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Editor-in-Chief RANDY S. KINKEAD
Managing Editor TERRY L. ROBINSON
City Editor __ MARK MOIorETT
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Advisor ____ _ _ ROBERT C. BAUGHMAN
The Nittany CUB
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The Behrend Campus of the
Pennsylvania State University,
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Dylan or
I have an insane vision of Bob Dylan moving to West
chester, Shaker Heights, or (worse yet) Erie, going by his
real name (Bob Zimmerman), and getting a job as an ac
countant. Of course it's just an insane vision . . . absurd.
Five years ago had anyone told me Bob Dylan would
get a haircut, go off to Nashville and do an album of hill
billy music, I would have considered it an insane vision.
,Three years ago if anyone would have shown the picture
that graces the Nashville Skyline cover (young Bob Zimmer
man saying howdy) it would have been too much.
But, Joey Bishop is on television, the Dating Game is
going into its fifth season, and Spiro Agnew's daughter has
been busted for possession. Nothing's stable. Dylan used to
be mean and hip, now he has refused to sing It's Alfright Ma
for Peter Fonda and Denis Hopper's Easy Rider film because
the ending was too violent. Fonda now calls Dylan, Zimmer
man. Since hearing Nashville Skyline, so do I.
"Skyline" shouldn't have been such a surprise. When
Zimmerman was still Dylan he wrote All Along The Watch
.tower which predicted a break with the freneticism of "the
scene".
Businessmen they drink my wine
Plowmen dig my earth.
None of them along the line
Know what any of it is worth.
(Dwarf Music 1968)
Before Dylan broke away from the "movement" and its
missionary politics, he said he would be doing so in one line
from My Back Pages:
"I was so much• older then; I'm younger than that now."
Dylan has never been much of a surprise: ask any
Dylan freak and he can show you any number of changes
he (Dylan) has gone through as portrayed in his music.
Bobby Zimmerman though, is a surprise.
Dylan once said he would probably go back to his roots,
but never did it in full. Bob Zimmerman has gone one better
and has proven himself a master of hillbilly soul. Admittedly,
I don't like hillbilly music as a result of hassles from local
hillbillys reacting to my appearance (hippy freak).
The point is, you cannot review Nashville Skyline and
dismiss it as another Bob Dylan album following in natural
progression like John Wesley Harding which followed Blond
on Blond, which followed Highway 61 (the real Dylan al
bum), which followed Bringing It All Back Home, which etc.,
Dylan has broken away as he did with Another Side of
Bob Dylan, just as the Beatles did with Revolver, the Stones
with Between the Buttons, John Mayall with Bare Wires,
and Johnny Rivers with Changes.
Compared to Dylan's old albums, "Skyline" is a sell-out
of commercial and sentimental garbage, but when you look
deeper it turns into a contented album. The hate has turned
into love, the preaching into insinuation. Anyone who could
write a song like Country Pie has to be cool. I can enjoy
Bobby Zimmerman from Hibbing, Minnesota. I'm not where
he's at, but I can still dig it and I'll continue to enjoy Bobby
Zimmerman until the day he appears on Hee Haw. -
Skyline
Zimmerman
by Jack Eschweiler
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tany CUB.
RUB Becomes
Zimmerman's
Playground
In 1968 the Behrend Campus
added the Reed Union Building
to its functioning structure. In
1969 it added a Union director,
Mr. H. Bruce Zimmerman, who is
"single and available."
Mr. Zimmerman graduated
from. Rhode Island College and
has the following degree: Bach
elor of Education with majors in
Social Sciences and Secondary
Education. He holds a Mastef's
Degree from Indiana University
As for previous experience,
Mr. Zimmerman was Men's Head
Resident and Union Director for
two years at Doane College in
Crete, Nebraska. He also served
as a Graduate Resident Scholar
ship Advisor while at Indiana.
Here at Behrend, Mr. Zimmer
man is Assistant to the Dean of
Student Affairs. He has already
Niagara Hall
Almost Done
The main addition to the
Behrend Campus this year is the
women's dormitory, Niagara Hall.
The new dorm, which houses two
hundred and two women, has
the additional feature of a. rec
reation room. The rec. hall in
the basement of the dorm, which
opened Thursday, September 25,
1969, will be available to men, on
an experimental basis, from 7:00
p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Sunday thru
LITTLE MAN ^i; CAMPUS
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reorganized the union desk, and
is trying to form a Union Board
as soon as possible. This Union
Board will be a policy-making
body for the RUB and will also
program activities for Behrend
Campus-Activities encompassing
cultural events such as movies,
lectures and social events such
as dances and weekend extrava-
ganzas.
Thursday and 7:00 p.m. to 1:30
a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.
Hostesses for Niagara Hall are
Mrs. Gertrude McDonald and
Mrs. Flora Huffman.
Anothet advantage that new
residents of Niagara Hall have is
the new dorm hours, which have
been extended to 12:00 mid
night on weekdays and 2:00 a.m.
on weekends. Women will only
be required to sing out when
leaving Erie County, overnight,
or on weekends.
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An Argument
Con Cutting
Moon Money
Coinciding with man's first
step on the moon, the cry
". . with the $24 billion it took to
get on the moon, we could have
eliminated poverty in this coun
try," went up. Senator Edward
Kennedy and his cohorts echoed
the idea. It is veritable.
As impressive as the idea of
eliminating poverty sounds, the
use of the space funds for that
purpose is unthinkable. We
could raise everyone in the coun
try's (not just the poverty
stricken) standards of living by
simply reallocating the Viet Nam
budget which is $lOO billion
dollars this year.
The money spent in Viet Na.
is making fat cats fatter. Inves
tigations have shown that in
some cases the government
is paying 10-100 times ( and
more) the consumer price of
merchandise and machinery. (It
is ironic that the government has
agencies whose sole concern is
seeing that the public does not
get gyped (well at least not too
much).
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The Viet Nam war is aiding
the poverty situation though. If
we lose enough soldiers, we'll
ease future unemployment prob
lems. Also the deaths of so many
G.l.'s encourage birth control.
(For some strange reason, wom
en don't care to go through the
bother of giving birth when their
spouses will be shipped off to
war and the chore of raising a
well-adjusted child is set solely
upon their shoulders.)
Another point against the
charge is when education and
science funds are as inadequate
as they are now; it is not feas
ible that monies such as the $24
billion. from the moon landing
would be put exclusively into the
poverty programs.
One must consider' as a third
reason for further exploration;
the scientific discoveries, which
are being applied to other fields,
that were developed for' space
use. Micro-circuitry, super sensi
tive hearing devices, complex,
compact television cameras and
movie and still cameras are just
a few of these. Teflon was anoth
er development. Of great im
portance are the food and vita-
min concentrates which have
been developed. In the future
these foods may sustain the now
over-crowded earth. The United
States' poor thank you, Ted, for
your thoughts about them, but
maybe now you had better wor
ry about yourself a little more.
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The Behrend Forensic Union
needs rousing, debatable topics for
a series of soapbox oratories which
will be held this term.
WHAT WOULD YOU T .TKV, TO
HEAR DEBATED? ? ?
Write your suggestions on paper
and drop them in the box on the
.ecreation room counter in the
Reed building.
Complete the following and re
turn to the Rec Room desk: Re-
solved that
October 3,196 t
by Randy S. Kinkead
WANTED!!
Signed