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Wednesday, September 15, 1976
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Singing the blues
Wescoe Hall is a "high academic intensity area" and unscheduled guitar strumming and singing is now forbidden along Javhawk Boulevard.
The University Events Committee, which schedules everything from rock concerts to Boy Scout rallies, wants Max Tenant and other musicians to make reservations before they tune up their six-strings to play on campus.
THE REASON for the ban, according to Caryl Smith, chairman of the events committee, is that Tenant and his family are afraid of classes and otherwise annoyed students.
After a campus cop asked Tenant to stop playing Thursday, Smith suggested that Tenant fill out a petition to play in the game nationally an area of low academic intensity.
Any university attracts a wide variety of people. Many of us were annoyed at the "screamers"—those folks who used to shout their version of the word of God at passing students—but they, like the streakers, have disappeared.
THERE IS a difference between the screamers and the guitar players. The screamers, although loosely organized, have a few special someone on campus most of the day.
The same thing is true for the Iranian Student Association and the Young Socialists, who have, on occasion, distributed leaflets in front of the Uni-
The Iranians, the socialists and the screamers were all organized in some way. And they have a right to freely express their views by using language that does not interfere with the rights of others.
THESE GROUPS scheduled their activities with the events committee, which didn't try to influence their political or religious beliefs. This functionality doesn't censor anyone and gives campus activities a little organization.
I suppose the events committee wants Tenant to play on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays—spontaneously, of course.
That's going a little far. The individual artistic expression of a student shouldn't be regulated by the events in which they may tell him what kind of music to play.
By Carl Young Contributing Writer
Fans flock awav from concerts
Leon and Mary Russell have come and gone. Folks at the SUA office, especially those charged with organizing concerts, are taking it easy for a year. The House have stopped rinking.
But the ever-increasing negative attitude of the musicians toward rock concerts hasn't stopped. It was underscored by the Russell concert Saturday, which attracted only 4,500 spectators.
SOME SUA officials are troubled by the new temperament. Only a few years ago, the UGA football-field house seats to fans eager to swoon before big-name bands. Now the big-name bands and their promoters are saying they can't make it a risky place to play.
No doubt St. and the Family Stone is among them. The group was supposed to play the field house two years ago, but ended up playing in Hoch Auditorium a crowd of less than 4,000 people.
PERHAPS MUSICIANS and promoters are overimplying an inevitable cycle by calling it "weird." There are several reasons why students could be shunning rock concerts.
Tickets prices may be among the more pronounced. Mike says bands are demanding incredible sums to play their
one-night stands. in spring 1973, the Beach Boys appeared here for $10,000. Last fall they left the band and were guaranteed $25,000 and a percentage of the ticket receipts. Those who went to the Russell concert paid $ 6, $ or $ 7 a ticket received $ 9,000 fee Russell demanded.
Perhaps students have realized that they could have two new record albums, a
The question of concert bookings should be considered.
It's a weighty task to judge the deserts of 17,000 people, find a house that is acceptable and choose an acceptable promoter and have him reply happily that the chosen band is available. The task is increasingly awesome as the commoninator becomes more elusive.
HAVE WE no idols? Have all
Mary Ann Daugherty Contributing Writer
WITH TICKET prices rising, it could be that students are saving their money for those once-in-a-lifetime performances. Unless a group really means something—unless you show the show with the thought that he saw history in the making—he'll save his money for some other adventure.
dinner and a six-pack of beer for $20 spent on an evening planned around a concert. And to some, the thought of listening to new tunes in the quiet of an apartment—far from long lines, smoky air and ear-drum fatigue—might be appealing.
the groupies decided to spend their evenings making Afghans? Do young boys still aspire to be roadies? In the late 1970s, people made a number of bands, like Elton John, Bachman Turner Overdrive and the Who, that could command instant response. Would the story be the one if they played here this fall?
