Ohio University - Athena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

Text from Pages 1 - 216 of the 1971 volume:

SCl fi The College Green Ohio University The West Green J i-j. ttwHimmiJr«17mffg ' -T-J =55agj a v ai iiiii iiiii;Mi ifc . .. .j. tH I Court and Union Athens, Ohio 2 1 EAST ■ N-WEST B feo] The good old days that really weren ' t Story by Linda Wenmoth ■ -- V _i§= ?rV -r-- In Athens, Ohio (that ' s somewhere down among the hills of Appalachia) there ' s this university. It ' s called (among other things) Ohio University, which makes it one of the few univer- sities in the country named after a state that isn ' t University of . . . This distinction, along with the fact (often proudly repeated by University officials) that Ohio University was the first university in the Northwest Terri- tory, are about the only outstanding features that the majority of students, faculty, administrators and friends could ever repeat of the history of Ohio University. The rest is buried somewhere, in old yearbooks or, worse yet, in the University Archives, that verbotten place over in the library that is rarely if ever frequented. To understand better the forces that shaped the University, many of which have contributed directly to the very issues forcing a crisis at Ohio and other universities, it is necessary to go back, not to the dry statistics that fill unopened history books, but to the timely descriptions of life and problems of the University along the various stages of its development. The good old days really weren ' t, at least according to the records kept by the University. Until late in the 1890 ' s, all University students were required to attend chapel twice a day, seven days a week, with the morning devotional being at 5 a.m. In 1 85 1 there was a move to change the starting time to 5:45 a.m., a move that barely passed over loud outcrys bemoaning the lack of Christianity of today ' s students. Chapel was quite the important The Street in Old Athens We Trod Most and Looked at Most. Are You Going to College? Some Facts About Ohio University, Athens, O. Ohio Unlvcraity Established in 1804 by the Ohio Legis- lature It is the oldest school in the Northwest The faculty consists of 67 members Nearly 1600 students were in attend- ance last year. Only 4 of the 27 reputable Colleges and Universities in Ohio had larger re- ceipts and expenditures according to the latest reports. The College of Liberal Arts Includes The Classical Course, degree A. B. The Philosophical Course degree Ph. B. The Scientific Course, degree B S. There are also two-year courses in Civil and Electrical Engineering. The State Normal College 1 — Courses and Degreee a -Course in Elementary Educa- tion. Diploma. b— Course for Secondary Teachers. B Ped Degree. c — Course for Principals and Super- intendents. B. Ped. Degree. d— Course for College Graduates, B. Ped. Degree. 2 — Departments. a— The State Training School. b— The Kindergarten Department, Diploma. c — The Public School Music Depart- ment. Diploma d— The Public School Art Depart- ment, Diploma. Other Departments of O. U. The School of Commerce. The C ' lege of Music. The State Preparatory School. Noti:— To graduate from the C llege of Liberal Arts requires four years, or the com- pletion of 2600 hours Of these, 1600 are required and 1000 elective. Bright students who work hard and attend three sessions of the Summer School can graduate in 3 years. Expense Tuition is free. The only charge is a registration fee of $6.00 a term. Free tuition is equivalent to a free scholarship for everv student. Qood board ard room can be had for $3 26 a week. Each year about fifty student cam their board in various ways Ohio University is the College for the poor boy ; it is also a good place for the sons and daughters of the rich. Athens Athens is one of the finest towns in Ohio. There are no saloons in Athens. The water is pure. Typhoid fever is unknown. Athens is 76 mile south of Columbus, 37 west of Parkersburg. 169 east of Cincinnati. Three railroads enter the town. Athens is an ideal place for a Univer- sity ; It is free from the temptations and distractions of a large city, and yet has all the convenience of modern civilization. f urthe r Information For general Information about the work of the University and for complete catalogue, write to Alston Ellis, President Ohio University. For information concerning course In the College of Liberal Art , write to Edwin W. Chubb, Dean College of Liberal Art . For information concerning courses In the State Normal College, writ to Henry U. Wil- liams, Dean State Normal College. VI Helen Rush In Y. W C. A.: last night and Th« Pre id nt of the Y. M. ' and I had a meeting ' Athens had always been a stronghold of temperance . . thing in a student ' s life. The discipli- nary records of the time reveal that, in effect, a student who got gloriously drunk was usually let off with a repri- mand, while one who whispered in chapel and was unashamed or made a noise like a reprobate in the halls without manifesting any penitence was often sent home in disgrace. Percentagewise, there was a great deal many more expullsions in the early days of the University, possibly in an attempt to protect its fledging repu- tation. A person could be sent packing for reasons ranging from inattentiveness to tardiness ' to laziness to, heaven forbid, missing a lecture. Participating in activities outside the University was also an unhealthy activity as witnessed by the two faculty members fired in 1840 for attending a political meeting and the unfortunate student who was canned for enrolling in a dance studio. Censorship was enforced quite heavily back then. A student was for- bidden to have any lavcivious, impi- ous or irreligious book or ballad nor sing or repeat verses of like charac- ter. Other offenses for which a student could be called on the rug for included lying, profaneness, drunk- eness, theft, uncleanliness or playing at unlawful games. There was special attention given to the drinking habits of Ohio University students since according to the rule book no students shall go to a Tav- ern, Alehouse, Beerhouse or any place of like kind for the purpose of enter- tainment or amusement without spe- cial permission from someone of the faculty . . . This really didn ' t present as much of a hardship as it seems because in 1850 Athens was a stronghold of that saver of mankind — temperance. Keeping with this, in 1854 the citizens of Athens voted to outlaw the sale of liquor within the town. The Athens Messenger hailed this move claiming there is no surer way of avoiding the vices so common to College Life which have forever blighted the ten thousand brilliant in- tellects, then by taking and sustaining the pledge of Total Abstinence from all that can intoxicate. But Ohio University ' s history is not totally one of restrictiveness. In 1 873, University officials shocked and out- raged the townspeople by admitting a woman to its student body. Howev- er, they did not totally commit them- selves to the idea of equality. For the first year she was enrolled on the campus, Margaret Boyd was every- where listed and referred to as M. Boyd in an attempt to conceal her sexual identity. Miss Boyd not only integrated Ohio University, she was also the first to break through the coeducational prejudices of colleges throughout the country. This was not the only time the townspeople were outraged by the ac- tivities of the University. Town-gown relations today are enviable compared to back in 1843 when University President McCuffey was allegedly stoned by the citizens of Athens for taking an active part in the struggle for reevaluation of University-owned lands in hopes of raising the taxes on them. Before too long after the University was unveiled students began to have a bit of leisure time on their hands and began to look around for more rewarding ways to occupy their time than just studying. In 1841, that seem- ingly undying fixture on college cam- puses, the Creek organization came to life in Athens. The first fraternity, Beta Theta Pi, was established at Ohio University in 1841; their first sister organization came into being in 1876, Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. But even then, such organizations were composed of only a small portion of the campus popula- tion. To counter the activities and in- fluence of the Greeks, in 1904 a unique counter-organization was es- tablished — the Barbarians. The group ' s somewhat unusual nomenclature stems from the histori- cal fact that in the days of ancient Greece, the inhabitants of that proud and justly proud nation were want to refer to all who were not of their own blood as Barbarians. A strictly social group, the Barbarians grew in size of both members and activities and pop- ularity. Although many of the Greeks complained they were dedicated to poking fun at the traditions and honors of the Greek system, accord- ing to club reports, they really just wanted to have a good time without the financial and time responsibilities of the fraternities and sororities. As their charter states, their purpose was to bring about harmony and unity, and develop a close bond of fellowship among the students. But they were forced to bow under pressure from both the Greeks and University officials who thought the group undistinguished and the group disbanded, discarding its rough and low title. The group later got back together under conditions much more to the University ' s liking, with the distin- guished title of The Ohio University Union. Along with the advent of the Greeks, another leisure activity came to the fore, athletics. In the late 1800 ' s, during its formative years, the athletic department never had any outstanding (winning) teams. But an effort to remedy this situation and also to bring athletics under closer super- vision was undertaken in 1909 when two committees, the Finance Com- mittee and the Athletic Committee, each composed of five faculty members, were entrusted with the awesome responsibility of having full control of all athletics and of the extra dollar each student and faculty member pays for athletics at the beginning of each term. And that was even before the dawn of inter- collegiate athletics! The Greatest Star of All. Jimmy Osmond — Our Boy. F. H. Hough, A. B. Jamestown, O. Student at Wilberforce two years, Wil- berforce Base-ball and Basket-ball Teams. HENNIE This son of Ham was pursuing his education at Wilberforce, when the class of ' 09 sent for him to come and relieve the monotony of our color scheme. From the exterior Henny is a decided brunette; but on closer examination you find that he is white inside. He hasn ' t decided yet, whether he ' ll be a Baptist preacher, or an end-man in a minstrel show. Going on the theory that a man is guilty until proven innocent, we presume that he ' d steal a water melon if he got half a chance, and speakin ' of chicken, O Lord ! William Thomas Morgan, Ph. B. Maynard, O. Athenian Lit., Eng. Club, German Club, History Club, Inter-Soc. Debate, Alternate on Inter-collegiate Debate, Sec. Y. M. C. A. PEE-WEE This little hero comes from Maynard, Ohio, which place is connected with the United States by a stage coach. From childhood Pee-wee was the victim of spasmodic insanity, and at the age of twenty was probated to the Athens State Hospital, but landed in Ohio University by mistake. He has been here ever since, and finally the authorities have allowed him to graduate, not knowing of any other way to get rid of him. William E. Alderman, Ph. B. Athens, O. President Class ' 09, Inter-collegiate De- bate ' 08 and ' 09, Pres. Debating Union, Prcs. Philomatheans ' 07, Prcs. Y. M. C. A. ' 07- ' 08, Gen ' l Scc ' y Y. M. C. A. ' 08 - ' 09, Athena Board, Glee Club, O. U. Quartet, Del. to Niagara-on-the-Lake ' 07. WILLIE Behold our President! The sanctimonious Alderman! Willie of the spotless life. Willie came to Athens from Glouster, and, like his fellow townsman, Fuzzy Blower, expects to enter the ministry— he will undoubtedly feel called to the place that offers the largest salary. The entire class envies his future congregations their long Sunday morning naps. Willie has held almost every office in col- lege politics, when nobody else wanted them. He is not an orator. Malcolm Douglas, Ph. B. Waverly O. Delta Tau Delta, Philo Lit., Oratorical Contest 1st prize ' 07, 2nd prize ' 06, De- bating Union, Intercollegiate Debater ' 08 and ' 09, Senior Foot-ball, Literary Board Athena, English Club, Dramatic Club, Class Poet. MAC Sir Malcolm hails from Pike County. From the beginning of his pantalooned prime he has been bold to believe in the egregious excellence of the ego, and since his advent in Athens has strenu- ously striven to proselyte the professors to his per- suasion. The pedantic pomposity of this loqua- cious linguist is extravagantly erratic. Women ' s Intercollegiate Debate Part of the reason for this great con- cern with athletics was the showing (?) Ohio ' s football team made in 1907. Playing such distinguished teams as the Parkersburg Y.M.C.A., the Bobcats won four, lost five and tied one. Their most stunning defeat was a 60 to rout at the hands of the Marietta Cor- respondence School Ringers; their greatest glory came during a 47 to victory over the Deaf and Dumb Insti- tute. But even when the other school in Ohio was permitted to join the big guys in the Ohio Conference in 1910, everyone still wasn ' t satisfied. Now the team had more worthy opponents, better playing conditions and all but now they also had to play under cer- tain rules and regulations, many of which weren ' t to their liking. Their biggest beef was against the rules regarding rank and standing of ath- letics in the University since it forced athletes to put scholarship ahead of their sport. But not all the fun was taken out of college life, during this period rela- tions between fac ulty and students, and administrators and students were at an all-time, unbelievable high. It seems no one was safe from the AFFIRMATIVE TEAM Mary Powell Helen Leech Amy Evans Etta Ayers OHIO vs. OTTERBEIN QUESTION:— Resolved. That Woman Suffrage Should be Adopted in the State of Ohio. NEGATIVE TEAM Ruth Wilson Mabel Nesbett Leota Norris OHIO vs. MUSKINGUM Stella VanDyke Calla E. Cooley, ATA Collie Philosophical Louise K. Walls, The Faculty Kid Classical Virgene Putnam, Putt Pedagogical Wade T. Watson, Wattie Scientific Charles Stewart, ATA Scotchie Scientific J. V. Bohrer, Scientific Clark O. Melick, ATA Doc Scientific roasts printed in the yearbooks of the early 1900 ' s. The arrival ot Dr. Al- ston Ellis as president of the University occasioned this yearbook blurb: Dr. Ellis to porter at B. and O. station: ' To my residence! ' Porter: ' Where is it, please? ' Dr. Ellis: ' To My Residence!! ' Porter: ' Y-Yes — but wh-where — ' Dr. Ellis: Do you mean to say that you do not know where My Residence is? ' Porter to cab driver: ' I guess you ' d better take him to the asylum! ' Dr. Ellis went on to capture the hearts of the students and alumni during his period as chief University executive; a building, Ellis Hall (natu- rally) was completed in his honor in 1908 and was the largest building on campus at that time. Town-gown relations, student ac- tivism, rights and equality, lower tu- itions, troubles with the state legis- lature — all these are problems which have faced Ohio University throughout its history, face it today and probably will face it in the future. And it all started when someone got the idea to build a university in Athens (that ' s somewhere down among the hills of Appalachia) . . . Student Tutors for Educational Progress For many, it is the best experience of their college careers. The Student Tutors for Educa- tional Progress (STEP) has been on campus for two years now and are continually growing in both number of tutors and the demand for them. The tutors, the majority of whom aren ' t educa- tion majors, visit a child twice a week in one of the Athens area schools. Although they are of- ficially assigned to tutor a child in a specific sub- ject, most often the real value of a STEP tutor is in the attention and friendship he gives the child. But the only person who can really evaluate the worthiness of the STEP tutor is the child him- self. Included in this section, then, are com- ments from children in the STEP program giving their opinions of their tutor, the STEP program and, in some instances, education in general. Photographed by Patrick McCabe STEP is: She ' s nice. She teaches me nice things. John I think it is great. Roger I think she is really good at drawing. My mother says I am drawing better. I can draw a horse now. Thanks to Sally. Holli I think you are being nice by coming out. I hope you can come next year. I would be happy if you do. Larry Sally comes and helps us. I like her. She gives us ideas when we don ' t have anything to draw. She let ' s us work with clay. She takes us outside. She is very helpful. I think all people will like her. Theresa g 4 I think STEP is wonderful. I enjoy our art class very much. It helps us to learn to do many new things we wouldn ' t have learned if STEP hadn ' t sent our art teach- er. Patrick I think it is really great. You ' re a nice girl and you ' re smart. Howard I like you because you help me improve my math home- work. Ruth reads to us. I like when we made the puppet because I like her. I like the games we played. Barbara You are O.K. I learned a lot. I learned a lot of spelling words. Perry p y ' J 1 ! if 1 MF ■ ' ■ W C n HfISI k W ■ fl i VI  . k B E Photography was one of the many ways STEP tutors were able to in- troduce art projects to their tutees. The children interpreted their world by the photographs taken when they were given a roll of 16 exposure film and a Diana F. (A plastic camera costing $1). These Amesville students, from grades three through five, enthusi- astically related their schoolground surroundings through the pictures they took that are on the following pages. Elmer Balch, 10, took the photograph to the right. S „ It T «i p- Photography is not limited to professionals as is witnessed by the following photographs taken by elementary students: upper left— Deitra Tabler, 9; upper center — Marvin Mayle, 9; middle center — Elmer Balch; lower center — Bobbi Nelson, 9; lower left — Elmer Balch; opposite page — Donzel Matheny, 9. r Sharing time, love I like Jack because he lets us play basketball in the gym. I like his car. I like the way he teaches us the arithmetic because he shows us a short way. I hate the way he makes us read. Billy I like it because you get out of class and 1 like Jack. I ' ve learned a lot. I like arithmetic better than I did at the begin- ning of the year. Bruce It ' s a great association to send her out here. She helps us get to 5th grade and on our way to real education. Dan I like to have a tutor because she takes me places and she works with me too. Lorrie I like my tutor because she helps me. Tammy We like having them come. They did a good job. I think we should have them to continue coming and having more tutors to come. The reason I think attention, they should come is they are good tutors, we need them. Teressa I like this program because it was fun having University students. The stu- dents were nicer than our teacher. Our teacher was nice but they were nicer. Please come back again. |ohn I liked the program. I had writing and science tutors. I think they did a good job and I think the program should go on. Myself I think should not have another tutor. Jeff I like having the tutors come. I liked both of my tutors, I think they did a good job. I think we should keep on having them come. I ' d like more tutors for science, writing or anything else. Nellie You should come more often because I like having you for gym. You couldn ' t do a better job because you are doing a very very good job. Brent I liked my tutor to come. He did a good job helping me. I would like him to come more often. I would like more to come and help me. To help me on maps and other things. Jeff Our class enjoyed having the STEP tutors. They helped a lot of kids learn about many things. They should con- tinue to come and help us learn. I would like more tutors, for science, p.e., math, writing, art, English and Sot ial Studies. Lisa We liked having them come. They did a good job. We should continue to have tutors. We should have tutors for everybody who needs one. Greg Yes, they did a very good job. I like Sue very well. It was nice having them. Dan did a very good job too. Pat did too. They were good with the kids. They helped us learn about new things. Kippy This tells what I think about STEP tutors. I think STEP tutors are fine. But the children should be allowed to study the subject they wish to study and have fun studying that subject. Jacquelyn Jo. Return of the ' whistle-stop ' Whistle-stop type campaigning was resurrected last Fall as both Vice President Spiro Agnew and President Richard Nixon stomped the country in favor of Republican candidates. In early October, Nixon made a stop at the Columbus statehouse on behalf of Robert Taft and Roger Cloud. Sfory by Undo Wenmoth Photographs by Patrick McCabe WELCOME NIXON DEFEND ' J TJJ E 1 PANDERS 1 I il 1 - mi , S ALL KXITICAL PRISONERS f STOP J THE WAR I IT IT I ; _ . ] ■; « I I EB3E 3E3E n 35335 -« Fl Politics and football topic of Nixon talk It had been that kind of cam- paign — the politicans spouting rhet- oric, the students identifying it and answering Bullshit. The Repub- licans were in trouble and some- thing drastic had to be done. And something drastic was done — the President let loose Spiro Agnew on the voting public. And when that didn ' t produce the results he wanted, Tricky Dick himself bucked political precedence and began campaigning in earnest for a se- lect group of candidates. In four days he did the modern- day version of whistle-stop cam- paigning; at each stop extolling the virtues of the Republican Party in general and whichever candidate happened to be running for the grand old party in whichever place he happened to be. And Spiro T. just went around castrating all those candidates who weren ' t promising to be a blotter for the White House. As part of this saturation speech- making, Nixon himself came to Columbus to sprout the virtues of senatorial candidate Robert Taft and gubernatorial hopeful Roger Cloud, both of whom were running poorly. There were reports that Agnew had volunteered for the job but had been politely refused by the candidates. About a week before, a move- ment to Co to Columbus had started on all the college campuses in Ohio. At most it met with