1984_09 The Daily Collegian September 1984

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LP's hare-raising and untouchable
Echo and The Bunnymen are four guys
from Liverpool. England who have been
called one ofthe best rock'n'roll bands in
the world. On Ocean Rain, The Bunny-
men's fourth album, they stake their claim
to that title with some grandiose, dramatic
music. Though a couple of the songs fall
fiat, Ocean Rain contains enough strong,
well-arranged songs to make it a fine
album, if not one of 1984's best.
Despite having the classic R V R
configuration of guitar, bass, drums and
vocals. The Bunnymen have always fleshed
out their songs with other instruments,
mainly keyboards. On Ocean Rain they
use orchestral arrangements to helpdefine
and shape the songs. For example, the
lead-off track "Silver" starts off with a
strings-versus-acoustic guitar duet thai
builds wilh added instruments until the
climax. This song sets the pace for much
of Ocean Rain: a balance of hushed, quiet
parts wilh powerful explosions highlighted
by Will Seargeant's stinging guitar leads
over Les Patterson's bass, Pete de Freitas'
drums, the string section and Ian McCul-
l  going  on
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songs   h
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warding. Cuts I
re other times when The Bunny-
io hard. Despite their somewhat
■, Echo and The Bunnymen arc
breaks that rescue them. Instead of being
dramatic, lyrics like "Take me inter¬
nally/Forever your nocturnal me" and
"I'm the yo-yo man/Always up and down"
become melodramatic and ponderous. On
ihe other hand "Thorn of Crowns,"
potentially the most melodramatic song
on the whole album, works because it is
lifted oul of the morass by Seargeant's
wild guitar effects. Contrast is the name of
the game here. Contrast, and always
keeping the arrangements full enough that
It's the type of record that I wasn't sure
about at first, but has grown in stature
with repeated listenings. Certainly, the
two best songs work like that: "The Kil¬
ling of the Moon" seemed understated at
first, like I was listening to it from a dis¬
tance — but the epic feel of it won me
it part, Ocean Rain si
band, (ska: faster dance-oriented for
eggae) The Untouchables' new £P
and Let Dance shows them expand-
thcir musical repertoire to include
, reggae and flat-out rock 'n' roll.
Side U opens with "Free^Yourseir an
Otis Redding homage d^wn
But at the same time-It is i
a force to be reckoned with for qui
touchables are a seven piece
ulti-racial band from Southern Califor-
a that has garnered a huge following
iwn South with their infectious, dance-
lented music. Initially typecast as just a
ionably the UT's song because of the
inmistakable vocal harmonies. The other
wo cutTon Side U, "Lebanon" and
Whiplash"areska-stompers with"Leba-
" getting extra points for being poli-
Side T has "What's Gone Wrong" and
its companion piece "What's Gone (Dub)."
The cut, "Wrong," is a sinous reggae love
song, while "(Dub)" is the same song
takenapartand put backtogetherslightly
askew by tape effects. "What's Gone
(Dub)" is of interest only lo hardcore reg¬
gae fans, but "What's Gone Wrong"should
appeal to everybody because of its great
melody and universal subject matter. The
EP closes with a live version of "Stepping
Stone," an old rock chestnut covered by
such diverse artists as The Monkees, Sex
Pistols, Paul Revere and The Raiders and
Jimi Mendrjx. The Untouchables give it
the full rocking-out treatment that it
deserves and ends this action-packed EP
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Sept. 10,1984
Tasmania: Key to mysterious past
Tasmania, a land of many mis¬
conceptions, is serving as a model of
prehistoricalavilizatiorisforarchaelogist*-
and anthropologists, who are looking for
keys that wil open the doors to our past.
Physical Anthropology instructor Roger
LaJcuncsse will address the Fresno County
Archaeological Society tonight at 8 p.m.
on the significant events that have affected
ihe formation and .destruction of the
Tasmanian race. He will also discuss the
geography and isolation ofthe island the
aboriginal's culture and their hybrid
descendents.
"It's such a remote place," LaJeunesse
said. "It has fascinated anthropologists
for a longtime."
