1979_12 The Daily Collegian December 1979

              Disco fading, rock on way back
Gary Edwards, editor of the Valley Fresno. There definitely is but it isn't as
Music News, agrees that disco music prevalent as the 'Saturday Night Fever'
seems to be slowing down. He says that J--  *J~* *-" **— ——~ '» ■a«aCi___i
'the trend now seems to be toward the
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Dedicated rock-and-rollers seem to be seems to be slowing down. He says that days. Most of the groups in nightclubs,
getting   frustrated   over   the   lack   of "the trend now seems to be toward the even though they may be rock oriented
straight-ahead rock music one can hear New Wave. Local groups like Orchid, the are obliged to play some disco and top 40
in Fresno Subtractions and others seem to be get- songs in their repertoire.
Most of the live music heard in night- ting more popular. Even some country        Some               ,„   F          . |jk
clubs in Fresno seems to be either soft bands around town are '"dud.ng more Rai     and T<>^ k|          m j^-gJS
rock or disco or a combination of the two. rock.in their selections. And if you look olavjnB |u_t straiRht ahea<J ^^.^
Cood news for rock fans is that disco at the local current record charts, the
seems to be gradually disappearing, not rock albums are dominating the list*
only here in Fresno but the rest of the Of course,  this doesn't mean that
country as well. there isn't plenty of disco music around
Social Security offers job,
deadline December 10
The Social Security Administration is
looking for job candidates for the Claims
Representative position, according to
Cilbert Khachadourian, District Mana¬
ger for the Social Security Administra¬
tion in Fresno and Madera counties.
Applicants for this job are no longer
required to take a written examination or
to apply through the U.S. Civil Service
Commission. But a special application
must be completed and submitted be¬
tween Dec. 3-10 which is the deadline.
Job requirements are either a college
degree or three years of progressively
responsible experience in administra¬
tive, professional, investigative or tech¬
nical work. Qualified persons having bi¬
lingual skills will have a good opportuni¬
ty to be considered by offices in areas
where this skill is needed.
Starting salary is $11,243 per year
with promotional opportunities over a
three-year period to the journeyman sa¬
lary of $18,760, and potential further in¬
creases to $24,385 over a period of years.
playing just straight ahead rock-and-roll.
Still, they must play some top 40 songs
and disco even though it is very little.
Rains said, 'You have to program your
music for the audience and play a lot of
familiar songs that are heard on the ra¬
dio.* Rains, who has been a rock-and-
roll performer for the past 12 years
agreed that disco is fading out and that
rock is coming into its own again. Bob
Rains and Toodski is currently perform¬
ing at the Feed and Fuel on East Barstow
Wednesday through Sunday. That night¬
club seems to be one of the few places in
Fresno that offers consistent, no non¬
sense rock-and-roll.
Rains admitted that Fresno is at least
six months to a year behind the main-
steam of rock as compared to Los
Angeles or San Francisco! Rock fans are
even at a loss to hear good, consistent
rock on the radio in Fresno unless they
have excellent FM reception. There are
very few radio stations that even come
close to what dedicated rockers want to
listen to in Fresno. ROCK 96 was
the closest thing to ft but that went off
the air earlier this year. Relief may be in
sight though. Starting some time in early
December when the station obtains FCC
approval, KKDJ will begin a new format
and offer album oriented rock programs.
The station manager there would not say
anything more than that. He simply said,
'Wait until it goes on the air and listen
and find out what it is all about.'
Who knows, maybe it will be a start of
things to come for rock listeners in
Fresno.
ROCK ON I
New course in women's culture
to be offered next semester
A new course entitled "Women:
Culture and Biology,* will be offered
through   the   Department  of   Anthro-
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Persons  interested in  this  position   pology at CSUF during the spring sem-
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Mary Ludwig, a lecturer in anthro¬
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The instructors said, 'The goal of the
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There are no prerequisites for the
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an Anthropology of Women by Rayna R.
Reiter. Lectures and das discussions
will be the format for the course, which
is being offered also for credit in a
Women's Studies minor. ■■    :
For more information, contact the
CSUF Department of Anthropology at
487-1002.
