Volume 64, Issue 15: March 16, 1984 North Park Press

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CHICAGO, IL FRIDAY, MARCH 16. 1984 VOLUME 64. NO. 15
Annual S.A. convention
Electorate convenes next week
North Park's annual King-making
event, the Student Association
Presidential Convention, occurs one week
from tonight, Friday, March 23 in the New
Gym. The business of the convention,
which involves interested students from
all classes, is the selection of two
presidential candidates from the field of
nominees. Students are encouraged—
strongly encouraged—to form states, with
a minimum of five members, in order to
nominate and support nominees for
President. Only members of a state can
have any say in the selection of a
Presidential candidate.
Registration of states begins at 6:30 PM
in the New Gym, with the convention
proper starting at 7:30. This year the
Convention returns to the larger Gym,
after several years in the Old gym.
"There's a lot of room, as we expect a lot
of states to show up," said Academic
Affairs Chairman Harry Cullins, who is
acting as this yeaA Convention chairman.
"There'll be a lot of room to maneuver, in
more ways than one." Social Services
Chairman Dave Otfinoski will act as Vice-
Chairman of the Convention.
Last year's convention found only 12
states registered, a remarkably low
proportion of the student body for such a
vital—and fun—event. Memorable states
in past years include Covenant Women,
the State of the Red Llama, the State of
Excitement, so on and so forth.
Registration sheets for states are
available at Campus Center Desk.
Claerbaut:
"Urban Ministry"
by Glen Ryniewski
In 1976 the Doobie Brothers turned out a
best-selling record album titled "Taking It
to the Streets." In 1984 David Claerbaut,
associate professor of psychology and
sociology at North Park College, is hoping
his new book, "Urban Ministry," will be
taken to the streets.
Several years ago Claerbaut and, the
Rev. William Leslie, pastor of the LaSalle
Street Church in Chicago, taught a course
in urban ministry at North Park and
another seminary. What Claerbaut
realized from teaching these courses, he
says, is that "seminarians were long on
theology and short on the city."
Together, Claerbaut and Leslie began
looking for textbooks on urban ministry
and couldn't find any. So they began using
paperback books such as Michael
Harrington's "Other America." Through
this book and other materials, they hoped
to sensitize their students to the problems
of the city—economics, education,
politics, race.
"After doing those courses I decided the
time had come to do a book on urban
ministry," says Claerbaut. "So I took
what I knew about urban sociology,
because I had written a number of things
on the subject, and did basically a text-book
on urban sociology aimed at the
church. I wrote it in such a way as to make
it clear to people who had no background
in sociology at all."
The book explains how the city works
from top to bottom. It also gives what
amounts to hundreds of models and
examples of how different churches—
Protestant and Catholic—make things
happen in their city neighborhoods.
Even though Claerbaut draws most of
his urban experience from Chicago, he
intends the book to be applicable to
pastors, seminarians, parachurch
workers and any other "first-entry"
people whether from New York, Dallas or
Los Angeles. "Urban Ministry" is a
handbook meant to be put to practical use
no matter what city street of America you
are on.
"Even though the book is basically on
urban ministry, it tries to deal mainly with
how you do people work in the city," says
Claerbaut. "In order to do people-work in
a city you have to understand how a city
works. You have to understand things like
redlining, where banks don't loan in
certain neighborhoods and therefore the
buildings become run down. Then the next
thing you have slumlords."
Claerbaut says the book is a handbook in
what to do if you wind up in Cleveland next
month and had to start working in a
church.
Claerbaut submitted the book to five
publishers from Harper & Row to Inter-
Varsity. The only problem he thought he
would encounter was how he could politely
turn down the other publishers after he
accepted the best offer. After all, here was
a topic no one else had written about and
an untapped market in the book industry.
Claerbaut waited and the replies came; he
was rejected by all five publishers.
The reason the manuscript was
rejected, according to Claerbaut; was not
because they didn't like his work (on the
contrary, some of the publishers liked it
very much), but because they felt the
market for the book wasn't there.
At the time Claerbaut was wondering
what was going wrong with this, his sixth
book. As luck intervened, divine in-tervention
would have it. His neighbor and
colleague, Professor James Nelson of the
North Park religion department, who
continued on page 3
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S.A. Convention 1981 (The State of the Red Llama).
Washington project
reinstated
by Chuck Strom
The North Park Washington Seminar
that took place during Project Period
Week lasted about six days, with the group
leaving Chicago the afternoon of February
25, a Saturday, and returning the night of
March 2, the next Friday. The trip was led
by Dr. Warren Wade and Dr. James
Nelson.
