I • Vol. 58 September 27, 1979 Durant, Oklahoma Number 7 Several Activities ~ nned • . by Kristie Trotter The homecoming dance will be does look favorable. The choice "I feel very optimistic aboul sponsored by the Senate and will be made by the students the year ahead," said Student nearly S 1,000 has been budgeted themselves if they wish to have Senate President Joe Townsend. for the dance. The band is stm in cable television in their rooms "We started a change last year in the process of being chosen. and the students will pay the our program and received A Christmas dance is also cable fee. This service will favorable results. We hope to being planned for the end of the • hopefully be available sometime continue improving." semester. this academi~c year. Townsend along with ten newly The film series will be For next -semester. the senate elected senators and his fellow continued again this semester is trying to schedule a Shake­ officers are planning several and over $2,000 has been spent to speare group to our campus to activities to help overcome the secure films. The films will be present a professional play apathetic attitude that the from all different categories but production. students have shown in the past. mostly comedy as they seemed to "I think the senate this year is "I feel that this bas been the get the most response last year. going to do very well. I've talked Senate's biggest problem and we Something new which has to everv senator and officer need to overcome it now,'' begun is a once a week mainte­ personally and I think they all Dr. Robert Blocker opens the Musical Arts Series with an 8 p.m. commented Townsend. "The nance report. Anything which want to be involved and serve the performanc~ tonight in the Little Theatre. Tickets for the single students have felt that the senate needs any repair throughout the senate. We Will have less prob­ performance ar S2 for non-students, with students and persons over 60 is a self-serving body. This along campus can be reported to a lems than in the past. I can· years of age admitted free of charge. with a bad attitude about certain senator. -Each week the vice­ compliment all of our memb~rs . aspects of the Senate has slowed president will take these reports We will have much more to offer progress. Some of the reasons for and meet with President Hibbs to the student body this year with . - Robert Blocker Opens this were valid and some were discuss the maint nance which is our budget being the highest not, but we hope to change the needed. · ever at $1 7.000. I feel very overall attitude towards the Also. a 1'equest for cable tv on optimistic about the senate's Senate." campus has been presented to the efforts to bener our campus.'· Some students may not know President and that possibility states Townsend. Musical Arts Series exactly what the Student Senate ·s Dr. Robert Blocker, pianist, will open the season for this year's role is with the university. The Musical Arts Series at Southeastern, tonight at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Senate is a liaison between the 'The Guess o' To Little Theatre. Dr. James R. Wintle, associate professor ci: theory and students and the administration. · ·composition at Southeastern, is coordinator of the musical arts series One of their main functions is to and has written a special work for Dr. Blocker to perform, entitled II get other organizations on Fioriscente. campus involved and to plan Be In Concert Oct. 2 The musical composition will premier at tonight's performance. Dr. activities for the students. Com­ THE GUESS WHO will be in In early 1978 some of the Blocker will also play Dr. Wintle's composition at an alumai benefit for munication between the students. concert October 2 in Bloomer personnel who had contributed 'North Tex~s State University next week. the senate, and the administra­ Sullivan Gymnasium. The concert their talents to THE GUESS Dr. Blocker is chairman of the music department of Stephen F. tion is the key to the whole is sponsored by the Student WHO over the years got back Austin University, Nachogdoches, Texas. Frequently -sought as a process. The more input received Senate. Ti~kets ar~ S6 per person. together for some sessions and recitalist and cltnician, his recent appearances have included the Fort and the more the students ~oice For more than a decade THE the results confirmed the opinions Worth Symphony Orchestra and Dallas Symphony Orchestra Guild. their opinions and desires, the GUESS WHO has been one of the of many that they were a more In addition to the concert, Dr. Blocker will hold a masters' class at more ideas, functions, and premiere rock