apathy, for marches and demon- strations have become passe. But at Ohio University, the mood was dif- ferent. The Ohio University Student Union held meetings, urging people to go to the state capital and telling them the best way to get there. Leaflets were passed out giving emergency numbers and advising what the most appropriate and safe dress and identification were. An air of tense expectation covered all these gatherings; everyone had heard about the notorious Co- lumbus pigs and the time seemed right for a possible showdown. But the majority of those involved kept pleading for a peaceful protest, using the main argument that vio- lence would play right into Tricky Dick ' s hands and could definitely spoil the chances of gubernatorial hopeful John Cilligan, the idol of the campus set. A rally was planned for 11 a.m. the day of Nixon ' s visit; but until the march got started, only about 200 people had shown up. All one had to do was add a bunch of trees and the war memorial and the rally could have been at Ohio University instead of OSU; the vast majority of those in attendance had made the early morning trip up from Athens. As one student put it: He (Nixon) could have saved us all a lot of trouble if he ' d decided to come to Athens. He ' d probably draw a bigger crowd, too. The march finally got started with the lead being a huge banner NIXON: War Maker, Strike- Breaker, and various others such as Free Angela Davis, Save the Soledad brothers and the usual ones urging workers and students to unite to fight oppression. Whoever planned the pre-speech entertainment (everyone knows that politicans need a warm-up act) had predicted the audience very well; a former Miss Ohio sang the whole reportorie of patriotic songs, fluffing This is My Country twice; a band and chorus from a local old-age home played as if they were on another re- ally big show. And the majority of the audience loved every minute of it. A group of grandmother-types sang along spiritedly and applauded vigorously at the end of every star- spangled song. An elderly matron, with tinted red hair, turned to one of her companions after singing Cod Bless America and remarked: These are the real Americans. When I see kids like those (referring to a marcher who had just passed by), I ' d just like to get a machine gun and kill them all. And then the big moment: Arms outstretched and raised, clasping the hands of Governor James Rhodes and his hopeful successor Cloud, the man himself stepped on stage. The speech itself was a typical Nixon speech; comparing his trip to the White House with Ohio State ' s trip to the Rose Bowl, a few quips about not being able to get tickets for the OSU game and the rhetoric of inflationun- employmentlawandorderandgetting- outofVietnam. But then he got down to the real purpose of his visit to the heartland of the Mid-West plugging the flagging campaigns of Cloud and Taft. At every break in his script, the students took up the chant Bullshit, Bullshit, Bullshit and finally got the notice they desired when the President made a remark about the vocal mi- nority who wouldn ' t listen to facts and reason, only to the cries of revo- lution, After the main attraction was over there were other speakers; Rhodes and Cloud and Taft and Columbus ' darling. Woody Hayes, but the crowd just kind of drifted away, back to their offices and television sets and for the 500, the long walk back to the campus. And Nixon went on with his trip and made a few more afterwards, the most famous being in California when he was stoned by a bunch of dissenters. No one will know what really hap- pened or rather how big the incident actually was; the police chief, White House spokesman, Republican Party spokesman, newspapers and Nixon can ' t seem to agree. But it almost was the COP dream of a real law-and- order crisis on the eve of elections. But the haziness of the facts plus a video confrontation between the Re- publicans and Democrats made the issue shrink back to normal propor- tions. For, no matter how hard his PR men tried, Nixon just couldn ' t match the cool, poised, knowledgeable im- pression given nation-wide in the fire- side-type chat by Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine. And when the votes were counted, 15 of Nixon ' s elite 20 had been defeated; the Republicans claimed an ideological victory, the Democrats claimed a numerical victory and most students just kept saying Bullshit. Oink! I am a rainfall at the summit of beginning, waking hours of sunlight left unfinished for the remainder of the day. I ' m a jovial lad who loves his books. In certain situations, I would rather take a book to bed than various girls. I treat my books as objects, and in these days of liberation, you cannot do this with girls. For we all know: Sisters ain ' t objects. Who am I clinically- — biological man, society ' s societic subject on red neck recoil. People as they see themselves People are always com- plaining about being stereo- typed. Most feel that they themselves are the only ones who can describe their un- iqueness. A camera with a remote control for self-potraits was provided and people were given the opportunity to de- scribe themselves in words and photographs. Honesty, integrity, and a lot of bullshit. The staunchest, dirtiest piece of Mississippi delta silt. — Boofer — What a nice Jewish boy! A dulcimer player trying to emulate Richard and Mimi Farina. A peasant trying to keep his head above the water and what not. What can I say? I am the sensous man, 1 am the only Chinese Jew in Athens, Ohio. AAAAAAAAARRRCY! CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY A greater man once said that a great man never recognizes himself and yet another fool once said pride is but the precursor to the fall. I therefore consider myself verbose and humble. I am a pencil for your machined environ- Once said to be 20 going on 65. After three I wear the serious look of a pragmatic op- ment hard fought years has finally become a timist with potential as a cover girl for Time junior. magazine. My name Alex Santora, and I ' m a political If s me. I ' m a human being. I ' m alive and I Myself, Who or what am I? I don ' t knov activist. love to live happily. If you ever want a new and maybe I don ' t want to. friend, I ' d like it to be me. Read between the lines, see page 206. I am younger than I look, and older than feel. A sexagesimal, saturnine quadrumuriate, and don ' t try to figure it out. I am a mean son of a gun. Just look at me The type is different. Due to the fact that Self-confidence is self-deception, once and you know what I mean. everything is something I would say that it is something that only I know and shouldn ' t really explain. Cancer and Scorpio — passionate, spastic, fluid, Mutter bies, oft on, up, down, sunshine, shadows, the Post, Far out! If I could describe myself I probably wouldn ' t be here. A victim of lovely confusion. Smilin ' mini-photographer. Soon to be the wind. I think, therefore I am, (I guess). |B.S. in introspective communications or McCluhan Masochism. Sunshine — don ' t let the Bible fool you! I am a self persorv — -an individual, sometimes filled with contradictions . . . very idealistic . . . sometimes in a maelstrom flowers of evil. Ohio is a four-letter word. ' Looking for an affectionate, young female on the college green. When you ' re smilin ' the whole world I am an obscene being with skinny legs, smiles with you! I am a leftist, radical freak. Don ' t tell any- body, ' cause I don ' t want my friends to find out. Introverted, self-styled genius, loving and kind, good people. -stable, steady as a jellyfish -common attributes of a Swali warrior -devoted husband-to-be -loves children and goldfish -alias Mr. Potato I love life! Who are we? We are Christians on the My highest aspiration is to enjoy living, to Under-exposed, over-developed, and campus. We believe in Cod and Jesus keep myself free from martyrdom, to do slightly out-of-focus. Christ, and you can, too; if you only ask that which best expresses me . . . Him for forgiveness of your sins and Him to live in your heart. Praise the Lord! Who would believe — an Ohio University I am an architecture major — color me FRICK FRACK! We came, we saw, we soccer-playing, not so easy rider — on a gone! conquered? Honda 90? We don ' t need girls, O.U. screws us every Lethargic and insane time. A coke-float at Baker Center makes you sterile. I am a product of my mind, spirit and mem- ' ' m a musician. That ' s basically all I am. Ev- | am very confused but shall be released, ories. erything I see, everything I do, is done in terms of sound. Talk to me and I ' ll sing you the answer to anything you want to know. I love you. Trying to be an aware administrator Long-haired, yippie, Cornmie pinko. Mean, Stinky senior, Athens Apts. tuff and sexy. Dig me. 1. magnanimous and a kill-joy. 2. once had great ambition, but while washing dishes in Frisch ' s it went down the drain. 3. Omnipotent with universal appeal. With the state society is in, I ' m the apathel- Director of Organizational Activities Goddamn intellectual snob. i siudent walking away from it all sleuthing on the College Green. X ' s m RiWchisY cccntt it- B t tgfa CkjfcA . CuJ - %A I have: the soul of a poet the courage of a bullfighter the mind of a prophet the heart of a mountain climber and the nonchalant joie de vie ' of a New York City cab driver. Confused, bemused, in- fused, and occasionally de- fused. Clarence Darrow wouldn ' t have defended me. Retired professor enthu- siastic about Ohio Universi- ty — its students and faculty. nera! It is taking a picture, yeah! He came into town for just one day but before he left, all the women knew him (in the Biblical sense). First phase — carefree individual getting Horny as hell ready to rip in town. Second phase — all of a sudden I thought ol my accum and all the make up work I have to complete. — studious and astounded. Local Athens Degenerate searching for real- ' would describe myself as a lonely person jty. that has already gone crazy. Ask anyone that knows me. I am undescribably unable to describe how a phantasmagorical conglomerate of sensi- or what I am, but this picture is worth a tive perception and insight affecting flux thousand words. Figure it out yourself. throughout internal and external experien- tial living. Little girls are carefree. They aren ' t proud. They have no worries. They laugh .is rain splashes on their faces. They are always looking tor tun. I feel like a little girl today. I dare ya all to come out to play. . j i f i HARRY B. CRE Athens City Council: Model of Jeffei From 1962 until 1972, Raymond Shepard (left) oc- cupies the mayor ' s seat at council meetings. But last spring he lost in the primary. Ed Tuckerman and Jack Green (right) both on the Water, Sewers and Garbage Collection Committee, won their primary bids. onian idealism Story by Ken Walker Photographs by Andy Burriss In a college town such as Athens, the city government and the University are bound to intermingle. As one councilman put it, The University is the town ' s main in- dustry. Once each month the city, school and county officials meet to hash over the problems that naturally arise from two bodies which both have a population around 18,000. Athens ' city government is probably as truly represen- tative a body as any Jeffersonian could want. A typical city council member, if he isn ' t a native, came originally from nearby places like Parkersburg, W. Va., or Middleport. The councilmen represent the townspeo- ple, established and conservative (the town is heavily Republican), opposite of a liberal university community. The town-gown relations, a popularized term in past years, haven ' t always been of the best quality. But, as outgoing veteran (1962-72) Mayor Raymond Shepard contends, the talk is more serious than the actuality. These two groups are very different, and it ' s hard to find much in common between them, he said. You can ' t expect students who come here to study to be interested in the local residents. Following a strife-torn spring in 1970, many feel that relations are better, and toleration increased. Now the long hair and dress is becoming an accepted thing, Councilman Brad Davis said. You can ' t legislate opposition to someone ' s life style, it ' s his freedom. We have to set aside personal prejudices, it ' s the only way to get problems worked out. At-large representative Fred Weber, an Ohio Universi- ty graduate, claims to have looked at the situation from every angle. Students operate with much more freedom here than they would at home, he said, which makes local residents apprehensive about what can happen. If students recognized how the ' townie ' feels, it might help. The violators get too much publicity. I like the kids, we need Ohio University, he added. The more you get the cap-and-gowri and natives together, the better, Ed Tuckerman, second ward councilman, said. A few troubl emakers can spoil things lor everyone, he feels. This is a period when kids are making decisions about their lite, looking to the left and looking to the right, molding their life; most of them for the better, he said. Activities during 1970-7 1 which brought all the Athens people together were the Autumn and Spring Trade Festivals, conceived by Council President Harry Crewson, also an economics professor at Ohio University. We never anticipated such a large response, Crewson commented after the first effort. This might be a semi-an- nual event in the future. While students are busy planning then future, the council would like to plan on getting more business into Athens. I ' ve seen many efforts made by local groups and the council to draw in- dividuals businesses here, Tad Grover, chairman of the finance committee, said. It all gets down to sites for land, or having enough people to work. Up until now the highway system wasn ' t too good, which is one of the many factors companies weigh in deciding whether to come here. Athens is handicapped by the Hocking River floods and the terrain, Tuckerman pointed out. Athens has to prepare housing, school systems, churches — all things a company looks at, he said. We probably are short of housing, he admitted. He ' d like to see Athens have a more diversified economy, Weber noted, but since it is dependent on the University, it doesn ' t have a broad economic base. Athens is a unique community, Weber thinks, since it ' s between small and large. It has a metropolitan influence be- cause of the University, Grover said, but Sjf 1 fa a tarts r 6 dS S! Vassal Mayor Shepard (top left) indicated he will return to his dry cleaning business in 1972, an enterprise he opened in 1932. Tad Graver (bottom, left) directs the important Finance Committee, and Council President Harry Crewson (right) is also an economics professor at Ohio University you don ' t have to drive very far to get somewhere. I ' ve got two kids, 13 and 14 and I don ' t think I ' d want to raise them any- where else. They receive a broad edu- cation because of the influences, he claims. While the council members like a small community, Tuckerman realistically appraises Things can ' t stay the way they are. The Plains will be probably part of Athens in several years. If something could support enough people, before long we could expand to Albany. Asserting that new people brings new ideas, David likes to see progress. One of our major problems in city gov- ernment is we ' re having growing pains, he aid, We could use help from other phases in solving our problems. One problem the city had trouble coping with — the Mill Street bridge ' s removal in the spring of 1970, which cut off a major traffic route to the East end and rerouted much of it down Richland Dwight Robinson and Fred Weber (left and right) are fairly new to council while Ed Tuckerman (center) has been on council over a decade. Robinson is service-safety director, Tuckerman is second ward councilman and Weber, an at-large representative. Avenue. The city didn ' t own the bridge, Crover said, We thought originally the new bridge would be finished earlier, but it ran into probems. The city, he said, was negligent in not trying to upgrade Richland Avenue in time to solve the traffic situation. People often fail to realize what is in- volved in legislation, a consensus of the council shows. In a small town, people often have faith in their elected representatives, and don ' t say anything publically about an issue, Crover commented. They ' ll talk to you privately, but won ' t speak at a public meeting. That ' s one of the factors in our government, that we have a rural influence also. If there ' s anything separating town and gown, it would have to be drug usage. President Sowle estimated marijauna usage to be about 70 percent of the student body at a press conference in February. An ordinance before council this summer proposed changing the laws on possession of drugs, with marijauna hashish, LSD, DMT, mescaline and other drugs a misdemeanor on first offense and a felony on subsequent arrests. The drug problem is present, Davis, a pharmacist, explained, and we can ' t ig- nore it because we have to face reality. I don ' t know why we have it, he said, it ' s something like alcohol, and the newness is involved. Differences in life styles and political beliefs seem to occupy most of the rhet- oric concerning town-gown relations. But as far as the latter is concerned, most councilmen feel it is completely blown out of proportion. Politics don ' t mean a thing to us, Tuckerman said, reflecting council opinion. We kid about politics. Here, you get down to work and think about the people of Athens and the area. Grover outlined it best. I think any- one in a community has an obligation to put something back into the town he lives in, he said, and that means more than just money. A community is as good as the people want it to be. If we could all set aside selfish goals and worked for the common good, could you imagine how good Athens could be? Abortion: solution or new problem? July 4 will be a very hard day. That ' s when he was due. You know, there is something maternal about it, no matter what the psychology books say. I don ' t think you can ever come completely away from it ... at least I can ' t. I have tound myself almost apologizing to him because we had blown it. The him to whom the person above is referring would have been named Carl. But six weeks after Carl was conceived in Ohio he ceased to be in New York City. His mother, an Ohio University sophomore who be- came a junior in the spring of 1971, joined the army of young women who journeyed to New York City for an abortion. For the purpose of privacy and con- venience, the mother ' s name was Mary. She lived in a dormitory at Ohio University and she had a grad student fiance. Mary was the third of five children in a self-described middle class family from Cleveland. She termed the family conservative and moralistic. Her father completed two years of college while her mother graduated and has since taught high school science. The parental educa- tion difference, Mary said, was some- times the cause of high friction at home. And it may have been this friction or it may have been the fact that Mary had always been the spotlight of atten- tion as a bright, competent, likable student that Mary ' s younger sister freaked out on drugs as a high school junior and ran away from home. Whatever the reason, Mary ' s family was in a state of confusion and grief in the fall of 1970. It was at this time that Mary, at the age of 20, lost her virginity to her fiance one weekend away from Athens. She got pregnant. I didn ' t practice any birth control other than rhythm for one simple reason: stupidity. It would have been an admission, you know, especially being Catholic. Basically, it was naive- te ... . it ' s one of those things that just doesn ' t happen to you and I know that sounds trite. Incidentally, good old rhythm doesn ' t work. Mary was lucky in some respects. She told her fiance as soon as she dis- covered she was pregnant and as soon as she was able to convince herself her missed menstruation was not the by- product of worry. From this point Mary ' s story begins to resemble the story of literally hundreds of Ohio Uni- versity women during the past aca- demic year. Mary contemplated her options. Marriage was out because of extreme complications with her fiance ' s schol- arship and family. Giving the child up for adoption was ruled out because neither could bear to have their child raised by an unknown person. An abortion was decided on by Mary with the news from home of her sister ' s psychological problems providing the Story by Rudy Maxa lustrations by Erich Barnes final catalyst. After a medical check at the Univer- sity ' s health center confirming her pregnancy, Mary took the advice of a close friend and visited Rev. Tom Jackson at the United Campus Min- istry. Jackson, who estimates he sees two to three girls per day during most of the academic year, was not in his of- fice when Mary arrived. RulaB ' The worst part was not knowing ' The thing that bothered me the most was not knowing. I ' m the kind of person who needs information, Mary said. Her major was business oriented and her personality and manner fit her major. She is very precise in movement and speech. Even on the delicate and personal topic of a past abortion Mary does not blunder for words. She speaks with candor and a sense for expression. I really didn ' t know what to ex- pect. I was uncomfortable but Tom was my only hope, Mary recalled. Jackson recommended a visit to the University ' s Mental Health Center. There she discussed her options with a doctor and decided finally that an abortion was still her best alternative. The doctor referred her back to Jackson and then, after a hassle to raise the necessary $200 fee, she was on her way to The Big Apple for a legal abortion. Since the New York General As- sembly liberalized its state ' s abortion laws some critics have taken to calling the state an abortion mill. Pregnant out-of-staters have flown in one night and flown out the next morning not pregnant. The treatment one receives depends largely on how much you know. The agency through which Jackson works, is relatively inexpensive and thorough. Others charge twice the price, give little attention to the pa- tient and refuse to consider post- operational treatment. Still others charge even more and pick you up at Kennedy Airport in a limousine and whisk you away to a Broadway show and dinner and a plush hotel before the doctor does his work the next morning. Naturally there are some agencies in the