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PAGE TWO THE LANCE Staff THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, MM Southern Poets Show Humor & Sensitivity ir lTTlTST*ASSPrt. Editors Walter Kuent/el Tim Tourtellotte Staff. Art Editor. Susan Bainbridge „ _ KimPhillipi Sports Editor Tony Ridings Photographer Rim McRae Circulatira Manager uiii-ium 6 ....Mr. Fowler Dugger Advisor Jimmy Thwaite Business Manager ^ . ■nie editorial staff’s intent is to maintain standards within the gmdelmes set forth by fte Code ol ResponsibiUty. Signed editorials reflect the opinion of ^ author, while unsigned editorials reflect the majonty opinion of the staff. Opinions expressed are not necessanly those of the college. Letters to the Editor and artid^ are welcomed, though subject to space limitations. Box 757 L Dear Editor; Your last issue contained an article concerning the “Fast For A World Harvest”, whi(* is being sponsored on this campus by the College Christian Council, in con junction with Oxfam- America. I would like to encourage my fellow students to think seriously about giving up their food on Tliursday, Novemter 21, as a way in which we as in dividuals can help feed star ving people. The money saved by not eating will be sent to Qrfam-Amrica where it will be used to meet specific needs of small villages and small farmers in such places as In dia, Honduras, Ghana, and Niger. Our money will not be used to pay an admimstrator’s salary; it will feed hungry people. It seems absurd that we at St. Andrews should get upset about having to show I.D. car ds for meals, when most people in the wrorld are lucky to eat at all. I urge everyone, as they sit down to their next abundant meal, to consider whether or not tiiey care enough to sacrifice one day’s food so that starving people might eat. Sincerely yours, David Sutton Caldwell Talks About Grinder Switch In behalf of fair journalism I feel it is in line to offer relevant details of the ex penditures incurred with the “Grinderswitch” concert. In the survey the LANCE presen ted to the student body the week of November 4, we were asked to comment on what we thought of the “Grin derswitch” concert, a presen tation which cost the CUB $4000. This statement implied BOB'S JEWEL SHOP The Place to go for all your Jewelry needs Main St. College Plaza by VERNON ALFORD “Southern Voices, is anybody listening. ” Prior to the poetry reading on Sam- day evening November 9, this question had posted itself on boards, walls, and in the min ds of many people on campus. Saturday night, many of these people decided to stop, and listen to what the poets in the magazine had to say. After listening to the seven poets who read, I laughed at ttie humor, and symphathized at sad moments, but was not terribly impressed. DimMmer,ftiefir^poetto read, said, “If you arent reading Southern Voices, tfou’re missing something, ’rhe Kentucky native also said that the magazine was for all people. He kept trying to ex plain and give the magazine such a good image that he ten ded to take away from his own Doctry* Carol Roberts, an Atlanta native, and a very private and sentimental person, read poems that were centered on SAMPLE TESTING LAW SCHOOL APTITUDE TEST WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20 7 to 10 P.M. All students intending to tke the law school aptitude tesi this year 1974-75, are invited to take a sample test authorized by the law school admissions council. This sample test will ^ ad- minsitered under simulated test conditions. It is teing offered to promote fai^rity with the mechanics of taking the lastt and with objective test questions. A two dollar fee for materials is required. Students interested should contact: Professor George Fouke, LA No. 7, Ext. 217. that Grinderswitch them selves charged this rather in credible sum. If the LANCE recalls, there was another performer the evening of October 26, John Hammond, who to some people’s eyes and ears was the main at traction. (Yes, it is too bad the CUB didn’t themselves think of Hammond as a main attraction or they may have saved the headaches and monetary expenses of an economic disaster.) Grinder- switch’s fee was $2100; John Hammond, $750; lights & sound, $1000; and $150 for the agency from Portsmouth that put it all together, with the CUB’S money. I think it called for that the LANCE had pub lished these figures in it’s survev. But granted, $4000 is a lot to spend on an ill-received con cert. I