BS means bookstore
BUY ANY GOOD books lately?
Chances are, you had to buy them
downtown. And chances are that if
you did find them in more than one
store, the price was the same (too
high). And no matter what they tell
you, the chances are that they made
some money on it.
Chances are even better that they
will make more money on the books
later. Let's face it, even if the books
would be sold at practically a zero
profit (which is actually what
bookstore owners are claiming), the
used book business will make plenty
of money for them and very little for
you.
View from BRC member
Little cooperation killed concert
By MAL KLUGMAN
Editor's note: Kingman is writing in response to a column by
staff viriter Rick Nelson, which appeared in Wednesday's
issue
One IA eek after the tragedy of Agnes I returned from a
vacation and sat around trying to think of what could be done
to help the flood victims. Several weeks later I watched Bob
Hope and others raise $9 million on a telethon and it gave me
an idea I thought Beaver Stadium could be used for a giant
one-day concert that could raise a great deal of money to aid
Pennsylvania citizens.
I mentioned this idea to Mike Shields and Lew foorman and
we started working on the event. It actually seemed logical to
me that Penn State higher officials would enthusiastically
support a flood concert, since this area had been spared flood
damage and the efforts of students and the administration for
a desperate cause would cast some favorable light for
Harrisburg legislators and the rest of the Commonwealth to
observe
Well, Rick Nelson, your cynicism at our naivety is just what
we received from the administration folks. Instead of their
asking what they could do to help, they told us we would have
to do everything and they would approve. Now, is this a
community of scholars or a corporation? We thought a
gigantic flood would make people act a little bit differently,
but they clung to their old bureaucratic style.
We originally thought we could get the concert together by
August 27, because this flood was the American version of
Bangladesh and Bob Hope had already gotten the telethon
together before the end of July.
The Beaver Stadium concert had the support of the Shapp
Administration and former Governor Scranton. They helped
convince Penn State Administration and former Governor
Scranton. They helped convince Penn State officials that we
should be allowed to use the stadium. After that, the BRC
knew its most difficult work would follow. We had to secure
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Editor. Karen Carnabucci; Editorial Editor, Gary Mayk;
Assistant City Editors, JoyceKirschner, Pat Stewart; Senior
Editors, Rich Grant, Doug Struck; Copy Editors, Steve Ivey,
Kathy Suhorsky, Theresa Villa; Sports Editor, Glenn Sheeley;
Assistant Sports Editor, Ray McAllister; Feature Editor,
Tina Hondras; Senior Reporters, Ken Chestek, Bill Guthlein,
Elaine Herscher, Mark Simenson, Bob Yuskavage; Photo
Editor, Debbie Van Vliet; Assistant Photo Editor, Bob Koch
man; Weather Reporter, Bob Konchak.
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Editorial opinion
The new University book store(s)
is (are) not worrying downtown
merchants. Split between
McAllister and the Hetzel Union
Building, it doesn't require a
business mind to figure out that the
concept won't work. Now the
merchants are trying to scare the
University into believing that even a
full bookstore will not sell.
THEY ARE RIGHT to believe the
Schizoid Store will not work. Indeed,
it's not really sure it's a bookstore.
And neither will anybody else be
sure. Makes you feel a little
paranoid, doesn't it?
But the service a campus
University of Pennsylvania
40th & Walnut St.
Phila., Pa.
funds and the entertainment that would make the venture
successful. We had thought that an all-out effort by University
people and the music business would help get things coor
dinated, but we got little support in the end.
No more than two of the trustees we contacted could provide
any information for getting funds, when all we needed was a
co-signer for a bank loan that depended on us getting only
7,000 people in Beaver Stadium. We at the BRC felt that was
an absolute certainty. Contacts elsewhere told us that the
flood was no longer making news and so we should not expect
to get financial support when the potential for publicity was
not great. Thanks, folks.
If the University community was lacking in fervor for our
project, the record industry was even worse. We felt that a
major record company might provide the entire package of
entertainment in return for recording rights to what looked
like a potential Bangladesh event. Instead, they tried to give
us their unknown artists. One guy at Chess records said he
couldn't get Chuck Berry but would send some autographed
records to give out at the concert. This type of generosity we
encountered everywhere. Others told us to get Bob Dylan and
then they would help us. But no one was willing to help us get
to see Bob Dylan, and John and• Yoko's secretary gave us a
beautiful runaround.
The Concert Committee offered us Rec Hall for a Sha-Na-Na
concert, but we said no at the time. The reasons are that they
could only do one show and would thus raise at most $15,000.
We felt and still feel that a campus with 28,000 students can do
better than that.
The Concert Committee at one point promised to hold a two
or three-evening music festival in Rec Hall on the weekend of
Nov. 11, with a potential to raise $50,000. This is what I think
should be done. The drawback to this would be that not
everyone who wanted to get into Rec Hall could be ac
commodated (which is why we wanted to use Beaver Stadium
in the first place), but it still is a great idea. Bill Fuller and
Abby Konowitch and the Concert Committee should work on
it. We naive do-gooders might even be of some help.