business for pure profit. The Ohio University Post joined some 200 other college and underground papers in the late fall of 1970 in running abortion referral ads, over the vitrolic objec- tions of some readers. (Mary saw them after her abortion; she turned to her roommate and said Shit. ) After consultation several months later with health and campus ministry represen- tatives, The Post discontinued the ads in lieu of a special human sexuality supplement and continuing public ser- vice ads listing local referral agencies. But though commercial ads have been discontinued, the debate still rages over the morality of abortion. No one has yet offered the definitive answer on when life begins. Some claim it is a crime to allow an individu- al woman to determine the fate of her newly-conceived and potential offspring. But, for some like Mary, the question was not a moot one; it was resolved. And given the same situa- tion, Mary said she would do it again. She slept a great deal the days previous to leaving New York. Then she, her fiance and a close friend who had a car drove non-stop to New York. That night the three walked around the town. At 7:30 the next morning Mary and her fiance went to the address Jackson had given. At the hospital Mary saw one of the saddest things I ' ve ever seen. Every- body had someone — father, mother, boyfriend — yet everybody was there for the same thing. She felt fright- ened, sad, and apprehensive all at once. The actual abortion took two minutes. Mary said she felt no pain except for the cold and pressure of the instruments. They came on in such a natural manner it bothered me, because it was not so natural, Mary commented afterwards. At the end, a nurse said, ' Well, you ' re unpregnant. ' I cried. She asked if that wasn ' t what I wanted. I told her I had no choice. Mary slept all the way back to Athens and the day afterwards. When she woke she said she felt as if she had been on a Carribean cruise, the pres- sure of mothering a child had been so great. I can ' t help but feel that I did take the life of a child that could have been. I asked myself Am I rational- izing? Am I making it sound good to myself? ' But then I think of just what kind of life I could have given him and the effect it would have had on my parents. It comes up sometimes. I don ' t think about the Tightness or the wrongness .... but I knew it would affect me for a lifetime; I knew that before it happened. I don ' t sit and cry about it. I am sorry about it. I think I ' m a stronger person for it. There is nothing I want more than to help somebody through it. Toward that end, Mary does volunteer work at United Campus Ministry. In about a year Mary will join her fiance and they will be married. She said the abortion experience brought them closer together. She still goes to Church. As a matter of fact when she told her priest about the abortion at confession, he took it calmly and told her it was something with which she would have to live. But Mary and her finance do feel they made one error.: We made one big mistake in that we named it Carl. I have always wanted a son named Carl. He was due )uly 4. That will be a very hard day. 110 Marching Men of Ohio Say, hey! Guess what, kiddies. Ohio U. is gonna be just like all them Big-Time bands. No more green blazers. No more chicks playing clarinets (and trumpets and sax- ophones, etc.). No more majorettes. Our all-male marching band is going to be wearing real neatsie-keensie black and white BAND uniforms just like Michigan and Ohio State and all those other marching bands of distinction. And every male band member will have a real BAND hat with a pretty white plume on top. Total asininity. That ' s all it is. No longer will we be able to watch a Valery Welch or a Joy Washburn strut her stuff and lead a unit of GOOD (female) majorettes to entertain us at halftime. No longer will we be able to applaud at halftime when an excellent and DIFFERENT (perish the thought) band marches onto the field in MODERN dress and performs an en- tertaining and MODERN show. Now we ' re going to be able to be just like every other University. Our band will look like every other university band, and, therefore, probably sound like every other university band. We ' re getting rid of the women because men can work harder and build a greater espirit de corps. Ha! Total asininity. — The Post, Mary 5, 1967 Story by Undo Wenmoth Phoiogrophs by Andy Burriss It ' s been almost four years since this edi- torial appeared in The Post; similiar edi- torials were in the Athens Messenger and we took quite a lot of abuse when we decided to switch to all-male, according to Gene Thrailkill, former band director. The only thing that finally took the pressure off the band and me in particular was the student government elections that spring. Drummer Mike McCormack agreed with Thrailkill, adding there was a lot of bitter feeling . . . the women felt slighted. But the band was nothing until it went all-male. We felt we could do a better job — that something new, and exciting, was going to come out of it. As an afterthought he concluded, I guess we can all agree that it did. Why would 110 college men sacrifice so much of their time and energy towards an institution with the stigma usually associated with a marching band? The answers are as varied as the men who make up the band. •« ied together by pride j2 We really enjoy it ourselves. The best way to entertain is by enjoying what you ' re doing. Everyone in the band is a performer, an entertainer; it ' s something in the blood that makes us do it. It ' s hard to put into words, but I feel it enriches a man, com- mented drum major Dave Fowler. McCormack went on from this, saying sometimes during the week you feel it ' s not dropping out. He (Thrai Iki II) expects you to put out 100 per cent at every practice, because he feels you have to put out more than 100 per cent to put the seven-minute show over. You have to be ready to fall on your face! And the effort seems to be paying off. Since the conception of the Marching Men of Ohio, they have become one of the highlights of the football season. Whether the Bobcats win or lose, fans can always count on a winning, exciting half-time show from the men in green. According to Fowler, people get en- joyment out of hearing pop tunes; seeing something different from the game sparks interest and excitement and rounds out a game. He want on to say that instead of getting a coke or a hotdog, people will stay in the stands to enjoy the show. Ohio University holds the distinction of, besides being one of the few marching band s to play current tunes, being one of the only bands which does not repeat a number, other than the fight song, from one year to the next. Popular demand from students, faculty and alumni forced us to make an exception though, this year, Thrai Iki II noted. There was such a tremendous amount of response given our ' Aquarius Let the Sunshine In ' routine that it has almost become a trade- mark both of the band and of Ohio Univer- sity. That ' s why we had to include it in this year ' s program. The band plays Aquarius, concluding it by dropping on one knee, heads bent, in- struments down. Slowly the drummers start to rise, beating a tattoo. The rest of the band responds, slowly getting up with a long note from each instrument. When all are standing, they break into Let the Sunshine In. Fowler breaks into a dance; the fans break into wild applause. And even in the rain, for a while the sun is shining. The drum section is the focal point of the Aquarius number and of many others as well. One of the biggest differences in our band is the percussion section, it gives it that extra boost and feeling and the mood of what ' s happening. It lends the beat of what ' s going on today, according to Thrailkill. And, since he ' s in one of the best posi- tions to judge, McCormack stated that the Marching Men have one of the most gifted drum sections going. He attributed it to the pride and drive which is found throughout the band and laughingly re- marked that it also had to be one of the loudest drum sections. We break on the average of one drum head every two weeks. This might not sound like much, but when we ' re not playing in a show we ' ve found it to be almost impossible to break a head otherwise. The energy required to break a drum head pays off when producing a great sound for, as Thrailkill put it what the per- cussion does, plus the rest of the band, is what puts our band on top. The guys have built that unit to one of the finest drum sec- tions in the country. But if they didn ' t want to do it, no matter how excited I am, we couldn ' t have what we have today, he added. m The young director stressed this idea of group partici- pation saying the kids don ' t feel its my band — it ' s ' our ' band. The feeling of doing something well is contagious. How can we expect people in the stands to get excited about our performance if we ' re not? It all goes back to the matter of having pride in what you are and in what you ' re doing. One of the biggest moments of pride for the band this year came with their Peace and Love show. The men march into concert formation playing The Battle Hymn of the Republic. While the crowd is trying to figure out what is going on, for our band to be playing such an unusual number for them, the men start to move, so quickly that no one quite realizes how or when it happened, a peace symbol is formed by 110 men in green. And the music switches to New World Coming ; then half plays the New World tune, the other half United We Stand. But both join into the haunting Save the Country with the tempo building a climax until the final thread of Save the Country — NOW! catches all in a frenzy of emotion and feeling, moving many into tears. That show served two purposes, according to Fowler. Number one, it got the younger people to think about things and making a committment to the ideals they profess to and number two, it also was to inform the older folks of just how hypocritical they ' ve been. One of the problems of such a show-stopper as Peace and Love, Thrailkill mentioned, was what to do next. When Gene Thrailkill first became band director here, he underwent a great deal of criticism tor changes he made, most notably the switch to an all-male group. Last season was the final one at Ohio University for Thrailkill. He has accepted a similiar position at the University of Oklahoma, which doesn ' t have an all-male unit yet. It ' s quite a challenge to try and keep with what ' s going on. I get a lot of help from the guys in the band. For the dance numbers, Dave (Fowler) and the guys will work something out and then teach it to me. They figure if I can do the steps, anyone can, Thrailkill laughingly said. One of the highlights of the band for the past two years has been the dancing of the drum major. According to tradition, the primary func- tion of a drum major is strictly to front the band, give tempos and show leadership, Thrailkill revealed. It was hard to find a major for an all-male band but Dave gained the men ' s respect; they work for him. And it gladly took a lot of pressure from me. The respect the men show for Fowler is exemplified by the sentiments expressed by McCormack. Dave is a show in him- self. During the last two years, he ' s really gotten into it — and helped the band get into their Motown thing. Fowler puts it this way, a metronome leading the music is not my image of what a drum major is. The whole thing goes along with what my style is; why do what everyone else has — they don ' t know anymore than me. I wanted to create something, to make the job more than what it was. What it was, according to Fowler, was one of two alternatives, neither of which appealed to the handsome black. Drum majors have always been of the military style. The only other alternative, previously, was being effiminate. I just couldn ' t see myself doing either, he emphatically stated. His mood is reflected throughout the band and he was characteristic of all 110 men when he said I love pop music and performing. I get a big thrill every time I step out on the field — that ' s my thing. I have to make more out of music than just playing; it should be something physical, with more spirit than just sitting and playing notes. I dance when its time to dance. I do the dance as it should be done, something that ' s impossible for 110 men to do, he added. Not all aspects of the Marching Band are applaudable. A problem that has bothered Fowler and which others have mentioned is the noticeable lack of blacks in the band. One thing that really hurts me is the fact that in my first year, when there were only three other blacks in the band, I promised myself to try and have at least twenty by the time I was a senior. But this year there are only seven, he stated. The black commu- nity would rather watch and criticize, than get out and do it themselves, mainly because they ' re scared. They didn ' t get the spirit in high school and its hard to change those feelings. On a more optimistic note, Fowler does feel the band as it is now has impressed the black student body, which he claimed as being my major goal with the band. The only solution he sees to this problem is for the band to travel more and perform in the inner-cities. But this is very limited by the universal problem of funds, or rather a lack of them. There is no one on this campus that we (the band) couldn ' t go to for a favor — as long as its not financial, was the way Thrailkill subtlely put it. In the past we ' ve been financed by the Athletic Department, but for the rest of the year we ' re on our own. Our big money-maker is the Varsity Show. We ' re about ten to twenty thousand dollars behind the budgets of the other league bands. You know, it kind of scares me to think what we could do with a budget like that, Thrailkill reflected. At the first award banquet for the band, held last fall, President Sowle was reported to have remarked as to how he was amazed at how good the band was on such a small budget. And while the majority of those on campus might not be aware of the band ' s financial woes, they are aware of the supe- rior quality of the Marching Men of Ohio. Total asininity? Ha! Peace 1 1 1 BBMbflBB = • ' 4 1 i ■ j 1 1 1 frfr tm muu Three artisans in pursuit of he same goal One hundred and fifty years ago, it seems these three artisans might have been working their way west to build a home and settle down. Instead, here in 1971, they ' ve turned up in Athens, Ohio. Court Street ' s two leathersmiths and lone jewelry maker are skilled craftsmen, but perhaps more impor- tantly, fascinating people as well. Joe Limoli, one of the two leather- smiths in town, operates The Under- world located near Koon ' s on Court St. He doesn ' t particularly dig business — It bums me out — but smiling fondly at the racks of leather fringed vests on the wall, he admits that God you get a feeling of satisfaction. I can walk down the street and pick out things I ' ve done and that ' s a hell of a feeling, Limoli relates. He ' s twenty-five now and a graduate of Ohio University. He left Athens for a year to teach industrial arts at a Cleveland junior high school but re- turned because he didn ' t like the hassle of the city. He came back to begin the subterranean level leather shop. Not too many people are too eager to come in here and plunk down $30 for a pair of hot pants, not too many at all, Limoli admitted, and then while petting his pet dog Blue, he pointed to the other bigger room behind the wall where the Underworld sells re- tailers ' bells and shirts. I wish I didn ' t Limoli have to sell that bullshit, laughed. But for now, that bullshit helps to pay for the operating expenses of The Underworld which Limoli says is still in debt. When you start a place like this, you don ' t eat for a long time. You got to learn how to be happy poor. But I want to uncomplicate my life as much as I can, Limoli says. Right now I have a telephone at home that I can call out of but can ' t receive calls on. It ' s nice to know that telephone won ' t ring, ' cause telephone calls usually bring bad news. So I don ' t want to get it fixed. Limoli defends his shop against any other he ' s seen. Hell, in New York or even Columbus, you ' ll get charged twice as much. And it ' s really junk, too. Story by P.J. Bednarski Photographs by Roger Bus er Down the street, above the Candle Cellar, another leathersmith, Gregory LaVelle works between classes at his shop called Smiles. Because he has no sewing machine, LaVelle sticks to making sandals, belts and hair berets in his rather small shop. He speaks casually and slowly, seemingly timing his words while sitting in an old barber chair in his shop. LaVelle remembered his first sale in Smiles. A girl came in and I sold her a braided head band, he recalled, and then added shyly, she was also my first date here. That was two years ago when LaVelle was still the only leathersmith in town. LaVelle ' s interest in leather work began while he was serving a hitch in the armed ser- vice in Key West, Florida. While there, he watched a local leathersmith and from that brief encounter, I was hooked. Customers usually are able to choose what they want from the racks of belts and other leather goods LaVelle displays on the wall. He can make about 28 belts from one side of a cow but occassionally the leather he receives is of poor quality. So, as of late LaVelle has begun to inspect the leather before he buys it from a Columbus dealer. If you look hard enough you can find some pretty good stuff. He was a member of the Hocking Valley Crafts Club for a while but got tired of little old ladies who brought in painted birds. I didn ' t want to associate with people like that. ,4 .;-! Jack Bradt, Athens, only jewelry maker operates a shop called Pod. Like LaVelle, he became interested in hand crafts while in the service. As a college graduate, Bradt was placed in special services and tor a while was stuck playing sports for Uncle Sam. But he finally got out of that and into a special crafts class, where he learned how to shape silver. Molding a ring is a long process, Bradt explained, claiming that a single piece of jewelry can take as little as 10 hours to complete or as long as 40. Most people don ' t know what they want when they come in, but they do know what they don ' t want. Eiitf Brad! arranges rap sessions with cus- tomers to get some idea of their pref- erences but dismisses type casting of people. You can ' t say that because that person looks pretty freaky he ' ll like a really wild ring. Some people even go as far as looking at the way a person walks, you know symetrical or not, and make a ring from that but I can ' t do it, he explained. I ' m always surprised at what people like. Though his jewelry shop is highly personalized, Bradt admits that most people are really afraid of having something one of a kind. People are afraid to wear something that they ' re nol sure is good. He explains that he isn ' t technically a silversmith because all of his work is done out of wax molds. After confer- ring with the customer he sets to work on the wax model. Later a special plaster is applied, the mold is baked in an oven at temperatures up to 2000 = Fahrenheit and then set in a centrafuge system where the sterling or gold is applied. Bradt is planning to become a the- ater technician, but says that he ' ll never be able to give up his ring making. Everyday is an adventure in here. I get up at about noon everyday, never sooner, and work at this all day. All my life I ' ve been doing some- thing with my hands. When I was in college, I tried to sell fly rods but I never sold anything. The shop doubles as his home and his box of Raisin Bran is conspicuous among the tools he uses for the jewel- ry. The place is half-kitchen and half workshop, Bradt jokes. The shop ' s name was chosen because a pod symbolizes germination and growth and I think that ' s pretty good. None of the craftsmen is getting ric h here in Athens, but as Limoli put it, I ' ve never enjoyed anything as much as working with your hands and i reating something. ' Anyone ' « 8  i1 £ £ £ IP v, ;- ' 3E£ ' Sit Barnes He once threatened to have pay- able upon availability of state funds imprinted on his checks to protest the legislature ' s role in limiting faculty salaries; and for Dr. James Barnes, this is exemplary of his type of rebellion. My idea of how to change society is very non-violent, the soft-spoken government instructor revealed. People, especially in the college com- munity, must constantly raise ques- tions about society. We should con- cern ourselves not with the tools, but with the people themselves. Encouraging and equipping people to raise questions is the job of the uni- versity, according to Barnes. The way the university touches the world is in the quality of the students it turns out. Actually, the university should be a constant challenge to the society — and society is therefore rebelling against the crux of university life, he said, shifting in the hard-backed chair to a more comfortable position. To some degree there is a battle between the two. But the university must provide a critical examination of society. Universities, though, must change internally if they are to meet the demands of the students and attempt to question and challenge a wavering society, he feels. Although Barnes was a member of the University Council, he does not feel that faculties can effectively run schools. This, he feels, should be left to the specialists — the adminis- trators. But he also warns against the :an move a mountain ' danger of overspecialization, which Barnes fears will lead to clashes in perspective among faculty, adminis- trators, and most importantly, stu- dents. There shouldn ' t be any adminis- trator who can ' t or doesn ' t teach a class. That is the type of atmosphere we have to get, according to Barnes, who feels there is a lack of an aca- demic atmosphere on most cam- puses. This lack is caused by students ' great concern with relevancy and their ques- tions concerning education in general, in his opinion. Barnes ' views on the subject follow the patterns set by John Dewey. That is, education should be a democratic proposition with students and faculty sharing in curriculum decisions. The ' teacher ' is a body of knowl- edge and data for students to draw upon, as are professional colleagues and journals, he said. There should be student input, a healthy kind of in- terplay to better education. One very practical way to imple- ment this, according to the former NATO political officer, is