Rarely will 17,000 people agree on what band will go down in Billboard's golden volumes. Consequently, ticket sales rarely will approach 17,000.
Thornton Mason, SUA concerts chairman, says the overriding reason is that "general unattractiveness" of most rock concerts. There is a general move away from being a part of the social phenomenon by allowing larger, bold, loud, douse-sented band.
At one time, he says, this kind of concert attracted nearly 40 per cent of its spectators from people outside the student body. Those people just don't come to KU colleges anymore.
SUA knows the mood is moving away from rock concerts. Now the chore is to decide where.
IT COULD be that students will respond to tamer extravaganzas, especially those that capitalize on nostalgia. It's no secret that SUA counts the success of Sonny and Cher in 1973, and the Beach Boys performance last fall as bright spots in its
graveyard of failures the past few years.
Hoping they've sensed a new mood brewing, SUA members have scheduled Neil Sedaka, a comeback singer who reeks of the band's October 16 after KU's hometown game with Oklahoma University. SUA wants to pack them in for this one.
But SUA members shouldn't count their receipts before their tickets go on sale. There's a good chance Sedakua won't have the charisma to call back the teacher, she heard "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" when they were still in grade school.
Of course, it's possible that those who remember Sedaka's songs will listen to his greatest hits on records and truly enjoy recollections of bobby socks and orthodontists.
But for many, concerts may be something they'd just as soon forget altogether.
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Jogger suffers for others
This Sunday evening I went to Allen Field House to run a few miles around the track. The recreation number, 864-3456,
To the Editor:
Disco's appeal: sexual enticement
Depending on one's acquaintances, it's equally fashionable these days to either detest or be enthralled by America's latest mass preoccupation—the disco craze.
It's really not that much different from a great many of our other national pastimes. It's noisy, physical and has its own code to separate the aficionado from the casual passerby. And it's money being made as a result of it and, therefore, it has become ubiquitous.
LIKE IT it not, the discra gage influences fashions and advertising and even shows up in such events as the Miss America Pageant. (Bert Parks was a killer singing the disco version of "Baby Face.") Disco was on over and over and over again on the radio.
The people who look down their noses at discos and disco music say the music is watered down rhythm and blues. They hate what rock star David Bowie calls the "endless numb beat" and some even say it's little better than jazped up Muzak. They believe that they don't rigidly enforce and see the conformity of dress and dance steps as a return to unquestioning obedience to the whims of fashion.
and chromium are common descriptive words used by disco haters.
ONE FRIEND of mine, a veteran of the drug-crazed 60s, went to a local disco and said that the young people there all dufurtly dancing the Hustle reminded her of an American capitalist version of the Hitler Youth.
"The follow like sheep," she said.
The decor of the disco is also held up for show. The seats are covered with blankets.
John Fuller Contributing Writer
is too hip to be hip and the word "boogie"
suffers from massive overuse. People are
constantly exhorted to "get up and boogie"
as if they didn't know what they came for.
Fortunately, most people who go to discos do know what they came for—to get loose, to dance and perhaps just in bed with a girl you must derestinate the power of young lust! Walk into a disco on a good night and you will know why they exist. They thrive on sexual
AH, and then one remembers where discos got their start. The gay communities in New York and Los Angeles began the craze almost four years ago. Of course, their discs were, and are, much different when discos installations now spring up in Lawrence.
The Lawrence city fathers could never tolerate the open sex, the cocaine snorting and the amyl nitrate snapping that all the young dudes on the coasts indulged in at night. These men would have those boys together on the dance floor alone would be enough to put this city in a dizzy!
Even though Lawrence may be too provincial for that sort of original disco society, there are still thousands of energetic students looking for a sensual outlet and a way to have fun. Who can deny that dancing is a good way to have fun and express yourself, assuming you like to dance?
