arts Scrooge glowers over his ledgers in the Artist Series, Center for the Performing Arts-sponsored adaptation of A Christmas Carol, which stars the company of the Nebraska Theatre Caravan. This musical event features traditional holiday songs with contemporary scoring. It also boasts colorful costumes and full special effects. One such effect is a 16-foot human puppet which stars as the Ghost of Christmas Future. Tickets for the show are now on sale at the Eisenhower Auditorium Box Office, open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays. Well-planned resumes prove necessary By ELIZABETH A. FRANK Collegian Arts Writer Does Your Resume Wear Blue Jeans? The Book on Resume Preparation by G. Edward Good 178 pp. Charlottesville, Va. Word Store. $8.95. It’s that time of the year again at the University: seniors are interviewing for jobs and that means writing resumes. Does Your Resume Wear Blue Jeans?, which is written in an easy-to-read, con versational style, has useful hints and information on how to write resumes that sell you to the employer. Good asserts that attractive graphic design, proper grammar and appropriate selection of information make for a dressed up resume, one that doesn’t merely wear blue jeans. The author used to be a lawyer who taught at the University of Virginia School of Law. One day he was sitting in his office looking over a resume and essay he was submitting to the United States Supreme Court for a judicial fellowship. A law student walked into Good’s office, took one look at the paper in his hands and said, “Ed, this is awful.” Then the student left the office and re turned in a few minutes with his resume. In Good’s words: “His was beautiful. Mine, without doubt, was awful*. . . His caught the eye of the reader. His forced his reader to see credentials he wanted to emphasize. His was graphically designed. Mine was thrown together. His was terrific. Mine was a mess.” The reason: the law student had been a graphic artist before going to law school. Of course, in CMJ's weekend Marathon examines state of new music By PAT GRANDJEAN Collegian Arts Writer “New music” to the College Music Journal, a trade publication for col lege radio, is: “the best rock, jazz, reggae, folk, soul and dance music from the world’s most innovative and dynamic musicians.” This Sunday night, MTV will broadcast CMJ’s 1985 New Music Awards show, which was held on Nov. 9 at the Beacon Theatre in New York City. Viewers will be treated to two hours of the usual awards-show buffoonery, in addition to the spirited performances of art ists such as jazz guitarist Stanley .Jordan, Run D.M.C., In Pursuit and the Del Fuegos. What won’t be seen are the events that preceded the New Music Awards program an annual record industry/radio confer ence, which combined with the awards ceremony, is known as the Music Marathon. Rhythm radio programming, reg gae music, women’s role in new mu sic, major record labels, independent labels and the state of progressive rock radio were all topics under con sideration throughout the weekend. Participants included record indus try representatives, figures from col lege and commercial radio, journalists and artists themselves. The keynote speakers for the event were recording and performing artist Laurie Anderson and Bob Guiccione Jr., editor of Spin magazine. Despite the Marathon’s scope, how ever, every symposium ultimately examined the same basic issue: how can we promote new music, in all its forms, to a wider audience? Promo tion is made especially complex by the fact that the term “new music” does not identify one genre. Instead, it unifies a body of stylistically diver se music with one attribute: its lack of commercial acceptance. No one denies the success of college radio in promoting new artists. It has been instrumental in creating a wider audience for The Police, Talking Heads and Simple Minds, all of whom Good’s case the expert resume-writer immedi ately turned Good’s resume into a work of art. Most of us aren’t so lucky. Good shows how to write effective resumes from specific samples in the book, but he emphasizes that each resume should have its own style and that each writer must decide what is important to include. He cautions people not to take pre-written formulas from the book and plug them into slots in their resume. However, this is easier said than done. It is often difficult for the person to be objective enough to know what to include. Some times outside help, perhaps an expert on resumes, might aid, the writer with objective suggestions and decisions. Reading the book is suggested because Good has sensible, down-to-earth advice. He points out that