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STUDENTS LISTEN AS ROCK GROUPS PLAYS AT FESTIVAL
. . . First University Pop Festival held in Peoples' Park
Campus festival
draws rock fans
by Phil Wyatt
staff writer
The first Pop Festival at the University
was held last Wednesday at the new Peo
ples' Park behind Russell Hall
pock groups from the Athens and At
lanta area, including Chakra. Shayde.
Younguns. Handle, the Steve Scott Band
and Joel Osner and His Magic Finger
Band, entertained crowds which at times
numbered 1200 between 4 p.m and 11 p.m.
Response to the Pop Festival has
caused the Peoples Park Committee to
sponsor the festivals every Wednesday
through Aug. 12. said Joel Osner. proprie
tor of a local head shop and talent coordi
nator for the park committee
According to Osner. the Park Commit
tee asked local bands to donate their time
to help advertize the park New groups
will be performing each week until the
end of summer quarter, he said.
The groups playing tonight will be
Timepiece and Orphum Circuit, both of
Atlanta; Bacchus. Handle. Flint and Joel
Osner and His Magic Finger Band, all
from the Athens area Groups already
booked are Chakra. Radar. Hydra, and
Bruce Hampton and his Famous Greese
Band.
Donations to pay for travelling expen
ses will be collected at the park during the
performances. Osner said.
The Athens Recreation Department
Showmobile is being used as a bandstand,
and many local merchants and businesses
have donated time and materials to the
Park, said Osner
According to John Fetner. publicity
chairman, electric supplies and labor
were given by Roberts Eectric. Electrical
Wholesalers. Georgia Power, and Devors
and Johnson The cost was approximately
$200. Fetner said.
The C&S bank donated tools to clear out
the Park and Archie Hyde of the Universi
ty Physical Plant Office helped coordina
te the activities of the local merchants, he
added
Peoples Park was the brainchild of
Jim Riordan. a University student, who is
presently coordinating the volunteers help
ing to clear the seven acre
area
According to Riordan. two high school
groups on campus, a national debate work-
ship. and a national drama workshop, have
offered to help University students and
local residents clear out the Park in the
evenings while they are on campus
Riordan further said that help was still
needed and all volunteers would be wel
come.
Fetner stated that there also will be a
special blues evening on Aug. 10 from 8
p.m. to 11 p.m. The feature group will De
Russ and Hudson Inc., a well known blues
group
C. B.King
by Nancy Hall
news editor
"Join me in a new political e nphasis —
a political emphasis which recognizes that
change is needed; that the plantation pol
itics of centuries past do not fulfill the
needs of today,” challenged C. B King
Thursday night at the University Chapel
King, first black candidate for the gov
ernorship of Georgia, spoke to a crowd of
approximately 200 persons at a lecture
sponsored by Phi Kappa Society.
The types of reforms which the candi
date said that he advocated were the crea
tion of state minimum wages for persons
not affected by current federal minimum
wage laws, "a radical change in our penal
system" and changes in the educational
system
King said the change he speaks of in the
penal system would have as its principal
concern rehabilitation and not punish
ment (or punishment's sake
Penal process, the color of one's skin
and one s socioeconomic status are all
intercalated, he said "Our institutions
are not geared to rehabilitation" but end
up making criminals, he added
In the area of education reform. King
said that he would advocate "education
which not only seeks to refine the mind
and manners in the tradition of the clas
sics and etiquette, but also tolerance and
appreciation for that which is dissimilar
in form; a change in education which con
templates change and the affirmative
direction toward that which is remedial,
not obliteration rather than change
King also cited the need for change in
the nation and state "sufficient to accom
modate a more equitable distribution of
power between the haves and have nots
There ought to be a conscious effort to
ward the sharing of power ’
In a question and answer period follow
ing his speech. King was asked i he would
!*•*! ONS'O by OAflNE TT WALLACE
ROCK GROUP PERFORMS. ONE OF SIX BANDS THAT PLAYED
Another festival planned for tonight in Peoples' Park
VOLUME LXXVII, NUMBER 7
'The South's
UNIVERSITY Of GEORGIA
College Newspaper for 77 years'
ATHENS, GEORGIA 30601
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1970
IMPROVEMENT, RENOVATION STARTED
Beautification plans
by Larry Headrick
staff writer
Campus beautification projects are
underway at the self-service post office.
