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I!c-J0 e The Whales This unique three man band will a| Killer Whale By Cal Harrison The Killer Whales will return tc Cinlden Snnr for two shows aft year-long wait. The doors of the Spur will ope 8 p.m.; admission is $2. The band's popularity has gr immensely since its first perform; at the Spur four years ago. Then Whales typically appeared twc three times a semester. Now, { the band's appearance on the tionally syndicated television si ur. _i_ n * 1 r | oiarsearcn, me penormance Balance w By Chris Handal Balance is the key to developing ? ding to the program's coordinator This year's balance includes no and a radio personality. But the 1 classifications, said George Geckle department and director of the sixPart of the balance is an academi had someone who could be cons oriented (Richard Ellman, prize-wii Joyce). We received a good resp Geckle said. series. William Styron, author of $ "Sophia's Choice,n spoke at USC meat, was locked up and Styron 1 crowd without amplification. Fc strong voice, Geckle said. To prevent many of the probl developed. "We've got it pretty The authors' visits to USC are only the reading, which is open to with the press, an autograph par , session at South Carolina Educa Sometimes people will make la the author and this makes the sc weviue s?wu The authors sometime cause th ly, it will happen that an author h watfJom%^|iepre$iorROii But even if the writer is difficu AmTso* far, Geckle's biggest 'The biggest fear is that somethl doesn't show up. But so far it h "Every reading we've had I when I think about it, we've ha< sate*. On those rare occassfons when Geckle said: "Thai's when I war Ent< v^HRmSI M - ? *- ppear in the Golden Spur tonight and tomorrow ni is to surface ir be a special treat for (JSC fans. ) the The Whales were destined for na er a tional exposure because the group i more than just another three-mai :n at band. The unique sound of the Kille Whales's style, is seen in a nev own perspective. The Whales's uniqu ance sound is similar to the sound of Dir , the Straits, but the band's lyrics are a ) or forceful as those of Talking Heads o ifter Elvis Costello. na low, The album, Emotiona will Geography," was hailed by one criti as key to devi THIS YEAR a good writers series, accor- Fitzgerald, wh( Geckle said. Fit nAPte o ^ A ?" 1_ * Tviuij) puvio, a 11 anoiaiui pc!5l yCdT IUT JTli jalance goes beyond these Another part , chairman of the English from the very se year-old series. Jong falls in th< c component. "Last year I Jong also helj idered more academically "I've got wome ining biographer of James Poet Diane V lonse" from his reading, books of poetrj Grave of a Son Wmm WH,LE GE< QIU1 well-balanced a: way it worked < Humanities anc I I# '' fsJW* semester funds ALSO, THI problem *ttt&fm a"tho" , l?m ?*R?I' IIIII'iITIMMKN': P'eased to be 11 pi^Kphoi^'ife:. Bul if ,hc 81 m Wfeadto 'mp acketjifg Presen,s s.ome' rturuu,.Kw*|S|| PuV,HzePr?Pr"z; I ems, a checklist has been ? And such be well organized," he said. Iryinghaye hel often hectic including 901 < ea;, V.c<? V8. ?the public, but interviews "11 s kind ? al ty and dften an interview^ brin^ m a Kurt tion^tTelevi$ion,/tr-^/04 ple of that w.a st minute requests to meet Maxine Kumn fft heCttC'l AS FOR .hi. fi" 'he Place a, ?/**>,; panion on N< fhe others I jii! ;>i-deckle said 1 It behind ?|cenesr *1$? undergraduate for 8raduate st nc^ii?rre<l4 Referring to the feeling tha as oee n ok ay. artist." m gone wel!,..ActuaUy>| Geckle said \ i very fe^ problems/' he it is good chanc 1 " , r problems begin to pile up, MOST OF tl it to go away and hide.'* which gives pec a book autogn JttS&A iHT KBS univi fSBHKB been J Hj%J| jjH he si Owe I?;,. J fg fjjg |H|Mfflp -<iS?] T* !-;5SM^li ~", " 1 nam '^fjjllpl Heir ^l|i^i|t IgfegjMi, A^lftfj O gjpglgsl^. ' reali phys O worl ght. ficIi' it na i Spur tonight ? * W the 1 < 4 as "the best debut album of 1983." sciei But the magnetism of the band can- and s not be completely felt until seen on Si n stage. David Bethany's stares at the Zeal r crowd while singing, "Take Me to the i v the River" and drummer Murphy O e Pittsuses' ape-like gesticulations dur- and e ing "Monkey Man," reveal the Min s talents of true showmen. "Th r app< The show starts at 9 p.m. both O nights. Pitchers of Miller beer will be fror 1 on sale for $2. USC identification diar c and proof of age are required. teac and sloping 1984 Wi 'S academic component to the series is Robert ) is "primarily associated with translating," |||p zgerald received a great deal of attention this |||| s translation of Virgil's "Aeneid." of the balance is having a range of people III ;rious to the more popular, Geckle said. Erica m" i latter category. )s balance the series between men and women. |f|fP n opening and closing the series," he said. ^akoski is the closing woman and one of the 1^| f she has written is entilted "Dancing on the || of a Bitch." ^KLE said, "In one sense, the series is not as s could be," he said he is still pleased with the |||| Dut this year. |ra| eries, Geckle said, was easier to put togther IP because Dean Chester Bain of the College of 11! 