Reader Reviews
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Stills /Young
Dying Buffalo
By Gregory Hall
Have you ever stopped to
wonder what Buffalo Spring
field would sound like, had they
weathered ego-trips and time?
With a little imagination, the
answer can be found once
LONG MAY YOU RUN hits your
turntable. The results of
listening to this album are
mostly dissapointment and
disinterest
Back in the late 60’s, it was
Stills and Young that foimed
the backbone of the legendaiy
Buffalo Springfield. Their music
was the voice and fever that
helped move a restless genera
tion through the conflicts and
change of the times. Also to
their music credit they were
amoung the founding fathers of
the pop mainstream as it is
today. After the demise of
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
due to inflated egos and
clashing personalities; Mssrs.
Stills and Young went their own
ways; Young up, and Stills into
a downhill slide.
As it is obvious from this
recording, Mr. Young felt a bit
charitable towards Mr. Stills’
condition, feeling as if it could
use a shot in the arm from a
friend and compatriot Hence
this album, comprised of what
sounds like outtakes and/or
rejects from prospective solo
efforts, is the result Lyrically,
there is nothing here to be said
that hasn’t been said better
before. Young’s singing is
lEEE
By Kent Odenwelder
The next meeting of the
Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (LEER)
of the Capitol Campus Student
Branch will be held on
Wednesday, 0ct0ber27,1976 at
7:00 p.m. in the Student
Center.
Final plans for the field trip
to the Naval Research Labora
tories, located in Washington,
D.C., will be made at this
meeting. The date for this field
trip will be Wednesday,
November 10, 1976. A film
about the Naval Research Labs
will also be shown at this
meeting.
Members should have a
Junior nominee in mind for the
election of a Vice-Chairone.
This person should have the
ability to leam the functions
and operations of the LEER,
so that he can be a
knowledgeable leader next year.
The first “Kick-Off’ meeting
was a great success. Approxi
mately 40 new members were in
attendance. EDEJTstudents who
are seeking membership may
pick up applications and pay
their dues at any meeting, or to
an LEEE officer, or to the
club advisor, Dr. Jeny Shoup-
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charitable and uninspired;
whereas Stills tries to cany a
tune and often fails. Nowhere to
be found are the expected
burning guitar duos or soaring
harmonies; the product is
polished and sterile like
“chrome hearts shining in the
sun,” as found in the title cut
It sounds as if Neil Young
has saved the cream of his new
material for his upcoming solo
album. The bulk of the Stills
songs found in this set are
mediocre at best Beautiful
Crosby/Nash harmonies that
were wiped off this album due
to tempers and ever-conflicting
swollen egos could have made
the weaker compositions into
credibly textured works. Con
sidering the wealth of talent
that has been or was involved in
this project the end results
could have been neargreat or
at least capable of repeated
listenings without a feeling of
monotony or disenchantment
I might actually be able to
like this album if it wasn’t for
the cold hard fact that this is
Neil Young (and Steve Stills,
too) playing the music, and I
guess I expected a lot more
from this collaboration: the
potential is enormous. One
should not take the cover too
literally- the buffalo is not
extinct* what we have here is
two aging buffalos up against
the barbed wire electric fence
of a dying prairie. But there are
other more fertile feeding
grounds to be found. Perhaps
fulfillment will be found in
future solo efforts.
Chi-Rho
CCM
The Chi-Rho Advisory Coun
cil of CCM, made up of
representative students, have
planned some big events for the
fall, and everyone is cordially
invited to participate. The All
Saints Festival on November 1,
the Wine and Cheese Party on
November 16, and an overnight
retreat November 5-6 are on the
agenda for next month.
Every Sunday night in the
lounge of the Student Center,
the Eucharist will be celebrated
at 7 o’clock, followed by a
social, and a “Fireside Chat”,
an informal, informational
session which promises more
light than heat
The Chaplain believes that
spiritual growth, as well as
intellegtual and social develop
ment is essential to the total
fulfillment of one’s potential as
a person. “Jesus Christ came
to bring life in the fullest” he
added. “Why settle for anything
less than that?”
Father Richardson plans to
be on campus Thursdays, from
10 until 2 p.m. He can also be
contacted at his residence
(561-1248), or his office
(652-7401).
Pick up a Catholic Campus
Ministry flier at the Counseling
Center, for further information.
The Devil
Made Me Do It
By Ann Clark
If the purpose of “The
Omen” is to give you a good
scare, director Richard Donner
has succeeded. He has com
bined excellent photographic
and sound effects and film
editing to create some very
tense scenes. “The Omen”,
however, purports to be an
interpretation of the Book of
Revelation, and here it has
failed. The plot lacks credibility,
but it is this lack that makes the
film entertainment rather than
enlightment
The story revolves around
the premise that an Anti-Christ,
or son of the Devil, is born in
human form. His real mother is
a dog, which makes him the
ultimate son-of-a-bitch, but
Gregory Peck and Lee Remick
are deceived by a priest into
taking the baby to raise. For his
part in this, the preist gets a
severe case of acne. (Jf you can
swallow all this, you are well on
your way to repenting before it’s
too late.)
