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PDF (V.80:1 September 21, 1978) Welcome Frosh, -Boot Camp to of the Marine Corps Caltech U£IFORNIATech of Science Volume LXXX Pasadena, Callforma, Thursday, September 21, 1978 Number 1 Abroad at Home Jazz More The New Miss Alice Stone Ladies Society Orchestra, a seven-piece all-woman group, will give one-night only concerts at 8:30 and 10:30 Monday, Sept. 25 in the Ice House, 24 N. Jazz Mentor Ave., Pasadena. The Preservation Hall Jazz "Alice Stone" specializes in an Band will perform its own New eclectic spectrum of music Orleans jazz on Friday, ranging from early jazz through September 29, at 8:00 pm in original satire, country/western Caltech's Beckman Auditorium in and rock 'n' roll. Pasadena. Sandra Bernhard, a comedienne Led by veteran trumpeter who has been seen regularly on Percy G. Humphrey, the band of the Richard Pryor and America 2 seven musicians includes Allan Nite TV shows, will be the Jaffe (tuba), Willie J. Humphrey, evening's guest performer. Jr. (clarinet), Joseph "Cie" Members of "Alice Stone" Frazier (drums), James Edward have adopted names true to thel'r During a lull in the action at a recent football practice, Coach Tom "Twinkle-Toes"Gutman, brus hes up on the "Sing" Miller (piano), )Frank characters, instrumentation and newest .disco craze - the Scramble. More pictures from team practices are to be found on page three. ., Demond (trombone, banjo, and dress. Photo by ed. Blelecki Narvin Henry Kimball (banjo, ~~&~"~MsB!H~m,L_---__---------------------------------~~~.M~~fu~mmh~ sliding in on trombone; Kell ••• Some Wierd Kind Sandwich made and played jazz for over Drag, as base as ever on tuba; 0''J - fifty years. Paris Sleeze, tickling those AY H? The "jazz" this band plays is ivories; and Sybil Wrights, jazz of an earlier age: music from drumming to the beat of a re ou· a . ero.. the docks and saloons, the different tune. sporting houses of the red.light The band, which has been by Grant T. Yokum districts, the churches resounding described as "loosely tied, but Jim: Hey Nurd! What's first order solution must be Braisted, Eric Chael, Andy with "shout songs," and the not overbearingly so, to a happening at. Tech this year? 35.264 degrees") Gellman, and Kent Jennings. Oh! carnivals with their Creole feminist theme,'? also features: Nurd: A most intriguing series Jim: You mean to tell me How I long to see their smooth quadrilles and marching brass Clara Gnatt, clarinet and vocal of experiments will be performed that the ice I see floating around young bodies perform again thi~ bands. chords; Lena Littlecloser, guitar, this year at Caltech. Using a near in my dtink and the hockey season! The group takes its name strings and things; and (simply) frictionless surface (challenged pucks the food service ration out Voice: (pushing Anofuer from Preservation Hall, an old Mauve Ellis on first, second and only by the vast emptiness of both have a more fundamental Voice aside)!The Club has lost its building at 726 Saint Peter Street third violins. space) and a high pressure phase origin. two leading scorers and is in New Orlyans. Built in 1750, transition occuring under Voice: You bet! (gesturing currently looking for new the structure was a home in the sharpened steel blades, giving rise toward the heavens) Their players. They practice once a heart of the French Quarter. It Structural Art to a transverse to longitudinal beginning must, of course, be week beginning in October and became an art gallery and later, coefficient of dynamic friction attributed to the almighty power, supply the necessary equipment in the 1950's, began housing ratio of near infinity, an alliance but for practical purposes they to get you started. performances by musicians who at Baxter Gallery of theory and experiment will be form fue foundation which (Enter Hero, having been have kept alive fue traditional used to optimize the blade angle underlies the very existence of listening from a distance) jazz born in the first decades of The first survey exhibition and thrusting force under various the Hockey Club. As you must Hero: (flashing a wide smile) I this century. tracing the work of constraints in the investigation of have heard the Caltech Hockey know the game. Where can I find Tickets are on sale now for contemporary artist Laddie John' a highly advanced linear motion Club has established itself as one out more and join the team. the Preservation Hall Jazz Band's Dill will mark the fall opening of machine. Simplifying assumptions 'of the few (per,haps the only) Voice: Contact George Yates performance on September 29. Caltech's Baxter Art Gallery, allow linearization and winning sport at Caltech. Last at Ext. 1105 or 1112, or at For more information, call Thursday, September 28. The superposition of solutions and year the Beavers finished third