1 Social Sciences notified him early in the fall ||| would be available. Jong was confirmed early and the rest of the fall into place, he said. :ontacts in the English department helped line pill rs while his knowledge of New York literary )btain others. ? Writers Series'reputation has helped attract le of them (writers)," Geckle said, "are quite n the context of other fine writers." tries' reputation helps attract writers, it also |||| Droblems. In the past, two Nobel prize winners 'illl is well as National Book Award winners and Sp dinners. ||||j st-selling authors as Kurt Vonnegut and John |ll|j d readings. The result is that "people get jad- Pig id. |r bsurd. There are a lot of good writers. We can't fJm Vonnegut everytime," he said. "A good exam- JK is last year a very good reading was given by i and and very few people showed up for that." WA > year's series, he said, "I expect Erica Jong to id Garrison Keillor ("The Prairie Home Com- |pjj| Uional PublicRadio) to fill the place, and with A couldn't guess." jfj the wripc hac affrarfpH a nurtH "?1 .... mu uvivu u cuiillllUUILy (1IIU student following but that attendence is lagging A [ udents and professors. fti their lack of interest, Geckle said, "I often get will t people think the only good artist is a dead C people should make an effort to attend because Fro :e to meet an artist and hear him ^ive a reading. "Tl ic writers are scheduled for autograph parties, B >ple another chance to meet the writer and have stuci tphed. O'R rofessor promotes cience fiction ue Willis ?JGL 463 is surely for science fiction devotees. ^GL 463 Science Fiction Literature is taught by the prcitv's Canadian imDort. John Ower. Ower, oddly igh,is a poet and not a science fiction writer. But he has interested in science fiction since he was a teenager, and lys it is the "ideal type of fiction." Ml the elements of fiction are obvious in science fiction," r said. He said he thinks it is the best vehicle for teaching 3n and its critiques. lough Ower has no mentors in teaching this literary form, aid he has plenty of favorites ? "all the greats," and to e a few he noted H.G. Wells, Isaac Asimov and Robert klein. wer said science fiction is not fantasy. Much of it "verges antasy," he said, but it is more concerned with "empirical ty" than fantasy. He has team-taught this course with a ucist, wnicn underscores mis puim. wer said a science fiction work creates its own imagery Id, bared on real empiricism. On prophecy, he said science on is "form-oriented to the present, past and future" and is value in fulfilling our "need to think about the future." said Orwell's "1984," which Ower classed as one of the test science fiction works, was an imaginary world created n a real base of the contemporary Soviet government and beginnings of technology. Each work has its own message,"Ower said, adding that ice fiction has two basic messages: "Everything changes, it's a big world." lbsequent to university teaching in Tennessee and New land, Ower has been at USC for 10 years. He has taught science fiction course for six years. wer's poetry is widely published, but articles like "Idea Image in Frank Herbert's "Dune," "Manacle-Forged ds: Two Images of the Computer in Science Fiction" and terries and Technique in H.G. Wells 4 The Mar have also :ared in print. >wer received his master's and doctorate degrees in English n the University of Alberta, Canada. He retains his Canai citizenship as a resident alien in the United States. His hing includes other areas of literature and composition, he has co-directed the Columbia Poets' Workshop. riters Series K.:>XBP WBsmi \. FWR^ *Jt it' ^kfesSBB^ jMsfffi S?^|? H * * loetic masterpiece obert Fitzgerald, translator of Virgil's Greek classic, "The Aeneid," participate in the 1984 Writers Series. jeckle said he remembers how lucky he was to hear Robert >st and William Faulkner speak when he was in college, hose opportunities are now gone forever." esides Jong, Fitzgerald, Wakoski and Keillor, USC lents will have the opportunity to hear novelist Tim Irien, and poets Joseph Brodsky and Galway Kinnell.