UC grad student killed inNon-westernciv awardedNSF grantBy Bruce LewensteinThe College has received aNational Science Foundation(NSF) grant for the developmentof non-western civilization cour¬ses.The three-year, 212,000 dollargrant from the NSF’s Com¬prehensive Assistance to Un¬dergraduate Science (CAUSE)program is intended to create aunified program out of thecurrently independently developednon-western civ courses.Keith Baker, master of the socialsciences collegiate division, saidthat the grant will not be used forany short-term staffing problems,“but will help make the area moreexciting to teach and more excitingto take.”The grant will enable professorsand graduate students to produce aseries of readings for the socialsciences and non-western civcourses. The readings and tran¬slations will serve students in civand in the new non-western civcommon core courses.The integration of specificgraduate and research work withthe general undergraduateteaching program stresses therelationship between the Collegeand the University. The grant will“bring advanced level researchdown to the instructional level,”said Tetsuo Najita, professor ofhistory and far eastern languages.The grant will also be used for across-cultural seminar to deal withvarious issues and topics commonto the non-western civ courses. Theexact nature of the discussions willbe discussed over the next two orthree years. It is hoped that fromthe seminar will grow a non¬western civilization area, like thewestern civ or far easternlanguages programs.The grant stipulates thatmaterials developed for theseminar be used outside of theUniversity. It is hoped that theywill be distributed for instructionalpurposes to other colleges.The emphasis on readingprimary texts contributed to thedesire for the grant. “It allows theCollege to continue developingtexts for both core and civsequences,” said HarryHarootunian, Max PalevskyProfessor of history andcivilizations.The University’s spectrum ofspecial studies also contributed tothe need for the grant, and to itsaward. “We have the enormousrange of non-western civ courses.Now we can build on that todevelop cross-cultural courses,and develop a civilizational area,”said Baker.The grant comes one year afterrejection of a similar proposal. Thecurrent grant was conceived byprofessors from all of the non¬western civ sequences - peoplewho “came together to talk,” saidHarootunian.Harootunian envisions cross-cultural. comparative workcoming out of the grant. “Thisgrant allows us to put together thekind of course we want with thestaff we want to teach. Fulltime,senior people are involved It’s agreat windfall.” By Adam SchefflerA University of Chicagograduate student was killed earlyWednesday while attempting tofoil a burglary attempt by twointruders who gagged him and heldhis wife at knife point.Mark Francis Gromer, a 25 year-old doctoral candidate in English,plunged three stories to his deathafter he either fell or was pushedthrough a closed window in theliving room of his apartment at5344 S. Woodlawn Ave.City Homicide CommanderJoseph Di Leonardi said Wed¬nesday that police were seekingtwo youths, described as short and13 to 15 years old, who fled theapartment after the incident. DiLeonardi said one of the youthswas wearing a brown and bluevertical striped shirt and tantrousers.As of Thursday morning, AreaOne homicide investigators hadturned up no substantive leads,despite a door-to-door search forpossible witnesses. The round-the-clock investigation is continuing.The South East Chicago Com¬mission, a group that monitorscrime in this area, offered a $5,000reward Wednesday for in¬formation leading to the arrest andconviction of the personsresponsible for Gromer’s death.Persons with pertinent in¬formation should call the ChicagoPolice Department at 744-8381, 24hours a day. Callers’ requests foranonymity will be respected.Gromer completed work on hismaster’s degree in Englishlanguage and literature in June,and had recently been admitted tothe Ph D program for the fall HisPh D was to have been onRenaissance literature. At thetime of his death, he was workingas a collections clerk at ScienceResearch Associates, anTrucks stoppedPolice tellBy Miriam KanterThe hot dog and ice creamvendors usually located in front ofthe administration building andRegenstein were told by police toleave the area two weeks ago.Trucks had been violating cityordinances that prohibit vendorsfrom operating within 200 feet of aschool or a non-vehicular business educational publishing firm, wherehe also worked full-time fromMarch, 1975 to September, 1976.Gromer and his wife, JeanDornhoefer, moved into theWoodlawn Ave. apartment inMarch of 1976. They met as un¬dergraduates at MiddleburyCollege in Vermont, and had beenmarried for nine months.Dornhoefer also is a doctoralcandidate in English. She works asa cashier in Regenstein Library.No one is sure how the bizarredeath occurred. But reports fromvarious sources yield the followingaccount:At approximately 4:15 amWednesday, Gromer was studyingin the living room of the couple’sthird-floor apartment. He hadopened the back door, as the nightwas hot and muggy. The screendoor may or may not have beenlocked.The two intruders entered theapartment by the back door,taking Gromer by surprise. Hisdog, a Doberman pinschervendors toselling similar concessions.A petition, submitted to JohnWilson and containing close to 500signatures charged that the truckshad been banned because theirservices were cutting into thebusiness of the concession stand inthe bookstore.The protesters promised acomplete boycott of the bookstore. described by a neighbor as“friendly and quiet,” apparentlygave them no trouble. They gaggedGromer with a piece of cloth,possibly tom from a windowcurtain, and attempted to blindfoldhim. Apparently, Gromercooperated with the assailants atfirst as they packed a turntableand small television set into asuitcase and placed it by the door.Meanwhile, Dornhoefer, whohad been sleeping in the ‘bedroom,was awakened by the sound ofvoices in the apartment. When shegot up to investigate, she wasgrabbed from behind by a youngman who held a knife to her neck.She was then ordered to lie down inthe hallway by the kitchen.As she lay there, she heard thesounds of an apparent scuffle in theliving room. Then she heard thecrash of broken glass.“Let’s get out of here,” Dorn-hoefer heard the intruders say asthey ran past her and out the backdoor. They left the suitcase behind,though it was not known whethervacate, butJonathan Kleinbard, vicepresident for community affairs,responded to these charges in aletter to Glenda Pence, sponsor ofthe petition and president of theHyde Park Feminist Coalition. Hesaid the University asked thepolice to enforce the longoverlooked ordinances againstvendor parking because the trucks“created hazardous conditions.”Kleinbard also said the con¬ditions “threatened the lives ofpedestrians attempting to crossthe street, blocked emergencyvehicles such as ambulances andfire engines, blocked access tobuildings and in general created anuisance.”He claimed that there was notruth to the allegation that thetrucks were banned because theyinterfered with bookstore business,and that he would sanction vendorbusiness “if there was a place thatwe could put them without being inviolation of law or a hazard.”Several of the trucks havecontinued to appear on the streetsdespite continual police requeststhat they leave. Maria Yafantis,the owner of a hot dog truck onEllis Avenue said that someoneHOT DOGSPOLISH SAUSAGETAMALESHot dog and ice cream venders were forced from campusrecently as the University requested city parking ordinances bemore rigorously enforced (Photo by Carol Studenmund)Gromer remembered,community stunned“Sensitive, gentle and good-natured.”“Did wonderful work for me.”“An imaginative critic, andalways involved.”That’s how Mark Gromer’sprofessors described him. He wasknown as a student with apromising career in English, ahappy marriage, and a specialsensitivity to people.As Mark Gromer's suddendeath was talked about on campus this week, people won¬dered how to honor him. how toremember him, and how to treathis wife, Jean Domhoeffer Thetwo had been married a year, andhad come to Chicago togetherfrom Middlebury. Very fewstudents and professors haveever faced this sort of tragicsituation and the shock waseasily monitored.Gromer remembered to 3 burglary5344 S. Woodlawn, where MarkGromer was killed failing from athird-floor window early Wed¬nesday morning. A PhD can¬didate in English, Gromer, 25,and his wife were being robbedwhen Gromer either fell or waspushed from his apartment. Shewas held at knife point in thekitchen.