The official itinerary began on Sunday
the 26th. After a morning left free for
church or sight-seeing, the group went
over to the Kennedy Center for a concert
by the National Symphony Orchestra.
This was the only official Sunday activity
and also was the only "cultural" activity
of the trip. The rest was of a political
nature as we visited various government
organizations and spoke with various
officials.
This started on Monday when the group
started the morning by attending an oral
argument at the United States Supreme
Court. This was followed by a briefing
with a lobbyist from the Moral Majority,
and the day was officially capped off by a
visit and briefing at the Reagan-Bush
campaign headquarters.
Tuesday and Wednesday were days
spent with Congressional officials. North
Parkers met with Congressman Thomas
Petri of Wisconsin, whose first
congressional campaign had been run by
Wade some years ago. He gave a short
talk about his work and then led a tour of
the Capital. Later on Tuesday, students
met with his chief administrative
assistant who gave us a talk about the
workings of a congressman's staff. On
Wednesday, the students attended a
meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee with Illinois Senator Charles
Percy presiding as chairman.
On Thursday morning the White House
was toured and then the North Parkers
visited the offices of the Baptist Joint
Committee on Public Affairs. This is a
religious lobbyist group that fights the
Moral Majority on most issues, such as the
continued on page 5
Chamber Music Tonight
Performers Elizabeth Buccheri and
Richard Boldrey will be featured in a
program of piano four hands in the third
and final concert of the 1983-84 series of
Chamber Music at North Park.
The concert, with music by Donizetti,
Onslow, Schoenberg, Grieg and Reger,
will be at 8:15 p.m. Friday, Mar. 16, in the
Lecture Hall Auditorium.
Buccheri, associate professor of music
at North Park and organizer of the series,
is accompanist for the Chicago Symphony
Chorus and a frequent performer.
Boldrey, a former North Park faculty
member, is an assistant conductor of the
Lyric Opera Orchestra and a music coach
in Lyric's school.
The two are currently working on a
second piano four hands recording. Their
first record together in 1980 won critical
praise. The Washington Post called it
"performed with great style." Fanfare
magazine said, "Boldrey and Buccheri
don't just play the notes. They enjoy the
music and convey that enjoyment
tangibly."
Their program Mar. 16 will include
three pieces for piano four hands by
Donizetti and six pieces for piano duet by
Schoenberg; Sonata No. 2 in F Minor for
Piano Four-Hands, by Onslow; Norwegian
Dances, Opus 35, by Grieg, and
Burlesques, Opus 58, Band 11, by Reger.
Tickets for the concert are $6.
2 COLLEGE NEWS
Computer program offered News from Placement A new sequence of evening courses
leading to a Certificate in Computer
Science in nine months is being offered by
North Park College, Foster and Kedzie,
beginning Mar. 6.
The program is designed to give college
graduates and others who qualify the
skills they need to enter the computer
field.
It consists of five courses—one during
the spring term (Mar. 6-May 18), two
during the summer term (June 11-Aug. 3)
and two during the fall term (Sept. 10-Nov.
21). Classes meet Tuesday and Thursday
evenings.
Classifieds
"All students who are planning to
student teach during any term of the 1984-
85 school year must pick up an Application
for Student Teaching in the Education
Office, 6th Floor, Carlson Tower. The
application must be completed and
returned to the Education Department by
Friday, March 30th. If you have any
questions, call Dr. Mirza at Ext. 444 or
Patty Ralston at Ext. 426.
The courses are Computer Program-ming,
Advanced Programming, COBAL,
Introduction to File Processing and Data
Management, and Systems Analysis. At
the end of the nine months, the student will
have the skills to seek an entry-level
position as a programmer or program
analyst, or credits toward an advanced
degree in computer science.
North Park introduced the new program
last fall and interest was so great it
decided to offer a second sequence.
Registration information is available by
calling North Park College, 583-2700, ext.
385 or 222.
INSTRUCTIONS REGARDING CAPS
AND GOWNS
Measurements for caps and gowns is
scheduled for Tuesday, March 20, 1984
between 10:00 A.M. and 2:00 P.M. Caps
and gowns will be distributed between
10:00 A.M. and 1:00 P.M. on Thursday,
May 17. Rehearsal for graduation
(required of all graduates) will be held on
Thursday, May 17 at 1:00 P.M.
FRIDAY 16
10:10. Chapel. Robert A. Guelich presents
the third of three "Staley Distinguished
Christian Scholar Lectures" in the Old
Gym. Topic: "Worship or Performance?"
8:15 Chamber Music at North Park.
