Friday, March 14, 1986
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Art contest entries
are due March 20
Students interested in entering art
work in the undergraduate competitive
exhibition must do so before March 20.
The third annual undergraduate com
petitive exhibition will open April 4.
The entry fee is $1 an item, with a
maximum of three items. The competi
tion offers six $100 Jean K. Faulkner
recognition awards.
Students currently enrolled in stu
dio courses in the art department or
who were enrolled last fall are eligible
to compete.
The exhibition will be juried by
Thomas H. Majeski from Omaha.
Majpski received his bachelor's degree
of fine arts at I'M) and his master's at
the University of Iowa. He is an art
professor at UNL, working in printmak
ing in intaglio, lithography and relief
drawing. He has been an art juror for
many Midwestern colleges and univer
sities. Students interested in submitting
work should contact the art professor
they worked with during the 1985-86
academic year for entry forms and
regulations.
Students will be notified of their
acceptance by March 21.
Flamenco guitarist
to perform at UNL
Ronald Radford, U.S. flamenco guit
arist, will conduct a series of work
shops and seminars culminating in a
concert Saturday' at 8 p.m. in UNL's
Kimball Hall.
Radford is the only person ever to be
awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in
Flamenco guitar. As a Fulbright scho
lar, he traveled in Spain and studied
the work of flamenco guitar masters.
Tickets for the concert are available
at the Kimball Hall box office from 11
a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. For reserva
tions, call 472-3375.
Besides his concert and workshops
at UNL, Radford also will appear at a
free seminar today at McGuffey's, 1042
P St., at 8:30 p.m.
Delillos 'White Noise'
is story for the '80s
By Scott Schmidt
Staff Reporter
There are a million ways to die.
The young do not fear death; they
tease it, play with it. As people get
older, death becomes real it
lurks around the corner.
Book Review
"White Noise" by Don Delillo
explores death and the varying de
grees of fear accompanying the know
ledge that someday we must die.
Delillo's story is set in "middle
America" in the 1980s. It is a world
of microwaves, TV, modern house
hold appliances, radio talk-shows
and commercialism.
Jack Gladney teaches Hitler Stu
dies at the Collegfron-the-Hill. He
lives with his fourth wife, Babette,
and his four ultra-modern children.
Jack Gladney's 14-year-old son,
Heinrich, is one of the wisest,
funniest, most cynical characters in
modern fiction.
The Gladney family lives a nor
mal, middle-class existence until a
train derails in their cozy little
town, the crash released a cloud of
deadly chemicals into the air; the
town must evacuate.
Along the way, Jack is exposed to
the "floating toxic event," forcing
him to look death straight in the
eye.
Delillo does a good job of paral
leling this toxic event with the slow
but sure death being forced on peo
ple by small amounts of radiation,
food preservatives and untested or
undertested "miracle-cure" drugs.
Gladney's fear of death peaks. He
will do almost anything to stay alive.
Jack even goes as far as trying to kill
someone to store up "life credits."
White Noise reads slowly. Delillo
jumps from one place to the next
with the same speed that Jack's
mind moves from one thought to the
next. Delillo creates the sort of
chaotic life that people in the '80s
live.
White Noise is a story for today,
perhaps even offering a moral: Live
for today and do the best you can.
Review copy courtesy of University
Bookstore.
Bookstore bestsellers
are Buscaglia, Bach
University Bookstore
1. "Bus 9 to Paradise," Leo Bus
caglia (Morrow, $16.95)
2. "What Color is Your Parachute?"
1986 edition, Richard Bolles (Ten
Speed, $8.95)
3. "Glitz," Elmore Leonard (Warn
er, $3.95)
4. "Smart WomenFoolish Choi
ces," Dr. Connell Cowan (Signet,
$4.50)
5. "Fit for Life," H. Diamond
(Warner, $16.50)
6. "You're Only Old Once," Dr.