(Photo by Carol Studenmund)they took anything else.The living room was in disarray.Dornhoefer got up. looked throughthe shattered window pane, anddiscovered her husband lyingmotionless, face down, on thesidewalk below.She called police, then wentdown to the street with neighborswho had been awakened by thesound of crashing glass.Gromer was taken by firedepartment ambulance to Billingshospital where he was pronounceddead at 6:30 a m. Dornhoefer wastreated for mild shock and minorbruises, and released.Student killed to 3many staycame to her truck and “yelled ather to leave.”The only vendor wno has not leftthe area during these past twoweeks is Good Humor manDouglas Charrier He said that heis taking the chance of receiving afine - or even being locked up. asone policeman has threatened -because his truck is limited toHyde Park by the Good HumorCompany. “The only place I canmake money is in" front of thelibrary,” he said“Fve been here for ten years.The police asked me to leavebefore, about two years ago Istayed away for a week and thencame back, and nothing hap¬pened.”City policemen are reportedlystill passing by his truck, but havenot bothered him during the lastfew’ days.Although previous attempts tooutlaw the vending trucks havebeen unsuccessful. Kleinbard saidthat this time the ban “will notblow over.” But most of the areavendor, who face the possibility offine or imprisonment if theycontinue to operate, seem to bedetermined to stay on campus.Two new computers will help students and librariesBy Ellen ClementsImagine it. Joe College sits down at whatlooks very much like a typewriter hooked upto a telephone. He dials 3-1830, connects thephone, and in a moment he’s tapping out anew bit of FORTRAN programming, orcrunching up data from the discipline of hischoice, or deeply immersed in a game ofSPACE WAR. Joe has just used a remoteterminal to “log on” to an interactivecomputing facility. And all this, and more,will be available at the University thisautumn.The University is updating its computertechnology with the purchase of two com¬puters — the “DEC 20’s.’’ Along with theDEC’S come thirty new terminals (sup¬plementing the 30 public terminals now inuse) to be set up in Regenstein and Harperlibraries. Pick Hall, and perhaps in a coupleof the dorms. And there’ll be a 25 dollar per-quarter computer account free to any U of Cstudent who wants one.The DEC’S support “interactive’’ com¬puting, a notably “friendly” computingenvironment. Under interactive computing,the instructions a user types in to thecomputer from a remote terminal arereceived and monitored by the systemwhich responds immediately to usercommands by printing out the results of acalculation, fetching requested information,or signalling a user who makes a mistakewith an error message.“It has the ability to act and react im-mediatelv, which can give an easy flow tothe research process,” explains Louise“Refiling, assistant director of the Com¬putation Center for Academic Services. “Itmeans that users can learn a minimalamount about computing and still get theirwork done.”The machines are brought to us by thecombined efforts of the new UniversityCommittee for Academic Computing,(UCAC), the Digital Equipment Cor¬poration (DEC), and SPSS, Inc., a localprogram-writing firm long-associated withthe University. The three have worked outan arrangement whereby DEC sells theUniversity one of the the two computers at a30 percent discount off the original 450,000 dollar price in consideration for an SPSSagreement to adapt its new conversationalsystem to DEC’S hardware.SPSS will retain a tenth of this DEC’Scomputing capacity, passing along the restto the University with the stipulation that itbe used exclusively for the teaching andresearch needs of faculty and students. TheUniversity gets a 20 percent off computerbargain, SPSS gets computer time for aslong as the DEC is at the University andDEC gets to be first in line (right after IBM)to have SPSS’s new system up and runningon their hardware.The move to bring conversational com¬puting to the University was started in thespring of 1976. U of C computing activities atthat time were somewhat disorganized.Researchers in physics and chemistry tookcomputer jobs to Argonne or otherfederally-funded facilities where work couldbe done at a lower-than-University rate.University researchers could not get atnew developments in conversationalcomputing: the National Opinion ResearchCenter (NORC) leased four lines to Dart¬mouth’s system to get access to facilities theUniversity center didn’t provide, andvarious faculty members purchased con¬versational services from nationalacademic and commercial networks.Chicago researchers who ran out of com¬puting funds were all tooo often out of luck.And the complexities of the Universityoperating system presented a sometimesthorny maze to novices trying to get on themachine.To members of the UCAC, the situationlooked dangerously like one which haddeveloped in the mid to late -’60’s when theUniversity’s batch computing technologyhad been allowed to fall behind develop¬ments in the field. The Comp Center's old7094 was rattling out jobs — efficiently, yes,but only one at a time. The capacities of theIBM 360. also in use at the time, had beenoutdone by newer models. Computation atthe University was mostly the business ofpeople working in the “hard sciences. Andthe operating system was unreliable, jobturnaround was slow — the system was upand down constantly,” said Rehling.Obsolescence was averted in 1973 the University invested in the IBM 370/168,the machine currently used at the CompCenter. But playing catch-up technologywas expensive: the change-over cost theUniversity some 4 million dollars.UCAC memos from spring, 1976 expressedconcern that the same sort of financiallyand academically perilous backwardnesswas showing up in the University’s slownessto integrate interactive computing into its“educational and research missions.” IfUniversity computing was to be brought upto date, “a ‘friendly’ and cost-effectiveinteractive computing environment” wouldhave to be brought to campus. And com¬puting would have to be modernized sooneror later if the quality of University teachingand research was to be maintained. Delay,in the judgment of the UCAC, could onlyincrease the cost.Thus, early in 1976, when the graduateschool of business decided to supplementtheir Hewlett Packard 2000 with a morecapacious machine, the UCAC. What if theacademic and business school computationcenters could be reorganized to provideconversational computing on one machine9The integrated resource could be managedfar more efficiently, and the ease of an in¬teractive system would make the computeras familiar a research tool as the libraries.The Board of Computing Activities, (BCA)overseer of University computing, createdthe Task Force on Interactive Computing(TFIC) to look into the matter.After a lengthy search the TFIC decidedthat the DEC 20 was the computer best fittedto University needs. “It was head andshoulders above anything else on themarket,” said Norman Nie, Chairman of theTFIC and president of SPSS,Inc. Becauseone DEC could not handle the work of boththe business school and of academic com¬puting, the original plan of integrating thetwo centers was scratched. But as Niepoints out, the two systems are operating onthe same hardware, and the coming yearswill see closer integration of the twofacilities, rather than the divergence, withits attendant expenses, which wasthreatening.The system for financing access to thecomputers here will similar to one that has been in operation at Dartmouth for over adecade. There, students and faculty aregranted computer-time as if they werelibrary privileges. The result is that almosteveryone at Dartmouth sooner or later usesthe facility. It is hoped that the “friendly”interactive system and allotments of freecomputer-time will bring the same ease ofassociation to Chicaeo.According to Ken Prewitt, NORC directorand professor in the department of politicalscience and the College, the University’sinvestment in interactive computing has“serious consequences, all of thembeneficial.”Changes in University funding and sup¬port of computation, as well as the in¬troduction of the DEC itself, will have theireffects. Researchers will have access toseed monies on which to fund pre-grantproposal investigations, and will be able toapply for supplemental funds should theirgrant money for computation run out.625,000 dollars worth of computer time hasbeen budgeted to support teaching, researchand general user accounts in the comingyear. However, since the equipment isalready owned by the University and thecomputer staff and organization is in place,the actual cost to the University is a smallfraction of this amount.The question now is just how closely