University of Wisconsin Oshkosh - Quiver Yearbook (Oshkosh, WI)

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3 PRO PRO PI statement with a due date of September 17. Nilsestuen jokingly offered to present both sides of the debate. I'm not too biased, he said. monday September 10 I told Editor Ted the Madison debate had disintegrated and with the deadline drawing nearer, we decided the best alternative would be two Con-Con statements, hoping to drum up interest and smoke out a possible proponent of the user fee plan for our next issue. Going back to Ted’s original suggestion to ask Dean of Students Edwin Smith for a statement opposing plan, I headed for Dempsey Hall. smith I’m sorry. Smith apologized after I had outlined the format of the column, but I’ve just been appointed to an advisory committee to study the user tee proposal.” Smith said he was stockpiling ammunition for use against the plan, but he felt it would not be proper to issue a statement before the committee had submitted it’s recommendation. Smith explained that UW Central Administration had instructed each UW campus to form an advisory committee and to report committee findings back to Central Administration before October 8, 1973. “If we had a year to prepare a report for this committee, we wouldn’t have enough time, Smith complained as he leafed through 15 pages of instructions and attachments. edson With the sickening feeling that advisory committee appointments would dry up other possible sources including the university statement Joel Edson had discussed with Gerald Johnson earlier, I hurried up to Edson’s second floor Dempsey office. Yes, Edson had been appointed to the committee too. No, the university probably would not issue a user fee statement until the committee recommendations were in. Edson said he was not surprised the governor’s office had refused to give The I st Quiver a statement. They could have told you, ‘We’re studying the proposal,’ he said. He doubted I would find a proponent of the plan on campus, gave me a couple of Madison names I might contact for our next issue, said he would be more than happy to work with me if I needed additional user fee information. He suggested that if anyone was qualified to comment on the current status of the user fee proposal, it was Assistant Chancellor William White, who was heading up the committee to study the plan. I assumed, nowever. that since both Smith and Edson were committee members and they had shied away from making a statement, that Chancellor White was likely to take the same position. willis again You guys have as much to lose as anyone if this thing goes through, I told Herb Willis. ‘Tve got one statement coming from Madison. Would you like to give us the second statement? It should come through Dr. Kitzman’s office, Willis reasoned, but Kitzman wasn’t in. I ok, if Kitzman won’t give you a statement, I will,” Willis promised. tuesday September 11 Willis advised that Kitzman had agreed to give The Last Quiver a 1,000-word statement by the following Monday, and I ran back to Radford Hall to write Ted a note, “Looks like I’ve finally struck paydirt...,” and then I took a couple of days off. kitzman monday September 17 Eric Kitzman sadly shook his head as he scanned a deskful of unfinished paperwork. Oh yeah, the statement. I just haven’t had time to get to it. When do you need it? It was due today, I said, but if you don’t have it. I can give you an extra day or two, I added, desperatedly hoping Ted would go along with a two-day extension. OK. agreed Kitzman, jotting a note to himself. “I’ll have it ready by Wednesday noon. Ted approved a two-day extension for Kitzman, but Nilsestuen’s statement was also due Monday, continued on page 49 :on con con c 26

