4—The Daily Collegian Monday, April 16, 1973 Folk music makes ideal festival EARTH WEEK 73 ACTIVITIES MONDAY APRIL 16 Sale of Environmental Posters Begins on ground floor Hub 12:45 pm Workshop: Get rid of your car! Old Main lawn 1:00 pm Bike Tour North of Campus sponsored by PSD Cycling Club. Meet in Parking Lot 80. 7:30 pm Films featuring “The Time of Man” from the American Museum of Natural History. 105 Forum. By REGINA ANDRIOLO Collegian Staff Writer Despite the late can cellation of the Arlo Guthrie concert, this weekend’s Folk Festival backed up the adage “There’s never too much of a good thing.” The festival’s organizers, performers and audience seemed to feel the program was one of the most outstanding projects of its kind. Festival Supervisor Ted Giatas said he felt the event came as close to an ideal festival as could be expected. “There was some question as to whether we should have mixed traditional folk music with contemporary folk sounds, since there were two distinct audiences, yet I felt everyone was satisfied,” he said. Most of the performers were acquainted with one another, and this led to a comfortable and natural feeling in their performances and especially showed in the workshops. Each workshop led to open discussion and audience participation into aspects of folk music. Evening concerts featured traditional European folk music Friday night and American folk music Saturday. The British group Steeleye Span seemed to capture the Friday audience and Giatas said there is a good possibility the group soon will return to Penn State. Taj Mahal was in control Saturday night and joyously encouraged the crowd to “jump and shout and shout and jump” to his music. The square dance following the Saturday shows, with music by the New Lost City Ram blers, gave Rec Hall a country atmosphere en couraging many people, including Taj Mahal, to stomp their feet and swing their partners. Festival organizers said beginning 1:30 p.m. today at the HUB $1.50 will be refunded for the Guthrie concert. “We felt the audience took the news quite well,” Giatas said. “But we think the other talent and the various workshops more than made up for the cancellation. We expect that even more people will be eager to per form at and attend the next folk festival.” The next festival of this size is not planned for the next two years but organizers promise many of the performers will return in individual concerts. If you're still looking for a place to live the chances are you haven't been reading the Collegian Classifieds! The sisters of Delta Zeta are proud to announce their wonderful initiates KATHY EVANS HELEN MUM FORD MARY PETROVICH JESSICA WALLACH They were honored at the annual Rose Cotillion on Saturday, April 14, 1973 Nittany Divers presents Scuba Instruction Monday and Tuesday 7:30 - 9:30 Meeting on April 16 201 Natatorium 'Music belongs to the people' Taj Mahal: By KEN RUTKOWSKI Collegian Staff Writer It may be hard to believe Taj Mahal the tall, imposing man who seems so much a part of thetraditional country blues he sings, was born in New York, raised in the New England countryside and received a degree in animal husbandry from the University of Massachusetts. The fact that he was “raised away from my people” led Mahal on a search that started with Negro blues and continues today with the composition and performance of the soundtrack from the movie “Sounder.” At an interview before his Folk Festival performance, Mahal offered some clues to what the person behind the music is like. Asked about his role as a musician, he said, “I begin to feel that by now people should be getting the message. Music should be more con centrated on what it’s doing for each person. Right now there’s a lot of people who like you as a performer because you're something that they can say they have. They don’t think of you in human terms. They hear your name, everybody else is talking your name, so therefore you are proven. So you find that you have to get away from the very people you want to play for. “A lot of the people I used to play with still haven’t changed because they were only in it for the money, and you can’t make it that way because you’re not playing music,” Mahal said. SGA branch presidents protest Senate elections By ANDY ISAACS Collegian Staff Writer Commonwealth Campus Student Association presidents Saturday issued a statement condemning the University Faculty Senate elections. The resolution was sponsored by Joseph Kaplan, Ogontz SGA president, who said the confusion during the elections reinforces his position that branch campuses should have their own student representatives in the Senate. This year, the first that Commonwealth Campus students participated in the Senate elections, all voting was held University-wide within the 10 colleges. A Senate constitutional amendment now under consideration would give branch campus students their own senators regardless of college. Kaplan said branch campuses had in sufficient time to tell students of their chance to run, to set up election apparatus and to publish candidates' qualifications. He said, the campuses received no in formation from the colleges of Agriculture; Arts and Architecture; Health, Physical Education and Recreation; Human Development and Earth and Mineral Sciences. The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences had only one candidate running and decided not to hold elections. The colleges of Agriculture, Health, Physical Education and Recreation, and Human Development held their own elections on the branch campuses independent of SGA. A mimeographed statement by Kaplan said Mary Kay Plantes, Academic Assembly chairperson, called Kaplan March 7 to tell country man Asked if he considered people are doing when they himself lucky to play the hear me.” music he wanted and make a Mahal said he plays dif living from it he said, “I don’t ferent music to black know if I’ve been lucky. You audiences than to white ones. pay for everything you get. In iSn 1 ~f om . eth . in f. t . hat ., 1 order for me to play the kind f , ’ feeling is different With the of music I do, I give up a black audience it’s more of a whole lot of things that friendly atmosphere, where probably aren’t obvious to with the white audience it’s someone who’s looking in on more of a frenzy, a fanatic my life which is what atmosphere.” him branch campus students could submit nominations. Kaplan’s statement said even if campuses received his notice by March 12, they had only four days to publicize the elections and gather nominations before the March 16 deadline. Kaplan’s statement said Kaplan received the names of candidates and biographical data March 29 and had to make 18 copies of each sheet and send them to each campus in the four days before the election. Most campuses, did not receive data before the April 4 election day, the statement said. Plantes said the Academic Assembly was told “March 2 or 3” that the elections must include branch campus students. She said the Assembly decided it was better to risk communications breakdowns than to delay the election and risk students’ not getting on committees. Special rate for Summer Term NOW RENTING Armenara Plaza Americana House Ambassador Bldg. • efficiency, semi one bedroom • one bedroom, two bedroom • modern, all electric single rooms men only UnicoCorp 130 Sower St. Across from South Halls 237-0333 • The Brothers and Little Sisters of • v 9 proudly welcome our Spring pledge classes SAM MONACO JEFF POLAND RON ASTEAK RALPH SCHWENDEMAN and CINDY CZARNECKI MARY COLE CAROL BAXTER CHRIS STAMBAUGH ANITA HELLER NANCY ANDREWS CHERYL URBAN IK •. t Kaplan said he told Plantes March 16 that Paul Haze (6th-accounting) of Ogontz planned to run for the College of Business Administration Senate seat. “I followed the instructions I was given,” Kaplan said. Haze’s name did not appear on the University Park ballot. Business admin istration student council president, Sam Starr, said Haze’s formal letter of intent and biographical data were written March 24, postmarked March 26 and received March 28. The college’s elections began at University Park March 27. Plantes said when she received no data other than Haze’s name she assumed he was no longer running. Kaplan said he was never given a deadline for biographical data. Haze and Kaplan both have requested new elections. The Senate Election Commission is considering their demands. DELTA C HI BRAD BANE
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