andquickly all this new computational capacitycan be integrated into University academiclife. Will the DEC be able to pull in newusers as is hoped? Of course the IBM 370 isalready heavily used by students from arange of departments — but the newfinancial arrangements should make it evenmore accessible. The Comp Center isplanning to make the assimilation as easyas possible. Beginning autumn quarter,students will be eligible for 25 dollars worthof computing time per quarter — free.Faculty will be given approximately 50dollars per quarter. Both students andfaculty may apply for larger sums forspecific research tasks. Part of this moneywill be available to non-registered studentsdoing dissertation work. Classroom ac¬counts will also be available in coursesmaking use of the DEC or the 370.Hk'G'SWEET SEEDLESS GRAPES 59c P.u„dSWEET RIPE CHERRIES 49cP«und11 ounceMORTON’S FROZEN DINNERS 49c eachHl-C FRUIT DRINKS Assorted Flavors 49c eachFRESH GROUND BEEF 69c P.u„dLAROSA SPAGHETTI Xsd«3 p^3e..or $1.00SALE DATES JULY 8&91226 E. 53rd(KIMBARK PLAZA)HOURS: MON. - SAT. 8:30 A.M.7:50 P.M.SUN. 9 4:502 — The Chicago Maroon — Friday, July 8,1977 SOQ BUS TRIPSSVOBODA’S NICKELODEONTAVERN and MUSEUMFriday July 15It has to be seen to be believed1 This tavern in Chicago Heights hasnickelodeons, an Arcade room, and a genuine 1893 World's Fair bar Asif that weren't enough, there's a great Dixieland band on Friday andSaturday evenings Bus leaves from Ida Noyes at 8 3Cpm, and will leavethe tavern at midnight The fee is $2 50 per person - and you don't haveto worry about driving home1 Sign up and pay the fee in the StudentActivities Office by July 13Student killed from 1The Cook County medical examiner’soffice said Thursday that Gromer died ofsevere cranial-cerebral and internal in¬juries. A hospital source said Gromer lost somuch blood from his chest and abdomenthat they weren’t able to effect a stabletransfusion. Gromer’s spleen also had beenruptured.Dornhoefer had few words for reporters.“Somebody broke into the apartment,” shetold the Daily News Wednesday. “I reallydon’t know what happened.”“Unfortunately,” she told the MaroonWednesday night, “I didn’t see a whole lot.It’s not something I want to talk about rightnow.”Richard Scarlini, 24, who lives in theapartment below Gromer’s told police hesaw a youth run down the rear stairs of thebuilding after the crash.“I woke up with the crash,” he said. “Iwent to the back door and saw some youngguy running down the back steps. And Ididn’t stop him . I’ve been thinking about itduring the day today. Perhaps I should havecaught him myself .”Scarlini described the youth he saw asabout 16 years old, black, thin, about 5-foot 1inch tall, and wearing a T-shirt and cut-offs.“I was scared. I didn't know what wasgoing on. Then I went out to the front andsaw Mark...there. I went down with a coupleof people from the apartment.“There wasn't much to do. He wasbleeding, and he had a gag tied around hismouth. We undid the gag...He was breathingquite heavily. It wasn’t a nice sight at all.”The police and the ambulance arrivedwithin about five minutes, Scarlini said.“They spent 15 or 20 minutes working onhim on the sidewalk. It w^as pretty obvioushe was in serious shape.“I asked the police whether I should havechased him. They said no.Two police officers on the beat onGreenwood Wednesday night were op¬timistic that the intruders would eventuallybe caught. On future break-ins, however,Officer Byers was less sanguine. “Themajority of places they want to get in,they’re goin’ to get in,” he lamented.Gromer’s parents flew to Chicago fromtheir home in Connecticut to make funeralarrangements. They have three otherchildren. Gromer's father is a senior vice-president for Foote. Cone and Belding, aNew York advertising agency. Gromer remembered from 1“I knew him,” said one student, but hedid not go on. That connection alone wasenough. Those who knew Mark Gromer,who lived on his block, who had been inclasses with him, who had seen him atparties, were similarly stunned.Gromer’s wife would not talk with TheMaroon, having been bombarded bynewspaper reporters all day. A frienddescribed her as calm on Wednesday af¬ternoon though the city papers said shewas hysterical earlier.*She, like her latehusband, is , a PhD candidate inEnglishGromer was praised for his sensitivityby his friends and for his enthusiasm byhis professors“He was bright and interested,” saidDavid Bevington, professor of english whohad Gromer for a Medieval drama course.“He was always full of ideas and brightobservations. He was a pleasure to have.”“It is very sad to lose him as a studentand as a person,” said James Miller,professor of English. “He was terriblyimaginative.”Others remembered his warmth andcheerfulness, but many added that theywere confused about the incident Becausethe details of Gromer’s death were notclear, many people seem worried.“This kind of thing is so rare now inHyde Park that we are all going to have tostart thinking again,” said one person.“But we should not panic This may havebeen a freak thing, but of course we all feelit deeply.”Most said they would continue to live asthey had, but one girl said, “It may be thatI'll sweat a lot this summer, but I'mcertainly not going to leave my back dooropen.”Because many Hyde Park apartmentshave easy access from the street and fireescapes, * some considered putting morelocks on their doors.Opinion seemed to be summed up by onegraduate student, who said, “this issomething we all have to live with. The boywas obviously very much like any studentliving in the* area*, and this can be veryfrightening and real. He was obviouslytalented and well-liked, and we will mournhis death But we shouldn't retreat. We arestill part of Hyde Park life.”^pefeesmer Bicycle §Lcp5331 Hyde Caffe Clad.Selling Quality Imported BikesRaleighPeugeot Motobecane8t other quality importsOpen 7 days 10-7 pm M-F10-5 pm Sat.10-4 pm Sun.We Also Rent684-3737WE RE OPEN ALL SUMMER9:30-4:00MONDAY - FRIDAYNo Air Conditioning, but awide selection of booksSEMINARY COOP5757 SOUTH UNIVERSITY CalendarFRIDAYCrossroads: Slideshow on Western Samoa,8pm, Crossroads Student Center.ARTS TUESDAYWomen’s Center: Women’s Rap Group,7:30pm, 3rd floor, Blue Gargoyle.Christian Fellowship: 7:30pm, Ida NoyesHall.UC Table Tennis Club: 8pm, Ida NoyesTheatre.SAF: “Strawberry Blonde,’’ 8pm, Cobb Hall.WEDNESDAYCourt Theatre: “Tempest,” 8:30pm, HutchCourt.SAF: “Lucky Lady,’’ 7:15 & 9:30pm, CobbHall.SATURDAYChange Ringing: Handbells, 10-1 lam; towerbells, llam-lpm, Mitchell Tower ringingroom.Student Activities Excursion: Morton Ar¬boretum, 10am, Ida Noyes Hall. Call 3-3591,sign up by Friday noon.Crossroads: Saturday Night Dinners, 6pm,Crossroads Student Center, 5621 S.Blackstone.ARTSCourt Theatre: “Tempest," 8:30pm. HutchCourt.SAF: “Garden of the Finzi-Continis,’’ 7:15 &9:30pm, Cobb Hall.SUNDAYRockefeller Chapel: Ecumenical Service ofHoly Communion, followed by breakfast inthe Chapel Undercroft, 9am: UniversityReligious Service, “Fruits of the Spirit,”Lawrence M. Bouldin, 11am, RockefellerChapel.Crossroads: Bridge, 3pm; Chess, 3pm,Crossroads Student Center.ARTSRockefeller Chapel: Carillon recital, RobertLodine, University Carillonneur, 4pm,Rockefeller Chapel.Chicago Opera Studio: “Abduction from theSeraglio,” 8pm, Hutch Court.Court Theatre: “Tempest," 3pm, HutchCourt.MONDAYChange Ringing: Tower bells. 6:30-8:30pm.Mitchell Tower ringing room. Hillel: Israeli folkdancing, 8pm, Ida Noyes.Crossroads: English class for foreign women,2pm, Crossroads Student Center.Smart Gallery: “Modern Japanese Prints: AnArt Reborn,” opening, 5-7pm. Smart Gallery.All prints on display through August 28Student Activities: Brass Society, noon.Hutch Court; Care of the Cow, 7pm, Hit¬chcock Court.THURSDAYChange Ringing: Handbells, 12noon-lpm,location announced at Mon & Sat meetings.Court Theatre: “Tempest,” 8:30pm, HutchCourt.Rockefeller Chapel: Carillon recital, WylieCrawford, Assistant University Carillon¬neur, 7:30pm, Rockefeller Chapel.'J»VGood Potf'ngIQ usClay Pots 3"-15c\ thru 16 "-15 $15■*GRGGril0GOf HVDC P4RK1603 East 53rd Street667-0920Daily 11 -6^Sunday 2-4Summer On the QuadsSUMMER■ II MSFriday-July 8th Lucky LadySaturday July 9th Garden of theFinzi-ContinisTuesday - July 12th Strawberry BlondeCagney, Haywo^h & cle Havilland8 D.m. -( 'Ohh Hal! The Chicago Maroon — Friday, July 8. 