2ft—The Daily Coller 1 Thursday, Nov. 8,1979
Photo by Horry Kapsales
Chuck Zito, a member of Homophiles of Penn State, speaks before a special
meeting of the Centre County Advisory Council of the Pennsylvania Human
Relations Commission. State College Municipal Manager Carl B. Fairbanks
looks on.
Everyone vulnerable to cults, rabbi says
By PAM ROBERTO “We need others to help us make choices, from to join cults, the rabbi said. Freshmen are suscep-
Daily Collegian Staff Writer what tie to wear to value judgments,” he said. “In tible because they'are apprehensive about college
All people have the potential to become involved in religious cults, the ability for you to think for life, seniors because they are worried about what
religious cults because they all have “moments of yourself is played down.” will happen to them after graduation,
vulnerability,” Rabbi Samuel Joseph said last night. parents play an important role in whether or not “People need a sense of community, which they
People are the most vulnerable to cult recruiting chi i dren become involved in cults, Joseph said. By often don’t find at home or in their hometowns,”
dSSdter U soJis S ofte!i approached SS unwittingly sending messages indicating that they Joseph said. “Cults provide for this need.”.
P !v .. , PP, ... . y will love their children less if the'children do not Cults nrobablv came about because Deonle began
apparently sympathetic stranger, and this stranger • tth t , exnpctations Barents *, •, pbby came about beca T use Pf-T® Degan
plays upon emotions by sending messages of love, he ““ate their “■"eleasaettononsocmlesues, Josephs.,d.
said. . qimeentible to cult involvement he said ‘People turned inward toward faith, hoping for
Another cause of vulnerability is unwillingness to susceptible to cult involvement, ne said. God’s divine intervention,” he said. “When this
make independent decisions, Joseph said. College freshmen and seniors are the most likely failed, they turned to a sort of anti-faith.”
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STS/Two Cultures Dialogue on “Technology Assessment and Risk Analysis,”
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timer Schultz, nuclear engineering, on "Coping with the ‘Zero Risk’ Attitude.”
Shakespeare film, Scofield/Brook, King Lear, 6:30 p.m., Room 112 Chambers.
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By PAM MEDVE
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
State Sen. J. Doyle Corman, R-Centre
County, and state Rep. Gregg Cun
ningham, R-Centre County, responded
last night to grievances of local minority
spokesmen in a special meeting of the
Centre County Advisory Council of the
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They discussed the rights of senior
citizens, homosexuals and women.
Cunningham responded to.advocates of
an ordinance to prohibit discrimination
against homosexuals by saying, “I don’t
like the idea of forcing people into or out
of relationships (with gays).”
He also said an ordinance to protect
the rights of homosexuals would infringe
upon employers’ rights to hire who they
wanted, adding that he would not sup
port an equal rights amendment for
homosexuals.
After hearing gay rights advocates,
including a local psychologist and a
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However, he also said, “I don’t want to
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an agency to help the victims of wife
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Confronted with the issue of the Equal
Rights Amendment, Cunningham said it
was unneeded since all states must
adhere to federal laws protecting women
from discrimination.
Cynthia Edvar, director of the Centre
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Corman stressed the need for local
volunteers to assist in,the care of the
elderly. “The person who gets money is
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However, both Corman and Edvar
said a big problem was the lack of mass
transit in rural areas of Centre County
which causes isolation of the elderly who
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University President John W. Oswald
will not comment on a joint proposal for
dorm contract submission from the
office of housing and food services and
the office of residential life until he
reviews and discusses the plan, ac
cording to Ralph Zilly, vice president for
business.
The content of the proposal, which
Oswald received Monday, has not been
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Oswald will discuss the plan with Zilly
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"It'S a little bit too much. It's hard to play until two or
three in the morning and get up for first period."
could never come down to the bars and see a band that
played the kind of music I wanted to hear."
-John Dittmar
Conspiracy's Rythm Guitarist
mation of a stereotypical cowboy band
ind a little bit of rock and jazz. And it’s a
strange combination that works.
