Letters
Serve the students
It is time that the University
Co op began serving the needs
of the students that it claims to,
but in reality does not. One of
the biggest reasons for this fail
ure is that the Co-op has always
had an ineffectual board of di
rectors.
The board of directors is sup
posed to be the policy-making
body for the Co-op and represent
the students’ interests in this
capacity. The board has year af
ter year failed to represent the
students’ interests or even to be
a policy-making body. Policy has
always been formulated by the
Co-op management and rubber
stamped by the board.
It is time for the Co-op to be
run for the benefit of the stu
dents, and not the Co-op manage
ment.
We, as a slate of candidates for
the Co-op Board of Directors,
will, if elected, see that the Co
op does in fact serve the needs
of the students.
Among other things, we will
see that avenues for the Co-op
are explored, such as increased
merchandise selection, more ef
ficient operation, possible d i s
count operation, cheaper text
book prices, more favorable text
book repurchase prices, and
cheaper textbook prices.
The following is our slate:
Graduates: Gary M. Schultens,
Steve Cassani.
At-large: Phil Barnhart.
Sophomores: Rex Armstrong,
Walt Munly.
Freshman: Colleen Swanton.
Remember, “It’s your Co-op.”
Gary M. Schultens
2nd Year, Law; Chairman,
Graduate Student Council
Co-op Committee
Free 13th Street
Thirteenth Street should be a
mall for the benefit of students.
Close 13th permanently to all
motorized vehicles. Make Earth
Day count on thus campus as a
gesture of our commitment to a
balanced ecology.
Margaret Campbell
Stan Danis
Mike Erieson
Heal Mossman
Bruce Walde
Linda Williamson
KVVAX threatened
I belong to a minority here at
the University. I am one of £4
announcers for the campus radio
station KVVAX 91.1 EM During
the last two years I have seen
the station come from an unor
ganized, unknowing group to our
present personnel of capable peo
ple. The music programmed in
this period has turned to pop and
progressive rock. By volunteer
ing our time we have been able
to keep the station on six days
a week twelve hours each day.
We have found out that be
cause of our sincere efforts to
present something to the stu
dents as well as the community
we are now eligible to receive
$15,000 during the next two years
from an independent broadcast
fund to improve our program
ming. Also from the ASUO we
received this year money to pur
chase three badly needed micro
phones and two tape recorders.
It has been through student ef
forts that this money has been
available.
The Division of Broadcast
Services has decided that our
type of programming, including
classical, pop, folk, and progres
sive rock music is not education
al and have decided that they
will change the musical format
to one of primarily classical mu
sic. It is our feeling that due to
the programming that we the
students presented and the ef
forts we have shown is one rea
son why KWAX has been se
lected to receive funds. The fac
ulty is trying to take what we
have built. We ask your sup
port. The “Sound of the Univer
sity” should be primarily the
students but if support is not
shown by you our listeners the
sound will be that of the faculty.
One last point should be made
here.
A part of the students inci
dental fees money next year will
be going to KWAX radio; will
the students be there? If you
support our viewpoint and want
KWAX to remain a University
station call or write the Division
of Broadcast Services at the Uni
versity of Oregon and may we
all be heard.
Billy Goat
KWAX Announcer
Follow the leader
Now that departmental privilege
has sanctity here on the Univer
sity campus it seems unusual that
other departments are not fol
lowing the lead of ROTC in cre
ating a more viable academic
community.
To apply the principles there
established, the department of
biology, for example, should
make the following rulings and
see that they are placed in the
course catalog:
"Note: Prerequisite to any
course in the biology department
the student will be required to
sign an oath of allegiance to
the American Association for the
Advancement of Science. The
student will also be required to
wear one day a week a symbolic
ally decorated lab coat.
if at the beginning of his
junior year the student wishes to
make contractural arrangements
with the AAAS, guaranteeing he
will practice biology at least four
more years, then upon graduation
he will be commissioned “biology
2nd class'; in the interim he will
receive a small stipend.”
Furthermore, the faculty of the
Kick out
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department of biology should
serve notice to the University
administration that jurisdiction
over hiring, subject matter and
other departmental matters is
being transferred to the AAAS,
and that while administration rec
ommendations will be given “con
sideration” they carry no author
ity.
It is expected, of course, that
all other departments will sim
ilarly adopt these progressive
standards.
Bruce Winterhalder
Jr. Indep. Studies
At a time when college students have become more concerned about
ethics and morality than ever before, the college concert business has
grown more corrupt. Now that college concerts represent a business gross
ing hundreds of millions of dollars, the campus has been invaded by agents,
sub-agents, promoters and others. Kickbacks between agents and sub
agents have become common and there are even under the table offers
being made to representatives of the colleges and even students; all of
which contributes to the inflation of the price of the performer.
At the same time, turmoil has developed within the colleges themselves
between administrations,appalled at the lack of knowledge and sophisti
cation of student bookers, and students rightfully desiring more freedom
in choosing their own kind of performer. Again agents have taken advan
tage of the situation to force prices up even further. Schools are often
forced to risk 20 to 30 thousand dollars per concert in order to satisfy
the desires of the students.
Over the years schools have organized to protect themselves and to get
better prices by booking together in groups. These organizations are now
exchanging important information about artists and have been able to
solve some of the minor problems existing between the artist and the
school. But the most important problem, i.e. how to deal with the agent
has not been solved. Meaningful block booking has not been possible
because agents have never been forced to give a firm price from which
reductions can be clearly determined. In addition, the school organiza
tions have failed to achieve the most obvious and important agreement
possible among themselves, i.e.: An advance guarantee ceiling above
which no member school would be permitted to bid.
Agents have convinced the colleges and themselves that these things
are not possible. But agents have consistently failed to recognize the very
real difference between open concert promotions and college concerts. In
dealing with open concert promoters it is necessary to demand the highest
guarantee possible with a large amount of money in advance to insure
getting paid and receiving the best possible promotion. College promo
tions on the other hand require little more than a few posters around the
campus and the enthusiasm generated by word of mouth between stu
dents. Once the contract is signed it is usually just a matter of showing
up to pick up the check. As one college president put it, “We have been
in this same location for 200 years. It’s a sure bet we will be here for the
concert. Perhaps the agency should pay us a guarantee that the artist will
be here also.”
I he agent, who in fact only deals in money, should not be expected to
solve these problems. The artist, on the other hand, should be as con
cerned for the future of this business as the colleges themselves. For many
artists, due to the peculiar nature of nightclubs and television, it remains
the only place to make an honest living.
Sanity can return to the college concert business if artists and schools
accept two basic premises:
1. Schools are not in the business of losing or making money from
college concerts.
2. Artists must earn their money through admissions at the time of the
performance and not in large guarantees which may or may not
represent the performers true value.
Although it is not possible for an individual artist to implement all that
follows from acceptance of these two principles, it is my intent to go as far
as possible by first eliminating exclusive agency representation from col
lege concerts only. In its place I submit, through the following schedule,
firm terms and prices covering most situations.
It is hoped that, if successful other artists will join me in forming a
non-profit association of college concert artists dedicated to the protection
of each other and the colleges in which they perform.
Editor's Note: Glenn Yarbrough, the folksinger, has distributed
this column on a national basis. It discusses alternatives to the
“cultural rip-off."
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