July 12, 1979 Vol. 23 No. 2 Page z Julv IZ , 1979 p o n t e r OPINION ..... JUL I 12 Discrepancy in financial aid forms creates student dilemma _

Hypothetical situation : A_ continuing ~ws.P Inside: student submits a n applica tion for fmanctal atd to meet tuition expenses for the summer session of 1979 . The summer aid form, prepared by the Features ..... Offi ce of Fina ncia l Aids, states that a student must take al least six credits (full time for the summer session as defined by the UWSP summer timetable) to · be considered for summer aid, so the student enrolls for seven summer credits. Four to six weeks la ter, assuming he qualifies for financial aid , the student receives his Sleuth opens Pg. 7 ( financial a id proposal from the Financial Aids Office. The proposal states that the aid award is contingent upon the student's maintaining satisfactory academic progress and his carrying at least a half-time academic workload. Since a full workload during the summer is defined as six credits, the student decides to drop a three credit course leaving him enrolled with four credits, and according to his afd proposal, still The Pointer Interview eligible for summer aid. The student then tries to pick up his aid check from the cashier who tells him that the Financial Pg. 8 Aids Office will not release his check. The student immediately checks with the Financial Aids Office where a person tells him that he must be enrolled for at least six credits so he cannot receive his summer aid. Unable to pay his tuition Pointer Staff Summerl979 without the aid package, the student withdraws lllanaging Editor: Susie Jacobson from summer school. News Editor: Bill Reinhard Features Editos: Bob Ham With one form saying one thing and another Graphics Editor: Mark Larson form saying another, the Office of Financial Aids Copy Editor: Annie Glinski has created a situation that can easily be Business Manager: John Harlow misinterpreted by students applying for Ad Manager: John Harlow financial aid. Photo Editor: MarkMcQueen Advisor: Dan Houlihan If six credits are required before a student can ,>' be considered for summer financial aid this information should clearly appear on both the summer aid application and the final financial aid proposal. We urge the Office of Financial ntE POINTER is a second Aids to clear up this situation so that UWSP class publication issued under the students clearly understand tbe requirements authority granted to the Board of Regents of the Univer'5ity of attached to their financial aid awards. WISCOnSin . It is written and edited by the students of the Univer'5ity ol Wiscoo.sin.stevens Point and they are solely responsible for its editorial content and policy. ? Letters to the editor will be Wekome back Skylab .. ... • accepted only if they are typewritten and signed, and lbould not exceed a maxirnwn of 250 words. Names will be withheld from publication only if appropriate reason is given. The Pointer reserves the right to edit 1etten if necessary and to refuse to print letters not suitable for publication. All correspondence ~ should be addressed to The -~ · .1 ~ ):':> Pointer, 113 Communication Arts Center, UWSP, Stevens Point, WISCOnSin, 54481 . Written permission is required for the reprint of all materials -~ - . . . ' i:,res

Photo by Eric A. Embertson The Pointer encourages UWSP students to submit photographs for the correspondence page.

,,,,,-, To the Pointer, their budgets cut because. of years. We would prefer not to published _by The Pointer taken the position that The It is hard to disagree, at poor or unsound preparation do this, of course, but fear contained proper Pointer should be made least substantively, with last were not among those who that to do otherwise would disclaimers. Sec. 11.30 (2), aware of its violation of the issue's (6-21 -79) editorial did make it. We therefore only hurt the sound fiscal Stats. law rather than being subject calling for both a budget applaud The Pointer's strong policies The Pointer so Although The Pointer never to a forfeiture. Subsequent workshop and a raise in the words on sound budgeting, heartily endorsed in its June submitted any defense to this violations by The Pointer student activities portion of and hope that you will give 21 editorial. allegation, it was suggested could result in the institution the segregated fee structure. the upcoming workshop ( to Bob Borski by a member of the Students of a civil action seeking a Two clarifications need to be be held probably in late President for Dreyfus that one of the forfeiture of up to $500. made, however. September or early October) Student Government reasons The Pointer failed to Very truly youn, First of all, there will be a the proper amount of Association make sure Iha t the proper STATE ELECTIONS budget workshop this fall, publicity. disclaimers were on :.he BOARD just as there was last fall. Now for the second advertisements submitted by Kevin J . Kennedy Student Budget Director clarification: it is very likely To the Pointer, the Students for Dreyfus was Legal Counsel Mary Ann Coleman was most that we will be raising the On June 20, 1979, the State that the person in charge of explicit about !his when she student activities portion of Elections Board met to the advertising layout the segregated fees consider the results of its was interviewed by The refused to work on any ads Letien Policy Pointer for the 5-10-79 issue; structure. The reasons for investigation into the for the Dreyfus campaign. unfortuna teiy , this this include not the minor activities of the Students for This would not excuse The Letten to the editor will be information never appeared costs of a budget workshop, Dreyfus. On November 21 , Pointer from its accepted only ii they are in the article, and thus but double digit inflation, a 1978, a letter was sent to Mr. responsibilities for making typewritten and signed, and perhaps the confusion. predicted decline in Kurt Busch, editor of The sure that all ads which it runs should not exceed a maximum of As for raising segregated enrollment, the desire to Pointer, and in April of 1979 in its newspaper are in 250 wonls. Names will be fees to cover the costs of a preserve both the quality and there were several telephone compliance with Wisconsin's withheld lrom pu~lication only If budget workshop, such will the quantity of already conversations with members campaign finance law. All appropriate reason is given. The not be necessary. Expenses existing programs and of the business staff of The this require;;_ is that the Pointer reserves the right to edit services, and the wisdom of newspaper examine the letters if necessary and to refuse for even a "comprehensive" Pointer. As a result of the to print letters not suitable fa< workshop would be marginal maintaining a strong investiga lion, the Elections disclaimer on the publication. All correspondence and our office will only be too reserve. Board has come to the advertisement to make sure should be addressed to: The glad to pick them up. To achieve these ends, and conclusion Iha t the student that it is in compliance with Pointer, 113 Communlcation Arts Our concerns, rather, have because seg fees have not newspaper, The Pointer, sec. 11 .30, Stats., and that the Center, UWSP, Stevens Point, to do with attendance. Last been raised in some time, it failed to comply with the people who paid for the ad WI , 54481. All correspondence y ear ' s workshop had may even be necessary to election law by not assuming are the people named in the must be received no later than minimal participation, and raise our portion of them $1 its responsibility to assure disclaimer. Monday afternoon fa< publication several of the groups who had a year for the next several that political advertisinl{ The Elections Board has the foUowing'Mlunday . Page~ July 12. 1979

