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KAQI2—THI NORTH TIXAS DAILY
Thursday, February 11,1971
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Produced by North Texas State University Printing Office
Moog Modernizes Music Scene
Electronic Era Brings on Acoustical Revolt
TERRY KELLY
Editor
TOM KELLEY
Business Manager
Editorial a. aten.ents of the North Texas Daily and readers' letters reflect the
opinion of the individual writer and not necessarily that of the Daily, its
adviser or the North Texas State University Administration.
Constitution Reeks
Time for Revision
Of State Charter
A recent survey by the Citizens Conference on State Legislatures ranked
state legislature on the degree to which they are functional, accountable,
informed, independent and representative.
Texas ranked 38th.
On the separate criteria, Texas ranked high (17th) in representatives
but low in the other categories.
The report lauded several improvements in Texas but aimed several cri-
ticisms and suggestions for bettering state govenment at Texas. In light of
the recent Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) revelation of invol-
vement by state officials in the National Bankers Life case, perhaps the
Citizens Conference suggestions should be seriously considered.
The report's first criticism was the broad legislative powers left in the
hands of the lieutenant governor. The lieutenant governor as the presiding
officer of the senate is given a tie-breaking vote and the power to appoint
committee chairmen and assign bills to committees. The conference sugges-
ted placing this power in the hands of the president pro tem.
To increase the legislature's effectiveness, the conference suggested re-
moving the constitutional restrictions against unlimited annual sessions.
It also suggested an amendment to permit the setting of salaries for legis-
lators beginning at $15,000 annually.
Formal reports from interim committees should be required and the num-
ber of committees should be reduced from 72 to 15, the conference recom-
mended.
The Texas Legislature has been operating under an archaic constitution
that was written when state legislatures were distrusted to limit the power of
all officials during the Reconstruction era. It is time to revise the constitu-
tion with either the proposals offered by the Citizens Conference on State
Legislatures or by other proposals. If the constitution cannot be revised to
provide for the neccessary functional needs of a legislature in a modern
state, then the legislature or the people should call for a constitutional con-
vention to write a new one.
- MICHEL HIATT
The North Texas Daily Staff
HOLLYWOOD (AP) — Bells, hisses,
bangs, rips . . . Shrieks, gurgles, clattering
oil drums, a pounding locomotive ... Sym-
phonic fluthorns, strings and spine-
shaking bass.
All are fakes, electronic imitations, syn-
thetic sounds from the first movie back-
ground track created entirely with the
Moog pronounced mogue—Synthesizer.
"We can simulate any sound, musical or
nonmusical," says Mort Garson, operator
of the awesome array of keyboards, patch-
cords, knobs, dials, flashing lights and
tape recorders.
"We can simulate 40 bongos, a 60-piece
orchestra, planes, birds or elephants, and
we can discover new sounds."
Garson's all-Moog sound track for a film
called "Didn't You Hear?" is only one part
of an electronics explosion, an acoustical
revolution with implications for both fi-
nancially pressed producers and unionized
musicians.
ON DAY and night field trips, compo-
ser Gil Melle tape records Jet Propulsion
Laboratory centrifuges, a lumber yard
buzz saw, a bowling alley's clatter and the
singing of Topanga Canyon crickets.
Processed electronically into an unrecog-
nizable new sonority and combined with
conventional instruments, they're part of
weird background music for "The Andro-
meda Strain." The forthcoming science-
fiction movie is about a deadly organism
that invades the earth from outer space.
"The bowling alley was used as rhythmic
accent," says Melle. "It worked well and
wasn't the kind of sound you could get with
percussion instruments."
FOR A moody scene in the upcoming
movie "Glass Houses," composer David
Raksin wanted the sound of the sho, a
little-known Japanese wind instrument
played by inhaling. Raksin had heard it
years ago at a performance of Kabuki
dancers.
Clark Spangler, a studio musician and
instructor in supersophisticated organs,
went to Los Angeles' Little Tokyo, found a
sho recording and a Japanese book about
the instrument which a friend translated—
and duplicated the sound electronically.
He has also created the sound of a pneu-
matic door opening in space for "Star
Trek," and for "City Beneath the Sea"
he manufactured a "wet" sound—a sort of
xylophone echoing, snarling, pulsing.
ON A recent day Lalo Schifrin, 38,
Argentine-born composer who has been
nominated for an Oscar for his scores of
"The Fox" and "Cool Hand Luke," crou-
ched on center stage at the Los Angeles
Music Center at the console of a gray,
electronic monster called the Electone
EX-42.
The Japanese-made superorgan has built-
in rhythm sections and tabs marked
Squawk, Bagpipe, Whistle, Birds, Storm.
