The Courier Volume 9 Issue 28 Article 1 5-20-1976 The Courier, Volume 9, Issue 28, May 20, 1976 The Courier, College of DuPage Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.cod.edu/courier This Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the College Publications at DigitalCommons@COD. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Courier by an authorized editor of DigitalCommons@COD. For more information, please contact [email protected]. If referendum fails — May need hike in tuition: Berg By Bob Vavra the planning stages is the Campus Center, A tuition increase may be the only which Berg sees as necessary. alternative if a fall referendum to increase College Associates of Austin, Texas, is the College of DuPage’s taxing rate is not currently engaged in a study of the apjffoved by District 502 voters this fall. DuPage cluster system. Berg indicated Dr. Rodney Berg, college president, said the Board would accept the findings, even in an interview last week. if that study indicated that the cluster The failure of a bill in the Illinois House system is not working and could not work for supplemental funding to secondary in the future. Time takes Its toll, even for Flash Gordon. Buster Crabbe, now 70, told a campus education has left it up to the referendum. Berg was asked why he decided to return audience last week how it was when he was America’s super hero. —Photo by Scott Voters will be asked to approve a tax Salter. for four more years when he could have rate increase for the college. The tax rate retired with a distinguished career in has not been raised since the school opened education behind him. 10 years ago. The college faces a $580,000 “I do have many long-range goals that I Aging Flash Gordon deficit. would like to see fulfilled,” he said. “We Berg said he was “disappointed” that have the goal of an adequate campus. We students, staff and faculty have not been have that job to do. We are involved in a still hero to ’70s gang able to pass the referendums, and that nationally significant program with the “the ability to direct students” for this cluster systems. We are near something voting will be important. very, very significant at this school, and I By Ross Piere “It took us six weeks of working 12 hours “We have been on a collision course with would like to stay and be a part of it. ” POW, WIZ, BANG, BOOM, Flash a day and 7 days a week to finish the first this for about five years,” said Berg. Gordon, super hero appeared in the flesh series of Flash for its release in 1938.” He is committed to the concept of shared as part of Spring Week ’76 last Thursday Crabbe remembers spending 10 to 12 government. The state provides its share night in the Campus Center. hours a day in a tank of water for just one of the school funding, while the local Curious, ardent fans of the Flash Gordon 10-minute sequence involving an Aqua- governments must provide their share of movie series of the late 1930’s spent an Sac. “I’d look hke a prune at the end of the the money necessary, in Berg’s words, “to interesting evening with its star, Buster day.” provide the kind of education we want.” Crabbe. Aside from the questions regarding the One major problem, he said, is that many people simply do not want to ap¬ Sun-tanned and looking younger than his sound track for the Flash Gordon series prove any kind of tax increases at this 70 years, Crabbe answered questions, (compositions by Beethoven and time, no matter what the cause. Berg said, showed film strips and told surprising Tchaikovsky) costuming seemed to in¬ “We must acknowledge the “no’ vote and anecdotes concerning the making of Flash terest the audience. work from there.” Gordon. “In the 30’s costumes were weak and Berg’s contract was recently renewed “I swam into show business actually,” flimsy,” Crabbe recalled. “In filming a by the District 502 board for four years said Crabbe. “I was born and raised in scene I more often than not had to hold a after a lengthy screening process. When Hawaii and throughout my youth spent a costume together with one hand while his new contract was announced, board great deal of time in water sports of all fighting that person inside the costume president Ronald Miller stated that the kinds.” with the other. It was madness.” contract will “specify objectives to be accomplished by Dr. Berg during this COURIER In 1928 Crabbe was attending college at When asked.about the craziest episode of period.” UCLA. “I was a member of the swim Flash Gordon, Crabbe replied, “It was Berg stated that among those objectives Vol. 9, No. 28 May 20,1976 team,” he recalled. “One day this guy actually at the premiere of Flesh Gordon will be the continuing of campus con¬ from a studio called the swim coach to see in Los Angeles a couple of years ago. struction, greater financial support for the if he could send a swimmer over for a college, a solidification of the cluster “I was asked to make an appearance. I adventure film they were making. I went arrangement, a better definition of school MacDougall agreed not knowing that it was Flesh down for the job and got it.” programs, and further accreditation for Gordon and not Flash Gordon that the the school. movie was aU about. Crabbe was and is a good swimmer. He The school, although it may not look like to be new was a member of the 1932 Olympic Swim “It never occurred to me that they had it, is almost one-third finished, according Team, finishing fourth in the l,50(l-meter made Flash into Flesh and it appeared to to Berg. This does not include the Learning free style. grid coach be a porno flick. But aside from all the Resources Center, which has been ap¬ Crabbe quit school and signed with a nudity, the basic idea of what Flash was proved by the state board and is simply picture company. He did a few movies but By cuts Carlson and stUl is holds true, a super hero. waiting for money to begin construction. quit after a couple of years to compete in Bob MacDougaU, defense coordinator at Although I must admit, I preferred The west side of the campus is being the Olympics. Then he returned to UCLA Michigan Technical University in Emperor Ming better as a villain than a planned for shops, warehouses and other to study law. Houghton, has been picked as the football dirty old man.” space usage as necessary. Another area in coach here next fall, the Courier learned “I picked up the paper one day in Spring, Tuesday night. 1936, and saw that a picture company was It became evident MacDougall is the going to make a Flash Gordon movie. Student Senate urges choice when he appeared for a meeting ‘This interested me. My brother and I as Tuesday night in the lisle Bowl which was kids had followed the exploits of Flash in attended by assistant coaches and Alex Raymond’s comic steip. prospective football players. bond issue for Union Two routine matters must be completed “Out of curiosity I went down to the before the Board of Trustees confirms the studio, stood around the sound stage for a hour or so watching the casting people By Gerry Bliss Jon Gedymin, Delta College senator news with a contract problem, early in June. udition 20 or 30 guys, when this man came A bond issue this fall to fund the and head of the Student Union Task Force, According to Jim Williams, registrar at Up to me and ask^ me what I was doing proposed Student Union was recom¬ told the Senate that a bond issue would be College of DuPage, the board is waiting on there and if I would be interested in the mended by the Student Senate last week to better than an attempt to pass a the transfer of MacDougall’s academic part. The rest is history. the Board of Trustees. referendum or to have an increase in tuition. credits. The other matter pending is a letter of recommendation requested by Most senators agreed a bond issue would Dean of choral composers MacDougall when he applied for the be the answer to funding the Union and position. opposed the idea of a referendum. All the Evidence piles up for MacDougall. After to be artist-in-residence senators were opposed to any tuition hike Joe Palmieri, athletic director at C/D, to cover the cost of the Union. welcomed the newcomers, rules of Randall Thompson, 76, dean of American choral composers, will be However, Chuck Cenkner, Extension eligibility were stated. composer-in-residence here the first week in June. College senator, said students should pay Ron Schiesz, director of financial aid at He will attend Music History and Theory classes, and will be guest for part of the Union by raising the service the college, enumerated types of lecturer to students in Humanities classes. fee that students pay at registration. The assistance for the student-athlete in loans Sunday evening, June 6, Dr. Thompson will conduct two of his major bond issue could pay for the remaining arranged by federal aid to education. He choral-orchestral compositions at the ninth annual Commencement part, he said.