Page Two
Editorial Opinion
Humor. Laundry,
A New Experience
College is quite a learning experience. It is even more of a lear
ning experience if you live in the dorm.
Sometime during the second week you, the new dorm resident
probably became familiar with a nifty place called the laundry
room. This little room is the collecting place for garbage; beer
cans; and dirty mops. You_will also spend a major portion of your
life there, usually during odd hours of your waking hours such as
2:00 a.m. doing your laundry.
Laundry is an eosteric subject that the average person is not too
well acquainted with before his arrival at college. At home dirty
clothes accumulated in odd places about the house and the average
person never gives it a thought for they always turned up once
aweek smelling fresh and nicely pressed in your bureau drawer.
At Behrend things are a bit different. Instead of turning up clean
and smelling nice, they turn up at .inopportune times in weird
places about your little hole called home, smelling anything bUt
nice. Also there is nothing in your burdau drawers but mice holes. It
is now time to become on friendly terms with the laundry room.
You approach the house of thrills cautiously, with only the top of
the head showing over a pile of clothes, and leaving a trail of white
soap powder in your wake. Depositing the burden of laundry on the
floor, you will rummage about for a quarter to offer the 'monster' in
token of sacrifice; except that quarters are never to be had at such
times. Some people are even more lucky and have to feed their
`monsters' odd shaped plastic bits. These may be procured in
Dobbins Hall, and all the student has to do is don his alpine boots and
scale the precipice to buy them. Of course they are always broken
in your pocket before you manage to return, but then that is all part
of the game.
Assuming that the 'monster' has now accepted your offering, you
now joyously start heaving everything into its maw. Usually about
the second time, you remember to take that new pair of jeans out of
the wash with your underwear and towels. Half and hour and a box
of soap later you returns to the scene of the crime to retrieve your
clothes and deposit them in the dryer.
Dryers are contrary things that run depending on stock market
fluctations. Agnew's ulcer. whether the University has paid the
electric bill lately, and if you have a dime. Everything else may be
in your favor, but to have a dime never! Half an hour and pleading
with 34 people later you insert ye old dime in the dryer and
EUREKA it runs ! Wiith a calm mind you depart only to return later
and find that the heating element has gone kaput. You are now short
a dime and your clothes instead of being warm and wet are now cold
and wet.
Fifteen minutes, 50 yards of clothesline, and much unnecessary
profanity later you climb • into bed to be lulled to sleep by the
timeless noise of water dripping on various objects about the room.
You have managed to do your laundry at Behrend for the first time.
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London Howling Wolf Sessions
Fuse White and Black Blues
by Charles Eschweiler
Staff Writer
Blues freaks tend to speak in
superlatives at the very mention
of Howling Wolfs names . . . God
knows enough white blues
rockers have stolen hefty chunks
of his material (Remember Led
Zepplin's Lemong Song? Actually
it was killing Floor, an old
Howling Wolf tune, strange that
credit on the Led Zepplin 2 album
goes to Page Plant, etc.)
Imitation is supposedly the
sincerest form of flattery, but tell
that to some blues singer on the
skids while he listens to some
white kid taking a copyright out
on an old tune the blues singer
never had copyrighted . . . at any
rate, such rip-offs are not hap- -
pending so often anymore, and
there are several albums out with
younger white bluesmen backing
up their old masters, bringing us
up to THE LONDON HOWLING
WOLF SESSIONS.
The London sessions were in
spired by several early attempts
of fusing white blues musicians
with the originators of modern
blues forms, notably the Paul
Butterfield-Mike Bloomfield-
Muddy Waters-Otis Spann
FATHERS & SONS set, and
HOOKER AND HEAT, the John
Lee Hooker-Canned Heat album:
FATHERS etc. and HOOKER 'N'
HEAT are scholarly albums with
a respect for tradition . . . the
playing on both sets is rough and
dirty, Paul Butterfield and
Muddy Waters bust out at each
other in a frenzy . . John Lee
Letters
To The
Editor
Dear Editor,
I would like to thank Mr.
