Volume 69, No. 9 FIATApril 10, 1979 LUPhoneX: 871-2192 Anti-Nuclear Coalition Forms In Alfred

By Nancy Cushing

3 The People's Campaign even blatantly wrong. For — organized an emergency in- instance, one argument is cs formation session last Wed- that nuclear power research nesday, April 5, in Davis employs a vast number of j2 gym," on the Nuclear Fuel people who would otherwise o Services West Valley Repro- have no jobs. ® cessing Center, 40 miles Hoagland pointed out that ft- northwest of Belmont. Two solar and wind energy re- guests spoke at the rally, search would employ just as which was precipitated by many people at less of a the recent events at Harris- Neville meets Times Union reporter in Rochester danger to their health. Ano- burg. ther argument is that solar West Valley Coalition A- energy^ research"is 40 times gainst Nuclear Waste, and more hazardous than nuclear Chip Hoagland, from Bath, energy research is for the Neville Press Conference Two people spoke: Carol individual worker. Mongerson, from the West "The second biggest cause Valley Coalition Against Nu- of death in this country is BY DIANA TOMB AND without any vocational orien- porlance of extra-curricular clear Waste, and Chip Hoag- falling," said Hoagland. GREGORY BELANGER tation. activités in "preserving the land, from Bath. Mongerson, Since people have to climb On Alfred's financial total educational experience," speaking to a gathering of higher in solar energy re- Dr. Howard Neville, the next situation, Neville said: pointing out that "half of a about 200 people,informed search than they do for president of Alfred University, "Alfred's survival is not a student's activities are outside the audience about the nuclear research, I suppose discussed his ideas on liberal problem. It does have a need for the class room." wastes and how they got you could say it's more arts, future directions for additional resources," but In a discussion of last year's there, then explained the dangerous." Hoagland stated Alfred, hazing, and student relative to its size it is "about fraternity tragedy at Alfred, specific health hazards of low that nuclear energy only involvement in University average." Neville supported the value of level radiation. "Low level accounts for one percent of decisions in a press conference Neville said his priorities fraternities, saying, "In radiation is known to cause this country's energy. "They at the Sheraton Airport Motel in after coming to Alfred would be balance they're worthwhile birth defects and cancer, could shut down all the Rochester March working with admissions and organizations." 22. although they may not show nuclear power plants right Neville was in Rochester to development programs, with "However.'' he added, up for another twenty years, now, and no one would know meet with members of the fundraising as his most im- "hazing has no place in she said. Ms. Mongerson the difference," he said. board of trustees to exchange portant consideration. fraternities. In fact, it has no continued, "We're taking In talking about the West ideas on policy. He spoke of possible ren- place in our society for that risks for people who in no Liberal arts institutions will novations of the Steinheim or Valley center itself, Hoag- matter." Neville noted that he way volunteered for them." become very important in the Alumni Hall under his ad- belonged to a fraternity when he land said that it is "one of the future, according to Neville, to ministration but said he had no was an undergraduate. There is presently a contro- dirtiest plants in the world," fill the need for broadly based plans for new buildings on the Neville wants to "hear the versy over how to deal with in terms of the amounts of education in a specialized campus. total student body" in some sort the leakage from one of the radiation given off. "More technological age. In reference to nation-wide of communicative session once storage tanks at West Valley, radiation was emitted on a He noted, however, that, "It's inflation and Alfred's recent he gets to Alfred, he said. as well as the larger problem few thousand West Valley important to have our students raise in tuition, Neville stated, Student voices ought to be of how to solidify the wastes, workers in a few years than get jobs as well," referring to "We at the university must take heard, their concerns ex- said Ms. Mongerson. The on 45,000 workers in 35 years the problems that have arisen a real kind of leadership in pressed, although "policy is the federal government wants to at all the other plants," he for students coming out of fighting this problem." board of trustee's policy," he use an inexpensive process claimed. schools with curriculums Neville emphasized the im- said. called vitrification, which At the end of the informa- involves turning the wastes tion session, Greg Belanger, into a type of glass and chief organizer of the rally, depositing it in salt mines, announced that there would the nearest of which is at be a demonstration in Roch- Women Writers Center Keuka Lake. ester on Saturday, April 7, The problem with this which was cancelled at press method, explained Ms. Mon- time, due to wq£her condi- Bv