Ag and Cedar Streets intersection, and
Memorial Hall, said W K Jordan, direc
tor of the physical plant
On the site of the automatic post office,
the creeks will be cleaned out and rocks
will be laid in mortar on the side next to
the post office, he said A brick plaza will
be built surrounding the post office, he
added
The realignment of the Ag-Cedar
Streets intersection represents a part of a
multiphased program for the improve
ment and general renovation of the area
from Cedar Street south to Green Street and
from Field Street east to Ag Drive. Jordan
said.
The realignment eliminates a very dif-
fucult turn into Cedar St. from Ag Drive,
he noted The sidewalks will be recon
structed to conform more realistically with
projected pedestrian traffic patterns, he
said.
Other aspects of these improvements
include the fact that the new street will be
slightly depressed below the natural grade
of Ag hill making it less noticeable from
several directions. Jordan added
The renovation work at Memorial Hall
includes the development of bus stops on
Hooper Street; the widening and improve
ment of sidewalks; the widening and im
provement of the intersection of Hooper
Street and Sanford Drive; the installation
of outdoor lighting in pedestrian areas;
the realignment and improvement of the
intersection of Reed Street and Sanford
Drive; the extension of a number of brick
retaining and bench walls; some new
planting, and the construction of a small
plaza with an oratorical platform, he said
The Memorial Hall project involves a
systematic overhauling of the landscape
of the entire area Shrubbery will be plant
ed at various places to enhance the over
all appearance, he explained.
Renovation of the Wo nen s Physical
Education Building is currently in the
planning stage. Jordan said
Some of the major points in this plan is
the redevelopment of Soule Street as a
Mall (comparable with Herty Mall at the
1a3W School i; the development of a sec
ondary entrance area on Field Street and a
new walk along Green Street Other fea-
advocates changes
have handled the disturbances in Athens
in Vlay. both the student demonstrations
and the racial demonstrationas. in the
same manner as the present governor did
"My reaction to what has generally
happened in Georgia as head of state I
would regard as a crisis, i generally do
not condone what 1 have seen on the part
of the governor with regard to Augusta,
which I though was horrible, or in Ath
ens.' he answered.
It seems to me that all to frequently
heads of state use such tactics as sending
in national guard as a substitute for
statesmanship. " he added
To the question of how. as a black can
didate. he can expect to be effective in
Georgia with a legislature that has been
known to ignore legislative wishes of a
governor. King said that he avails Georgi
ans a particular opportunity as being a
point of departure from traditional poli
tics to relevant politics.
Asked if he thought he would get the
black vote of the state King answered.
"Hopefully. I will gel my votes as an indi
vidual” and not as a member of a specific
group.
• As the lather of an 18-year-old. I cer
tainly am aware of the drug problem, the
candidate said "Emotionally. I would be
turned off if my son came home and said
he had smoked pot
However. King said, this is purely an
emotional response "Without certain sci
entific facts regarding the nature of the
drug, 1 cannot react intelligently to the
question of legalization of marijuana, he
said.
King said that it he were elected he
would change the method of election of
democratic delegates to the national con
vention He said that government should
be responsive and responsible to the peo
ple which it has not been; it has been a
clique."
Asked his position on the controversy of
more liberalized abortion laws. King said
that he believes there should be no abor
tion law He believes that not giving a
woman a choice represents an encroach
ment on her individual right to make a
decision."