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Schmeeckle Reserve developement continues

parkway, establi s hing a moratorium on swimming in of lhe area have been placed. this summer have been very fitness trail, and erecting a the lake. This was done in The Reserve is closed cooperative and By Greg Polacheck shelter building near the ski order lo obtain accurate data between 8 p.m. and 6 '! .m., understanding and he slope. Tentative plans for the on coliform bacteria and to and posted signs ask users to encourages any feedback building call for its use as a determine the actual quality "Take nothing but pictures" concerning future plans and meeting place for groups and of the water. Because of the and "Leave nothing but management of the Reserve. The new director of the possibly as an information amount of swimming last footprints." Ron Zimmermann has an Schmeeckle Reserve, Ron center. In additiion, plans summer the data on the The new director has noted office in the CNR and can be Zimmermann, said this week call for the construction of bacteria was distorted. In that people using the area reached at 346-2076. that work to improve the circle turns lo allow for addition, wells on the Reserve is expected to canoes to be used on the lake. property are used to monitor continue lhrough the 1979-80 Access for ca noes and the inflow of ground water Professor predicts school year. nonmotorized boats would be coming into the lake. Zimmermann, who on the south end of the lake. The SRB also hopes that formally started his job on Work on the Reserve the moratorium will July 1. noted that many started two years ago with minimize traffic on the beach improvements have taken funding from LAWCON enough so that new plants Brighter Fuel Outlook place this summer and more

Out of state SAGA--- Studen t fired for salad politics

months before his firing, media as a means of Editor's note : The Bates says the combination creatively whiling away the following article appeared in of the two ideologies on one hours at a dull job. His firing, the July 10 issue of Mother bed of cottage cheese caused he says , show the Jones magazine. Reprinted some anti-nuclear students to employment situation of with permission. complain. Saga Food wo_rkers on "l couldn't resist the campus in high relief-there surreal effect of that bright is no appeal process for A student cafeteria worker red hammer and sickle on the dismissals. at Hampshire College has white cottage cheese in the Bates is asking the lost his job for put.ti_ng politics middle of the dining room, college's president for in the salads. !hat's all ," says an reinstatement. He told Davis Bates. a 24-year-old, unrepentant Bates, who does Mother Jones, "I was hoping was fired from his $3-an-hour not s upport Soviet to be back by Parents Day in position by Saga Food when communism and did not April, but it's too late for that he refused to stop writing intend to link it with the anti­ now." Meanwhile , "No Nukes" on salads with nuclear movement. Hampshire students have carrot sticks and making red An activist who has urged taken up the cause, and are wax hammers and sickles in Saga employees to organize, inscribing political messages the cottage cheese. Bates got into designing, on the salads and cottage Admitting that his political using both vegetables and cheese even with out Bates' designs were on salads for wax cheese-wrapping as his help. members . of the physics and and related products , Rob aslronomv fac ull y a l UWSP . B_ertelsen , manufac tu ri~rt The observa Lory is open to the director; and Donald Albrechf public after sundown on both Nekoosa Plant Manager. ' PRESS Tucsdavs a'nd Wednesdays. Representing UWSP at lhe Localed· on the fourth floor of the meetmg were Bruce Sanborn Science Building. the area may be president of the Paper Seienc~ reached by usi ng the Reserve Founda hon ; Burde'tle Eagon NOTES Street entrance. Parking is actmg vice chancellor: Da i; a ,·ai lablc to the public in Tramer, dean of the Co ll ege of university lots without permits. Natural Resources ; and Mi chael If th e· skv is overcast, the L