MELISSA COHEN to sharpen our senses towards relationships with, almost gerson, is that in such a tions. Belanger urged the Members of the Women our environment and images every piece examined audience to join a local that could be expressed through damp climate as there is in Writers Center in Cazenovia, relationships or were character coalition that has been form- words. western New York, the salt New York, visited Alfred last studies. This seemed like a ed, so that when the time There were no lectures or would dissolve the containers weekend to conduct two limited use of writing as a comes for all of western New emphasis on feminism. Their of waste, and we would have workshops in poetry and prose means of discovery. York to join together, we will and to give a reading later that interest was in encouraging the leakage problem all over Women, for so long, have have our area organized. evening of their own work. those who were interested in been associated with sub- again. What the coalition is Their purpose was to make writing-but lacked confidence to jective, emotional responses to suggesting is a method called It's discouraging and over- Alfred women more aware of pursue that interest, and those their environment; it seemed calcination, which would whelm ing to look at the broad their own potential as writers as already serious writers to that stereotype was just being turn the wastes into a implications of this," said well as to expose the whole overcome writer's block and reinforced. At least it was powder, from spraying it into Belanger, "but we have to community to women's lack of confidence. illuminated by a new assertive, high-fire kilns, which, Ms. take things one day at a time, writings. Time was limited and the explicit, voice. An example of Mongerson explained, is a and do all we can on a local Before the workshops began. different levels of writing in- their repertoire: "Phantom more expensive process. level." I asked one woman if there volvement among the par- Lover", "Massaging His Both Ms. Mongerson and After the session, petitions ticipants made discussion Back," "Grandma Carson" was a particular type of the next speaker, Chip Hoag- and form letters were avail- difficult-preventing anything "Mother's Company," and writirg that was encouraged land, stressed the need'to be able to send to representa- more than superficialities on Portrait in Oil". at the Center. She replied, suspicious, and probe for the tives, and the People's "There are mostly radical, any issue. These works ranged from answers to the problems that Campaign sold(and is sel- lesbian feminists attending "An Evening with the Melanie Lohmann's personal face us, rather than accept ling) buttons and armbands» the school." She described Women's Writers Center" description of her love- any easy solutions. convened at Howell Hall for bearing the slogans,"No her arrival there as "being a relationship with another . Some of the reasons given three hours of poetry, slides and Nukes," "Puke on Nukes," real shock at first." woman, to Kate Clinton's by those who support contin- music. humorous, adventure story "Strontium 90, Breakfast of We discussed our interest in uing nuclear power plant Though the writing varied in fantasia of her abduction by two Mutants," and ".Stop Radia- writing and the difficulties of operation, said Hoagland, degrees of radicalness towards tion Before It Stops You." are totally misleading and pursuing this interest. They sexuality, and who the continued, page 2 gave us a few writing exercises FIAT LUX,ALFRED.NEW YORK April 10, 1979

Two weeks ago, the Alfred community was treated to a EDITORIALspectaculaSr arra y of performances including the Annual Senate Spring Dance Concert, and the Jazz Week activities. Considering the music and drama programs have been cut considerably in the past few years in terms of finances and Meetings Message to offerings, these performances reflected an incredible amount of devotion and energy on the part of all involved. Witnessing a convergence of music, dance, drama, and BY NANCY CUSHING visual arts all in one statement is not only exciting for the participants and spectators, but symbolizes the ideals of a At a short meeting of the New President small university: meaningful interchange between the Student Senate March 22, different colleges so as to deepen each individual's learning President Stewart Rosen made several announcements, in- experience and understanding. cluding that of openings for A small liberal arts college like Alfred also offers students students to be on University In September, Alfred will have a new president, Howard the unique opportunity to meet the performers and talk to committees next year. Neville. The next few years represent a crucial transition them about their work. For example, the jazz workshops and A letter from Acting period for our university and much will depend on how well dance classes that were held, attended by both performers President S. Gene Odle asked Dr. Neville understands Alfred and its needs. and students. the Senate to appoint or The trustees have briefed Neville on Alfred's financial At the University of Maine at Orono, Dr. Howard