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'Billy Coats' is A look at 50 years old Men are women at ' Baton' the '84 clubs Features PageS Arts Page 6-7 Sports PageB Vol. 13, No.9 Monday 19 March 1984 Columbia College, Chicago News Analyst Prim ary 1s• u p for grabs by Patrick Z. McGavin his opponents' traditional ties to Louis Farrakhan, the leader In the arena of political per­ liberalism. of the Nation of Islam, has propped formance and anticipation, last The liberal Americans for a political albatross around week's Democratic primary Democratic Action <ADM) record­ Jackson's neck that may become results did litUe to upset the ed a Senate rating of 92 for Moo­ exceedingly difficult to unravel. balance of power that the influence dale, out of 100, 80 for Hart and 65 A field that once contained eight of television has inflicted upon the for Glenn. Hart, who disavows has whittled to the current four, masses. political labels, nonetheless could and Jackson's prospects for stay­ George McGovern is out, Jesse be considered a Jeffersonian ing up till the end appear to be Jackson remains on the periphery. Democrat, who views government decreasing. By law, unless John Glenn is tightroping the line as a "problem solver." Jackson could command 10 per­ of futility, while Walter Mondale For the Democratic hopefuls cent of the vote, he would be denied and Gary Hart struggle for the par­ who hope to duel with President matching federal funds for a self­ tys' top tier. Ronald Reagan in the national described " moral crusade" that McGovern chose to withdraw election in November, the period voters are for the moment after he failed to place better than now is a pivotal moment of resisting. second "l:n the Massachusettes' political aspirants who seek more Yet perhaps the ultimate primary, the lone state he won as than fame. The week of March 12 paradox exists regarding the the Democratic nominee in 1972. will initate no fewer than six political mileau. Mondale is Glenn has said he will re-assess his primaries and 14 caucuses, thus characterized by friends and foes campaign and re-map strategy. the term "Super Tuesday," is alike as becoming too beholden to At once seemingly invincible, hardly overstated. The political special interests groups and pro­ former VIce President Mondale, prize to the convention scorecard gressive organizations. Also im­ the heart of the Democratic is roughly one-fourth of the plied by many is the Mondale iden­ Establishment, is now literally delegates required to claim the tity, or lack of it. Mondale is the fighting for his political life. Col­ party's nomination. political fabric of a party that ly close to running out of campaign political protege of the late vice orado Senator Hart, whose ledger For Gary Hart, the impending would just as soon forget about the funds, hopes the black constitutien­ president Hubert Humphrey, who of generational politics, is Its cor­ political barrage of delegate sup­ debacle. cy that he helped prosper will pro­ to voters remains a link to the nerstone of 4 1 new ideas.' ' port, is on one level, fascinating It seems only appropriate that long his campaign pledges by spend-thrift era that opponents And thus as Mondale and Hart and rather unexpected. In tradi­ Jesse Jackson, the charismatic voting en masse. would like to lay on Mondales' attempt to restore confidence and tional political circles, he was an black leader of Operation PUSH Jackson's much talked about doorstep. image to the Democratic Party, unknown entity. The man who (People United to Save Humanity) "Rainbow Coalition" of the Where Hart combines rugged Ohio Senator John Glenn awaits in managed Democratic challenger continues to challenge and alter economically and socially oppress­ good looks and an almost mystical the wings, hoping to lend'credence George McGovern's 1972 landslide the subculture of the Democratic ed has failed to register immediate quality of self-containment that to his theory as the alternative to loss to Richard Nixon clings to the Party. Jackson, who is dangerous- results. That, as well as Jackson's reminds one of a ... young Jack Ken­ nedy, Mondale and to a lesser degree Glenn are seen as boorish and stodgy. But clearly neither Hart nor Glenn can match Moo­ dale's commanding edge in organizational strength that Zekman gets 4th 'Scher' engages in canvassing, direct mail, money, endorsements, and party consolidation. by Pamela Dean for "The Library's Two Million were judged by nation-wide media and access of information. He and Jolene )ones Mondale floundering in New Dollar Failure" in the Radio