Photo by Ken Meade
My costume's better than yours!
Several couples are pictured at Saturday's Sadie Hawkins Dance.
Slanguage creates a gap
By TERRI MENDENHALL
Kamper Kansan Renorter
If someone tells you you're really "bitchin," has he insulted you or complimented you?
If your boyfriend "drops" you,
will you be happy or mad?
What is the best thing to call a pair of tennis shoes?
It seems that the famous Communication Gap manifests itself very definitely in the area of slang. When 1294 people gather from 48 states in one large camp, they are bound to find differences in their idioms.
For instance, the word "bitchin" can either be a verb that means complaining or an adjective expressing great approval. And a "bitch" is a grouchy person or a slut.
To some campers, to be "dropped" is a harsh insult-if your boyfriend "drops" you, he quits seeing you. To others, being "dropped" is being given a necklace by your boyfriend indicating pre-engagement.
Tennis shoes are "sneakers," "sneakies," "sneaks," "gompers" or "tennies."
The most common type of slang words are the adjectives used to express great approval. These include "meat," "cool," "heavy," "cock," "bitch," bitchin, "kinky" and "cold-doggin." Along this same line are "far-out," "out-assight," "dynamic" and "hip."
"Funky," "crubby," "dippy"
"grubby," "grungy," and
"raunchy," all are adjectives expressing disapproval.
But "bad," "ugly" and "wicked" can express either approval or disapproval, depending on the inflection of the voice.
"Hungus," "humangus," and "hunkin" all mean very large.
A great assortment of words is used to mean "drunk" or "high on drugs." These include "spaced out," "zonked," "stoned," "ripped," "polluted," "wasted," and "wrecked."
If someone is confused and upset, he is "uptight." If he becomes very upset about something, he might "have a bird," "have a cow," "have kittens," or "have a hairy" over it.
To some people, "to crack up" is to become very angry, while to others it means the same as "to split a gut", that is, to laugh
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with great gusto.
If a person is in a very rural area, he is said to be "out in the sticks," "out in the boonies," "out in the boondocks," or "out in the toolies."
To "dig" something, to "get into" it, to "turn on" or "tune in" to it all mean to understand and approve of it.
Following is an alphabetical list of unclassifiable idioms and their common definitions.
"Roach," "cold turkey," "joint" and "jay" are nouns meaning "a portion of marijuana."
Bash (n)—party.
Bet (int)----O.K.
Bod (n)body.
Burnt (adj)—(1) swindled (2)
messed up (a burnt mind).
Dil-do (n)—a dummy; a seemingly stupid person.
Freak (n)—a person whose appearance is distinctly mod (some times synonymous to "hipbite")
Crib (n)—a house or home.
Crunch (v)—to embarrass
Camp (adj)—so old that it's back "in."
Freebee (n)—a freeloader.
Gneep (n)—a species of fish living in salt water.
Grubbies (n)—very informal clothing (jeans and sweatshirt).
Hang in there (command sentence)—keep up the good work; keep on trying.
Hokey (adj)—suspicious; possibly phony.
Jive (v)—to dance with feeling.
Keep on trucking (command sentence)—hang in there.
Kipe (v)—to steal.
Lenses (n)—contact lenses.
Oreo (n)—a person who is black on the outside but white on the inside.
Rap (v)—to talk or discuss.
Scarf it dawn (v)—to inhale one's food.
Scruffy (adj)—unkempt.
Shoot a ghost(v)—to deceive or mislead.
Scrungy (adj)—unkempt Shaft (n)—a bad deal.
Straight (adj)—having distinctly conservative ideas and appearance.
Yetch (int)—an expression of disgust.
By REYNOLDS ATKINS
Kenneth Vernon Reilly
Rock group revives big band jazz sound
The latest addition to the rock mutation family is Big Band Rock. Combining rock with jazz, it achieves a sound that is decades old.
Kamper Kansan Reporter
This latest innovation in the continuing quest for new sounds began with the very successful group, Blood, Sweat, and Tears. Employing such instruments as flute, saxophone, and piano solos, they rapidly caught on and have since begat a number of similar groups. By far the most successful of these offspring is Chicago.