most employers read resumes in stacks and spend an average of 30 seconds looking at each one. For this reason it becomes obvious that the resumes employers pull out of the pile to read further are those that catch the eye. And having yours read is the first step to getting an interview, which is the first step to getting a job. To prove his point, Good has the reader look at typical resume for 30 seconds. This reader couldn’t pay attention for even the time allotted, it was so humdrum and boring. “Go blow your horn” is by far his most impor tant piece of advice. And he explains how to do just that in nine steps. The first on the list is: “Find a quiet place where you can be alone. Be sure to take along a legal pad. And don’t forget, leave your humility behind." (The italics are mine.) Then he tells you to take four sheets of paper and title each one with a different label, Education, Things I’ve now enjoy airplay on commercial radio as well. The use of “block programming” scheduling four hours of dance music here, a few hours of folk music there has insured that more obscure musical artists receive exposure. Sting him self once paid it the ultimate tribute by stating, “through it we crawled, we walked, and now we have learned to run.” In the face of its virtues, many Marathon participants still ques tioned whether current campus radio is a truly democratic barometer of what is happening in the music indus try, and whether its programmers are maximizing its potential for sup port of new artists. Some wondered whether major record label artists were receiving fair airplay, while others castigated the stations for becoming rigid in their formatting and promoting only the most accessi ble groups, such as R.E.M. and the Del Fuegos. Byron Coley, editor of the music fanzine Forced Exposure, deplored the trend of “R.E.M. soundalikes” on college airwaves. “There are a lot of bands out there that sound very dif ferent,” he insisted. “They’re not necessarily better than R.E.M., but they deserve to be heard,” he added, citing Big Black and Sonic Youth as examples. On the other hand, Mike Harrison of Goodphone Communications sug gested that these stations are mindlessly devaluing the mains tream in the same manner that com mercial radio trivializes non-top 40 artists by refusing to play them. He asked one station representative, “Tell me honestly if I sent you a Barbra Streisand record, would you play it?” David Johansen, who par ticipated in a “free-for-all” question and-answer session with a mixed panel of recording artists, had the last and best word on the subject. “The whole idea of college radio should be that it doesn’t matter what you define rock, or any music, as semantically. If it means something to you, program it and have the balls to play it.” Both college radio and commercial radio stations with alternative playl ists are emphasizing more aggres sive ways of providing artist exposure. Many are more active than ever in establishing a network of concert promotion in their commu nities. College radio station KJHK FM in Lawrence, Kan., has estab lished a series of on-campus “corn field concerts,” which are held in a small concrete buiding in the middle of a field. The station’s program manager has also attempted to get other gigs in surrounding commu nities such as Kansas City, Topeka and Wichita for the bands he’s hired, which include the Meat Pup pets and the Screaming Sirens.' WRUV-FM, the University of Ver mont station, sponsors regular reg gae shows and has featured Toots and the Maytals, Pablo Moses, General Public and First Light in concert. Such efforts often take place without the assistance of university concert committees or student union boards. Another force playing an important role in the exposure of new music is the rock press. Music journalism can be divided into two camps these days: national and regional publica tions and fanzines. Not surprisingly, representatives from each realm see their responsibi lities as dramatically different. “It’s not my role to aid the development of new bands,” scoffed Doug Simmons, music editor of the Village Voice. “My role is to entertain and give advice to consumers. If I hear a new band’s name on the streets through their fans, then I have no choice but to deal with them. My advice to new bands is not to worry about press exposure go out and get some fans. The press are not your fans. We don’t care.” His more traditional position was contradicted by Julie Panebianco of Matter magazine, a fanzine based in New Jersey. She noted that “fanzines A musical version of 'Carol' comes A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens’ literary classic, has