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t and always Summer Sessions h Announced at Providence The 1970 summer sessions at 25 U.S. History II the Providence Campus have 27 Modern European Hist. e tentatively been announced. For Session U - Period II the DAY DIVISION, session I Room Course will run from June 22 to July 24. Al Econ. II Session 2 will run from July 27 A2 Bus. Ma1h II to August 28. Classes will meet A3 Corporate Finance Monday through Friday, 8:00 A4 Statistics a.m. to 10:00 a.m. for period l, 201 Chemistry II 10:00 a.m. to noon for period II, 201 Lab. Tues., Thurs., 1-4 p.m. and noon to 2:00 p.m. for period 27 Sociology Q III. Classes will not meet on July Al3 Hist. of Western Civ. 4 (Independence Day) and on A7 Political Science II August 11 (Veternns Day). Stu A9 Math A dnts may r egister. a t 266 Pine Session IT - Period ID Street in Providence from 9:00 R·oom Course a.m. to 2:00 p.m. beginning April A7 Physics II u 27. A6 Lab. Tues., Thurs. For the EVENING DIVISION 9:00 a.m. to noon registration l·egins May 19 and EVENING SESSIONS continues ench Tuesday and :Monday and Wednesday, 6:45- Thursday until June 25. Monday 9:30 p.m. I and Wednesday night classes Room Course will run from June 22 to August A2 Sociology 10. Tuesduy and Thursday night A9 Math A ~ classes will run from June 23 A5 Statics to August 13. A4 Accounting 1 t Registration for ENGINEER A13 Tech. Malh 1 Algebra) ING TECHNOLOGY begins May A7 Tech. Math III (Co-op) 18 a nd ends May 22. Classes be A3 History of Western Civ. gin June 1st. Final exams will be Al4 Engineer Graphics. I & II given August 31 and September T uesday and T ltursday, 6:45- L l. There will be no classes fo1· 9:30 p.m. Engineering Technology ONLY Room Course from .July 6 to July 10. Al Psyhcology The following is a list of the A2 Intro. to Data Proc. Vol. 9 summer division course offer A3 English I ings: A4 Law 1 Srsslon I - Period I A5 Economics I Room Course A 7 Tech Math IV (Calculus ) Al Accounting 1 A9 Tech Math v A2 Law 1 Al 3 Tech Math II No. 22 A3 Intro. to Mod. Bus. A14 Engineer. Graphics I & II A4 Personnel Admin. ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY A5 E nglish 1 Architectural Drawing 1-2 A7 ·English ill Tues. & Thurs., 12:00-3:00 -?'· Cla.pton at the Boston Tea Party wit:h Delany & Bonnie & Friends. 25 U.S. History 1 Communications 2 27 Modern European Hist. 1 Tues. & Thurs., 10:00-12:00 Eric Clapton Ses~ i on I - Period II Construction M&M Room Co.ur!'lo Tues. & Thurs., 10:00-12:00 Al Econ. 1 Design Project (EE/ ME) A2 Bus. Math. 1 Tues. & Thurs., 10:00-12:00 From Y ardhirds to Early Cream A3 Amer. Econ. History Dynamics A4 Analysis of Finan. Stale Tues. & Thurs., 8 :00-10:00 (Editor's note: This is Pa.1·t I of LBJ and never could have even became so strong lies mainly in A5 Problems in Science E lectrical Circuit Theory II a two part article on C'lctpton's imagined anyone as heavy as the politics and culture it fo1· 25 Humanities Mon. & W ed., 10:00-12:00 career.) Nixon. Yet there was a sense of mulated. (Economics becamC' a f ?Ol Chemistry 1 E lectrical Circuit Lab PART ONE <'XPectation in the air; no one fected by this more indirectly 201 Lah. Tues., Thurs., 1-4 p.m. Friqay, 8:00-11:00 by Stephen Crosby was sure of what but only that than directly.) Political inspira Z7 Inrlustrial Psychology Electrical Circuit Lab The early summer of 1967 was whatever, and whenever it was tions were brought about from Al3 Hist. of Western Civ. Friday, 11 :00":2:00 a strange, yet happy one. Sgt. going to be on such a large the war. dissatisfaction in the A7 Political Science 1 Elements of Machine Design Pepper, the eerie, yet vigorously scale, i l would affect everyone. trPatment of minority group~ . A9 l\h1th A Mon. & Wed., 12:00-2:00 predicting Beatles' a lbum, was Sgt. PePP<'r probably brought a and a general repulsion a t the SPssion I - Period ID Mechanisms & Mach. Draw. 1-2 the st>irit that preva iled in the lot of this about. It asked so out-dt1 tPd moral attitudes of the Room Co.inse Mon. & W ed., 10:00-1 :00 ears of the underground. The many questions; it pointed out country. Cultural inspirations A7 Physics i Streng th of Materials ·Hippies were still in Haight-Ash seemingly irrelevant things as transpired from the need to A6 Lah. Tues., Thurs. Mon. & Wed., 8:00-10:00 bury - so Boston Common was pertinent. mass communicate the aims and 9:00 a .m. to noon Structural Drafting still free, public domain. Dope Well, something did happen anxieties of the political contin Session U - Period