Elizabeth Buccheri and Richard Boldreg
present a program of 4-hand piano music
in the LHA. Tickets: $6.00
SATURDAY 11
ST. PATRICK'S DAY.
Home Women's Basketball: Carroll.
SUNDAY 18
Inter-Varsity. Coffee House.
MONDAY 19
Bradley National Print & Drawing
Exhibition continues in Carlson Gallery.
TUESDAY 20
CPR Basic Course-Election Day.
WEDNESDAY 2
10:10. College Chapel. Bruce Lawson,
Director of Field Services for the
Covenant Department of C.E.
Nothing
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
10:10. Chapel: Tim Heintzelman
Student Association Presi-dential
Nominating Convention:
6:301n the Gym
4
Nothing
SATURDAY
25 SUNDAY
Nothing again
3 MONDAY
Still nothing.
TUESDAY
CPR Instructors Course 28 WEDNESDAY
10:10. Chapel: Sarah Hallstrand, Midwest
Representative, Minister's and
Missionary Board of American Baptist
Churches, U.S.A.
Nothing.
THURSDAY
STUDENT ACTIVITIES INTERNSHIP
Graduating seniors who have a
background in student activities-programming,
and who are interested in
assisting, planning, implementing, and
serving with the Coordinator of Student
Activities of Norwlak Community College
(CT) should contact the Career Planning
and Placement Office for more in-formation.
The program is three months
long (beginning approximately May 21)
and carries a salary of $1500. Application
deadline is April 1984.
NOTICE FOR MINORITY AND
DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS
The Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of
Public Affairs at the University of Min-nesota
is offering a Summer Program in
Policy Skills. They seek to assist minority
and disadvantaged students who will be
between their junior and senior years this
summer, and who desire a career in public
service. The program is designed to assist
students who need a better background in
analytical skills like economics and
statistics in order to succeed in graduate
programs in public policy-administration,
or in progressional school.
The program pays for tuition, fees, and
travel to-from Minnesota. Participants
will also receive a $1000 stipend to defray
the cost of living expenses. All majors are
acceptable. If you wish additional in-formation,
including application forms,
please contact the Career Planning and
Placement Office. Application deadline is
April 13.
For many people, a major factor in their
choice of career is the salary that can be
expected. The CP & PO has just received a
survey of beginning salary offers for
graduates in a number of fields. Besides
listing January 1984 offers, it lists those of
last year for comparison purposes and the
number of offers for both years in each
field. This is the time to think seriously
about your career. Come up to the CP &
PO (third floor, Caroline Hall), and look at
this survey and other career planning
materials.
Washington Internships through the
Washington Center. College students can
combine a work and learning experience
for credit. Participants can intern in
Congressional offices, executive agencies,
and with groups in many other areas such
as the environment, consumer affairs,
journalism, communications, legal af-fairs,
labor relations, health policy, arts,
education, science, public relations, urban
affairs and women's issues. Students also
attend seminars taught by represen-tatives
of Washington D.C.'s major
governmental agencies, interest groups
and corporations.
Available every fall, spring and sum-mer.
Application deadlines: October 15 for
spring semester, March 1 for the summer
program, April 15 for the fall semester.
Housing is available through the
Washington Center.
For further information about the
Washington Center, contact the Career
Planning and Placement Office.
Career Day scheduled
On Tuesday, April 3 the Office of Career
Planning and Placement will sponsor its
first Careers Day. The event will take
place from 9:00 a.m.-12:00 noon in the Old
Gym on North Park's campus.
Over fifty representatives from various
occupational fields have been invited to
campus to discuss career options within
their career fields with North Park
students. Representatives will be able to
provide general career and occupational
information as well as giving more
specific information such as personal
interests and abilities required, academic
preparation needed, work experience
preferred, salary expectations, how to get
into the field, etc.
The format for the fair will be informal
as representatives from various com-panies
will be scattered throughout the
Old Gym. Students are encouraged to visit
several displays and talk with as many
reps as possible. These representatives
can provide a wealth of information for
students contemplating major-career
choices.
There will also be small group
workshops held throughout the morning
with representatives giving information
on general occupational fields and
possible career options within those fields.
These workshops are expected to cover
the fields of business, medicine, computer
science, human services, broadcast
communications, commodities and the
fine arts.
This fair can be especially helpful for
that student who has not decided on a
career choice. The ever changing job
market and the general economic con-dition
of the country make early career
exploration a necessity. Many anxieties
about ones future after graduation can be
eliminated if realistic career choices have
been arrived at after careful study and
exposure to a variety of alternatives.
