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The Red and Black » Tuesday. May 12, 1992 • 7
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Trillin’s book reveals changes
By STEPHANIE R. BAKER
Staff Writer
“An Education In Georgia*
Calvin Trillin (University of
Georgia Press)
Calvin Trillin’s book, “An
Education in Georgia, " is an edu
cation in bigotry, bureaucracy, and
banality.
Trillin tells the story of the first
two black students at the
University from his perspective as
a reporter who covered their battle
for admission fot Time Magazine.
What is most striking in Trillin’s
narrative is the poignant picture he
Charlayne Hunter-Gautt was one of the two first black
students to enter The University of Georgia in 1961.
presents of the two bright young
people, Charlayne Hunter (-Gault)
and Hamilton Holmes. Trillin lets
us see Hamilton “Hamp" Holmes
during his first Spring at UGA,
lonely and homesick, wanting to
play baseball with the white guys
on the lawn in front of his dorm but
knowing that there was no need to
even ask to be included in the
game.
Therein lies Trillin’s strength:
his insistence on making this a hu
man story.
In the midst of all the double-
talk, racism, and publicity, Hunter
and Holmes went on with their
lives, making excellent grades and
enduring terrible isolation.
But tne book is not all work and
no play. Particularly amusing are
the hypocritical antics of then
University President Omer Clyde
Aderhold and various members of
the Board of Regents.
Aderhold and his cronies tried to
exclude the youths by saying that
the University simply had no room
for two more students and then pro
ceeded to send an agriculture dean
to up-state New York to recruit
white students.
Among other tactics to keep
blacks out of the University was the
implementation of an interview
board that asked Holmes if he had
ever visited a brothel, probably in
hopes that he could be barred from
attendance on the basis of moral
terpitude. But Holmes didn’t even
smoke or drink, so that strategy
didn’t work.
What is most surprising in the
book is not how much the
University has changed, but how
much the University has remained
the same.
The University’s last ditch ef
fort was a bureaucratic slow-down
that could only be approached for
lethargy by the snail-like motions
of striking postal workers.
As William Bootle, a federal
judge in Macon said, “If the plain
tiffs were required to appeal from
defendants’ failure to admit them
each quarter for which they made
application for admission, they
would probably use up the normal
four-year college attendance period
before securing any final adminis
trative action."
Widespread Panic plays Legion Reid
BY BRAD MISLOW
Staff Writer
Most bands which perform at Legion Field see it as
just another venue on a long tour. But for Widespread
Panic, it has been a goal for years.
“I always had great times at Legion Field," said
Panic bassist David Schools in a recent interview. “I
wish we could tear down that fence so people could sit
on the hill, drink beer and have a good time - like when
I saw R.E.M. when I was a freshman."
Widespread Panic plays the Field Wednesday with
White Buffalo opening. The show starts at 8 p.m. and
tickets are $7 in advance, $10 at the door and avail
able from the cashier in the Tate Student Center.
1992 has brought some changes in the band.
Keyboardist T Lavitz has left the band and rejoined
the reunited Dixie Dregs. John “Jojo" Herman, for
merly of the band Beam and from Oxford, Miss., has
replaced Lavitz, and the band is content with the
change. “We didn’t feel it would be wise for us to have
a guy who’s involved in two different bands," said
Schools. “We want someone who’s there all the time no
matter what. But Jojo is getting along a lot better than
T (again, no period) ever did. I think stylistically he
comes from more of the same background. T is more
of a jazz player and we’re not exactly a jazz band."
In addition, Capricorn’s reissue of the Panic’s first
album, “Space Wrangler,” is selling so well nationally
that Warner Brothers, Capricorn’s parent company, is
treating it like a new release. “Coconut," a song that is
already among the depths of Panic obscurity, is even
getting radio play out West.
Tfie band also will be included in a multi-group
summer tour along with the Spin Doctors, the
Aquarium Rescue Unit, Phish, and long-time touring
buddies Blues Traveler. Dubbed The Horde Tour" the
bands will play venues in the Northeast and
Southeast. According to Schools, Lakewood
Amphitheater in Atlanta is a definite stop on the tour.
TTie band also has been in the studio and working on
new songs. 14 songs will have to be re-recorded due to
the change in keyboardists, but the songs are perfect
ed the best way they know, by playing them live.
“Normally, the songs just evolve in the course of a
year or two, and then we record. It’s a totally different
approach," said Schools.
Widespread Panic’s music is a bluesy, guitar-ori
ented sound which always has room for musical im
provisation. Without a set list, their live performances
rely on spontaneity for the music is made for the mo
ment and won’t be played the same way again. TTie
band has plenty of time for perfect their sound by play
ing over 250 gigs a year.
“I think we appeal to anyone who er\joys watching
music being made on stage,” said Schools.
Widespread Panic plays Wednesday at Legion Field. Although there have been some
changes in a few band members, the sound is as bluesy and hippie-esque as ever.
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