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FEBRUARY 11,1970 THE CAROLINA JOURNAL PAGE 9 i Times They Are A’ Changing By Mike McCulley Platter problem....They might have a time selling a rerent Me^^rY record received recently by the JOURNAL offices. Reason? Well GIVE A DAMN by Spanky and Our Gang is sided with CONSTIPATION BLUES by Screamin' Jay Hawkins. Oh, come now! Awards and Honors Dept...The JOURNAL'S Purple Pinky Award for Organization goes to the Registrar's Office for its direct, speedy method of processing late students. Gotcha! Our Magicial Architecture Achievement ^dge is presented with honors to the person responsible for that flat, sick^rey finish on the new dorms. Yuk to all concerned.... The UNCC Easy Rider Medal is gracioulsy bestowed on the three new female meml»rs of that California fraternity ("serenity"), with appropriate tongue-in-cheek. Sociaological Note.... Reportedly, only 1.6 per cent of UNCC's students are black out of nearly 3,000. It seems Uncle Sam has noticed and is nosing around. Beware! Things are probably going to be popping about this soon. Crime beat .... Latest data shows New Jersey still with 7,836 square miles and a capital of Trenton. With "the Family" so settled in up there, maybe a new survey is in order. Pieces may have been "sold" to New York, Pennsylvannia, etc. Notes on sounds .... Rumor has it that a new rock group is being organized at UNCC, to be called "Us and Them". Seems the idea arose from the seating arrangment in the Union Cafeteria &liloquy Time .... Comment by an undisclosed faculty member, "I believe students really just sign up for courses so they can drop them during drop-add. Really, nobody would do that, WOULD THEY? Some departmente aren't so sure anymore And now with the future news, here s Dannie! .... UNCC, 2070 - Today, groundbreaking ceremonies were scheduled for the new Health Services Building but had to be cancelled when the shovel broke on the concrete, which was covering every square inch of space on-campus. Commenting on this problem, UNCC Chancellor David Blevins stated, "What Happened?" .... Charlotte, 2070 - Mayor William Veeder, Jr., today held open debate on the problem of zoning for University City, which has been zoned as X, Y, and Z, or "anything goes," since 1970. Attendance at the meeting was limited to the major construction interest in the area, namely the Charlotte Refuse and Oil Re-claimation Department. A representative reportedly from the CRORD offices said, "If they don't get that school out of there, we aren't going to have any place for our new Nixon Memorial Sewa^ Disposal Plant and Oil Refinery." Discussion in the meeting was secret Sports Item, UNCC, 2070 - Ranked Number 1 in the country in the pre-season poll by AP and UPl, Coach Smith of the UNCC Baseball Team had these comments in interview. "If only all our games weren't at home, we'd be all right. But this playing baseball on concrete just doesn't help our team injuries one bit." .... Last Gasps .... To paraphrase a great saying, trash is in the eye of the beholder and UNCC's grounds aj^e full of trash that must be filling many eyes. Somebody please do something about the papers and ci^rette butts and general junk spread in front of you. If its yours, pick it up. If it isn t, pick it up anyway, brother. You and I both will live with our ugly failure Flickering Trivia .... "Life - first you're born, then you grow up and get married, and have kids. The kids grow up and call you 'old man'. Then you die. Yeah." .... Thought to Remember .... Somebody can love everybody. Everybody can love somebody. But, if everybody is going to love everybody, we'd better get started. Preview AIM By Alan Boger Aspiring authors and artists can add enother name to the growing list of *^ntemporary art-literature magazines: Aim. The editors of this semi-annual Publication admit that their "genre is not but contend that the material "deluded in AIM is new and "what is *^frent." The pages of the first edition of aim are filled with the art work, poems, stories, and essays of both ®*tablished literary figures and editors as ''I'®!! as those who are publishing for the time. first impression of AIM was "Here's ^Pother RED CLAY READER." Indeed, editors acknowledge the debt they to the little magazines which have Preceded them. However, AIM offers 'Puch of its own and on its own. The J®Vout and general presentation are JParkedly simple and unspectacular. P''vever, it is unspectatucular in a very clean and ^J®asing and professional way: cl "^'uttered. The field of Black literature, '®b has gone largely ignored in the of some other "little magazines important part in AIM. The Actions by Eugene Redmone, T.J. ®tldy and Linda Graham are testimony t? 'be importance felt for the area of literature. j feel that the fiction in the first 'bon of aim is one of its stronger wints. R. Baird Shuman's "Good Deed tha ^ "^^uesday" and John Carr's "Fong ''‘beelman" lived up to expectations. A REVIEW Both of these selections are quite brief, but they seem somehow to be saying much more than their relatively few printed words. 1 feel that the poetry in AIM is, by and large, good. However, I was absolutely unimpressed with a few of the selections. John Harris's "The Poem Writer" and "Sherry" could perhaps be called "fun poems" but could be called little else. I found Jenifer Robinson pseudo-Wordsworthian and even less "inspiring" than other poems along her "nature line." Marsh Cook's two un-titled poems are, I feel, too obvious and overly pitying. me one poem in AIM by which I was particularly pleased is Charleen Whisnant's "Championship." It is simple and new and easy. She treats an old, yet contempory, often too-much-dwelled-on topic in a new and innovative manner. Peace is a beer with Bella and Israel. T J Reddy's "Fluidity," "Hole in One " and "When it Gets Down" were, to me unusual in their absolute Blackness. Repeated readings of these poems are a must. The art work in AIM leaves much to be desired in the manner in which it was ?e prSuced and presented. I feel that art work by Eric Anderson, Maude Gatewood, and Dave Larson suffer in their reproduced state. My general impressions of AIM are good. Few