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Box Office Week arrives
The week of March 18-22 has been
designated "Box Office week" in an effort
to enlighten the North Park community as
to this new service.
The North Park Information and Box
Office is a recent development, having
just been begun this year. The office is
located next to the cashier's window in the
Administration Building, and serves the
student and staff member by selling
tickets to all campus events including
Orchestra and Chamber Music concerts.
Candy and information will be
dispensed by Box office attendants all
next week as a part of the festivities.
Attendants are Tami Ade11, Cathy Doty,
Timothy Homer (Mgr.), and Andrea
Roe, and are under the supervision of
Carolynn Ediger.
N. Pers featured in Orchestra
The Classical Youth Symphony con-ducted
by Joseph Glymph, who is on the
music faculty at North Park College, will
present the Bralun's "Double Concerto for
Violin, Cello and Orchestra in A minor,
Op. 102," at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 25, in
the Oak Park-River Forest High School
Auditorium in Oak Park.
Violinist Erick Friedman and cellist
Leonard Rose, both internationally ac-claimed
virtuosos, will perform with the
orchestra. This concert will be the first
time the two have performed together.
Friedman has been a soloist with or-chestras
in the U.S. and abroad and has
won Grammy nominations for his
recordings of Bach, Debussy and Franck.
Rose performs over 100 concerts each
year around the world.
Six orchestra members are North Park
students. John Eckhardt is the con-certmaster;
Amy Anticoli and Patty
Davis, second violins; Brian Kabat,
percussion; Barry Herndon and Marc
Hogan, bass.
Glymph, who has taught at North Park
for several years, founded the Classical
Youth Symphony five years ago. Since
then, it has been named one of the nation's
top ten youth orchestras by the Southern
Methodist University and has recorded its
first album with pianist, Bill Snyder. The
orchestra will also appear with the All-
New Artie Shaw Orchestra in a joint
concert April 28, at Medinah Temple in
Chicago.
CLAERBAUT
continued from page 1
knew about Claerbaut's book, happened to
be with Stan Gundry, the editor of Zon-dervan
Publications at a dinner. Zon-dervan,
which published Hal Lindsey's
Late Great Planet Earth fame, is one of
the biggest religious publishers in the
country. Nelson told Gundry about
Claerbaut's book and Gundry told Nelson
to have Claerbaut send him the
manuscript.
"Gundry looked at it and said he liked
it," according to Claerbaut. "But he said
he wasn't sure there was a market. So
Gundry said he was going to send the
manuscript to about eight experts
nationwide on urban ministry. He would
take their comments and decide what to
do. "The comments came back, and some
were very good while others were critical.
So we incorporated their suggestions into
the manuscript. As a result Zondervan
published the book."
"Urban Ministry" cannot be found in
bookstores such as Walden's and Kroch's
because it is slanted toward the classroom
and academic field. The concept of the
book is that churches in the city today
need to deal with people as whole persons.
"They need to deal with people's bodies,
minds and souls, and the problem is a lot
of churches only deal with one or two of
the three elements," Claerbaut said. "We
are made as complete beings of God, as
bodies, minds and spirits. You have to go
wher,e the problems are, and very often in
the cities people have problems with food,
education, housing, violence and a variety
of things, and unless the church has some
creative ways that are better than what
the government has in dealing with these
problems, people aren't going to worry
about what they're going to be doing on
Sunday mornings."
To make the book more marketable,
Claerbaut asked Raymond Bakke, one of
the foremost experts on urban ministry,
who lives in Chicago, to write the
foreword.
Claerbaut dedicated the book to Bill
Leslie, whom he has worked closely
with as a member of the LaSalle Street
Church. He also dedicated it to his father,
Erwin Claerbaut, who was one of the main
forces in Claerbaut's becoming responsive
to urban ministry.
During the mid-sixties, Erwin Claerbaut
became concerned about the race tur-bulence
he saw going on in the country. He
decided to move from Cedar Grove,
Wisconsin (population 1,100), to the big
city, Milwaukee and offer his service to an
all-black church. He began teaching adult
Bible classes and stayed for more than ten
years. This experience of his father, along
with what David Claerbaut saw Bill Leslie
doing at LaSalle Street Church, influenced
him to write a handbook that would make
it easier for the church to take urban
ministry to the streets.
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Prof reappointed to panel
J. William Fredrickson, professor of
economics at North Park College, has
been reappointed by Mayor Harold
Washington to his third term on Chicago's
Community Development Advisory
Committee.
The committee advises the city on the
use of some $100,000,000 in federal Com-munity
Development Block Grant funds.