Three years ago, before the com
bination began,' Tahoka Freeway’s
members were playing different styles
to altogether different audiences.
Fred Curdts, on Tahoka’s lead guitar,
played with “Morning Song/’ while
Larry Bish, lead guitar and vocals,
played with “The Rounds Brothers.”
Both bands were popular in the area
several years ago, and, by coincidence,
both’Curdts and Bish were out of jobs at
the same time when those bands broke
up.
“Fred and Larry heard me doing a
singles act in town and asked me to join
them in forming a new band,” said
Terry Whitlock, Tahoka’s lead vocalist
and rhythm guitar player.
Along the way, drummer Andy
Jackman, who played in the local group
“Muggins,” and Wayne Addleman, who
plays pedal steel guitar and lead guitar,
joined the group.
The group’s name originates from a
small town in Texas, Tahoka, that has
the highest liquor sales in the state.
There is a major highway running
through the town, so. . „
Together, Tahoka Freeway’s mem
bers have created a new sound for the
State College area that attracts crowds.
Sunday they played to a capacity
crowd in the HUB ballroom for three
hours.
Illustration by Dolls Hoko
-Jon Gerhart
Conspiracy's Drummer
cruising along
;y ANNETTE D AMATO
>aily Collegian Staff Writer
Country rock, cowboy rock, Southern
•ock, country boogie, Western rock or
luegrass; how do you describe a band
/hose style is unique, refined and just
ilain foot-stomping fun? Tahoka
'reewaysaysitall.
Tahoka Freeway is a strange com-
“They really have a lot of appeal
a weekly look at life
in the University community
"Nobody wants to play the local scene all their life."
Band plots rock 'n' roll success
ByPAULSUNYAK
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Sex and drugs and rock and rollare pre-requisites for
any “with it” college town by modern standards.
Today’s college students have been ; weaned on a diet of
steady exposure to all three. For the past decade,
diligent seekers may have found enough sex and drugs
iii Happy Valley to support their habits, but the
“junkies” of hard core rock and roll have met with
perpetual frustration.
. It was with that frustration in mind that the band
Conspiracy was formed.
“I cbuftf never come down to the bars and see a band
that played the kind of music that I wanted to hear,”
said drummer Jon Gerhart, who took it upon himself to
fill the void created by the lack of. a basic, straight
forward rock and roll band in State College.
After its formation in May, the band practiced for 27
consectutivedays and built up their song reportoire
music along the lines of The Who, UFO, Rush, and
Kansas, plus some originals, Gerhart said. But the
group soon found out 20 to 25 rock and roll songs do not a
successful rock and roll band make.
“The job market here is very, very limited,” bass
guitarist Dale Hartsook said. “It used to be eight years
ago or so, fraternities would have parties every night.
The same frat' would have a party every weekend. They
don’t dcLthat anymore; it’s cheaper to have a stereo and
play disco.”
The prospects for breaking into the downtown music
scene 1 aren’t much better because the do-or-die
criterionis cash-register appeal, Hartsook said. ’
“It’s purely financial,” he said. “If we don t draw a
crowd, we’ll lose our job." •
A big barrier in developing a large following,
because they know how to relate to an
audience. Not many bands play this kind
of music, and they are definitely
talented in what they do,” said Molly
Johnson, (lst-animalproduction).
(‘There has been quite a bit of talent in
that band as long as they have been
together,” said David Reisinger (7th
general agriculture).
“The band is unique in the fact that
for a local group they are really talen
ted,” said Nancy Norris (sth-recreation
and parks).
A lot of people think that talent will
take them a long way.
“I think they could go further than
State College, but they have become a
tradition at Penn State,” said one for
mer student.
“They really should move out, draw
more of an audience, and build up a
following,” said Keri Taddonio (6th-
GNAS). , ,
“The most important thing that will
help this band go further is that they do
some of their own music, and they do it
well,” said George Jugovic (lOth-ERM).
Tahoka’s members have written at
least 12 songs, including a nice soft rock 1
number, “Light Rain,” and a cute little
ditty called “Rub It Up,” that leaves the
audience smiling.