Neville nominate two students for situation and general policy but how well they understand was primarily responsible for the construction of a Student Appeals, two for Af- the needs of the community is questionable. The trustees are multi-thousand dollar performing arts center, and stated at a firmative Action, one for deeply committed to the university but they do not live in. recent press conference that "only half of a student's Computing Services, two for Alfred. The president is the liason between these powerful learning goes on in the classroom." Dean of Liberal Arts, Herrick Library Committee, policy makers and the rest of the university; he will set the two for Motor Vehicles Appeals, John Foxen, is presently trying to organize a performing arts and five for Student Grievan- tone of policy significantly, and must therefore understand major, to effectively combine the resources of the art, music, the needs of the Alfred students, faculty and staff. ces. and drama departments at Alfred. The first and most obvious consideration is that Alfred's It is encouraging to know that we have this kind of Rosen also asked for a concerns will be different than those of Neville's previous committee to look into administrative support for the performing arts, when it providing student input in the institution. In a larger university it might not have been clearly one of Alfred's strongest areas. possible for a new president to 'gas' with students or faculty, selection of a new ombudsman, but in Alfred's smaller setting. raDDort between the students, an arbitrator position between faculty and the president is absolutely essential. Alfred's students and faculty from which previous president, Dr. M. Richard Rose, in many ways Dr. Melvin Bernstein, professor lacked this rapport, which hindered his abilities to operate To The Editor, of English will be retiring. Rosen announced that effectively. This letter is addressed If you would like to become university administrators have predominantly to the senior more actively involved, and Rose's administrative loftiness contributed to and helped agreed to build a pathway class. As you are probably we wish you would, join us at facilitate a serious retrenchment of the foreign languages behind Ade Hall coming from already aware, the year is and music departments. The act was devastating, not simply our weekly meetings, Mon- the Pine Hill Suites, replace the drawing to a close, and once because essential programs were lost, but because the days at 6:30 p.m. in the wooden stairs near Alumni again 400 students will be manner in which curtailment was carried out divided the Parent's Lounge. And don't Hall, and fill in pot holes in the J faculty bitterly and created a general air of suspicion and granted their 'rights of forget to stop by at the road near Susan Howell Hall. fear. passage' from Camp Alfred. Campus Center to sign over These services had all been The administration, faculty and students must work This year, an entire week Anyone who doesn't, and requested by the Senate. together to form policy. When financial troubles arise they will elapse before com- intends on coming will be The next meeting of the should be solved by group effort. Good policy is formulated mencement, and the Senior charged for Senior Week Student Senate will be Thur- with cooperation, integrity, and openness, not manipulation Week Committee would like admission stickers. Let's sday, April 5, 7 p.m. and machiavellian politics. to make your last week work together in getting Alfred must also face the problem of fraternity hazing together as exciting and Senior Week off the ground, The Student Senate, in its head on. Neville has spoken out against the practice, but he enjoyable as possible. Senior so we can be narcissistic April 5 meeting, granted the declines to support the legislation of Assemblyman Paul Week Committee is a non- hedonists together. Yeah.. frisbee club $47 to host the Harrenburg, which would outlaw dangerous hazing. All this profit group, so we need your The Senior Week Committee spring frisbee-golf tournament, does is perpetuate the present murky situation where support. Money is necessary and decided to allow the Alfred fraternities must be held legally responsible for their actions, in order for this traditional Women's Lyceum appeal to the Senior Week to become a financial committee for a as in any other independent organizations. continued from page 1 second time. Alfred is an excellent university with incredible potential, reality. old women and her being In the discussion that ensued Therefore, we are asking but only if its leadership is sound. Neville's faith in the mistaken for Kate Jackson. over the last issue, a Lyceum you to donate a portion of importance of liberal arts is refreshing. Hopefully he will be During the intermission, I member reported that, par- able to maintain that difficult balance of economic necessity your $50 freshman deposit asked Sherry Sylvester, author tially due to the low stipend it and educational integrity. toward the tentative costs of of "Portrait in Oil," why received from the Senate for the the events that will be there was such a