through things such as the Curriculum Council. But, unfortunately, students usually have neither the time nor ex- pertise for such activities, he related. In addition to more student-faculty involvement, the most pressing need of higher education to him is funding. The financial burden of higher educa- tion is ruling out a certain class for op- portunity in education, the govern- ment professor said, clenching his pipe between his teeth. What we need is more state aid; more subsidies to eventually establish a financially free University. The basic problem is that educa- tion is viewed as a short term gain for society. Today ' s perception (by soci- ety) of what a liberal education is won ' t get you a job anywhere, he said, with the afterthought that he ' s really not convinced it is the educa- tion that is lacking. My greatest fear is of the tech- nocratic elite that is developing. They are not concerned with social problems at all; they are more concerned with production than with equal distribu- tion, the black instructor revealed. Barnes is leaving the campus for a while, to become director of the study program abroad in Tours, France. He ' ll be working with students trom both Ohio University and Bowling Green, helping them to discover the even larger society they may one day have to question and challenge. Anyone can move a moun- tain, it they really try — ac- cording to the song. The ten people in this section have, to one degree or another, moved a mountain — the mountain of conformity. Those included are a sampling of people in the University com- munity who have contributed greatly to it by their willingness to be creative and innovative. Story by Linda Wenmoth Photographs by Andy Burriss Rollins For Mark Rollins, the current Uni- versity set-up of classrooms and sleep-a-tories is not only very un- natural but also just not healthy. People just don ' t learn things that way, the young English instructor explained. Living and learning are usually together, that ' s why we ' re trying to get people where the two are coincidental. Rollins ' plan for getting people together is through the Residential Ex- perimental Program (he ' s quick o point out that it ' s not a college since that would involve a dean and all that kind of red-tape stuff ). The program, which has passed the Curriculum Council and will soon be in effect, in- volves 144 students who will all live in the same dorm on the new South Green. Each of the residents will follow a Modular Curriculum; each student taking a total of 10 credit hours in courses designed by himself. Five addi- tional hours will be taken within the usual University curriculum. Where this differs from indepen- dent study is that you don ' t have to hassle to find a faculty member, we ' ve got a staff of 40; and you don ' t have to take one subject for the quarter, he explained. Instead of the usual paral- lel structure in education, this is kind of a serial structure where the student deals with the subject as long as he wants and then goes on to something else. The main goal of such a set-up is to  • ? allow the student to choose his own course of study, to learn to be in- dependent, according to the young in- structor. We want to start a student on his own as soon as possible. Once they ' re on their own, they don ' t give a damn how they get what they want in education as long as they get it. He described this program as the first step towards the ideal of decentralization of education. Today, Rollins explained, a faculty member ' s only loyalty is to his depart- ment, and the only thing that ties the department together is we all read books, sometimes on the same sub- ject. There is just no attachment to students at all, the Cambridge gradu- ate said. You ' re a human being and I ' m a human being but you ' d never know it. For a faculty member to go to a student ' s room or vice versa is un- thinkable. I ' - i£x±S : Rollins came to Ohio University from the University of Massachusetts where he taught for two years in a similiar program. The feeling that such an education was sorely needed at Athens was what prompted him to come here. Ohio University, in fact almost all universities, offer a good vocational education but are not good for a liber- al education. They are turning out well-trained people with good depth but little breadth to them. His main thing is to make people happy. In education, he thinks stu- dents are being tyrannized by grades, degrees, requirements and he would like to remove that Sword of Damascus from over their heads. In my classes now I do provide a syllabus simply because I ' m better equipped to do that than most students, Rollins said. But I don ' t give exams; grades are decided by the student in consultation with me. They pick the grade they think they deserve and then they must justify it to me. The Residential Experimental Pro- gram is just a start, according to the progressive-minded educator. The ideal situation for him is the Oxbridge Model — a group of in- dependent colleges, patterned after the situation of Oxford and Cambridge. All colleges are self-existing but they co- operate with one another in sharing resources and facilities. Courses are conducted on the tutorial basis which involves one or two men working together, he explained. Such a proposal is not totally ridicu- lous for Ohio University despite the large number of students here, Rollins claims. This is just as economical as teaching 500 people in 5 or 6 classes a week. If you spend one hour a day, five days a week with students that adds up to a great many students, he said. And this way, each student can ask the questions that have been bothering him. If they tried to do this in the normal situation with up to 100 students in a class, nothing would be answered and nothing would be ac- complished. These innovative programs Rollins believes in won ' t help prepare stu- dents for the world of today where ac- cording to the instructor, Automation is so pronounced, they are training people to be mindless. An assembly line worker turning the same screw every day may be satisfied, but a college trained scientist working on a computer just punching buttons won ' t be. So he builds up a feeling of frus- tration and turns to drugs or booze. A cultural revolution will end this dilemma and Rollins fully believes that it can and will happen soon. So he ' s doing his best to prepare people for it. Wimmer On the wall of her home is a poster that reads Today is the first day of the rest of your life. And for Miss Shirley Wimmer, this philosophy has guided her through an exciting and produc- tive life that is always just begin- ning. My whole goal in life is to live as fully as possible, Miss Wimmer explained, emphasizing the now of the philosophy. I don ' t mean that one should live life hectically; on the contrary one must have time to medi- tate, to ruminate, to just be. The meditation is necessary because she feels it is essential for one to see himself as one in the wheel of life, a kind of continuum. She believes everyone has something special to give others — her gift being the art of teaching dance. Dance is essentially a human ac- tivity, according to the newly selected University Professor, disclaiming the theories of those who claim animals dance; saying distainfully that it is merely rhythmic activity. The auburn haired dancer went on to explain why dance was so essential to man. The arts, of which dance is one, are a sensory means of communi- cation; today we are all greatly con- cerned with breaking down communi- cation barriers. Through dance we try to set up a situation where they (the dancers) feel comfortable, fee) free to express them- selves, she explained, becoming quite animated. This is the heart and soul of what we ' re all about. Other- wise, we ' re nothing more than robots. The life of man is his creative spirit. The threat of automation is quite vivid to Miss Wimmer who feels many people are being trapped by ma- chines. She feels that the monotony of many of today ' s jobs causes a split between mind and body, which, in her estimation is the cause of much mental illness. The cure Miss Wimmer suggests, of course, is dance. Because dance in- volves coordinating the activities of the mind and body, this previously mentioned dichotomy will disappear. The mind controls the movements, but in this activity, according to Miss Wimmer, the only instrument used is one ' s own body. In dance, as in other subjects, ac- cording to the instructor, no one actu- ally teaches the students. The teacher does a presentation to stimu- late the students, Miss Wimmer said. The actual meaning of the word edu- cation is leading out. ' And that ' s what teachers should do, lead people to choose what they want for them- selves. We can ' t mold people, that ' s ridiculous to assume. Contrary to popular belief, the School of Dance is not attempting to produce the next Rudolf Nureyev or Dame Margot Fonteyn. We just give them the fundamentals. We train them to know their craft, its back- ground, its basics and its possibilities, Miss Wimmer explained. Of course those who have the talent, the energy, the perserverence, the dedication, can go on to a professional dancing ca- reer. But it ' s their choice. The relevance of dance to university curriculum is something the sprightly instructor feels very strongly about. A university education involves the Arts, Humanities and Sciences, and dance is one of the arts, a very important one. the country as Miss Wimmer p roudly pointed out, does have the whole- hearted support of the students, but, she regretfully pointed out, doesn ' t re- ceive the financial support necessary. The facilities here (in the Cline Building) are really a problem. We have only two studios, one of which is fairly small, she lamented. What we try to do is turn out a good group of dedicated majors in dance. But we ' d really like to reach more non-majors. According to Miss Wimmer, there is a great deal of interest by non-dance majors in the offered courses. She at- tributes this to a growing interest in dance throughout the country and feels it is very desirable since it gives young people a deeper sense of themselves, of their mind-body rela- She agrees with educator Harold Taylor that the arts should have a cen- tral position in any university. Aside from the craft itself, the teaching of dance involves its rela- tionship within culture, within society. The study of dance expands into other arts, she explained. Ohio University ' s School of Dance, which is rated among the top ten in tionship. Miss Wimmer has been teaching and or dancing for a few years now, and yet, for her one of the greatest thrills and feelings of accomplishment is when I teach a good class, when I know I have and they (the students) know I have; that is a high point for me. The art of teaching is a gift, it ' s all a question of giving. Tabashneck Ever since the first town-gown clash in 1355 in Oxford, England, people in college towns have been lamenting the state of relations be- tween the two vying groups. But few have actually done anything to ease the existing tensions. In Athens, these conditions have ex- isted as long as the University has been part of the town. Finally, though, someone is trying to do some- thing about it. Bruce Tabashneck, a graduate of Ohio University, instigated an ad-hoc type office dealing with University- Community Relations, last year. Most people who have negative feelings are those who have had no contact with the University and those tor whom the University has done nothing, he explained. Even if in just small ways, I ' d like to start chang- ing that attitude. When he started, he was the only one concerned at all with community relations. They gave me complete freedom, I ' ve been able to do what- ever I wanted, he related. One of the largest and probably most successful programs he ' s ini- tiated was the Cop-In held last winter. The program grew out of Tabashneck ' s travels around the country last spring and summer. Everywhere I went, with almost everyone I talked, there was this hos- tile feeling toward cops, the boyish- looking government major said. There was a lot of misunderstanding, a lot of dealing in stereotypes — on both sides. I figured that increasing individual contacts between the two groups would help improve communication and understanding. For a week, under the Cop-In pro- gram, students were encouraged to ride along in a patrol car with one or two members of the Athens City Police. There were also several guest speakers and panel discussions on related matters. Only 500 were directly involved on campus but it still was a very suc- cessful means of communication. Tabashneck related. I know the Athens cops were affected, they finally were able to meet students in an in- formal atmosphere that wasn ' t a hos- tile confrontation. On an individual basis, I think it re- ally did accomplish something great. But it can ' t be a one shot deal, it has to be a continuing thing, he added, noting that plans for next year ' s Cop- In have already been begun by another group. Through his work with Cop-In and his travels, Tabashneck has sort of decided to apply for a position with either the Los Angeles or Washington D.C. Police Departments. Why I want to do this, mainly, is to work with them for a while to find out how and why they think as they do, he commented. But he added that he ' s also interest- ed in working on the 1972 Presidential campaign or for Nader ' s Raiders. Whatever I ' ll be doing it ' ll involve working with people, that ' s the grea- test thing there is, he explained. The thing I dread most is boredom, I have a lot of energy and I have to utilize it as much as I can. To combat this boredom and also to further his goal of improving human relations, Tabashneck has undertaken a wide variety of activities. Among them were a Political Week with various speakers including Senator Robert Packwood and former New Haven Police Chief James Ahern; a Children ' s Day at the Athens Spring Trade Fair and the nostalgic visit of Buffalo Bob of the old Howdy Dowdy Show. I enjoy dealing with people on a mass level but the individual rela- tionship between two people is the most rewarding, he reflected. Its probably the most difficult thing to obtain but its the tfnng most worth it. Tabashneck has dealt with people from all walks of life such as when he organized a group of students to work as poll workers during last year ' s Unit- ed Mine Workers election. Many of the places we went to, we were met with total distrust and sometimes even hatred. It was really terrible, what happened to Yablonski (defeated can- didate for UMW president who was later murdered) but the whole thing was a tremendous learning experi- ence, he said. Tabashneck feels activities such as these are necessary to get the Univer- sity more involved with its sur- rounding community. This University tends to be too bureaucratic, too wrapped up in PH.D ' s and Master ' s, he said. A lot of the courses offered are too wrapped up in intellectual masturbation. But Tabashneck is concerned with the outside world and the people that are in it. And he ' s trying to get more people concerned, to get more people together, and especially to help improve communication and under- standing. Mulford The setting should have been in an old country store, around a pot-bellied stove; or it should have been on the porch of a farmhouse, with rockers and lemonade or perhaps hard stuff. For Bill Mulford is one of those unique and excellent examples of Americana, the philosopher who spices his words of wisdom with stories that sometimes approach some deep shades of blue. I ' ve been workin ' here (in Baker Center) ever since it opened. In fact, I helped bring in the original furniture, he says with a trace of pride. He ' s also quick to point out that his working ca- reer here has spanned 16 year, 10 month — that makes me the last of the original bunch. When I leave come June, ole Luck (another janitor) will be the ' old man ' around here, he ' s been here for ' bout 15 years. Before coming to work for the Uni- versity, Mulford worked as a power- house manager for a local mining company. I started when I was 16, I was supposed to have a federal license for it, but since I weren ' t 21, I had to use some other guy ' s, he related with a sly wink. Mulford worked there for 37 years, making $6.24 an hour, 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. It really wasn ' t so bad though, during the Depression I was pretty well off. In fact, during the hard times, I helped support my three brothers and one of my sisters. He sold his stock in the company when he quit and with the profits bought a farm which he still owns and operates. He jokingly says he does as little work as possible on his farm, but ac- tually raises Jerseys, white-faced herefords and horses. What I really like to do most, though, is to go coon huntin ' . It ' s a lot of fun and I sell the skins, Mulford related. I go coon huntin ' when the Indian ' in me comes out. Nowadays Mulford doesn ' t have too much time for coon huntin ' since he still works the early shift in Baker Center. Although the physical struc- ture of the building hasn ' t changed much during the 16 year, 10 month he ' s been here, he strongly believes the internal change has been great. When I first came here, the up- stairs was a women ' s dormitory and we had a cafeteria that fed 550 a day. They used to be a lot stricter then, for one thing, when a boy said good night to his girl, he was only allowed to kiss her once. And the housemothers, they made sure the rules were kept, Mul- ford explained. In his opinion, student attitudes haven ' t really changed much, just their dress and mannerisms. I can ' t say that I agree with all that they ' re doing now, but they got their life to live, I ' ve got mine. I can tell them what to do but it won ' t do me any good, he said. One of the things that has changed that rankles the seventyish janitor is the move towards more beer and ex- tertainment. A little entertainment is all right but not if it interfers with their education. That ' s what you ' re here for, to get an education. Mulford feels that everyone ' s en- titled to as much education as you can get but he also feels that educa- tion isn ' t worth much if a person ' s not physically fit. I ' ve kept as fit as I have by doin ' exercises every day. Riding my horse, chopping wood, lifting things, just doing a little muscle work has let me go on as long as I have, he said, proudly flexing a still hard arm muscle. This exercise is what ' s going to help Mulford outlive any of his relatives, he claims. I was raised by my great- great grandmother and she lived until she was 108. I expect I can best that, he matter-of-factly states. Speaking of his family, he recol- lected the great-uncle who worked with Buffalo Bill ' s Wild West Show and his great-great grandmother ' s sister who was the bride of Manasseh Cutler. Helping those less fortunate has been one of the major activities Mul- ford and his family has engaged in. In his lifetime, besides his own 4 children, he has raised 25 to 30 foster children or, as he calls them, the little unfortunate ones. We like to help as many people as we can. I ' ve got some money, so I like to give it to them that don ' t. You just can ' t get a man who ' s down and push him down farther and expect him to come up, the rural philanthropist ex- plained. Mulford ' s been a friend to many who ' ve passed through Baker Center, because of his friendly manner and willing helpfullness. A few years back, on his own time he helped the Athena staff install a tile floor in their office. He ' s done many things for many people and few forget him. When former University President Vernon Alden was back on campus for a visit, he made it a point to stop in and say hi to Mulford. He doesn ' t try and hide the fact that he ' s really gonna miss this place, especially the people come June. But he plans to ride his horse, spend more time with his grandchildren, do some coon huntin ' and in general all the things he ' s always wanted to do. Especially, he ' ll tell you with a mischevious grin, he ' ll do a little more drinkin ' . Daniel The clash between the traditional role of wife and mother and that of liberated female has caused Mrs. Bar- bara Daniel to re-examine her and other women ' s role in today ' s society. A part-time instructor in the social work department, full-time mother and wife, an active member of the Women ' s Information Croup plus a candidate for city council has for Mrs. Daniel helped establish my individu- ality, instead of just that of a house- wife. For me, though, the pattern has been set, it ' s very difficult to change the people around you to fit a dif- ferent lifestyle, Mrs. Daniel ex- plained. But I couldn ' t only do housework, so I tried to combine it with something else. Feeling that women are no longer busy enough at home Mrs. Daniel began teaching a course in Social Se- curity. This is one way she feels she is able to express herself and have a kind of rewarding hobby. My course mainly deals with the system in relation to the poverty ques- tion, Mrs. Daniel, who holds a masters in economics, related. The main trouble with the system is that the people in it don ' t understand how the economy works or why people are poor. Saying that the system currently tries to change people to fit in the system, Mrs. Daniel advocates a revamping of the out-of-date Welfare bureaucracy. Complete federal control of the program would help. The present system is an increasing burden to the state governments and the standards and procedures vary immensley from one location to the next, she com- mented. Other programs she feels would greatly aid the poor in this country are the negative income tax and the proposed Family Assistance Plan. Her interest in politics goes far beyond advocating legislative action. The pert young woman has been very active in city government and is cur- rently running for Council on a plat- form of better city planning. I ran for Council once before, six or seven years ago. I feel women should take a more active part in poli- tics, and by continually having women on the ballot we ' ll eventually wear the public down, she added with a laugh. Besides, I like politics, even if it is sometimes depressing. Running as a Democrat in highly Republican Athens is not helping her chances of being elected, she admits. A few years ago though, she helped on a drive which would make city govern- ment non-partisan since she believes that party politics have no place in