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r PRO PRO PR or Joseph Piper, UW-0 mathematics instructor and a member of the Titan Booster Club, might know someone who had endorsed the plan. Wednesday September 5 On my sixth trip up the three flights of Polk Library stairs to Dr. Piper’s office, someone came out of one of the adjoining offices and said Dr. Piper would not be in, “because his wife is having an operation, or something. I crossed Piper’s name off my list. willis Intercollegiate athletics was next on my list. I asked Herb Willis, UW-0 sports information director, who the department’s opponents were in the user fee bowl. “I don't know who’s for that plan,” Willis said. All I know is that if it is adopted, it will mean my job. Willis remarked that UW Central Administration at Madison had received so much pressure from Wisconsin State University Conference coaches and athletic directors that, “the administration finally told us to stay out of politics.” He accused the administration of sitting on its hands, and said without statewide athletic department pressure, the user fee might be in effect now rather than just in the discussion stage. A check of back-copies of the Advance-Titan convinced me that I would not find a user fee advocate on campus. Assistant Chancellor William White, former 6SA president Mark Mitchell, Dean of Students, Edwin Smith, Gerald Johnson, Eric Kitzman, and the current OSA officials all opposed the plan. There were no favorable comments. In fact, the nearest thing favorable was Gov. Lucey’s original recommendation that, ...the university should study all non-instructional activities with the intent of placing a user’s fee on these activities. I told Editor Ted Conrardy that I had been stymied in my search for a user fee proponent, and suggested Gerry Guenther’s Madison debate might be our best bet. Go ahead, Ted agreed. Keep track of your phone calls. Gerry Guenther was contacted and told we were going off-campus for statements as he had suggested, and we would no longer need a contribution concerning user fees from the OSA. nilsestuen Randy Nilsestuen, United Council president, quickly agreed to the terms of the column, but reported the Guenther’s proponent recommendation, Donald Percy, actually disapproved of the plan too. Percy might be willing to present the pro side of the issue, Nilsestuen said, but he thought Richard Dunn of the State Department of Administration’s Education Division, and Duane Schultz or Jim Wood of the governor’s office would be better prospects. I gave Nilsestuen deadline dates, and told nim I would let him know later who his opponent would be. Nilsestuen’s first choice, Richard Dunn, was out of town. governor s office I had no trouble getting to Duane Schultz, and he listened politely as I explained the format of the column. Schultz advised that he would have to consult with senior members of the governor’s staff, but would call back before 8:15 the following morning. friday September 7 governor's office again Two days and two probing telephone calls later, I finally got through to Schultz. His answer was disappointing. “Fve talked it over with our senior staff members, he explained, “and they have decided not to participate.” nilsestuen again It was now 10 days to deadline; not enough time to allow an exchange of statements between Madison debaters. I decided to call Nilsestuen to let him know the debate was off but the The Last Quiver was still interested in his 1,000 word • CON CON CON ( 25

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Planter ’ s Punch by mike muckian But the years went by and rock just died, Susie went and left me for some foreign guy, Ix ng nights cryin’ by the record machine, Dreamin' of my Chevy and my old blue jeans. --‘‘Crocodile Rock’ According to historians and social critics, the antics of society travel in cycles. It is stressed that these cyclical patterns allow man to, above all, observe and anticipate his mistakes, hopefully preventing whatever harm may come from a reoccurrance of said actions. Generally this never works out. World War I was the war to end all wars, yet it took mankind another six years of World War II to relearn what we’re already supposed to know and even then the knowledge didn t do any good. Were still at it. Keeping this rather bleak attitude in mind, allow me to change the subject to that distinct American cultural trait that has spread around the world, rock n‘ roll. From the time when Bill Haley first rocked around the clock up to John Lennon’s controversial “Working Class Hero” the mouthpiece of young America thumped out a message not only to their elders, but to each other, creating what ever unity there could be among so many diverse cultures in such a large country. In spite of the progressions rock has made over the years from sloppy sentimentality to socially meaningful lyrics, from the two-and-a-half minute 45rpm to a full scale opera and from scratchy hi-fi discs to 64 track, multiplex, quadraphonic stereo tapes, there is a dreadful tendency as of late for a reversion back to what has been before, with an almost manic emphasis on good ol‘ rock n’ roll. In short, a lot of promising headway was tossed aside when America saw Sha Na Na do “At The Hop in “Woodstock. Sandwhiched in between many heavier acts, Sha Na Na seemed to jump up and sav, Hey! Look what fun we’re having not singing about strife and oppression. And we didn’t have to even write the song, it was already there for the taking. The problem is that too many people took up the same cry. Oshkosh is a perfect example of this train of thought. Every band that plays in one of the local pubs had better have a good “Oldies section to their act if they expect to be rehired next week. Songwriters in this town probably stand in mortal fear of performing any one of their works that is not either Boogie” or an old standby. Generally, even creative jams are frowned upon unless the lead player can introduce into it a few favorites to keep the non-musical majority from getting lost. And what about all those preposterous record offers on television? California Gold, The Number 1 Hits of the Sixties, “Leader of the Pack, Vol 1 and 2. The only way the distributor can make money on those anthologies is to sell enough to cover production costs and purchasing rights. Judging by amount of new volumes each week it’s a fair assumption that they’re making ends meet. Perhaps this diatribe against the dying Brylcream culture is too harsh. Certainly this was a time of innocence when the hottest thing going was petting in the back seat and everyone was a McCarthyite. They never did any harm to us. Yet I know that when Ten Years After winds up a concert with Sweet Little Sixteen it’s a whole different story from those guys who come to a Dr. Bop and the Headliners show with their shoulder length hair pulled back in a ponytail and greased, witn chains and boots and girlfriends in tight sweaters and bobby socks. How many costume parties can one go to in the same getup before he starts becoming that person? Some sort of bizarre identity crisis is at work here involving want of innocence, but it has reached epidemic proportions. Hospitals are full of people who think that they are Napoleon. How long will it be before they get their first Elvis Presley? 27