The University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 1976 Page: 2 of 8
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UNIVERSITY PRESS December 3,1976.2
Revolver
Record reviews
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by Randy Fuller
Harrison hasn't
lost his touch
It is good to see George Harrison
release a new LP of new material that is
listenable all the way through. After his
last couple of attempts at it, I was
beginning to think ol’ George had lost
the touch. But not only is 331/3 and
listenable, it is actually good! The
album has a strong tint of Living in the
Material World to it, both lyrically and
musically, and that’s quite an achieve-
ment for a man who hasn’t been able to
come up with three decent melodies to
go with his Hare Krishna pablum lately.
There are a couple of love songs on
the LP that sound a bit like the ones on
All Things Must Pass, and they’re
amazingly deficient in Krishna cliches
which is an asset. “Beautiful Girl”
sounds like a clammy-palmed teenage
ode, but once again the tune comes to
the rescue. “Learning How to Love
You” is the low point of the album;
however, it is a noble atempt. There is
only one non-original song included,
“True Love,” and it’s by Cole Porter.
The strange thing about it is that it
really works.
“It’s What You Value” is a nice little
ditty relating cars and the philosophy of
life, somehow, and “See Yourself’
literally drips with Harrison’s familiar
holier-than-thou routine, but it has one
of the nicer. melodies of all his
Lord-laden laxatives.
The big reason for all the good music,
aside from Harrison’s writing, is the
superb group of sidemen who play on
the record. People like Tom Scott, Gary
Wright, Billy Preston and Willie Weeks
perform well throughout the album and
provide a valuable tight backup band
that helps immensely in wading through
the sometimes inane lyrics.
George Harrison still force-feeds too
much of his religion for my taste, but at
least he has managed to put together
some songs that don’t get boring after
the first few notes. And in this case,
that’s saying a lot.
Frank
Three weeks ago in this corner, 1 ran
a column about Ronnie Rubit, the
Lamar freshman football player who
suffered a severe neck injury in a game
Oct. 25. An injury that has left him
almost completely paralyzed. Many
people — faculty, students, friends,
relatives, total strangers, etc. — came
up to me and offered congratulations on
a touching, well-written article. Even
the head of the communications depart-
ment, while on a visit to my advertising
class, proclaimed my work “profes-
sional” and urged everyone to read it.
Such compliments are nice. And very
thoughtful. They do wonders for my ego
— my head is now too big for most
doorways. However, I -wonder what
good all these compliments are doing
Ronnie Rubit. 1 wonder how many of
you people who were so impressed, so
moved, by these words 1 wrote, how
many of you went one step further to
write a couple of words of
encouragement to a guy who needs
them more than I?
Actually, in all honesty, I don’t know
how many of you folks wrote Ronnie. Or
prayed for him. But what I am hearing
is how so many people have been
genuinely touched — some to the point
of getting misty -- by what I wrote about
him. And what I am not hearing is that
these people responded to Ronnie
himself. It seems that some may be
moved to tears, but not moved to action.
So around Lamar three Fridays ago,
grown men were crying and women
were trying to keep their eye shadow
from dripping down both cheeks, all
because of Ronnie’s story. But once
everyone had clipped the pizza coupon
and lined the canary’s cage with the
University Press, the men dried their
eyes and the women re-powdered their
faces. And Ronnie was forgotten.
Uh-ohh. I’ve done it again. By now I’ve
hit you people on the sympathy nerve
again. Well, hold on; don’t go looking
for Ronnie’s address...yet.
First of all, Ronnie has been moved to
the Texas Institute for Rehabilitation
and Research in Houston’s vast medical
center complex. He had been at St.
Elizabeth’s here in Beaumont for four
weeks until his Nov. 23 transfer. Paul
Zeek, Lamar’s athletic trainer, who
visited Ronnie last Friday, said
Ronnie’s physical and mental condition
are “status quo” -- he still has only
slight movement in his arms and
shoulders but his positive mental
attitude still prevails.