SO WHAT if discuses you make take off your hat? What if you can't have holes in your Levi's or wear a T-shirt? If what if the word 'is heard in song and speech adl-
Here, my friends, is a fictious example of a disco at its best (I won't venture to say how many nights out of the week or month I spent there since I'm not a regular patron of one):
Stanley Studhorse and Suzy Summer trade glances at the door of their favorite disco as they walk in. Stanley opens the door for Suzy and then stares at her from behind as her I.D. is checked. He thinks he'll definetly ask her to dance after he drinks a pitcher or two. She thinks he's cute They've never seen each other before.
THEY BOTH sit with friends once inside and to their mutual (secret) satisfaction the two groups of friends are setting close to each other. The music has already started and the sound of a woman groaning in seemingly endless orgasmic delight to a person who is loudly on the powerful sound system. Stanley and Suzy establish eye contact several times but only for brief, teasing seconds. They feel a growing urge to dance.
Soon, Stanley feels ready to make his move but he makes the common mistake of waiting 30 seconds too long and somebody beats him to Suzy. He goes back to his seat and watches her on the dance floor instead, which only whets his desire to meet her. He thinks thoughts that can't be printed in a student newspaper.
NOW IT'S a half hour from closing time and the crowd on the floor is in high gear. Stanley and Suzy have been dancing together for an hour now without sitting down. They don't know each other's last names and conversation has been minimal but their bodies provide excellent communication, like each other. They love what it feels in tuxedo union with an attractive stranger. They share a common narcissism.
The DJ plays a good record to wind things up; a song with a thumping bass line played so loudly that the sound is a thick physical force. The drummer plows out beat and silver-faced revolving globe reflects a swirling galaxy of tiny light beams around the room. Some of the dancers look entranced. Others show the knee on their face. Stanley thinks he's in love.
When the harsh closing lights go on Stanley and Suzy leave separately.
Stanley had asked her home for a beer but Suzzy politely refused. She did give him her phone number, however, and yes, she said, she did come there often. They were both glad they decided to go to the disco that night.
Safeguards against violent acts inept
By PAUL R. JEFFERSON
Staff Writer
Along with a rise in the national crime rate shown in the FBI Uniform Crime Report released last week, there has been an increase in impulsive acts of violence by lone individuals.
In recent weeks, a disgruntled veteran held 13 patients hostage to draw attention to the plight of unemployed Vietnam veterans. A 28-year old Wakeeney man was slayed by a teenage park rangerette last week, and the man faced earlier charges of
sniping on I-70 earlier this year. In Platte County in northern Missouri, a man is still being sought for the abduction and rage of a young housewife. He has since been identified and is known to have a criminal record, including armed robbery, bank robbery, and assorted bombings to escape alarms.
A DISTURBING fact that links all of these people and incidents is that all had previously been under psychiatric care and had prior records for violent acts.
had said it would be open. When
I arrived at the east entrance I
read this sign: "Sunday, 9/12,
Drop-In Rec Program will not
be open. Due to trash on floor
from Concert Sat, Night!"
At first this announcement struck me as rather strange, not only because these were two lines of trochaic pentameter, a rhyme that is often called occult, but because I couldn't understand why those who wishing to exercise had been disciplined for the acts of those who had thrown trash on the floor of the night of the concert. I would like to take a mythesic logic to find any meaningful connection.
Why should the powers that be, who I assume are in the HPER or B and G Departments, think that the punishment of the students en masse would得更 further littering? I didn't feel like they were minded running over a few paper cups. The lanes could have been swept in minutes. All this time, the recreation number continued to announce that the field house would be closed, so the mess left from the concert should have been expected.
David Prager III Topeka senior
Richard Speck, who brutally murdered eight Chicago nurses in 1966, is hearing for his parole hearing Sept. 15. Charles Manson and other members of the cult are eight parole next year for the TateLaBia-cillings they committed in 1969.
