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Letters to the Editor
NOT SO QUICK TO DEFEND
THE 80's SCENE
To the Editor:
This is in response to the letter
from J. Miles Layton regarding
early eighties nostalgia and the
lack of "quality" pop music today.
There are several points I'd like
to make:
1) Layton cites Def Leppard and
Cheap Trick as examples of late
eighties/early nineties "heavy
metal ballad bands." Get your
facts straight, Miles. Both of these
bands began their recording ca
reers in the late seventies. I viv
idly remember Cheap Trick's "Sur
render" and Def Leppard's "Pho
tograph" blasting from many a ste
reo in the early eighties.
2) Asia was a joke. That's just
my opinion. I'm a big fan of the
individual musicians in the group,
especially Steve Howe, but their
music represents, to me, the single
biggest sellout by members of the
progressive rock movement of the
late sixties and early seventies. It's
even worse than what has hap
pened to Genesis since Peter
Gabriel and Steve Hackett quit.
3) Layton entirely dismisses rap
music. How narrow-minded of
him. I'm not abig rap fan. I rarely
listen to it However, Ido have a
great deal of respect for the form's
artistry and its innovation.
Strangely, in the next paragraph
Layton cites the Beastie Boys as a
great band from the early eighties.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't
the Beastie Boys a rap band at least
part of the time?
Layton's ill-conceived and un
warranted attack simply shows his
ignorance. In their early days,
rock, blues and jazz all fell under
similar criticism from the musical
establishment. Today they are vi
tal parts of our musical heritage. I
envision a similar future for rap.
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Editor-in-Chief. JoanMalloch
Associate Editor. Karen Rowan
Adviser. Jeff Jeske
Writing Editor. Justin Cohen
News Editor. Gail Kasun
Perspectives Editor. Ashley Clifton
Features Editor. Joe Wallace
Sports Editor. Kiley Holder
Copy Editing. Kinsey Gimbel
Layout Caroline A. Wolfe
Circulation Robert Withers
Subscriptions Reagan Hopkins
Advertising. Brian Lane
Business Rich Ewell
Photography. Rob Davidson,
Daphne Lewis
4) Layton puts forth the claim
that Top 40 music from the early
eighties is better than Top 40 mu
sic today. Strange. As a devoted
music lover I have always assumed
that Top 40 music from all eras,
including the early eighties, is
equally bad. With very few excep
tions Top 40 is definitely not the
place to turn for music of sub
stance. It's mostly record com
pany manufactured swill. Frankly,
I question WQFS's eagerness to
dredge up this stuff. It doesn't
seem particularly "alternative" to
me.
Chris Hosford
KUDOS TO RESTAURANT
REVIEW
To the Editor:
I am writing with compliments
to the Restaurant Review section
of The Guilfordian. It is great that
Laura Davis points out how veg
etarian and vegan-friendly the res
taurants are. Vegetarians and
vegans are sometimes unsure of
unknown restaurants, which may
have completely meat-based or
meat and dairy-based menus.
Thanks, Laura, for taking away the
food mystery.
Carolyn Howes
COMPENSATION NEEDED
FOR WQFS STAFF
To the Editor,
This year has been an extremely
productive one for WQFS. This
semester we have 102 DJ's and
staff, making us the largest student
organization on campus.
There are 10 of us who work to
coordinate the people, the music,
the legalities, the promotions and
the equipment involved. These are
large responsibilities for students
who already have a full load of
courses.
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Our jobs are rewarding in them
selves, but only to a certain extent.
First of all, we have a great group
of DJ's, many talented individuals
who do great shows and as a re
sult create for us a huge listening
audience.
It's commonplace to go to con
certs at venues as far away as Char
lotte and still see many cars with
WQFS bumper stickers. WQFS is
the third most powerful college
radio station in the state, with 1900
watts, and can be heard in Win
ston-Salem and sometimes to the
Virginia border.
Nationally, our music depart
ment receives priority on new
music from both independent and
conglomerate record companies.
There is a lot of work that goes
into the jobs that get these benefits.