the city level. In politics, as well as everything else, Mrs. Daniel feels it is a matter of difference between individuals, not between sexes. Men claim that women are too emotional for politics. This isn ' t exactly true, since many men are highly emotional and as we ' re in the spotlight more and more we ' d learn to handle our emotions just as they have, she explained. But perhaps some sensitivity to humanity is needed in government. When the Women ' s Information Croup (WIG) became more active in politics, though, Mrs. Daniel feels they lost a great deal. As she put it we became so concerned with struc- ture, with who was going to head what committee for how long, that we lost much of the cohesiveness of the group. Now WIG as an organization has disbanded but the women in- volved still meet for informal rap ses- sions. Within the women ' s movement there is a split, according to Mrs. Daniel, between the radicals and the mo re conservative. The role of women is changing so rapidly, young people are struggling to cope with this. A woman is no longer busy enough at home; she needs some way to express herself, Mrs. Daniel stressed. Some young women are looking for a different way of life, which is fine. While she approves of the idea of husband and wife sharing responsi- bilities of home and child raising, she does not think the communal idea will work because of the need for privacy and also because she feels young people are terrificly monogomous. According to Mrs. Daniel, her fami- ly has mixed feelings concerning her activities. My husband (who is also a professor in the University) accepts things intellectually, but I ' m afraid he doesn ' t emotionally. We don ' t share as much as I feel we should in home activities, which occassionally leads to conflicts. As far as her three children go, she feels they are more sensitive to a woman ' s needs because of how I feel but they still regard me mainly as Mother ' . Women are making progress, in her opinion, although many women ' s libbers wouldn ' t agree. She explained how women now compose one-third of the labor force and more and more are having a professional goal in life other than just a family. But she does not predict a major re-ordering of so- ciety. Rather she feels women will have to work within the system, for change from within. Laws will help speed the progress a little, she related. But how can you change attitudes; that ' s the hardest job we face. Women just have to get brave enough to try. Dinos A belief in Cod, numbers and the potential of man is the motivating force behind Dr. Nicholas Dinos, professor in engineering. The universe would be meaning- less; there would be no meaning to life; no particular comfort or strength without a belief in Cod, according to Dinos. An Elder in the Presbyterian Church, Dinos worries about spiritual growth and spreading truth throughout the world. It was while he was an engineer at the Savannah River Plant, in Georgia, working with the problems of nuclear fission that he decided to go into teaching. I knew Cod wanted me to be somewhere else — not as a missionary but as a practitioner of engineering, Dinos explained. I had been un- happy making nuclear materials. While I was, and still am, excited about the development of nuclear de- terrents, I was tired of making some- thing no one will hopefully ever have to use. Besides his work with the Church, Dinos is trying to spread the gospel of engineering to non-engineering people. I don ' t see how someone can be a 20th Century citi zen and not be aware of what engineering can do, he stated excitedly. The interaction of tech- nical and social science will produce a new type of art, socio-engineering. He went on to explain that socio- engineers are non-engineers who are interested in various aspects of engi- neering. According to Dinos, engineers themselves should be concerned with more things than just numbers al- though numbers are an incredible journey. The mode of transferring knowledge or beliefs is a very vital aspect of edu- cation to the engineer, who is Chair- man of the Engineering Graduate Pro- gram. One has to be involved with those you teach, to learn from them even though it might sometimes be painful. Its all a matter of humaness. Although he claims to be still find- ing himself Dinos has already ini- tiated several innovative ideas in the Engineering Department. He is at- tempting to fulfill his goal of building bridges with different disciplines through exchange courses with other departments. One, working with the Biology Department, is exploring the use of mathematics in biological processes. Another project the two disciplines have united on is the development of a process which would convert petro- leum to protein. According to the young engineer, it would only take three per cent of the world ' s total oil production to take care of the entire protein deficiency in every country. Can you just imagine that? Projects such as this, which would benefit large numbers, provide ex- cellent reasons to attempt a marriage of all the sciences. There is a great need for interdisciplinary disciplines. Despite the personal progress he ' s made, Dinos still feels he hasn ' t done the fundamental work I should have done. I ' ve taught my subjects faithfully, I ' d even like to think I ' ve excited some minds to the possibility of engineer- ing. Academics need not be dull, profs are human, Dinos stressed, in explaining his concern for students. This concern is reflected in his ideal class, in which he would be able to choose students with different majors. By limiting the enrollment to 20 students, he feels he would get people who really cared. This would produce a group that would be welded together by more than just a course. Dinos feels that even if the course was a year long bull session it would be valuable since it would involve alive people. All that he does, whether in the Church or classroom, appears to reflect Dinos ' conviction that man is more than simply a collection of mole- cules. Jackson The Rev. Tom Jackson was once asked not to return to the seminary, asked to leave a parish in Englewood, N.J., had his home and family threa- tened and has decided to leave his vocation. And yet, he feels that in the real sense, he still loves the hell out of the Church. Jackson has been co-director ot United Campus Ministry since 1969, soon after UCM started. He came here because he liked the idea of the Ministry, the rural area and also felt the people were pretty honest. He previously had been a parish minister in Englewood until asked to leave because of his inter-racial adopted son and his anti-war thing. It was mainly a bunch of trivialities, nothing momentous that caused them to ask us to split. For a while, though, I was a Cause Celebre on the East Coast. I guess in a sense I have been suc- cessful here (in Athens). The United Campus Ministry now serves more people and offers more services, such as Draft Counselling, abortion coun- selling and referral, Jackson re- flected. But suddenly becoming ex- cited, he revealed that, in his opinion, the Church has had it. The Church has had its time at bat. Logically, emotionally, we are in a post-Christian era, he explained without showing regret. Pro-football has partially replaced the Church. It ' s a way of honoring people — the grea- test honor we could show to Vietnam amputees was giving them 50-yard line seats at the Super Bowl — there are even revered people, such as ' St. Lombardi ' who after every victory would say ' without Cod we couldn ' t have won. ' It serves the purpose of being a chance for people to get together, much as the country club has become a type of cathedral for the upperclass and the university for students. which is positive in the biblical sense of the worker-priest. He would like to see more of the Bread Wine festivals outside the Church, such as the Mass for Martin Luther King that was held in the Fron- tier Room of Baker Center. He feels this is a chance for a lot of people to do an embarrassing thing together — to say all the things they actually feel. Stiffs 2 I But, he doesn ' t see this as a negative thing, since he feels there are a lot of different ways to celebrate life. He ' s leaving the ministry not with any hard feelings but because he feels that after four or five years I really am feeling burned out. The clergy is one of the few voca- tions that is not seen as being very im- portant but on which super-human demands are made. I ' m just not a super-human guy. A lot of his friends in the clergy are also finding other vocations, he said, While Jackson doesn ' t have many regrets at this stage of his life, he would like to have taken a greater role in the anti-war movement. I think the Vietnam War will be seen as the great event of the 20th Century, more than World War I or II or any inven- tions or discoveries, he said. It ' s not a great tragedy in the tradi- tional sense because we do have con- trol over what is happening. What is the great tragedy is that we don ' t know we have control. This war has radicalized people all over the world in their belief and hope in America. Literally centuries of Asians are going to be affected by it. Even people who are on our side will be affected; the French also blew it over there but they admitted it whereas we haven ' t. He went on to say that he really does love this damn country even though I sometimes get terribly ashamed of it. Our only hope is that we will become very humbled which can be a positive thing. We won ' t be, and I don ' t want us to be the most powerful force all the time. We can view our humility as a positive thing and it won ' t destroy us. When some- one hits bottom they suddenly discov- er what great power they do have and how to use it; I hope that ' s what happens with America. For Jackson, his new life will be in either law or the field of communi- cations. But his real goal is to cele- brate life, to be as fully human as pos- sible. I want to more fully discover how beautiful my humanity can be — that way it ' s not so easy to destroy another ' s. But those who have known Jackson believe he could never destroy an- other person ' s humanity, it wouldn ' t fit his life style — that of celebrating life. Kokis Claiming the system makes him nothing more than a house nigger, Dr. George Kokis is attempting to change the system from without. Even though sometimes when you go outside the system you have no influence, when you go through it you will inevitably be swallowed by the system, the ceramics professor explained. There are things that must be said and no matter how nicely they ' re put, the system will still feel it- self threatened. One of the systems Kokis speaks of is the University bureaucracy. Because of the way education is con- ducted, Kokis feels it is training people to be cripples in a way. Especially where grades are con- cerned, people are becoming profi- cient at conformity. It ' s become al- most impossible for them to react to a new idea. But this place is an alterna- tive, a kind of haven. This place refers to the ceramics studio where Kokis attempts to teach people to try and follow their subjec- tive instincts through creation with clay. The idea behind this method is, ac- cording to Kokis, not to teach the student something but to create an at- mosphere whereby they can discover for themselves what they want. It ' s not a matter so much of learning new things as it is of eradicating blocks in the mind. Kokis said. He went on to relate ceramics are an expression of self; into each piece is built the artist ' s uniqueness and rich personal history. With clay you ' re dealing constantly with unknown factors which force you to be cre- ative. For this reason, Kokis does not believe in grading since after encour- aging students to be objective about their work, he would be applying sub- jective values. He does, however, evaluate a student ' s work, but doesn ' t judge it. People are becoming aware that they ' re being used as system-main- tainers; that today ' s education is creating dinosaurs to fit into the present system, which, due to scientif- ic advances, is constantly changing, Kokis related. A good example is the aerospace engineers. Here are highly trained people out of work because they are highly trained — but only in one thing. Kokis feels that by working in fear, by using your particular art as a stage to confront your fear, one can become a formidable person who is more aware of life. Instead of the University smoothing the way towards such awareness, Kokis feels the administration spends all its time covering themselves so they can ' t be called on the carpet. ' Pro- grams are thwarted and put through so many study committees that by the time they do get to it all the interest and vitality is gone. An example of this is last year ' s Cerebration, according to Kokis. It offered people an opportunity to dis- cover things for themselves, he ex- plained but, unfortunately, the system kept most of the people too busy to educate themselves. The idea of Cerebration shouldn ' t be for just one week, it should be for always. To Kokis, the highest good is a responsiveness to humanity. He feels it is intolerable to be indifferent. So he is trying to show people there are al- ternative ways to discover themselves and what they want to put into and get out of life. Jorgensen Jorgy. By that name he ' s known to everyone at Ohio University, most everyone in the city ot Athens and quite a few people around the state. But few, if anyone, knows, or rather can explain, the true character that is Bruce ]orgensen. One of the reasons for his situation is that, by his own admission, Jorgy is always changing. I ' m always changing, not always for the good but I must always be in the state of change, the former Post car- toonist related. If there is one thing I fear about old age it ' s that I won ' t be changing or else that I ' ll really under- stand something. You can ' t get locked in; the whole joy is not knowing what you ' re going to do; you just have to let it happen. Originally intending to be a photo- journalist, Jorgy started cartooning just for kicks, there was nothing else worth doing at the time. Since then his cartoons have be- come an Ohio University legend for their sometimes satirical, sometimes biting but always humorous look at the campus, administrators and the world. My rap against the media is that journalism is not a tool of truth, there are too many outside forces swaying what is said or how it ' s said, he related, settling back in the chair, one leg draped over the arm. But car- toons don ' t pretend to be the truth, they ' re a fantasy medium. Because people believe this, Jorgy feels cartoonists can present the truth because no one expects it. In drawing a cartoon about a situa- tion, he takes it as it is, which is al- ready absurd — carries it as far as I can and then draws it. There are as many cartoons as there are people and things; every person is a million cartoons. He went on to say that he never has trouble finding a subject since this country is the biggest cartoon there is. No matter what the situation, though, Jorgy feels quite strongly about preserving his integrity. I could never draw a cartoon which disagreed with my opinion; if I ever got into that situation with a boss, I just wouldn ' t draw anything on the subject. Currently in San Francisco trying to get an underground comic book together, the former editor of Silt (known to readers as T.D. Nerd ) has for his biggest ambition to lay a happiness on someone else. Essen- tially all you ' re doing is making some- one ' s happiness. One small way is by smiling at people. When I say smile I don ' t mean just flashing your teeth, I mean something that you really feel inside. Then you can really communicate with another person, Jorgy related. Another means of communication for Jorgy is through the horn. He had been in a jazz quartet with his friend Sheeps but had to cut something out when he got pressed. Eventually though, he ' d like to get his lip back. Communicating with other people has been his greatest experience while at Ohio University, he feels. One of the reason I hate this place (Ohio Uni- versity) is because I see the ghosts of other me ' s. My head has gone through a tremendous change since I came here, most of which was precipi- tated by people I ' ve met. What they ' ve given me makes the University worth it, if you can sit on your ass and do mostly shit things for four years. For the young cartoonist, dope is just a giggle, the real kick is getting to know someone through communi- cating both verbally and non-verbally. He feels that as long as dope doesn ' t mess up your mind permanently, it ' s a fine thing to do. But Jorgy ' s got many fine things to do. With his wife Debbie he ' s in California waiting to hear from a pub- lisher concerning a book of cartoons he was invited to put together. Al- though he sometimes thinks his true calling was as a motorcycle mechanic or a shoe salesman, he says he ' ll stick to cartooning until he comes up with the perfect cartoons — one that hasn ' t got any words and one that makes someone mad as hell. Makes them so mad that they have to come back and see that they ' re wrong. Until then, he ' ll keep changing and trying to lay some happiness around. lb bib. Happiness is hockey Running down the field with their sticks waist high, and their knees reaching for the sky, the combatants look neither like the animals they aren ' t nor the girls they are. It is a strange breed of women who play field hockey for Ohio University. They are called jocks by many. And while they disclaim the title, they are proud of their activity in women ' s sports. Many are majors in physi- cal education and tell you so proudly, other participate for the fun. Story by Barbara Kaufmann Photographs by Patrick McCabe rJ m The game of field hockey is played between t wo teams of eleven players each. The object of the game is to hit the ball into the op- ponent ' s goal. Each goal counts one point. Each player has a stick, shaped in a J, with a rounded and flat side. The flat side is used for hitting the leather ball. It is illegal to use the other side of the stick. The goalkeeper usually wears protective equip- ment. Some of the players consid- er the game of field hockey ladylike, as Cathy Seipel, one player, called the game, but it is exhausting and seem- ingly brutal to play two thirty minute periods with only a brief break between the halves. The contradiction comes when the girls play the game. They play well and hard and their winning season shows it. There is a determination to win on the field. But once off the field the smiles appear on their faces again as they exchange pleasantries with their opponents and offer food and drink to them. As much as the game is brutal and exhausting, it offers beauty as well to the viewer. The home of Women ' s Field Hockey is a field beyond the Lakeview Complex. The hills with beautiful fall colors serve as a backdrop. One could lose his thoughts in the view and forget the game eagerly in progress. 2 ♦ A '  Field hockey is a very exciting and fast-paced sport, one which demands a viewer ' s constant attention. The girls practice long and hard to perfect their game under the superivison of Catherine Brown, (left) a physical education instructor and coach of the team. The game is played in halves with no time outs. The time of the halves depends on the age and experi- ence of the players; it can vary from 15 to 30 minutes. The team, consisting of five forwards and six backfield members, plays on a field that is rectangular in shape and divided into four parts. The center line, which divides the field in half, is used for a bully which starts the game. A bully determines possession ol the ball between the opposing center forwards. The ball changes possession often, and thus the game requires stamina as the players run the 100 yard field. The penalities are varied in the game. Two umpires catch the otfenses. A surprisingly lady-like game But the meager sideline audience at the games — friends, relatives and other physical education majors — are like those who attend the school pag- eants, they come because of their ties to the game and the players. The game of field hockey is played between two teams of eleven players each. The team consists of five for- wards and six backfield members. The object of the game is to hit the ball into the opponents goal. A goal counts one point. It seems strange to a spectator new to the game to watch a sport without all the trappings that accompany foot- ball and sometimes basketball. The game moves quickly, and any time the spectator turns away, the ball is bound to change possession or a goal could be made. When watching the game the first time the action is much too quick to see any of the teamwork in- volved but at later games, on closer inspection, one can see that field hockey takes time and consideration in trying for each goal. There is no one star on the team, but rather a well- practiced, hard-working team. The same dedication the women have towards the game while they are playing doesn ' t end after the game is over. The team coached by Catherine Brown, a physical education instructor, practices for an hour four days a week. Often the games are played at other schools which involves more time as well as personal expense for the women. There is no bitterness for the time and money spent, only anger for the University which by it ' s non-support seems to delegate women ' s sports to a back seat position. The budget last year for women ' s field hockey comes out of the $1040 alloted for the women ' s intercollegiate budget. Field hockey is only one of eight sports sharing the money. The others are swimming and diving, basketball, volleyball, track and field, golf and Softball. This year field hockey shared a $ 1 000 budget with the other sports. Margaret Redmond, a senior active in physical education, said the dis- tribution of the women ' s budget must cover traveling expenses to away games, officiating costs, meals and ex- penses while on the road and living expenses for away games while staying on other campuses. Kay McDonald, a physical education major, estimates she spent approxi- mately $100 of her own money this season. She has travelled to several tournaments including one in Phila- delphia over Thanksgiving recess. Fall Saturday afternoons at Ohio University traditionally mean football, the band and a packed Pedan stadi- um. However, for a small dedicated group of women, it is their chance to show what they have been practicing for all week to their opponents and to their friends on the sidelines. HOCKfr £-A«5 )r?t-.