Rowan College - Oak Yearbook (Glassboro, NJ)

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Waits: Not the Boy Next Door Tom Waits is not the kind of boy you want the folks to meet. He is unshaven, uncouth and ungroomed. But on Oc- tober 13th he successfully combined these qualities with a unique musicianship to capture his audience. To anyone who was not familiar with a Waits perfor- mance, his appearance at first served as a bit of a shock. A wrinkled gray suit, scarred with white smudges, hung limp on his emaciated body. His skinny black and white tie and the decrepit black hat comically com- plimented Waits as he strode on stage, grabbed the mike, and began the late night performance. Step Right Up , a fastpaced jazz number, was deli- vered inthe classic Waits style-rasping from the back of his throat and finger snapping to a syncopated beat. Puffing on his Marlboro cigarette, Waits discussed many of his feelings about love with a tinge of defiance in Emotional Weather Report. He puffed on to tell the story about Small Change who got rained on with his own .38. A singer Waits is not, but his affectiveness as a poet was evidenced in many of his songs dealing with the unhappy lives of whores, drunks, and the lonely. A sol- itary sailor dreams of a waitress with Maxwell House eyes, marmalade thighs, and scrambled yellow hair, Waits crooned. One of the highlights of the singer's performance, The Piano Has Benn Drinking, a comical ballad relat- ing the effects of too much alcohol, was sung to discor- dant notes on the piano. Waits concluded his second GSC appearance with WaItzing Matilda, a song filled with as much human understanding as the man himself.

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Jerry Rubin Jerry Rubin, once a bomb-toting, fire-spitting politi- cal radical ofthe 60s, very calmly and confidently told his audience Monday night October 17, that he is now incorporated and expects to make plenty of money. The almost-full Student Center Ballroom hushed when he mentioned he made a million dollars last year. The more money I make, the more I have to change things, Flubin said, flashing his eyes from face to face. Rubin has taken on a new cause. Clean-shaven, hair cropped, dressed in baggy pants and sweater, he sounded like a salesman giving a pitch for health foods or a preacher giving a sermon. Know yourself, be yourself, rid yourself of false egos, he said earnestly, as a few Yippies mildly taunted him from the second row. l He explained why he could not remain a Yippie forever. T The media mada me into an image. I was very pre- dictable. People would say, C'mon Jerry, put on your tape, he jeered as he placed a mock tape on a mock tape recorder. The moment Yippie became a role, it was not Yippie anymore. i And there were the contradictions of the radical role such as the way they treated women. V The men would be discussing politics and the women would be serving the drinks. The whole thing 'vas a macho trip. If you did not have a gun or a bomb, lou were not a radical. But though he scorned his once-macho theatrics. me was most entertaining and animated when he talked of his antics and ideologies of the 60s. 5 Jerry Rubin says he has grown up and is far from 'acting out his macho, John Wayne wishes, although tome people just don't want to believe it. l l l l l l .1:3, i.-f 1.1 . i-1 rqf'4,.,ry-'i.',...1x . Fvlf ff? 29 74? .L ,M 1 ',s5,K.J'3 if - rubs-j'