Music director Zubin Mehta gave the
downbeat to a 105 Philharmonic and 17
jazz musicians for the world premiere of
Schifrin's "Pulsations."
THE THUNDERING climax shook the
3,250-seat auditorium with a blast like a
rocket taking off for the moon. A fellow
musician cracked that Schifrin really ought
to get astronaut John Glenn to man the
LX-42.
The subsequent reviews of "Pulsations"
were unfavorable—"fragment and dis-
jointed" . . . "rambling exercise"—but
Schifrin says: "We should welcome elec-
tronic music as an addition to what we have.
It should never replace anything."
Electronic music is not new. Russian
scientist Leo Theremin's cello-sounding
therein in was introduced to the public in
1920. The player stands in front, control-
ling pitch and volume by moving his hands
to and from the instrument.
AND A decade ago, says composer
Raksin, whose "laura" has had nearly 400
different recordings, "Forbidden Planet"
had an electronic score.
But today's composers work with far
more sophisticated, solid state instruments
and need a knowledge of electronics engi-
neering as well as musicianship. I'hey talk
of signal paths, program sequences, percus-
sive rhythms, melodic structures, transient
peaks, tape delays, syne waves.
They manipulate oscillators, filters, amp-
lifiers, noise reducers, reverb units, oscil-
loscopes, ring modulators. A gadget called
the Tel-Ray Variable Delay can take eighth
notes and play them twice as fast. The
Echoplex, a small recorder with an endless
loop of tape, can take bird twitterings and
turn them into a whole flock.
WHAT DOES the musicians' union say
about one man performing the work of,
say, 15?
"If it sounds like a 15-piece orchestra
we'd demand that the wages paid equal
those of a 15-piece orchestra," says Keith
Williams, president of Hollywood's Local
47. "That still doesn't solve the problem of
unemployment of the 15 men who are not
working."
He added: "As for noneonventional
sounds, they're an enigma. Do we increase
our membership rolls to embrace players of
electronic instruments? Engineers? We're
setting up a research department to go into
these areas."
MUSTACHIOED, dark-spectacled,
Garson, 41, has his studio in the quest house
behind his Beverly Hills home. He calls his
company Patch Cord Productions for the
spaghetti-like tangle of interchangeable
connections plugged in among the 440
knobs of his $15,000 Moog Synthesizer.
"Moog rhymes with vogue," Garson
smiled, emphasizing the device's up-to-
dateness. "Robert Moog, an inventor, mu-
sician and physicist, makes and sells them
in Trumansburg, N.Y.
"There are two or three hundred in the
country, mostly in colleges teaching elec-
tronic music.
"I WAS in conventional music most of
my life arranger, conductor and compo-
ser, in records, TV and commercials
before I became an electronic composer. I
was looking for another path of expression,
away from cliches, when I got involved
with electronic music."
The first movie with an all-Moog
score was produced and directed in the
scenic San Juan Island 150 miles northwest
of Seattle by Skip Sherwood, a Seattle ad
mah and TV producer.
"Didn't You Hear?" cost less than $200,
000, stars Hollywood unknowns and is be-
ing shown by Sherwood in rented halls. A
vague, unrealistic story, it features in ads
Garson's manufactured music.
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Student Suicides High;
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By STEVEN ESTES
Daily Reporter
I swear there ain't no heaven.
I pray there ain't no hell.
Never know by livin',
Only my dyin' will tell.
Whether there is a heaven or not, many
college students are finding out by way of
suicide.
Dr. Mathew Ross of Harvard Medical
School said in a recent Time Magazine
article that on the national level 50 per cent
more college students commit suicide than
non-students of the same age.
Science Digest further claims that suicide
is the second greatest cause of death among
students in the 15 to 24 range.
Reports the magazine:
"In 1966, suicide threats were made by
more than 100,000 college students. One in
10 of these actually attempted suicide and
1,000 persons succeeded."
WHAT SORT of student attempts sui-
cide?
"The typical suicidal college student is
one who is away from home, lonely, work-
ing hard, anxious to do well. When he is not
doing well, he may seek to repress his anxi-
ety with liquor, sex, or accepted forms of
student violence," Dr Ross, the Harvard
professor, said,
Dr. Donald Whaley of the North Texas
psychology faculty added, "I think most
students don't really intend to go through
with their threats the ones that do are
comparable to reckless drivers. A person
Drug User, Innocents Scarred
By 'High-Minded' Experiences
DAILY FEEDBACK
By ELAINE McLENDON
Special Reporter
John Williams (not his real name) has
been there. He has smoked marijuana since
he was 14 years old. He has also taken
speed and LSD and he has the scars to
prove it.
The tragic end of Williams' experience
with drugs came when his wife gave birth
to a child who was born dead with an en-
larged head and undersized hands.