Director of Polish History retires

The founder of an Boulder . cause of Poles abroa-d, he academic program at the He is the author of now is on lhe na tional council University of Wisconsin­ " Mikhail Sholokhov in of the Kosciuszko Foundation Stevens Point dealing heavily Yugoslavia: Reception and which is based in New York with Polish history and Literacy Impact" about a a nd on the boa rd of directors culture is retiring from its Soviet novelist who received of the Polish lnstilule of Arts directorship. the Nobel Prize in 1965. He and Sciences in America . He has translated and edited two once was called to lhe Slate Professor Waclaw W. major writings from Russian Department in Washington, Soroka says that after 15 to English for publication in D.C. to co nfer wi lh this years as head of Russian and books. natio n's ambassador to East Central European Poland. Studies it's time for new In addition, his mastery of leadership. He also would the Russian language has like to devote more attention resulted in his being invited One of his more notable to research and teaching to the Soviet Union on several accomplishments for UWS P before he concludes llis different kinds of scholarly was the rol e he played in career on campus. missions. On several trips he arranging for a visit to the was an interpreter for major campus and Portage County Professor Robert Price of religious groups meeting communities in August of the foreign language and there. 1976 by Cardina l Karol comparative literature Wojtyla. Last fa ll , that department whose specialty Soroka is a native of Poland prelate from Poland became is Russian, will be Soroka 's who received three degrees Pope J ohn Paul 11. successor. there and during World War II was an officer in the The Russian and East The faculty leaching underground Home Army courses in lhe Russian and Central European Studies and Peasants' Batallions. faculty comes from several Eas t Ce ntra l European After the war, he was Stud ies program presented departments, members of secretary general of the which recommended that S. an accolade to Soroka last Polish P easant Party for week in which lhey described Joseph Woodka, dean of Western Europe and later 11 letters and science, appoint his directorship as be ing chief executive officer in the marked with " notable Price to be their chairman central office of t he a~d program director. d1st~nction " and " impressive International Peasant Union achievements." in New York. Price, a native of Detroit He served at Indiana Price said that he intends rts C&2, craft who joined the UWSP faculty University and the lo conti nu e emphasis on the in 1972, holds a doctorate University of Illinois before Russ_ia n and Polish heritage center from Indiana University and coming to UWSP in 1963 . of this region which has been previously taught at the Widely known for his emphasized previously in the University of Colorado - interest in oromotinl( the program. 346-4479 The Pointer Page 7

Summer Theater

Games myste~y writers play

the very last. this complica led and Things get under v,ay when intricate off onstage, and the successful mystery writer cast and crew of this Reviewed by Bob Ham Andrew Wyke Cplayed by production prove themselves Dale Gutzman) invites his more than equal to the task. wife's lover, Milo Tindle Dale Gutzman turns in an (played by Christopher engagingly hammy Knudtson } into his performance as. Wyke, the sumptuous English manor. mystery writer who has Fans of the good old­ After several moments or surrounded himself wiih aii fashioned whodunit murder vacuous small talk, Wyke the stuffy trappings ol his mystery, with its endless comes to the point. bestselling novels. He is surprise twists and inevitable "I understand you want to especially fine when things last-laugh ending, would be marry my wife." are working against him and well advised to lake in the " With your permission, of he has to think fast on his Mystery writer Andrew Wyke leads University Summer course," replies the affable feet. Milo Tindle into temptation Theater's productilrn of Milo. Wyke then leads Milo Christophe r Knudtson's Anthony Shaffer's Sleuth. into a wonderfully diverting Milo is · much more low­ Shaffer's play, which won scheme to secure Milo's keyed, as he moves through attention to detail make it has to be figured out in him a special "Edgar" financial future. But beneath Wyke's little game in an utterly convincing. advance. and that even a award from the Mystery all this elaborate tomfoolery, appropriately faltering style. It provides the sophisticated minor slip in this depart· Writers of America-only the the real stufff of the play The offstage performances atmosphere so essential to ment results in _people slan~: fourth such award given to a begins to get moving, like a are of an equal caliber. The this kind of play. ing around onstage, looking playwright in 26 years- is a viper uncoiling for the kill. To persons responsible for the Robert Baruch's inventive as if they'd just wandered masterpiece of bafflement give anything more away beautifully realized English direction keeps everything into the wrong play. The which lures the unsuspecting here_would spoil the play, and manor set ought to get some moving along at an movements of t he viewer into one wrong turn that would be a crime. sort of medal. Heavy, rich invigorating pace. Audiences after another, and leaves the It takes considerable talent looking woods, solid do not usually realize that whole mess up in the air until and effort to bring something workmanship, and minute every move the actors make

