Page 4 - GAS LIGHT - Tuesday, March 22.1977
INTRAMURAL SPORTS
me Rough Riders
The weather may have been
cool this Winter, but the action
was hot and heavy within the
various Intramural Sports
Activities. Thanks to the avid
enthusiasm of the participates
and the encouraging support of
the spectators, Intramural
Sports this quarter proved to be
an enjoyable and eventful ex
perience.
Basketball started off the
quarter with a record 9 teams
participating in round robin
competition. Most games
proved to be exciting with
teams fighting for a favorable
seeding in the year ending GCC
tournament. Each team
seemed to have .ts standouts
with more than one individual
taking their turn as scoring
leaders for most teams. For the
league leading Black Hawks,
Eric (Duddle Bug) Parks and:
Larry (Big F'oot) Pratt led the
attack; finishing second in
league play with an 8-1 record
were the Kough Riders who
were led by Captains Dennis
Dellinger and Phil Stewart with
strong support from Conrad
Plampin and Chris Black; the
No Names finished third with
Chuck Rankin and Steve
Rutledge handling the scoring
duties for that fivesome; G. C.
Stompers proved to be the most
game and unpredictably ex
citing team as big Ben Scott and
All Star Toby Welbourn led the
Stompers to a respectable .500
season. Bringing up the lower
division were the Walking
Wounded, otherwise know as
the Over The Hill Gang. After
an exciting and most successful
football campaign, the gang
came into the Basketball
season as a cribbled unit.
Dennis Perry was out for the
year with a knee injury he
picked up tripping over the end
line on the gridiron. Doc
(Gunner) Huntley left the group
mid-year with an aggravated
ankle injury and big Gary
Simpson, finding no guards to
feed in the ole alley - oop play,
got bit from the work bug,
which completely desecrated
our forces. The Gang gamely
went on to drop their last four
games and wind up with a 3-5
record. Phil Mell and Bob Wood
along with Cary (Big Heart)
McSwain led the cribbled
forces. Buddy Dounam and
Lynn Pilkenton led the Wild
Bunch to a hard luck 3-5 record
and Steve Anderson carried the
Tar Heels to a 2-6 campaign.
UCLA and the Road Runners
did finish the season, but their
complete records were not
available at press time.
In the tournament, some
unexpected happenings hap
pened. The No Names and
Black Hawks routinely won
their first round games. Then
the Wild Bunch and the G C
Stompers went at one of the
most hotly contested games of
the year. With the score tied 8
times and the lead changing
hands many more times, the
Wild Bunch came from behind
in the last minute to pull a mild
61-59 upset. In the second
round, the Hawks blew out the
Wild Men 104-56 and the Rough
Riders slipped by the No Names
78-72. The real surprise came in
the finals of the tourney. The
Rough Riders charged out to a
surprising 39-28 halftime leac
on the strength of balancec
scoring and a tenacious
defense. Then - the Black
Hawks, finding themselves U|
against the wall for the firs
time all year, put on one ofthi
most courageous and excitinj
second half surges eve:
displayed at Gaston. Led b>
outstanding play by Duddle Bug
Parks, the Hawks tied and went
ahead in the game with less
than 2 minutes remaining.
Down by 3 points, Rough Rider
Plampin was fouled and hit the
first of two shots. Plampin
missed the second, but the
Riders rebounded and put in the
shot to tie the score. Ronnie
Rhyne stole the inbounds pass
and scored and was fowled. He
missed the fowl shot, Hawks
rebounding, and holding the ball
for a final shot. With 10 seconds
remaining, the ball would just
not fall for the Hawks as three
shots bounded off the rim and
the Rough Riders came out with
an ever so sweet 68-66 victory.
In the All Star game the
following week, Stewart
Ramseur of the No Names and
Eric Parks of the Hawks led the
Red Squad with 26 and 23
points; respectively and a hard
earned 75-69 win over Ronnie
Rhyne’s 24 points and the Grey
Squad.
The quarter long Bowling
league proved to have some
tense moments as three teams
finished tied for first place. The
Wooden Pins, made up of a
group of Vocational Faculty
Members, the Looney Tunes,
comprised of 4 Looney male
students, Ken Thompson, Ken
Frye, Ken Nix and D. S. Coffee,
and the Turkeys, a group of 4
professional like bowlers. The
Turkeys, Kevin Bentley, Joe
Calloway, Vickie Buffin and
Danny Wooten averaged 160
pins per member and held low
handicaps with 127 total pins.
The Wooden Pins held a 167 in
team handicap and the Looney
Tunes compiled a 230 pin
handicap. Yet with the diverse
handicaps, the three teams,
after 8 rounds of bowling, led 8
teams and 32 participates to tie
for top team honors. In the Roll
Off, the Turkeys averaged just
under 170 pins-member and won
Team Champion honors. Kevin
Bentley finished the league as
high average man after 16
games with a 168 average.
Sandy Drum finished high for
the women with 153 average.
Ken Frye improved his average
23 pins to win Most Improved
Man honors and Patti Anderson
and Melinda Wallace improved
their average 17 pins apiece to
share Most Improved Woman
Honors.
At press time the results of
the Larry Slycord and Roger
Lindsey, Bill Walker and Sonny
Huffstetler spades finals match
was not known. Albert
Tobasson was the leader in the
Open Chess Tournament and
Sonny Huffstetler and P. J.
Coffee were the leaders in the
Foosball Competition.
The Intramural Staff wishes
to thank the Gaston College
Students for their outstanding
participation during this past
quarter. We look forward to
seeing you in the Sgring and
hope that you will take ad
vantage of our Spring Quarter
offerings. Check with the P. E.