1977 — 3 •EditorialA tragic deathTo all of us, Mark Gromer’s death is shockingand frightening. It is shocking because althoughwe have come to accept crime as an inescapablepart of urban life, we will never accept murder— if it was, in fact, that. And it is frighteningbecause Mark’s situation was in so many waysour own. Opening the back door on a hot summernight and studying the night away is a habit towhich many of us are prone. It is impossible tosay whether, placed in a similar situation, wewould have acted any differently.We may never know what really happened inGromer’s third-floor apartment" at 54th andWoodlawn. We do know, however, that burglaryis rarely committed with intent to kill, par¬ticularly when it is committed by strangers.There are few practical lessons to be learnedfrom what happened this week. We cannot ad¬monish students to remain calm, if Gromer’sassailants intended to kill him anyway; nor canwe preach active resistance if this was the ap¬proach Gromer hastily, and unsuccessfully,adopted. There can only be the helpless reactionof sadness and fear.But if Mark Gromer has left us any greatermessage, it is that no matter how removed thisuniversity may seem from any “real” world, it isin every way a part of its urban surroundings.Students who live off-campus, as well as thosewho remain in student housing, should notretreat in fear but should continue to live in¬dependently to understand the sensitivity andvariety that accompanies city life.Recently it was reported that the crime-rate inChicago went down. This is encouraging,especially in Hyde Park, where murders werealmost commonplace 10 years ago. Now thingsseem controlled and liveable. They are, butMark Gromer’s death has awakened many whohad been previously unaware of their surround¬ings.Students are not simply visitors in Hyde Park,they are an active and essential part of the neigh¬borhood. In a time when more students aremoving back into student housing and moreapartments are being turned into virtuallyunaffordable condominiums, we encourageback into the University enclaves, the com¬munity will only deteriorate furthur, and HydePark will be back at the point it started from 25years ago, when the local power-brokers handeddown their plan for urban renewal.We mourn Mark Gromer and hope that hissenseless death can make us aware that becausewe live here, if even for a short time, we areintegral members of the community. MarkGromer didn’t retreat. Neither should we.The Chicago MaroonEditor: Jon MeyersohnNews Editor: Adam SchefflerFeatures Editor: Karen HellerArts Editor: Mark NeustadtPhotography Editor: Philip GrewBusiness Manager: Sara WrightAssistant Business Manager: Micki BresnahanAdvertising Manager: Chris GlennAssistant Advertising Manager: Patricia BrownAdvertising staff: Maryanne Steele, Jeff HoltzmanGraphics: Chris PersansStaff:Ellen Clements, Karen Homick, Miriam Kantner, LukacsLeBag, Bruce Lewenstein. Eric Von der Porten, GeorgeSpink, Carol Studenmend, Carol Swanson Letters to the EditorAtrociousnoisesTo the Editor:I have attended this prestigeousseat of learning for the period of oneyear. During that time, I have facedhardships beyond the range ofhuman endurance — 100° heat, -80°wind chills, the “ratio”, the in¬famous S-curve, and some 425 less-than-edible “meals” (for lack of abetter term) at that latter day blackhole of Calcutta, Woodwardcafeteria.As if these have not been enoughtorture for the human spirit, I havealso been forced to listen whilst ineptcarrillioners make loud,cacophonous noises upon the in¬strument located in the tower of theReynolds Club. These absurd noisesbear no relation to music as wegenerally understand it, they arerather the sounds one would expectthe K.G.B. to use in it’s torture ofRussian dissidents.1 have little hope that the weathercan be altered, that the “ratio” canbe changed, that grade inflation willreach the U. of C. or that Woodwardwill serve Haute-Cusine in the for-seeable future. I see no reason whythe loud noises from the ReynoldsClub should be allowed to annoyfuture generations of students. Ihope that this atrocity will be endedbefore I am forced to refer my caseto the United Nations Commissionon Human Rights.Thomas M. C. FosterUCreminiscencesTo the Editor:Here is a U. of C. Experience Iwould like to share with you.Recently I was asked if I would be aJudge at a FOTA-Bake-In. As achild, having licked many of mymothers cake pans, and thengrowing into a strictly “Steak &Potatoes Man”, I felt very qualifiedand without hesitation said that Iwould serve. As the time camecloser I was not so sure.On arriving at the Reynolds Club Iwas greeted cordially enough butwith that typically “UC StudentLook” that says: “lam stealing thistime from studying.” Only one wordcan describe the Jolt that I got and itlasted thru the Shindig, and that wasSTARK. Reynolds Lounge may havefancy rugs and ornate bookcases butit also has two huge and used librarytables and on these sat the objects onwhich we must judge. No Spotlights,no fancy tablecloths, only the dif¬ferent segments as required by therules, not in large numbers, but allcategories represented, includingART.As to the other judges, there wasthat very sensitive and finely-tunedNick Rudall, and the efficient,proficient and marvelous AlmaLach and me, “The Man from theStreet.” We were always in accord,in fact so much that the three of usconsumed nearly one huge pitcher ofice water in order to clear ourpalates.To sum up the Bake-off:Ingredients ana Taste very good,some items should have been doneless .hurriedly and there waswhimsy, for instance: by the plate ofthe good tasting Bagels there wasalso Cheese and Butter and the toolsfor their use. One more word for my favoritepiece. This one item pulled on myheartstrings or as they say in “OldTown vernacular” It broke me up”Don’t know which came first, theKiddy wagon or the size of the largeflat cake. It fitted neat in the wagonand there it stood. The cake lookedlike a reproduction of an areaaround the Kilimanjaro. The troublewas that during transport, the Hillfrom which a simulated waterfallfell on the scene, had taken so manybumps that it began to lean towardsMecca, also all the fine Palmtreeshad fallen down, BUT, (and thisconvinced me that the lady was afellow party member) in the midstof the scene stood a staunch andunperturbed Elephant, the bestreward for the creator of thisculinary piece of art would be for oldHemingway to come in one of herdreams and say “Thank You”.That’s what I am saying to thecontributors and to the Committeefor having me. , _ ,Now a word about the Festival ofthe Arts: What has happened to it?Why hassle about raising money for“Name Events” that take place allyear long and are paid for by specialfunding, etc. The Festival was firstand foremost intended as ashowcase for local talent of whichthe University and Hyde Park areunequaled. (The present FOTACommittee comes closest to thatconcept in several years)What has happened to theStudent/Faculty Art Show? The U.of C. Modem Dance Club dancing onthe Ida Noyes Lawn? The BrassChoir sending notes into the heavensfrom the Tower of R.C. and Mr. &Mrs. Ex-president playing theDrums and hitting the Cymbalswhile a few weakneed flares jump ofthe Tower of R.C.THAT is what the Festival shouldbe all about and besides, everyonelikes to look in a mirror sometime.Walter JeschkeCore ofthe problemAs an undergraduate of theUniversity (x41) who returned lastquarter to fulfill requirements for aB.A. degree, I recently becameaware through The Chicago Maroonof the controversy concerning theCommon Core. Having someopinions about the desirability ofmaintaihing a quality Core program(known as the Survey Coursesduring the Hutchins period), I at¬tended the forum on Common Coreat Ida Noyes Hallxt was a little startling for me todiscover that the forum did notseriously discuss the function of theprogram, whether it should bemaintained and perhaps improved,or what alternatives would have tobe faced if the program wereabandoned altogether. The majorportion of the discussion, emanatingfrom comments by three facultyleaders of the forum, related toadministrative problems and theadded personal effort the programcauses for professors primarilyinterested in their areas ofspecialization.One professor, who said he oncetaught a Core course, described witha little anguish how he had to spend more time preparing for that coursethan for any other. He pointed outthat to ask a professor to prepare forsuch a course would necessarilytake time from some other portion ofhis schedule and that it might taketime away from wife and children. Itwould appear this professor knowsof some area of importance whereone does not have to make suchsacrifices. He apparently believesthere is a way to get something ofvalue for nothing or at least for verylittle. I wonder how he wouldrespond to a student who made anargument that he should really getan A for a course instead of a B onthe basis that to do more work wouldnecessitate a shift of time fromsomething of more interest to him orwould take time away from wife andchildren.When it was suggested that