trust Sue Hammil lear ned a few pointers on how not to blow it next time. It is in teresting to note that John Hammond was a quite ac cidental addition to the billing. It so happened that when the CUB contacted En- =iiiiiniiiiiiiiiiMiiniiiiiiiiiHiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMnniiiiiiiiiiiniiiimniiiiiiiiiiiiniimiMiig \ \ I many I tertainment, Inc. of Por- smouth, Va. and gave them pretty much of an open con tract to find an acceptable band for an “in the know campus, Enta-tainment came up with the big “g”. Well, having the credentials of having performed at real live rock festival, CUB took the advice, justifiably, of the agency and O.K.ed the band. As it was, the same agency had been booking Hammond with the rock band for the past week and, figuring why break up a good thing at the end of a week, asked CUB if Hammond could join the show. Well, why not...$3250 had been commited already, $750 for a nationally known artist may have seemed good insurance. However, from the heresay I ran into at least, it seems pitifully few students had ever heard of either the band or the artist and fewer still enthusiastic over the coming concert. ' The CUB seems to have picked up on this apathy and began appealing to the student body not so much to pay $2 for a concert they would enjoy but rather to donate this money in order to bail out the CUB. The pleas presented by the CUB for support foretold diaster: “show them we can do it; if this concert is successful there can be more; the CUB has finally done it!!! ” Who knows, maybe the CUB coiid not foretell musical tastes of the student body, or the band it had bought. Here the LANCE could have played a more ac tive part in the production by including promotion articles in preconcert issues and taking an opinion poll before, not after, the bands were on stage. Still, it seems that en- te^rise promotion such as this should have been offered by the CUB to the LANCE, not the CUB benignly expecting fte LANCE to independently initiate copy space for the CUB. What we ended up with was and is a three ring circus; the CUB in one throwing big money in the face of an out-of- state promotion agency with an out of date band, in another the CUB expecting the LAN-' ce to indepenently pick up I its promotion, and in the third ; we have the CUB doing a song i and dance routine for the ; student body. In this circus the I CUB was the emcee, and a ; rather irresponsible one at Chuck Caldwell Grinderswitch, a band with a fee of $4,000, played here Oct. 26. In your opiniwi, were they good, bad, or indifferent. Fifty nine responses were received, with the following results: Good 11.8 percent Bad 59.5 percent Indifferent 20.3 percent Irrelevant responses 5.0 percent her reactions to her recent divorce. She, as well as Cathy Dangler, struck the sen timental nerves of the audien ce. Mrs. Dangler, unlike many of the poets who read did not go to great lengths to try and explain what she was trying to get across. Her West Virginia backround dominated the poetry she read. Like Carol Roberts, Cathy Dangler touched not only the surface, but penetrated in depth the subject area she dealth with. Preceding Mrs. Dangler was Chuck Sullivan, who in deed gave her a hard act to follow. Mr. Sullivan was so humorous that one tended to forget that he was reading poetry. His humorous gestures kept time with his material. However, for a ted moment, he did get serious. Grace Freeman, after hearing Mr. Sullivan read, stated that she grew up in a period wiiere you didn’t talk about sex. She said that she now felt very good about writing poems on the subject. Mrs. Freeman, definitely a talented woman writes wr. sonal poetry and does so very well. Her poems in many ways, give her a motheriy image. Through it all, one sen- sees a warm personality. Jimmie Samuel, another Atlanta native, stated that his (See ‘Southern Poets’ p. 4) / DICK GREGORY political activist and comedian, who gained attention for his fa^ in protest of the war in Vietnam and is now fasting (drinking only fruit juices) for world hunger, will be on campus, Friday, November 22nd as a part of Common Ex perience. that. Writing I MAGAZINE DEDICATED TO THE ARTS IN THE SOUTH INNAGURAL ISSUE Further Adventures of Guy Owen's Flim-Flam Man Jonathan Williams Talks About Black Mountain, himself, and his Writing Poetry of Relevance ON SALE SOON ON THIS CAMPUS More Vita/ than Grits ^
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