‘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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.