the 2nd senatorial district are Arnold Berman, a Democrat, and Jane Eldredge, a Republican.
ministration to recognize the group as part of the University.
Endorsements will be announced after ballots
However, Collins said he doubted whether the Senate could get an 80 percent endorsement of one candidate for each of the representative districts.
The Senate will vote to endorse candidates
THE CANDIDATES for the representative districts are Marlin Joe Hanning, a Democrat, and Davie Miller, a Republican, for the 41st; Christopher Starr, a Republican, Jr., a Republican, for the 44th; John Solbach, a
from the 3rd, 44th, 45th and 46th representative districts and the 2nd senatorial district.
Candidates seek classifieds' endorsement
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"I feel it is important to have a balanced budget with an adequate tax base to support the operation of government," Solbach said.
John Solbach, incumbent Democratic state representative for the 48th District, said yesterday that he would support legislation to extend a tax on alcohol and an official group by the KU governance system.
Willie Amison, Republican challenger to Democrat Betty Jo Charlton in the 46th District, said continued support of education was his most important concern.
with the economic problems facing classified employees and said that Solbach voted against a proposed state spending lid in the last legislative session.
"Your representatives have a responsibility to put a hold on economic problems," Snyder said. "State government must take the bull by the horns."
"I don't promise anything, but I will work to
October,1980
PunkTracks (NewActs) Record Biz Success The New Way
BY DON SNOWDEN
The Clash's first American release, Give 'em Enough Rope, barely nodded the lower reaches of the Top 200 chart. The band's debut LP and singles were so strong that the British punk quartet was able to sell on a 12-date tour of 2,3,000 seats in February in English sales for the band's four Fourier, Petrolution, Ultraviolet and Sham 69 toured America without the benefit of a Satireist recording contract—axes the band's credibility with optimism—and found enthusiastic crowds already familiar with the music packing their club dates. The band's second album sequentially and damnificent label deals.
The Police story is a blueprint for a
rue so called "Big 6" record companies (CBS, WEA, Polymag, EM/Capitol, RCA and MCA) control the distribution of 85 per cent of the records from these companies. waves still cater to their tried-and-fearless plus the occasional newcomers. Yet the two most influential music companies of the 1970s and 1980s and Irwin Wang developed out side of established channels, Disco, originally the province of Latinos and gays, was whollyheartedly embraced by the city's underground music scene spawned an alternative, underground network of small record labels distributors, clubs and publications convinced that the music business is that touch of touch with the musical times.
inspired by the do-it-yourself identity of the British new wave scene, independent labels and imports are exerting an increasingly powerful influence on the American music industry. Devo, The White Stripes, and 20/20 all partnered self-financed and independently distributed singles or albums into major label deals. Major artists have attempted to keep abreast of the times by striking up distribution deals with leading British beheaders and producing albums with Sufft, Atlantic with Virgin and A&M with the recently formed International Record Syndicate (IRS).
"Record companies are still conditioned to the late Sixties style of breaking new bands," charges Greg Shaw, "their whole approach to unintended label distribution is completely dislated." Shaw's independent Bomp label and distributorship was formed in 1969. "The most effective marketing strategy today to go through importation is to name but one, was broken through imports."
successful alternative approach to making it in the record industry. Formed in the wake of the British punk upin'ing, the band released one single on its own illegal label before signing with A&M. They shattered precedent for independent rock and pop in late 77 without any record company support—flying Laker Airways and carrying drums as hand bagage to cut down on costs. When the Police concluded their first proper American tour, they turned down a $1,200 offer to play a second night at the 3,300-seat Santa Monica Wong's, a small restaurant in LA's Chinatown which only charges entertainment policy from Polynesian Dancers local unsigned bands.
The other secret ingredient we had was the Paragon (booking) Agency. My brother Ian was there and he gave us the license to bring unsigned hands over here. American agencies just don't do that because they don't want
"There was a lot of resistance to my ideas, initially," reflects the Police's interest, bespectacled manager Miles Copeland. "AMM didn't want to release me as an official. It was a way it was done in America is you release the album and take the single when the DJs tell you what to play. I said we know what we want to do — we want it to some AOR station. Things up whose knowledge is right."
to know about you until you're on the charts. You can't even get 'em on the phone unless you've got a hit act.
we nound a kind of circuit, the Bat in Boston, CHGBs in New York, the Hot Club in Philly and the Edge in Toledo. Each tour get bigger and bigger as the word spread and we were able to add more people. Since then every little town in
"When I first started bringing the English bands over, I had to turn over rocks to find something," admits tan Coleopal. "I almost have to trade promoter to Allman Brothers date, and give me a date for this band."
America suddenly has a New Wave room."
Ian now heads the Frontier Booking International (FBI), an agency specializing in New Wave performers. Miles created the International Record Syndicate (IBS), an umbrabia organization of seven young artists, who are distributed by ARM while retaining complete artistic control over their releases.
Independent leaders have traditionally served as a regenade force within the record industry Fifties labels in Atlantic (then an indie) Chess. Specially, and Sun brought the black blues and Rythm & Rhythm & Rythm® to America (*race music*) and Rockabilly of such artists as Chuck Berry, Elisse Presley and Ray Charles
New York Rocker (166 6th Avenue, New York, NY 10010) The Rocker is giving the Rannes, Talking Heads and Blondie major coverage well before the mainstream press caught on and covers the English. West Coast scenes are all visceral. Lots of typeface. New York is, center of its universe attitudes, but it's well worth it.