concentra- "Awareness Festival" held last \ occuring during: this week.. tion on interpersonal rela- weekend, it had gone into debt, The forms can be filled out at tionships. She and needed the extra funds to FIAT LUX the Campus Center desk. The said the Center encourages a lot pay back individual loans, and ALFRED, NEW YORK, APRIL 10,1979 committee has formulated a of introspection and it was to keep itself functioning as "a list of events in order that surfacing in their work. I told legitamate organization." you can partake in deciding CO-EDITORS-IN-CHIEF NANCY K. CUSHING her I was surprised the poetry Following standard financial just what activities you GREGORY BELANGER was not more political or angry committee procedures, the would most like to see BUSINESS MANAGER BRIAN J. MOLINARO like Robin Morgan's work or Senators will vote at the next presented. even Adrienne Rich. She ad- meeting on the committee's This form is also available at mitted she did not know why, suggestion regarding the the Campus Center desk. An but that she was more proposal. To give the Lyceum apathetic senior class will politically concerned than most further funding, the Senate will Copy Editor Diana L. Tomb make senior week not of the writer's at Cazenovia. have to waive part of its con- The one act play of Leif stitution. Photography Editor Michael S. Schreiber possible. Let's generate some energy folks, and work Seigleman, "Plastic and Two people were ratified by Porcelain," revealed the humor the Senate for intern positions Typesetting Pam Young together to make this week a nostalgic week. and warmth the women at the as well as two full members. center fostered. The per- These included sophomore Joe / Senior Week Committee formance had to be continually Banach, Junior David Geibel, has planned two events in Advertising Manager Sarah Collins disrupted in order to allow the and two freshmen, David which everyone can attend. readers to compose themselves Levine and Michael Butowsky. We are planning to show a after not being able to control Edward McGlone announced Layout Assistants film entitled "freaks." This his resignation as chairperson David Dimmock their laughter while reading. very controversial film, of the Financial Committee a Rob Perdue This personable atmosphere which was banned both in post he has held for the past Nancy Sheehan was later reinforced by a slide Great Britain and the United show of the Center. Many of the year. He announced his suc- States for several years, will CirculatipnManager Joseph Bachman women from the Center cheered cessor to be sophomore Holly be shown April 11 at 7. 8:30 Business Advisor Joh n C. Howard as slides of friends and Lawson, who was unanimously and 10 p.m. in the Science Editorial Advisor Louis K.Greiff memorable events clicked on approved in this postion by the Center. There will be a $1 Senate. The Fiat Luxis published bi-weekly by students at Alfred the screen. It was obvious to the deposit toward our activities. University. Editorial and production offices are located in the rest of the audience, the women In committee reports, basement of the Rogers Campus Center. Meetings are held We are also planning to felt a strong and supportive President Stewart Rosen, an- nounced that a newspaper every Wednesday at 5 p.m.. hold the annual Senior Week bond to each other. Later comments were made, vending machine was being The Fiat Lux encourages letters to the editor. Although rummage sale on Saturday that Cazenovia seemed to looked into for the Campus letters will not be published anonymously, names will be and Sunday, April 22. The produce well done, though Center lobby, and that the . witheld upon request. Excessive contributions by individuals entire community is invited limited work. The Center Senate is taking recom- jy are discouraged. The editors reserve the right to edit all letters to rent a table for $2. supplied an opportunity for mendations for a new om- to conform to space limitations. Address any correspondence to Proceeds from these fund women to concentrate on their budsman. Fiat Lux, P.O.Box 767, Alfred, ny, 14802. Editorial policy is raising events will go toward writing in a place that could The next meeting will be held determined by the editors, Senior Week. Please support encourage and inspire them. at 7 p.m. on April 19. some of your freshman us. deposit toward our activities. April 10,1979 FIAT LUX, ALFRED. NEW YORK 3 FEATURE THE PERFORMING ARTS AT ALFRED Dance Recital Moves More Than Dancers JAZZ FUSION: By GREG BELANGER formance beautifully presented Suzanne Bersch performed in visual form the daily drama "Shadows Dancing." The dance Both pleasant surprise and of sexuality and love. produced inspiring silhouettes Jimmy Owens and mild disappointment charac- The performance was in total in a variety of interesting ways, terized the spring dance con- silence, which further ac- leaving behind lasting im- cert, held March 23 and 24. centuated the intensity of the pressions of classical broad Rod Rodgers This mixture might have been message. poses. expected, as each .»iece was The music of Pablo Cruise Kirk Tunningly combined his By ALISON MARQUARDT No one was