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T-dy is Veteran's Day SCSSL G Assembly convenes *v.g~ LXiNO. 6 Uniersiy ofSouthCaroinN,Coemmiar . C..919 While workers inStall seai Assembly Room at Russell Hc sits outside patiently wal Nero giV By HARRY HOPE Staff Writer Peter Nero, jazz virtuoso, presented a lecture-demonstration Monday night, in which he looked at "Today's music: how we got there, and where we're going." The lecture, "the first I've ever done," said Nero, was sponsored by the University Union Lectures Committee. With Nero were two musicians which complete his trio. Nero commented, in answer to the question "What is jazz,?" that Checks coming for vets By PAUL HARNICK Staff Writer Many of the nearly 1,500 USC student veterans have not received their October Veteran's Ad ministration checks. Ap proximately $150,000 has not been mailed to student veterans. "We are going to do all in our power to see that this does not happen next year," commented William H. Patterson, provost of USC. Patterson also stated that he was not aware of the situation until a short time ago. Charles Aull, assistant regional director of the Veteran's Ad ministration, suggested having a VA representative on campus during registration in hopes of creating a better liaison with Carolina. He added that the delay was partly due to the fact that nearly 70,000 veteran students in South Carolina applied for benefits this school year. "Had these certificates (awards) come in from USC earlier, then possibly we could have had checks out for the month of September," Aull added. All certificates arrived at the Veteran's Administration office on October 12, from the USC ad ministration according to Aull. He further stated that all checks for September and October should be here "no later than November 10, and anyone not receiving his check should call the Veteran's Administration as soon as possible after this date." Robert B. Jeter, director of student aid, said the number of veteran students applying for emergency loans had increased during the last part of October. Some veteran students In vestigated the possibility of receiving food stamps, but most found that veterans were technically "too wealthy" to be eligible for the stamp program. Wayne Grooms, a Vietnam veteran, said that he feels many of the veteran students are becoming M A long wait s In the new opening. iuse, a student "The Ritua ting for the be the first t 'es first 14 "if you have to ask, then don't mess with it. "Jazz is how you feel. But there is a certain amount of skill and professionalism involved," he said. "And jazz is completely honest when the player is un schooled." STORED JAZZ The pianist admitted that "education is an aid to the product. I studied classical piano for fifteen years, but I went to jazz. Sometimes jazz isn't really how you feel, if you have enough education. I think I have enough stored up to play when I don't feel like playing. "That's where education comes in. But the music depends on how the audience feels. I can play something happy or unhappy or any gradation in between, but it depends on how the audience feels. What we are playing lets the audience on to how we feel," he said. To demonstrate his point, Nero's trio played an improvised jazz piece, "based on a set of chords, with no particular melody." Nero noted after the piece was played that the trio had switched from 4-4 to 3-4 just when they were about to end, but that they played on past the intended ending 'because it felt comfortable." DANGEROUS "Recording Improvised music is dangerous," Nero said, "because the music loses Its spontaneity after repetition. You listen to It the first time, It sounds great. But the more you listen to it, the more you become critical of It." He also stated that rock music should be called contemporary music, because "rock Is a com bination of jazz, folk, rhythm and blues, Virginia Reel, Highland Fling, but It's disorganized. "About fifteen years ago, jazz began to get too complex for audiences. Performers turned their backs on the audience. Bill Haley and the Comets brought about a rhythmic reversion-to a strong back beat, with accents on the second and fourth beats. It was easy to understand and feel." WHAT IT DOES He defined music as "organized sound," saying that "under that definition, almost anything can pass for music. The most im portant thing is that it does something for people. "You can't equate music with money. The purpose is to com municate with people. I accept the fact that I can't communicate with everybody in the country." At this point, he took the George Gershwin tune, "I Got Rhythm," and played it with variations on the styles of Beethoven, LUszt, Mozart, Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev. "Now, I don't know about you, but I had fun playing that," he told the audience after the work was finished. - se Bess.u I" playing November 20-22 will ,vent in the new facility. ecture Then he played "Mary Had A Little Lamb" and used the variations upon this melody to show the audience the develop ment of contemporary music. "It started out in a two-beat pattern, then became more complex, then more fragmentary, then, after complicated har monics, a reversion to the past." BIGGER SOUND "I think we are going to get a bigger sound through electronics. This is not necessarily going back to the Big Band Sound. Blood, Sweat and Tears and Chicago translate other musicians' ideas into progress. They are the trailblazers. Electronic in struments are good for people who want to play fRqt. "Some of these groups cannot follow-up their first big hit. They lack depth and wind up doing the same thing all over again," he said. Earlier he had commented on rock groups "doing a medley of their hits." Commenting on the Moog Synthesizer, Nero called the in strument "fantastic." "The possibilities are unlimited. It can substitute for certain in struments that have always been a problem. And of course It has its own sound, which is an entirely new