Why, then, was the field house not open? Perhaps the trash in the balconies had have posed a hazard to "bleacher runners?" Hogwash! Either someone had failed to anticipate the necessary cleanup or they foolishly punished the whole student body by means of some convoluted logic. I personally expect this university to be a wiser source of either better reasoning or more appropriate apologies. David Prairie III
Christianity defined
The debate will be purely scientific.
All four debaters are wellqualified scientists with respectable credentials.
Most students probably don't understand the nature of the coming evolution-creation debate.
Creation scientific To the Editor:
Some students have mistakenly assumed that the scientists arguing for creationism are the ones in reality, the creationist scientists support their case entirely from science. They won't refer to the Bible because they believe it is enough to support creation.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Perhaps students have assumed creationism wasn't scientific because few scientists have vocally supported it in the past. But that's all the more important because just don't misunderstand. Creationism isn't just religion. It's science.
A grim reminder of this phenomenon occurred only three days ago in southeast Kansas. A 19-year old man, a nurse, was kidnapped and facility in Parsons, killed a five-year-old girl on her way to kindergarten. The governor has ordered a detailed investigation of the incident, which I'm not so confident to motify the bereaved parent's.
Christianity has come under attack more times than I think Nicholas Von Hoffman (Kansan, Sept. 9) would care to realize, because he is only echoing what sequestrates have generations past and certainly for generations to come.
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Yet Christianity is still with us. Just what is Christianity anyway? The answer lies in the fact that Christianity is the focal point of Christianity.
One can't help wondering what kind of psychiatric or mental institution would continue to permit people who have shown obvious tendencies for violence the freedom they seem to desire. One can also with the 20-year criminal record, he was declared to be criminally insane and committed, only to be released later when declared sane. What kind of parole board in its right mind controls the danger of dangerous criminals back into society, a society they have shown they can't operate in so faithfully?
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It is impossible for us to know conclusively whether God exists and what He is like unless He takes the initiative and reveals His will. If Christ came, Let's see what man has said about Himself.
A standard dodge to a speedy trial and a potentially heavy sentence is to plead insanity today, only to be committed for a time and then released unobstructively on an unsuspecting public tomorrow. The defendant must come prison loopholes, instead of insuring a defendant's fair treatment before jury trials.
"Iam the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father, except by Me. -For this is the will of My Father, that every one who beholds the Lord will have eternal life; and I myself will raise Him up on the last day. -If any man is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. -I must suffer many things, and be rejected by the chief priests and not be raised up on the third day."
THERE HAVE been many experiments to rehabilitate first and second offenders, not considered the "hardened" ones. In other words, sentences, halfway houses, work release programs and the like exist for these offenders. But those who continue to show signs of rehabilitation against others make a force of any form of rehabilitation.
If Christ had been a philosopher, you could have argued with Him. If He was a dog, you could argue with Him. If He was a religiousist, you could split hairs with Him concerning the Law. But He came with Love! What can you do with that? Here is a man claiming to be the eternal and human person, the eternal who everyone believes in Him.
The reality of these lone acts focuses attention on other issues as well, such as resulting publicity that may influence others, the gun-control laws, the use of excessive or rejection of the ex-offender. But the problem must be attacked from the source, and
C. S. Lewis said, "You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is the Son of God, or else He is a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool; you can split at Him and kill Him as a dog and feed it and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about Being a great human teacher. He has not left that to us."
Editor
Debbie Gums
Two thousand years ago people understood what C. S. Lewis meant. So they killed themselves and robed themselves of Him.
Secretary, KU Creationist Club
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Mr. Von Hoffman says that Christians tend to be "anti-intellectual." If Jesus Christ is the one, then certainly the greatest anti-intellectual would be one who spends his whole life never even considering the claims of Him, for certainly if there was ever a need to know if believing was true, this would be it.
What is Christianity to me? It is a relationship with the Living God who loves me very much—that's what I love for him, and I爱love him for me.
Just don't misunderstand.
Creationism isn't just religion.
It's science.
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