Seuss (Random, $9.95)
7. "The Color Purple," Alice
Walker (Pocket, $3.95)
8. "Love Medicine," Louise Erdrich
(Bantam, $6.95)
9. "More Fun with Dick and
Jane," Mark Gallant (Penguin, $5.95)
10. "On the Road with Charles
Kurault," Charles Kurault (Putnam,
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Nebraska Bookstore
1. "Bridge Across Forever,"
Richard Bach (Dell, $3.95)
2. "The Color Purple" Alice
Walker (Pocket, $3.95)
3. "See You Later Alligator," Wil
liam F. Buckley, Jr. (Dell, $3.95)
4. "Glitz," Elmore Leonard
(Warner, $3.95)
5. "Out of Africa and Shadows on
the Grass," Isak Dinesen (Vintage,
$4.95)
6. "Unexplained Sniglets of the
Universe," Rich Hall (Macmillan,
$5.95)
.7. "Golem in the Gears," Piers
Anthony (Ballantine, $3.95)
8. "Smart WomenFoolish Choi
ces," Dr. Connell Cowan (Signet,
$4.50)
9. "More Fun With Dick and
Jane," Mark Gallant (Penguin,
$5.95)
10. "You're Only Old Once," Dr.
Seuss (Random House, $9.95).
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Larson, right, consults with students Natalie Wung (left) and Paul Dunn at the Mastertrax
sound studio console at 1835 N St. In the studio are The Finnsters T.K. Olson, left, Rick
Cowling and Terry Olson.
Music 398 introduces students
in recording business realities
By Dorothy Pritchard
Staff Reporter
If you want to know how to record
an album, UNL has a class for you.
"Music 398, Introduction to the
Recording Studio" is a two-credit
hour class now in its second semes
ter. The class, created and taught by
Tom Larson, meets at Mastertrax,
Larson's recording studio.
Larson received a master's degree
in music composition from UNL in
1985 and has played keyboards for
local groups like the Tugboats, the
Omaha Symphony Jazz Trio and the
Neoclassic Jazz Orchestra
His assistant, Kurt Labenz, re
ceived an associate of arts degree in
audio engineering from Northeast
Technical Community College in
Norfolk, the only school in Nebraska
to offer this degree.
"Basically, we cover all the equip
ment what it is, how it's used and
the studio design," Larson said.
"We do hands-on engineering and
talk about the latest technology,
like computer-assisted recording.
It's all about putting out a record."
The students taking the class are
a "mixed bag" Larson said, ranging
from musicians to engineers.
"A couple are interested in being
audio engineers, but most of them
are just fascinated by the business,"
Larson said. "It's a glamorous busi
ness; there is a mystique about
recording studios."
T.K. Olson, a pre law major and
drummer for the local band The
Finnsters, said he didn't expect the
class to be as in-depth as it is.
"I know more of what I want as a
drummer," Olson said. "I have a lot
more insight as to what sounds
better."
Jim Kula, a 32-year-old service
representative with the Social
Security Administration, graduated
with a degree in music from UNL in
1974.
Kula said, "I enrolled to get a
better understanding of the bits
and pieces. It's one thing to read it
in text and another to actually do
it."
Entertainment Letters
Writers should be considerate
It would seem to me that anyone
allowed to write for the Daily Nebras
kan would have not only journalism
abilities, but some consideration for
whom their writing will affect.
But the two reporters that reviewed
whatshername's album, 'Skin On Skin"
(DN, March 10), made me wonder
about the latter.
My beef is their referral to Amy
. Grant as a "pseudo-Christian siren who
wears leopard-skin prints." Two things,
gentlemen: Webster's tells that "pseudo"
means "fake." I've been taught that it
is unwise to make a judgmental state
ment when you don't kow quite what
you're talking about. It's obvious to me
; that you do not. And the leopard skin?
' Since when has that been strange or
even worth mentioning?
It might profit you both, in your
journalism futures, to be more consid
erate of what and whom you write
about.
Karen Whitmarsh
sophomore
advertising
Amy Napier
sophomore
speech pathology
Column was the truth
I'd like to comment on Stew Magnu
son's column (DN, March 10) and give
him a word" of advice.
First, Stew, if you really want to be a
hated columnist you can't go on writing
such truths. You see, we dormies are
proud of the fact that we are obnoxious
scum .We enjoy being . thought of as
hicks or bumouts. Why else do you
think we would throw ice cream in the
tunnels and stairways?
It's tradition. Dormies come from a
long line of pranksters who think it's
fun to throw water and see how long we
can go without flushing the toilets.
Ron Stephenson
...'"'' freshman ;
broadcasting