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Haven 'Gonna settle BY CHERE COPE "In all actuality, the present is the most important thing," said Richie Havens in an interview Monday. "And in order to have a meaningful future you must have a meaningful present. The present being the basis of the future, you have to do it now. It doesn't come to you there, you make it here." Richie Havens was born and raised in the black ghetto of Bedford-Stuyvesant, New York. He was the oldest of nine children. He does not sing particularly to those in the ghetto, he says, or to any one type of person. "I arm not specifi cally black oriented, I am oriented towards people. When I sing, I sing about situations that affect us all...We are all one, idealistically, we're all the same." Relaxed and rested after his con cert appearance in Columbia Sun day night, Havens spoke of his philosophical background and the qffect it has on people. "I don't think that my being deeply philosophical will lose the people. Philosophy is a way of life. I think the people are into that way of life, more so than ever before. They're becoming aware of how they do things, what they do, what they don't do; they're learning." Havens has a reputation for being very introverted and somewhat of a loner. "I will be a ghetto all by myself if tlhere ever was one." he has said on the back of one of his albums. Havens explains what he meant by this statement: "I mean. that everyone is alone. Some of us equate this as 'loneliness' and some of us equate this as aloneness. I think that the basic one is aloneness which we all are. We find out our mothers can't help us after a certain point, no one can, really, except our selves." Anyone wno has ever seen Havens play notices immediately his unique style. Instead of forming chords with his fingers, he simply slides his thumb up and down the neck. " I just couldn't play," he explains. "I tuned my guitar to a chord I always heard in church, and I just started finding notes and I dis covered all of those things." People also notice that Havens writes very few of the songs he performs. How does he choose his songs? "Basi cally by hearing them. If it affects me then it will affect other people. And the more people that do a song, the more different interpretations of different people are added to it and it becomes more meaningful." Havens compares himself to other black singers such as Sly Stone and Jimi Hendrix. "I think that Jimi and myself are closer than Sly and myself because Jimi was basically a loner type of singer, and Sly sings alone but he has a lot of instrumentation because he doesn't really sing that much, it's basically an instrumentation gig. In what we are saying, Sly and I are close, but musically, I am closer to Hendrix." Havens feels that his acoustic style brings the meanings of the songs closer to the people. 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Of music, Havens feels that it will become more ethnically inclined, and he sees the eventual blend of Black and rock as good. For himself, it's a four day'trip to Europe for a charity pro duction of Peter Townsend's "Tommy" and the publication of his book, "The Great Blind Degree" to be released late in December. "I'm going to settle down, too," he says. "Real soon." Give a gift of PERSONAL APPLAUSE A c. Custom-crafted by Make someone know they're loved and appre ciated-with a fine custom made initial gift like these. Over 20 styles to choose from, men's and ladies' Order soon - 2 weeks re quired for crafting and delivery. A. Sterl. S,t. Pendant $15.00 B. Belt Buckle. I %" $25.00 C. Tie Tack. Sterling .$12.50 D. Earrings. Pcd. or Scbk. $22.50 Prices are for Sterling Silver or Yel. gold electroplate. Also avai. io E o e alOsek U4u.e.al led ,? pber ae 544-ie 4ta ee nar i Pee et Ora.tar One good way to get over to our place toni little. Laugh a little. night. For old time sa Eat on C Scientific exch brings Rusc BY SUSAN PAQUET Prof. Guerman Zhizhin, head of the laboratory of the Institute of Spectroscopy of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, has nearly completed two months of research in the Department of Cemistry here. Prof. Zhizhin has been work ing with Dr. James R. Durig under provisions of the Agreement on Scientific Exchanges between the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Soviet Academy of Sci ences. Zhizhin chose U.S.C. because of the worldwide reputation Dr. Durig has in the field of spectroscopy. Zhizhin said,"Before we met, we had been working on.the same com pound simultaneously. Now we are working side by side." Zhizhin also said he felt the laboratory in the chemistry department here was very well equipped for his research. Spectroscopy is the study of how atoms move in relation to other atoms in the same molecule. A spec trometer makes "fingerprints" of the unique frequencies of each molecule. Outside of the laboratory research, which Zhizhin said often takes from early morning to late night, Prof. Zhizhin has spent some time sight-seeing in Charleston and at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. He also attended the N.C. State-S.C. football game and has visited in several Columbia homes. Zhizhin, a small personable man, described the Russian educational system under which he received his training. The first 10 years of the Smous~~. ........e ra..a. ange program ;ian to USC Soviet's education is spent in "middle schools." It is a criminal offense not to attend school these first 10 years. The "student's time" occurs after these first 10 years and consists of a minimum of four years in either a technical school or uni versity. Exams must be passed to allow for admission to one of these institutions. The student is paid a stipend about 30 rubles per month the first year. Out of this stipend food and dorm room rent are paid. Rent costs about $3 per month. In the scientific fields after about six years of study, a student may wish to abtain an "aspirantura" which is three years of scientific work leading to an equivalent of an American Ph.D. To qualify for an aspirantura an exam must be passed and the student chooses sci entific director who helps them with their research. The stipend for these three years of advanced research is 80 rubles. During their aspirantura time the student pub lishes articles and prepares and defends an approzimately- 150 page paper. The Scientific Counsel votes on this research to decide if the paper is scientifically acceptable. Prof. Zhizhin arrived at U.S.C. October 6th to begin his research with Dr. Durig. Nov. 16 he left for two weeks travel in Washington, D.C. Zhizhin is leaving S.C. December 10th for two weeks to see other spectroscopy labs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Boston, then return to Columbia. Zhizhin will return to Moscow January 1 to present the results of his research here. C food SuhH. 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