l Mon. & Wed., 10:00-1:00 was free, and left unhassled by and it became stronger t han gency. It was from this need R :>om Course Tech Math 2 local police. Back then, they (the thought. It was the youth revo that music became the standard Al Accounting II Mon. & Wed., 8:00-10:00 police) only knew heroin as dope lution which became so strong bearer of our culture. It unfold A2 Law II Tech Math 3 and besides they were busy bust and cohesive, it changed the ed a now seemingly unexhaust A3 Intro. t o Data Proc. Mon. & Wed., 8:00-10:00 ing criminals instead of harass whole poUtical, economic and ible supply of talent ana creativ A4 Labor Problems Tech Math .E-3 ing everyone. The war was haP cultura l standards of the nation, ity onto the world. And from A5 English II Wednesday, 6 :45-10 : ~O p.m. pening, but we all still trusted if not most of the world. How it Clapton Interview Page 8 A 7 English III Snmmer Session P age 4 Page Two THE QUILL Monday, April 6, 1970 Letters. From Everywhere Viewpoint To the Editor: as evidenced in a petition con. Intellectuals cerning his dismissal. This is Roger Williams College has been plagued by numerous thefts Get the Facts straight and vandalism since the beginning of this academk year. It first FACT. Roger Williams College started with m!Ssing tape decks and tapes from various automobiles In regard to Mr. Jarinkes and needs men of ideas who will for From the parked on the campus. The thefts then moved to the recreation room Professor B, let us get our ward the college, not men who that was to be used for student enjoyment. Within two days of its FACTS sttaightened out F irst will disgrace the proud college Society of Rational opening, the pool table was broken into and vandalized, making it of all, T he Quill has nothing to name which many have striven no longer avajJable for student use. The attack ~hen moved to the do with the Jarinkes af(air. The to secure. (Editor's note: W e receive library and the exhibit of Richard Simpson, which was brought to Quill as in · all cases, was merely Barry l\"l. r ort many letters to the effect that a the college by Jl:ubinger. Mr. Simpson's prints were defaced with acting as a medium through Providen<'e single AS[( LENNY column does 11ot proi.;ide enm1gh humor to various vulgar w-0rds. Freedom of expression is fine until it inirin· which one may express his ideas. • * * ges on another's freedom. Even if the individual is a mem make this 1J(l7Jer c
talent into Boston and giving We all got there that night in ple and asked that we all tell Clapton interview them a chance. But George Steve's 1959 Hillman Minx, our friends. (Advertising would wasn't even aware Of this be which we had to push to start, have made him spend some (Continued from P age l.) interesting stuff happening in cause he considered himself nas and we had to do this often be bread). Then he introduced this Eric Clapton came into B'lues Breakers with a Clapton ty, like most people who only cause it was accustomed to stall Cream. prominence as one of the major LP but couldn't relate it to care about money. So thinking ing. We were incredibly stoned, This produced the biggest sur figures in the musk world. much of anything. The album in this vain George decided that and we.re strung out to find the prise yet. Everyone expected Now before you all get to bear Eric did with the Yardbirds was a good rock club in Boston wou1d place so cruddy. But the biggest three English lads with Beatie about Eric, I'm going to.bring in just early English rock stuff, make lots of bread and besides down wa·s that they were only haircuts and suits; ' instead they a bit more (musical) history, so and his Powerhouse. group on there was more room in Boston thirteen people the.re. Well, we were ....:earing electric orange and as to clarify the necessity of its the Elektra "What's Shaking" for more than one club (the Bos all sat down on George's crud variations with engineer boots. upbringing, and to give sou a LP, which also featured cuts by tnn Tea Party being the first). dy floor, and started passing Clapton's guitar was spray-paint better picture of where Eric was Paul Butterfield, the Lovin' Because George didn't know around join.ts {remember it was ed psychedelically and their hair at ·the time. Spoonful, a·hd Tom Rush, con much about music and thought cool back then), and some how was frized a foot or so ove.r their Back in the early summer of tained only three cuts, all of that anyone from England (like got through the second feature heads (the way the Hendrix '67 (again), the musicians which were badly produced. in 1965) would make Jots of group. Then the stage people group had it - ripping it off around this country were acting So my friend Steve Beckmeye.r bread he brought Cream over started setting up Cream's equip- from Cream). They started with like ''lobotomized catatonics." (I went to New York one weekend to open his new club. ment: · "I Feel Free," and were so loud, usually don't rip off other peo to try and find out what he The Supermarket was located They had the most enormouse we thought the whole damn sub ple's quotes but this t ime it could (rememl:)er we had time on Commonwealth Ave., just out amplifiers any one had ever seen. way was going to cave in. At t he seems to fit - I also don't like and will to do this sort of thing, side of Kenmore Square. It was They were about 6-feet tall, two end of tbe song George asked to express my personal views because we were just stoned underground in what was once next to another; four in all. tl1em to turn down their ampli publicly, but certain tactics do those days), and came back with an old subway station. George A.P.A. with 10-foot columns and fiers, but they told him to go turn me off') They were all a 45 rpm record by Cream. Peo did nothing to it except put up a 3_50 watt amplifier, all by Mar away; obviously not carir,g aj)out hung up on psychedelics and ple there told him this was Clap · a small electric sign, make a shall. Baker's drums included his electricity bill. Well, they couldn't accept the fact that Sgt. tons' new group, bu.i that was stage out of some old crates, and two huge basses each with played for two hours and got a Pepper had brought this form all tbey knew about it. We _play put in two colored lights. It was Cream written on them like a five-minute standing ovation of rock to its last development. ed the record a nd were amazed a real cruddy place, with poles glob of it. The whole thing took from all - thirteen Of us, plus So again, as in the early sixties, to find that the "A" side was an in the middle of it, filthy about a half an hour to set up, George. They got off the · stage, it was all left up to the. English. nothing but top forty publicity floors and walls, and no seats; and about 15 minutes to test. and Steve went up and handed Over there, straflge things were crap called "Sandbox Love." But and by now you know why so Then George came out and wel Bruce a joint. Bruce then asked swelling. The Stones were in jail, the "B" side cut called, "I Feel there is no need for me to tell comed everyone, gave us a dis us to come into their dressing and the Beatles were off on a Free" was t-remendous, hard you. gust rap about the lack of peo- room and rap for a while, so holiday, amazei:I at their newly elcctronic blues. We pJayed that about ten of us crowded into found sense of creativeness. No record at least twenty times a this really small. and smelly · body could look at American rlny for over a month, but could pJace, and started doing more Rock, for besides the psychedelic stiU find nothing about Clapton dope. All over the walls, floor, nausea, Dylan, the onle 1major and/or Cream. Then, one day in and ceiling they had written (in figure at the t ime, was in seclu the middle of the summer, Fred electric sptay paint) Cream sion at th\',! real Woodstock as a (Steve's ' brother) and I were blues forevel', dope, and anything result of a motorcycle accident, looking about in a place at Har else that came to their mini:Is. and his need to readjust his fo vard Square which sold English They passed around six or seven cus .on the world. The younger releases and found in a pile stat cans of :paint .and invited every musicians had nothing to inno ing ''New Imports,'' an LP called one to write whatever they vate on. T hey had to go back to "Fresh. Cream." Well, we got pleased. Steve and I were so their roots, and for the most really excited, jumping, sceram stoned and awed that we couldn't part, this was an unknown ori ing and .running arnu11d the store move. Clapton came over and gin. It was the blues. · like idiots, etc. (We were stoned asked, "You all right mates?" Thfa was hard to get into of c·iurse), and a salesman had Thi$ sort of blew our heads a though, because blues had a to grab and shake us a bit be bit: so he sat down in between Southern U.S. C.ORE which wa.