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Monday. February 16, 1970 Ito ' tfEfili I *4l If AH f Jfj i I I fPEnjisi '%%,_ IWBLiLHnI I THE MARA LOVE SINGERS PERFORM IN AN APPEARANCE LAST WEEK IN THE GRILL ROOM Athletic Revolution ? OAKLAND, Cal. (CPS) -- A revolution is simmering in college athletics. And one of the men responsi ble for a new consciousness a mong athletes is Jack Scott, a 27-year old former Stanford track man and teaching col league at the University of California. He is author of "Athletics for Athletes" (Other Ways Book Dept., EPO Box 13133, Oakland, CalJ Scott, in an interview at his Oakland home, emphasized that athletes are human beings, not chattel. He condemned the pro fessionalization of amateur ath letics, the second class role assigned to Black and women athletes and the nationalist bent of the Olympics. In recent weeks Scott's U.C. class, Education 19 ID, "The Role of Athletics in the University-- A Social Psychological Analy sis," has drawn nationwide at tention. Perhaps no single class has received such publicity since Eldridge Cleaver taught an ex perimental course here last fall. Beside his teaching duties, Scott is working on a Ph. D. in education, and is writing a book with his friend and 1968 Olympic boycott organizer Harry Edwards. ATHLETICS MILITARY DELATED Scott spoke most articulately about the connection between ath letics and the military. He said "inter-collegiate athletics is the training ground for second lieutenants. . .and the colleges with the most comprehensive sports programs are the military academies. . ." In fact politicians may invoke sports, football in particular, to sanctify their policies. Thus President Nixon is portrayed as an avid fan. California State Superintendent of Public In struction Max Rafferty says "football is war." Robert Ken nedy said "next to war, foot ball is the best preparation for American life." ATHLETES STEREOTYPED So athletes come to be con sidered part of the status quo-- "just dumb jocks," according to Scott. Yet Scott says that when a person is called a name like "jock" he comes to fill the role almost in spite of himself. Athletes become stereotyped and "develop hos tility to the rest of the u niversity." Often when attempts are made to change the structure of the university, coaches organize ath letes against demonstrators. Such as was the case at Colum bia and San Francisco State. "Coaches have good reason to fear such change," Scott says, "because they will suffer most from a change in university pol icy." Many schools, like California, have separated physical educa tion and college athletics depart ments. Scott wants both to be combined and funded like any other college department--on the basis of academic merit. SPECIAL TREATMENT FOR ATHLETES What happens at Cal is that athletes are given preferential treatment as far as tutoring help and other study aids. Scott says, however, that often an athlete will complete four years of athletic eligibility, but still be two years away from receiving a diploma. Especially hurt are the Black athletes on scholarship. Even if they haven't graduated the scholarship ends. Scott wants to see that athletes on scholar ship be guaranteed they will re ceive their aid until they gain their diplomas. At present he says "It is impossible to be an athlete and Beer Drinking Rises New York -- More people are drinking more beer than ever before, and the number of adult beer drinkers in the United States is likely to increase more than 20 per cent by 1980. These are two of the findings of a major beer market study just published by the beverage packaging group of American Can Co. The 32-page study, "AHistory of Packaged Beer and Its Market in the United States, "traces the origin and nature of alcoholic beverages, the development of one-way beer packaging, trends in brewing and retailing, the re tail pricing structure and other factors significant to the market ing of beer in the United States. According to the study, the proportion of adult consumers of beer, since the end of prohibition, increased from 37 per cent in the 1935-39 period to 47 per THE GUILFORDIAN pnoto by Wilison be involved in normal student activities." CLASS QUESTIONS ATHLETICS Concerning his class, Scott says, "This is the first course designed solely to examine col lege athletics." "The athletic department," he adds, "has never had a dissident voice." Since the athletic department works closely with the ad ministration, Scott was almost stopped from teaching the class which has featured such ath letes as Harry Edwards and for mer L.A. Rams tight end Bernie Casey. Officially professor John Hurst is the teacher of the course because Scott has no contract to teach in the U niversity. Yet through being involved in the class, Scott receives credit for teaching he must complete before he receives his Ph. D. About one-third of Scott's 400 pupils are varsity athletes. Many say they are being criti cized by their coaches for taking the class. And traditionally, accord ing to Scott, a questioning ath lete signifies trouble to the coaches. Yet Scott is question ing out of a great love of sports and a desire to see college athletics free of pro fessionalization where every individual who wishes to can participate. cent in the 1940-49 period, to 48 per cent in the 1950-59 pe riod and to 50 per cent in the 1960-67 period. In addition, annual adult