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May 7, 1953 OHIO WESLEYAN TRANSCRIPT Page 23
Jazz Men Desire
'Cleaner Scene
Ey Vick French
Back in the early '40's in
some of the down-and-o- ut
spots on New York's 52nd
Street, a stellar jazz group led
by the inimitable Dizzy Gillespie
used to expound on a
tune called "The Scene is
Clean."
Perhaps it's just as well
that that particular tune has
been subsequently relegated to
oblivion, but Gillespie and
Co. in so naming the song unwittingly
provided us with a
basis for a significant sociological
comparison.
For Dizzy and others of his
ilk there existed a "clean
scene" in translation a
vailing atmosphere receptive
to jazz forms. It was not only
that people listened to jazz;
they were interested enough
to discriminate between good
and bad jazz.
Not A Jazz Workshop
Granted OWU is 15 years
and 1,000 miles away from the
New Faculty Officers
Chosen By Sigma Xi
Election of officers for Sigma
Xi, national professional
science fraternity, was held
Apr. 25.
William Stull, professor of
zoology, was elected president;
Ronald Greene, professor
of psychology, vice president;
George Crowl, professor
of geology, secretary, and
Leonard Russell, professor of
physics, treasurer.
old 52nd Street era and is
rightly not a jazz workshop.
But recent talks with jazzmen
(there are a few) on this campus
lead us to propose that
the "scene" is definitely "not
ciean."
Barry Ulanov, respected author
of numerous treatises on
jazz in America, and others of
like stature, claim that jazz
has come into its own as a
legitimate art form in fact,
the only truly indigenous art
form.
But respect for this art form
: here,, if we are to believe our
local jazz representatives,
comes only from within the
small group of musicians
themselves.
Bolster Olhers, Too
Indeed, we have discovered
that the condition is such now
that, in order to have any discriminatory
support at all, musicians
representing the traditionally
opposed schools of
Dixieland and progressive have
not only to bolster their own
idiom but the other as well.
By contemporary standards,
we do possess a few outstanding
jazz groups on this campus.
But they are operating
in a vacuum. Sure, they say,
people listen to them but
without understanding or discrimination.
All that jazz musicians here
would desire is a perceptive
public a sincerely appreciative
audience or, to resort
to the vernacular a "cleaner
scene."
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BEST NEWS PHOTO The above photo, taken by Transcript photographer Wendell
Waltz at one of last fall's frosh-sop- h dink riots, was awarded first prize in the news division
at the annual Ohio College Newspaper Association awards banquet held in Springfield,
O., last Apr. 26. The Transcript was ranked third in overall standings by OCNA.
Accidents By Speed
Driving errors account for
the vast majority of traffic
accidents, with excessive
speeding being the greatest
single factor. A total of 12,-20- 0
died and 837,000 were injured
in speeding accidents
alone in 1957.
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Youths Cause Deaths .
More than 26 per cent of
the drivers in fatal crashes in
1957 were uncfer 25 years of
age. On the other hand, 96.6
per cent of the fatal accident
drivers had over one year's
driving evperience.
Education Fraternity
Initiates 16 Pledges
Kappa Delta Pi, education
honorary, initiated 16 pledges
Apr. 29. New Kappa Delta
Pi members are Portia
Brow-nel- l,
Don Butman, Sandy
Chisholm, Mary Creaser, Marilyn
Dixon, Bonnie Glass, Jack
Hammitt, Joan Leighton and
Carole McMillen.
Denise Mears, June Miller,
Patsy Nittskoff, Marlyn Seaman,
Sue Shidaker, Terry
Simone and Judy Tinlin were
also initiated.
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'58 Alumni Fund
Up 17 Per Cent
The 1958 Alumni Fund has
already grown to more than
$35,000 as of May 1, representing
a 17 per cent increase over
last year, according to Chairman
Howard Strauch.
"If the fund continues to
show similar progress,"
Strauch said, "I have every
confidence that the $180,000
goal will be reached."
The annual Cleveland area
campaign just completed shows
a 50 per cent increase over
last year. Similar projects are
under way in other areas.