aprofessor might be persuaded tomake some sacrifice for the Coreprogram on the basis that thereby hemight expect to get a better qualitystudent to register in his departmentof expertise, a professor ofmathematics responded that thisargument would not be persuasive tohim. He said probably only a few ofthe Core students would laterregister for his courses and such asmall number would not be an in¬centive. Since he is a mathematicianone may excuse him for having agreater interest in quantities thanqualities. However, his responsecauses me to wonder if he is reactingto a real change in this Universitysince my days here under Hutchins.Does his attitude toward studentsreflect that this University nowdemands of him a greater quantityof published papers irrespective ofquality? Does his attitude reflectthat of his department, which mightbe it expects enough graduateregistrants from other colleges so itneed not be concerned about un¬dergraduates of this University?One can only speculate. But why thenumbers game response? Where isthe emphasis on quality that existedduring the Hutchins period? Did thisprofessor become a supposed expertin his field because he was one ofmany students in a graduatedepartment or because he was in¬spired by a good teacher at un¬dergraduate level to entermathematics as a career and wasprovided with sound basics whichmade progress at graduate levelpossible?EnergyconsternationTo the Editor:As I recover from a sore throatacquired while attending a movie inQuantrell auditorium last Saturday,I wonder about the inconsistencies ofenergy (or money) conservation atthe U. of C. If places such asQuantrell or even Kegenstein werenot kept so cold in the summer thatone must carry a sweater, andperhaps a muffler, for use inside,maybe there would be enoughmoney to turn on the lights in thestacks at Regenstein for the last twohours it’s open.Who decides such things as lightuse and building temperatures''Cvnthia Tobiashe Chicago Maroon — Friday, July 8,1977ArtsGeorge Spink is assistant director ofpublications for the Graduate School ofBusiness On Saturday mornings he hoststhe “Saturday Swing Shift, "9am — noonover WHPK-FM (88.3). Tomorrow's showwill feature Count Basie, Jimmy Rushing.Helen Humes. Billie Holiday, BillyEckstine, and excerpts from the soundtrackof “New York, New York ”The Chicago Maroon — Friday, July 8, 1977 — 5By George SpinkConfetti blankets the cheering crowdsalong the streets of Manhattan on V-J Dayas Jimmy Doyle (Robert De Niro) slowlymakes his way while Glenn Miller’s“Pennsylvania 6-5000” becomes barelyaudible above the victory cries, paper hornsand noisemakers. Jimmy pauses un¬derneath a large, slanting reddish-pink neonarrow pointing at him as the camera zoomsdown, focusing on his position.Inside the Rainbow Room, TommyDorsey and his orchestra open with theirtheme, “I’m Getting Sentimental overYou,” then break into “Song of India.”Everyone is having a great time — exceptfor the band, whose members are as ex¬pressionless as the stone-faced Dorsey.Jimmy Doyle puts the make on a couple ofyoung women but fails. He spots a cute WACsitting by herself; the band begins “OpusOne.” The WAC turns out to be FrancineEvans (Liza Minnelli) and plays hard to get.Nine minutes later “Opus One” ends andJimmy gives up on his first try withFrancine. It turns out, however, that hisbuddy has been dancing with Francine’s girlfriend. Jimmy loans him his hotel room keyand spends what’s left of the evening at theRainbow Room talking with Francine.About three or four in the morning,Jimmy, now alone, phones his buddy to seeif it’s okay for him to return to his room. Hisbuddy pleads for one more hour, Jimmyagrees. He climbs the stairway to theelevated train station, then watches a sailorand his girl friend dance to imaginary musicin the dim glow of a streetlight. Jimmy juststares, longing for what they have. Then thecouple disappears.These are the opening scenes of “NewYork, New York,” Martin Scorsese’s latestfilm, a musical love story in the oldHollywood tradition but well-tempered byScorsese’s remarkable vision as a direc¬tor. Jimmy Doyle is an aspiring tenorsaxophonist, Francine Evans a talentedvocalist. They fall in love, of course,although their romance is as shaky as thebig band business in its waning days.Jimmy tells Francine shortly after theymeet that he’s looking for “the majorchord,” a balance of music, money, and love— in that order, but Francine could easilyreverse it. Unfortunately, she isn’t able tobecause Jimmy proves to be a real bastard.The music orchestrates their relationshipthroughout the film. Arranged, supervised,and conducted by Academy Award winner(“Cabaret”) Ralph Burns, who earlierarranged for Woody Herman’s postwarbands, the music of “New York. New York”is a marvelous blend of big band, bebop, andBroadway. The “Cabaret” team of JohnKander and Fred Ebb wrote several newsongs for the film, including its theme. “YouBrought a New Kind of Love to Me,” “Oncein a While,” “You Are My Lucky Star,”“It’s a Wonderful World,” “The Man ILove,” “Just You, Just Me” — most are bigband arrangements featuring Francine onvocals and Jimmy on tenor (dubbed by jazzgreat Georgie Auld, who coached De Niro onsax and appears in the film as bandleaderFrankie Harte). These old standards weavea wonderful romantic ambience. “New York. New York”Striking amajor chordFor a brief time Jimmy fronts his own bigband and Francine, now his wife, is itsfeatured vocalist. Big bands are on the wayout, but Jimmy’s jazz-influencedarrangements and Francine’s singing givehis band a chance of making it. One eveningFrancine becomes dizzy and hurries off¬stage after her song ends. Jimmy chasesafter her, and as she tells him she’spregnant, the band plays “Don’t Be ThatWay,” in the background.But Francine is that way (Jimmy is not atall pleased) and returns to New York tohave her baby. Jimmy soon gives up hisband and joins her, working as a sideman atthe Harlem Club, where some of the filmshottest numbers are played: Diahnne Ab¬bott, De Niro’s wife, sings one of the mostevocative versions of “Honeysuckle Rose” Ihave ever heard.Francine eventually goes her own wayand becomes a superstar. Her first hitsinclude “But the World Goes Round” and“There Goes the Ball Game,” both allusionsto her breakup with Jimmy.De Niro’s portrayal of Jimmy Doyle isexecuted as brilliantly as his roles in “Bangthe Drum Slowly,” “Mean Streets,'”“Godfather II,” “Taxi Driver,” and “TheLast Tycoon.” Many musicians I haveknown have been as egocentric as JimmyDoyle, complete bastards to the women intheir lives — though musicians have no monopoly on these traits. De Niro’s per¬formance as a tenor saxophonist also issuperb, and it is unlikely we will ever againsee an actor portray a musician with theauthenticity De Niro has achieved.As Francine Evans — young, vulnerable,easily impressed by Jimmy Doyle’s wit andcharm, just as easily victimized by hisarrogance and conceit — Liza Minnellicomes across beautifully. Her facial ex¬pressions carry as much feeling as hersinging, and both can fill you with joy asmuch as they can with sadness. Liza Min¬nelli’s musical credentials were in fine formlong before “New York, New York,” but shehad to work hard to master the big bandidiom. She succeeded Her renditions of“The Man I Love,” “Once in a While,” andespeciallv “Just You, Just Me” are in thebest tradition of Martha Tilton, HelenForrest, Hel^n Ward, Bee Wain, and JoStafford. And the new numbers she sings,including the theme, “New York, New*York,” also are bound to please her legionsof admirers.There are several fine minor roles in thefilm, especially Georgie Auld’s in¬terpretation of bandleader Frankie Harte.As fewer and fewer people turn out to hearhis band, he tells Francine that he’s going tocancel the tour. She reminds him it’s thefifth time he’s said this. Then he tells herthere’s only one person who can lead his band. “You mean Jimmy?” Francine asks.“No, me!” he replies, as bandleaders havealways done.Mary Kay Place appears briefly asBernice, who replaces Francine as JimmyDoyle’s vocalist. She typifies so many of theyoung girl singers big bands often picked upalong the road, telling Jimmy that she’s“not a bimbo.” Lenny Gaines as the recordproducer conveys all the smart-ass self-confidence of that profession; but in thescene where he meets with Jimmy Doyle todiscuss Francine’s recording contract,Jimmy even tops him, although it’s a prettyfair duel.