"I was so down," he said. "It just blew
my mind. I couldn't believe it-. My wife and
I had both done a lot of acid.
"I do organics (marijuana, etc.) now and
that's all," he said. "It's supposed to be
good for your head, but speed breaks down
the calcium content in your body and will
affect your eyesight. If you take it long
enough, it will kill you.
"I can hardly see to drive at night, I wear
glasses anyway and the glasses don't even
help me now. And my teeth are super bad.
I have four or five that are just rotted away."
WILLIAMS BEGAN taking speed in
a preparatory school in the eastern United
States. "I began taking 'bennies' to stay
awake and study in school. Everybody used
them. I didn't know it then, but I was doing
dope just for th thrill of doing it," he said.
He first tried acid (LSD) in California,
where he worked with a rock group. This
group eventually brought him to Dallas.
"When you're on an acid trip," he said,
"you can actually see right through people
You 'mind trip' a lot and because you are
more aware of human action and plastic
people, you can tell when people are putting
on airs."
ACCORDING TO the former user,
when one is under the influence of acid, one
doesn't even have to ask what people are
thinking. "You look through the eyes into
the mind and you can catch 'vibes' off
people," Williams explained.
"This is strange and you won't believe
me, but I've actually answered a question
before someone asked me," he said. "A
person's inward thoughts just seem to come
out at you."
WILLIAMS SAYS the life expectancy
of someone who takes speed consistently
is approximately five years. He believes
shooting speed is a real danger. "There is a
danger of blood clotting, hepatitis ... al-
ways chances. . . Why do it? A person only
has so many places he can hit.
"I kept thinking life was too short," he
said. "I've got to do it all, and I've got to do
it today. I didn't know if there would be any
tomorrow. Little did I know that if I kept
taking it (speed and LSD) there woulun t lie
any tomorrow.
"I QUIT taking it because of the effect
it had on my body. I'm only 23 years old
and I don't have arthritis yet, but my knu-
ckles are a lot bigger now than when I star-
ted taking drugs."
Williams came close to death at birth.
He was an overdue baby and doctors wan-
ted to abort the pregnancy to save his
mother. He and his mother both lived and
so he feels "I must have been born for a
purpose,"
WILLIAMS finished high school and
attended Jones Business College in Jack-
sonville, Fla He hopes to be an entertainer
some day or maybe a salesman.
"I don't know what I want to do now,
I'm just letting the cosmic flow take me
along," he said.
He opposes the materialistic attitude he
feels is present in society today. "Why
limit yourself to material things? You've
got to get down in the gutter and live with
the majority of people to learn what people
are all about."
"AFTER ALL," he said, "isn't that
what America is all about? Why did our
forefathers come over here for a new life
if they didn't want free thinkers?" He be-
lieves this to be the real reason behind the
youth uprising in this country today. "We
don't have the power of the people any
more."
To Williams there is no justice for the
common people any more. He feels that
people discriminate and stereotype minor-
ity groups because of attitudes instilled in
them for generations. "They've been told
the black people will steal and Jews will
cheat you and that hippies' brains are rot-
ted away from dope. Therefore, hippies
don't have a valuable opinion."
HE FEELS hippies know a lot more
about life because they're out on the streets
living with the people. He also feels this
country will have another civil war. "With
guns or mouths," he predicted, "we need
something to get the people together again.
If there were a war a lot of good people
would get killed, along with the bad."
Williams worked at a service station in
Dallas until a letter he had written was
published in an underground newspaper,
the Dallas Notes.
In the letter he offered to talk to anyone
about the use of such drugs as speed and
LSD. He gave his phone number and
address where he worked so he could be
contacted.
He was immediately fired from his job
with no explanation. Now he is a part of
the Dallas street scene, selling the Dallas
Notes at the curbside of busy Dallas inter-
sections.
"So I'm a bum now," he said. "At least I
want to help people and if I can do it by
telling them about dope, that's good."
Swaab Attacks Tuition
As Disproportionate Tax
Louis Swaab, I1306C Park Central, Dallas,
junior
I am writing in the hope that my position
as presented before the Senate can be better
constructed if quoted verbatim.
As it is now, we students pay a dispropor-
tionate tax in the form of tuition to attend
North Texas. The idea that a student should
pay the entire expense of his education
when he is in school borders on lunacy.
While we are gaining the skills and know-
ledge that will, in the near future, enable us
to serve our community, as well as put us
in a higher tax bracket, is the least likely
time to tax those least likely to be able to
pay. I plan on sponsoring action that will
constructively inform our state lawmakers
of this fact.