unaffected. individual in choreographic lured the viewer from the ab- varied interests in the per- It is hard to find the right People danced at their seats to style and direction. Despite this sorbing silence, as Denis Piazza forming arts in the creation of superlatives to describe the Rod the funky rythm of Chris Wite's disunity in the general flow , the awoke the audience with a "Carpet Crawlers." A bizarre Rogers Dance Performance bass; their eyes were glued to overall impression of the vibrant dance entitled "Scar- mixture of symbolic gestures last Wednesday night. the stage, mesmerized by the performance was a general ves." This was followed by the that had an implicit message of The unique aspect of the rhthms of the bass, which success. "Barefoot Ballet" performed social criticism. production was that it was not seemed to emanate from An excellence was by Beth Lyons. The The message grew out of the merely a dance performance; it White's mouth. Each musician established immediately with choreography was neatly various props and motions of was a jazz concert as well. Rod in the band and Jimmy Owens the opening dance, "In- conceived with a consistent the dancers, and the lonely Rogers, the company's in particular, was vitally versions," performed by Lynn chronological line, much of it repetative call of Genesis: director, working with his concerned with the diverse Ocorr and Gynfte Williams. performed with elegant "You got to get into it, to get out friend, jazz musician Jimmy qualities his instrument could The dance had a tuned sense of horizontal floor movements. of it." Owens, has produced a produce. Owens blew not only harmony and contrast; the Vertical risings helped Beth Lyons returned along program they call "Jazz notes but also sounds of every dancers moved in unison, compliment the floor work, with Laurie Jacobs and Cindy Fusion". description: squeaks, cracks, shaddowing each other with creating a defined pattern of Corkill in the performance In the first two parts of the moans, blasts, scrapings and precision. differing plateaus of image. entitled "Bags." The dancers show, first the dances, then the slidings. When the image was firmly Lyons performed with firm were enclosed in bags which musicians, expressed them- The dance pieces in the established, the symmetry execution, demonstrating her heightened their body outlines. selves through their respective beginning of the show were would dissolve with contrasting best ability In horizontal dex- The resulting effects were in- art forms. In the last third, characterized by their con- interplay; harmony and terity raiiier than vertical teresting, although at time the these came together, forming trasting moods. The first, disharmony suspended in visual stance. bags appeared to be too the "Fusion", Their message "Rhythm Ritual", gave the form. Lydia Rebuzzini was The final dance before Mi restrictive. was readily apparent to the impression of a jungle, in which responsible for this difficult termission was performed The final performance was a audience: the dancers were the spirits and natural forces in- choreography design and without musical ac- jazz fusion piece called "Cor- visual manifestation of the teracted. The eerie mood was shares credit for a fine per- companiment as "Life Line" porate Funktions." The music acoustic creation. heightened by the primitive formance. had been. In this dance, though, was written by a young com- Although some parts of the sounds produced by Roger's silence was only the negative poser Vinnie Martucci. Mar- Fusion do not change, (i.e. the percussion. The following dance was a space against the foreground of tucci composed the musical dances are choreographed, and The excerpts from "Visons - A fast moving disco piece called human "Breath." score after watching the dance the music is written, much of it New Blackness" performed ' 'Superstrut." The transition Conceived and choreography performed under was improvised. Owens said to next conveyed the pain and from the neo-classical format of Choreographed by George the guidance of Carla Murgia, the audience "Jazz is the music frustration of the newly- "Inversions" was abrupt. Chang, "Breath" progressed assistant professor of theatre of personal expressionism." liberated Southern Blacks, as However. the dance through a series of interesting and dance. While the performers im- their visions of freedom collided choreography soon took form group movements using breath Both Martucci and Murgia provised individually there was with the reality of_ their and reoriented the audience. sounds. The combination was developed the concepts for the also much interaction among all situation; continued subjection. Although the dance was a bit entertaining and anatomically performance by continual in- the members of the group. The facial expressions of fear, repetitive. Kathy Cole expressive. terplay of the dancers' Dancers conversed non- and the sharp contractions of demonstrated, interesting Lynn Ocorr opened up the movements with possible music verbally, using only their bodies their body movements con- variations. second half of the concert with a scores. The music was per- to convey their