Rhode Island School of Design DigitalCommons@RISD All Student Newspapers Student Newspapers 5-2-1975 Express-O May 2, 1975 Students of RISD Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/studentnewspapers Part of the Architecture Commons, Art and Design Commons, Art Education Commons, Creative Writing Commons, Esthetics Commons, History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology Commons, Music Commons, and the Theatre and Performance Studies Commons Recommended Citation Students of RISD, "Express-O May 2, 1975" (1975). All Student Newspapers. 124. https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/studentnewspapers/124 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at DigitalCommons@RISD. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Student Newspapers by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@RISD. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Letters I.A.I.A./A.I.A. ing is May 1st.If you are con­ ty whereby money for reno­ Institute of American Indian nected with an institution, vation will be funded. Center Art/Artists Interested in Amer­ please encourage your library will serve as a transition ican Indians to send their "discards"(books from RISD to outside world. in duplicate). Please do what Would like a policy recommen­ Dear Fellow Artist you can and pass on the re­ dation from Student Board to This letter asks you to choose quest to other artists. Thank next year's board to please one good book from your collec­ you. involve themselves with es­ tion and send it to Santa Fe. Thomas Morin, Head, Dept. of tablishment of alumni center Let me explain. Sculpture, Rhode Island School Would also like a desk at I have just returned from of Design. Registration asking students visiting the Institute of A- how they feel about an alum­ merican Indian Art(I.A.I.A.) ni center and what they feel as an evaluator of their pro­ student boards role should gram. The one resource which be. This building (Hope Block) is so important and is need Student Board would also contain SAO,Ca­ is their library. The problem reer Planning,Student Offices is not that they lack space or Student Board Meeting etc. ' a trained librarian, but that Monday,April 28 Agenda for next week,May 5, they have only 300 art books. 1975- elections,feedback on Personal collections often ex­ Metcalf Student Store-report­ evaluations,summer SAO fee, ceed this, both in quality and quantity. It is a shame ed that the Metcalf store that this two-year school, prices on clay are 40-50% higher than local outside which is trying to become ac­ prices. Mr. Lederhos explains credited to offer an Associate Degree, has so small a resource that there has always been As most of you probably al­ a 50% mark up to cover over­ for its students. ready know there is another' head. It was then pointed out The I.A.I.A. in Santa Fe is spectacular All Tap Revue the only art school in the that outside stores afford be performed Friday, Saturday country especially for Indians. to sell for 50% less with and Sunday night, May 2,3 and much more overhead. Suggested: It is operated by the Bureau 4. of Indian Affairs(B.I.A.). Student Board find some of However, following Brian's initial investment. But since Students attend tuition free. full page review in last Sun­ the $12,000 will be paid The I.A.I.A. has very high days "Accent" section of the back over the next 6 yrs only, admission standards, a vital Providence Journal I would curriculum, devoted faculty this seemed unfair to stu­ and Brian would suggest that dents of next 6 yrs. Inves­ and administration, and an ex­ RISD students buy their show tigate better clay prices or cellent physical plant. tickets in advance to avoid co-ops (students picking up Art produced at the I.A.I.A. "sold out" circumstances. carloads in Foundry truck is rooted in the only indig­ After all, it would be only would eliminate shipping enous culture of our country, fitting that RISD students charge and cheaper carload have first priorities over an old culture that spans cen­ prices). Committee to inves­ turies prior to the founding outsiders. tigate clay prices- Charlie of our nation, centuries prior Tickets are available in the Dunn.Ira Flateman.Nat Hesse. to the so-called "discovery SAO office. Also,students resent Schulman of the New World". The contin­ demanding students to use uing tradition is important to only one kind of clay- should all artists as a visual lang - Friday, May 2, 1975 a teacher impose such limi­ uage in which we celebrate life tations on students? Vol. 1, No. 10 and grow as individuals. Stu­ Student Health