If The Collegian and the University would like to blame the
failure of the Beaver Stadium concert on the members of the
BRC, that is their privilege. I blame it on cynical bullshit
artists both here at Penn State and throughout the music
business. Now the people of Pennsylvania know that Bob Hope
can be contacted to help with a telethon while Bob Dylan can't
be reached. Now we know that Penn State thinks Beaver
, Stadium is some kind of religious shrine and football is the
only permissible religion, unless state officials pressure them.
I think we did have the time to put on a great 'concert at
Beaver Stadium. It would have raised a large sum for flood
victims and brought some needed cultureal excitement this
area. It would have made this school reams of good pub ity.
Now the Nov. 11 concerts are the only sensible means left to
raise funds, and I hope everyone will support these concerts
and work to make them successful. Other campus
organizations can help raise funds and should be encouraged
to do so, as winter is fast approaching for the homeless flood
victims.
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bookstore would give to students is
unquestionable: texts and reading
material sold to educate, not to
grow rich on. And if downtown
merchants are having difficulty
selling books, let them drop the book
business when the University enters
it. That way, a new bookstore will
serve the merchants, too.
Without having to sell books at
little or no profit, downtown stores
can concentrate on the real money
makers gifts, records, novelties
and rent the vacant book area to
other merchants.
AND WE ALL know there's a
profit in that.
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Syracuse University
173 W. Marshall Street
Syracuse, NY
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Piggie-wiggie
TO THE EDITOR: I would like to take this opportunity to
state that there is a very real problem among us. It involves
straight people, freaks, and just about every other group you
would care to define.
The problem is a persistent pack of piggies. These piggies
enjoy their own filth. They think everybody enjoys their filth.
They drop their paper, break their bottles, pitch their caps
and pull-rings.
Very humorous, huh?!
It's not. It's sick and perverted. And extremely dangerous.
My brother received thirty-four stitches in his foot because of
a thoughtless piggie. But beyond that, there are the hours
spent cleaning up, the unsightly trails laid, and the danger to
the environment.
One place I think of immediately is the Wall. I'm sure some
people have been made aware of the problem when they find
their dogs with chunks of glass or cuts in their paws. This, of
all places, would be the first place one would want to take care
of. I've never been noted for school spirit, but I don't want
people coming through State College to think this town is a pig
sty. I sincerely hope that if the Wall area is not kept clean, it is
put out of bounds to the piggies who slop it up.
Do you care? Are you one of those people who thinks that
O.R.L. is a sham, that the war is wrong, that taxes are too
high? I, for one, don't believe a word you say if you can't show
me, or anyone else, the basic respect of cleaning after your
self. •
I hope that in the near future littering will be enforced with a
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Koloc's release
no big surprise
By JIM BAKER
Collegian Junior Reporter
It is very disappointing to
see some new songwriter or
singer release a first album,
find that they really have
something different and
creative to offer and never
hear from them again.'
It happens far too often in
the unpredictable recording
business, but fortunately it
hasn't happened to one
promising singer-songwriter,
Bonnie Koloc.
She just put out her second
album "Hold On To Me" on
the small and selective
Ovation label.
What's on the album isn't so
surprising after hearing her
first record, "After All This
Time," but Koloc puts
everything together with the
same care and style. In that
way way she is like Joan Baez
on her early albums when she
put something that was very
much herself into the old folk
songs she sang.
"Hold On To Me" is an even
division between quiet folk
songs and Koloc's own brand
of rock and roll. The band of
eight musicians works well in
either case but are more
pronounced on this album,
taking over now and then for
instrumental runs and some
guitar solos.
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stiff fine and a week-long cleaning detail. Sound corny'' It
isn't, because some piggies will never learn unless it hits the
wallet or the pride.
Finally, with fears of sounding trite, I state that age-old
maxim. It says, "Every litter bit hurts."
What's for dinner?
TO THE EDITOR: The nicest thing I can say about Penn State
food is that it always returns in various and sundry (though
always noticeable) forms. Therefore, we have a splendid
chance to become acquainted with the many reincarnations of
our daily nourishment.
Word of thanks
TO THE EDITOR: The attractive floral displays that have
appeared in various spots on campus this summer have made
a significant contribution to the pleasantness of our
surroundings. I should like through your columns to thank all
those responsible.
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One new addition to the
group, Trevor Veitch, has
moved in from Tom Rush's
old band and is helping out
very well on dobro, adding a
more country flavor to the
music.
Koloc wrote four of the ten
songs and the rest are her
renditions of pieces by such
established folksingers as
Jim Glover, David Brom
berg, John Prine and Jackson
Browne.
She seems to do songs
written by others even better
than her own compositions,
and it shows on "Jamaica"
and "Diamond Lil." In both
cases she handles them
beautifully.
The songs she wrote, in
cluding "Sweet Mama," "We
Are Ships" and "Every Day
II," are the loudest and
liveliest on the album . One or
more of them could con
ceivably end up being
released as singles.
But regardless of what she
is singing she is still one of the
very best vocalists in popular
music today. Some singers
sound slick and lavish and for
that I can understand
resentment but for someone
like Bonnie Koloc, who sings
perfectly, I have only com
pliments.
Joseph D. Campbell
(7th-IFS)
Janis M. Casale
( 4th-nursing)
John H. Johnson
(Ist-liberal arts )
G.L. Wilson
associate professor
Applied Science Building