I did not simply ask for a S5 mandatory
fee from all students, as this, too, would
border on lunacy. More realistically, I
suggested that an increased fee of S5 be
placed on student fees. This $5 would go to
support the payment of a competent lawyer
to represent students in student matters.
For example, as Susan Scholl stated in her
letter on loco parentis, a discrepancy in
North Texas "policy" and Texas judiciary
does exist. A full-time lawyer representing
our interests could end legally once and for
all this loco parentis situation which so
many students talk about, but don't know
how to take action against. This plan was
devised by Ralph Nader and is in use at the
University of Oregon. If a student doesn't
want to take part, he simply writes a peti-
tion (letter) to the legislature and receives a
refund.
In my speech of Feb. 3, I said I felt I
could, as I know, K.C. Calhoun can, work
with the administration to bring about an
absorption and asumption of power by the
USNT. As a last resort, I suggested a stu-
dent strike which could be carried off by
no less than 80 per cent of the student
body, not just a minority of involved indi-
viduals.
People Don't Listen
To Destructive Talk
Ben Standley, Rt. 2, Box 328, Fort Worth,
senior
I think if people could see the direction
in which American society is headed, many
if not all of them would be so horrified
they might get up and take adequate steps
to change the direction. But then I ask
myself what about these people that do see
this dehumanized, materialistic road we arc-
on. Are they so horrified seeing the face of
this "megamachine" that they have turned
to "stone"?
I really wonder what has made so many
just give up. I guess it might be a feeling of
hopelessness. I think it is quite clear that
the issue is life. How can we just hopelessly
give up life? Man, someone has made a
mess of this house we live in and it is up to
us to clean it up.
A few sec this mess we are in and a few
are even talking about it. But even fewer
are doing anything about it. What are we
doing here at school? With the question
"Can man survive" hanging over our sheep-
skins what good arc they going to do?
The revolution that started with the peace
sign and now ends up with a fist in the air is
over. When we slipped into wide-open char-
ges of "nihilism" and "advocating the
destruction of society" people quit listening.
Remember this revolution is for Life and
against Death.
driving recklessly doesn't really intend to
have a wreck. But it's fun for him to take
the risk. Did you ever stick a loaded gun up
to your head? It's a similar sensation."
HOW MANY suicides are attempted
each year at North Texas?
Jack Wheeler, associate dean of students,
said his office keeps no record of actual
attempts. "I do know one thing, though.
There is a lot more talk about it than there
are actual attempts or successful suicides.
"There was, ol course, the one suicide
last semester and there have been a lew
unsuccessful attempts in the past few
years," he said. "But we keep no record of
attempted suicides."
Dr. Neil Dishon of the hospital staff
said. "There have been a couple of unsuc-
cessful ones this year. But I rather believe
they were half-hearted attempts."
How can a suicidal student be helped?
"As a clinical psychologist I find it frigh-
tening. It always makes me wonder if that
person could have been helped," Dr.
Whaley said,
"HELPING A suicidal person is a very
touchy thing. I fa person has real problems,
he has to solve them in the real world. Hut
this is a paradox, because the 'real world'
is the cause of his problem," he added.
"When counseling such persons, the clin-
ician is faced with the question: Should I
blow the whistle on him have him com-
mitted to an institution? Or should I help
him through the depressive weekend' lit her
course of action can be disastrous," he
said. "If he isn't committed, he may go
through with his suicide. But if he is, the
problem is avoided only temporarily, lie
will ultimately have to solve his hang-up in
the real world."
Are most people potential suicide victims''
Dr. Whaley believes that all people are
"potentially" suicidal.
"The ones who don't ever contemplate it
haven't been taught suicide as an option.
Some cultures teach it ours, for instance,"
he said.
COUNTRIES THAI teach suicide as
an option. Dr. Whaley pointed out, are
Germany, Japan, and the United States
These same countries are also, incidently,
highly industrialized.
Dr. Whaley said although suicide-prone
students do exist here at North Texas, the
campus does not have nearly the problem
that eastern colleges have. He concluded
that other groups in the U.S. high among
suicides besides college students are
blacks and Protestants.
For those contemplating suicide, Nobel
Prize winner Albert Camus warns against
it:
"There is no answer to death But suicide
is cowardice. Man has only one reality
life. He must live it. He can only live it by
accepting its limits. That it has no meaning
beyond itself is not a cause for pessimism
On the contrary it is the very foundation of
our revolt against death, the fundamental
reason why we should live it fully . Life-
can only be lived to the fullest when it is
accepted for what it is in itself. There is
joy, there is happiness, there is everything."
Letter Policy
I he North lexas Daily welcomes
and will print all letters from readers.
ALL letters must be signed. Because
of limited space, letters should not
exceed 200 words. The Daily retains
the right to edit, if necessary, for
length and lor libelous or obscene
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