The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 73, No. 55, Ed. 1 Friday, October 31, 1986 Page: 1 of 24
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departments of the College of
Kanak said.
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Oklahoma
SPORTS
For the last time, there is
no such thing as a national
champion. It's nothing
more than a myth.
■ See story, page 8
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EDITORIAL
Columnist Michael Waters
is crazy in love with October
and this is hard to explain
rationally.
■ See story , page 20
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Tunnerman
ARTS
Local folklore that goes
bump in the night. The witch-
ing hour approaches and
minds turn to the darker side.
■ See story, page 13
“I think that communication
with your audiences is one of the
first things an artist should think
about,” Cleo Laine said. "When
they go up on
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expression of both old and new
customs by creating guidelines of
cultural policy, Pereira de Tun-
nerman said.
"Our government understands
our culture,” she said.“It is a pop-
ular culture now. It doesn't go to
the people, but is made by them,
and comes from them."
The government’s cultural
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phone in his office. He said he
pays about $25 a month for phone
“~J and he also pays
g distance calls.
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by Deanne Flecker
Staff Reporter a lot of artist w ho for some
When Cleo Laine and John
Dankworth take the stage, people
listen and that’s exactly the idea
they try to get across to their
audiences.
Laine,
nalism and mass communication,
is one of the professors who is
dishing out his own cash to keep a
piece or a famous style you may
be altering it slightly, but'the fact
is you're so often allowing a com-
pletely different audience into
the picture. If there is a slightly
different style it may be an im-
provement at times. It can never
>e, in the experts’ eyes, better
than the original, because they’re
always comparing it to the origi-
nal. One tends to like the original
better many times. There’s strong
arguments for both.”
Laine stressed the importance
of audiences opening their ears
and minds to all different types of
music.
“If I don’t like a piece of music,
1 will listen to it at least once a
year,” she said. “Just to see
whether my taste and ears have
changed. I do it also with food. I
by Christine Meyer
Police Reporter
A Norman Police Depart-
ment official said Halloween
tricksters here usually keep
their prank-pulling to a
minimum.
Norman Police Chief Dan
Cary said the department will
be alert for acts of vandalism as
iwell as maintaining safe condi-
tions for young trick or treaters.
“The only vandalism we ex-
perience in Norman around
Halloween is some egg-throw-
ing and toilet-papering,” Cary
said. He said Norman does not
experience any major, high-dol-
lar vandalism on Halloween
night.
"The police officers are more
observant on Halloween night
STATE
Donna Nigh is looking for-
ward to going back to house
work: For tlie first time in
eight years.
■ See story, page 18
OUTSIDE
Today will be partly gloomy and warm with a high in the
mid to upper 70s. Winds will be out of the south at 15 to 25
mph and gusty. The low will be in the lower 50s for a
ghoulishly cool evening.
over a threc-year period.
OU President Frank Horton
would have to
changes.
Hemenway said the current rc-
o------is
and Sciences are the same as Ok-
c, j and he
thinks the college should expect
Future jack-o-lanterns sit under the watchful eyes of a
scary character Thursday at the Northside Market, at
the corner of Porter and Robinson Ave. Jack-o-lantern
think ‘communication.’ There are
J reason
think this is not so, they go into
themselves and withdraw from
their audience. They (the artist)
think their audience should try to
get out of it what they want. Peo- D
pie turn away from artist who do L
an internationally that. There is a snobbish element
known singer of jazz, classical and in this type of performance."
pop music, and Dankworth, saxo- ~ •
phonist, arranger and composer
spoke Thursday night in Holm-
berg Hall and gave their audience
some "Thoughts About Music.” |f 'S"and
The lecture, the purpose of
which was to examine music as a
form of communication for inter-
national interaction, was part of
the Scholar-Leadership Enrich-
ment Program. A public forum
with the musicians will be at 3
p.m. today
never cross between parked
cars or in the middle of the
block.
Parents also are encouraged
to dress their children comfort-
ably and have the children wear
comfortable shoes, light-col-
ored clothing and a mask that
does not hinder vision, Cary
said.
Residents who are welcoming
trick or treaters should turn on
their porch lights, he said.
Several areas of the OU cam-
pus are offering trick and treat-
ing to the public.
