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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1976)
‘10 point 5’: culture at a popular price By JACKMAN WILSON 10 point 5 cycles per second is an alpha wave frequency associated with ESP, daydreaming and hypnosis. 10 point 5 is also the name of Eugene's newest arts magazine. At 10 point 5 cycles per second the human mind is in a relaxed state of awareness, space and time are transcended the creative forces flow. The magazine “10 point 5” is intended to provide the artists, poets and writers in Eugene an opportunity to publish the results of their creativity. "Our dream is to get it expanded into a local arts magazine a lot of people will use and a lot of people will enjoy,” says Peter Jensen, one of eight members of the magazine s cooperative editorial staff. The third issue of" 10 point 5" is on sale in bookstores around Eugene. The magazine is a quarterly and costs 50 cents. A number of small businesses in the community provide added financial support in the form of $25 donations. “10 point 5" sells no advertising. About half of the content of the magazine comes from the staff, and almost all of it comes from around Eugene, but Jensen says “if Gary Snyder sends us a poem, he'll get it in." This community orientation is a deliberate editorial policy. “It's a dream we have that it would be sort of a focal point for a lot of local artists, Jensen says. "Most of our energy and most of our donations come from the local area.” 10 point 5 was established by “about three ex-Augur peo ple ' and the first issue appeared last February. “It’s been growing ever since, Jensen says. (i he Augur was a local “alternative” newspaper which folded a couple years ago.) The artwork and photography are consistently good. The verbal content is too varied to lend itself to uniform judgment but everyone is likely to find something they like. The current issue features "In Sync, an interview with five local filmmakers. Jensen says the magazine will limit itself to one or two interviews each issue. For 50 cents, “ 10 point 5" is culture at a popular price. Even if you read only a few of the poems and look at the artwork, it will cost you less per minute than a movie, and after you're throuqh you can give it to a friend. Soft Contact Lens Wearers for participating in Market Research Study For details, send name and address to: Medical Research Associates P.O. Box 342 Laguna Beach, CA 92652. Mae West featured in film festival After 375 performances in New York City, the first play Mae West wrote was closed by the vice squad and she was fined $500 and sentenced to ten days in jail on a morals charge (she served only eight days and got two days off for good behavior). Six months after her second film and first star By MELINDA GRIER ring role, “She Done Him Wrong," premiered, the Legion of Decency was organized, chiefly in re sponse. After her fifth picture, “Klondike Annie,” William Ran dolph Hearst called her the "monster of lubricity" and "a menace to the Sacred Institution of the American Family"; in one editorial he petitioned Congress "to do something" about her. What was it about West that, while drawing huge box office crowds, caused such an uproar? Currently the Campus YWCA is sponsoring a Mae West film festi val highlighting five of her motion pictures. The films being shown weekly include “I’m No Angel," shown Wednesday, Jan. 7; "Klondike Annie" shown Tues day, Jan. 13; "Go West Young Man," Jan. 20; “Every Day's a Holiday," Jan. 27, and “She Done Him Wrong," Feb. 4. All of the films show that it wasn t what West said or did on the screen that was so outrage ous, it was what she implied and her attitude toward sex that drew the wrath c f the establishment and drew crowds to the theaters. West was the master of the innuendo with lines such as “A man in the house is worth two on the street." West's costume, her walk, and her voice all imply invitation, and even more outrageous to the pillars of the 30's establishment, they treated sex as comedy, as a joke. J West has fun with her lines and her implications. West was also different from other stars in the control she main tained. At a time when most stars were dictated to by the studios, their men, and/or their parents, West was in command. She wrote the screenplays and her dialogue, selected the director, picked the cast, selected the composer, ap proved the music and costumes and supervised the production of her films from the beginning. She has been criticized because her films were vehicles for her own talents but while this is true, she is the only person to create success ful vehicles. J I She still spends her time mak ing herself attractive to men and although she appears to have de voted her life to men she claims she had actually devoted it to her self, her own greatest interest. She was quoted, "if I find a man absorbs too much of my time and my mind, I get rid of him. It's all right for a man to concentrate on me. I'm not interested in concen trating all my thoughts on him. There is little doubt that both on the screen and off West is con stantly in control. The films in the series make that evident. The series is held in 103 Fenton, and showings are at 7 and 9 p.m. Ad mission is S1. Mae West SAVE $25.00 on Raleigh Ten Speeds Downtown Eugene 960 Charnelton 345-7521 HUTCH’S BK&&LE5 across from Sears GRAN PRIX & RECORD MODELS I'M OK, SCHOOL'S NOT OK Just about all students have an academic problem at one time or another. PACE, an ASUO program, is seeking stu dents interested in developing a Peer Academic Counseling program. Credit is offered. Come to the PACE seminar, Tuesday, Jan 20, 4 to 6 PM’ Room to be announced, or phone ext. 3802.
