Alums To Participate In T-Day Activities

(Continued from page 1, col. 5) Teams To Be Announced minute quarters and refereed by The IM Council has not yet IM members. picked the All Star Teams, but Immediately following the foot­ they will be announced next ball game in the back circle will week. be the campus picnic and mock Afternoon_ receptions for their olympics from 2: 00 until 5: 00. alums from 4:00 until 6:00 will According to Mr. Bracey, cafe­ be held by the Pikes, the Sigma teria manager, there will be no Kappas, and the KAs. lunch meal on Friday, but a late Campus tours for alumni will morning brunch will take its also be conducted during this place. time by members of the Transy­ Picnic In Back Circle lites. The T-Day campus picnic will Transyli:te Campus Tour be set up buffet style in the back Transylite President Robin Pul­ circle and be served throughout len explained that main spots on the length of the mock olympics. the tours for returning alumni Mock olympic games in which will be the Science Building, the Greeks and Indys will be Morlan Gallery, Carrick Theater, competing include an egg toss, a the library, the museum, and sack race, a frisbee throw, a pie­ Morrison Chapel. eating contest, a three-legged The whole T-Day celebration race, a pyramid building contest, will be highlighted Saturday and musical washtubs. night at the Coronation Ball with Salute to Broadway the presentation of Ann Brown, Miss Transylvania, and Rick Nal­ "A Salute to Broadway Musi­ linger, Mr. Pioneer. cals" is the theme of this year's Ball -At The Phoenix Hotel XANTHUS WILL PERFORM at the first semi-formal T-Day dance Thursday night. Campus Sing which will take place at 7: 00 in McAlister Gym. . Lasting from 9: 00 until 1: 00, The judges for the event are the ball will be held at the Phoe­ Father McIntosh of Christ Epis­ nix Hotel with music by The copal Church; Chuck Campbell, Techniques. rads Cite Student Changes, band director of Clark County As a special attraction for the High School; Leslie Anderson of 50th anniversary celebration of Lexington; and Jesse Baugh, T-Day, Miss Transylvanias and music teacher at the University Mr. Pioneers of previous years RecallCoat And Tie For Class of Kentucky. will also be presented at the ball. All GreE,!k organizations and Old royalty returning include ontinued from page 1, col 3) and rioting. But now that the Transy today are concerned with the Independent women are par­ the very first Miss Transylvania m New Jersey started to at­ activist phase is over, we find a apathy," said Cobb. "It falls into ticipating in the 1974 Campus and Mr. Pioneer from 1924. Transy, and all the while more docile group of young this category-the more you wor- Sing. Martin Will Emmcee . people because there seem to be school was strongly affiliated ry about it, rationalize and an- Parties In Chapter Rooms Mr. Dale Martin will serve as the Christian church." no immediate goals." alyze, the more complex the pro- There will be parties in the Students More Liberated blem be.comes." master of ceremonies for this Another lecturer and 1964 A b li Pike, Phi Tau, and KA chapter presentation. uate, Dr. Robert Wilson, sees "I see today's students as more e ever in pluralism, a doc- rooms directly after Campus Sing. student body more relaxed liberated," said Dr. Clark Wil­ trine that existence has more Sunday morning at 11: 00 Dean wearing more informal at­ liamson, a 1957 graduate. Wil- than one ultimate principle, A pepples' party will also be Burns will conduct an interde­ than his generation. liamson is a former professor of Cobb feels that we have reached held in the lobby of Clay-Davis nominational worship service in 'As I walked through the caf e­ philosophy and religion here, and the point where we can no long- with music provided by three Morrison Chapel. . the biggest change I no­ is currently an associate professor er systemize our culture. bands. Ushers for the service are Pam was the lack of dressing for of theology at the Christian The- Mus:t Be Pluralistic These groups include a Middle- Whittenburg, Ed Tipton, Evie r," exclaimed the Yale Uni- ology Seminary. . "A single-minded culture is town blues and rock band called Smith, and Jane North. professor. "But at the same time, it seems not what we need now," stated The Family Reunion, a local soul Musician's Guild Concert that the· youth are moving back Cobb. "Whatever happens in the band named Killion, and Transy's Border On Sloppiness The T-Day weekend will come ut the casualness here is to the philosophy of the 1950's. future must happen pluralistical- own !hara and Andis. People then were more conser­ ly." to a close with the Musicians, te compared to the student Alumni Day Saturday Guild concert at 2: 00. where I am currently teach­ vative than they are now, and In spite of the "culture crisis", The young people there are they were looking for security, Butterworth believes that Tran- Saturday, May 11, is also being To be held in the Student Cen­ as the young people are now do­ sylvania gave him a flexibility celebrated as Alumni Day at ter Pit, the concert will include informally attired that they performances by the Jazz En­ er on sloppiness," Wilson con- ing." that students in other schools Transy and many of the activities . Cannot Find ·Direction never know. are geared for both students and semble and the Madrigal Singers. lot of people used to dress Presently an associate profes­ "In taking a variety of