and, faced with this sudden shortage of gore, they turn to sex. Weaver, wearing only a T-shirt and panties, runs Reviewed by Bob Ham smack into the monte'r's latest incarnation. She leaps back in shock as a slimey, gruesome looking appendage, the exact purposes of which we can Five men and two women only imagine, emerges from - the crew of the commercial the monster's side. freighter, Nostromo-are on All of this is actually pretty their way home with the standard horror fare - right goods when Mother, the down to the scantily clad ship's computer, wakes heroine in the jaws of doom. them up to explore an The movie does, however, uncharted planet nearby. manage to break some new On the planet's storm-swept ground. The monster, product of Swiss artist H.R. surface, they discover the Giger. is a lovely piece of remains of a 14-foot worK - and Ridley Scott's astronaut, frozen at the sensitive direction makes the controls of his ship. They most of it. Like the crew, we also discover a sinister alien never find out what the organism, and are forced to monster really is . We never bring it aboard when it get a good long look at it - becomes attached - literally lots of close-ups of dripping - to a member of their jaws and greasy tentacles - expedition. Once inside the but never a complete picture. ship, the alien assumes a And the damn thing never number of absolutely looks the same way twice. revolting metamorphoses, Scott's timing is right on and proceeds to eat its way target. He always springs the through the crew. alien on us just one or two The plot of Alien is really seconds alter we expect it. nothing more than the old The special effects are also haunted house routine, fine - especially the ship's dressed up with Star Wars Buffet in space interior, which looks more special effects. But, thanks to like a sewer syste.m than a the mystery built around the After making lunch out of starship. appearance of the monster by emerges from the last place them} but not enough to return your blood pressure lo the first six members of the All this adds up to a first­ 20th Century Fox's refusal to you would expect, is enough rate shocker - well handled, to make you crawl under normal. crew, the alien turns lo the release advance photos of it, seventh, delicious Sigourney compentenlly acted, and and the gaslliness of the thing your seat and promise God The slaughter continues rather predictably, with a Weaver, for dessert. By this creepy as anything that ever itself, AU en turns into one of anything if He 'll get you_ the threatened to crawl out from hell out of there. Later, things few twists here and there, time, the producers of the the most chilling horror and a couple more brief film have apparetitly run out under a little kid's bed. movies in recent years. get a little less explicit (instead of seeing people doses of hard-<:ore gore. just of interesting ways to show The alien's stomach­ people being torn to pieces churning first attack, as it being devoured. you hear to keep you on your toes. Pa ge 8 July 12. 1979 Sing along with Mitchell An interview with 'entertainer in "residence '