Punk Mags (New Rags)
into the pop mainstream. The first British invasion in the mid sixties launched a stream of American one-hit wonders released on small independent labels such as Soma, Laurie Tong, Baw and Crescendo.
*Slash* (P.O. BOX #48888, Los Angeles, CA 90046) Abusive, abrasive, often profane, hard-core Punk ideologies and proud of it. Slash combines enthusiastic coverage of *LA LA* PA scene with interviews, with visiting dignitaries.
**Trouser Press** (147 W. 42nd St., New York, NY 10036) The most mainstream of the American families in style and content, *Trouser Press* focuses on English artists from the Pistols to Genesis and underground American artists as well as mainstreamers like Cheap Trick and the Cars.
If you are interested in sampling some of this new music,
write for information to Jem Records. P.O Box #426 3619
Kennedy Rd., Plantland, New Jersey 07800 or Jem Records
West, 18615 Topham St., Reseda, California 91235
Here are a few publications you might find interesting, but bear in mind that the list is heavily slanted towards the major metropolitan centers. There should be fan magazines of some sort in most areas of the country—if you live outside New York or Boston, don't any in your neck of the woods and you think one should exist, find some like minded friends and start one.
The American music business has since evolved into a multi-billion dollar industry aimed largely at an expanding older audience. It now takes about $250,000 to establish a new band, so the major labels, their sightings firmly locked on platinum-plus sales figures at the top of the rankings on advenacious music; the new independents are stepping into the breach.
New Musical Express (for subscription information write to NME by Post, c/o/John Watts, Boom 2613, Kings Reach Tower, Stanford St., London, England NE 9L8.) Easily the most interesting, entertaining and informative music publication in existence. You'll have to get used to having some of your favorite American artists shrugged unnervingly but MNE will certainly keep you posted on the English and underground Musician world music.
"It seems the majors have gotten to the point where they are only interested in selling millions of copies," contends Bob Say, the head of the west coast branch of Jem Records, the record label. Joe Janet started in 1973 as a three man operation pushing a catalogue dominated by progressive rock albums out of a house trailer in New Jersey. Their business mushroomed dramatically when the major American labels became more prominent in emerging in England three years ago.
The New Wave definitely gavejem Records more prestige in the United States," say relatives. "It created a lot of news, both good and bad, and we were ready to make these re-coords at the time and were still bring 'ing in the majority of them."
Currently, jen operates with a staff of 60 employees and approximately 150 students in State in addition to a small London office. The company now has two labels of its own (PC and Visi) and visi is currently owned by artists not picked up by a major label.
Fans agree that the quality of import pressings and the total packaging are superior to the domestic editions. Imports will be on display when they never appear on an album and the LPs often feature different tracks. American albums are often a collection
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skies and new high clouds, according to the KU Weather Service, become northeasterly at 10 mph by afternoon. Fair skies with light easterly winds and a low near 52 are forecast for tonight. Tomorrow and Friday will be mostly sunny with highs in the low 98s.
The Senate voted to allocate Blacks in Communication an additional $240 for a tape recorder and cassette for use in the group's radio show, measuring its total supplementary allocation to $290.
The Senate also voted to eliminate KU's Model UN allocation of $66.70 for postage and printing.
THE BLACK STUDENT UNION last night requested an additional $3,748.90 to their $231.75 allocation for travel expenses to send its choir to
hge hur e
Robin McClellan, Student Senate executive committee chairman, said that ASK was a revenue code allocation and therefore was financed differently than Black Student Union.
senior, and president of the black student
union, said that it was unfair that the choir could
be singled out.
She also said that it was unfair that some groups such as Associated Students of Kansas could be allotted travel money but that the Black Student Union could not.
The student organizations' budget requests
are returned Oct. 14, Lewis Armstrong,
classified senator, said.
Debate on the motion included whether senators could accurately represent the 1,400 classified employees at the University and who would actively support a candidate's campaign.
In other action, the Senate voted to write a third letter to the Kansas Board of Regents requesting that it place a member of the boarded staff on the chancellor search committee.
O'Neill said there had been no response from Bernard Franklin, Regents chairman, to a letter sent in July requesting the addition to the committee.
The search committee is made up of faculty, students and alumni and was chosen by the Board of Regents.
O'Neill said the third letter would say, "I would like the courtesy of a response."
She said that Acting Chancellor Del Shankl recommended the search committee allow classified members to meet with finalists if the Regents did not approve the change.
Jacob Kleinberg, search committee chairman,
he has not heard from the chancellor about the
Classified representatives would submit their recommendations for chancellor to the search committee after meeting with the finalists, O'Neill said.
The American Association of University Professors also has asked for meetings with the finalists for chancellor, and one senator suggested the groups work together.
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en Field House. The KU women host Emporia State
dget requests
were divided into two bills by the Finance and Auditing Committee. The Senate acted last night only on groups that had been funded in the past year, but most of them not currently funded will be considered tonight.
OTHER GROUPS that were turned down for funding last night were Alpha Rho Gamma, Architecture Student Council, Biology Club, Engineering Student Council, Fencing Club, German Club, KU Crew Club, KU Folk Dance, Minority Business Students College, Minority Business Students College, Thai Association, University Daily Kansan and Iranian Student Association.
Other groups allocated funding last night were Consumer Affairs Association, $1,546; Friends of Headquarters, $3,294.43; KU-Y, $181.44; Psychology Club, $1,390.55; Tau Sigma Dance Ensemble, $201.50; Women's Coalition, $164.
The Senate allocated $11,843.42 last night.
According to Bren Aboot, Senate treasurer,
$965,000 was the amount allocated.