instrument." In explaining his own music, Nero stated, "I try to maintain my own musical personality. I try to keep in touch with what is going on musically and take what I like and use it. "I like the formality of classical music, but I also like the freedom in jazz. I will take pop tunes and make them sound classical. There is nothing sacred about the classics. It's there, so why net use He commented that old jazz musicians who were previously opposed to rock music were now taking rock music and developing it, "and these guys will lead the way." He ended the presentation with a medley, in his own style, of several songs from the Broadway play "Hair." Correction Michael J. Mungo, a member of the Board of Trustees who spoke in the Commons Room F'riday, said he was misquoted In a story headed "Mungo speaks in Commons Room" in the Monday Gamecock. The statement attributed to Mungo was, "I guess there are no blacks In the fraternities for the same reason there are no 'D' students In Phi Beta Kap pa." Mungo said hediduse a comparative analysis to "D" students in Phi Beta Kappa at one poInt in the afternoon's discussions, but that it was in no wa relaterto back stuents. Stadiu from < The controversy over enlargin Carolina Stadium and building new library was discusse yesterday by an administrativ assistant to President Thomas I Jones. Jerry Beasley, as governmer liaison officer for Jones, said h "spent a great deal of tim working with the Genere Assembly during the past sessior "I want to clarify the procedur that was follwed in passin legislation to authorize cor struction of both of these facilitie Register cycles All motorcycles parked withir the jurisdiction of the University unless in a metered parking place must be registered and displayinj their registration decal in i prominent place by November 16 1970 according to a ruling madq last Friday by traffic court o appeals. The Ruling stated in part "thi status of motorcycles has beei uncertain, and for this reason issuance of citations to motor cycles has been inconsistent. Th< court finds that this inconsistenc: and uncertainty is an extenuatinj and mitigating circumstance fa the failure of the petitioners t registcr their vehicle. For a perio --o ten days following the date o this order, (Nov. 6, 1970) the cour will continue to hold this view Thereafter, ... a registratioi sticker must be displayed in i prominent place (rear fender o1 front park leg is most convenient on the machine." In citing their reasons foi coming to this decision, the traffic court of appeals said that the present motorcycle parking situation is in a state of anarchv: and that while the administration is on record as supporting the proliferation of motorcycles as a means of easing the tight parking situation, that some degree of order should be introduced. CommitteE gains own night club "We don't have many people orl the Night Club Committee. Maybe *it's because there isn't much in, terest in the night club. Maybe iti ' because nobody knows where the night club is!" Butch Nordstrom chairman of the Night Clut Committee, said. The Night Club Committee has been in operation for three years and has progressed to the poi where it now has its own night club. The Golden Spur. The Golden Spur is located on the second floor of the Russell House across fromi the Information Desk. "We try tc provide variety entertainment,' Nordstrom said. "The Golden Spur is somewhat of a gathering place for students. "At the moment we're trying to get larger facilities so there will be more room and we can get bigger groups." The nex t event planned by the Night Club Committee will be 'Coffeehouse." on Thursday November 12. from 8-12 p.m. 'Any student can come and sing. play guitar, read poetry, perform anything he likes. Maybe we can get a piano." Nordstrom said. Refreshments will be free and as a special added attraction, short films will be featured. Movies of Charlie Chaplin, W.C. Fields and some underground films will be included. On November 24, the Night Club Committee will present "Your Father's Mustache" in South Cafeteria. "Your Father's Mustache" Is rated as one of the top, if not the top, banjo band in the country. Admission will be $1 per nersn.n m fundi: 0apital ii g as well as other badly needed a physical structures on the d University campus," he said. e Beasley said this clarification '. was necessary because of rumors which "evidently are being cir it culated on our campus by sup. e posedly knowledgeable people." e The bills which the General il Assembly passed last year ap 1. propriated state funds for capital 1 e improvements at the University. g This is completely separate from - the bill which authorizes the Board 1, of Trustees to sell bonds for the purpose of enlarging the football stadium. The stadium enlargement act, House Bill 2547, does not authorize expenditure of any state funds, Beasley said. The introduction to the bill reads, "An act to empower the Trustees of the University of South Carolina to issue special obligation bonds to pay for the cost of enlarging and improving Carolina stadium; to prescribe the conditions under which such bonds No action on traffic The Traffic Committee of the Columbia City Council has so far taken no action on a proposal r presented Friday by Student Body President Mike Spears and First Secretary Dave Powers that f several blocks of Green and t Pickens streets be closed. Spears and Powers met with the committee for an hour and a half Friday. Pictures of pedestrians and traffic on Green St. in front of the Russell House and on Pickens St. beside the Humanities Center were used in the presentation along with a ten foui map of the University. According to Powers, studies conducted nine years ago had recommended that the streets be closed. Powers said that a study done by Wilbur Smith and Associates in 1961 had recom mended that the two streets be closed. He said that a study made by the b USC Department of Engineering also made that recommendation. t ( The Doxiadis Report, a