professionals affiliated with the became Chief Counsel to the U.S. Hampshire has for the while pierc­ Pam Zekman, investigative category; and for best Magazine organization. House of Representative's sub­ ed his aura of inevitability, and reporter fo~ WBBM-TV, was one of article, "Black Districts Lose Out Jacob Scher was a journalist, committee on government in­ polls last week suggested the two the winners of the 23rd Annual In Police Deploy and Storm Brews lawyer and Northwestern jour­ tervention. In 1961 , Scher died were in an virtual deadlock. The Jacob Scher Investigative Awards Over Police Workload," was given nalism professor who devoted his before completing a book about the question the political pundits ask: presented by Women in Com­ to two at The Chicago Reporter. career to fighting freedom of the increasing abuses of executive What about Glenn? munications Inc., (WICl , March Linda Ellerbee, NBC News cor­ press, the public's right to know privilege of the press. Glenn's initial theories were an­ 14. respondent and guest speaker, told chored in image of the Mercury 7 According to Loretta Petersohn, her peers that journalists "are Pilot. "Where the future began" ·chairperson for the awards com­ paid to report, not to be prophets. blares a headline from "The Right mittee, the Jacob Scher Awards That is part of the reason why the Stuff," the film of Tom Wolfe's honors outstanding achievement In public has lost regard for us book about the development of the the television, radio and print (reporters)." Ellerbee was refer­ space program and the cultivation media. ring to reports that the public of Glenn's iconography. The film is Awards were presented in five agreed with President Reagan's a critical delight, but its content categories of the professional decision to forbid press coverage and appeal has not yet converted media: Community Press, of the Grenada invasion's first the under-thirty film going public. Magazine, Daily Metropolitan, hours. Glenn's immediate failure has Radio and Television. "We <journalists) have gone been his inability to capture the Zekma n, who has already from 'All The President's Men' to moderate/conservative wing of the received three past Scher awards 'Absence of Malice', said Ellerbee. party; thus where before he was for print, won best television in­ "The government loves this thought of as the alternative choice vestigative reporter for her story because if the public is pointing a to Mondale's liberalism and "Elevator Ripoff," which exposed finger at us they won't be watching Reagan's conservatism, his the Chicago Housing Authority's the politicians. · "image" has failed to mask his de­ mismanagement of elevator ser­ " If he <Reagan) felt that way," fiencies. vice in project housing. Ellerbee added, "Then we Jackson garnered 20 percent or Other winners included: in the shouldn't cover his presidential the vote in two key Southern states, Community Press category, campaign." Georgia and Alabama, but receiv­ "Chemical Killers: At Large In Ellerbee advised reporters to ed only 12 percent in the Florida The Workplace," by two Daily and stop taking themselves so serious­ race, which was critical to his well­ Sunday Herald reporters; for best ly and start taking their job NBC News correspondent Linda Ellerbee. being. Daily Metropolitan, "CHA" by The seriously by writing better stories The Illinois perspective begins Chicago Tribune's Stanley Ziem­ and cleaner copy. tomorrow, with all Its pomp and ba; WBBM Radio's Diane Abt won · Entries lor the Scher Awards circumstance. Page 2, Columbia Chronicle Arts Monday 19 March 1984 DeYoung snares Voters shift in city by Gina Bilotto Leach said voters are removed from roils because of chl!nge of address or video seminar Chicago lost two voters for every new death. As of March 9, the elections bo&rd voter that registered for the March was still taking requests from people who Styx star tells of favorite video, f uture plans primary. This is a development that may wanted their names restored to voting - affect the political demographics or the c•• lists, although the deadline for restoration ty. requests was March 6. by Steve Gassman the band. As DeYoung signed autographs and pos­ However, according to the Chicago "A majority of the people who were Dennis DeYoung, leader of styx, ed for pictures, the Chronicle was able to Board of Election Commissioners, a loss of dropped from the voting lists hav!l asked Chicago's own rock 'n' roll band, seemed get a few words with him, while being voters before a prjmary election is not for restoration,'' Leach said.