Adams Center dormitory’s
safe trick or treating starts at
6:30 to approximately 9 p.m. to-
day, throughout all the resident
dormitory towers in the center.
OU students will hand candy
and ■ see Ghosts, page 2
college’s budget situation and he
> to find
ways to save monev within their
departments.
"Our situation right now is un-
certain. We don’t know if there
approve the will be any budget redskins in the
second semester. We also don’t
know what is going to happen
next year,” Hemenway said.
Hemenway said next semester
he thinks the college will do a
■ See Changes, page 2
Speakers communicate with music
I by Laura Summers
i Staff Reporter cation, said 20 phones were taken
OU faculty members in some faculty members that are footin'
departments of the College of C.. ± clincr v
nf La; Scienc?s are PW out the help of an organization or
of their own pockets to keep tele- with their own paycheck, have
phones in their offices, the dean their own lines.
oMhe college said this week.
' phones were taken out of some
departments so C ,M
hve within its maintenance and
operations budget. He said some
of the faculty members have opt-
I ed to pay the cost of phone rental ,,dlu „„ m UKlanom
JS± Association. he said.
, telephones and be more accessi- - - —
ble to students.
Bruce Hinson, assistant direc-
tor of the H.H. Herbert School of
Dankworth said he does not
like this so called snobbish ele-
ment sometimes present in the hi-
erarchy of music circles, especial-
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critics.
“A lot of experts make me want
to turn and run in terror,” Dank-
worth said. “Not only do they
frighten and scare me, some ex-
perts do a great deal of harm to
music.”
p.m. UXJ2Y Dankworth I ov.U ... ™ II aiso wnn rood, t
During the lecture, both length on how music critics and d!in ,.llke olives- but I’ll try one
stressed the essence of communi- experts tend to shv awav from id 2 lve ,o ,see whether my taste
cation that artist should convey to aprons or [cans aSs Hradt "'T’'’1?
'har audtences. tional works. If the new rendition
shies too far from the original,
many experts or specialists refuse
to except it, Dankworth said.
“This reluctance is ludicrous,”
manitjes in Nicaragua,” said she
? ‘.7 ' ' ' speaking would offer
insight into the spirit of the Nica-
raguan people and help smooth
relations with the U.S.
She called the nation's culture
“another rifle, a weapon in the
revolution that has served and
united the people.”
She said the revolution that
overthrew the Somoza regime in
1979 caused a cultural renais-
sance that has awakened the
grass roots heritage and will of an
historically oppressed people.
"Our history is marked by cen-
e (------— —- — ----—— —. wwamaaaiiVFii lildl
forces in and around the country, has tried to crush our cultural and
“MiruruOlIU ic at u,a«» ” __»» r» .
Tunnerman" said. “Through" the
■ • ■ — - ——— —■ — m11j war,
ourselves against a reaction (the unity and creativity have been
Contras) kept alive only by out- created in our culture, and they
sid5r[Unding' .. reaffirm with pride the dignity of
"They (U.S. military forces) our national identity.
are training in Nicaragua and “Whereas our heritage was
Honduras. We are still in a seri- once hidden, it now flourishes,
ous struggle, in the context that The revolution has redeemed our
We are threatencd by a nation lost folklore and created new art
200-times as large as ours,” she forms. It has encouraged active
participation in our way of life.”
The Sandanista government
Arts and Hu- has opened up avenues for the
Requirement changes proposed
for College of Arts and Sciences
by Jill Slmmona-------------- non-Westcrn culture and civiliza- more from students
Staff Reporter tion for all students in the College Hcmcnwav also spoke on the
. of Arts and Sciences. c -"- ■ ■ • ■
A proposed change in the gen- Next year will be spent in fin- urge'd’ fa^
eral education requirements for ishing the proposal, Hemenway
the College of Arts and Sciences said, and it will then be phased in
was given to arts and sciences fac- -------L
ulty members Thursday in their
first meeting in two years.