“New York, New York” ends in the earlyFifties back in the Rainbow Room. JimmyDoyle, now owner of a new jazz club called“The Major Chord” and with his recordingof “New York, New York” at the top of thecharts, joins the Big Apple’s cabaret set tohear Francine Evan’s opening night per¬formance. After she sees Jimmy in theaudience, she orders her backup orchestrato play “New York, New York,” a piecewritten by Jimmy for her years before andto which she added the lyrics. The numberbrings a standing ovation from the RainbowRoom audience — and received a big roundof applause from the audience at McClurgCourt the night I saw the film.Scorsese set out to create a Hollywoodmusical that would rival those ofyesteryear. He has done so. “New York,New York” is refreshing, entertaining,visually and musically exciting, nostalgicyet contemporary'. Some scenes, stronglyresembling Edward Hopper’s paintings attimes, are masterpieces of symbolism andallusion: the young couple, so much in love,dancing beneath the elevated; Jimmy Doylein a lonely, pensive mood playing with hissax as he sits in a lawn chair in front of alarge billboard featuring a sun-tanned girlin a bathing suit in an advertisement for aseaside resort while, to his right, a youngcouple in silhouette sits at a table playingcards; a 1941 green buick parked outside afunkv Harlem nightclub; the “EXIT” signthat cautions Francine in the final momentsof the film; and, at the end. that large,reddish-pink neon arrow again pointing atJimmy Doyle.F. Scott Fitzgerald concluded his bestnovel by reminding us that “Gatsbvbelieved in the green light, the orgiasticfuture that year by year recedes before usIt eluded us then, but that’s no matter —tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out ourarms farther.... And one fine morning —“So we beat on, boats against the current,borne back ceaselessly into the past.”Jimmy Dolye’s “green light” is his“major chord.” which he grasps for only asecond. Scorsese has created an ingeniousmusicscape tracing Jimmy Doyle’s search.In their final scene together, FrancineEvans tells Jimmy Dolye that “happy en¬dings are a dime a dozen, aren't they?” Heends up right where he started, standingbeneath the neon arrow.Now, who was it that said “there are nosecond acts in American lives?”On the case with Lukacs LeBagV.S.O.P.-In the secret garden of jazz fantasyAll right, off the top: I'm definitely overlycritical, too much of a niggling purist reallyto have gotten off on last Friday's HerbieHancock V.S.O P. performance at theAuditorium. I know I should be thankful forsmall favors: five outstanding jazzmusicians were back on stage together, and4,000 enthusiastic people (most of whomseemed unfamiliar with the jazz idiom)were hearing some good jazz, and enjoyingit. Whoopee. But I still have to play thedoubting Thomas, the spoil-sport, the lonedissenter. Believe me, it wasn’t that good,folks — and parts of the evening were a realdrag.First, to deal with the music itself on astrictly objective level — like they wereplaying in a tiny club Now, Herbie Han¬cock, Freddie flubbard, Wayne Shorter,Ron Carter, and Tony Williams are allsufficiently accomplished musicians thatthey can play chord changes, toss out anddevelop ideas, play around with time, anddo all the things jazz musicians are sup¬posed to be able to do, in their sleep. Thereunion of these people, w ho had made somewonderful music in the -Sixties (see lastweek’s “On the Case’’ profile of WayneShorter), playing in a straight-ahead,“acoustic” (a disgusting term, by the way)jazz context was not enough to causemusical fireworks ipso facto. Just to makedecent-sounding music was easy. Butsomething was lacking:and what it was.wasn’t competence or execution, but in¬spiration.There were tinges of the dark, brooding,shifting patterns of sound that made theMiles Davis Group of the mid-sixties (fromwhence everyone involved here sprang,save for Mr. Hubbard) so distinctive. Andthere was some very good, individualplaying. But it wasn’t that exciting. Therepertoire, first of all, was the obviouschoices for tunes, the ones they’re probablyplaying all over the country: “Eye of theHurricane”, “Maiden Voyage”, “RedClay”, “Laura”. The tunes sounded, for themost part, rehearsed enough not to be freshanymore The only thing that really clickedwas a new Freddie Hubbard piece. “One ofa Kind”. I, for one, wish they could havepulled something completely different out —a lesser-known Shorter tune, or mavbe aThe evening was - yeah, I'llsay it - a collective jerk-off;self-induced, narcissisticresponse, based on fantasiesof what was supposed to behappening on-stage.Herbie Hancock standard. In their defense, of course, youcan say that they only had time to get a littlebit of material together Okay, but. . . one:there is such a thing as a “session”, wherepeople are supposed to be able to playmaterial they haven’t “prepared”: thesemusicians can deal with sessions. Two: TheConsumer Advocate says, don’t tell me I’mpaying $8.50 for a band that knows six tunes.The show dragged a bit: they could have,and should have, changed things aroundfrom w hat they had obviously planned to do.The soloing,' while generally good to verygood, nonetheless lacked the urgency ofanything really memorable. Hubbard washis brash, flashy self on trumpet; Hancockwas lyrical and usually forceful on piano;Williams’ touch and inventiveness on drumswere off from the phenomenal stuff he wasdoing while he was in his teens, but he stillshowed more than Billy Cobham and hisother stylistic successors ever will; peopleliked Carter’s playing a lot, but his bass wasamplified to sound like a box of rubberbands; Shorter was also poorly amplified onsaxophone, but, while he showed someflashes of brilliance, he didn’t play up theGreat Expectations I had for him (cf. lastweek’s piece). But they may have sown theseeds of their own less-than-excellence:Herbie Hancock — serene, non-competitiveBuddhist that he is. said that nobody wasgoing to try to upstage the others in thisgroup.. However. Herbie-san, cutting otherpeople is a part of jazz: somebody has totake over, at some points, and say,musically, here’s where it’s going — if youwant happening music. But, Friday,everyone stayed in their place. “MaidenVoyage” was strictly for the piano un¬challenged : there were some fabulous andsophisticated licks played, but, frankly, Iwas glad when the horns just took the tuneout (with a little useless noodling at theend), because it had gotten a little boring.And that shouldn't be. This was V.S.O.P.,Very Special, Limited Engagement.One has to work to make outstandingmusic — and that involves a certain amountof working against, as well as working with,the other musicians in order to make thingscrackle. But not to complain too muchthere are groups that work better togetherand play harder (e g , Woody Shaw/LouisHayes), but none that have the overall leveltalent of The Quintet (as the off-stage in¬troduction pretentiously proclaimedV.S.O.P.). On the old one-to-five scale, giveitasolid3V2 stars.But I have to talk about the atmosphere ofthe concert, too. Which bothered me. Theaudience: clothed by Woodfield Mall chain“boutiques” (if not* Water Tower Place),convinced by WXRT to drop a spare $25(including date and parking) for a Fridayevening of exotic entertainment. Very fewhard-core jazz people: my friends were,mostly, too out of it to deal with gettingtickets until it w-as already sold out. Not thatI’m against people widening their horizons,mind you, or against jazz being a music fitfor concert halls and affluent audiences. Butthese people were not too tuned-in,knowledgeable, or aware, musicallyspeaking The music was not a real entity,but an object, even a fetish, for this crowdRegardless of what was going on, they had afixation on “jazz”, and they got off on it. Theevening was yeah. I’ll say it, a collectivejerk-off; self-induced, narcissisticrespon.se,based on fantasies of what was supposed tobe happening on-stage. I doubt that manypeople were into the music; the adulatory-opening reception for The Quintet seemed tofade considerably as the 75-minute set woreon. But they ended a tune, took a bow.walked off stage, and the people in the hallbroke into the 'bv now obligatory at all rockconcerts) standing ovation — sure enough,the group hustled back on stage for a (quick, Freddie Hubbardoff-handed) rendition of “Red Clay”. Istayed, only because my sociological in¬stincts overruled my desire to make the11:25 train (which I eventually caughtanyway). But, to this crowd, there had to bean encore. Whether the musicians actuallydeserved one or not, whether the peoplew'ere moved or not, there had to be oneThis, to keep my Freudian hat bn for asecond, is pretty perverse.Encores are supposed to be emotionalpinnacles, reserved for occasions of realspontaneity. I participated in one of thesepeak-experiences on Sunday in ComiskeyPark. Spencer hit one into the upper deck inthe first inning to send the White Sox to a 4 -0 lead and a sure doubleheader sweep ofMinnesota. The crowd continued