It consists of 45 members, 30 representing
neighborhoods and 15 from citywide
organizations.
Fredrickson is co-chairman of the
subconunittee on economic development,
which oversees the $30,000,000 allocated to
economic development. These programs
include funds for business area im-provement,
which already have been
applied to Lawrence Avenue and which it
is hoped will be applied to Foster and Bryn
Mawr Avenues.
Fredrickson was originally nominated
to the advisory committee in 1980 by the
North River Commission, of which he was
a founder and first president. He is
currently treasurer.
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4 COLLEGE NEWS
One Acts "deserve favor"
by Tom Fredrickson
A problem plaguing student productions
is that no matter how good an actor or
ensemble or play is, it often comes off as
little more than an academic exercise in
theater. Happily, the two one-act plays
performed at the close of last term
transcended the stodginess that can
sometimes affect student dramas and
provide two evenings and one afternoon of
energetic and entertaining (if not perfect)
theater.
In Jules Feiffer "Feiffer's People"
director Steve Sawyer had the task of
choosing and arranging an hour's worth of
skits from an originally much larger
collection. Despite a slow start, Sawyer's
choices provided sound, for the potentially
out-dated material seemed fresh and
funny and cohesively centered on themes
of self-doubt and really messed-up
relationships.
By his third appearance on stage as
Bernard, Tom Lapaze was getting laughs
from simply playing with a handkerchief.
As Bernard, Lapaze was self-doubt per-sonified
and was the funniest and most
memorable character of the play. Also
memorable was Erika Ebbeson,
especially in her role as the "Gibble-gabble-
gibble" girl and her gleeful
delivery of the line: "I'll hurt him!"
Larry Charm,.. I mean Todd Johnson
made a belated debut on the North Park
Stage—only a year and a half after his
graduation. It's safe to say that after his
revisionist playing of Superman neither
the Man of Steel, capes nor prancing will
ever be the same. Dave Heart played the
dishearteningly self-assured foil to
Bennard, and also a convincing drunk Tim
Homer was a criminal who was actually
prettier than Superman, and a little boy
with lots of problems and an all-day
sucker. And good Lord, Mary Jo Persson
was in both plays.
The busy Miss Persson played a rational
crime victim who then procedes to
rationalize Superman right out of his
power in "Feiffer's People." She fared
better here than in "Every Good Boy
Deserves Favour," where she handled the
rather thankless task of playing a
humorless and nasty Soviet school
teacher.
In "Every Good Boy..." director Eric
Hillabrant was faced with taking over a
difficult play in the eleventh hour and
leading a cast he did not select. But even
without knowledge of those difficulties,
the production was successful and rarely
less than at least interesting. Hillabrant
gave a semi-surrealistic production of
Tom Stoppard's strange intellectual
comedy of insanity and political im-prisonment
in the Soviet Union. The plot
involved two Alexander Ivanov's in one
cell of a mental hospital—one insane (he
hears an orchestra in his head) and one a
political prisoner (he claims sane people
are put in hospitals for the insane). What
could have lapsed into a jokey Slavic
Catch-22 or a lame and sober tragedy was
a taut and surprisingly funny drama.
Steve Kahlich portrayed the political
prisoner with the seriousness fitting his
characters situation. Pete Erickson
played the insane inmate with unsettling
credibility. The play depends upon the
characters for its structure and sub-stance,
the insane inmate sweetening the
tart message of the sane inmate. If
Erickson fares better than Kahlich, it's
largely due to the fact that insane
musicians inherently make better theatre
than wronged political prisoners.
Tim Cramer was an ingratiating
psychiatrist in the hospital, and spoke
with a charming Viennese accent that was
jarring unless taken in the surrealistic
context of the play. Todd Peterson labored
under the effort of playing a ten year old:
it may be tough for college students to
portray middle aged and elderly people,
but it's near impossible for a 20 year old to
play a character half that age. Steve
Gordon made a brief appearance as the
Colonel.., rather, the Doctor and helped
pull-off what could have been the dumb
punchline to a bad joke (the rather sudden
denouement of the play).
In "Every Good Boy..." Hillabrant was
assisted by Tim Homer. Both productions
featured effective and economical sets, as
well as reliable blocking. Eric
Hillabrant's lighting designer was good in
both plays, though his staff missed a cue
or two.
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Spring Is Here
This is the season where "a young man's
thoughts turn lightly to love." Well, not so
lightly if you come from my part of town,
but this is hardly the time or place to go
into that sort of thing. Spring is also the
season when Swedes arrive, political
aspirations rise with the sap, IM
volleyball has men and women making
fools of themselves on the same court, and
the revelation of bare flesh in the sunshine
appears like light at the end of the tunnel.