students, too few students, are even aware of its existence. It presents an opportunity for m come of their own work in print and to rompare it with the efforts of their peers. The wisdom of Spiro Agnew Spiro T. Agnew is Vice-President of the United States. He has endeared himself to a small segment of the American population more rapidly than any other politician in recent history. At the same time, Agnew's very name has become a stimulus for spontaneous laughter or contempt for the vast majority of the American people. A man of many opinions and limited knowledge, Agnew has adeptly positioned his extreme right-wing, reactionary foot in his conservative. Republican mouth with unequaled regularity. His statements about the mass media, racial minorities, poverty, and his term as Vice-President will surely win him an unenviable spot in the annals of diplomatic history. Amram M. Ducovny, author of HOW TO SHOOT A JEWISH WESTERN, THE BILLION DOLLAR SWINDLE: FRAUDS AGAINST THE ELDERLY, AND OTHERS, has compiled a collection of Mr. Agnew's most memorable sentences and published them under the title THE WISDOM OF SPIRO T. AGNEW. It's a short book, a paperback. This sixty-four-page anthology is comprised of some of the more fantastic and, in all honesty, asinine statements attributed to the glib intellectual from Baltimore. But fair is fair, and one must admit that any politician in the history of the world, from Gandhi to Metternich, can be made to sound like a fool or a moron when quoted out of context, one sentence at a time... The format of Mr. Ducovny's book is simple: he states a topic, and follows the quote with the date on which Mr. Agnew made the statement. The illustrations by Peter Green are, aside from the first one in the book, cute and adequate, but far from exciting. The best way to preview the book, to be published by Ballantine in early February, is to sample a few of its choice tidbits: POVERTY: You don't learn from people suffering A REVIEW from poverty but from experts who have studied the problem. ..oeo Oct. 17,1968 THE CREATIVE PROCESS: Sometimes you feel like a 3-pound hen trying to lay a 4-pound egg. Mar. 15, 1969 (Note: would that make him a hatch-it man? RTS) SELF ANALYSIS: I confess ignorance. Sept. 24,1968 QUALIFICATIONS: I'm no expert on foreign policy. Jan. 7,1969 HOUSING: I've got myself to live with. , Jan. 7,1969 CLEARSIGHTEDNESS: My public image isn't the greatest thing I've ever seen. Oct. 24,1968 MEDICINE: Dick Nixon has real guU. Oct. 21,1968 CIVIL RIGHTS: My record on civil rights is one of the most outstanding in the country. Aug. 18,1968 The volume is nicely organized and arises from a true concern from the American people. As the dedication states: "This book is dedicated to Richard Milhous Nixon with profound wishes for continued excellent health." Why? If you know, read the book as remedial humor. If you do not know, read the book and Mr. Agnew's speeches as text material for a course in survival. Woodstock mud and musiefest now on film (CPS)—Since last summer's Music & Art Fair burst on an unsuspecting nation, "Woodstock" has passed into the growing history book of the young generation. For those who were there, it has become both a password and a symbol. It is also the memory of taking part in that incredible mass of music, surrounded by 400,000 of the friend friendliest, most peace-loving people on the face of the earth. A happy, joyous, musical, muddy weekend when the outside world thought we were having a disaster, and we knew that we knew that we were having iio such thing. Now it has reached the screen. Warner Bros, will soon be releasing "Woodstock," a full-length color feature film directed by Michael Wadleigh, a 25 year-old graduate of Columbia Medical School and N.Y.U., and possibly the top-ranking cinematographer to be tuned in to the specialized wave-length of today's rock music and folk scenes. Wadleigh is a far cry from the usual product of the Hollywood assembly line. A gaunt, intense character with straight shoulder-length flaxen hair and an invariable wardrobe of faded levis, bare chest and ten-inch-high Navajo hat, he has spent his days for the last two months in a vast, Kafkaesque working loft above a run-down block off Broadway in New York, surrounded by thousands of feet of "Woodstock" footage. The production office rarely had to spell out the address-the sounds could be heard five blocks away-and the finished feature film came together under the critical eye ^nd enthusiastic encouragement of a constant stream of visitors ranging from The Who and festival promoter Mike Lang to Joe Cocker and the Fish. Wadleigh's associate and the film's producer is Bob Maurice a gangling C.C.N.Y. graduate who is undoubtdiy the first producer in major motion picture ranks with an electric-shock hairdo that could outshine Tiny Tim. Together, Wadleigh and Maurice put together the preparations, equipment and immense under-30 technical crew that covered the Music & Art Fair. The achievement was not a minor one. By the time the first children of love generation appeared on the horizon above Bethel, N.Y., the "Woodstock" film crew was already in place on the actual site, Wadleigh supervising a team of 20 cameramen and backed by a virtual film-maker's army that included eight camera assistants, six documentary sound men, fourteen performance sound engineers and synchronization specialists, six still men and 30 production assistants. On screen, Warner Bros.' "Woodstock" is two hours of good vibrations and incredible sounds, the essence of that memorable weekend without the discomfort of weather or unscheduled sleeping arrangements. The performers include such folk singers as Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, and Richie Havens. Then Janis Joplin, The Who, Sly & the Family Stone, Johnny Winter, and Jimi Hendrix giving forth with the most improbable version of the Star Spangled Banner ever heard. Among the rock groups are Canned Heat, the Credence Clearwater Rivival, Santana, Mountain. The Band are there too. And Joe Cocker, Ten Years After, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, the Paul (Continued On Page ll)
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