Faculty members will meet
again in December to vote on the ------------} lllv VU11V1H 1V
principles of the general educa- quirements of the College of Art
tion proposal, which includes re- £-J 2.
quirements for foreign language, lahoma"junior'colleges
mathematics or statistics and tL’ '
ihoma Daily
Oct** 31. 1986 • 860 Van Vleet Oval, Norman, OK 73019 73rd Year. No . 55.24 pages 10<
Some faculty paying for office phones
by Laura Summers innmuikm ..zi u-.. .• L . .. - ■
person in that department who is place the latter phone.
ialrtinthfOdhlS^Wn Phone.,ine- He Van Gundy said two of the
said lie department took out all phones in the human relations
t r . ---------- department are being subsidized
wiH? grant money.
get situation in the deparlment'is
have tn LthC ncw ,systcm maY some phones in the department
lack of fundsemOVed ‘>ecause of *erc removed and many others in
“b W.we will have lo P"d *
Jack Kanak, chairman of the
1 no phones have* been removed Oklahoma bein;
yet, but he does not expect to
ing for their own <
own money, Hinson
sometimes it does change. It cer-
tainly has with me in music.”
Dankworth said people who ex-
periment with music, like altering
Stage they should he uii
carvers will have the last opportunity today to create
their pumpkin masterpiece before the witching hour.
Photo by D.A. Emrick
Parents, police alert to make
Halloween safe for tricksters
because there arc more people
out,” he said.
He said the department en-
courages persons to notify the
police if any suspicious treats
are found. Parents should ex-
amine and sort all treats at
home before they are eaten, he
said. Cary said all unwrapped
treats should be discarded.
If children are trick-or-treat-
ing in Norman neighborhoods,
Cary said, parents are encour-
aged to accompany their chil-
dren on their treating rounds
during daylight hours and in fa-
miliar neighborhoods.
Cary said parents also should
determine the trick or treat
routes ahead of time and select
well-lighted areas.
Children should cross streets
only at corners, he said, and
it but I think they would also
is this and what other kinds there
say that my faculty
ing conditions absolutely foreign
uKianoma Deing a major universi-
ty," Kanak added.
Gustav Friedrich, chairman of
the department of communica-
tions, said 14 phones were taken
out of that department. He said
he does not know of any faculty
When asked if he thinks faculty
members in his department will
consider paying for their own
phones Kanak said, "I think that
faculty members would consider
it but I think they would also
question what kind of a university
. *s this and what other kinds there
were removed and many others in are.”
the department are paid for by “I can say that my faculty
o research grants. would find such quality of work-
Jack Kanak, chairman of the ing conditions absolutely foreign
department of psychology, said to their image of the University of
yet, but he does not
keep all of the phones for much
longer.
“Unless more money is made
available there is no way we can
retain them another month,”
—Kanak said. ■ See Phones, page 2
Ambassador’s wife defends
Sandinistan government
by Mich—I Smith i ‘ ‘
Staff Reporter hopcd her
The wife of the Nicaraguan
ambassador to the U.S. spoke
Thursday on issues related to the
art, culture, and revolution in
Nicaragua while defending the
Sandinista government’s struggle
against the contras and the Unit-
ed States.
Rosa Pereira de Tunnerman,
speaking at a meeting of the OU
Art History Association, blamed
. the continuance of war in Nicara-
gua on American support of the
Contras andjhe presence of U.S. Juries of foreign domination that
"Nicaragua is at war,” Pereira artistic imagination,” Pereira de
de Tunnerman said. "It is the ex- ”
pression of our need to defend difficulties of revolution and
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Contras) kept alive only by out-
‘They (U.S, military forces)
' ing in Nicaragua and
• We are still in a seri-
are threatened by a nation lost folklore and created
said.
Pereira de Tunnerman, in her
presentation on
paying for his own phone line. He
aid the department took out all
Journalism and Mass Communi-
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out of the school. He said only and line rental
on^nmfM?0 ShhFei.a phonc and dlfj!cult to °Perate without one? Arthur Van Gundy chairman
flT k h°.KhaS/MPru,vate f Carrel1 said he has bee" Pay ng of the department of humn rda
SchrJLwr aF f°r the phone since the lines were tions, said one phone has been
S ^b Caroli °^ fOn’ herS?ld' swi,ched out °n July 1, the begin- permanently removed from the
Sa ^LPn,ng °[ the. /fisV‘l year for ou- department and another one was
Manley Vardys, chairman of taken out because a faculty mem-
the department of political sci- ber is on leave. He said he is not
ence, said there is at least one sure if the department will re-
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Parker, John. The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 73, No. 55, Ed. 1 Friday, October 31, 1986, newspaper, October 31, 1986; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1822107/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 9, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center.