Friday, September 27, 1968
The Daily Nebraskan
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Crowded Woods means art annexes
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Gone to pot? No, not exactly. It's more like gone to pipe as the sculpture
studio, including the pottery classes, of the art department will soon be
located in a converted plumbing warehouse on N. 17th Street.
Scrip
to change
format
Scrip Magazine is a thing
of the past.
According to editor Dace
Grots, Scrip is now the
University of Nebraska
Review.
The magazine is also
changing from its traditional
booklet format to a pamphlet,
she said. Lowering the
magazine's cost and increas
ing its circulation are the
primary objectives of the
change.
Issues will be circulated on
the Omaha campus as well
as the Lincoln campus this
year, Miss Grots continued.
The first Issue is now being
completed and will consist
primarily of material from
winners of creative writing
and art contests last year,
Material for later issues is
neeaea, sne saia, and may
be left in the Scrip box at
the Nebraska Union desk.
Drells to appear in Lincoln tonight
Colorado
in NSA
Students at the University
of Colorado are facing a
debate on University affilia
tion with the National Student
Association (NSA), according
to the Colorado Daily.
The University of Nebraska
is presently enrolled in NSA
(or a probationary one year
period.
NSA proponents at CU
argue that the low-cost travel
and insurance plans and the
Washington lobby by NSA
were valuable.
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Archie Bell and the Drells,
nationally-known recording
artists from Houston, Texas,
will appear in an 8:30 concert
and dance Friday evening in
Pershing Auditorium. They
will be backed by the T. S.
U. Tornados, another
southland recording group.
The Drells feature such
songs as "Tighten Up," "I
Just Can't Stop Dancin'," and
"The Ctioo Choo."
by Larry Eckholt
Senior Staff Writer
Con temporary sculptors
have used pipes, bathtubs and
kitchen sinks for pop-art
statues. Now the University
art department Is converting
an old plumbing warehouse
into a sculptors' studio.
' Woods Art Building, only
six years old, has been
overcrowded during half of its
occupancy, said Duard Lag
ing, chairman of the depart
ment.
The only alternative has
been to utilize facilities at
different campus locations,
he said.
C URRENTLY, beginning
drawing classes are being
held in the basement of the
Westbrook Music Building
graduate students have been
moved to an old office
building near Memorial Sta
dium and the sculpture studio
has been moved to the former
plumbing warehouse on No,
17th St.
Laging said that one of the
most critical areas of in
struction concerns Art 29 and
Art 31, the basic art history
survey courses. Nearly 800
students are enrolled in these
classes, demanding 12 sec
tions.
"We tried to gain space in
the 501 Building to relieve the
situation, but nothing was
avialable," he said. The large
classroom now being used for
the lectures is kept in con-
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The department currently
has 350 majors, plus 20
graduate students. It also
serves 50 to 75 archltecute
students who take art courses
In design.
The bulging enrollment also
has created a need for more
equipment in some areas of
the department.
"Most schools which offer
photography have at least 12
enlargers for their freshman
courses alone," Laging said.
The University department
has six for the entire pro
gram. "WE HAVE six pottery
wheels for 60 students," he
continued, "and they are
being kent in constant use
during regular hours, at m'Pht
and on weekends."
Laging considered the tirint
shop to be one of the "most
adequate" areas in the
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FRIDAY, SEPT. 27
(Al! activities in the Nebraska
Union, unless otherwise indicated.)
INTERVARSITY CHRIS
TIAN FELLOWSHIP, 8 a.m.
PSYCH 70, 8:30 a.m.
ARCH 5, 9:30 a.m.
PROGRAM DEPT., 11 a.m.
MOSLEM STUDENT ASSN.,
12:30 p.m.
A. PH. A, 1:30 p.m.
S D S, 6:30 p.m.
INTERVARSITY CHRIS
TIAN FELLOWSHIP, 7:30
p.m.
YOUNG REPUBLICANS, 8
p.m.
TURKISH ASSN., B p.m.
INDIA ASSN., 8 p.m.
CAMPUS CRUSADE, 8 p.m.