interpretation of veyed the tense mood of this Joe Orifici and Jane Kosow's dance which complimented her formed by a newly formed jazz the music. The same went for piece. "Life Lines" presented in- first performance. Ocorr fur- band called So What'. "Cor- the musicians; they com- The third piece, "Sweet teresting symbolism about the ther demonstrated her powerful porate Funktions" was an municated with their eyes and Blues," was a romantic and painful elasiticity of sexual movement and dexterity with excellent performance, maked through their phrasing. Ex- beautifully choreographed pax relationships. Deliciously confidence and beautiful style. by percusión and freedom; it change occured just as often de deux, which expressed the seductive, but harshly real in its Utilizing the technicians' was a superb way to end this between dances and players. range of emotions felt by a implication and inferences. skills in lighting as well their year's spring dance concert. An image which sticks in my woman and man in love. Orifici and Kosow's per- own. Bob Thompson and mind is that of Nancy Each of the artists in the Lefkowith, totally electrified by 'production had his or her uniqe the intensity of Charlie Persip's style. The choreogrhaped drumming. What she showed pieces allowed this to show to Jazz Week Brings Wide Variety was a tremendous shock of some extent, but the jazz im- sound energy charging through provisation released the her despite the amount of in- tremendous talent of both the teraction on stage, the per- dancers and musicians. I Tim E erm formers never lost the most couldn't help feeling throughout Jimmy Owens y an's important communication: the performance that each their rapport with the audience. piece was better than the East Coast Offering They continually invited the preceeding. Rod Rogers, Bv Mitchell Kossak types of woodwind instruments. audience, through looks and Jimmy Owens and Company Last week. Jimmy Owens and By MITCHELL KOSSAK Overall, Eyermann was the gestures, to participate in their have drawn from many art Rod Rogers were artists in March 29, Tim Eyermann and person who stood out. experience forms to create this beautifully residence at Alfred University. the East Coast Offering, played He played innovatively on integrated work of art. They brought with them a new in the Parent's Lounge of the eight different instruments. The concept in dance and music: Campus Center. Their music other instrumentalists were what they call a Jazz Fusion. was packed full of energy; what competent enough individually is today called jazz-rock. A.U. Jazz Ensemble Performs During a video-taped and there is no denying that three tunes arranged by Jay television interview at Alfred However, if it was up to me, I they played very tightly as a By NANCY CUSHING Chattaway that the band per- Tech, both men answered would simply call it hard rock unit. Dynamically, excellence Alfred University's fifth formed. Chattaway has made a questions from Carla Murgia, with a slight taste of jazz thrown shone through. annual jazz week began on name for himself with the help dance instructor, and Vinnie in for seasoning. The repertoire However, the tunes all Tuesday, March 27, with a of Maynard Ferguson's band, Martucci, music lecturer. The consisted in its rawest struc- sounded basically the same: performance of the AU Jazz- especially since the questioning centered around the tures of a melodic line played in loud and rocky. Hardly ever band, conducted by James popularization of "Gonna Fly idea of what exactly a Jazz unison by the whole group, was there a harmonic or rhyth- Chapman, in Harder Hall. This Now" - the them from the film Fusion is. followed by a limited chord mic variation. is the first time the the group progression. "Rocky," which was included in Rodgers, who heads his own At one point in the evening has publicly performed this the program. dance company, explained that The soloist would blow over they tried to play the simplest of year. The arrangements of Chat- he had come from an en- the top, meshed in with total jazz forms: the blues. And this The most successful numbers taway and contempories such tertainment background. His sound The background was is where their weakness showed performed by the group in- as John LaBarbara lend parents were dancers and his consistently filled with syn- the most. The solos here were cluded the opening tune, themselves well to the present brothers were musicians. "I thesized keyboards, echo monotonous and without "Kenny's Blues," by Ralph instrumentation of the band. was always interested in chambers and phase shifted variation. Mutchler, and Herbie Han- Among the most obtuse these dancers working from the point ostinato bass lines. of The East Coast Offering's cock's "Chameleon." The latter being the electric guitar and of view of a musician, simply Occasionally these electronic music was a bit deeper than piece brings to light many of the electric piano. because I was trained as a elements were used to the disco plasticity, but is was a far reasons for the group's new Out of the 18 members musician myself." fullest and most innovative cry fror. the spiritual ex- sound this