Ideally, it is also the time when we can
look in our yearbooks and fondly recall
what we were doing last spring. But not so
this year. In fact, currently bookies are
giving good odds that the '83-84 yearbook
will arrive before the '82-83 edition. If I
were collecting my fifty-eight bucks every
two weeks and told people, "Yeah, I ex-pect
the first issue of the College News to
be out by the end of April," I get the
feeling people might be getting awfully
angry at me, if not downright violent. Ah
well, we are a forgiving, Christian in-stitution...
but I still wonder how my photo
turned out.
I also wonder how the election later this
term will turn out. It's no news that school
(or even national) elections are little more
than popularity contests, but when the
people who win for their smiles or ability
not to offend people are in charge of a
$38,000 budget, I begin to think. It seems to
me that since money is the central issue in
the running of Senate, it will be a central
issue in the upcoming election. I'll leave it
at that for now, but remember: we give
the Senate all they spend, maybe we
should think hard about who we choose to
do the spending.
And the Swedes. I offer an official
welcome from the College News to all of
you from the promised land. (And ain't
that something to write home about). I've
met a few of you—I even sent two of you
downtown. I haven't seen you since then,
but I trust you made it back alright. Your
arrival is always a sort of omen of spring
for me, along with the first robin, the last
three-foot snowfall, and the Cubs opener.
Welcome.
And welcome back to all of you
Americans who spent six months over
there.
This spring is not entirely like others,
though. As a senior, there is a great
pressure to do spring up right this year.
This is my last chance to have fun as only
fun can be had during spring term. With
only eight weeks left, there's an awful lot
to do. Someone once said that people are
never more miserable then when they're
desperate to have fun. Be that as it may,
I'll give it my best shot. There's croquet to
play, ball games to watch, fun to be had
downtown, money to be spent. With all of
that to do, why let papers, reports, gown
measurements, exit interviews and
graduation get in the way?
(Graduation?) T.F.
Pick - - the - pops
"Give It Up" K.C. (Mecca)
N-n-n-n, n-n-n-n, n-n-now: buy this
record. "Give It Up" must have the most
danceable three bass notes of any four
minute song in the last year. It's as catchy
as a virus. It sounds great. You can learn
the words and sing along after one
listening. These are things everyone looks
for in a pop song. It's been a slow couple of
years for K.C.: give up a buck or two and
help put him back on top. T.F.
"Robert DeNiro's Waiting"
Bananarama (London)
Once again, Vitamin B fans,
Bananarama has released a catchy, cute
and sort of danceable single. Ostensibly,
it's about a girl who escapes from realistic
drippy guys by dreaming about R.dN.
"talking Italian" to her. But that's like
saying that "She Loves You" was about
the healing of a broken relationship. This
is another attempt at crafting an
irresistable pop record that makes no
demands of you beyond your listening and
being pleased. Be careful: if you hear it,
you may spend days trying to get the
chorus out of your head. Finiculi, finicula!
T.F.
Fresco Icehouse (Chrysalis)
Icehouse. What a ridiculous name for a
band. Other than this obvious oversight,
Icehouse has left few others details un-checked.
This is not your average band
from down-under as is evident when its
major influences are recognized. This
Australian based 'new' music group finds
itself deep in a Roxy Music binge with a
surface glamor sounding like some Saga
influenced AOR musig)(
While Fresco even' borrows some Roxy
riffs on `Glam' they still retain their own
originality. Where the Boxy influence is
evident, the softer lush sound found in
Roxy Music are injected with adrenal
blasts of rhythmic fills, fuzz chords and
occasionally feedback. Icehouse? How
could they name it that? Forget it, play
this album loud. Break These Chains
established itself not only as a dance song
but as Icehouse's original style of new
wave pop. The vocals on Over The Line
sound like Bowie.
Perhaps the only comparable group to
Icehouse is Echo and the Bunnymen. The
music is original, raw, and calculated.
Hey Little Girl, the albums softer song is
good top forty stuff and for a debut album
Fresco is good music, but with stronger
song writing and more dance music,
Icehouse will leave Men at Work
downunder.' Maybe they can change
their name. A band named Icehouse? No
way. There's nothing cold here.
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Directory lists
summer jobs
BARNSTABLE, Mass.—The seaside
resort areas of Cape Cod, Massachusetts
and the off-shore islands of Nantucket and
Martha's Vineyard are experiencing a
growing problem in finding enough college
workers to adequately service a rapidly
expanding tourist industry.
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jobs to college students and teachers.