C h u C k Mitchell

The Pointer Interview

Guthrie says is good for For me, going into the you 've got all this power, and because they aren't used to By Bob Ham you ." classrooms, if I can make a way, way, way way far away the peculiar kind of silence Since then , Mitchell has contribution, is the way to go._ onstage, dancing around, are that you have in a theater. built up an impressive and Because that way I've got little stick figures who are If you put them in varied repertoire, including them. I don't have to count on making these humungus Michelsen they might be With the possible exception everything from show tunes the vicissitudes of the typical amounts of music that come different. When I did of those majoring in to the poetry of Eliot and college audience - will they pouring out at you. Thal isn't Michelsen with the music Complete Indifference To Sandburg, to tradi.lional show up or won't they. necessarily a live camps, it was great. Everything, no one who has tunes, to contemporary The Pointer: In a recent performance in the The Pointer: You've been pursued an academic career works such as "The interview, you said, "Most traditional sense I was all over the country here at UWSP within the last Dutchman," "Spoon River," young music lovers lack talking about, where it's performing. Are there any six or seven years will have and "The Circle Game. " experience in live almost like theater. I'm places you'd rather not go any trouble recalling He now lives in Colorado, entertainment." Would you talking about the intimacy of back to? folksinger Chuck Mitchell. but continues to cross the elaborate on that? an old fashioned Weavers or Mitchell: Places where, Not at all surprising, since country a dozen or more Mitchell: Let me put that Pete Seeger concert, or a just arbitrarily, I may not he's been making annual times a year, visiting quote into context. The Chad Mitchell Trio concert - have been well received. But slops here for as long as different colleges, and question asked in the back in the days when the geographically, I don 't know . anyone can remember, performing both onstage and interview was, what's the Ford Auditorium in Detroit, A lot of people hate West packing coffeehouses with in the classroom. His difference between now and which seats 3,000, was a big Texas, but I've had a very people eager to listen to and peculiar affection for ten years ago, when I started room. good response there. participate in his amazingly working in classrooms doing concert and classroom. The Pointer: How does Basically, I think it isn't so energetic one-man shows. seemed like a good place to In 1968, that was the first the lack of that particular much an area of the country Most people who see this begin the interview. year that large numbers of kind of musical experience on as it is a certain context. man's show agree that his freshmen arrived at college the part of your audience There are certain areas of the success with audiences is due The Pointer: You do a lot of with the tradition first ot affect your performance? country where there is more to the extreme relevance of performi11g in classrooms. watching a lot of TV, and Mitchell : It makes it of a tradition for what I do - his music-songs about horses What are the advantages of second, of smoking a lot of difficult. It's like - okay, like the Middle West and the from Tennessee, songs about this? Whal can you do in a reefer. here's a perfect example - East. getting women drunk and classroom that you can't do So all of a sudden I was the Freshman Orientations. If there's any area - into trouble, and songs about in a coffeehouse or concert dealing with a situation In The Coffeehouse, we do maybe Louisianna, and some Hippos in love. setting? where people weren't coming this standard shtick - the other areas of the country Mitchell is currently doing Mitchell : In a lot of ways, I to my shows. And so I had to room is acoustically very which, for one reason or lime as Artist in Residence find that if I don't work change my way of going after bright, so even the smallest another, are extremely here, performing for classrooms I take the wrong them, so I got into concert conversations carry, so kinds of chances onstage, provincial: I worked a orientation groups, music and classroom. please try to hold your Holiday Inn . in Fat camps, and a host of other because I'll do material that I 9%; university and community really should be doing in a groups, including the classroom - I 'II do "The Women 's Resource Center Three Ravens" in a lounge. and the Portage County Well , there's nothing more Commission on Aging. absurd than doing "The More and more, I'm discovering that one of the things that "Basically, they've just hired Three Ravens" in a lounge. makes an audience go to work for you, and ultimately for me for the summer and given But it's a beautiful song, it me a place to stay-and I love has a hypnotic quality, and themselves, is not putting your life or their reputation on the it! This is the time when most that kind of music should be performers are just part of the experience of scratching around saying, somebody who's interested in lin>. There's not that much at stake." well what am I going to do literature and interested in next. " how the language came to be Mitchell's experience the way it is . At about the same time I performing folk music began Going into classrooms is conversations to an absolute Louisiana. And it was in the early sixties when he more fun, I can justify my found that less and less minimum. And yet, you'll existence a lot better. Co­ people were having the nobody's fault, they were real quit his job with the Board of have people opening potato friendly - but they just Education in Detroit and curriculum is what I believe experience in their lives of chip bags and conversing in in. The major reason for theatrical performance. I'm didn't have any context to put began singing for a living. very low tones - as if they me in. That's the big " It started out, I think, thir­ picking the classroom is that not talking about someplace were watching TV! If you it's essentially an ambience where The Allman Brothers problem. Every once in teen dollars a night in some were to ask them if they were awhile, people just don't bar--the longest bar in very similar to a theater. appear outdoors - there it's being polite, they 'd say of You have a captive audience. just like a happening. It's like know how to use you, and you Michigan, the Rail Bar in course. If you were to ask don't really fit into what is Detroit, doing saloon Whether it's sterile or not is a little Woodstock - you 've them if they were being unimportant. got tremendous wattage and °!eir idea of fun on a Friday singing, which Woody silent, they 'd say yes - rught. You know, fu fu music The Pointer Page 9