year, markedly of the band, eight are first advantage, as in the clever pression found in the roots of different from other years. The year He went on to explain when he students at Alfred, rendition of "Here's to that jazz tradition. band is clearly breaking away this year grew up in Detroit, hanging being the first time Rainy Day," followed by that from the traditional "dance the around dance halls, "I would Most of the performance phenomena has occurred Jobeam standard, "How In- band" sound that has within find things happening between seemed to be a game of making the band. Three sensitive." characterized it for the past few of the six the musicians and dancers repetition work. However, since soloists featured in the spontaneously." In both Eyermann displayed the group has only been years. concert his versatility in playing all are among these, Later when he went on the together since January I give The most distinguishing including Eric types of woodwind instruments. Calistri on guitar, them credit for tightness and characteristic about any jazz Tim Jenners Overall, Eyermann displayed clarity, and hope they will grow his versatility in playing all piece is the way it is arranged, intellectually in the near future. and "Chameleon" is one of April 10,1979 FIAT LUX,ALFRED,NEW YORK Jimmy Owens, from page 3

Rodgers responded, "It has A.U. Market road, he found that using recorded music did not create a lot to do with sensitizing this same spontaneous in- people, opening yourself up to Study By, Peter Bourne teraction. "It's like eating food thgt energetic sense that something is happening bet- out of a can; it's not fresh or A group of seniors and ween two people." something special." business professors from the Owens who heads his own jazz Owens interjected, "When School of Business and Ad- quartet, explained that he and you deal with music in a jazz g ministration are now con- Rodgers were trying to bring traditon the best ensembles are £ ducting a study of the market forth the discipline of music those in which the people have a ® potential of Alfred University's from a jazz tradition in other better understanding of each "5 summer school. areas;"...to get other people to other. I'm always in tune to ^ The students, Tami Runz, understand this concept of what what my muscians are giving to Peter Bourne, and Robert historically jazz means. Every me. To bring this back to what -c Doolittle, and their advisors, note, every phrase, means Jazz Fusion is about, it is ^ John Howard, assistant something because it is a total bringing this idea of un- ^ professor of business and ad- personal expression. It has to derstanding to dance." ministration, and Dr. Lyndon mean something." Rodgers philosophized for a o Goodridge, associate professor When asked how dance and moment: "We are a culture that o of marketing are conducting the music are coordinated, Owens doesn't like to deal with cl, study at the request of Dr. responded, "As music in a jazz feelings. It is a strange concept Lewis Butler, dean of special tradition has progressed,there to us. We are so technologically programs, including the came a time when the in- oriented; structures are so a moment in "Breath" summer school. strumentalist wasn't just comfortable to us. We're not "After determining the size creating spontaneously but the artistically adventuresome. and location of the target composer was as well." He People like to feel comfortable. markets for the summer school pointed out Duke Ellington as That's why we like to hear the program, all efforts will be an example: "So you don't same Archie Bunker jokes concentrated on the goal of know if the composition was every week." universally satisfying the wants composed or improvised. This He related this to how Jazz and needs of this potential is what we're building to." Fusion is being funded. "We got market." said Bourne. Rodgers added that this is a an initial grant from the Qtye Mmit ftaft "We are now in the process of new concept in dance, "This is National Endowment for the administering a questionnaire what we're trying to coor- Arts, but they didn't un- Discount Prices on Guitars Strings, to Alfred students," Bourne dinate." derstand. But this didn't stop said. "We hope to answer some When asked how does dance us. What it's all about for me is Music Books, Albums, Tapes etc. of the pending problems that affect the music or vice versa, that if I feel strong enough I find summer schools across the Owens explained, "when you a way, and eventually, someone country are experiencing." watch a murder mystery on will recognize what we're 15 N MAIN ST. Above Hitchcock's Pharmacy The study will also attempt to T.V., the music will affect you. doing." find out what attracts students Turn off the sound and put on Owens ended the interview by at other schools and at Alfred Beethoven's fifth and the mood reinforcing this idea. "Looking summer school programs in will change. The music will at 'Trane,' 'Bird,' 'Gillespie,' it general, Bourne explained. draw the visual image in as the was the same sort of thing. The visual image will draw the critics, people, didn't un- music in." derstand till years later."