Chicago (formerly the Chicago Transit Authority, a name for which they were later sued) is similar in format to Blood, Sweat, and Tears. This group had a meager beginning in the nightclubs in the Chicago area. After their discovery by well-known rock producer, James William Guercio, they began a rise to national prominence. Presently, they are enjoying widespread popularity and have two gold albums to their credit.
The group's leader and spokesman is Robert Lamm. An accomplished pianist, he also composes much of the band's material. His compositions rely heavily on the influence of brass but are generally suited to the group's capabilities.
Probably the band's most important member is trombonist James Pankow. He is responsible for Chicago's most ambitious piece, "Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon," a complex musical experience with constant changes of mood and tempo. But Pankow's importance lies more with his musical arrangements than with his ability to compose tunes. Behind every good group is an accomplished arranger. This position is especially vital to the success of a band such as Chicago. Intricate rhythms, harmony, and melody transitions play an important part in the big band sound and the utilization of these techniques requires an experienced and imaginative individual. The success of Chicago is due, in a large part, to the ability of Pankow to weave bland musical notes into exeiting musical excursions.
Drummer Danny Seraphine is another vital cog in the success of the group. Pankow's arrangements call for complex drumming, which Seraphine handles well. Without such a rhythm section, Chicago would still be traversing the nightclub circuit.
Lee Loughnane and Wally Parazaider handle the trumpets with Parazaider doubling on the flute. These two individuals have a rare ability to play as one. Each seems to be totally aware of the other's playing at all times. Their blend and transitions evoke memories of the big bands of a bygone era.
Vocalist on most of the selection is guitarist Terry Kath. He possesses a deep, raspy bass voice which is reminiscent of David Clayton Thomas of Blood, Sweat, and Tears fame. He controls the tempo of the group with guitar solos that rely heavily on his ability to use feedback and the wah-wah pedal that is generally associated with hard-rock guitarists. Pete Cetera is the bass player but is usually lost among the rest of the group's playing.
Most music fads are relatively short-lived, i.e., raga-rock and acid-rock. With many groups turning to the big band sound, this field of music stands to lose some of its appeal through its overuse. But as with any music fad, the strong groups tend to survive long after their constituents have perished. If Chicago can continue their initial success, it is conceivable that they will emerge as one of the primary contributors to pop music.
Journalists learn techniques at camp
By CAROL ANN DOELL
BY CIRCLE ANN DOELLE
Kamper KANSAN Reporter
Did you ever wonder what an those students running around asking all sorts of incomprehensible questions and clicking pics are doing at the Midwestern Music and Art Camp?
Well, they are a part of the journalism camp, all 55 of them representing 21 states, and each doing his best to harass the faculty and campers in the five weeks they have to learn every
aspect of journalism.
The journalism camp was established to give high school students helpful tips for their school newspapers, and some insight into a career in journalism. In 1963 the journalism camp joined the already established Midwestern Music and Art Camp. The faculty is composed—for the most part—of the journalism faculty which teaches during the regular school year.
Photo by Sam Green
Hot off the wire
Sitting by the UPI teletype in the Kansan newsroom are three journalism campers—Kurt Andersen, Reynolds Atkins and Leonard Sophrin.
This year's curriculum consists of classes in ten fields of journalism. Editing deals with the nitty gritty of all articles: grammar, punctuation and spelling. Reporting teaches the basics of news-gathering and news-writing. Feature and editorial writing classes study the journalist's responsibility to understand news events and discuss them objectively, and subjectively, in special articles.
In the TV news classes, campers learn about the special type of writing used for broadcasting. The technical and artistic aspects of the production of a paper are studied by the graphics classes.
In photography classes, campers take, develop and print their own pictures, and learn the value of photography as an art.
Advertising classes study the effects of the communications media on their audiences. Students in the magazine classes may create their own magazines with or without actual pictures and articles. All journalism campers are required to attend the problems of the mass media class, which considers miscellaneous areas of journalism not covered in the other classes.
The students also serve as staffers for the University Daily Kansan and put out the camp yearbook Tempo and the weekly editions of the Kamper Kansan.