planning study for the city of Columbia made in 1969, recommended that Green St. in front of the Russell House be lowered and a pedestrian mall be built over it. Spears said that the ideal solution to the problem is to depress the two thoroughfares since closing Green and Pickens streets was not feasible. "Green and Blossom are the only two East West streets leading into Five Points. Pickens, Assembly and Harden Streets are the only continuous North-South thorough F acuity Senate4 "1 think even some of us misunderstood; we will not havei one iota more power," said Jh Welsh. secretary of the faculty and faculty senate. Welsh said all decisions of the newly formed Faculty Senate are subject to review by the USC president and the Board of Trustees. The group will hold its first f monthly meeting today at 5 p.m. in st Currell College Room 107. Ap- jC proximately 100 faculty senators are members. 'p Instructors associated with USC g before fall 1966 and assistant, St associate and full professors El comprise the voting faculty. Hi The first meeting will be hi primarily for organizational w< purposes and to elect a chairman. Other business will be a report wi from the Curriculum and New th Courses Committee and grade changes. The group will also vote on H whether to allow student press into bt their meetings. ng sep nprov may be issued and to mak provision for the paymen thereof." "The bill states clearly how revenues can be raised, an clearly pronounces that the faiti and credit of the state of Soutl Carolina will in no way be pledgeo to guarantee payment," Beasle, said. "At the same time that thi General Assembly approved thil bill, they aproved an identical bil giving the same power to th Board of Tr.,stees at Clemsom University." The improvements for th stadium are estimated at fiv4 million dollars in the bill, whicf authorizes the USC Trustees to pa3 the principal and interest of the bonds from admission fees and a special student fee. House Bill 2545 provides for !apital improvements fold-the Jniversity, other state colleges md other state agencies. "Since taken proposal fares in the city. The closing of an of these streets would cause bol tlenecks in the city traffic pal tern." Powers said that Studen Government had received no wor from the traffic committee a proposed action. He said that thi committpe smed com mitted t the idea that the streets were vita and could not be closed. The committee's function is tc make recommendations to the Cit) Council on matters dealing with raffic and transportation )roblems in Columbia. Powers said that if there is no )ositive action from the com nittee, the student government t,oudd take steps to minimize the raffic problem on the streets and vould find alternative ways to Iring about a permanent solution. Spears said that temporary neasures will be taken to increase tudent safety. "I have requested hat speed humps be placed on ;reen and Pickens streets to slow Ie of traffic." Governor and fu spann re JSC deik A USC coed has been nominated r governor of the statewide mock udent legislature meeting in >lumbia this week. "Our delegation is supporting ally Spann unanimously for vernor of the South Carolina ate Student Legislature," said iniy Wheeler, a USC delegate. swever, several other delegates ye expressed doubt that a man could be elected. The officers for the coming year Ii be determined by the SCSSL at eir last meeting on itiday. The first legislative session will mrt today at 1 p.m. in the State use. Yesterday, during the frttu sainess day of the se,ten, inmittee meetings and caucuses arate .ments this bill included $95,810,000 for t construction of other capital im provements on our state college campuses aad for other state agencies, it IsAolish for anyone to assume tha. its passage was contingent omi hat of approving .a football stad4qA for the Univer sity," Beaslelapld. Provided fori the bill is $9.2 million for buildig and equipping a new library building, to be constructed beginning in July, 1972. Also approved were $800,000 or a School of Nursing building; $5,900,000 for a Law School building; $4,350,000 for a Business Administration building; and $1,800,000 for purchase of the Federal Building across from the Horseshoe on Sumter Street. The bill specifies that the State Budget and Control Board is "empowered to impose regulations upon the expenditure of the funds authorized above and none of the undertakings authorized herein shall be commenced without its approval. Nor shall any contract incident to such projects be awarded without the approval of the State Board." Beasley said the athletic program has had a "fantastic" y impact on the growth of Carolina. "It has created a positive attitude among many members of the State Legislature towards the promotion t and growth of the total university and its many prograMs. "Any person on this campus who would underestimate the Impact of the athletic program on the State Legislature (and I understand that there are a few) have very little co comprehension of the favorable acceptance by the legislature of the athletic program," he con tinued. Beasley said Jones has given "great leadership to Carolina. He has done this with the help of a very competent Board of Trustees, an outstanding student body, and a cooperative legislature and faculty. "It would be foolish at this time to permit a few people in the Carolina Community to continue to wrongfully influence the thinking of our fine student body by giving out erroneous information," Beasley added. ure governor? presents gation were held. Bills concerning abortion, police training, and dfrug penalities will be coming before the SCSSL assembly. Although bills passed by this group have no legal force, they are sent to state legislators as guidelines of statewide student opinion. The SCSSL has delegates frern 17 colleges and uaiversities in thme state. 'tre me Week cekqe -eeato mesbed, Delegations mnus atteind ee year withnout Vsti~ Vit before bcma RP year two blak If they wm@ppg 8888ior