-. £ •£ ' • ' it, ' ■■■ SS ' lOT STATE Y llATIVt i I gg|M||gtf Jtv rsr -« j mm® 1 h Political workshop- classroom to action November 3rd began October 20th for Gene Bisbee and Debbie Duchon. That was the day a routine, lecture-discussion course broke the bonds of a stifling classroom to become a political work shop in a display of relevancy and activism unsurpassed by most other University courses. A day during which they began to actually take part in campaigns for candidates of their choice, instead of being relegated to helplessly talk about them. Following in the footsteps of universities including Harvard, Princeton and Yale, Ohio University initiated the workshop last fall, for politically-motivated students to exercise their ambitions in a meaningful manner. Under minimal direction by instructor of gov- ernment, James Tilling, the students waited out a required two weeks of discussion and lec- tures. Then, October came, and the class slowly dissipated as students left for New York, New Story by Paul Zach Photographs by Patrick McCabe Jersey, Illinois and other states, cities and districts to campaign in the politi- cal world of their choice. The private political world of Gene and Debbie, for three short weeks, was Meigs County, a sprawling, sparsely-populated area hugging the bank of the Ohio River at the tip of Southeastern Ohio. Their work cen- tered around the largest town in Meigs, Pomeroy, only 30 miles from campus. Here, they would campaign for Democratic candidates. Rural Meigs County is notoriously Repub- lican. Gene explained why, We were mainly interested in Appalachia, and one day Paul came into class to get help for his campaign headquarters. We figured it ' d be a switch from what would be happening in Athens. Paul was Paul Gerard, described by Gene as an off and on student who had the monumental task of directing Democratic headquarters in Meigs County. Debbie and Gene had volunteered Distributing hand-bills, talking with local voters and putting up campaign signs were all part of the curricu- lum Gene Bisbee and Debbie Duchon followed in the political workshop course last fall. ... if they vote Democrat their ancestors will turn over in their graves! to the personable man with the hope- less campaign. What followed in the next three weeks remained muddled in Debbie ' s mind. A conglomerate of mood, dis- organization, and people. She and Gene spent some after- noons hanging signs for John Cilligan, Doug Arnett, Tom Cady, and the man they worked closest with, James Bailey, Democratic candidate for Meigs county commissioner, owner and operator of Bailey ' s Sunoco Ser- vice Station on the main street of Pomeroy. Gene recalled putting up his signs one day when a man came up to us and said he thought Bailey had a good chance of winning, because his signs managed to stay up longer than Karr ' s. Karr was, of course, the victorious Republican candidate. Then there was door-to-door soli- citing. Gene and Debbie found the Meigs citizens genuinely friendly and some- times surprisingly sympathetic. An interesting encounter occured in either Minersville or Syracuse. Debbie couldn ' t pinpoint the exact location because, You can ' t tell where one city stops and the other starts. In Minersville or Syracuse, they came across a quaint grocery store owned by a nameless old woman and her right-out-of Americana old hus- band, who, while she minded the store, decorated it by sitting in a made-to-order chair, in a corner, pipe in mouth, and an old dog at his feet. When Debbie approached the woman, she learned that she had never voted. A subsequent lengthy conversation between the young lady and the old woman was periodically interrupted by the latter ' s husband who con- tended, By God, if you ' re old enough to fight, you should be old enough to vote. Why should young kids be fightin ' and not be able to vote for a representative. It ' s ridiculous, with an angry puff of his pipe. On November 3rd, the radical old couple went to the polls for the first time in their lives and voted Demo- crat. I feel in a way it was a victory just getting someone like her to vote, Debbie remarked. There were also handbills and pam- phlets to circulate. One of the former mayors of Pomeroy, and one of the few that was a Democrat, Delmar Canaday helped this phase of the campaign by giving dollar bills to anyone who would deliver some of our materials to bars, pool halls and other establishments around town, Gene recounted. Culmination November 3rd, Elec- tion Day ' 70. A memorable panarama of people and drama. Pomeroy Democratic headquarters were located in a vacant store-front under the dental offices of a Dr. Brown. When Paul Gerard arrived ending a hectic day, he revealed his precinct had come through in some ways. Democratic candidates had lost by far less than they should have. The assemblage eventually gathered at Democratic headquarters, a veri- table haven for useless left-over cam- paign propaganda, warmth, coffee, donuts, people, and an unusual con- tingent of partisan flies. Already casually propped in a chair for the vigil sporting his working clothes and a blue and orange button which announced, I ' m a Metz fan was a precinct worker from Syracuse, Nial Salser. I think a lot of you young people are wakin ' up, the unprovoked Mr. Salser announced. For a hundred years this town ' s been solid Repub- lican, but with the help of you college folks its gonna change. People in this town are afraid that it they vote Democrat their ancestors will turn over in their graves, he revealed. It ' s too bad we can ' t import Demo- crats, we sure could use them. I ' m sure we ' d find room and board for ' em. Mr. Salser relentlessly continued, As far as the local gov- ernment goes, why if you ' re a wino, and on the right side, and a Republican, you got it made. Mrs. Bailey, wife of the candidate for commissioner, also arrived at headquarters with her portable T.V. Gene and Debbie, though, decided to get a first hand ac- count of the precinct returns at the Pomeroy Courthouse. When the couple arrived at the ancient asphalt building, the smell of election night hung in its halls. Nearly a dozen old Republican-looking people crowded the corridor, hands in pockets, jingling change and loose keys, al- ready assured of their candidate ' s victory and jusl gregariously waiting for it to be announced. Taft buttons decorated their hats and jackets. A nervous murmur superseded the jingling when Gene and Debbie entered the courthouse to request the early returns. The precinct count, announced over a single P.A. speaker to the empty streets, showed only one of ten had gone Demo- crat. But, Republicans weren ' t winning by as great a margin as they had in the past. Curious eyes were suspiciously turned on the young couple as they copied the results. The voice from the megaphone abruptly stopped, and the sound of the keys and chains again permeated the air as Gene and Debbie headed back to headquarters. BAMrv The campaign propaganda jumped at them mockingly as they entered the room where seven people clustered around the table where Mrs. Bailey sat futiley calling precinct alter precinct to see how many votes her husband had lost by. Her husband arrived about I I p.m. prepared to concede. He had lost by a substantial 667 vote margin. Mrs. Bailey surmised that not 20 people worked for us, those kids worked the hardest, and wondered. Well, how broke are we now, Jim? Debbie remarked, I think if we ' d had less classes and more campaigning it ' d been more worthwhile. By the time we got down here, two weeks before the election, there wasn ' t much we could do to help. And Mr. Salser, persistently wearing his I ' m a Metz fan button, got in his last remarks, You shouldn ' t get involved in this county if you ' re a Democrat. We ' re a minori- ty group. Over in Mason County ' cross the river the people are still votin ' for a Republican named Chief Comstock. Hell, he ' s been dead for 20 years. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey mechanically packed up their portable T.V. set and left with a Thanks everyone. Mr. Salser sauntered out the door and into the night. Gene and Debbie got into their red Volks- wagen and headed back to Athens to join other losers and a few winners enroute to campus. Only the flies remained at Democratic headquarters. November 3rd ended at 1 a.m. on November 4th in Meigs County. 1 5k w Non-academic workers ' invisible ' but essential Flossie Hysell and her husband Elmer, devote twelve hours of each day to the Ohio University community, yet their work goes for the most part unnoticed by the very people they serve. Neither of them will be remem- bered by having a library named after them, by titles of professor emeritus, or for living in a big white Park Place house from which they run the Univer- sity. But without them the University would cease to function, as they are two of its over 900 invisible non- academic workers. Flossie is a line supervisor in the Nelson Commons Cafeteria complex and Elmer is coor- dinator of the janitors there. They leave their home in Rutland, Ohio every morning at about 8:45, and travel 30 miles to Athens where Flossie works her eight hours super- vising proper food service and Elmer watches over maintenance of the dining halls. They don ' t get back to Rutland until about 8:30 p.m. Of course, it ' s a lot of time and work, Flossie noted with a wrinkled smile and a southern twang. But we enjoy the work. We have to. We live for the job. We don ' t have any other life. But we both like it so it doesn ' t matter. Story by Paul Zach Photographs by Charlie Nye A friend of ours was working at the University, and brought us here to show us around. We found out the pay was better than what we had been making and we ' ve been here ever since, Flossie said. Elmer added that he finds the work here a lot easier and a lot cleaner than coal mining. Better pay isn ' t the only reason the congenial couple have become perma- nent employes of the University. I like the youngsters, and I enjoy working with young people, Flossie admitted. I just love to be around them. I have the equivalent of 16 of my own grandchildren, you know. She candidly continued. The hair doesn ' t bother me like most older people who just gag when they see it. I look at what ' s inside the person. The appearance doesn ' t bother me as long as they ' re clean. A lot of people say it ' s a fad, but I think it ' s here to stay. Though Odessa works alongside Flossie on the cafeteria line, her frank opinions are drastically different. I ' ve been working here for 17 years and you better believe the kids have changed since then. Nowadays, all they want to do is bitch about the food. Let ' s face it, they ' ve had too much. They didn ' t have as many food choices back then as they do now. They just ate it and went on a lot easi- er. Local union 1699, which represents the University ' s non-academic workers, nearly brought the normally invisible workers into sharp focus with the threat of a strike over a contract dispute last Winter quarter and is another point of disagreement be- tween the pair. Flossie and Odessa are well-representative of the wide variety of feelings non-academic workers ex- hibit concerning the function of the union. I just don ' t believe in it. But if someone else wants to belong to it, it ' s their business. I never tell anyone to drop out, of course, were Odessa ' s sharp words for Local 1699. I just can ' t see any advantage to it. I belong to the civil service, which works through the legislature. Can ' t get any pay raises unless it goes through them. The workers don ' t usually discuss it, though. I ' m here to work, that ' s all I do. Union or non- union, the work ' s the same. Flossie, on the other hand, thinks the union is a good thing which has done a lot for the non-academic worker on this campus. Although, I really didn ' t under- stand what the big dispute was all about, I would have had to strike with the union, whether I agreed with it or not. The way I figured it, they were asking extra pay for not working. Per- sonally, I ' ve never had anything I didn ' t work for and I ' m not asking for anything I don ' t work for. One point Flossie and Odessa agree on is that their jobs don ' t provide a ' good ' living but one that is as good as anything else you can get around here. Cod, I ' ve washed pots and pans and dishes. More pots and pans than you can ever see yourself comin ' out of them, Odessa added. While Flossie and Odessa cook in the kitchen, Ethel Elliott and Delmer W. Rhodes, both union members who have been with the University for about a year keep house in two dormi- tories next door to Nelson Commons. We clean the bathrooms and lounges for both buildings and a ten- room apartment in building No. 10, they said. Though, exemplifying in their out- looks and backgrounds, the varied personalities and individuality of the invisible workers many people slough off as maids or as janitors, Flosse, Odessa, Ethel, and Elmer came to a common consensus on the most memorable moment of their careers here — the spring quarter of 1970. I think when I came in here and saw that bombing of Nelson Commons I was almost in tears, Flosse said. Odessa asked, Why would anyone want to do that thing? They knew that by destroying the cafeteria, they ' d just charge more. I doubt very much if the people who did the bombing were from this school, but the students from this school end up paying for it. I don ' t believe in the Vietnam War and I don ' t like it, but I don ' t think burning a cafeteria down was a good way of going about protesting it, Flosse added. Ethel said she ' ll never forget helping to take tear-gassed sheets and stuff out of the buildings on the College Green. When school finally closed in the Spring of 1970, all four were laid off by the University, until Fall quarter once again signalled the resumption of their invisible but vital roles. When Belle Crowe cele- brated her 25th anniversary of working for the Universi- ty, her fellow workers de- cided to get her a commem- oration of the event. The Shively Cafeteria workers presented her with a carved wooden horse with the number 25 engraved in it. Belle is proud of her gift and frequently brings it to work to show new people. ' 11 S JbESIboOTUALKEO FRorA HIS CLASS AT MeDioc e UNlVlfRSiTV HE RWDERED MO MEAV QUESTS THAT HAD PtA UED HifAOf_LAT£_. AH, BUfiF I Told Vou WHO I WAS.THEMtfo DKJIOW. CLEyeRrRV.So ' u BufNOTOEUert EAJoflf L£f ' 5 ET0W,SW u.WE? WwSEfc-THE M£D A IS THE WiRRoKotSoOeiV. LUCE AU MiRiU S, fOR IWSIftUCE, TfiKi fi GOOD HARD LPC AT THIS GARBAGE- ra« Goal of Women ' s Lib: Human rights and freedom for all The whole education of women ought to be relative to men. To please them, to be useful to them, to make themselves loved and honored by them, to educate them when young, to care for them when grown, to counsel them to con- sole them — these are the duties of women at all times and what should be taught them from their infancy. — Jean Jacques Rousseau Prefacing a description of the women ' s liberation movement invasion on the Ohio University campus with a quote by Rousseau may seem a little off the track. On the contrary, this quote comes close to summing up the reasons some people sought to support the movement while others shied from it as just so much more rhetoric in a so- ciety plagued with bigger ills. Many things that happened on campus last year pointed to the fact that although the revival of a large scale Story by Susan Crites Cartoons by Bruce Jorgensen Myths exploded by awareness women ' s movement was still in the in- fant stages, some impact had been felt by the feminine population of Ohio University. The Rousseau quote sets forth one of the many masculine myths carried down through the years that was final- ly exploded with the increased aware- ness of a few together women. And while many others of the female popu- lation would rear in mock anger at such a blatant show of oppression, those same women are the ones who still perpetuate such myths by coming to college for the sole purpose of find- ing a husband and filling the destiny of womankind by raising a family. It was the small number of women on campus seeking self-identity and non-explotive relationships who pa- tiently and academically began to give Ohio University a taste of the other side of women ' s liberation — the side that doesn ' t come out in the exploitive press as female frivolity characterized by bra-burning profanity and pick- eting. The first group that fell under the liberation category was the Women ' s Information Croup, (WIG), started last summer by a group of local women who just wanted to get together and discuss some common problems. The loosely structured organization picked up steam in the fall when students came back to campus and found there was a place to go to discuss such matters in a rational academic way with peers, and which was also free of the male domination that creeps into just about every other discussion held on campus. By October the bookstores had fi- nally decided there was enough demand for Kate Millett ' s Sexual Poli- tics to order a few copies, only to dis- cover that the demand was so great among students, faculty, and towns- people, the stores couldn ' t keep it on the shelves once they had it. The same was true of a paperback antholo- gy emblazened with a red liberation fist and titled Sisterhood is Power- ful. At that point people still weren ' t br- inging up the subject in mixed com- pany, but they were certanly reading about it. During that same month a women ' s liberationist from New York, Charlotte Bunch-Weeks, came to campus and spoke to nearly a full house in Memo- rial Auditorium. She told of life styles where men and women shared the duties of breadwinning and child rearing equally. To some, the concept was a beauti- ful possibility; to others it was a pre- posterous breakdown of male and female sexual roles — certainly to no good end except to throw out the normal order of things. In late November, The Ohio Univer- sity Post produced a special issue on women ' s liberation — done entirely by women on the staff. The writers dis- covered a Pussycat League, the begin- nings of a Radical Women ' s Caucus and a lot of concerned individuals. But from the general University popu- lation the reaction was nil, amounting to a few sordid comments from men and one letter to the editor. Had the movement again been beaten back into the bush? In winter quarter, the members of the Women ' s Information Croup emerged again to offer a new course called Women In Contemporary Issues. It drew a large number of in- terested women and men and finally brought on some open frank discus- sion by a mixed class on the history, economics, and socialization related to male domination. By spring, this university and others in the country had one more consider- ation to evaluate in terms of the new awareness level of women — abor- tions. This is perhaps the one demand of liberationists everywhere that al- most all students can relate to in one way or another. The right to control one ' s own body had long been denied both legally and socially. Yet when students returned to campus in the fall last year abortions were legal in New York and other groups were lobbying to bring it home to Ohio. LOOK, I ADM IT ITi SOMEWHAT 3AD BW THAT DOES M T Justify Some of iMfcTriiwestw l t SEEM OouJQ.. goY,VooH wr H£AiU A WO? I) X snu fWtvtrt... nc=— _ • ' -1 [ ' (torturous 7) fr- vjr A common cause had been hit upon — the right to choose an alternative to marrying and having children simply tor legality ' s sake. This whole change of attitude also seemed to launch new thought into responsibility of men and women in relationships. 