Gregory Peck and Lee
Remick turn in their expected
fine performances, but just
wooden enough that you really
don’t mind what happens to
them. And just about the time
you get involved in the plot, it
starts to fall apart. The
supporting cast is very good,
Buddies For Sale
Cheap Thrills
By Debbie Young
About 100 people eager to
do their bit for a good cause,
attended the Meade Heights
Board of Governors (MHBOG)
“Buy a Buddy Day” last
Wednesday in People’s Park.
“I wanted to bid on
somebody just to support the
activity,” said Martha Singleton,
7th term business. “Also, I had
a lot of fun doing it”
The reason for “Buy a Buddy
Day”, according to MHBOG
President Pat Laurie, was to
provide some socialization for
the new students.
“No other organizations
were having anything,” Laurie
said, “so, by having this we
could let the students start to
get to know each other.”
Of the 50 people who signed
up to be auctioned off, about 30
people were bid on.
Some of the bids started at
one cent but Chief Paul,
Campus Security Director,
opened at one dollar and was
finally sold for $8.50. He was
sold to wash a student’s car.
Pat Murphy, Resident Living
Coordinator, was sold to do
laundry.
Besides these services,
people were selling things like
guitar lessons, companionship,
body painting, back massage,
dinners for two and even a ride
in a sports car through the
country.
As the afternoon progressed
and the beer disappeared, some
Cold moot makes a dry sandwich.
“Habrtw Provsfb”
especially the five-year-old boy
who plays the devil-child. The
child has two nannies, the first
a real swinger, and the
second, well— she’s no Mary
Poppins.
The interesting part of the
film is the manner in which a
series of deaths are photo
graphed. Watch for the goldfish
bowl falling off the balcony.
Yes, they even bump off some
innocent goldfish. Another
death scene shows a man being
decapitated, but if you can
detach yourself from the honor
of it, you can appreciate the way
it was photographed.
The death scenes in “The
Omen” are not threatening
because they lack the emotional
involvement and intensity of,
for example, the death of Billy
in “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s
Nest” The viewer regrets not
that the characters are mur
dured, but the way they had to
go. hi fact you leave the
theater wondering, if the devil
really had his shit together,
would he have to go to all that
trouble to knock off a few
people.
“The Omen” is good
entertainment, but it isn’t
thought provoking. At the worst
you will be left with a fear of big
black dogs and a nagging
distrust of cute little boys.
of the buyers were bidding more
extravagantly. This was partly
due to the auctioneer Lenny
Klonitsko, SGA senator. He
kept the bids moving and was
very comical.
Laurie, who thought “Buy a
Buddy Day” was a success,
would like to offer her thanks to
everybody who helped with the
activity.
We at the C.C. Reader hope
that all merchandise was worth
purchasing.
The newly elected officers of
this years Resident Student
Council are Rick Fly, president;
Diane Sarsfield, secratary; and
Ellen Whilden, treasurer. The
outlook for this years council
looks very promising as new
ideas hare already come to the
surface. They hare already
Musical
Mime
By Win. Kane
From New York, the Bronx
and Queens respectively, to
France and Poland simultane
ously, then to Belgium, Italy,
Spain and now a tour of the
U.S.; the Musical Mime duo of
Steve Colucci and Robert
Ruggieri appeared in our
auditorium Friday the Bth at
lunchtime.
Musical Mime is distinct
bum Mime the silent art of
acting and portraying bodily
movement, in that, Ruggieri
accompanies Colvucci on moog
synthesizer and classical guitar.
Colvucci said he became
interested in Mime at a young
age. When he was 14 he
studied at the Falnworth and
Hower School of Ballet in New
York. From there he and
Ruggieri went to Paris.
Colvucci studied under Marcel
Marceau in France, and in the
Polish Mime Ballet Theatre
under the supervision of F3la
Yarogzewicz.
After the shortened version
of their 2 hrs. 15 mins, act,
Ruggieri and Colvucci, who
grew up together, headed to
Reading next and hopefully may
appear on the Merv Griffin
and/or Johnny Carson show
later this year.
Among his repetoire of
inventive Mime segments are
characters ranging from one of
the first, original, mime acts of
Etienne Decroux’s “Man in a
Box,” to the duo’s own creation,
a segment entitled the “Uni
versal Soldier.” Others
included: “The Beach,” “The
Astronaut,” “Walking Through
A Storm,” the contemporary
depiction of the Beatles “Rocky
Racoon,” “Birth,” and a
particularly interesting segment
entitled “Metamorphosis of a
Construction Worker.”
Admission to this unusual,
but certainly not uninteresting,
performance was bee. Colvucci
said he usually doesn’t perform
for free, but this was a favor to
our Coordinator of Student
Activities, Roberta McLeod.
Although Colvucci did not
utter one word throughout his
entire performance, he proved
to the appreciative audience,
that he was capable of
communicating volumes.
rollerskating this past Saturday
at “The Golden Skate,” and are
anticipating many more energe
tic evenings.
The council meets every
second and fourth week of the
month, in Wrisberg Hall, and all
interested residents are invited
to attend.