Page 6 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1974 Teachers warping minds says poet By BRAD ELLIS Staff Writer There is a group consciousness among poets in America today, according to Donald Hall, poet, teacher, and author of a new book on writing for freshman English classes, “Writing Well,” JAMAIS e e REGISTERED DIAMOND RINGS Embrey s Jewelry 9:00 - 5:30 North Gate 846-5816 fupfnamlt* Eddie Dominguez ’66 Joe Arciniega ’74' iffiMinl If you want the real thing, not frozen or canned ... We call It “Mexican Food Supreme.” Two Dallas locations: 3071 Northwest Hwy. 352-8570 2131 Ft. Worth Ave. ,946-0645 STARTS TODAY 6 p. m. - 7:50 - 9:35 Richard Crenna & Stephen Boyd In THEY BURIED THE WRONG MAN. HE WON’T MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE. Frontier Films Ltd. presents A Euan Lloyd Production “THE MAN CALLED NOOIT TECHNICOLOR® • WIDE SCREEN A National General Pictures release (Hj Hall, professor of English at the University of Michigan, came to TAMU last week to give a poetry reading and to speak at a workshop for teaching assistants teaching freshman English. Hall observed that as teachers, they are in the business of warp ing young minds, and that to settle for not having imagination is to be safe from the dangers of profound self exploration. Creative writing classes don’t fail. Hall says, if none of the stu dents are writing ten years later, because the skills of reading and understanding what words do to thoughts and meanings have been cultivated. As a poet, Hall finds that the jet plane and vocal poetry read ings serve to draw poets together. Poets stimulate each other, and Hall is always in a group of four or five poets who exchange manu scripts and rewrite each other’s works. “It comes from loving poetry so much and working on it so damn hard; a common love of poetry, a common struggle to make lan guage embody feeling; and a com mon desire to be great,” said Hall. The feeling among poets in America is one of “We’re next,” both in stylistics and an ambition for largeness. They are trying to integrate spiritual depth and the real world at the same time. Hall describes it: “Poetry, in stead of going broadly over space and time tends to go deep down the mine shaft.” Hall says poets now have more of a Devil’s advocate whispering in their ear due to the fantastic increase in poetry that has oc curred over the last 30 years. DONALD HALL, author, poet and teacher, attended a workshop for teaching assistants in freshman En glish to read poetry and discuss his book. Writing Well. (Photo by Alan Kill ings worth) TWU to hold Denton jig The women of Texas Women’s University have extended a “most special invitation” to the students of Texas A&M to an all-campus dance in Denton Saturday eve ning, Feb. 9th, according to Vicky Robbins, President. The dance is from 8 to 12 p.m. in the old Student Union Building on Bell Avenue. UT Sight and Sound will provide the music. An admission fee of $1 will be charged. Dress should be casual and guests must show a college identi fication card. “We do hope it will be possible for a group to come to our dance,” concluded President Robbins. PEANUTS By Charles M. Schvdz tdELl, I suppose HE FlNPS PIFFERENT bJMS TO PASS THE TIME... ^EIGHTY-NINE BOTTLES OF BEER ON THE WALL.TjJjj EVERT MORN I NO MOM PEDALS HER BIKE THIS SAME [AM, AND IT'S AMAZING HOW SHE... ‘1470’ resembles Aggie jaw By CLIFTON LEWIS Staff Writer A surgeon, an anatomist and a teacher as well as a physical an thropologist, Dean Oyen appeared Tuesday night at TAMU’s Rud der Tower as a lecturer, discuss ing the significance of “1470.” “1470” is the three-million- year-old fossil skull of surpris ingly human form from East Af rica. Oyen was the tall bearded man at the front of the room, the one with the khaki hunter’s jack et. “How are the acoustics?” he grinned. Vague negative replies floated up from the audience of at least three hundred. Reluctantly he hung the micro phone about his neck and said something about being strangled. Then he began his slow, deliber ate, and often technical discus sion. “1470” was found in a paleon- togically rich but extremely hos tile region near the Olduvai Gorge. Its significance is its cra nium size and shape. It is closely human in form with a brain cav ity much larger than those of its contemporaries. Its contemporaries are one point of confusion. Not only did less human primates exist at the time, but they also apparently ex isted in the same location. Oyen admitted it is a possibility that “1470” and the smaller, less hu man skull found nearby are of the same species. For instance: “Would you believe the difference between an African bushman jaw and—an Aggie jaw?” Oyen elaborated little on the meaning of “1470”s age. It could indicate that “man” was walking around earlier than previously thought. It could even mean that man’s ancestry is rooted ij| ferent way than ever imij Oyen said. Yet no one really knowij it means. There is a lot off work involved in man’s earlJ lution; there are too many) that are far too large, little room for defining roots when the definition oij itself is elusive. |*Coffee, Mil I Ass’t. Dry [•Chilled La J a Fried LHP |*Link Sana I. Blueberry ENT1IE ■•Seafimd PI I Fried WM [ Shrimp C- Still, Oyen feels relatively! fddent that, despice its j “1470” was “well on its d being human, I don’t care »i[ or she slept with.” Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes READ BATTALION CLASSIFIED ■ •Cream of ■•Grape, Str Ass’t. Dry 1. Scram! Hash I Hot Hi Pan Fi By TED BORISKIE Having been confined to a semi underground status in previous years 1973 proved to be Jerry Jeff Walker’s banner year as he became one of the leading figures in the new wave of country and western singer-songwriters. Before last year Walker’s chief claim to fame was his song, “Mr. Bojangles,” as popularized by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and David Bromberg although his own ver sion did get a minimal amount of airplay. Last year, with the help of a fine album and several appear ances at country music festivals, his small cult of fans blossomed into a sizeable following. With his latest album, “Viva Terlingua!” Walker tries to main tain his down-home image by having a poster of one of his concerts in a place called Lucken- bach, Texas displayed prominent ly on the cover. “Gettin’ By” kicks off the al bum and Walker uses an up-tem po, good timey country beat in getting the song’s easy living across. “Desperados Waiting for the Train” takes a sentimental look at an old man’s declining years all the way up to the death bed. Walker extolls the pleasures of endless drinking in “Sangria Wine.” Using a calypso-like beat and getting fine background vocals on the chorus from Gary Nunn and Robert Livingston, Walker sings of mixing wine with everything short of shoe polish and sitting around eating “notch- os (sic), burritos and tacos.” “Little Bird” is a pensive song and the oldest on the album, com ing from ’68, one of Walker’s leaner years. “Get it Out” is similar to “Get tin’ By” both in the title and in feeling. Again getting fine back ing vocals from Nunn and Liv ingston, Walker also benefits from stellar performances on vio lin (Mary Eagan) and pedal steel (Herb Steiner). In probably the most played song here, “Up Against the Wall, Red Neck,” Walker becomes the latest in a long list of “modern” country singers to take a poke at the old country-redneck image. Written by Ray Wiley Hubbard, this tune makes me wonder if they’ll ever leave Muskogee, Ok- la. alone again. Walker gets drunk again in “Backslider’s Wine,” this time Skyway Twin ^ o• ivf - in EAST SCREEN 3 Color Westerns No. 1 At 7:25 p. m. Paul Newman In “HOMBRE” (PG) No. 2 At 9:20 p. m. Ann Margaret In “STAGE COACH” (PG) No. 3 At 11:15 p. m. Bridgette Bardot In “SHALAKO” (R) A place happy to eat. The Tokyo Steak House is a place happy to eat. The menu is traditional, the atmosphere authentic, the service polite, the food terrific. In the Teppan Yaki (iron grill) room, your choice of steak, shrimp, or chicken (plus bean sprouts, onions, zucchini and mushrooms) are cooked right on your table. Chef Toshio is a master Japanese cooking ceremony which cooking an adventure and eating a delight. There are chopsticks for purists, forks for those with hardy appetites and fortune cookies for everyone. Come as you are —but come hungry and in the mood to have a relaxing, happy dinner. of the makes TOKYO STEAK HOUSE Townshire/Texas Avenue/Bryan for reservations call 822-1301 Chinese Feast (7 traditional dishes for 2.95) Tuesday-Thursday courtesy of Michael Murphy. Un like the earlier song, this is a more solemn, crying-in-his-beer type of country song that used to be called “white’s man’s blues.” Nunn takes over the lead vocals on the last song on the album, his own “London Homesick Blues.” Nunn’s voice is pleasant enough but lacks the quality of Walkers and the song stretches on for an excrutiating 7:45. Although billed as a live al bum, “Terlingua” sounds very studio-like with only one cut, “U. A. T. W, Red Neck,” having any semblance of live feeling. Walker is scheduled for a local concert, set to appear at Bryan Civic Auditorium, Feb. 8 at 8 p. H peat house 1 bill & Be [•Grape, St [♦1. Pineal Pan F Through February ENTK Drilled Cl 1 ea. i I ‘Spaghetti ON ALL BAR BRANDS The concert is sponsored by KTAM-radio the first attempt in years to bring nationally known performers to the area without us ing the Town Hall series. The producers of the recent lo cal Michael Murphy concert took a bath putting on the show, so I hope the same doesn’t happen again, discouraging further at tempts of this nature. Tickets are $4.50 in advance and $5.00 at the door, and can be bought at Budget Tapes and Rec ords, Heroes and Tip Top Records. *Bei‘f 4 It [ 'Pullman I'Grilled Cl Monday All Collins Tuesday All Vodka Drinks I T ■ Chili ami Wednesday All Scotch Drinks Thursday All Bourbon Drinks PVa.« TRY IT — WE HOPE YOU WILL LIKE IT! L’Tang, Co K*Ass , t. Dr I'(irape, St [*1. Jelly END IMHtta 4-C I "Veal Cur ft & \ K", (Rn SILVER DOLLAR [’Ham Ste i w Cr ! Sweet & [•' Sauct r’ Seeor , Hamburi Hot Dog ; Chili SALOON CPincapp! .'Ass’t. I) f’Oatnu'al ,'Grape Ji _ Pead |'l. 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