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The winning skit — a packing crate that turned into a space ship J-Prom: ' As Children See It! ' Story by Barbara Kaufmann Photographs by Andy Burriss and Patrick McCabe Re-capturing the spirit of past childhood days It is not like professional theater. It is not even like an amateur produc- tion. Despite the fact that they are performed in front of an audience, only nine people count. There are an extensive amount of rules surrounding the fifteen minute skits that are per- formed at the most three times. Yet the enthusiasm is great though the ex- penses are high. These hybrid theatri- cal happenings are the J-Prom skits which is the essence of the whole thing called )-Prom. With few exceptions all the frater- nities and sororities work in j-Prom and usually with each other. However, of this year ' s fourteen skits two were done by dorms working with each other with four others teamed with a Creek unit. Though nine judges evaluated the skits and nine others the talent presen- tations of the King and Queen can- didates, that is not all there is to becoming number one or King or Queen. The path to the top is strewn with obstacles; for every requirement or rule not obeyed point deductions follow. Marshalls follow the progress of each skit and catch any infraction of rules. The judges ' winner might not have been the same as the winner an- nounced at the concert which fol- lowed the two days of skit presenta- tions. But this year the Alpha Delta Pi and Sigma Alpha Epsilon skit took both the Judges ' Award which is before the points were taken off and the first place honor which comes after the points are deducated. The tangible results of winning are a large trophy, the chance to put a sign in front of the house and a party celebrating the sign which says Number One. The intangible results cannot be categorized. For all the others at least they know they tried hard. The groups involved are given the theme, chosen by the J-Prom com- mittee, a $500 limit on expenditures, a limit on the number of performers, a specific size for the performance area and a host of other rules. From these ingredients fourteen skits evolved this year based on the theme As Children See It. With fourteen skits all revolving around children the costumes got to be standard — short pants for the boys and pinafores for the girls, with as- sorted varieties of parents thrown in. However it was in scenery that the skits seemed to excel. The winning scenery by Alpha Delta Pi and Sigma Alpha Epsilon (also the first place winners) had an old packing box turn into a toy box and a space ship. Other scenery that caught the crowd ' s atten- tion was the Delta Upsilon — Chi Omega skit which explained where babies came from; the Phi Kappa Tau — Alpha Xi Delta skit which showed kids in front of a very realistic school build- ing; and the Beta Theta Pi — Pi Beta Phi which depicted a colorful forest made of tissue paper. Chi Omega and Delta Tau Delta placed second for their skit. The third place skit award went to Alpha Gamma Delta and Sigma Phi Epsilon. A common denominator of all the skits is singing to popular songs of the day with new words inserted and dancing. The best choreography honor was given to Phi Kappa Tau — Alpha Xi Delta whose skit took place during the recess period. Another aspect of J-Prom is King and Queen selection. Ideally the King and Queen are to be chosen on the basis of their talent presentation and voting by the campus. But because of irregularities in the voting that aspect of the selection was abandoned. Therefore, this year, Lisa Rushing of Biddle Hall and Ken Richards of Delta Tau Delta won the honor of Queen and King by the talent competition alone. For their hours of practice, ap- pointments for picture taking, and two presentations in front of the judges, they took home a small trophy. The third part of J-Prom is the con- cert. Even that did not go smoothly. J-Prom was to be held earlier spring quarter but Campus Entertainment Committee could not arrange a con- cert. The previously arranged Chicago date was then taken by the J-Prom committee as the final part of their 1971 J-Prom. Practicing of the skits did not make goodwill ambassadors of all the partic- ipating groups. For example, near the end of the specified practice periods members of Voigt Hall which is next to the Kappa Delta house, put their stereos on at full blast to counteract the singing and sirens of Phi Kappa Alpha which had been sounded in front of the sorority house at 2:30 a.m. A former participant in J-Prom feels there is no purpose to J-Prom. Laurie Forhan, an Alpha Gamma Delta member, said, Its a lot of work for meeting people and one night of enjoyment. But many other people enjoy )- Prom. Approximately 3000 people watched the skits the second night when they were performed in the Convocation Center. Our choice for President- vtickey Mouse! Connie Crow commented that J-Prom was to have a good time. And there was more than one person who echoed Jack Ruden ' s sentiments when he said, it brings various or- ganizations and groups together. Dan Currin seemed to sum the general feel- ing up when he said it ' s a lot of fun! But what is seen in a brief fifteen minutes has been growing since October 1970. At that time screenings were held for the co-chairmen of J-Prom. From there the two chosen, Chris Lamm and Becky Doggett went on to choose the rest of the committee. That committee besides dividing J-Prom into various divisions to perform and they might be only for the benefit of nine judges but J-Prom nevertheless touches everyone ' s lives from the performers and the happy unit that wins to the disgruntled people who must endure the units practicing when quiet is preferred. It is easy to knock those who spend so much time on something that is gone so soon but the intangible results cannot be judged. Not everyone is happy or interested in |- Prom. But these hybrid theatrical productions are more if one keeps in mind that they are student written, produced, directed and per- formed. Several of the skits dealt with the stiflement of children ' s creativity. J-Prom often plays second fiddle to student demonstrations and mock political conventions. But all involve creativity, something which shouldn ' t be stifled in children of any age. of work, chose the theme. Early in winter quarter the rules and deadlines were explained to the participating units. At that time each group committed themselves to J-Prom by applying and giving a $40 fee to the committee. Soon after that point the groups matched themselves up and began to write their skits. The committee reviewed them to avoid complications. The skits may take only fifteen minutes each Story by Randy Rieland Photographs by Patrick McCabe A well-oiled machine with five vital parts Ohio University basketball is, for most part, a valuable commodity during the dreary smugness of the Athens winter. Often, it alone serves notice to the town that the student pop- ulation of the University has not been whipped into docility by the numerous rain-snow storms and the damp chills of southeastern Ohio. It being the bright spot of the winter for many, they parade into the homey green comfort of the Convocation Center to be entertained by ten men running up and down the floor. And so it goes year after year and probably for time eternal. The 1970-71 season for the basketball Bobcats was no exception. In the record books, however, it will probably be written down as a pretty good season. Seventeen wins against seven losses; enough to keep fans and alumni happy, but nothing spectacular. For those who were there and were caught in the basketball snydrome, however, it was a season of near- misses. Ken Kowall (far left) was the team ' s top scorer last season with a 20.9 average and shared Most Valuable Player honors with team captain Craig Love. Todd Lalich (left), a newcomer to the squad is the Bobcat version of Pistol Peter Maravich. mb i • ' :- £ -.V . ... H ' O JK Jw . fl V ■ 24 1 1 1 A _3i J. I ' Occassionally, the Bobcats seemed to have trouble keeping control of the basketball. Bob Howell (left) suf- fered unfortunate injuries last season which hurt his play. Tom (T.C.) Corde (above) will be returning as next year ' s captain succeeding graduating Craig Love (right). A one-point loss at home to Miami can- celled any hope for the Mid-American Con- ference title; the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and the proverbial carrot on a stick that dangled seductively before all the MAC contenders. With it went the op- portunity to play in the NCAA tournament and the chance to meet the big boys; the UCLAs, Marquettes, Penns and so on. How- ever, Ohio University never made it to the NCAA tournament and UCLA won and so what else is new. Even at that point, the more loyal Bobcat fans knew there was no reason to write off the season as a total loss. There was always the chance a second place finish in the MAC would bring an invitation to play in the NIT (National Invitational Tournament); a tournament in Madison Square Garden lor second place and just missed-not quite teams. So the Bobcats fought for second place, people kept coming to games, but the invitation never came. Thus, a fitting end to a just-missed season. Ironically, most fans, when asked in the future to relate the 1970-71 season, will name players before they recall that the Bobcats almost played in a post-season tournament. For all intents and purposes, the starting five players were the team. When a person mentioned the basketball team, he meant Craig Love, Ken Kr fwall, Tom Corde, Bob Howell and Todd Lalich. A sixth man never materialized as the season progressed. Consequently, the starting five players were used excessively. Their faces and actions became so familiar that a substitution was often seen as a total stranger in the crowd. For the players on the bench, getting game time was like getting into an exclusive social club. Instead of lacking affluence, they lacked ability. From another perspective the starting five could be seen as a well-oiled machine that slowed and faltered when a new and un- worn part was inserted. Basically, the machine that began developing in practices back in the fall never had the opportunity to slow down and mold in new parts. w The only difference between a champ and a chump is the U! Play in pain and don ' t complain BE Agile, Mobile and Hostile We ' ll win ' cause God is on our side Bobcat basketball frequently was highlighted by a rough-and- tumble style of playing. Lalich (left) and Love (above), both on the starting line-up, several times found themselves in foul trouble because of their over-aggressiveness. Thus, the starting five virtually carried the whole burden of accumulating victories. According to Coach Jim Snyder, they played well together from the very beginning. There was no dramatic incident during the season that molded the team into a unit. All coaches like to say their team is close on and off the court, but in this case Coach Snyder could make that statement without stretching anyone ' s imagination. Most of the players looked for each other both on the floor and after the game. A very co- hesive unit, recognized by some as the best in the MAC, had been formed and it was never really shaken, even during the more tumultuous periods of the season. In line with the analogy of the well-oiled machine, each player served as an effective cog, but one that also had various distin- guishing characteristics. Lalich, Kowall and Howell (above, right and far right) all knew where they were going but something kept getting in the way. This was true for the Bobcats as a whole as they were blocked from another MAC title. Craig Love, the senior center who at- tracted the attention of professional team scouts, was the only man on the team who had the height to continually do battle in the land of seven foot giants under the basket. For this reason he was sorely missed when he sat on the bench after get- ting into foul trouble for his over-aggres- siveness. His ability to rip down rebounds and to shoot well under pressure was of- ficially recognized as he was named to the all-conference team. Fittingly, Love shared the honor of the Most Valuable Player award with the starting team ' s other senior, Ken Kowall. Both players shared the respect of the rest of the team as team leaders. Love and Kowall often picked up each other ' s slack, although they were two entirely different types of players. Unlike Love, Kowall could hardly rely on his muscle and size for an advantage on the court. His forte was his speed and what are popularly called his moves. The scram- bling guard spent as much time on the floor as he did standing up and he continually impressed spectators with his knack at weaving through hacking arms and flailing legs to get to the basket. Kowall, also known as a deadly shooter, was the favorite of statistics lovers who oogled over his 20.9 average (the first Ohio University basketball player to average more than 20 points a game). To some people it is important to note that Kowall is the seventh highest scorer in Ohio University history. Most people simply enjoyed the way he played. The other three starting players will re- turn next year to become the core of another unit. Tom Corde (next year ' s captain), was the team ' s playmaker and top hustler. Todd Lalich, a self-styled Pete Maravich minus the baggy socks, was the team hot dog as he played brawling defense and passed and dribbled in assorted manners. And Bob Howell was the epitome of the underdog, as a soft-spoken, injury-ridden, yet very talented player. All three will no doubt receive numerous plaudits next year, but until that time they, along with Coach Snyder, must start rebuilding. A new unit must be put together before people start pouring into the Convocation Center again. Something in the history of Co ach Jim Snyder says it will. New outlook on religion The ' growth of the lesus Freaks (pictured above) has amazed many people across the country. Their goal is to become complete by knowing God, and the only way to do that is through Christ. ' ' Religion. Called at various times the opiate of the masses or pablum for the people, too often the picture comes to mind of drugged millions waiting in an endless soupline for their daily bread to the tune of church bells. Religion wears odd clothes in the small Ohio town of Athens. Religion does odd things and sings odd songs. And many who remember the silent and imposing reverent structures of their childhood hardly recognize religion at all anymore. It ' s not surprising. Often times religion her- People getting together self doesn ' t go by her own name. Rabbi Nor- man Lewison at Hillel calls it community. The Jesus People call it a total life experi- ence. Father Mike Zahorchak at the Catholic Student Center calls it love. Whatever the terminology, all agree on one point however — rejection of previously ac- cepted structures in favor of a more personal- ized relationship with Cod in whatever form he takes. As Father Mike puts it, It ' s not that young people don ' t believe in God; it ' s just that they don ' t believe in the crap. Get Right with Cod signs welcome the traveler to Athens as he drives in on the main highways, and it appears many people have taken it to heart. The various Cod-experience organizations on campus have found their numbers growing in past years — and at the same time have found their procedures radi- cally changed. It is all part of the young people ' s quest, explains the rabbi. We are getting it together here (Hillel) as a Jewish community. It ' s not always a spiritual thing — the key word is com- munity, not just something that occurs on Sunday. It is a whole person kind of quest for identity. Hillel activities range from student-run ser- vices to Shabbos dinners to campaigning on behalf of Soviet Jewry to rap sessions to the Fat Sandwich coffeehouse. But everything is initiated and done by students. I wouldn ' t call this a trend of going back to religion in the organized sense, Rabbi Lewison explains. Specifically young people reject the paramount ideals in their parents ' lives; they reject what their parents do in the The Hillel House has become a community center, ex- panded from something that just occurs on Sunday, ' ' according to Rabbi Lewison. Their activities include a Fat Sandwich coffeehouse, campaigning for the freedom of Soviet Jewry, campus- wide speakers and Shabbos dinners (pictured here). All of these things, the rabbi stressed, are initiated and organized by students. To meet the needs and answer the challenge of today ' s young people, religious services sometimes become a radically different expe- rience. At the Catholic Youth Center, a special mass for children includes story-sermons and cartoons, both done by Kevin McCloskey (pictured here). Religion is peace, freedom, love name of religion — gaudy edifices, ex- pensive celebrations. People associate these things with religion and turn off to them and look for exotic religions instead. This is the same difficulty that everyone has. Very often what people look for in exotic strange places are in- tegral in the places they came from — they just haven ' t seen it. Mysticism is very much a part of Christianity and Judaism. The fault lies in their early education — they weren ' t shown the mystical in their own situations. To alleviate the condition of strict Cod-fearing, and narrow religious training, Christ the King Catholic Church, serving mostly young people, offers folk masses, all-denominational services in the dormitories, sermons given by youthful participants and special masses for children. If it only could have been this way when we were young, says Father Mike, wearing a student-made vest- ment of blue denim with a motif of different colored hands joining in the form of a cross. University student Kevin McCloskey writes special story- sermons for the children of St. Paul ' s School and cartoons during the service to illustrate the stories. Pam Timmes plays guitar accompaniment as the children sing updated folk-hymns. They are all intense — they see their religion in a different light, in terms of peace, freedom, responsibility, love, truth. This generation is extremely reli- gious, explains Father Mike, if you think religion is a search for values and ideals. But the problem is not that this generation doesn ' t have faith — it ' s just the way they ' ve been taught. The Jesus people are rebels against established religions as well. You may have a lot of misconcep- tions, and religious garbage in your mind, said leader Roger Franks explaining the dilemma existing in the minds of many young people. I did. You need to dig it out, Jesus will make it clear. The Jesus people may have many religious backgrounds, may attend church services or may not, but nevertheless have one common bond — they believe that knowing Christ is the only answer. Young people are all searching for something, Franks said. They turn to alcohol, drugs, even meditation. But these things don ' t really meet their needs so they turn to Christ. A person cannot truly be complete until he knows Cod and the only way to do that is through Christ. Yet the Jesus people have met with criticism from others because of their denial that there are other means for salvation. They are fanatics, says the rabbi. They react to the pluralism that I can be right and you can be right, too. They care about converting you because they are personally hurt if people are not saved — their way. Yet, I ' m not hurt by them. I ' m very happy to see people so convinced of their faith. Father Mike comments, They are fundamentalists. They ' re going back to structure which is what everyone is rebelling against. They believe in one interpretation. They are the only an- swer. The structure isn ' t important, it ' s the spirit, Father Mike explains: Learn to love everybody. That ' s a job enough in itself. %,: Story-sermons, cartoons, guitar accompaniment to updated folk- hymns are all innovations in traditional religion aimed at eliminating the Cod-fearing, narrow religious training aspect of religion. From this, Father Mike hopes, children will gain a new insight into their faith in terms of peace, freedom, responsibility, love, truth. ■ ■lw roi r-sv -r WW m mm, ,..„• ; r : £ ££■ M m B5 v Weekend of music aimed at ' freaks and fellow travelers ' David Bromberg is onstage during the se cond night of the Southern Ohio Folk Festival, listening to his au- dience and trying to tune. The noise inside Ohio University ' s Convocation Center is a continual roar, partly because a convocation center is rec- ognizable by almost any student at a midwestern college as a synonym, with appropriate acoustics, for basket- ball stadium. Ohio University ' s basketball stadi- um is about a block long and looks from a distance like an overturned soup bowl surrounded by access ramps. On May 8th, however, it ' s full of freaks and fellow travelers, from the bleachers seventy feet above the stage I The Southern Ohio Folk Festival — a coming together of people from around the state and area to hear some of the finest entertainment today. Among the many performers were McKendree Spring (above, left); Jerry Jeff Walker (center) and Livingston Taylor (right). Story by Eric Fralick Folk Festival a coming together! to the thirty rows of folding wooden chairs lined up carefully on the floor. Bromberg, looking resigned to staying out of tune, strums his guitar a couple of times preparatory to starting a song, then continues hitting the same chord as he notices something strange. In the front row, near the left side of the stage, there is a ripple of movement as one person, then another, folds up his wooden chair. As Bromberg watches, still strumming, the motion spreads like a current into the middle of the audience. Well, he says finally, if you ' re going to do that I can give you some bluegrass music to do it by, and then slides into a breakdown as his list- eners, looking from above like waving seaweed, pass chairs over their heads and into piles of ten and twenty. By the time he ' s finished half the audi- ence is sitting on the floor, one of the promoters is working his way across the floor saying I don ' t want any hassle, to the rent-a-cops in a hassled tone of voice, and the ushers have al- ready begun carrying the chairs into the hallway. The audience applauds wildly for Bromberg, who just looks at them. That ' s not an audience, says Dave Van Ronk, returning backstage after watching the chair folders from the wings, it ' s a natural phenomenon. It can be observed, commented upon, as in ' Did you see that hurricane yester- day? ' but not related to. In a large measure, Van Ronk is right. Although the weekend is billed as a Folk Festival, most of the folk acts that the audience hasn ' t heard before are floundering to maintain at- tention, and for good reason; seen from the third tier of bleachers in the back of the hall, the ant-size figure singing about his troubled life in soft acoustic tones, no matter how pretty, doesn ' t command a lot of respect. Not when you ' re trying to sneak a smoke between your legs in order to avoid the flashlight beams being directed through the hall at offending tokers by the green-jacketed ushers, on duty at University insistence. Being a student at a state-supported Ohio college has become trickier in the last year than just passing examina- tions. As a result of last spring ' s demonstrations and early summer ' s enactment by the Ohio Legislature of Bill 1219 covering campus disturbances, students returning to school in the fall found that they could, and were, being suspended for conduct that a year before would have earned them at the worst a stern letter home. One prod- uct of the new law has been a decrease in student political activity; another has been a growing conviction on the part of the university adminis- trators throughout the state that any large student gathering except, of course, for athletic events, is cause for panic. Thrown into this, a proposal for a student-run music festival that would attract its audience from around the state was about as welcome as a two- day seminar on the techniques of explosives handling. University Presi- dent Claude Sowle, who at one point announced that he was assuming the right to cancel the show at any time, delayed giving final approval for the weekend until the night before the first concert. The weekend was sponsored by The Cavern, a student-run folk and rock club. Working with Mike Brovsky and Ron Shelley, two New York promoters who are known collectively as Campus Directions, they presented seventeen acts, starting with a handful of people who played The Cavern before and ul- timately including Pete Seeger, Tim Hardin, Country Joe McDonald, The Youngbloods, )erry Jeff Walker, Living- ston and Kate Taylor, Doc Watson, Bromberg, Van Ronk, David Rea, a band called McKendree Spring, Ro- salie Sorrels, Nick Holmes, Keith Sykes, Charles O ' Hegarty, and Jeffrey Clain and, to act as m.c, Uncle Dirty. Top admission price for the weekend was $6.50. Hi, said Cav- ern Manager Ken Jurek to the near- capacity audience at the beginning of the first night, Welcome to my gradu- ation party. Saturday afternoon was left tor a music workshop and a craft fair. The workshop, coordinated by Dave Brom- berg, was little more than an excuse for