De scribing the significance of Tasmania,
the southernmost island state of Australia,
I^Jcunesse  said;  "There are very few
human populations that have been formed,
for which we have moit of the re-
cords...although we dont have any data
of people 100,000 years ago, we do on a
few of these hybrid populations formed
these islands.   And we make use of
Previously a part of the British Com¬
monwealth, it was assumed for a long time
that Tasmania was connected to the reil
of Australia. But once the British Crown
discovered that it was, indeed, an island,
they established a penal colony in the
early 1800's there in order to maintain
their sovereign claim upon the area.
LaJeunesse explained that as British
nobility, who had been given land there,
realized the advantageous conditions and
potential for raising sheep in the northern
part of the island, this practice eventually
led to much of the aborgines' demise.
Deprived of the kangaroos, which ad to
compete with the sheep, the last of the
full-blooded aborgines hid fewer animali
to eat, and were eventually destroyed by
starvation and disease.
"In jusi two generations,** said La¬
Jeunesse, "the full-blooded population
had gone from an estimated three to five
thousand in 1803 to zero by 1876."
Having traveled and studied extensively
in,Tasmania, Dr. LaJeunesse is interested
in the living hybrid descendenti of the
area. In particular, a small group known
as the Cape Barm Islanders living on the
northeaitcoait of Tasmania. He described
the area as a final refuge for them.
Attempting to gain insight into the
manners in which people lived long ago,
LaJeunesse said: "What happens to a
population that is isolated as time
progresses? People mate, reproduce,
children marry and do the same' and in
doing so, a structure is developed in terms
of  the   population the  peoples'
relationships to one another What I do is
an analysis of those structures. It gives us
some ideas as to the dynamics of very
imall populations." *"
Tonight"i lecture, which will include a
slide presentation depicting the people
and landscapes of Tasmania, will be held a
8 p.m. in iheSarra E. McCradle Room of
the Fresno County Free Library. It is
located at 2420 Mariposa St., in downtown
The Fresno County Archaeological
Society meet! on the first Monday of
every month, and their meetings are open
to the public.
If interested in more information, tbey
can be reached by writing to trhe Fresno
County Archaeological Society at P.O.
Box 11882, Fresno, Ca, 93775, or phone'
227-4410.
Proposed measure denies aid to draft dodgers
WASHINGTON, DC (CPS) — Rep.
Gerald Solomon, author of tbe law that
denies federal aid to itudents who refuse
to register for the draft, says he may soon
introduce a new law to apply even more
pressure on students to sign up with Selec¬
tive Service.
The measure aims to punish schools
that set up special funds to support stu¬
dents who lose federal aid because they
refuse to register with Selective Service.
"My impression is Congressman
Solomon would be encouraging schools'
l they intend to do."
vidence any schools actu-
student support funds, but
- "    "t have said that's
Harvard, Northwestern, Swarthmore
and Yale universities did announce plans
to give private aid to students who cant
get federal aid, regardless of the reason.
Solomon's new amendment would cut
off funds to medical, dental, allied and
other health profession schools that help
non-registrants. Those funds currently are
awarded under Title VII of the Public
Health Services Act.
"We dont object to the underlying
premise that students must register for the
draft to get student aid, but it is quite
another thing to expect the health profes¬
sions schools to do thejob ofthe Selective
Service," said Marty Liggett of the Amer¬
ican Association of Dental Schools
(AADS)in an interview with Higher Edu¬
cation Daily.
The American Council on Education
and the National Association of Land
Grant Colleges have joined AADS to isnt fair to those who do regiiter or to
changetheamendmentwhileothereduca- college! and universities which abide by
tion and professional groups are with- the law, be contend!,
holding official reaction. As  written,  the  amendment  denies
Even though 98 percent of the eligible grants and contracts to schools which
men have already complied with the draft refuse to comply, Gleason says, and will
laws, "It's a question of principle," insists affect only those schools.
Gleason of Solomon's office. "Even if a "Remember, he (Solomon) is not sure
large portion of people are abiding by the bell even offer the amendment," he adds,
law, you still want full compliance." "Hell decide before the House session
The illegal activity of a few students begins."
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