King also stated that he does not favor
capital punishment and that he would pub
licly reaffirm his position against the
administration policy in Vietnam and
against the war
A native of Albany. King. 46. is a 1949
graduate of Fisk University and a 1952
graduate of Western Reserve University. He
served with the LI S. Navy during World
Warll
King was admitted to the Ohio Bar in
1953 and to the Georgia Bar in 1954 He
was appointed to the state Court of Ap
peals in 1957 and the U.S. District Court
(middle Georgia districti in 1958 In 1960
he was appointed to the U.S. Court of
Appeals fifth circuit
He was a candidate for the U.S. Con
gress in 1364 and is presently engaged in
an individual law practice in Albany
King is married and has five children
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C B KING, BLACK CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR. SAYS CHANGES ARE NEEDED
Gubernatorial candidate spoke to students in the chopel lost week
tures will include additional pedestrian
lighting whereever needed and new shrub
bery and lawns where needed, he added
In an effort to improve and upgrade the
bedding plant (flowers > program around
campus, some small beds have been elim
inated and others have been enlarged and
redesigned. Jordan remarked
A standard street light design has been
adopted and installations have been made
on the Hertv Drive Mall and the Psycholo
gy Journalism Complex parking lot This
design, which is compatible with the old
and the new styles of architecture, will be
used in other areas of the campus as the
lighting program is expanded he said
Khoto by DWA IN F t TZPATIflCK
BEAUTIFICATION PROJECTS INITIATED THROUGHOUT CAMPUS
. Memorial Hall will have new look when workmen finish renovation
Local theatre presents
new play,'Look Inside'
by Martha Gaither
staff writer
“Look Inside." an all black musical
with humor and message, will be per
formed by the original cast in the* Town
and Gown Theater on Wednesday . Thurs
day. and Friday nights
The play is sponsored by the School of
Social Work, the University Theatre, and
the Athens Recreation Center
The play takes a look at the plight of the
black student faced with the alternatives
of “Uncle Tomism” or militancy in his
new academic environment His struggle
to prove his own individual worth is de
picted against the forces which seem to
push him toward the various black stereo
types
According to Ralph Thornburv. direc
tor and co-author of the musical. That s
one of the things the audiences learn
They see that society leaves black people
with only bad alternatives
The cast consists of students from the
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
who have worked together since early
May to perform this musical in Chatta
nooga and at other universities in the
Southeast. Thornburv said linlike most
university affiliated groups, these* players
depend largely on donations and box office
profit, he added
The major characters of ’Look Inside
are Daniel, a voung student who is indeci
sive about where he belongs on the black
spectrum Mark, an extreme militant
who believes violence is the only way to
effect change Hips, the Cadillac Man
who panders to his brothers weaknesses,
the Reverend Wheeler who fits Mark s
description of an "Uncle Tom. and Lisa
Daniel s girl, who wants the comforts of
the* white man s middle class
"Look Inside takes many of the char
acteristically derogatory phrases hurled
at blacks and turns them into somewhat
humorous reflection on the racial tensions
in our society today Thornburv said
An example of this can be seen in the
opening lines of the song That s White of
you ’
Up from the back to the front of the
bus.
You let us go to school after a lot of
fuss
Just what more could a black man want
to do?
You say he wants to move in next door
to you?
That's white of you To look the other
wav
That's white of vou Not meaning
what you sav
This play was referred to in the New
York Times as a bittersweet attack on
racial inequities a musical drama that
alternated spoofs and assaults the* foibles
of both races
The Chattanooga Times credited the
musical with being well written and
rousinglv performed
"Look Inside, by Thornburv and Mrs
Sheila Beardslev of Atlanta, has been per
formed 27 times in the Chattanooga area
and several times in Knoxville. Tennes
see The music was written bv Bud Ragan.
Jerry Banner. Thomas Phinizey. and
Michael Stubbs
Performances will be held at 8 p.m. on
August 5. 6. and 7 Admission will be free
although contributions will be requested
Due to the limited seating capacity, no
reservations will be taken
Carter, Suit visit
Athens this weelc
g :
» Two candidates for governor of5
* Georgia. one Democrat and one Repub-1
jj: lican. will visit Athens later this week
i Jimmy Carter, vying for the demo-J
g era tic nomination, will speak on en\
:¥ momenta I pollution specifically tomor-j
:•> row afternoon at 4 30 in room 404 D of
the Biological Sciences building
•g There will be time for questions and3
« answers; Carter plans to spend a bouts
gan hour there
x Hal Suit, a serious contender for thej
{Republican nomination has scheduled^
a special stopover in Athens Friday at*
the Elks Lodge on Milledge Avenue atg
Five Points
A lunc heon is scheduled at 1 30 p m '[
after which Suit has indicated he* wants;
to meet Athenians and students A two;
tothree hours period is being set aside $
for this purpose
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