be come a' holiday tradition. This year the Artists Series, Center for Performing Arts will sponsor the Nebraska Theatre Caravan’s pro duction of A Christmas Carol at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday in Ei senhower Auditorium. This production will feature something different from typical past performances music. theater preview “The songs used in the show are traditional,” said Charles Jones, executive director of the Omaha Community Playhouse, the parent body of the Theatre Caravan. “But the scoring by music arranger John Bennett is contemporary and beautiful.” Singing will act as an interlude in the well-known story of Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit and Scrooge. “Each carol in the show was chosen for the dramatic atmo sphere it contributed to the pro- Done For Pay, Things I’ve Done For Free and Things I Have Done Well. Good likens all this to writing a good toothpaste commercial the package, not the product, is what sells it. This may seem to be a rather crass attitude, but in the dog-eat-dog job marketplace, it is all too often true. Good also discusses types of resumes, suggest ing that the chronological, rather than the func tional resume is usually most appropriate. In the “Sequencing Information” section Good has two rules: “First, lead with your strength. Second, end with a bang.” He also has sections on “Traps to Avoid.” One such trap is explaining why you were fired from a job. “You never, ever put negative information on your resume. If you were fired from a job and the question comes up in an interview, then you answer the question directly and honestly. But you are under absolutely no obligation to reveal bad information unless you’re asked. And since no body’s asking anything when you write your re sume, you have no ethical obligation to blow your horn with a sour note.” Included in the book are sample formats and type styles for resumes. But an ulterior motive lurks in the background. You see, Good now runs a business, The Word Store, a resume printing service run through the mail. Resume-writers from all over America can and do send their resumes to The Word Store where for a fee they can be stored and/or printed. If you buy the book and are willing to answer a few questions Good offers free electronic storage, an $8.95 value, which amounts to reimbursement for buying the book. Pictured here is the group Sonic Youth, one of the many bands discussed during College Music Journars Music Marathon. are generally warmer, more enthu siastic. We see our main goal as informing people about new bands. We champion new music more acti vely.” Bridging the gap between the two positions is Bob Guiccione Jr.’s Spin magazine, eight issues old, which exposes new bands in the manner of a fanzine and yet is more selective and critical about the artists who are covered. Daily community newspa pers are also working harder than ever on band exposure, often in con junction with local club’s efforts to advertise group appearances. Rarely does press coverage appear, in and of itself, to have any marked impact on audience response to a band. At their best, though, journalists join with college radio, bar owners and more established groups in providing a duction,” Jones said. The musical tradition of A Christmas Carol began 10 years ago when Charles Jones scripted a version of Dickens’ work for a volunteer cast at the Omaha Com munity Playhouse. John Bennett, music director, Joanne Cady, cho reographer and James Othuse, resident designer, added 19th-cen tury music, dances, costumes and magical sets involving special ef fects. It has since become an an nual event in Omaha. The production aims to present a “Christmas in your mind when you were a child,” and features 200 costumes of silk and taffeta, “Christmas card” sets and 36 ac tors, singers and musicians. Some of the special effects include a 16- foot human puppet as the Ghost of Christmas Future, billowing smoke and a bed that mysterious ly moves around Scrooge’s bed room. Tickets for the two perfor mances are ''now on sale at the Eisenhower Auditorium box office 9 a m. to 4 p.m. weekdays. —by Carole Kucharewicz 'God Knows' helps Heller win a French book award By MARILYN AUGUST Associated Press Writer PARIS American novelist Jo seph Heller and South Africa’s J.M. Coetzee were honored Mon day as the best foreign novelists of the year by France’s Interrallie book awards. Heller won for his most recent novel, God Knows, and Coetzee for Michael K., His Life, His Time. The respected Femina prize, worth $620 and generally awarded to “new, young talent,” went to Argentinian Hector Bianciotti for Sans la Misericorde