Empath, 1979 October 30

              J am e s C o t to n t o “ B o o g i e D o w n ” N o v . 9
BoKibler
No, you won’t find James C o tto n ’s
music on the local top forty re-bop radio
dial. He doesn’t throw cosmic space dust
out at his audience, or strut the stage
on mile high platform wingtips. Alas, he
doesn’t even disco. He plays blue and
rock’n roll the hard way. That is to say
the James Cotton Blues Band draws it’s
strength from music first, and superhype
second. This is why tk^e band is not a
penny whistle rider on an a.m. radio
merry-go round. November 9, at 8
p.m., James Cotton, with the back-up
band, Roomful o f Blues, will bring their
music to Somerset Hall for SMC’s annual
Fall Concert.
James Cotton has a strong East Coast
following and plays the type o f blues
and rock’n roll th a t evolved out o f the
Chicago city tradition. It is rowdy, get
down to it music th a t creates a bonaflde
party atmosphere. Roomful o f Blues is
another quality band that has managed
to escape the top 40 snydrome, thereby
maintaining a musical integrity th a t the
punk rockers and formulaic,) big beat
rhythm kingas have missed. ‘Blues’ is
easily the type of band th a t could carry
it’s own show. They are th a t good.
During a telephone interview, Cotton
expressed his hopes for the show. “We’re
gonna kick it on o u t,” he said, “ and
boogie down, and we want everybody to
boogie with us.”
Ticket prices are $2.50 in advance
for students and $5.00 for non-students.
Tickets must be purchased in advance
or the prices go up to 3 and 6 respectively, at
the door. They will be on sale upstairs, in the
student union soon.
The Russians
Dr. Cairns to
Lecture Tonight
are Coming !
Chris Kaifer
Pope John Paul II and President Carter. Photo by Kim Murray
T h e P a p a l A n s w e r T o W o o d s t o c k
“ John Paul Two, We Want You!”
changed the Washington throng, and
finally, His Holiness Pope John Paul II
emerged to greet what was probably
the happiest crowd ever to invade the
nation’s capitol. His response to the
ecstatic incantation? “John Paul Two,
He Loves You!” This was religion’s
answer to Woodstock.
Some o f the most enthusiastic people
who attended the papal mass on October
7 were those who were fortunate enough
to have been memb.ers o f the SMC
choir. In fact, the choir was second in
fervor only to the multitude o f priests
who were seated around the huge altar.
At the first hin t o f the p o n tiffs arrival,
the ordinarily stoic priests began climb­ing
atop one another, craning their necks
and giggling with excitement.
Kim Murray, a student at SMC, and
photographer for the Empath, managed
to get a Special Press Pass for the papal
visit. She was in the bus which followed
the po p e’s motorcade, and she was on
the South Lawn o f the White House in
the press section when Jo h n Paul II
delivered a warm speech to the 500
V.I.P.s there, including the First Family.
Miss Murray said th a t the pope is “ . . .
very conservative, and very gentle; he
is like Jesus because he loves the people.
But h e ’s n o t TOO conservative — no
stiff upper lip.”
The nearly 500-voice choir was com­posed
o f singers from schools such as
Howard University, the University o f
Maryland, Catholic University and, of
course, SMC. Paul Traver, who was
responsible for the music at Sunday’s
mass, was familiar with Dr. Sandra Wil­le
tt’s work and with SMC choir, and he
invited the choir to sing at the mass.
(Cont’d on Page 6)
by Dr. Bob Paul
An internationally recognized authori­ty
on water quality and pollution, Dr.
John Cairns, Jr., will speak on “Coping
with hazardous chemicals in the en­vironment”
on Tuesday, October 30 at
8 p.m. in St. Mary’s Hall. Dr. Cairns is
a University Distinguished Professor and
Director of the Center for Environmental
Studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University. Following 17 years
of service with the Academy o f Natural
Sciences of Philadelphia, Dr. Cairns
moved to the University o f Kansas and
then on to VPI and SU where he has
been for the last 12 years. Dr. Cairns
has been concerned with the ecology
of polluted and unpolluted freshwater
since 1947.
In addition to serving on committees
of the National Academy of Sciences
and the National Research Council,
Dr. Cairns is a member of the governing
board o f the American Institute of
Biological Sciences. He consults fre­quently
for b oth the Environmental
Protection Agency and for industry.
He has edited or authored 10 books and
written over 200 scientific papers. Recent
books include The Recovery and Restora­tion
o f Damaged Ecosystems, Wildlife
and Modification o f Inland Waters, and
Biological Monitoring o f Water and
Effluent Quality.
Dr. Cairns holds degrees from Swath-more
College, and the University of
Pennsylvania. Always in demand, he
limits his annual speaking engagements
to 35. We are fortunate in luring an
ecologist o f his stature to St. Mary’s
College. The talk is sponsored by the
Division o f Natural Science but should
be o f general interest. The public is
invited to attend.
T h e O y s t e r F e s t ; A K i n k y T r e a t
by Andy Easter
Did God make anything so fine
As kinky sex or sweet red wine?
The finest thing by his design
Are oysters from the Bay.
by Ima Pseudoname
Where around the state o f Maryland
can you find a juggler, various square
dancers, little old ladies singing Bob
Dylan and the fastest oyster shuckers
in the United States? Well two weeks
ago you could have found all this and
more at the th irte en th annual St. iViary s
County Oyster Festival.
Fifteen thousand people showed up
for this year’s gala shindig, about five
thousand down from last year, due to
the amount o f rain on Saturday. Sun­day,
the lion’s share o f the fifteen th o u ­sand
showed up, despite a sky pregnant
with rain, to stomp about in a sea o f
mud.
Sunday’s festivities began at eleven
in the morning with the Mountain Dew
Review, our local bluegrass band with
the h o tte st washboard this side o f D.C.
The beer flowed like the Mississippi and
a fat man in the cowboy hat got drunk
and hollared a couDle rebel veils.
(Cont’d on Page 6)
Soviet Russian art, literature, music
and drama will come to St. Mary’s Col­lege
on Nov. 3-4 and 10-11. The Rus­sian
Symposium will be held in Mont­gomery
Hall, the new fine arts building.
The Symposium is being sponsored by
the Maryland Committee for the Hu­manities
and the Cremona Foundation,
and will feature a wide variety o f scholars
concerned with every facet of Russian
humanities. James J. Kenney o f St.
Mary’s College and Norton T. Dodge
o f the Cremona Foundation are the
acting directors for this project.
The first symposium on Nov. 3-4,
featuring the theme o f Tradition and
Change, will begin with an introduc­tion
by President Jackson at 9 :00 a.m.,
followed by James Kenney’s lecture on
“Major Directions in Modern Russian
Thought.” The Symposium ends with
a panel discussion on “Tradition, Change,
and Revolution in Soviet Culture” which
will begin at 12:30 on Sunday afternoon.
The second symposium from Nov.
10-11 will begin at 9 :0 0 a.m. with a
lecture by David Joravsky on “ Ideology
and Soviet Science and Culture” and end
at 12:30 on Sunday with a panel discus­sion
of “Dialectics, Dissidents, and
Detente: Implications for the F u tu re .”
The symposium promises to be an
interesting and enlightening experience
for students and faculty alike and would
be well worth the effort o f looking into.
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photo by Richard P o lk ,E N T E R P R IS E.