per capita consumption of beer in creased from 251 drinks to 1957 to 278 in 1967. ( "The number of beer drinkers should increase from 65 million in 1968 to about 80 million adults in 1980," the report indicates. The study also notes that the trend is to greater in-home beer consumption is continuing. It says that "as a result of the legalization of food and liquor stores as take-out pack aged beer outlets, the propor tion of total beer consumed in homes has increased from 25 per cent in 1934 to 67 per cent in 1967 ... It is expected that 70 per cent of all beer will be 'off-premise' consumed by 1980." Electronic Music Recital Tuesday The Guilford College Arts Series will present Vladimir Us sachevsky, a pioneer in the me dium of electronic music, in a lecture-recital on Tuesday night in Dana Auditorium at 8 p.m. During World War 11, utiliz ing his command of the Chinese and Russian languages, Us sachevsky received intensive training in a Far Eastern Spe cialized Program at the Univer sity of Washington in Seattle, and was subsequently assigned to Washington, D.C., as a research analyst. He continued in this capacity for the State Department a year after his discharge from the Armed Services, and then re sumed his musical career in 1945. COLUMBIA FACULTY MEMBER He joined the faculty of Co lumbia University in 1947, and it was there, in 1951, that he began to experiment with the tape corder. His work, and that of his colleague Otto Leuning, at tracted nationwide attention in 1952 after being introduced by Leopold Stokowski at a con cert in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Since then, many of Ussachev sky's works, including the well known "Sonic Contours," "Piece for Tape Recorder", "Linear Contrasts" and "Of Wood and Brass" have been widely performed in concert on radio and television, both in the United States and abroad. His "Creation: Prologue" is the first part of a projected large work for four choruses, soloists and electronic equipment, set to old Akkadian and Latin texts. Many of his compositions in the tape medium have been issued on commercial records. SCORES FOR FILMS He has also composed two electronic music scores for films, one being George Ta bori's full-length adaptation of Jean - Paul Sartre's play "No Exit", the other, a forty-five minute abstract film " Line of Apogee", by Lloyd Williams,had its premiere in New York in March 1968. Ussachevsky was coordinator in charge, and composer for the creation of the first completely electronic music score for the CBS-TV production "Anlncredi ble Voyage", narrated by Walter Cronkite on October 13, 1968 as part of the network's well known "21st Century" series. He also supplied music and sound cues for the fall 1968 I American Place Theatre pro duction of George Tabori's play "The Cannibals." TV APPEARANCES Ussachevsky has appeared several limes on CBS and NBC national network programs. He has also appeared as tape re corder soloist with twelve sym phony orchestras in at least twen ty performances of his and Leu Coble Sporting Goods Co. for all your sporting needs 119 N, GREENE ST. TELEPHONE 272-0912 272-0344 GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA ning's compositions. He worked by invitation in sev eral of the principal European studios between 1955 and 1957. In 1967, at the invitation of the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J,, to use their facilities, he began investigating the possibilities of sound syn thesis by means of computers. Ussachevsky is chairman of the Committee of Direction of the Columbia - Princeton Elec tronic Music Center which was established in 1959 with the aid of a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. This has become the largest center of its kind in the world, accomodating many composers from the United States and abroad. He serves as a board member of the American Composers Al liance, Composers, Recordings, Inc., and the Edward McDowell Association, and is a member of the Computer Advisory Com mittee at Columbia University. Trustee Resolution Passes The Student Legislature passed a resolution at its meeting last Monday night "respectfully" requesting "that one of the trustee vacancies be filled by a student." The resolution, presented by Paul Bryant, was supported by Nancy Thomas, who said it was a "means to an end," and that it was the "beginning of getting more students on the Board of Trustees." However, Craig Chapman, chairman of the Legislature's Unit of Living Committee, op posed the resolution, stating that it would be of little benefit since the Board rarely takes a vote but instead generally attempts to make all decisions a con sensus. He argued that it would be better for the legislature to ask for more student ob servers at trustee meetings. A proposal introduced by Rusty Davenport, was adopted mak ing the legislature responsible for "presenting a proposal ad vocating serious changes" to the trustees by the next trus tee meeting (April 24). Dan Hulburt, president of the Student Government, announced that the State Student Legis lature will meet in Raleigh in May. Also, the National Student Association Conference is scheduled for Feb. 26 to March 1. A bill was passed limiting legislature members to four unexcused cuts per year. For at least two absences the legis lator must be represented by another student. Page 3
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