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rNiti Colli By Chuck Cromer Entertainment Writer The days of college promotion of major concerts are over. The college market has been replaced by the professional promoter who has gained a virtual monopoly over bookings in the field. A major musical concert generally runs the promoter a iminimnum of :3,000. There is no nmaxinui figure in this field. Some concerts have been known to cost over 60,000 above expenses. Salaries for rock groups have doubled and in many instances tripled am :i.' the past two years. For example, the Doobie Brothers in 972 cost 3500 for a one night stand " , today they cost 20,000 plus a percentage of gross cash receipts. Elton John charges 30,000 * 90 per cent of cash receipts. Priso Prison Awareness Week, sponsored by Ideas and Issues ('ommittee, Uni%ersity Union, begins Monday with activities running through Friday. lighlighting the week is the prison drama "The Cage" written by a former inmate of San Quentin. The production, which has gained national repute in such publicat ions as Time and Newsweek, will be presented Tuesday at 8 p.m. in Campus Room. capstone. Tickets are $1 and mnay be purchased at Russell Ilouse, fourth floor, or Russell louse Ticket office, second floor. Workshops will he conducted by "The ('age" Tuesday at 2 and 3:30 ". J G LEA3 Our shop is spring sel< .. Help us c, . Paxis1 la 28 -. I - I Ski'd4Ta $30 .I I IJOUlR CI4O9CE~ Sweatr $a*8 . O5Pa'cSkees .- I 18 $33 J )ue to special exhng.-ly PTAIN4 ge Pro Three years ago colleges sup plied most of the public's en tertainment needs in the major concert area. Rock groups received very little exposure in those days so - their price for playing was generally low. That is not the case today. The professionals have ;taken over most of the college markets. The professional promoter has better and more extensive connections with a rock group's agent and personal manager than has a college. Besides his connections, a professional promoter has more financial resources than the average college. He can -'cid to pay the extravagant fees musicians demand whereas colleges can't. Possibly the greatest ad :it ages promoters have is their booking procedure. , Usually a college books a major group for a one-night engagement. The professional promoter, on the other Week B p.m. The week's activities will cover r also local and national issues. i Participants include Lawrence r Polliver, director of the South c Carolina Association for Improved Justice; Stanley Kohn of the Richland County F-amily Court; Mr. Alvin Bronstein, director of the v National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union; members of the Comprehensive I)rug Abuse Program; and USC Professors Brown, Pearson, King and McAninch, authors of "The )eath Penalty in South Carolina." S "The Cage,' an explosive sur vival drala, was written inside San Quentin by Rick Cluchey who r .TANCE small yet our ction is BIG! ear the shop. Remau1ng 1Masera I a I$45 g T ..-- .................J 94he68e., Ski'd 'Se6o, prices, no) 'returns-. way /Sor holds I)own town A rcadia al1i niotiol Analysis hand, generally offers a group ten dates. He will have a string of ,ities in a five-state area, and will place the . group in an orderly imd well-planned concert tour. Because the South had a smaller )opulation than other regions of the country, it was the last tronghold of defense against the )rofessional promoter. But the 'outh, once again, has fallen. The best example of this akeover is the case of Clemson, ,vhich has, for the past three years >r so, been working hand in hand ,%ith a professional promoting igency known as Beachclub ;looking Agency. Clemson does not >ook the supergroups . 1-arimgon ts cam pus. Beachclub handles all ispects of the concerts--it books he band, and pays the expenses or the show. egins esearched it during 12 years of unrisonment. The compelling 80 uinute one-act is pertormea uy ex onvicts, both on parole and off, nd sets four characters in motion round a toilet bowl, acting out turgical and legal fantasies, often ~ith hilarious but ultimately lethal ffect. Although it describes the horror nd brutality of prison life, the play not primarily a call for prison eform or a prote't against the ijustices of the Ainerican judicial ystemn. Instead. it is an intricatc nd profound statement about the ythic structures of society. Of he desperate need for evolutionary change, "The Cage" clear and poignant testimony. HELP V FULL-_TME, AND EVE Apply: 1211 College Street 1Days The Clemson Dance Committee, which consists of roughly three students, acts as advisor to the promoter. It s sole obligation is to C provide the facility for the event. 0 After the performacne, Clemson P and Beachclub split the profits. 1) Most supergroups will not S perform for a school unless this Promoter-college relationship 0 exists. Two years ago USC was responsible for most of the big time performers in Carolina Coliseum. Then. in the spring of it 1972, the Coliseum made a contract f with Or. -e)t Enterprises in ( Baltimore. 01 Satterfield Featured] Wall hangings by Dorothy cot Satterfield and photographs by Wir Kelly Adams are currently on lig display in Huntington Gallery of ter Sloan College. on Satterfield, a member of the 01) faculty of East Carolina University vir faculty, incorporates a variety of a natural materials such as drift- all wood, weeds, cork, lichen, bean rel pods and pine cones into her rel weavings in sequential horizontal for bands. The wool and cotton $1 weaving materials are of delicate earth tones and Satterfield takes t advantage of the qualities of these F materials in creating interesting exl Iextural relationships with dried plant forms. Most of the hangings are for sale and prices range from $150 to $200. The photographs of Kelly ir Adams, Chairman of Commercial F' Art and Graphic I)esign at Pitt F Techical Institute deal with L (ANTED pe PART-TIME U NINGS 3 BURGER p KING" Ac NOW OPE Salads, Pizzas, Spaghetni, Veal Parmesan, American Carry Out Orders, \ 734 Harden St. 779-3093 Openi 5:00 P.M. 'til 2:00 P.M. Tuenduy thru Over This contract resulted in a .--)poly for concerts in the oliseurn put on by this agency. nly USC would be allowed to put a op concert in the Coliseum esides Concept Enterprises. ince.the situatiion has been ne-sided. Concept would book the iost dates there, and have the iggest names. USC could not compete. ecause of the expenses, the niversity sought a new direction i the smaller type. concert eld. With USC out of the way, oncept definitely has a monopoly n concerts in the coliseum. , Adams [lisplays nimon in>ages; doorways, trees, ter dippers, hats, fences and ht patterns' in a quiet con nplative manner. Emphasis is composition, on separating the ject from its usual en onmental context, thus giving it singular importance and owing it to assume a symbolic ation to the viewer's frame of. erence. The photographs are sale, and prices are from $50 to 0. luntington Gallery is open from .n. to 5 p.m. Monday through 'riday and various shows are iibited throughout the year. 00 University Players' short course stage management, offered by arren Houtz, begins Wednesday, ebruary 20, at 3 p.m. in )ngstreet Theatre, room 107. 00 The Concord String Quartet will rform in Campus Room Cap >ne, tonight at 8:15, sponsored by liversity Union Cultural Series mmittee. A workshop will be at .m. Admission is free.. 00 Flhe Crucible currently accepting etry, prosed-fiction, drama, erary criticism, and film ticism of a theoretical nature, its first spring issur. Sub ssion deadline is March 1. dress The Crucible, campus box ~7. N LaSagna, too iPoints