Photos by Mark McQueen

is what they're really after, energy exchange between me humor very effectively as an enjoy him . He will disarm people - just people people. and you 're up there trying lo and the audience. When you audience participation you and lake you someplace. Woody Allen has it. He can do that. I can do a couple sets gel into a situation like that, technique, and that helps a And I think that's what folk do something - a brilliant worth of that stuff, but after all you have to do is keep out great deal, because laughter, can do. film like Ma nh allan. which is that. .. of your own way and let unlike singling along, is an In folk - or in rock, let's just done with so much love, I've had a rough go around people bring their own involuntary response. say - Stephen Stills, who is a and al· the same time, so in Amarillo, and yet Amarillo experience lo the piece. Mitchell: I ' ve never wretched person , I much power. And you can see is as nice a town as it can be. The Pointer: Audience thought of myself as being understand, and Neil Young, it in Fiddler on the Roof - It just happened that I partic ipation is a very particularly funny. And yet, whom I once knew, Jong ago there's so much caring in crossed paths ·with a club important part of your show. lately, I've come lo realize before chemistry - they do it Iha l, so much of a sense of owner down there and we How do you warm up a really that whether you think you're with "After The Gold Rush," history. And you can go down didn 't get along - but that's reluctant audience' funny or not, it's important lo "Hearl of Gold. " "Teach list after list - Bergman's not Amarillo's fault. Mitchell: You don 't. You the ongoing na lure of Your Children Well " is just a films, American films, The Pointer: You do a can shame them , you can showbiz, and lo all of the mind-bending song. I can fall anybody's fi lms. Com ing wonderful thing with a song chide them, you can say, va rious other things I'm apart. That's a song I'm in Home is a piece of folk . called " The Dutchman," "come on, goddamnil," or involved in - it's important the process of learning. If you You 've got to gel rid of the where you recite the last whatever. But I'm that I surprise people and can get people lo sing Iha l notion Iha l music is the piece of T .S. Eliot ·s discovering, more and more, shock them into laughing. song, there's such a barrier, or anything else. It's "Prufrock" al the end of the one of the things that makes I wish I could find some bittersweet context lo it. It what brings us into a sense of song. How do you go about an audience go lo work for non,scatalogical toasts. You doesn 't matter what you call circling or family - a caring matching a piece of poetry you and ultima tely for know , I have things like, it or what you label it- it has with a piece of music' themselves. is not pulling Here's to America, the land that essence of the folk, cont'd on pg. 10. Mitchell : In my case it your life or their reputation or the push, · which is exchange among happens in any number of on the line. There's not that Where a bird in the hand is situations. It may happen, much at stake. One of the worth two in the bush, and it has happened, things I find interesting about But if in the bush a maiden spontaneously onstage. But Stevens Point is that I have should stand, more often than not, it not had. almost from the very Then a push in the bush is RECREATIONAL SERVICES happens semi-spontaneously beginning. any difficulty worth two in the hand. as I'm driving lo a job. It getting people to si ng. That'll shock 'em! And happens because I The Pointer: Whal about they 'll start to laugh, because SUMMER SPECIAL concentrate - I say, okay, the famous Chuck Mitchell it's a very funny, outrageous, what can I do lo amuse technique of Noncommittal chutzpah type of toast. I've myself tonight? . Humming? been collecting stuff like that, JUST s1 °° FOR ALL and I've been doing limericks The album I did is called Mitchell: That's something Combinations, and that's - partly to shock, surprise, I came up with just because I and get people laughing. THE POOL YOU CAN because I lake these va rious needed something. It's since things that I think are Once you've got everybody developed into a shtick, as going, it's almost like saying, SHOOT 1:00-3:00 P.M. relevant and that somehow you ·ve seen. I've found it enhance one another, and put "Yeah, he's a regular guy." amusing, and I've yet lo Then, if you want to lay a them together in such a way come up with anything TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY that they expand and amplify sentimental trip on better. I wish I had three or somebody, they're more or each other. four of those. In the case of Mike Smith's less willing to go along with AND I think there's a natura l you . lune, "The Dutchman," I sort of reticence lo singing think it's a form of along and yet, that's one of The Pointer: What's the BILLIARDS TOURNAMENT editorializing. I want to say the most obvious ways lo purpose of folk music' Whal something, but I don't know amplify the limited energy can it do for us' what lo Sa)!, so I do the next that a single performer can Mitchell: I don't know - WED., JULY 18 6:00 P.M. best thing. I lake what put out. And what's reaUy fun for me, I look al a guy like amounts to a script, ra lher is, it makes you feel hke a Pete Seeger, who's a super than just doing something off real star when you go ipto a enttrlainer. It doesn't matter BACKGAMMON MINI-COURSES the lop of my head. I've been situation and people know whether you're six, sixty, or doing "The Dutchman" that your shtick. They know your even in the ver.y self­ JULY 12 & 19 2:00-4:00 way for a long time, six or so~gs already, and they 're conscious years, whether seven years, and the reason looking forward to them . you're twelve to nineteen. . SIGN UP NOW AT J I'm still doing it that way is, I That's really special, and it You're still going to gel off on Lower Level Pele Seeger, unless you're Univ. Center gel strong feedback from the doesn 't happen everyplace. I 341 ,3848 audience that this works. just wish it did . really uptight about your REC SERVICES Somehow it creates a kind of The Pointer : You use " image." You 're going lo Page It Jaly IZ, 1'79 Chuck Mitchell, continued