Insurance- dents at the I.A.I.A. are search "presently students pay a small Published weekly at the ing, as we all search, for that fee which covers little Rhode Island School of Design individual expression which is amounts (20 to 30 dollars). Box F-7, 2 College St.,Prov. uniquely theirs. Their work is R.I. 02903. Mr. Lederhos is proposing for on a high level, as evidenced next year an optional fuller by their studios and museum coverage health plan. A med­ Express-0 Office is located shows, and has been acclaimed ium range plan to cover big in Mem. Hall adjacent to the accordingly. payments-leaving students S.A.O. It is my belief, as an artist to pay minor amounts. Next and educator, that other art­ year gynecological services Submissions are always wel­ ists would share my concern and will continue its services. come. P.O. Box F-7 want to help. Let each of us Same psych services and same select one good book from our once a day sick calls. Editor - Bob Kensinger personal library and send it Alumni Association-is working to Santa Fe. on an alumni center with an Graph. Des. - Ed Kensinger Since the need is so acute, alumni gallery. At Hope block the response can have reverb­ on North Main Street next to Staff: erations beyond the fact of the Rebecca Miller Auditorium. $300,000 needed gift itself. Books can be mail­ to remodel and rennovate to Copy Queen ed 4th Class at a special low fire standards, etc. Building Asst. to C.Q. rate, the target date for mail­ may become Historical Proper­ Trinity Trinity Square turbed. The writer agrees, Keys to Baldpate" as Trinity's confident that with the only best. While "Tom Jones" continues key to Baldpate; Inn in his The author, George M. Cohan, its successful run upstairs posession he certainly will be was born on the 4th of July in with new cast members from the able to write undisturbed. The 1878 at 536 Wickendon Street repertory company, there are play takes place in the Arist- in Providence, R.I. Richard two "happenings" in the down­ otilean tradition- one place Cummings tells in the program stairs theatre. (Eugene Lee's perfect Baldpate notes that Cohan always dis­ George M. Cohan's mystery- Inn)- one time(24 hrs.)the missed himself as a "song and comedy, "Seven Keys to Bald- Aristotilean limit and one hero. dance man" despite the fact pate" is a thrilling, funny, The chorus or cast tells the that he was the author of over sometimes silly satire of the story. Richard Kavanaugh, with 70 plays and musicals, a mem­ melodramatic mystery story. his usual strained voice, plays orable composer and lyricist The plot is what makes the play the novelist, William Hallowell who was awarded a Congression­ so much fun, but without spoil­ Magee. The owner of the Inn al Medal of Honor for "Over ing it, I can tell you that is played by "George Spelvin". There" and "You're A Grand Old "Seven Keys" is the story of a Notables in the cast are Richard Flag!"(what about "Give My Re­ bet between two men, one a Jenkins playing John Bland, the gards to Broadway"?, "I'm A novelist and the other the own­ millionaire's chauffeur(what Yankee Doodle Dandy"?)and who er of a summer resort in New a farce I)and Howard London as was thought of during his no- England( Baldjpate) . The inn own­ Peters, the hermit of Baldpate. one-phase career as The Man er challenges the novelist to Honors again to Richard Knee- Who Owned Broadway. He wrote write a novel im 24 hrs. and land and "George Spelvin" for "Seven Keys to Baldpate" in offers the summer resort in the dynamic performances. My escort ten days during 1913. The news- to this well-directed produc­ dead of winter as a totally con't on pg. 6. secluded place to write undis­ tion 'by Adrian Hall)voted "Seven BEWARE PROVIDENCE >n <L MUNICIPAL COURT Spring is here and so are the stalking Providence Police in full bloom. It's towing season again on the East Side. If your windshield wipers have become paperweights for those nasty $3. messages use your imagination hide your car, or pay those tickets. The P.P.D. attacks any out- of-state car with about 15 or more tickets. If you are towed expect to pay a $25. towing fee. You must pay the penalities the day your car is impounded,or your car will be stored at the cost of $25. a day until all the tickets are paid. Don't forget, every ticket not paid doubles in price so those $200.,$300.,and$400. bills add up. I wonder what they do with the money? They're certainly not making more parking spaces! Express-0 she helps rob the bank where by being somewhat detached and NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY Enrollment: Limited to 10 students only.