roaring forseveral minutes after the home run, stop¬ping the game in the very first inning, at thesudden rush of the realization: hey, theteam is in first place, they’re good! So whatultimately, it’s a ball game in July thatmeans precious little in God’s Scorebook ofLife, but there was some reality in thatunexpected moment of ecstasy — somethinghappened, some people were affected, evenon the low level of fandom. Friday night atthe Auditorium, nothing much was hap¬pening, but everyone on their self-indulgent,self-fulfilling trip stood, cheered, andflicked their cigarette lighters anyway.V.S.O.P., in their defense, did not do aterribly good job in playing to the fantasy ofthe audience. As would befit disciples ofMiles Davis, they kept a certain distancefrom their music, and managed to avoidmost of the really obvious resolutions intheir solos and compositional forms: the bigendings that were bound to get a bigresponse. They surprised me enough that Istayed fairly interested in what they weredoing. I think they lost more than a fewpeople along the way, until the first endingof their performanceHowever, they had the district disad¬vantage of following a brilliantly contrivedperformance by .John Klemmer, who played exactly to the illusions of the “I -basically-listen-to-rock and-muzak-but 1-dig-jazz-too”crowd. As a masturbatory object in music,John Klemmer’s set was the latest issue ofPenthouse. Klemmer is a good tenor player(from Wilmette. I think) who paid somedues in this city in the late 60’s, and thenwent to L A. to be made into a “fusion” starmaking several albums that sound per¬fectly on the W’BBM-FM “Soundtrack ofYour Life” format. Some gentle, laid-backsounds, some Latin wailing, some funk,some arpeggios played through an echochamber, the right on-stage gestures toshow that he’s really into his music: it’sprecisely what most people in the audienceimagined jazz to be (or would like to think itis). And it got a much stronger response, bythe large, than the stars’ did. Dig it: JohnKlemmer is one of us (just like the nebbishPeter Frampton). It may not be art, but weknow what we like. And. ultimately, theWhite kids dug the White kid more than themiddle-aged Black dudes.I was a bit upset by the lack of inspirationcoming out of The Quintet, but. on the wayout, I picked up the concert program (apromo for V.S.O P. Brandy, no less) andrealized that these guys were in a creativestrait-jacket. What a brutal touringschedule they were on: all the major citiesin the U.S., plus Tokyo, in four weeks. Allone-nighters in big halls; probably playingto similar audiences. What’s the challenge,except to survive the tour and collect thepaychecks? They are now a marketablecommodity, so they are packaged and sentout. Why harbor dreams about jazzreunions’’ This is big business: CBS,CSN&Y, BED&O, the whole bit. Anybodywho is creative, loses it, or at least a part,when he or she joins corporate life.Herbie, W'avne, Freddie, Ron. Tony: Iwish you luck on your tour. Next time you’rein town, may you play the Jazz Showcase.Wednesday through Sunday, so that you canrelax, stretch out and play some. And leavethe hairy-palm crowd elsewhere.TAI-SAM-MMCHINESE AMERICANRESTAURANTSpecializing inCAKTOHCSC ANDAMfttCAM DfSHCSONN DAILY11 AJA.TO Ai30 PM.SUNDAYS AMD HOOOAYS12TO*JOR.M.Ordmrt to toko out1319 loot 4*4 MM 4-1042 Opening Soon"ZilGLER'S"Hand Packed Ice Cream Parlor7122 South Jeffrey BoulevardChicago. 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RobertFalls’ has given life and beauty to a thing Ibeheld as possessing neither. The produc¬tion is a marvel — original and captivating.The play takes place upon a lone andsavage island. Prospero, the Duke of Milan,has been banished from his native country.Living with only his daughter Miranda andhis two servants, the spirit Ariel and thebeast Caliban, Prospero rules the islandthrough magical powers. He commands atempest to blow the boat carrying his evilbrother Antonio, who has usurped his title asDuke, King Alonso of Naples, who aidedAntonio in his plot to dethrone Propsero, andAntonio’s brother Sebastion, to the island.Also on board the vessel are Prospero’s oldtrusted councilor Gonzalo, Alonso’s sonFerdinand, and two sailors/clowns, Trin-culo and Stefano.Ferdinand and Miranda fall in love at firstsight. Prospero tests Ferdinand’s love bymaking him his vassal. Prospero’s savageslave. Caliban, falls in love with wine at firstdrink and abandons Prospero for three newmasters, Trinculo, Stefano and the nectar ofthe grape. Having been promised his long-wished-for freedom. Ariel performs his lastduties for Propsero. Physically and men¬ tally manipulating the six noblemen, Arielhelps Prospero realize his revenge.Prospero finally reasons and saves the livesof his brother and Naples, approves themarriage of Miranda and Ferdinand, freesAriel, and leaves the island to Caliban'sreign. Prospero returns to Milan to restorehis title and political order before dying.Prospero is the true poet of the play. Hespeaks of justice and order while so manyother characters utter lies. While heremains sedintary, the rest run, dance orare thrown all over the multi-leveled set,which accentuates Prospero’s power overthe others.The Court’s production emphasizes themagic and mystery. Ariel, Caliban and thespirits are wonderfully and elaboratelycostumed and coreographed The scenesthat involve the clowns, Trinculo, Stefanoand Caliban, are also prominent in Falls’production. Trinculo is the perfect coward,Stefano, the ambitious and proud buffoon,and Caliban, the seemingly powerful butapparently weak monster ’The play is far less interesting when theordinary people dominate the stage. Thelovers are as nauseatingly perfect andhappy as ever. Of even less interest are thenoblemen, particularly becauseShakespeare dictated that there wouldnever be fewer than six on stage at the sametime and then equipped them with ratherboring lines. Falls’ seems to acknowledgethese weaknesses in the Court’s production.Little was done with the characters andaction during these scenes. Instead. Falls’concentrated on the unusual, creating agreater contrast between the visitors and the inhabitants of the islandNick Rudall is a glorious Prospero, proud,commanding, but compassionate. Ap¬propriately, Rudall’s handling ofShakespeare’s language is by far the mostnatural and poetic because he is the speakerand director, while all others are his actors,in both senses. As Ariel, Richard Hill is awonderful mime, moving his head and torsolike a captured bird struggling to be free,while his legs and feet move gracefully likethose of a cat. Tom Mula as Caliban ishighly successful as a man and beast, as aservant and a comic. Like Rudall, Mulapossesses a beautiful voice which is sheerjoy to listen to.There is not a single weak performance inthe rest of the cast. Pat Billingsley andLawrence McCauley as Alonso and Gonzaloare very good. Peter Syverstendoes anadmirable job as Prospero’s brother An¬tonio, although there is a very largediscrepancy in age between him andProspero. Ann Goldman gives a nice per¬formance as Miranda, but at times hurls herlines instead of projecting them. The nineactors/dancers who nortrav the spirits arewonderfully strange and beautiful.Patricia Yenawine. the choreographic VliPNick Rudall as Prosperoassociate, is to be applauded.Much credit should be given to DanielPugh for his original costumes and LindaBuchanan for the glorious masks andpuppets that evoke a sense of cultural andtribal images Santez’s music and CharlesJenkins’s set create the proper environmentand mood. Falls, the cast and crew havecreated a most wondorous Tempest. Suchare the things that dreams are made of. andthe Court’s Tempest is a glorious dream fora midsummer's night.SmithBeauty Salon5841 S. Biackstone493-1069will take appointmentsi from 7am until 7pm'Closed Saturdayfacials - make up servicecomplete hair careMember ChtcaooHairdressers Association COURT STUDIO THEATREANNOUNCES OPEN AUDITIONSFOR SHORT BRECHT PLAYS.AUDITION DATES:SATURDAY JULY 9 2:35-5 PMTUESDAY JULY 12 7-0 PMIN THE NEW THEATRE5706 S. 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BRASS SOCIETY QUARTETnoon hutch court If rain, Reynolds Club lounge.1''CAREof thaCOWIf rain, Thursday, July 14, 7 p.m. * 9» / 1 . * * V7 pm hitchcock court ’ <C:* !> tThe Chicago Maroon — Friday, July 8, 1977 — 7*II'L CLASSIFIED ADSSPACEShare condo, prime safe location 57th& Kenwod, 2 blks campus. Privatebdrm., & living rm, laundry, goodparking. $175 mo. negotiable. CallDobbi 643 3595.For Rent: 3-bedroom furnished houseSouth Shore. IV* baths, 2-car garage,central air conditioning, basementrec. room, back yard patio, near CTA,UC bus. Sept 1 to June 1978, $300 mo.721 2677.Room avail now or Aug 1 Share w 3rmtes 52nd St. 72 mo Large apt bdrmunfurn. Call 493-2441.WANTED: 2 or 3 bedroom apartmentbeginning any time from Sept. 1 to Oct1. Call 288-3381 between 6:00 and 10:30pm.PEOPLE WANTEDSubjects needed for psycholinguisticsexperiments, Department ofBehavioral Sciences. $2/hr. Toregister, call 753-4718.FREE KITTENS to good homes. 