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ThC UWM POST Vol 28, No. 62 June 27, 1984 Inside: Good eats p. 3 A different view p.4 Moody Blues p. 5 When & Where P-6 REM P-7 UfflfflCrfCSl A look back p. 12 Live it up!!!! t June 28 - July 8 OK folks, this is it-Summerfest—the event the International Festivals Association last Sep everyone's been waiting for. Well, at least since tember. classes ended. Summerfest received awards of excellence for This year's lakefront music festival promises to the best slide presentation, the most innovative be one of the best, if not the best. As in the past, souvenir item (the "I'm on top of Summerfest" the Main Stage will be the focus of this year's cap), for the brochure layout and color and for the event, especially with a line-up which begins June "Live at the Lakefront" promotional button which 28 with James Taylor and continues with such will be seen all over the place again this year. artists as Al Jarreau, the Moody Blues and Linda Ronstadt, before wrapping up with Huey Lewis In winning these awards, Summerfest com and the News July 8. peted against the likes of the Pasadena Tourna ment of Roses, the Kentucky Derby Festival, the The schedules for the other stages are equally Royal Tournament of London and festivals held in impressive and include, among many others, Mexico, Australia and throughout Europe. Daryl Steurmer, The Violent Femmes, REM, Tony Carey, Lionel Hampton, Maynard Ferguson, Summerfest has come a long way since 1968 Buddy Rich, The Blasters, Roy Orbison, The when is was a small gathering spread over five Temptations, Chubby Checker and the Count Milwaukee locations. This year Summerfest Basie Orchestra. Anyone would be hard-pressed expects to attract more than 600,000 persons. to come up with a more diverse and talented "We're at a crossroads now. Summerfest has selection. come a long way from the mud puddles of the And speaking of variety, once again there will 60s," announced Summerfest's Executive Direc be a veritable orgy of food and drink available tor Bo Black in a report earlier this year. "We are during the 11-day festival. Twenty-five vendors now on the threshold of significant expansion will provide a mind-boggling array of eats sure to plans and are evaluating turning Summerfest into please any palate. And of course there will be a bonafide, major national tourist attraction." beer and wine coolers, and plenty of them. In keeping with Summerfest tradition, Mil The children's area and circus, a marketplace, waukee Mayor Henry Maier will mark the contests and daily demonstrations, shows and live beginning of this year's festival during cere television broadcasts will be sure to keep monies at the main gate beginning about 11 a.m. everyone in the family busy and entertained. Thursday, June 28. Free admission until 1 p.m. All these things and much, much more have will follow some fireworks explosions and the contributed toward making Summerfest one of the release of 2,000 multi-colored balloons. best music festivals in the world. Summerfest won What then? four first-place awards at the annual conference of Just live it up. On the Main Stage Milwaukee's Jarreau comes home REST ROOMS by Arthur J. Greinke learning, even then, to improvise took off for San Francisco and the Music wasn't always the major on music arrangements. But position of rehabilitation coun thrust in Al Jarreau's life. His Jarreau knew that education had selor for the State of California. It BEER love for sports between his senior to be a big part of his life, so he wasn't long, however, before his year in high school and his first set aside the sports and music love of music had beckoned him year in college almost threw him long enough to pursue what he back into the limelight, and he WINE COOLERS ___J into another career direction. He felt should be a good future for was performing with a trio headed was an All-Conference baseball him. by George Duke a couple of nights and basketball player, born and STAGES He graduated from Ripon each week. raised in Milwaukee. He went to College with a Bachelor of Science It was about 1968 when Jarreau 1 Main Stage summer training camp with the degree and earned his Master's in made his decision to settle on 9 TV 6 Comedy Cabaret Milwaukee Braves, but fortu Psychology at the University of music as the main thrust in his 3 Channel IS Stage nately for his fans, decided to go a Iowa. He never forgot his love for life. He said, "I felt like a round 4 WTMJ Radio Children* Theater different way with his life. music—he performed mostly on peg in a square hole," so he got 5 Miller Ian Oasis From the age of four, Jarreau weekends and during holiday himself a Job working with a 6 Marine Bank Sports Area 7 Milwaukee Insurance Dance Pavilion grew up singing with his brothers breaks. He and a trio called the guitar player in Sausalito at a club t Pabst Festival Stage who "brought a lot of jazz music Indigo travelled to South Bend, called Gatsby's. It wasn't too f HFC/March of Dimes Telethon Folk Stage into the house," according to Indiana to perform in the well- long before he was pulling in fans 10 Old Style Country Jarreau. He was soon singing known Notre Dame Jazz Festival. every night. 11 WQFM/Mainstream/Mountain Dew Rock Stage simple harmony with them and After completing his Master's, he [Turn to p. 5] IIHIIlNllll* Regents approve tuition hike; M Al N STAG E Thurs. June 28 James Taylor 7:30pm $85 increase slated for 1984-85 Fri. June 29 Luther Vandross, The Bar-Kays. by Doug Hissom .pu-oosely underestimating enroll the Regents hard work to prevent , R.J.'s Latest Arrival 7:30pm ment. an increase, it had to come at this Sot. June 30 Al Jarreau 7:30pm Tuition at UWM will increase Pritchett said that by under time. $85 this year, according to a plan estimating the enrollment, the "There was a need for the Sun. July 1 The Moody Blues 7:30pm adopted by the UW System Board biennial budget was too small and Board of Regent to do something Mon. July fi John Denver 7:30pm of Regents at its June meeting. a deficit developed when actual internally while it presents its This represents an 8 percent enrollment increased. case to the Legislature for lower Tues. July 3 The Pointer Sisters 7:30pm increase for undergraduates. "This is a cheap shot. The tuition. We had exhausted all our Wed. July 4 Linda Ronstadt with Nelson Riddle Graduate students will be affected state's commitment to education efforts," she said. even more, with their tuition is not where it used to be," Finlayson said student govern and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra 7:30pm increasing $118. The new in Pritchett said. ment leaders understood the in Thurs. July 5 Go-Go's 7:30pm creases mean students will now When asked why he did not crease was necessary and that pay 28.3 percent of the total cost oppose the increase strongly, perhaps this was the reason there Fri. July 6 George Thorogood and the Destroyers. of their education. This increase Pritchett said his main concern was little protest. She added that affects the Milwaukee and Mad was getting /tuition below 27 the Regents tried to avoid an,, ison campuses. percent of the total dost for the increase for a long time and Sot. July 7 The Everly Brothers 2:30 & 7:30pm Student Association President next biennial budget. tuition in Wisconsin was still Sun. July 8 Huey Lewis'and the News 730pm Larry Pritchett said that although lower than other comparable uni he didn't oppose the increase Increase unavoidable versities. strongly, he felt the Regents had Regent Edith Finlayson, who Frank Nikolay, the only regent SCHEDULE anticipated the boost last year I C favored the increase, said despite jTurn to p. 9| *lllllilNlllllllll||||lllll!llllllllllll!l!ll^ Page 2 Published by The UWM Post Company Inc. an.independent, non mm •Founded in 1956— profit corporation Publication of the Post is a communal effort of the newspapers editors ana staff and local writers, photographers and illustrators. Staff members are solely responsible for the content and policies of the newspaper. Published Tuesdays and Thursdays during the academic year. except for holidays and exam periods. Summer semi-weekly- IS THIS AMY TIME TO THIMK Subscription rate: $20/semester, $30/year Offices are located in EG8Q of the UWM Union. 2200 E Kenwood Blvd ABOUT ARMY ROTC? 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