Patrick Mertens for his sincere
evaluation of my review of the
local "Political Prance" concert.
Anyone who cares to translate
Mr. Merten's renderous
pretentious polysyllables to me so
that they make some kind of
sense will have my gratitude.
Otherwise Merten's reply levels
off as a rather verbose whimper
that isn't worth anyone's time to
otter a reply to . . .0h well, we
won't have Pat Mertens to kick
around anymore, hopefully.
Charles Peter Esch - weiler
staffwriter
Dear Editor,
All students are cordially in
vited to attend the dedication of
Wilson Pavilion in the Picnic
Grove on Tuesday November 9,
1971, at 2 p.m. We expect that on
this occasion Mrs. Mary B.
Behrend and her daughter, Mrs.
Harriet Behrend Sayre, will be
with us to share this occasion.
Irvin H. Kocnel
Hooker winds Henry Vestine and
Al Wilson around his little finger
and slithers all over from there.
The FATHERS & SONS and
HOOKER 'N' HEAT albums are
good fine admirable, etc. but
tradition-al as hell, and while.
they prove beyond a shadow of a
doubt that white men can play the
blues the sounds are (with the
exception of some stuff Hooker
'N' Heat) are no different than
any other blues session.
The London Howling Wolf
Sessions differ from any other
fusion of white and black blues
because the sound throughout is
original and progressive. The
originality is because there's no
othdr way Wolf can sound, and
the music is considerably
progressive because of the
personnel, Eric Clapton, Bill
Wyman, Charlie Watts, Steve
Winwood, and several other
people you may be familiar with.
The musicians involved in the
Speak Easy
Q—Where are the students to they have 15 students to fill the
serve on the Faculty Corn- needed 15 positions. The new
mittees? Joe. Student Government is getting
A—l checked with Student under way with its newly elected
Government and do you know, reps.
Q—Why aren't service ads like
this run in the paper?
German film,
p.m.) RUB
Sunday, November 7
• "The Learning Tree" (movie 7 and 9 p.m.) RUB
Monday, November 8
Dr. Weller on Nixon's economic policy (7 p.m.)
Behrend Building Room 101
Wednesday, November 10
David Daniel on Reformation (Library Lecture
Series, 8 p.m.) RUB Lecture Hall
Pool Tournament Registration begins at RUB desk
S.G.A. meeting (Seminar Rdom, 7:30 p.m.)
ROVER, COOKIES' FIR
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0 CAFT. TUT WILL
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studio could degernerate the
sessions into an overblown
superstar trip Were it not for
Wolf, all of him over six feet and
three hundred pounds with the
blackest, meanest voice in
existence (Wolf's voice has been
described as able not only to part
your hair but put a considerable
slice into your head on a good
night.) Wolf's voice could upstage
the Battle of the Bulge . . . it
keeps his sidemen on these
London sessions right on their
toes and working, as a result they
play their respective asses off
and every so often the Wolf gives
a little grunt of approval ...
these occassions you can damn
near hear the musicians grin.
The songs on the London
sessions are blues standards, and
if you don't have any real blues
albums this is the perfect one to
get . . . if you're Wolf you
probably already have it anyhow.
A—This paper, aitho published
with the student reader in mind,
has its restrictions. It's purpose is
to get the news to the student
readers. The faculty represen
tative offers suggestions or
comments when he deems
necessary, no complaints there,
the administration although
having no direct control certainly
can make its wishes felt, but
usually don't. The advertisers are
the group which in the past has
not shown any hesitation about
expressing their opinions. We do
consider money strongly as we're
in poor shape financially.. The
establishment is slow to admit a
problem like pregnancy so ads of
this nature would be unnecessary.
If you have any comments to
service ads like this, express
yourself to the paper or write the
editor.
EVENTS OF THE WEEK
Thursday, November 4
"Der Hauptmann von Copenkick" (8
November 4, 1971