in 792--8121. Caltech at (213) 793-7043. show will run through November thus allow th,e isolation of,and their division behind Pierce and Jim: (whispering into Voice's 5. the independent consideration of Valley J.C. and skated to a ear) Who's this Hero dude Since Dill's first individual such related topics as projectile 12-10-1 season record. anyway? museum exhibit in 1971 he has paths and the many bodied Another Voice: That's right. I Voice: 1 don't know. He participated in more than 55 interaction problem. vividly recall the talents' of first could be any or' us, maybe even Health individual and group exhibits (Exit Nurd mumbling-"the year players Norm Bobroff, Dave you! throughout the U.S. and the world. The Baxter show offers sounding orchestra which has Show in LA the first opportunity for an performed major works at several in-depth examination of the Make Music locations in LA, including a joint The Total Life Show, billed as artist's work. , concert with the Occidental Glee "the biggest heaIth-bargain of the Featured in the Baxter show, by Flora Boyer concert schedules. Their Club. year," opens Thurs., Sept. 21, at one of Dill's most important There are several different auditions are listed in the Our newest addition is the 11 am for a four-day run at the works from the 1971 exhibit, is kinds of llmsical activities at full-page ad else where in the Caltech Marching Band, which is Los Angeles Convention Center, a twenty-by·four-foot pile of Caltech, for new and old paper. (page 6.-ed.) Also, there actually a revival of an old Pico at Figueroa. sand that supports a structure of students, for faculty and staff, are several other smaller choral traditiqn: that of having music at According to show producer glass panes. .Buried under the for amateurs and those who organizations, .but it is necessary Tech's athletic contests. They Chuck McLaughlin, the event will sand is a light source that causes already have musical experience. to belong to one of the Glee will also play some concerts in feature 700 exhibits and the edges of the glass to glow. Here is a list of the 'different Clubs to belong to them. They second and third terms, including demonstrations "all geared to get Other works include a series groups and their audition times. include the Apollo Singers (a one at Disneyland. See the News the pubjc totally involved in of paintings composed of The Caltech Glee Club is male octet), the Chamber Singers Brief in this issue for more getting the most-and the cement, polymer, and broken really two organizatioqs, the (a 16-20 voice mixed information. Tubas, anyone? glass. Their brilliant colors are best-out of life." On view will Men's Glee Club and the group)several Quartets (both The guitar classes begin be displays on health, nutrition, derived from substances such as Women's Glee Club. The two male and female), the Chorale meeting Tuesday, October 3, in sulphur and iron oxide that physical fitness, beauty, organizations meet three 'hours a (for beginners): and other groups the Fleming Basement self-improvement, solar energy, associate these unconventional week, Mondays 7:30-9:30 pm, available upon request. Free Instructional Music Room. Darryl paintings with traditional organic farming, weight-loss, and Wednesdays 5-6 pm, voice lessons are also available. Denning teaches classical and alcohol-drU€ abuse, ecology, landscapes. separately. The two Clubs do The Men's Conductor is Olaf flamenco guitar, with classes communic'ations, astrology, More recent works to be present the holiday Festival of Frodsham, and the Women's open to anyone affl1iated with psychic arts and related fields. shown include a series of "door Light and the spring Home Conductor is Monica Roegler, Caltech (students are free). Upwards of 250,000 people are paintings"-seven-foot Concert together, as well as and any . questions can be Beginning instruction is from expected to attend. architectural-relief sculptures th,,! coor dinate their annual answered on Ext. 2157 or 2197. 4:30-':5:30 pm, and intermediate Included in the line.up of reflect the artist's: interest in the Repertory Camp. And this year, The Collegiate Symphony and advanced is 5:30-6:30 pm. guest speakers are Jack La work of Henri Matisse. Dill they will also be performing Orchestra also has an article For more information, call Lanne, the physical fitness builds on Matisse's image of an together at Dr. Marvin elsewhere in the paper. Suffice it 650-1692. expert; Tom Hayden, political open window, using actual Goldberger's inauguration as to say that the Orchestra is one On Wednesdays at 4:30-6 activist on solar energy; Arthur building materials to create an Institute President,· and at the of the most exciting and pm, beginning on September 27, Bornstein, memory improvement; illusionistic effect.
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