Many of these jobs require little or no
prior experience.
Because it is impossible to fill these jobs
with local residents, most of whom make
up the year 'round work force, it is
necessary to draw from other geographic
areas to satisfy this seasonal need.
Jobs for Students and Teachers
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gathers all pertinent facts on available
summer employment and publishes this
information in a concise Job Directory
which is available to college students and
teachers by February 1st each year.
Names and addresses of individual
seasonal employers are listed in separate
job categories from bartenders to yacht
crews.
The Job Bureau is a service agency, and
therefore charges no fees to employers or
employees.
An easy-to-use job application form,
which is now familiar to the local em-ployer,
is included with the Directory
along with important tips on how to land a
good summer job.
Housing Information Included
This year the Job Directory has a
section devoted to seasonal housing which
lists addresses of people who lease rooms,
efficiencies, cottages, apartments, and
group rentals.
A useful reference map of the area is
included as is a summary of educational
opportunities for college credit, and
cultural classes in the arts.
For a copy of the 1984 Directory send $3
( includes 1st Class Postage & handling)
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continued from page 1
proposed reinstitution of official prayer in
schools. Their executive director, James
Dunn, spoke for about an hour with a
distinct Texas drawl. The group split up
after this until that evening when it of-ficially
met together for dinner at their
hotel, being that it was their last night
there.
The last day, Friday, was the most
hectic. The group checked out of the hotel
at about 9:00 A.M. and went over to the
Republican National Committee
Headquarters. Their Director of Com-munications
gave an interesting lecture
and videotape presentation of recent
techniques in political TV advertising.
Some of the commercials, which were
taken from both parties were pretty
funny. The last official met before the
North Parkers' return to Chicago was Mr.
Tim Wyngaard, an important press of-ficial
was the House Republicans. He was
an old college friend of Wade's and had a
colorful personality. One remarked, that
the work of the House Republicans was the
plotting of the "legal overthrow of the
government" (the Democratic House
majority). After this meeting we had to
catch our plane back to Chicago.
Despite this crowded schedule,
allowances were made for free time,
particularly in the evenings. North
Parkers visited House and Senate
sessions, toured places like the
Smithsonian, FBI Headquarters,
Georgetown University, Arlington
National Cemetary, etc.
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Art Exhibit visits campus
The 19th Bradley National Print and
Drawing Exhibition, featuring prints,
drawings, collages, mixed media, and
hand-made paper from artists all over the
country, is currently on display in the
Carlson gallery.
The Exhibition is sponsored by Bradley
University—Division of Art, The Peoria
Art Guild, and the Lakeview Museum of
Arts and Sciences. It is travelling through
Illinois under the auspices of the Illinois
Art Council's "Visual Art's Touring
Program." The Exhibit displays a broad
cross-sector of contemporary art in the
above-mentioned media and is exemplory
of the experimental attitude of so much
recent art.
It will continue in the Carlson Gallery
until March
Students gifts benefit Librar
Two student groups have chosen
Wallgren Library to be the beneficiary of
their good will in 1984.
The Black Student Association has
raised funds for the second year now to
purchase periodical subscriptions for the
Library, and it's the first year that the
the Academic Affairs committee has
designated some of their funds to pur-chase
journals.
The titles purchased by the BSA include
the Chicago Reporter, which is a
newsletter about local racial issues; the
news daily Chicago Defender, the Journal
of Negro Education and Black Enterprise.
The Academic Affairs com-mittee
chose the American Spectator,
American Scholar, the Guardian
newspaper and the Wilson Quarterly.
"What makes these projects so
noteworthy is that besides the generosity
shown to the Library, both groups have
given a lot of thought as to the titles they
have selected" said Vicky Michalik,
Serials Librarian. "The BSA has pur-chased
titles which satisfy their cultural
needs and which serve the entire student
body at the same time. The Academic
Affairs committee showed careful
selectivity which helps round out the
collection. The conservative publication
American Spectator is balanced by the
liberal Guardian, for example."
Both groups have made valuable con-tributions
toward the pursuit of knowledge
here at North Park, and should be
acknowledged for their activities and for
their interest in the Library.
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6 COLLEGE NEWS
Threshold! jazzes things up
by Tom Fredrickson
It is a Saturday night—the Saturday
night of the last North Park Vikings home
basketball game, against North Central—
and there is plenty of activity in the
gymnasium. As the Junior Varsity game
winds down (North Central winning by a
point in the last minute), music stands,
chairs, drums and an amplifier are being
arranged. Threshold! is getting ready to
play.