du Christ, (Without the Mercy of Christ) his first novel written in French. The Medicis Prize, which crowns a “new style or tone” and earns the winning author $550, was awarded to Michel Braudeau, 39, for Naissance d'une Passion, (Birth of a Passion), a story of three adolescents whose lives and loves reflect the changing mores of a generation. The Interrallie jury hailed God Knows for its sensitive and prob ing portrayal of'King David as a man of many faces a Jewish ; ■ potential network of support for new acts. The consensus of opinion among Marathon participants was that new music artistry is in a healthy state at present. Independent record labels are achieving financial solvency, while more and more artists are gaining major label deals and critical approval. If anything poses a threat to new music, Marathon participants thought, it is the Parents Music Re source Center’s drive to place warn ing stickers on new album releases. While some scoffed at the Washington Wive’s actions, others saw some dan ger in their success. In his keynote speech, Guiccione said, “The danger is that they’re so obvious. We dismiss them, think they’re going to go away, and that’s why they get what they want. I see The Daily Collegian Wednesday, Nov. 27, 1985 Hendrix's gold records are stolen SEATTLE (AP) Five gold re cords honoring recordings by the late rock star Jimi Hendrix have been stolen, his father said. “They’re not really gold, only records painted gold,” said James A. Hendrix. “It’s sentimental value more than any thing.” The records were stolen Friday, apparently by burglars who broke into the house Nov. 4 and took a television, video cassette recorder and microwave oven. The burglars apparently came back for the re cords, which were hanging on a wall. The family appealed to any collec tors who come across the records to call police. Two of the gold records were for “Crash Landing” and “Band of Gyp sies.” Hendrix, who was born and raised in Seattle, is perhaps best known for his electric guitar performances of “Purple Haze” and “Foxy Lady” in the late 19605. He died of a drug overdose in Lon don in 1970 and is buried in Renton, south of Seattle. maverick, an artist and an insatia ble lover, both tender and cruel. Heller, 62, best known for the irreverent and witty style of his best-selling Catch 22, has a wide audience in France. The jury said Coetzee, whose novel tells the story of a gardener with a hairlip mistaken for a dan gerous terrorist, was following in the tradition of other white South African literary talents such as Nadine Gordimer, Andre Brink and Breyten Breytenbach. Femina laureate Bianciotti, 55, was born to Italian parents who - settled in Argentina. He first came to Europe in 1955, settling in Paris in 1961. Bianciotti’s style, with its long sentences that digress and open . ing and closing parentheses that take the reader back in time, has been compared to Marcel Proust’s. Sans la Misericorde du Christ is the story of a lonely expatriate woman living in Paris. In the opening pages, she is befriended by the narrator, her neighbor, who ultimately tells her story, and records it, in novel form. them inspiring waves of fanatics the sort that'bomb record stores.” A & M representative Albert Carafaro’s concerns were far more common place. “I sense this could lead to community ordinances being placed on touring bands’ behaviors, that sort of thing. It’s also possible that labels will turn down the chance to sign controversial new artists in future.” He admitted that he was uspset that some labels had agreed to the PMRC demands so quickly. “When you ac quiesce to limits on free speech, there’s no way you win,” he said. Carafaro’s comment echoes an ear lier statement made by Coley in re sponse to the idea that “alternative” musicians should strive to be popu lar. “They don’t have to be popular,” he responded. “Music loses when it becomes viable commercially.” Cartoonists to focus on hunger this holiday By JERRY SCHWARTZ Associated Press Writer NEW YORK The superheroes, talking animals and harried heroines of the nation’s comic pages will put aside their imaginary concerns Thanksgiving Day as 175 leading cartoonists devote their strips to the issue of hunger. 1 The “Comic Relief” project conceived by Doonesbury’s Garry Trudeau and co-spon sored by Charles Schulz (Peanuts) and Mil ton Caniff (Steve Canyon) is to raise awareness and money to feed the world’s hungry. So in addition to broaching the subject of hunger in each of their strips, the cartoonists AfterThanksg 33% Off Jr. Selected Sweaters and Sweater Vests Reg. $lB-$29, now 11.99-18.99. 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