For example: each member of the
music staff spends at least 12 hours
a week previewing new music in
order to edit obscene lyrics, and
this is with five interns to help out.
Programming is also a huge re
sponsibility. First, one must get all
102 staff members properly trained
and fitted into a schedule. Then,
for the rest of the semester, the di
rector is responsible for making
certain that all DJ's follow the
proper, legal procedure for every
single show that is done.
Also, there is the promotions
director, who spends seven hours
a week coordinating the concert
calendar and any WQFS events.
And the other managers: news,
productions, business, and general
manager all spend time equivalent
to one four-credit course in the of
fice or doing WQFS-related tasks.
This also includes vacations sac
rificed or shortened in order to
keep WQFS on the air.
WE all knew what we were get
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Guilford College,
Greensboro, NC, 27410.
Laura Davis
Staff Writer
Anton's Italian Cafe, across from
the Janus Theater
My first negative review. I feel
bad writing this, the employees were
quite polite and all that, but the food
was lacking, the atmosphere rather
laughable, and the booths small.
Anton's has almost a Bavarian
feel to it. I think they were attempt
ing a sort-of "nicer Italian restau
rant" feel, but the dark wood, white
stucco, and black-and-white table
cloths made me think of every other
German restaurant I'd ever been in.
Things might have been a bit better
if they had been playing some sort
of Italian-sounding music instead of
the Top 40-inlluenced M usak being
piped in. Caeli and I were seated in
a booth built for two, which would
probably been cozy and romantic
for a fun and perky couple that jog
together, but for us it was a bit
cramped.
This casual-dress, cloth-napkin
restaurant had a fairly decent array
of dishes—salads, various pasta
dishes, chicken, seafood, veal, some
beef. There's no sweet tea at lunch,
but both sweet and unsweetened at
dinner, along with a relatively well
stocked bar and wine list, espresso,
cappucino and "specialty coffees."
Four children's dishes were also
available. Prices range from $2 for
soup to $l2 for one of the veal
(yuck!) dishes. Most entrees are in
the $7-9 range.
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estaurant
l^eview
•Anton's Italian
Cafe*
Chris Behm
Katherine Beldner
Naomi Blass
Will Brown
Jason Caplain
Bob Clegg
Luisa Constanza
Will Cooper
Laura Davis
Damian Deßallo
Mignon Ezzell
Courtney Frankhouser
Nat Gray
Staff meetings are held weekly in the
Passion Pit, second floor, Founders Hall,
Monday evenings at 8 o'clock.
All are welcome.
Cbc (guitfortwan
Dinner dishes come with salad
and bread. Although the bread came
with real butter (wow!), it was cold
and Caeli aptly described it as Ital
ian-shaped Wondcrbread. The salad
was good—not too much dressing
and not too little. The main courses,
however, were not Caeli ordered
the lemon chicken ($9.95) which
was tender and very lemony, but not
very hot—almost lukewarm. I or
dered the eggplant parmigiana widi
a side of spaghetti.
The spaghetti was OK, but the
sauce was lacking in the spice and
heartiness categories, which is
pretty bad for an Italian restaurant.
The eggplant was terrible—the
waitress brought it to the table with
mitts on (it was served in the dish it
was baked in), but it wasn't hot at
all and the eggplant was mushy and
yucky and generally gross. I do give
the management credit for taking it
off my tab, but it's also a relatively
hard dish to mess up (even I can
make it).
Overall, the meal wasn't a com
plete loss. I was in good company
and we went to White Mountain (a
VERY happy place) for ice cream
after. Anton's is close to the Janus
theater, but that's about the only
thing going for iL I wouldn't rec
ommend this place to anyone, but
I'd still tip big if I went again.
Laura is looking for a vegan
to help her with a review. If
interested, please call her at
ext. 3207.
Kim Griffin
Steven Grimes
Chris Hosford
Catherine Jernigan
Brooke Plotnik
Christian Scanniello
Jon Simon
Rachel Salzberg
S. Scott Spagnola
Louisa Spaventa
Beth Stringfield
Sarah Woodard
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