7 wk.Desperate! 947-9282, 6-10 pm.PEOPLE FOR SALEInterested in typing evenings in myhome. Will discuss price. Barbara.373-3594 after 5:30 p.m.Typist-Exp. Term Papers ThesisResumes Elec. Type. 728-8430.For Experienced piano teacher of alllevels call 947-9746.HIRE AN ARTIST - Illustration of allkinds - even on short notice. Noel Price493 2399.RESEARCHERS - Free lance artistspecializes in the type of graphic workyou need Samples, references onrequest. Noel Price 493 2399.SCENESRIDE NEEDED to Boston, 7/15-20.Need trunk space Will rent vanw/others if necess. Call Evie days, 2634866Good full-time home daycare nearcampus for small group of 1W-2 yearold children. Available in Sept. Call684 2820Harper Sq. Child Care Center 4800Lake Park: Full-day program($40/wk); Half-day program(820/wk); 538-4041.Free Swimming Instruction-Intermediates Tues 6-7:30 p.m.Begins June 21.Beginners Thurs. 6:30-7:30 pm.Begins July 7.Modern Dance Classes Grahambackground, body alignment, ex¬pressive movement Summer termbegins July 10. For further in¬formation, call Wendy Hoffman, 643-3304."IMMIGRANT WOMAN", a paperback by Mary Motek, U of C grad, isavailable at Stuart Brent Books, 670 N.Michigan; Roosevelt Univ. Books,Jane Addams Books, 37 S. WabAir conditioner in exec, condition brk-fst tbl, mason jars for canning. CallBruce 947-9061 PEOPLE WANTEDResource Center needs workers forheavy ecology work 493 1446.RAP GROUPA Women's Rap Group will meet everyTuesday at 7:30 p.m. on the 3rd floor ofthe Blue Gargoyle. For more info 752-5655.TWO-YEAR-OLDSGrad student in education seeks 22 30month olds 8. their mothers to participate in a 6-month study of languagedevelopment at UC. To know moreplease call 753-3899 from 8 4:30.ENCOUNTERGROUPGestalt-Encounter Groups, for selfexploration, assertiveness training,personal problem solving, relationshipskills pract. Getting unstuck thru newways of dealing with difficultemotions, releasing blocked energyand aliveness. Psychodrama &Bioenergetics included Also weekendgroups away from fhe city. Call theOpen Road, Phil Watt, 964 3082PAN PIZZADELIVERYThe Medici delivers from 5-10:30p.m.weekdays, 5-11 30 p.m. Saturday. 667-7394. Save 60 cents if you pick it upyourself.BOOKS BOUGHTBooks bought and sold everyday,every night 9-11 Powells, 1501 E.57th.LITERARYMAGAZINEPrlmavera is on sale in most HydePark stores & Bob's Newsstand. WEneed women to join the editorial staff.Call 752-5655 if you can help out.SLEEP LABSubjects wanted for sleep studiesApply in person 5741 S. Drexel, 3rdfloor. M-F, 9-4. No phone calls pleaseLOSTLOST: small black kitten. 1 year old,short hair w/white spots on lowerbelly-last seen 5495 S. Hyde ParkREWARD $30 Contact 753 4303 day363-1571 eves.PERSONALSPregnant? Troubled? Call 233-0305 foraffirmative help. 10-2 p.m. Free Test.Writers' Workshop (Plaza 2-8377)A lot of companies will offer you an important sounding tilJc.But how many offer you a really important job?In the Navy, you get one as soon as you earn yourcommission. A job with responsibility. A job that requires skilland leadership. A job that's more than just a job. because it'salyi an adventure.We have excellent positions available to men and womenin Nuclear Power. Aviation, Surface Warfare. Supply Corps.Civil Engineering, and more And if you're still anundergraduate, you may be eligible for financial assistanceprior to graduation.It that's the kind of job you're looking for. speak to yourlocal recruiterContact:Steve Boa/. LI. USNBldg 41 N.A.S.(jIciivicw. III. 60026(312) 657-216‘7 Collect Announcing a majorbreakthroughinblack&whitefilm.ILFORD HPSA major breakthrough in black & whitefilm. Ilford HP5 is clearly the sharpest,brightest, fastest 400 ASA film you canbuy. Now available.MODELCAMERA1342 E. 55th St.493-6700PASSPORTPHOTOSWhile-U-Wait KENNEDY. RYAN. M0NH5AI & ASSOCIATES, INCDirectory of ValuesWe Know Hyde ParkReal Estate Inside OutHOUSES FOR SALEORIGINAL PLANS INTACT....Harkening back to originalowner, (Julius Rosenwaid'ssister). Gracious spacious liv¬ing. 3 fireplaces, library,'solarium on both first and se¬cond floors, mahogany, wood¬work. Full third floor formerlyservants quarters. New 2 carbrick garage, side drive. Near50th and Greenwood. CallCharlotte Vikstrom 667-6666.BEVERLYBrick 4 bedrm. house on tree-lined street. Move-in condition.Has those specials - i.e. den,wbfp in LR, rec. rm. in bsmt.$64,000. Call Nadine Alver667-6666 (res. 752 5384).KIDS'PARADISEDelightful end-unit on secludedprivate street location. 2 play acres.3 BRs plus study, 2*/2 baths. Posses¬sion 8/1/77. To see, call Mrs. Haines667-6666 VETERANS ATTENTIONS:Charming two-story brick colonialtownhouse near Lake and 74th inSouth Shore. 2 king-size bedroomsIV* baths. $24,000. CharlotteVikstrom, 667 6666.PRICEDOUTOFHYDE PARK?Frame w/cedar siding on SouthShore Drive. Has income or use assingle family. Side drive a/2 cargarage Tree filled yard Right onthe lake for only $36,000. To see callMrs. Haines at 667 6666.FOR GARDEN LOVERSManagebly-sized free-standing Kenwood home w/side drive, 3-cargarage. A real family place w/nat'lwoodwork, wbfpls. Modern kitchen.50th and Greenwood location. Toosee. Call Mrs. Haines 667 6666.APARTMENTSFOR SALEPTH 7. VIALLTOGETHERAt One LocationTO SAVE YOU MOREf WACCN • CHEVROLET VOLKSWAGEN .SPECIAL DISCOUNT PRICESFor ALL STUDENTSAND FACULTY MEMBERSJust present your University ofChicago Identification Card.As Students or Foculty Members ofthe University of Chicago you ore en¬titled to special money savingsDiscounts <jc, /olk-.v/cgen & ChevroletPorts, accessories and any new orused Volkswagen or Chevrolet youbuy from Volkswagen South Shore or IMerit Chevrolet Inc.1310 IAIN) • NIOVMSXIOA 13101A1N)SALES A SERVICEALL AT ONE ORIAT LOCATIONMERITCHEVROLET©VOLKSWAGENSOUTH SHORE7234 Stony Island„ Mmim: 614-0400Op.o Dally 0-4P.M. / Sat. 0-5 P MPart* Open Saturday too til 12 Noon r HYDE PARK CONDOOne bedroom, 1 bath, nice kitchen,sun porch, large living room Lowassessment. Price $17,000. Locatednear 51st and Woodlawn. Call DonTillery . 667-666658TH & BLACKSTONEAttractive 3 BRs, 2 bath co-op apt. invery well-maintained bldgt. Apt. inmove-in condition. Board approvalrequired. To inspect, please callMargaret Kennedy 667 6666.QUALITY-QUIET-QUICKDoorman in attendance - lovelypanelled lobby - full block of pro¬tected parking - view of Lake. Threeapartments available as follows:5 rm - $18,900 (estate sale)6 rm. $30,0007rm.- 36,000Call Charlotte Vikstrom at 667 6666BRETHARTESCHOOL DISTRICT6 room condo - 3 bedrooms, 2 baths,large LR w/mock fireplace andbalcony, gallery hall, formal DR,nice kitchen, large back porch, outdoor intercom. 55th near Lake. Lowassessment. Cali Don Tillery667 6666OPEN HOUSE7315-17 COLESaturday 1-4, Sunday 14. Salesmanon premises. 4 new deluxe units (onealready sold) - central air - thermopane picture windows • view ofLake country kitchen. Own con¬trolled heat. Patio. $27,500 and$28,000. For information callCharlotte Vikstrom 667 6666. SPACIOUS8V2 ROOMS-ALL NEWLYRESTORED CONDOSunny solarium for your plants.Shiny new kitchen for Mom. FIVE -count 'em bedrooms for all. Threecontemporary baths - stunning sideby-side living room and formal din¬ing room lovely natural beauty ofoak floors over 3,000 square feet ofa comfortable life 55th near LakeLow assessments. $74,900. CallCharlotte Vikstrom 667 6666.LARGE LAKEFRONTLIVINGGlorious Powhatan bldg, on theLake. Indoow Swimming roof topsundeck. Large 9 rooms, 4 baths,centrally air conditioned, beautiful¬ly decorated. Marble woodnurningfireplace. Many extras. Must beseen. $84,000. Call CharlotteVikstrom 667-6666.CONVENIENCE PLUSThis well kept 1st floor 3 BR 2 bathcondo is a stone's throw from both 1Cand CTA transportation in BretHarte district with parking includedin the low price. Call George Bilger667 6666.EAST HYDE PARKSpacious 3 oedrm., 2 bath condo inmove-in condition. Lovely carpetingmodern kitchen. $39,000 CallNadine Alver 667-6666 (res.752 5384)DORCHESTER7 room condo with 4 BR, formal dining room, 2 baths. Priced in low$30's. For more ifnormation, callMargaret Kennedy at 667 6666SUPER BACHELOR APT.This two bedroom Co op apt at 54thand Woodlawn is ideally Icoated tocampus, excellent building,playroom, pool table, work roomOnly $17,900. To see call Richard E.Hild667 6666 (Res 752 5384)1461 East 57th Street, Chicago. Illinois 60637667-6666Daily 9 to 5 Sat. 9 to 1, Or call 667 6666 Anytime8 — The Chicago Maroon — Friday, July 8,19771