MOVIE: "Judgement At
Nurenberg", 7 and 9 p.m.
department. The shop com
fortably handles 35 students
and contains two etching
presses and two lithography
presses.
There are 14 full-time pro
fessors teaching in the art
department and 12 graduate
assistants. Laging does not
think that any professor Is
being overloaded with
students, even though most
art classes are studio classes
which offer individual
criticism to each student.
"Of course, faculty
members, working under less
crowded conditions and with
fewer students, could do a
better job," he said. "But this
does not mean that the
faculty is doing substandard
work at this time."
Future University plans call
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18 hole indoor min. golf
17 billiard tables
Group and Party rates
N. 48th & Dudley
for a wing to be built on the
south side of Woods, but no
definite timetable has been
announced for the expansion,
Laging said.
"Woods does have its good
points," he said. "There Is
balanced lighting in the
studios, and the rooms are
somewhat flexible."
BUT THERE is no space
available within the building
to have student exhibitions.
"Students' work should
always be on exhibition,"
Laging explained, "so that
the student can evaluate
himself on a comparative
basis."
Laging pointed to a
resurgence In all aspects of
the creative arts on this
campus since about 1960, ex
plaining the current situation.
"There Is no doubt that this
has been a period of tension.
An outlet for this tension can
be found in the creative arts,
such as drama, music and
speech. Art seems to be at
tracting more and more
young people each year."
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Young Group Plays for Those
Loyal to, Learning of Jazz
By HOLLY SPENCE
Even though jazz groups and jazz fans
are considered part of a vanishing breed,
they are probably one of the most loyal groups
in the music world.
And the notion that young people are not
taking to jazz must be tagged erroneous, at
least in Lincoln. A case in point is the Dave
Brown Trio.
The threesome, who have been playing
m the Red Lion Lounge at the Colonial Inn
for over a year, have built up quite a stalwart
young following from a faint trickle of fans
in the beginning.
The group includes: leader and pianist
Dave Brown, bassman Bob Jones and Paul
Maher on drums.
Involvement and individualism seem to
be the key words in Brown's musical
vocabulary.
Composer-pianist Brown said, "We try to
put emotionalism into the music to make the
people become involved."
"So many people are trying to express
themselves and even the small combos are
trying to say something," he noted. "Basically
our sound is an original sound, but we can't
go as far out as we would like."
Jazz fans often try to tag a musician
as emulating a "big name," but in the case
of Brown, it is almost impossible. One hears
shades of Brubeck, Shearing, Jamal and Nero
stylings.
He admitted that Brubeck's use of timing
is fantastic and he enjoys the incorporation
of classics into the Nero sound.
"With Brubeck, the musicians are working
against each other, but there is a stream
of thought," he s iid.
Brown enjoys doing his own compositions
because it gives him a chance for expression
and individuality. Song-writing isn't a continual
and rigorous task for him ... "I don't get
up at 6 a.m. and start writing."
"It usually comes to me some night or
it is an idea that's been with me a long
time," he said. "Lots of times I'll be driving
and something will come to me, but I
generally have to be at a piano to try out
the chords."
The Iowa-born jazzman, who was once
a music major, is now a senior studying
sociology at Nebraska Wesleyan University.
Brown's sensitivity to beauty and sound
is more than evident in his compositions and
he recalls such things as the musical rhythm
of baling hay one summer.
Brown said that those people who can't
find beauty in the simple things of life, will
never find anything that satisfies.
He can find satisfaction and musical in
spiration in the sea, people, sounds of nature
and many of the abstract things not generally
held in esteem by the younger generation.
Even though his jazz is interpreted more
through music than lyrics, Brown's music still
tells a story.
One of his most successful compositions
is entitled "Transplant," which he calls a
"timely gimmick" tune.
It tells of a new heart and a new lease
on life. It begins with a pulsating heartbeat
which grows and grows. As the tune continues,
the heart gives out. The throbbing sound is
renewed only to stop again.
Music lovers . . . keep the faith.!
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Jazz trio (from left): bass Bob Jones, pianist Dave Brown, drummer Paul
Maher.
""printed frsrn Lincoln Sunday Journal and Stor NEB&a$!fAinnf) FOCUS. September IS. 1968