Dacma+w.S.1971
David Armstrong's America
Drawing the line with Iran
There is a scene in Robert Downey's film, Chaffed Elbows, in.which a man
is shown painting a white line, i I logically, absurdly, down the middle of an
untrafficked alleyway. When another man asks Mm what in blazes he is doing,
the painter raises his head and replies, with comic conviction, 'You have to
draw the line somewhere.*
That's What Americans have been doing in recent weeks with our anti-
Iranian outbursts: drawing the line. Drawing it somewhere, anywhere. Never¬
mind that our verbal broadsides against the Moslem militants who seized the .
U.S. embassy in Tehran are illogical, absurd. We're drawing the line, partner.
Drawing it right here. <
The frustration and rage that Americans feel about the embassy takeover is
understandable, given the paucity of information the mass media have con¬
veyed about Iran. The American media, especially in the early days of the
occupation, made ft appear that Uncle Sam was an aggrieved innocent. Just
minding his own business,' he was. when one day these foreign thugs came
along, spat in his face, lifted his wallet, and sat themselves down in his chair.
Now, how do you like that? '
This picture of American innocence fades upon closer examination. Uncle
Sam has been involved _p to his ears in Iran's internal affairs since at least
1953, when the CIA overthrew Iran's moderate government and restored the
hated shah to the Peacock Throne. The shah - torturer of civilians, leading
arms buyer of the Middle East, a billionaire who got rich by stealing from his
own people, the murderer of a reported 60,000 Iranians - did all this with
America's blessing. Is it any wonder that the great majority of Iranians, across
the political spectrum, blame the United States for the suffering of their
country? - '
One doesn't have to endorse the 12th century zealotry of the Ayatollah
Khomeini to recognize that the Iranian people have good reason to despise
the shah, and the right to try him. America should return the shah to Iran - not
because we arc intimidated by terrorism, but because it is right.
Many Americans recoil at extraditing a sick man, and the shah does have
health problems. How serious they actually are is a matter, of debate. In a
series of columns for the-New York Dally News, Jimmy Breslin interviewed
doctors at the New York hospital where the shah was encamped. They de-
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that the shah could -easily have received treatment for his cancer, and his
gallstones, elsewhere. They described the deposed dictator's illness as being
more political than medical.
That's where the shah's banker, David Rockefeller, and Rockefeller's chief
intellectual go'fer, Henry Kissinger, come in. It was Rockefeller and Kissin¬
ger, according to reporter Jack Anderson, who lobbied for the shah's admis¬
sion to America, touting him as a friend of the U.S. who must inevitably be
permitted to settle.here: The Carter administration acceded to Rockefeller's
request,' despite State Department warnings that our embassy would be
vulnerable to the fury of the Iranian public if the shah was admitted. Instead
of heeding this prescient warning, the Carter administration gambled with the
lives of the Americans in the Tehran embassy-- and lost.
That Is why our national orgy of self-righteousness - cynically exploited by
hyperventilating commentators and politicians standing for election - is so ill-
founded. The fanatics who follow Khomeini are a disagreeable bunch, at best,
but they are as much products of our foreign policy as of their own upbringing.
There is a mood of great intolerance for nuance and ambiguity in America
right now. In our post-Vietnam, post-Watergate malaise, we seem to crave
certitude, nevermind the source. It is this need for moral absolutism that fed
the mass media lovefeast for Pope John Paul 11 and made a bestseller of the
joyless marching orders of the Ayatollah Dylan recently.
It is a very dangerous mood because it is tailormade to justify military
intervention by a president eager to enhance his image as a decisive leader.
The result could be a debacle similar to the 1975 Maquayez inddent, when-41
Marines were killed trying to rescue 40 sailors. Or it could result in war.
Indeed, by the time this is published, Jimmy Carter may have chosen to lead
his people in an emotional crusade to rid the Middle East of infidels. And that *■
would only compound the problem.
The troubles in Tehran, difficult as It may be to accept, were made in
America. They are traceable to our costly friendship with a brutal ruler most
Iranians equate with Hitler. That is a friendship this country can afford to be
without.
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