kind of thing. Mitchell: I write my own I frankly don't think that I'm fascinating going on here at typical school. And it's You can take the simplest tunes and I perform them. At as good a songwriter as several levels - certainly in because the people who are thing, like "We Shall the moment, I don't really somebody like Mike Smith, or Student Life and the Health involved in various aspects of Overcome," or " We Shall Not feel that my tunes work any some of the other people I Center. There's a lo-t of the administration seem to be Be Moved," all of the songs better, or as well as some work with. people saying, " Hey, we've asking, " Well , what can we associated with various kinds other tunes I use for this I do my own stuff. I'm not got a problem." And the do to solve the problem," of non -violent particular situation. My prolific - I wish I was. I problem is, let's say, the rather than saying, "Oh, demonstrations - currently contribution is the show think that, given some general well-being of the there's nothing we can do, the nuclear thing. You 've itself, and the context that I success, I would be. You student body or the size of the scre.w it!" They're .~aying, gotta have something to say, place the tunes in. But I do know, if somebody said, student body. And they're " Hey, let's try this, let's try but it's the context that write a fair amount, and I " Hey man, far out, let's coming up with, not radical, this." And they're willing to makes it powerful. think I'm about to enter into record that!" (laughing) I'm but sound and interesting fund. And I gather they're I was raised with stories another area. I discovered a terribly responsive to success solutions . The Freshman getting results. I also think like that. The entire soccer couple years ago that I have a - to the possibility of Orientation Program - I'm they're kind of watching it - team of Great Britain was kind of njlrrative sense and I remuneration. - I get just not sure, but I think it's quite it's not as if they're just wiped out in an airplane tend to write poetry better really prolific when that an unusual program. The throwing money around. So crash - and at the than I write lyrics. I'm not a heppens. idea that you can prepare I'm impressed. comm~morative thing, a sparse poet, and I think a The Pointer: Anything parents a nd kids to the point Part of it is , of course, I like huge stadium, seventy lyricist is a sparse poet - special you'd like to say where unnecessary attrition nice jobs, and this is a nice thousand people, a ll rose as someone who writes very before we hang it up? of the student body is cut - job. I have a feeling that I'm one and sang, "Nearer My succinctly, like Paul Simon Mitchell: Yeah, one thing the idea that, simply by doing making a contribution, it's an God To Thee." To me it's does, like Stephen Sondheim, - I don't know whether it's a better job, you can unusual setting, and I've a mazing what people will do like Neil Young. I enjoy just the first impression of a maintain the student body at never done a nything like this periodically to let other writing and I enjoy singing naive recent-arrival, but this a better level - is an atypical before. I would like to have people know that, by God , the songs I write, but I don' t campus, - it's a very one. more of these kinds of things. we're all in this whatever-it­ know that I have invested as commonplace looking The Clam Lake thing, the What else? It's been a hell of is together. much security in my own campus - you know, it's flat overseas programs, and a nice summer and I'm The Pointer: Do you write tunes as I have in some and it's got all these buildings everything e lse. It's an looking forward to the rest of much of your own stuff? others that I know work. And - but there's something interesting school. It is not a it. Candy-0 not sweet Cars need overhaul Candy-0 amplified music of last year, already gold. quite satisfying. The main the first Cars release his By Bill Reinhard especially "Just What I Unfortunately for us, thorn in the record seems to mixing board and tape loop Needed," the single that Candy-0 is overshadowed by be one of presentation. the a tries were curiously The Cars' debut album last became the ice creaker for its predecessor in most every The enthusiasm that subdued. The emotion of the summer was a rguably the the band. respect. Although it is a solid marked the Cars' first group exploded off the most successful album of the Now the Cars have effort, it stands pale next to release of last summer is grooves. This"is not the ca~e year. It managed to do two released their follow-up, the band's initial album. markedly absent on the new with the new a lbum. Baker things Iha t were completely Candy-0, while the taste of It is hard to fix blame on LP. Into its place has moved has decided to toy with unexpected. Not only did it go their first still lingers any part of the album or its a bit more heavy-handedness success. platinum twice over, but it pleasantly. Thus, one can conception as to why it is with studio effects. The As a result, the synthesizer also garnered critical hardly call Candy-0 long flaccid. The material is problems can be blamed on is more prominent, the acclaim, two happenings that awaited, yet most assuredly adequate, although "Let's producer Roy Thomas Baker. guitars have become rarely go hand in hand in the some idiot reviewer will use Go," which kicks off the Baker is the producer that increasingly muddied, and rock and roll business. the term in his review to album nearly reaches the helped propel Queen into the vocals 'lack the The Cars album was a nifty describe the album. There highs of "Just What I superstardom during the "urgency" that was present combination of new wave are reviewers who use that Needed," "Bye Bye Love," glitter-rock craze of the on the Cars LP. The new sounds with a commercial term even for Christmas or " My Best Friend's Girl" early seventies. While doing wave freshness of the debut influence. The synthesis LPs. The market for Candy-0 on Cars. Still, with basically so he overdubbed Brian has been replaced by a worked. The album included is there, however, and the the same bag of tunes, May's guitar beyond squeeky clean· commercial some of the finest moments in record is being shipped