courses, alums . For any further information on even to go to classes," de­ sor of history at Mississippi State I found that being able to adapt From 9:00 until 11:00 alumni the T-Day activities, students may Wayne Barnett, a 1965 University, Dr. Charles Lewis, to other fields was invaluable to breakfasts in the chapter rooms contact any member or the Stu­ uate who attended the Collo­ '58, believes that students are me," said the science instructor, 'will be given by the Phi Mus, the dent Activities Board. to hear his former ·class­ searching for a sense of direction who originally majored in re- · Phi Taus, the Sigs, the Tri Deltas, Board members are Terrie lectures. "The men wore and cannot find one. ligion here. · and the Chi Os. Isaac, Pam Whittenburg, Rick and ties to class and the "Kids today feel defeated and Transylvania Background Helped At 12: 30 the All Star Softball Nallinger, Bruce Coates, Ed Tip­ en wouldn't be seen in any­ let down," stated Lewis. "The "I have been to five different Game will be held at the athletic ton, Lynn . Siebers, and Mark. but dresses." real zeal in the civil rights• and schools besides Transylvania, and field . Adams. Part Of A Cycle antiwar movements is past now, the background I got here helped . Thomas Butterworth, '61, a especially since the former has me in other areas of study," biology instructor at Wes­ been legally resolved." claimed Butterworth. Connecticut State College, Lewis thinks that if new goals "Transylvania gave me a liberal ves that the change in stu­ were introduced, perhaps the arts education-a very humane dress is part of a national American ·youth would move to­ education," said Warford. "All the ward solving them and feel less way through my undergraduate e change in dress doesn't aimless. years I was able to see the close me because I knew · it was Problems Over-analyzed relationship between religion and to happen-it was just in- Dr. Daniel Cobb, who gradu­ history. The questions Transy ble," he explained. "The only ated in 1958, believes that prob­ raised for me, I still raise in my that really bugged me was lems can be over-analyzed and life's· work and I will probably beer cans of every brand consequently worsened. continue to utilize these questions lying on the grounds as if "I understand that students at throughout my career." e cared about keeping the clean." instrumentation would not be Disconnected Troubles ''Hooked On A Feeling'' nearly enough to salvage these looking at problems on col­ anemic efforts. Conglomeration of "Pop" I campuses over the country, orth doesn't see a com- Blue Swede Side Two is a strange conglom­ problem among all students By JOHN YOUE eration of "pop" tunes, written ay, but instead, a series of by such people as Bacharach­ After listening to Blue Swede's David and Mac Davis. ected troubles unique to version of "Hooked On A Feel­ ·cular school. They can be sufficiently sum­ ing," which has been popularized med up as being comparable to acknowledge the energy by the jungle noises of apes as and racial tensions," he ex­ those of Side One, the only dif­ ;J?ackground music, this seemed to ference being that they are much ' "but they - are serious me . to be reason enough to stay more familiar. ms for the entire country, clear of this album. ' · t colleges." The one song of the album But I realized the importance which deserves re-recording, pro­ Sees Local Conflicts of objectivity, decided to put my viding it is done with flair and on't believe all universities bigotry for cheap commercialism dynamicism, is "Something's common troubles, but rath- aside for the moment, and op- Burning", which was magnifi­ see many, many local con­ timistically evaluated the entire ciently done by Kenny Rogers a in different parts of the album. few years ago. States," the science in­ It dawned on me that this one Every:thing Fails r concluded. song might be atypical of the al­ Even this fails as miserably as was a strange feeling to bum as a whole, and that the the rest, which could be an in­ through the lobby of Forrer merit of an effort can never rest ference to the status of Blue and not hear enthusiastic on one isolated part of it. Swede. tion from the students," Album Reinforces Disdain To say that this album is filled Wilson. "Of course, it Unfortunately Hooked On A with rampant mediocrity may be ve been the wrong time to Feeling has served to reinforce an understatement. It's appeal can such things. But the place my disdain not merely for cheap only be limited to the most in­ e a tomb." gimmickry, but for Blue Swede fantile listener, while it compels Search For Identity . as well. others to question the quality of n is a firm believer that The album itself is merely pal­ contemporary music. ts over the nation share the try; good points are as hard to It should be an embarrassment problem of searching for find as the White House tapes. enough to us all that "Hooked identity. The tunes on Side One ( all writ­ On A Feeling" has hit the num­ lieve the growing lack of ten by Blue Swede, except ber one spot in the music in- · is merely part of a cycle," "Hooked On A Feeling'') are so dustry's three major publications NEWLY ELECTED BOARD OF COMMUNICATIONS members are lained. "In the 60's, there utterly ridiculous and simplistic, -Billboard, Cash Box, and Rec­ Mary Jo Crum, Jimmie Hurt, secretary, and John Mayoue. great deal of demonstrating that overproduction and heavy ord World. {Photo by Mike Robertson)