Threshold! (the exclamation mark is,
apparently, part of the name) is the North
Park College Jazz Ensemble, and a year
ago it didn't exist. Going into the 1983-84
school year in September, the only brass
and percussion group at North Park was
the Wind Ensemble. By the middle of fall
term, interest within this group was so low
(it had been flagging for a year) that its
director, Tom Wilkins, decided to make a
change. Knowing that several members
had interest in forming a jazz group,
Wilkins took the leap and turned the Wind
Ensemble into Threshold!
"We've been trying to do this for five
years," says Mark Fechner as the setting
up before the basketball game continues.
Fechner is the lead tenor saxophonist in
Threshold! and a veteran student in the
North Park music department. Before
Wilkins arrived at the start of the 1982-83
school year, Fechner said, the Wind
Ensemble was beginning to fill the stereo-typical
mold of a group of wind in-struments
honking away at "Pomp and
Circumstance" for 18 minutes. "We spent
an entire year working up Sousa marches
which take five minutes to do," said
Fechner. "We were definitely becoming
'honkers'."
Musicians were beginning to miss
rehearsals, apathy was gaining ground,
and Fechner was considering leaving the
group. "I told Tom (Wilkins) that I was
thinking of leaving, that I had a lot of
things to do outside the group, which was
true. Then he said, "Well, we're starting a
jazz ensemble." Fechner suddenly found
he had time for music making after all.
In the gym, Wilkins is trying to get the
bassist and his amp set up, making sure
the extension cord will reach. Dressed in
white leather sneakers, blue jeans, and a
white-striped light blue shirt, he ducks
under the blond pine bleachers. Genaro
Zacharias is setting up his drums. What
does he—he who in the wind ensemble did
not get to cut loose on much more than a
tamborine once in a while—think of
Threshold!? "It's about time," he says. A
few minutes later the opening tattoo of
"Rock and Roll" by Led Zepellin is heard
being beat out—Zacharias smiling over
his drums to another old Zep fan.
"We've had to play what we can find,"
says Wilkins of the material the infant
organization has played so far. Wilkins
says there was no jazz budget this year so
that finding arrangements for the band
has been rather haphazard.
The first official concert by Threshold!
two weeks before this night, on February
4, consisted of 12 of these "haphazard"
pieces. The audience, however, did not
find the evening's entertainment
haphazard, and there was considerable
excitement. "We had no businss playing
some of those pieces—they were beyond
Wilkins—whose personal music tastes
range from bluegrass to contemporary
Christian, "...as well as the big ones:
Beethoven, Coltrane, Miles Davis" — also
directs the North Park Orchestra
(significantly, no longer the Chamber
Orchestra) and teaches conducting.
At 7:10 this Saturday night a musical
cacaphony rolls out from between the
bleachers at half-court, being to jazz what
lay-up lines are to basketball. All the
members of Threshold! are now warming
up.
considerably. At 7:20, as the Vikings come
out for their warm-ups, the band kicks in
with a number called "Swing Now—Pay
Later." Tonight it sounds even better than
it did two weeks earlier at the concert. The
bassist is playing it with more swing, the
saxes—good saxes, even Wilkins admits to
being impressed by them—are sharp and
confident.
Next comes an Ellington-esque number
that features a trumpet solo by John
Dibble. Wilkins sits down on a bleacher
while the band plays, rising only to start
our skill level at that point—but I didn't
tell them that, and we just went ahead
with it," says Wilkins. "We made
mistakes," says Fechner of the evening,
"but we had fun."
Wilkins hopes not only to continue
Threshold! next year, but also to revive
the Wind Ensemble. For Threshold! the
difference will be that there will be a
budget. Threshold! will continue to play
the swing-style works it has been playing,
with some "Big Band Era" pieces and
more modern Stan Kenton and Buddy
Rich arrangements that are available for
a fee.
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As is Threshold! as a group. Already the
spring will be very busy. A full-fledged
spring concert is planned, as is a concert
for the afternoon of graduation day.
"We're going to have to start turning
people down if we get many more offers,"
says Wilkins.
The basketball games have—by virtue
of their consistent appearances there—
been Threshold!'s main gig so far. New
numbers have been added from week to
week, and the playing has sharpened
them off or bring them down. The clock is
running toward the start of the game, and
Threshold! is humming.
Once the game starts, Threshold!
becomes a part of the spirit-exciting
machine, playing the role of a pep band,
playing "Another One Bites the Dust" and
the five-note "Go North Park!" Cheer.
But this is their last basketball gig of the
year. And with spring arriving,
Threshold! will be able to devote itself to
one thing alone: jazz.
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