<; fore we could explain to him us, and lit up another joint which not popularly recorded. To .el what the hell was going.on. Well, he then passed to me. Some guy evate this hassel they start~d he said. that Cream was coming came over and asked him what bringing great bluesmen such as to the U.S. to open at the Psy guitar he thought .was best and B. B. King, Muddy Waters, John chedelic Supermarket in Boston he answered, "They're all tbe Lee Hooker, Mamma Thorton, in two days a nd to either buy same to me." I asked why is and J ames Campbell over to the record "or get tQ.e f .. . out"; that? Britain. Tha t brought out a so we stole it. Cla pton: "Well, they all have number of talents in their own Predictably, \Ve got everybody six strings, you know, and if country, which would have in pretty much of a frenzy on you're up to playing, it doesn't otherwise remained dormant. our arrival home. It took us an matter." One of tlwse men was John hour and a half to play the LP Steve: "Well maybe not for Mayall. because everyone wanted to see you, but some just aren't as good Now Mayall had been into it, touch it, read the liner n'ltes, to me." blues since about '55 or '56, but etc., which told all about Bruce Clapfon: "How long you been never seemed to get anywhere and Baker. After we heard it we playing mate?" (this was probably due to his decided it was tbe second best Steve: "About six years." nasty temperament). He had a LP yet (S.P. being t he fil's't), go.t Clapton: "Well, you probably few recordings out OT\ the Eng stonier, and heard it three more h.wen't got the knack of it yet. lish Decca label, but they never t'imes. What do you t hink?" directing sold enough to make a living. The LP itself is about the this to myself. One of those featured Eric Clap sr. n1e as the American versi0n, S.C.: "I guess it depends on ton, but lack of pubHcity on with the exception that "-Spoon , how much natural ability you Decca's part kept this album ful" (their first o.f three ver hnve." barely accessible. When Clapton sions), replaces "I Feel Free," Ctiwton: "Possibly. What kind joined the group, the only news and that it is on the Decca in of things are you people ipto?" of it was in a Manchester trade · stead of Atlantic label. S.C.: "Beatles; Stones, Dylan magazine, which me i;-ely stated, Before I get into telling you and blues for the most part.'' "Eric 'Slowland' Clapton, former about my first encounter with Steve: ''How did you get into lead gu.itarist with the Yard Clapton (again, but I promise blues?" birds, replaces Roger Dean who this will be the last time), i'll Clapton: "Used to catch Sonny is leaving John Mayall's Blues have to give you some history B:'ly Williamson (the English breakers." But when the whole on the Psychedelic Supermarket. one - there was also an Amer blues scene was starting in E ng The Psychedelic Supermarl:et ican l at tbe cellar clubs with land, Mayall became inst antly was owned by this fortune-seek rne ma t ~s when I was younger.'' popular and started attracting ing Greek called George Pappa S.C.: "Is ~ your favorite?" a]J the unknown blues musicians dopoulos, who cared about noth Cfa1>ton: "Um - Yeah, him ar.ound him. It was from Mayall ing except makiJ1g money. He nnd Hurt (Mississippi .John). that Clapton met bassist J ack wasn't a t:ulture expjoiter or Jack's the one who's reaJly into Bruce, and from Br_uce that he anything like that, because at him 'though. He's even written a met drummer Ginger Baker of this time there wasn't too much tune about him." . the "Graham Bond Organiza culture worth_ exploiting. Now He called Bruce over who said, t ion," Bruce's old group. The George owned this place called "Yeah, he was one hell of a n in three of then1 formed Cream. the "Unicorn Coffee House" fluence on most British blues ·and prepared their musicaJ inva which was then located on Boyl musicians' lives ahd I felt I sion of the U.S. ston Street and whfch dedicated owed him some sort of tribute. Now you remember how itself to underground folk music. Would you like to hear it?" We things were back here in e.arly George didn't know this, though, said yes (rather excitedly), and 'summer '67? Just sort of stoned because all he knew· was money they both played it out on acous and full of .expectations, and and nothing about music. But Left to right: E ric C lapton, ,Jolm Lennon, Mitch Mitchell, Keith tic .guitars with Bruce singing. very little known about all that people considered him a great Richard. © Rolling ~tone 1970 - from Rolling S tones R-0ck & It went something like "He's E ngland. We had a copy of the guy for bringin15 all this new Roll Circus. Clapton .Page 4 Page Four THE QU ILL Monday, April 6, 1970 Clapton interview Providence Campus (Continnetl from Pag(} 3) they'll get into it. They sure as Endorses Open gone, Sonny Boy's dead and hell aren't going to go anywhere gone," in about %, time - very playing what they're playing I'm a. student on the Bristol some of his tribesmen, because of simple and bluesy. I don't think now." Admissions Policy Campus and I was wondering. a difference in philosophy and Cream ever recorded it, and the Steve started to ask some1·hing The following motion was ·what. do you believe will happen ideololgy. So what does the Chief only other place I've ever heard but George came hoofing in say presented to the Providence cam to RWC if a. cer tain administra do, he doesn't resign, he doesn't it done is on the live super ses ing that we were making a mess, pus faculty at a meeting called tor is not to return in Se1>tem try to smoke the peace pipe, but sions LP. "The Live adventures that it was late, and to get the by pean Zannini, held on Tues ber? rather he scalps them. This of . . ." but its quality is poor f ... out. I guess he thought we day, March 24 by Dr. Hebert of Ans. - I believe everyone who would be a way of dealing with as in most of Al Kooper's ar were getting too much for our the Liberal Arts Faculty in reads your question knows what those oppressors. rangements. money or something! On the Providence. wou're talking about and wh om Now that our chief has let the We played percussion through way out he asked Ginger Baker MOTION you're referring to. I believe that hot air out of RWC let us hope and said we really dug it when why his cigarette smelled so In order professionally to ful the wheels will start to move we feel some cool, refreshing, in they finished. Bruce just smiled strange. Baker said, "Why it's fill its obligations as a genuinely when Mr. X leaves this college, spiring air coming in. and went back to painting. the kind of tobacco we smoke experimental college, and con I hope that a sound elementary This college is running under Steve: (to Clapton) "Arc you back home, love. Would you like cretely _realize, in its educative education program will finally be an Open Door Policy and must going to record it?" one?" George said he didn't practice, the liberal ideals which in visual existence, and that maintain this policy no matter Clapton : "Maybe" (still play smoke (too bad, I think he would justify its existence as an· in courses like math and languages what, more good then bad comes ing the guitar). have dug being stoned), and we stitution of learning, I move, Mr. become required courses to take. out in the end. And, if our chief S.C.: "What are you playing?" had five minutes to get out. Well. Chairman, that Roger Williams I think under the present sys finds a new tribe of Indians who Ch11lton: "Three O'clock in the everybody just got pissed off, College adhere to the Admissions tem the college is at a standstill. share his philosophy and will be Morning" by B.B. King. I'm try !Jut finally got up and left. On policy set forth by the President This situation reminds me of come dedicated to this cause, ing to work_ out an arrange the way out Clapton asked us of this College in his explana when I used to watch a western then RWC will never be an Ivy n1ent." to come back the next night if tory memorandum sent to the movie, and the chief of the In League College, but rather the Steve: "Are you going to stay we could, and said that they'd Dean of the College of Arts and dians couldn't get along \l\Tith good Ship Lollipop. with Cream long?" be there for 11 more nights. We Sciences on the 27th of January, came back every night, nnd on Clapton : "As long as we l
The miscellaneous assortment of debris pictured here .is sym ptomati(: of a d,.isease from which our environment suffers. This disease has been diagnosed as an "eco-crisis" (a threat to the balance of nature), and its cause has long been identified as t hat - insufferab1e consumer, technolo gical man. The best place to begin setting aright the ecological imbala nce created bY, our consumer techno logy is right here and right now! On April 22nd, the first national environmental teach-in will take place. In colJeges and univer- . sities across the country people will be getting eogether to begin plam1i11g a major campaign against the polluters of our en vi[onment.' To date, interest in the teach-in at Roger Williams has been almost non-existent. . Maybe the photographic tour this page offers you will make you stop, think, and act. The Persecuti,on, Pollution and Untimely end of ·our Campus?
Photos by Peter Holden