Professor blames tuition increases
Rock music class enrollment sags
By DIANE WINOCUR
Ol the Emerald
Rock music classes, like everything
else at the University, suffer from a lack
of funds
Of the three rock music classes cur
rently offered by the music school, two
will be replaced by new titles next term,
with the hope of turning around drop
ping enrollments, says instructor Paul
Friedlander
Friedlander blames the decreased
enrollment on increased University tui
tion, not lack of interest Enrollment has
dropped from 90 students per class in
1978 to 12 this term
Next term, it will cost $54 just to take
the class, which is not part of any
department Students do not have that
kind of money to spare for elective
credits this year, and the fees now
being charged just don't pay the bills,
he says
But with the new classes being of
fered, Fnedlander hopes to encourage
past rock students to return, as well as
entice new students to the program
“It (the new curriculum) will give all
students a chance at some new infor
mation," he says
Instead of fall term's Inside Rock
Music II and History of Rock II,
Friedlander will offer what he considers
to be two entirely new approaches to
teaching rock history Only Inside Rock
Music I classes will remain unchanged.
The first new class, The Electric Gui
tar in Rock Music, will “take a look at
the history of rock through the eyes of
the guitarist," says Friedlander By
studying the guitar styles of 10 artists,
including Duane Allman and Eric Clap
ton. students will experience rock's
development the way it happened, he
says
Friedman's second class will be Folk
and Bluegrass Guitar Styles, a combin
ation of rock history and guitar lessons
Here students with minimal knowledge
of guitar chording may improve their
skills while learning the history and
social importance of the songs and
styles they study
It’s like getting guitar lessons very
inexpensively,’’ says Friedlander, who
calls the $5 per week for a three-hour
session “quite a bargain."
Enrollment in Friedlander's courses
at their inception in 1978 was high But
that was before music school cut-backs
forced the "last hired, first fired" rock
music classes to become self-support
ing and evolve into sponsorship from
the department of continuing educa
tion
Since then enrollment has fallen
sharply
"But I don't anticipate it dropping off
further," Friedlander says. "I think the
enrollment will increase now that we re
offering new courses."
Rock music classes are an uncom
mon offering, says Friedlander, who is
presently studying the developments in
contemporary music programs across
the country for his doctoral thesis He
knows of only two other similar pro
grams on the West Coast
"Many don't consider rock a valid
academic pursuit,” conceeds Fried
lander No definitive studies have been
written in the field, which leaves his
courses without satisfactory texts
In lieu of textbooks, the learning
process is aided by first-hand en
counters, (such as guests from the
music profession and industry), trips to
recording studios and radio stations,
and Friedlander's own experience as a
professional folk guitarist.
"Rock music is a social movement,"
says Friedlander, "you can't teach mu
sic without studying its societal con
text."
Reagan’s ‘new new federalism’ hailed
By CAROL MORTON
Of tfw Em*raM
If nothing else, the Reagan Administration's budget
cuts are going to make it a lot easier for people to say
no, Carl Stenberg said at an informal speech, Friday in
the EMU Forum
Local and state agencies will have to say no to
special interest groups because they don't have the
money for special programs and they won't be able to
get it from the federal government, said Stenberg.the
assistant director of the U S Advisory Commission on
Intergovernmental Relations
Stenberg told 15 students and professors that
Reagan s "New New Federalism '—as distinguished
from Nixon's “New Federalism"-and the accompany
ing budget cuts are advertised by the administration as
a return to grassroots" government
Two of Pres Reagan’s policies, decentralization
and devolution, have generated a good deal of publici
ty, Stenberg said, emphasing the need to distinguish
between the two
Decentralization shifts the responsibility for making
decisions about allocation of money from federal to
state and local levels Local and state governments will
decide where and how federal money is distributed
State and local governments have two tracks to
federal grants, block and catagorical, Stenberg said A
block grant is a broadly authorized sum of money with a
minimum number of strings" attached Stenberg said
that nine block grants, just passed through Congress
with the first round of budget cuts, are major accom
plishments, considering Congress' overall record
The assumption behind all the publicity generated
by the block grants is that the grants will "significantly
decentralize the intergovernmental system by making a
big dent in the trends that brought us here," said
Stenberg But. he added "that is not necessarily so
Block grants are still a small piece of overall federal
aid."
"Creeping categorization" (narrowly specified,
heavily conditioned sums of money) affects block
grants Many grants leave state governments with only
about a 10 percent margin as to where they may
allocate the federal funds. Stenberg said
Stenberg predicted the combination of conditioned
block grants and budget cuts are going to generate "a
wave of third party lawsuits if people don't thing they're
getting what they should He suggested the grants be
renamed the " Lawyers' Full-Employment Act.”
Some of the allocation power that has shifted to the
state government has also brought fiscal responsibility
to the state. Stenberg said Not only will the buck stop at
the state level, but in the case of unpopular or irre
sponsible actions, all the fingers will point there as well.
What really counts is devolution,” said Stenberg
said Fiscal devolution demands that the federal
government relinquish tax sources that state and local
governments can use Excise tax on motor fuels and
liquor as well as cigarette taxes are possible examples
Stenberg listed
The appropriate roles of federal, state and local
governments is the central issue of functional devolu
tion Stenberg said the National Government Associa
tion recommeded that the federal government get out of
law enforcement, education and highways.
Given the track record of state governments in this
area, Stenberg said “these are not un-controversial
proposals "
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