The move should be very good for
Ronnie, although the first two weeks at
TIRR will be devoted mostly to tests.
“They’ll probably hook up all kinds of
electrodes to see which muscles work
and which don’t,” Zeed said. “But I
really don’t know what all they are
going to do. They told his mother it
would be two weeks before they could
tell her anything.” Zeek also said
Ronnie’s new environment will be a
welcome change from St. E’s, where he
mostly stared at the ceiling, or donned
his bulky triangular-lens glasses to
watch TV.
“At TIRR they are very, very positive
in their approach. They will be doing
more than treating the medical
problem. They treat the whole
ramifications of the patient’s
problems.It’s not just going in there and
moving his arm; it’s all kinds of
therapy.”
Zeek admitted he was unfamiliar with
TIRR, even surprised. He said everyone
there — patients, staff, visitors -- all
dressed in regular street clothes, such
by Frank Kavanaugh
as blue jeans and tee shirts. Patients, if
able to be dressed, did not go around in
pajamas. Many of them wheelchaired
themselves to and from therapy labsj*
dining halls and bathrooms. And they
apparently have much freedom to visit
each other.
Ronnie will be in a room with five or six
other patients, some in better shape
than he, some worse — which should
encourage Ronnie, helping him see how
others may be even less fortunate. This
also should present the opportunity for
invaluable communication an a
friendship. Plus, many ex-TIRR
patients come back to visit newer
patients. (While Zeek was there last
Friday, several former patients —
including former Port Arthur Lincoln
football player David Hanchett, who is
now enrolled in a school for crippled
children to learn how to cope with a
spinal injury even more severe than
Ronnie’s - all wheeled in for a visit with
Rubit.)
It sounds to me like a healthy,
positive place, a place where patients
are encouraged to help themselves as
much as possible. “They don’t just let
them lie there,” says Zeek. “The
patients are usually doing something,
and it’s not just therapy.”
It also sounds to me that this is a
place where Ronnie can not only
maintain his positive attitude, but
strengthen it. Improvement on the
physical side will take time, though,
Zeek explained.
“By now he’s lost his equilibrium.
When you’ve been flat on your back as
long as he has, you can’t just move him
up and around. When he was here in
Beaumont they could tilt his bed
forward, but sometimes when they did
this he got very nauseated. So it will be
a slow process.”
But we outside TIRR can do much.
"His mother (Mrs. Jeanell Burrell, who
almost daily drives back and forth from
Liberty to be with Ronnie) would like to
express her gratitude to everyone for all
the letters, cards, flowers and prayers
Ronnie received at St; Elizabeth’*, and
if there is some way for you to send him
any piece of mail, he greatly appreciates
it,” said Zeek. “He looks forward to his
mail every day. If the professors,
students and staff can send him a card
or letter, it can all go a long way to
bringing Ronnie back here to Lamar,
where he wants to be eventually.”
Because Ronnie Rubit and 1 are both
human beings, he is no more important
than I. But right now, keeping his spirit
healthy is probably more important thaji
keeping my ego healthy. So instead of
complimenting me on my writing, 1 ask
that you folks do two things. 1) Take
about 60 seconds to be thankful for the
health, mind and talents you’ve been
given, and then 2) take about 30
seconds to send Ronnie a note that says
essentially this:
“Ronnie, I care. Your Name, Ll5
student” to the address below.
Ronnie Rnbit/TlKR, Station 3 left/
1333 Moureund Ave./Houston 77030.
This note would consist of a grand
total of seven words and cost 13 cents to
send. It will do Ronnie’s ego some
valuable good, and maybe yours, too*
And me, well maybe my head will
shrink enough one day for me to pass
through doorways again.
One final point. This is not meant to
sound like the beginning of a sympathy
campaign for Ronnie Rubit, only.
Maybe some of you know of someone in
a similar situation — indeed, the world is
full of greater and lesser tragedies.
Distributed by:
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