and roll exports to potent force together than I :30 p.m. today in the Fine Arts Little Theatre, for Southeastern's improvements there will be. the world from Canada. Storming working on individual projects. piano students. He will hear the students play and critique their '• Anyone can come to our out of their unlikely prairie home Original bass player Jim Kale playing. The class is open to the public free of charge. meetings which are held every in Winnipeg. Manitoba. the and singer Donnie Mcl>cugall' got Tickets for the performance will be S2 for adults; students and Thursday evening at 6 p.m.," group has stood behind its things going. Kurt Winter came persons over 60 years of age will be admitted free of charge. Season says Townsend. " Everyone is recorded reputation for guitar back in on guitar and Vance tickets may be purchased which enable the holders to atrend all eight welcome to come and share their heavy pop flavored rock Masters. just back off the road performances of the series for SS. Tickets may be purchased in the Fine thoughts and ideas with the seasoned by plenty of tough years from playing in Burton Cum­ Arts Music office, at the door before the performance or from Senate." of roadwork. The results have mings' touring band. took over Wakefield Music Company, 109 N. Third, Durant. The Senate has lined up several proven ample reward. the drum chair. For extra guitar activities for the remainder of the - Raving audience response and punch young David Inglis was Be sure and listen to KHIB 92 artist will receive a free ticket to semester. First on the list is the respect, walls full of gold records. enlisted. fm for the "Guess Who" contest. the Guess Who contest. Numbers concert on campus fearuring awards and presentations, and a The result was the album "Guess Who". Plenty of tickets At selected hours during the day, to be called are 420 day or night string of top ten hits. ''These "GUESS WHO'S BACK" , are available now and can be mystery artists will be featured. or 924-0149 after the oswitchboard Eyes". "Star Baby" i "American re-activating the name and ignit­ purchased at S6 apiece from any The first person to call in and has closed. Woman". ''Share the Land". and ing fan inttrest for the first time senator, Dean Krattiger's office, correctly guess the identity of this a dozen more. in three years. One track, and several stores downtown. This has always been a full "C'mon Little Mama' ' .re­ fledged band, to say that established the group as a staple there haven t b n changes. At of AM radio. and it st-arted up all one time or anot some sixteen over agam. individuals have · d their After twelve solid months on ' musical chops and stage manners the road the group. down to a in the group. The alumni includes quartet after Winter dropped out an array of the best known names for health reasons. went into the to emerge from Canada: Burton studio to work on a new album. Cummings. Domenic Troiano, Part of the way through the -. - Kurt Winter, Chad Allen. Randy project they co-opted recording Bachman--and the list goes on. engineer Ralph Watts to play Personnel changes in the guitar and keyboards. turbulent win_d tunnel life of an Watts had don_e the engineer­ entity that''s been producing ing on the "GUESS WHO' S music for !IS long as THE GUESS BACK" album and the others WHO are both inevitable and respected his abilities enough to necessary for a continuing evolu­ realize he was the missing link to • r tion to take place. Winnipeg is a connect them with the driving city of more than half a million guitar sound they were striving to people but the community of achieve. Three Parents' Day visitors were awarded blankets Saturday night at half-time. Mr. Vestal Patterson, third committed rock playeFs is small That brand of forceful · bi_ring from left, traveled 1560 miles from Denver, Colo., to be ·with his daughter Sheila, left. Mr. and Mrs. enough that most everyone has raw pop .is the essence of the new . Fernando Salas, Jr., won for having three sons enroUed at Southeastern. They are from BosweU, Okla. Mr. played together at one time or set of son~s that debuts with the Con'd on Page 3 and Mrs. Donald Grannan, right, from Ft. Worth, Texas, won the drawing of football parents. another. w • Pa~e 2 THE SOVfHEASTERN September 27. 1979 ly Receives First Shana n • orial . Scholarship Fund '! ' Deanna Dooly. Southeastern Greg Shanahan served as a degree in business education. • • l freshman Sulphur; has been assistant District Attorney in She said the scholarship fund was named th first scholarship Durant in 1971 before moving to started by friends of her late ·-·' ' • ' recipient Gregocy A.