Office - Room S-211 for
deadline dates for the following
activities: Softball, Mixed,
Singles, Doubles Tennis, Golf,
Foosball, Pool, Table Tennis,
Spades.
Spring Quarter
Begins
April 6
.Showboat Continued
by an actor with a baritone
singing voice.
Magnolia Hawks-This is the
lead romantic female part. She
is a Southern Belle who is a
who is a philosophical character
vaudeville entertainer. She
must be played by a soprano
who knows how to dance or has
rhythm.
Captain Andy Hawks-A hen
pecked husband who is owner of
the Cotton Blossom, the name of
the showboat.
Parthy-Hawks’ wife, who is a
very demanding woman.
Queenie-A black nanny who
must be played by a female with
an alto voice.
Joe-A black dock worker,
and must have a bass voice lO
sing “Old Man River.”
Frank and Ellie-They are a
man and wife comic dancing
team, who also provide the
comic relief for the play. These
parts require good dancers.
Those who have been chosen
for the cast will be notified
shortly after the auditions.
Rehearsals will begin the first
week in April.
Folk Singer Bob Dylan
(CPS) - “Twenty years of schoolin’ and they put you on the day
shift,” whined Bob Dylan in 1965. But now Dylan himself - after
fifteen years of myth-building and paying literary dues - is being put
back into schools, as Dylan seminars spring up on campuses around
the country.
It doesn’t take a fortune teller or gypsy from Desolation Row to
know that the next generation will find Dylan’s words bound between
Viking cloth covers, stacked 300 high in college bookstores, right next'
to Rimbaud and Whitman. In the coming years, it will be the
professors and critics who were raised on Dylan that will be deter
mining what is of “Literary merit,” not their crotchety teachers who
rejected “the youth’s voice of the sixties.”
"Anyone who thinks Dylan is a great poet has rocks in his head,”
snorted a University of Vermont English professor in 1965, summing
up academia’s attitude towards Dylan "(himself a University of
Minnesota drop-out).
Not so long ago just a handful of maverick teachers were quoting
Dylan’s words, mostly graduate instructors who led clandestine
discussions in seedy coffeehouses, seeking a respite from an out
dated curriculum of a stuffy English department. Or the draft
resisting music teacher’who almost lost his for goading seventh
graders into a secret verse of “Blowin’ in the Wind.”
Today, Dylan is not only taught by legions of teachers throughout
the country, but is thought by some to be the major poet of our era.
In the last two years, courses dealing with Dylan have been offered
at such diverse colleges as the University of Southern California, the
State University of New York, Johns Hopkins University and Dart
mouth College.
At a recent meeting of the Modern Language Association in San
Francisco, fifty scholars, almost all young English professors,
gathered to discuss “The Deranged Seer: The Poetry of Arthur
Rimbaud and Bob Pylan,” and how Dylan’s view of women has
evolved from “macho posturing” to “reconciliation of the sexes.”
“I always use Dylan in my poetry classes, it’s the most popular
section of the course,” says Belle D. Levinson, professor of English
at SUNY at Geneseo. “Increasingly,” she adds, students are more
familiar with Dylan’s songs, mostly because he’s being taught in
high schools.”
Levinson emphasizes the “crucial links” between the poetry of
Dylan and the French Symbolists, particularly Rimbaud and
Baudelaire. She lectures about the similarity of Dylan’s and
Riimbaud’s psychic trips, how both “were drained by drugs and
came out with changed senses of Derceotion.” Their poetry is that of •
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“evocation and experience rather than description.” Levinson often
compares Dylan’s “Mr. Tamborine Man” to Rimbaud’s “ITie
Drunken Boat” since both poems are surrealistic, drug induced,
mystical journeys.
At Geneseo, two of Levinson’s colleagues taught an in
terdisciplinary course on the music and poetry of Dylan that drew
scads of student raves.
The chairman of the Modern Language conference, Patrick
Morrow of Auburn University in Alabama, agrees that Dylan’s time
has arrived in “higher learning” but stresses that it’s mostly the
junior colleges and state schools that are leading the trend.
“Popular culture has not been accepted by most major colleges yet,”
he asserted. Morrow himself taught a pop culture course at USC
which he found was extremely popular with students.
Morrow, praising Dylan’s eclectic taste in literature, explains,
"Dylan is powerful because he has the vision to seize the spirit of a
movement, much like Yeats.”
William McClain, professor of German at Johns Hopkins in
Baltimore, was tickled when a few of his students uncovered direct
parallels in the writings of Dylan and playwright Bertolt Brecht.
“It’s wonderful to know that the words and moods of Brecht are
available through Dylan on the juke boxes of America!” McClain
said.
And at Dartmouth College, where a seminar called “The Songs of
Bob Dylan” was offered last fall, Bob Ringler, a biology major,
remarked, “It was one of the best courses I’ve had. I was somewhat
skeptical at first, not knowing much about Dylan, but I found that
some of his songs recreated the themes of Browning, Blake and
Rimbaud.”
Dylan is only the latest in a long succession of renegade writers
who were scorned by the literati of their day. Rimbaud was detested
by the Parisian men of letters in the early 1870’s, and was running
guns in Asia before cultists succeeded in legitimizing his poetry.
Whitman’s masterful Leaves of Grass was banned for its “obscene
and immoral passages.” And Ezra Pound’s poetry was proclaimed
“incoherent, the work of a madman.”
This slow acceptance is probably no surprise to Dylan, who has an
acute sense of history and always plays his cards right. His songs
are like a newsreel of the sixties and seventies, filled with the
movements, fads, slang and personalities of the time, songs that
were made to be examined thirty years after they were written.
Dylan will most likely be a grandfather by the tim« they teach
“Advanced Blonde on Blonde” at Oxford, but as he once said, “I’m
still gonna be around when everybody gets their heads straight.”