The band has been compared to Pure
Prairie League, The Marshall Tucker
Band, Outlaws, Poco, The Burrito
Brothers, The Charlie Daniels Band and
a host of others.
But as one listener put it: “They play
just enough of. their own music not to
seem too much like any other band.”
You can hear this band every Monday
and Tuesday night —jthey camp out at
The Brewery. I.
Above all, do not leave your
homestead without your cowboy hat, a
pair of shit-stompers and money for
moonshine (and get ready for some fun).
-Bob Snyder
Conspiracy's Lead Guitarist
especially for Conspiracy, is the 21-year-old drinking
age, which, according to Hartsook, prevents many 16 to
20-year-olds from hearing the band.
“They’re really into sensationalism.” he said. “If
somebody does something wild, they love it; it excites
them.”
What Conspiracy does on stage may or may not
beconstruedas “wild,” depending on how you think the
average band should behave. They move around and
release their feelings through their bodies as well as
their instruments, and they encourage the audience to
share in the release, Hartsook said.
“When We play, we just let go," he said. “It’s almost
like sex (in that) it’s physical as hell it’s something
that you can’t live without but it’s difficult to deal with
and it really gets you off. . ,
“I don’t like a lot of hard rock bands I see because
they seem pretentious,” he said.'They’re purposely
wiggling their ass and showing off. Some people get that
opinion of us, but that’s not where we’re at at all.”
Where Gerhart and rhythm guitarist John Dittmar
are is walking a fine line between their music and
education. Both are undergraduates and have found
the added burden of playing two nights a week a painful
pleasure so much so for co-founder Dittmar (sth
advertising), that he is leaving the band.
, “It’s a little bit too-much,” he said.'“lt’s hard to play
until two or three in the morning and get up for first
period class.”
Gerhart (i3th-environmental resource management)
said playing takes up a lot more time than people think.
“It’s really rough,” he said. “This isn’t just showing up
at 10:30 and playing. It’s moving equipment at four in
the afternoon and going home too keyed up to go to bed.”
If the stereotype holds true, rock and roll musicians
Foot stompin’ fun usually comes with a performance by Terry Whitlock, lead vocalist and guitar player for Tahoka Freer
way.vNamed after a real beer drinking town in Texas, the band mixes country, rock ’n’ roll and jazz for a unique sound.
"There are definitely more women around than if you
weren't in music. Some of them think because you're
physical on stage you 7/ be good in bed."
spend a lot of time in bed, and not necessarily sleeping.
While being in the public eye may give an added ad
vantage in meeting women, the group doesn’t live in a
world of groupies and wild orgies, a picture which
Dittmar called'a myth.
Gerhart algreed that “all that stuff about snapping
your fingers and you’ve got girls that’s not true.” But
that doesn’t prevent Gerhart’s girlfriend from “getting
bummed by the girls who stare and smile,” which may
be part of the reason she attends many of the band’s
performances.
' “There are definitely more women around than if you
weren’t in music,” Hartsook said. “Some of them think
that because you’re physical on stage you’ll be good in
bed. But a lot of them just like the fact that you’re up
there doing something special, something not every
face in the crowd is doing.” -
Another false stereotype, according to Gerhart, is
that those who play hard rock are long-haired, hippie
types who are spaced out on every drug imaginable.
“This is the longest hair I’ve had in my life and it’s not
for an image,” he said. “I had it layered and blow-dried
back for three years. I just got tired of looking like
every other guy on campus."
Like every other band, Conspiracy dreams of making
that onedn-a-million jump to the -big time. “Nobody
wants to play the local scene all their life,” lead
guitarist Bob Snyder said.
But the road ahead promises to be much tougher than
behind, so what exactly makes it all worthwhile?
“It’s fun as hell,” Gerhart, who will graduate next
term with a degree in environmental resource
management, said." And it sure beats riding around in a
government car, hopping out, and taking a water
sample.”
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-Dale Hartsook
Conspiracy's Bassist