Candy-0 could have been recognition. As producer of sound. There is a lot of hope left for the Cars. After all, the second album jinx is common in the industry, and perhaps FA.CE THE their company Electra was pushing them too hard. The leader of the band, singer­ gui tarist-songwri ter Rik Ocasek, is still responsible for some fine lyrics. Take these lines from "Lust for UM Kicks" as a case in point ... "He's got his plastic sneakers She's got her Roebuck WITH purse He's got bis butane flicker She's got It worse They are crzay about each other /HORT/ & T-JHIRTJ The vocals of the group, especially Ocasek's, have a slightly deranged quality ~ that can be interesting in the " right light. Finally, the band FROM THE SHIRT HOUSE is a tight, capable unit that can play rock and roll with everyone. In the end, Candy-0 may WINNING COMBINATIONS . just be that second album that every band bas to get behind them. It is an ON THE COURTS, DIMONDS, FIELDS, COURSES, TRAILS, BEACHES adequate follow-up which only seems poor when compared to their astounding first album. Perhaps with the UNIVERSITY STORE - UNIVERSITY STORE 346 · 3431 advent of a new producer, the Cars could fill the roll of * being the first important band of the eighties. • The Pointer Page 11 Sleuth cont'd from page 7 Eating out ... Division Street style characters in this production Tile re m a inin g had a n easy, fluid performances of Sleuth are By Dwight Heaver Some of you would-be immediate grunt burger of naturalness to them that on July 13, 18 , 21 , 22, and 26. Traditionally, feature naturalists may have become some kind. Lots of young only very careful direction University Summer Theater columns dealing with the so angry at this point that girls bumping into each fa!l. llr.oduce. subject of · going out to eat you 're nearly ready to other behind the counter. is also presenting the musical generally tend to address There did seem to be some explode. Don 't do that Some variety in the sandwich minor audio prolems here comedy, Music Man on July themselves to the upper though. Just stop here, then line. (Roast beef, ham and 14, 15, 19, 24, and 27, and Bells crust, the dining elite. and there, but they weren't tear the borders off of this cheese) serious, and can problably be. Are Ringing on July 12, 17 , 20, Similarly, such compositions page and eat them. llrganic­ Disadvantages--same rott­ written off as opening night 25, 28, a nd 29 . All are included in the section of a~-hell I understand. en burgers. Too many high bugs. · performances begin at 8 p.m. the paper designed, more or school males standing If you 're one of those The University Box Office, less, with the wealthy in around, drunk, watching the people who is irresistibly localed in the upper level of mind. Those of you willing to admit that you do eat Fast young girls bump into each drawn to whodunit mayhem, the College of Fine Aris, is But as reality once again other behind the counter. you owe it to yourself to open Monday through thumps· its leadened thumb Food should continue. The Broken tables. catch this production. If Friday, from 9a.m. to4 p.m., against the backs of our reasons fo r our malady are varied a nd r elatively Overview-Getting in and you're riot-see it anyway. and al 7 p.m. on the evenings heads, we realize that this is ou t of a F.F. joint in a hurry You won 't be sorry. of performances. the feature section of The insignificant when compared to the human resources they is always to your advantage. Pointer. The only crust found MacDonald's among our readership is fuel. Brain food it's not, but fast food does keep the motor ,Advantages--You've got to basically only that located in hand it to Mac 's. They've the brackish ring about the running. Now comes the part that mastered the F .F . heeels of our bare feet. The business. Burgers are advertising plugged in you may have been waiting for, the critical analysis superior in flavor and among this section is usually texture, and the place is some sort of a two for one section of EATING OUT. I'll take the F.F. havens one at a always very clean. Good gutbuster deal that we take Sundaes. advantage of so we don't time and give advantages, have to (or simply can't) eat disadvantages.,- a nd an overview of each.Burger Disadvantages--S lowest se­ again for a day or so. Fast Chef Food. The Division Street rvice I've ever seen in a Two Step. Super Big Huskee Mac's. Who can eat eggs and all meat Bomb Deluxes with Advantages-walking dista­ sausage off styrofoam? special sauce and all you can nce from campus, and a Ronald MacDonald. pile on condiments. That's salad and condiments bar Overview--Nobody ca n what we're dealing with here. that, more often than not, figure how they won an Why do we eat Fast Food? reflects the colors that award for those ridiculous There are several reasons. vegetables are supposed to paintings wi th the deer heads ' most categorically look like when encased in - and canoes hanging out of uncomplicated. Whether ,t be plastic serving stands. them. the constants of time, a Disadvantages--standardi­ Togo's charcoled aroma drifting zed grey meat on a soggy Advantages-A place to go Leukemia. across campus to greet us as bun. Wins award for plastic close to campus where you we leave class, or a classic ball motif interior design. can go to get something other case of the Bob Ham two a.m. Overview--The add your than a burger. A steak bomb Its no longer . killer munchies ; the case is own condiments make this for two bucks is a meal in indisputable, almost the place to go when you're itself. Chocolate milk. everyone has some occasion down to your last dollar. Also Disadvantages-They make a death sentence. to eat Fast Food. a good place t~ hang out dl!d the cold sandwiches right O.K. I can hear some of you rub elbows with the summer there in front of you where hollering already. " I don 't school instructors that hang you can see them scrimp. eat at those places," you out there at lunch time. Eating there every day will shrill. " Their nutritional Hardee's make your skin change color. American' Cancer Society t value is zero, and they taste Advantages--fast service Over view--Togo's has like pressed fiberboard." always allows you to catch an always been there.

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