a loose jam; during the afternoon, Bromberg, Keith Sykes, Nick Holmes, Rosalie Sorrels, Jerry Jeff Walker, as- sorted backup men, a local mandolin picker named Lost John, and even one of the Columbus rent-a-cops got in their va rious licks, providing a good share of the best music of the week- end. The craft fair, held in the circular hallway surrounding the main floor of the building, was open to exhibitors from around the state, and included health food and comic books, leather- working and beads, spiritual help from the Hare Krishna movement, a display of ironwork, a pottery-making demon- stration by graduate student Corky Lillich and some nicely bouncing water beds. From a performer ' s viewpoint, it was a tough audience; either you captured a rapt attention with the first song or fought the noise of the crowd for an entire set. Although it was a folk- oriented program, the energy of the crowd seemed to demand something louder, and the best received acts were either electric bands like McKen- dree Spring and Kate Taylor, musicians using acoustic instruments but as- sociated with rock and playing rock- influenced music like Country Joe, David Rea and Livingston Taylor, or non-rock performers like Seeger, Doc The Craft Fair held Saturday as part of the weekend activities, drew many exhibitors, among them Corky Lillich, pictured here demonstrating pottery-making, a graduate student in ceramics. Lillich is a member of the Hocking Valley Craft Association and has exhibited his work many times. His work is influenced by his interest in oriental art and he has done much along the clas- sical lines of design. They came to the Folk Festival expecting to be entertained and few went away disappointed. Many had planned on camping out for the weekend, but their plans were drowned by the uncooperative Athens weather. So they slept whenever they could. The Festival was m.c. ' ed by Uncle Dirty (far right) who interspersed comments on current con- troversies with the introductions. Among the acts which were very well- received were Country |oe McDonald (top left) and a surprise perform- ance by a Columbus rent-a-cop, Frank McAllister (bottom, (eft). . V Finally, some good music Watson and Van Ronk who have been around long enough to have become cult figures of one sort or another. The first standing ovation of the weekend was earned 80 minutes into the first show by a 5 ' 7 freak incarnate called David Rea. With his blonde hair curling in rings past his shoulders, his wire-rims and colored scarves, he looks about sixteen years old on stage; he has in fact been a back-up musician and session man for almost ten years. Rea ' s guitar work is equalled, later in the show, by a man named Arthel Doc Watson. Looking like neither a freak nor a cult hero, the blind gui- tarist shambles on stage, holding onto the arm of his son and accompanist Merle. He roars through a couple of instrumentals, flatpicking bluegrass and hill music double and triple time without missing a note or a beat, then settles back to sing, first a happy Deep River Blues, and then Jimmy Driftwood ' s Tennessee Stud. About half-way through a song called Life Gets Teejus, Don ' t it, the thought comes that Doc would seem like a guitar playing machine if his singing and his talk between songs wasn ' t so friendly, at times almost humble. It ' s as if he ever did miss a note, he ' d want to stop and apologize before con- tinuing. The audience is on its feet when Seeger appears so he receives, in ef- fect, a standing ovation at the start of his set. He opens with Waist Deep In the Big Muddy, the song he has used as an opener for about the last ten years. An allegory on the world ' s pre- carious state and the mindlessness that has created it, it ' s one of his half- dozen best known songs. Its effect is a calculated arousal of half-humorous, fully outraged emotion, building verse by verse until the climax. Usually the rest of the song is inaudible, drowned out by fervent, near-fanatic applause. This time, he reaches the climax, rolls it out over the auditorium, and receives — nothing. He repeats the verse, listening to it boom against the rare silence, finishes the song, and then it begins, the adula- tion due a true folk-singing hero, but not until his song is over. Seeger managed to complete his captivation of the audience before he finished for the night, and it was recaptured on the second evening by a full and fine, 102 pound woman named Kate Taylor. Kate had been hanging around most of the afternoon, drinking wine and playing punch-the- balloon with Dave Van Ronk and Nick Holmes. Before the chairs went down during Bromberg ' s set, while there was still room to move on the floor, she was dancing in one of the aisles for a while, noticed by no one and looking like anybody else in the audience ex- cept for her yellow performer ' s badge. She danced onstage, too, to the sound of her four-piece band, laid out a blistering rock song (on the advice of Van Ronk, who had preceded her) and then stood with her feet planted wide apart, nodding her head at the audi- ence as she introduced herself. A lot of people here, they ' re saying, ah, Kate Taylor, got to see this, this is going to be interesting. Acoustic, sad songs, self pity . . . uh huh. Kate has her own version of the Taylor voice, deeper than what you ' d expect, smooth and well-controlled even at volume. Her band stayed tight behind her the whole time, comple- menting her without having to carry her. It may have been for one time only, forgotten by winter. At the same time, it could turn into an annual rite of spring, attracting more performers and a growing audience coming from throughout the Midwest. Most proba- bly some sort of show will be held next year, after that the festival may struggle on for a few seasons more before fading away in the face of disin- terest and changing tastes. The only important thing now is that it hap- pened at all; that in a year best remembered for the drab nothingness of Playing It Safe, there was finally some good music in town. mi Pete Seeger Seniors Abel, lames Abele, Jack Abercrombie, Tom Acker, Shirley Acord, Craig Acord, Timothy Adaba, Thomas Adams, Donna Adams, Karen Adams, Marlene Adams, Suelte Adams, Theodore Addis, Sally Adler, Susan Ahmad, Raja Albrecht, Suzanne Ali, Frank Allen, James Allen, Margaret Allman, Carolyn Alsip, loyce Alvis, John Amadio, Carolyn Amery, Bonnie Anderson, Gerald Andrews, Billie Apgar, Mary Apple, Linda Apple, Suzanne Archer, Beth Argabright, Gary Argabright, Nancy Argie, Estelle Arko, Diane Arko, Sharon Armstrong, Chloe Arnold, Avis Arnold, Kathy Ann Arter, Chet Arthur, Brenda Au, Yiu-VVah Auer, Karen Avon, Joseph Azallion, Jeanne Backus, Brenda Bailine, Richard Bair, Barbara Baker, George Baker, Mary Ann Ballenline, Helen Banko, Linda Banks, Mary Bannon, D. lean Barber, |eff Barksdale, Barbara Barnell, James Barnhart, Edwin Barnhart, Linda Barr, Nancy Bartelmay, Patricia Batchelor, lohn Bates, Timothy Batson, Carol Bauer, Daniel Beach, Thomas Beachy, Rebecca Beckemeyer, Barbara Becker, Howard Becker, Judith Beckwith, Charles Beery, Victoria Belman, Steven Belton, Carol Bendel, Jeffry Berger, Roy Bergvall, Janis Berkowitz, Gary Berman, Gail Bernhardt, |ane Berola, Barbara Berry, Suzanne Biederman, Michael Bierbower, Linda Bieth, David Biggs, Gordon Bitfield, Murray Bingman, Bonnie Birch, Steven Black, Kenda Blake, Rita Blakemore, Leslie Blankenship, Rebecca Blocker, William Blunt, Ed Blusiewicz, Eugene Bogard, Mimi Bohanon, Margaret Bohari, Sharkawi Bolen, Cathie Bonar, Craig Bonar, Wendelin Bonewit, Kathy Bonvechio, jean Ann Boocher, George Borders, Linda Borleff, Janice Boso, Nicolynn Bourisseau, |ohn Bow en, Robert Bowker, Thomas Bowman, Ruby Boyer, Becky Boyer, Daniel Boylan, Betty Bradley, Joanne Brauel, Richard Brauel, Robert Brazil, Bethany Breeding, Sally Breyer, Mary Breyer, Vicki Brisker, Lillie Brogneri, Cesare Brookhart, William Brown, Brenda Brown, Darlene Brown, Edward Brown, Michael Brown, Nancy Brown, Rita Brown, Thomas Browning, Royce Brownlee, lack Bryan, John Buck, Roger Buiw.uk, Marlane Buhrow, Diana Bukowski, Elizabeth Bull ' s, Jane Buonpane, |ohn Burgess, Lillie Burkes, Sandra Burnham, Susan Burns, Barbara Burton, lanis Bush, Gale Bushnell, Megan Busier, Roger Bussmann, lames Butler, Sally Butterworth, Jeffrey Bui , Lloyd Bunfill, |ohn Byer, William Cade, Marcus Cage, Russell Callihan, Charles Canned, Kim Carangi, Mark Cardamone, Dale Cardol, Gary Carhartl, Lawrence Carlson, Bonnie Carr, Kaye Carter, Lorna Casey, Denise Castellano, Diane Cavicchia, Philip Cazel, Rose Cerra, Susan Chadwick, Thomas Chapman, Linda Chappie, Donna Chandler, Jeffrey Chasman, Jonathan Cherberg, Harriet Cherkes, Bob Chicatelli, lames Choy, Christina Christensen, Esther Cicora, Linda Cizmar, Paula Claus, Sue Clausing, Kathie Clayton, lohn Clifford, Christina Clingerman, John Clyne, Richard Clyse, Mary Jane Coe, Ronald Coffey, David Coffey, Ronald Coleman, Judy Collins, Chris Collins, Mary Coltrin, Susan Conard, Carla Connar, Carol Connington, Karen Cooke, Larry Cool, Becky Cooper, Pamela Corder, Robert Corea, Chuck Coriell, Jessie Correll, Karen Costein, Pauline ( rail. Leslie Crescas, Barbara Cronacher, Nancy Crossen, Jonadine Crow, Carson Crow, Jacquelyn Crowl, Linda Cruciofti, Carol Cuiksa, Janice Culberl, Susanne Curtis, John Curtis, Rebecca Dackis, Grace Danison, Ruth D ' Antonio, Henry Davenport, Gregory Davidson, Mary-Louise Davis, Karen Davis, Lawrence Dean, Steve Debnar, Donna DeFranco, Alfred DeLawder, Charles DelCiello, Joseph DelValle, Michelle Delzingaro, David DeMarco, lohn Deonise, Deborah Devereaux, Mary Beth Dew, Carol Dickerman, land Diedrichs, Virginia Diehlman, Donna Diet , Richard Dilillo, lames Divito, Larry Dixon, Margaret Doak, Margaret- Ann Dobney, lames Doering, Catherine Doherty, Kevin Dondon, Daniel Dore, Deborah Doris, Edward Dornstetter, Kay Douglass, Terry Dragoo, Scotl Drake, Robert Drake, Shirley Draper, Catherine Duchon, Deborah Duchon, Sally Dudek, Mary Joyce Dukes, Sharon Durack, Linda Duval, Leslie Eager, Michael Eakin, Sinetta Eastwood, Robert Eaton, Barbara Eberhardt, Cathy Edwards, Joseph Eiker, John Eitel, Leslie Elliott, Lynn Ellis, John Ellis, Sandy Eisner, Fred Engle, Karen Evans, Ellisa Evans, Gary Faber, Patricia Fagan, Cheryl Fagan, Gary Falb, Shelley Farren, Michael Faulkner, Anne Fauriol, Georges Fearn, Chris Featherstun, Charles Felton, Stephen Ferguson, Pam Fessel, Robert Fielding, Lawrence Fields, Linda Fields, Randy Fife, Kathryn Filipow, Wes Fina, Tony Fisher, Alice Fisher, Guy Fisher, Jennifer Fitchko, Robert Fitzgerald, Michael Fletcher, William Floyd, Nancy Fobes, Ray Fogarty, Timothy Foreman, Ann Forma, Paula Forsstrom, Willian Fortman, Jerry Fortune, Jack Foster, Jeanne Fourman, Steve Fragapane, Carolyn Frank, William Frankhart, Darlene Franks, Jim Franz, Susan French, Susan Frey, Hugh Jr. Frischling, Martha Galati, John Gamwell, Pam Gardner, Mack Gardner, Michael Garnaas, Steve Gasbarre, Bea Gatewood, Carl Gatewood, Mary Lou Gaylinn, Gloria Gayner, Wendy Gayvonl, Tom Gaz, Georgianne Gebhard, Paul Geisinger, Allen George, Walter Gerber, Robert I Ghelia, Gail Gifford, Diana Gillogly, Joyce Glendenning, Susan Goetschius, Rebecca Goldberg, Barbara Goldstein, Barbara Golian, Timothy Gordon, Anne Goske, Jim Gotthard, Martha-|ean Gozon, lames Gracar, Frank Graf, Bonnie Grant, Laird Greason, Lorraine Greenberg, Joel Greenfield, Arlene Greenler, Paula Greenwood, Larry Greer, Deborah Gregoric, lames Greiner, Colleen Grillo, ludi Grobe, Timothy Groetzinger, Bill Groh, Karen Gross, Jerome Grubb, loan Cuenther, Isolde Gulley, Kent Gutelius, Pamela Hackel, David Hail, Janet Haivordson, Nancy Halderman, Daphne Hall, Carol Hall, fames Hall, Kathleen Handelman, David Handschuch, Cory Hanneken, John Harkavy, Russell Harre, Myke Harris, Diane Harris, Marli Hart, Timothy Harvey, Constance Hauenschild, lames Hawkins, Frank Hayes, Edward Haynes, Timothy Heady, Samuel Healy, Kathleen Heckel, Katrine Heger, Lucy Heinrich, Rob Helle, Karen Helm, Mary Henderson, John Henry, Patricia Henry, Raymond Henson, Robert Hentosz, Mary Hern, Michael Herr, Howard Hersch, George Herzog, Mary Hess, Mi, iiiii.in Hickman, William High, Chris Hilborn, |ohn Hill, Emily Hill, Marilyn Hill, Maria Hill, Pamela Himebaugh, Patricia Hinamon, Patricia Hinkle, lames Hirtz, William Hoffer, Antonina Hoke, Carolyn Holaday, Kathryn Holden, |ohn Holdt, Douglas Holdt, Lois Holtz, Robert Holzaepfel, fan Homolka, Susan Hope, Barbara Hopkins, Kim Horner, Allen Householder, Greg Howell, H. Jane Hughes, Edith Hughes, Mary Belh Hung, Fonsa Hung, Pauline Hunter, Dett Hunter, Garry Hunter, Larry Huntley, Michael Hurd, Sally Husa, Rick Ibiwoye, Michael Ince, Deborah Irwin, Margaret lack, Kathy Jack, Susan lacobs, Sherry |ason, Roy lenkins, Dottie lennings, Brenda Jingle, Barbara (ohler. Rex lohnson, Barbara Johnson, Carl Johnson, Carol (ohnson, Cynthia lohnson, Thomas lohnson, Walter (ones, loffrey (ones, Sara lane lordan, Beverly Ionian, Bob loyce, Mary Catherine Kackloudis, lohn K.ihn, Randy Kamara, Allan Kaminski, lames Kaminsky, David Kanzeg, James Karagannis, Diane Kasproski, Roberta Kaufmann, Neil Kay, Sue Kegg, Stephen Keller, Dan Keller, Paul Kelley, Andrew Kemp, David Kemper, Carol Kensinger, lames Kenwood, Elizabeth Kerner, Charlotte Kessler, Mary Kessler, Sieve Keys, |an Kibler, Dorothy Kimpel, Gordon Kindregan, Marianne Kirkh.ini, Kalhy Kleeh, Edmund Klein, Donald Klein, Patrick Klopper, Robert Klos, larema Knauth, Candice Knepp, Beth Knepp, lack Kodrich, Sandra Kohler, Robert Komanec, Robert Kononczuk, Helen Koudelka, Rhonda Kowalak, (anice Kozloski, Carol Krajcovic, John Kraus, Karen Krause, Terry Kremer, Deborah Kroll, Kaye Kubacki, Karen Kubat, Edward Kubinski, lames Kuchar, Vaneesa Kucsma, George kuhn, (anette Kupper, Sherwood Kusic, Joseph Kutney, Nancy Laird, Diana Lamont, Hugh Lamont, Marcia Lamont, William Lance, Cheri Landis, Dale Lane, Jerry Lane, Leslie Lane, Peter Langley, William Lauer, Margaret Law, Brenda Lawson, James Leach, Dianne LeBlanc, Robert Lechner, Susan Lefkowith, Jack Lehman, Joan Leighty, Susan Leipzig, Ronna Lemaster, Judith Lemert, Jeff Lenahan, Mary Lennox, Barbara Lescallett, Lynetle Lesesky, Linda Letven, Janice Levkoy, Larry Lewis, Karen Lewis, Rita Lewis, Steve Leyshon, Wallace Likavec, Raymond Lindimore, David Lindsay, Anne Linke, Nancy Liu, Wing-Yuen Lo, Hung Fat Lockard, Karen Lockard, Melinda Lockwood, Pat Loew, H. Charles Lohse, Linda Long, Linda Loprira, Mary Lorek, Dennis Lorentz, Larry Lovrak, Pete Lowe, Dianne Lubin, Stephen Lucas, Linda Ludlow, Sally Luebeke, Joan Lunnie, Pete Lusin, Adrienne Luttermoser, Gary Lynce, Susan Lynn, Lawrence Lyons, Janet Macey, Janet Mack, Gail MacPheason, Carol Madvid, Harvey Magyar, Susan Majerus, Constance Major, George Malesk, Isa Mandrell, James Mangus, Patrick Mann, Alan Margolis, Lawrence Marimberga, Cathleen Markousky, Judy Marsh, Marsha Martin, Betsy Martin, Gary Martin, Larry Martin, Tom Marthey, Randy Martino, Dave Martino, Ellen Marzano, Peggy Mason, Katharine Masterson, Madonna ME Matey, Cindy Matthews, Barbara Matthews, Jeanne Maul, Dean Mauro, Kathy Maxa, Rudy May, lerry Mayle, Clyde McAndrew, Mkhele McArdle, Sheila McArtor, Christine McBride, Mary Ellen McCabe, John McCarthy, Jeaneen McClelland, Rebecca McCormack, Michael McCoy, Larry McCullough, Robert McFaddin, Patricia McKim, Mary McMullen, Geneviere McMullen, lulie McMullen, Robert McNamara, Gary McNamara, Kevin McNaughton, William McPherson, lames McVey, Linda Mae Means, Deborah Meeks, Paul Melanko, Paul Jr. Melanko, Richard Menegay, Christine Merrill, Scott Merritt, Patricia Metro, Dorothy Michel, David Mike, loanne Miller, Adrian Miller, Harry Miller, Mark Miller, Michael Miller, Michael Miller, Stephen Miller, Susan Miller, Terry Milner, James Minichiello, Cheryl Minnick, Charles Minnick, Edward Mirchel, Holly Mirkin, Susan Mitchell, George Moneghan, Dianna Monroe, Gillian Montavon, Mary Montfort, |ohn Montack, Fredi Moore, Deborah Moore, Gary Moore, Linda Moore, Pamela Moore, Richard Moorehead, David Morgan, Donald Morgenstern, Cheryl Morris, Bunny Morris, Ellyn Morris, Jacqueline Morris, |udy Morris, Linda Morrison, William Morrow, Lester Morrow, Sarah Moskovilz, Tim Mosure, Margaret Mozena, Elizabeth Mullet, Frank Murphy, lane Murray, |im Myers, Cheryl Nadolski, Cynthia Nadzak, Bill Nakashige, Steve Nalepka, |on Nameth, Frank Narcisi, Gerald Nardy, Philip Narten, Martha Nash, Darryl Navari, Eleonora Neal, Carolyn Neely, lack Neff, Darrel Nelson, Charlene Nething, Roger Neuhart, Kenny Neumann, Howard Newkirk, Judith Nguyen, Loi Van Nichols, Curtis Nichols, Marcia Nordstrom, Julie Norris, Gregory Norris, Terry Norton, Susan Novinc, Raymond Novotny, Patricia Nowalk, Linda Nucci, Victoria Nunley, Michael Nutter, Kathy Nye, Douglas Nye, Robert Nye, Thomas Oberle, Kevin O ' Brien, Barbara Odenkirk, Bonnie Oladipupo, Jacob Olson, Lynnette Ondrey, Bruce Opper, Wendy O ' Rourke, Maureen Ortman, Marguerite Osborne, Thomas Ostervich, Maryann Oswalt, Sharon Otworth, Linda Ouellette, Aurel Pacyna, Eileen Padden, Patricia Page, Linda Pakett, Allan Palermo, Ross Palshook, Marcia Parker, Eleanor Parker, Valerie Partridge, Michael Pasqualone, Richard Patterson, Charles Patton, Linda Payne, Marie Pearce, lames Pearce, William Pearlman, Sandra Pelikan, |ohn Pendergast, Barbara Perenic, Richard Perkins, Nancy Pester, Robert Peters, Harvey Petersen, Chris Peterson, Carlotta Peterson, Lynn Petonke, Gary Petras, Marijane Pfefferle, Philip Pfleger, Maryjo Pham, Ngoc Trinh Phang, S. Hylin Phillips, Deborah Phillips, Martha Pickett, Paulette Piper, Patrick Pitluk, Sheldon Plotts, Elizabeth Poetsch, Patty Poll, Elizabeth Pollock, Karen Pollock, Susan Popis, Annette Porginski, Suzette Porter, William Posgai, Robert Pospisil, Ion Potekhen, Tania Potynski, Janet Presley, Joan Prinzo, Phyllis Prushing, Linda Prusinski, Henry Pry, Mary Lou Pugh, Susan Pureber, Joan Putnam, David Pyers, lames Pyers, Pam Quis, |ohn Rabbu, Ronald Ramer, Helen Randal, Kip Randall, Robert Rausch, Richard Rawe, Barbara Reamer, Linda Reasner, Don Reaves, Vernon Redfern, Karyn Redmond, Margaret Reed, Tonna Reedy, Kimberly Rees, John Rees, Lynn Meree Reider, Robert Jr. Remley, Dan Remner, Gary Rice, Harold Rice, Sherlyene Richards, Waller Richardson, Corrine Richardson, Samuel Richey, Robert Richter, Hans Riemer, Steven Rienerth, George Riffell, Gary Riley, Rhys Ring, Christine Rings, Steve Riskay, Barbara Robbins, Deborah Robinson, Betty Robinson, lelfrey Robison, Ann Rocker, Andrew Rockwell, Lin Rodgers, Virginia |o Romary, J. Craig Roof, Christina Rose, Douglas Rosenberg, Beth Rosenberry, Thomas Rosenweig, Marc Ross, Michael Roth, Michael Roush, Teresa Rowe, Margaret Roynon, Ronald Rozynski, Peggy Ruby, Joe Ruck, Robin Rudez, Anthony |r. Rudnicki, Linda Rudzinski, Steve Rufft, Geraldine Runser, Nancy Rupp, Kristen Russell, Patricia Sabatina, Carole Sabrinsky, Elizabeth Sachs, Marilyn Sachs, Teresa Sage, Amy Sanner, Kathy Sarver, Lynda Sattinger, Andrea Saunders, Carol Saunders, Carolyn Saunders, Marolyn Savage, Stephanie Savino, Michael Saylor, Charla Sayres, Nancy Scarlett, Lois Scarola, Bob Schaefer, Laurie Schaum, Shelia Scheffer, Elizabeth Schier, Dale Schmoll, lanis Schmidt, Twila Schneider, Charles Schnieder, Richard Schneider, Sharon Scholl, Roger Schomburg, Michael Schon, Cathy Schornstein, Richard Schreiber, Patty Schuler, Gretchen Schwane, Betty Schwartz, (ill Schwendeman, Peter Sciarrino, Roberta Scott, lane Scott, Kenneth Scrivano, Anthony Scsavnicki, Donna Sebald, |ama Sechler, Kenneth Seiter, Clarence Sell, Emma Sender, David Serby, Stephen Severance, Carroll Shaior, Sally Shamitz, David Sharp, Max Shelin, Thomas Shenker, Janet Shimp, Marilyn Shirey, Becky Shoemaker, Richard Short, George Siegwald, Karen Siehl, |udy Siferd, Barbara Sinfield, Millie Sinoski, Edward Slack, Susan Smalley, Rebecca Smiley, Karen Smiley, Lynn Smith, Diane Smith, Douglas Smith, Jeff Smith, Jennifer Smith, Marty Smith, Nanci Smith, Pamela Smith, Susan Smoot, Dale Snyder, Allison Snyder, Eric Sobie, Arlene Sobieski, Dennis Soergel, Donna Soroka, loan Anne Spaeth, Philip Sparks, Kerry Spence, David Spicer, Audrey Spitalny, lames Spurlock, Linda Slahl, Pamela Slaker, D. Daniel Stambaugh, Robert Stammen, Kathy Stancher, Richard Stanulonis, Sandra Stark, |o Ellen Starn, MaryEllen Starner, Lawrence Startzman, Susan Steele, Cheryl Steele, Tim Stein, Earl Stein, |ohn Steiner, Cynthia Steiner, Ronald Slenger, Richard Stephens, Ann Stephenson, Howard Stern, Barbara Stevens, Teressa Stevenson, Beverly Stewart, Carol Stewart, Carol Sticklen, Rose Marie Stone, lanet Stone, Peter Story, Betsy Straley, Lynn Strang, Ellen Stringer, Chip Stroh, Leslie Strom, Kenneth Strubbe, Beverly Studer, Elaine Sucherman, Andrea Suwak, Pamela Svec, lerry Sweitzer, Linda Swendiman, loan Swenson, Karen Swiatek, Linda Swinehart, Sharon Tabellion, Kenneth Tanno, Thomas Tansky, Suzanne Tardiff, Marcia Ann Taylor, Douglas Teaman, Lance Temkin, Terrie Thapa, Baid lung Theis, Dennis Thieken, Monica Thomas, Eleanor Thompson, Rick Timon, lessane Titley, Ruth Tolnai, Anna Toomey, Susan Trampler, Bruce Trufant, Sandra Truong, Thanhdam Turner, Douglas Turner, Regina Turrell, Emily Uhart, Rick Ulrich, lames Urban, Sharon Usic, Nancy Valentine, Barbara Valicenti, Elizabeth Vandegriff, Tom Van Voorhis, William Vasbinder, lames Vatter, Therese Ventura, Katherine Vetrano, |oe Vinciquerra, Barb Vinton, Marilyn Viront, lames Voisard, Steven oik. Linda Vu, Hai Duy Vulgamore, Cathie Waldrop, Thomas Wales, Becky Walker, Gail Walker, Kathleen Wallace, Robert Wallingiord, Gerald Hart Waltz, Carol Wanetick, Karen Warwick, Kellte Wasserman, jane Way, Rodgers Weaver, Phyllis Weber, David Weber, Kathleen Weber, Lana Weidauer, Joyce Weimer, Melanie Weinberg, Gail Weisman, Charles Wells, leffrey Gordon Welsh, lean Ann Wenclewicz, Stanley Werkmeister, Mark Werline, Larry Wessel, Bernila West, Nancy Ann Westlake, Harry Whalen, Michael Whipkey, Marilyn White, Deborah White, Roger Lynn Whitehead, ludith Wilk, )oy Willett, Barbara lean Williams, Alice Williams, Ruth Wilms, Robert Wilson, Frederick Wilson, Gary Wilson, Harry Wilson, Steven Winkler, Robert Winters, Linda Wise, Steve Wiser, Judy Wiss, Paul Wistendahl, Jean Withum, Kathryn Wogaman, Sue Wolf, Gary Wolff, David Wolff, Mel Wolford, Mary Wood, Deborah Wood, Wendy Wycoff, lames Wyerman, Barry Wynn, Linda Yaffe, Bruce Yeaney, Jeanne Young, Roger Zajac, Leonore Zetts, Raymond Zeune, Linda Zgonc, Catherine Ziglar, Feme Zimmerman, Laurel Zion, Gail Zirkel, Gail Zurenko, Gary Zwayer, Joyce Athena ' 71 Ohio University Athens, Ohio Claude R. 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