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Poor in prison — Clark
The Red ami Black. Wednesday, May 17, 1972
Summer is, of course, on the way. No
matter how you’ll be spending most of
your time this summer whether you’ll
be working, in school, or just lying out in
the sun chances are you’ll spend a lot
of time listening to music.
My suggestion is, if you’re listening to
music this summer, why not listen to
something new? If you’ve ever griped
about always hearing the same songs on
the radio, do something about it: change
the dial. And 1 don’t mean you should
switch to another station playing the
same music. Be adventurous; try
something different.
Of course, if you live in a rural area
where there are no radio stations that
vary from the standard fare, you’re out of
luck unless you can listen to your own
records. But if you live in or near a large
metropolitan area you probably have a
classical music station, or a jazz station,
or a progressive rock station, or some
combination of the above. In many cities
a non-commercial radio station, operated
by a college or university, will program
music that may not be heard anywhere
else
Okay, so what does this mean to you?
It means that if you live in the Atlanta
area, as many University students do, you
have the chance to listen to an excellent
college radio station, and perhaps have
your ears opened to some different forms
of music.
GEORGIA TECII S WREK stereo at
91.1 on the FM dial is an excellent
example of an innovative campus radio
station. With 40,000 watts of power
WREK is the most powerful student
station in the country. Although its
programming is aimed principally at Tech
students, anyone who lives near Ailanta
and has a reasonably good FM receiver
can listen.
WREK first signed on in March, 1968
as a low-power top 40 station. Between
that time and fall, 1969 the station
increased its power to 3400 watts, began
playing progressive rock music, and
started using automated equipment. In
February, 1970 the power was increased
to the present level. Since then WREK
lias become a fully automated station on
the air 24 hours a day. The music . . .
well, that's not so easy to describe.
WREK is a true progressive music
station. It takes three rather esoteric
music forms progressive rock, jazz, and
classical and integrates them into a
unified programming form. Or. as news
director Dave Hunt says, “We just play
the best of everything.” Co-music
director Mike Caldwell adds, “Assigning
labels to music is a pretty raunchy thing
to do, so we try not to do that.”
THE RESULTING SOUND can be
surprising and perhaps, for new listeners,
traumatic. A jazz number by John
McLaughlin or Charles Mingus might lead
into a Song by the Allman Brothers or
Hendrix, which might be followed by a
symphonic composition, and that by a
Three Dog Night oldie. Mainly, the music
just keeps coming, as they used to say on
the top 40 radio. Hunt says, “I remember
one caller who said ‘I’ve heard of strange
things before, but going from “Hey Jude”
by the Beatles into a piece by Chopin is
just unbelievable but I like it!’ ”
And what good is it all? Eric Roberts,
general manager for the past year says,
“We offer a sound that’s unique. Most
every other station in Atlanta you’ll find
another station for that station that's
playing the same type of music. But you
can hardly find another station in Atlanta
that’s playing anything we’re playing.”
Furthermore, WREK is popular with
Tech students. A recent survey found
that almost one fourth of the student
body listens regularly to WREK. The
station tied with one of Atlanta’s
commercial FM stations for that figure,
and the many other stations in town were
practically left out in the cold.
IT’S NOT LIKELY that everyone who
listens to WREK has always liked the
music they hear there. WREK, like good
(or bad) wine, is an acquired taste. Or, as
a friend of mine likes to say, “Everyone
who listens to jazz just docs it for the
snob appeal.” Well, it ain’t so. People
who listen to jazz listen to it because they
like it. But they probably first began
listening to it because it had snob appeal.
If you start listening to a station like
WREK — whether you do it to open
your mind to new music, or because of
the snob appeal, or just because you’re
tired of everything else you hear you’ll
probably learn to love it. Soon you’ll find
yourself unsatisfied with the limited
music you find everywhere else on the"
radio dial.
Well, whatever you do this summer,
have a good one. If you discover any new
forms of music over the summer, l^t me
know about them in the fall.
Keep on truckin'.
By JON HAM
Associate news editor
“America for poor people is
a prison.” said Richard X.
Clark, recently released Attica
rebellion leader, to a group of
students in Memorial Hall
Friday.
Clark is speaking
throughout the country to help
raise money for the Attica
Defense Fund, a fund to pay
court costs for those involved
in last September’s rebellion at
Attica State Prison in New
York.
“As long as you can’t
ascertain and designate your
destiny you are in prison. And
poor people don’t have
anything to say about what
their lives are going to be
about," he told the group.
“You have a whole new
mold of prisoner going to
prison,” Clark said. He feels
that most poor prisoners are
victims of society and that
poor and black people are
going to prison for political
reasons.
“Now it’s being manifested
that because of the corrupt and
criminal political bureaucracy
you have black and poor
people going to prison," he
said.
“The problem lies out in
the street,” he said, and society
should concentrate on righting
the problems that lead men to
commit crimes in the first
place.
“You should find what
compelled him (a prisoner) to
go on the road to mugging
somebody,” he said.
The rebellion at Attica,
Clark feels, “showed the
United States what prisons are
all about.” It “compelled the
poor people out in the streets
to think." he said.
Some changes Clark thinks
should be made in the prison
system include (putting)
correctional officers in their
rightful positions, as
custodians.” They should not
be allowed to pass judgement
on prisoners, he said. Also
authorities should “let them
(prisoners) make minimum
wages in prison so his wife and
children don’t have to be
punished,” and “let (a
prisoner) retain his manhood"
and his principles.
RICHARD X. CLARK
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