Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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GLENDA MILLER INTERIM EDITOR HOLLY GATLING ART FRANK INTERIM MNG. ED. AD MANAGER EDITORIALS 'A bsentee' A bill to provide "'additional methods of student voting by absentee" has passed the S. C. Senate and is now under consideration by the House Judiciary Committee. If passed by the House, the bill would establish absentee ballot stations at every post-high school educational in stitution, including USC, but, most importantly, at Clemson. In other words, with the passage of this bill, which was introduced as the result of a special election laws com mittee study, even the laziest student could obtain his absentee ballot to vote. What this also means is that the legislators hope like heck that the students will vote by absentee ballot Instead of trying to vote in their school precinct. The legislators aren't stupid--at least, not always. They know trouble when they see It. And the trouble could develop in Pickens County because Clemson is just large enough to control that county, as Sen. Nick Ziegler "jokingly" said the other day. Why this sudden kindness? Because the legislators think they can push through this bill and say of course we are out to help the students. While they're helping the students they're also saving their necks. No more skins "If we go on using skins for another 20 years there'll be no tigers or leopards left." A quote from a conservationist? A Sierra Club spokesman? A ECO 70's member? ''No'' to all. The quote is from a military spokesman for the British army. He was explaining the reason why the British army bandsmen will no longer wear tiger and leopard skins. In the future, the bandsmen will wear nylon fabricated copies of the skin aprons. All we can say is that we hope this is a sign of the times. And that we hope the concern for preservation of wildlife will further spread into all forms of human vocation. Labels A word about two words. Liberal. Conservative. We are wondering if they really stand for anything besides convenient labels. After all, remember the day when Nixon was the arch enemy of the liberals and the liberals belIeved in closer relationships with the Red Chinese. Well, say hello to AAao, Daik Today revisited Some like By JOHN T. GASH Associate Editor Most people don't know what a Clio is. Until I was introduced to it last year, I didn't either. A Clio is an award given to a commercial for a certain category of achievement. It is the Emmy of the commercial set. I saw this year's Clios Tuesday and, if nothing else, they proved that the making of a commercial a good commercial, that is-has become an art. The film of the Clios is one commercial after another. For most television viewers that would be enough to drive them to strangle themselves with the rabbit ears. But not in this case. These com mercials were far above the standard of the screaming housewife who has "ring around the collar" or some other con tagion. The most dominant commercial when it comes to winning Clios is Alka Seltzer. It has won the award for the best international com mercial about six of the last seven years. This year's entrant was the commercial starring the "Mama mia, thatsa a spicy meatball" man. It ran away with five awards. Another winner were Pepsi's The watermark Find out By BOB CRAFT Features Editor The New York Rock Ensemble and McKendree Spring will be here this weekend and there's a good chance that you already know something about these groups because they've been here before. However, you may not know anything about the third group on the bill, the Mahavishnu Or chestra. Mahavishnu is the spiritual name given to John McLaughlin, the leader of the group, by his -~O '~'MY Go>. WNF RL'NIN .able com "You've got a lot to live" com mercial for soft drinks. Volkswagen won in the automobile division with its commercial showing the late 1940's fair and all the fancy cars, except Volkswagen, and their promises. Volkswagen, of course, looks like it does now. The announcer says something like, "Of all the promises made at the 1948 (I think) car fair, Volkswagen is the only one who kept its promise." And even the cigarettes were allowed to be entered in this competition. Marlboro walked away with the award for the tobacco products division. It was the "Marlboro country" theme, along with some fantastic photography of wild horses rushing through the sea surf. The 3M Company won a Clio for the best corporate image division. It was an animated drawing of an employee who sneaks through the halls of the office refusing to give ,his opinion on anything. The! narrator says that this type of' employee may have great ideas; all it takes to find out is to ask and enough companies don't. There were many other awards; the few above were the most outstanding. ibout Ma spiritual advisor Sri Chinmoy. Mahavishnu is the name of one of the Indian Cosmic gods representing God the Preserver, whose qualities are divine Com passion and Justice. Other members of the Orchestra are Billy Cobhan on drums, Jerry Goodman on violin and viola, Jan Hammer on Keyboards and Rick Laird on Bass. John McLaughlin was born in Yorkshire, England and at the age of eight began taking piano and 7- OUT OF 7AS nVLP niAmWAN ! m ercials Besides American commercials, there were foieign ones. France had one dealing with tires, I think. I really don't know because it was spoken in French. Anyway, at the end of the commercial, a speeding car comes screeching up behind the announcer. It stops just inches away. Japan had a soap suds com mercial. It was very Americanized with all these pretty girls holding out their wash and admiring it on a hillside. England had two winners. One dealt with Bird's Eye frozen foods. The other was about some wine. The Bird's Eye commercial was done in black and white, trying to revive the sentimental love story of the 1940s. The wine commercial had a priest drawing a very detailed sketch in a book. He hears a bell ring. He turns and knocks his ink on the sketch, ruining it. He places his hands in prayer and mutters something--words of God, ob viously. He then pours himself a glass of wine. Yes, yes, the commercial has improved, and these commercials prove it. Now, only if the other commercials could get off the immaturity kick. avishnu violin lessons. He started playing guitar at the age of eleven and started in a local band that took him to London at sixteen. While in London, McLaughlin played with such musicians as Ginger Baker, Jack * Bruce, Graham Bond and Georgie Fame. In 1969 he received an invitation to record with Tony Williams. On his second day in New York, McLaughlin recordid with Miles Davis on "In a Silent Way." After that, McLaughlin toured for a year in a group called "Lifetime." During this time, he recorded with Davis, Jimi Hendrix among others. He left "Lifetime" but recorded a second album with them entitled "My Goal's Beyond" which he dedicated to his guru, Sri Chin moy. McLaughlin has been called a genius and few compliments could be greater than that of Miles Davis, "Mc Laughlin-he's the one... that's the killer. You might hear anything... because John has the knowledge." This is what some of the critics have to say about John McLaughlin and the Mahavisnu Orchestra: "This is big electric week at Richard Harding's Quiet Knight, featuring John McLaughlin.. .Never has there been such a dynamo of power in this club and most patrons leave drained in a manner reminiscent of the last Who concert." (Ron Berler, Chicago Tribune); "After sitting at the base of the stage and bearing the full weight of the Mahavishnu Orchestra's power, one almost doesn't know what to say. One thing is certain: that this band is one of the most tightly knit and electrifying groups around today." (Mike Spengler, Syracuse New Times). This is a portion, but not by any means all of what can be said for the Mahavishnu Orchestra with John McLaughlin. They will be here this Friay.