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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,”
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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.
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‘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.
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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
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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
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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
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Walker gets drunk again in
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