AU Jazzband, from page 3 seriously affect the band's on alto sax, and Dwight Taylor overall performance. Another APPLICATIONS ARE on tenor sax. innovation added to the concert Other featured soloists in the BEING SOUGHAnnouncementT from eligible NOTICE TO ALL NDSsL AN D Two courses in journalism this year was the scheduled students for a scholarship from concert were Bob Locker, a will be offered next semester by FNL RECIPIENTS: There will appearance of another jazz- the Eastman Kodak Company. sophomore on trumpet, Phil band, called "So What", who Latham Weber, a retired be group Exit Interviews held in Lyon, a transfer on trombone, The applicant must be, a professional journalist. the Roon Lecture Hall, Science played during the intermission. sophomore beginning Sept. 1979- and Robert Popkin, a senior, on The courses offered for two Center on the following days: The band, which is extra 80 Academic year, majoring in drums. Locker was the featured credits each, run consecutively. NDSL Recipients - Tues. 4-10-70 curricular, is composed of five one of the three private player on all three of the Classes will meet on Mondays at 3:30 p.m. or Thurs. 4-12-79at students, ranging from fresh- colleges, and have a 3.5 or Chattaway numbers, at- man to graduate. and Wednesdays, from 1-2:40 7:30 p.m. tempting to reproduce that above grade point average. The FNL Recipients - Tues. 4-17-79 Their ten minute set included p.m. "screeching" Ferguson sound. amount of the scholarship is 75 at 3:30 p.m. or Wed. 4-18-79at three bop tunes, among them a The first half course is a basic Lyons played solos on many of percent tuition for each of the 8:30 p.m. piece by Miles Davis and one by class in news reporting and the pieces, including a written sophomore, junior and senior This Exit Interview is a Joe Henderson as well as a writing. The second is offered in solo in a unique arrangement of years at A.U.(as a full-time requirement of all NDSL and rendition of Mangione's lively conjunction with the Fiat Lux. the Backrach song "We've Only student). FNL Recipients who will be "Main Squeeze" which two of Students in that class will work Just Begun," and probably his Applications are available in leaving the University as of the band's members, Mitchell for the student paper aind have best improvised solo on the last the Student Financial Aid Of- May, 1979. Kosak, and Phil Lyons, tran- their work critiqued and tune of the night, Bennet fice, Bartlett Hall and must be sposed for the band. Other analyzed by Weber. Friedman's "Concert Score." completed and returned to the members of the band include The majority of the durm same office by 4:30 p.m. on freshman Eric Cushing, on Friday April 13. solos appeared in two numbers drums, Bruce Aldridge on by John H: Prince, "Big Bad trumpet, and Vince Tutino on Chadll," and "Free at Last," bass. the latter boasting a fine alto THE BICYCLE MAN sax solo by Jenner. Although his Both the AU Jazzband and ANTI-NUCLEAR COALI- playing is technically well "So What" exhibited qualities TION MEETING. MONDAY, NOW OPEN executed, Popkin seems to fail of versatility and vitality, APRIL 16, AT 6 P.M. IN THE essential for the continuation of in Downtown Alfred Station in one of the basic tasks of a jazz CAMPUS CENTER. EV- drummer, that is to give any organization. At the end of ERYONE WELCOME. 10 TILL SUNSET WED. thru SUNDAY direction to the piece as well as the concert, Chapman asked the interact sensitively with the audience to "tell your friends now paying top dollar for used bikes soloist. A few times during the about this so more people will concert, Popkin's lack of feeling attend next year," and judging "COAST ON DOWN" 587-8835 contrbuted to gaps within the from the enthusiastic applause, rhythm section, but it didn't they will indeed. Knit Something Special for that Someone Special! Buy 4 Skeins of Beautiful PHILDAR YARN... GET 1 FREE!!! at THE FABRIC PLACE Main St. Wellsville, N.Y. For Free Parking, Mention the FIAT LUX When You Come In jazzband "So What"