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Tenure requirements frustrate teachers

By CHRIS BLAIR
Kernel Reporter

This year, at least six colleges at
UK will consider promotions of 25
faculty members. Howeva', the
system used by the University to
approve or deny promotions is
drawing fire in several quarters.

Assistant professors at UK are
finding it increasingly difficult to
fulfill a University requirement on
research piblication and still spend
an adequate amount of time with
students in and out of the classroom.

For some assistant professors,
evaluation of their performance
means promotion to a tenured
position. Being a tenured professor
provides one with relative job
security until age 65.

Volume LXIX, Number 92
Monday, February 6, I978

Howevu', faculty members who
are den bd tenure will be looking for
jobs elsewhere, some outside the
acadanic realm.

The process of professor
evaluation starts when the in-
structor first becomes a UK faculty
member. Although a large majority
enter as instructors and assistant
professors, a few senior professors
are hired withait tenure upon entry.

As stated in the Governing
Regulations and Administrative
Regulations, “non-tenure ap-
pointments may be for one year or
for other stated periods, but the total
non-tenure period shall not exceed
seven years.

“An instructor cannot remain at
the University after a period of three
years if after that period, promotion

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to a higher rank cannot be
justified."

The regulations also 'state that
assistant professors can remain at
UK no longer than six years without
tenure consideration, and must be
notified of tenure acceptance or
denial one year before their ap-
pointment expires.

Non-tenured faculty can waiver
consideration for tenure, at which
point they must sign a terminal
contract. At the end of that contract,
the employee must leave the
Unive‘sity.

Such is the case with English
professor Tay Fizdale.

“I decided not to put myself up for
tenure," said Fizdale. “I only have
two articles published. Giver the
substantial emphasis on publication,

1 did not think I would get terure.”

Fizdale gave up plans to seek
tenure after the hiring d a senior
professor, Dr. John Demaray, in his
field of English, Renaissance.

Hiring a sen'nr faculty member
during a period of low enrollment,
said Fizdale, meant assistant
professors like himself had little
chance of winniig tenure.

“When he was hired,” said Fiz-
dale, “I knew my academic career
was over.” Fizdale plans to seek
employment in business when he
leaves the University next year.

“The English department and
senior professors take the view very
seriously that UK is primarily a
research institution," said Fizdale.
Since last spring, he said, eight
professors have left the English

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Lexington, Kentucky

 

 

Fly like an eagle (kinda)

Office Tower. Mike attends Morton Junior High
13, takes flight while sledding on the snow-covered School. Lexington. There is only a slight chance of

He may not be soaring with eagles, but Mike Bellamy,

ground of the Botanical Gardens below Patterson

getting additional white ground cover today.

Jeanne Wehnes

 

 

Split personality
UK rebounds 88-61
‘ from first half lapse

By DAVID HIBBITTS
Sports Editor

The 88-61 crunching of the
University of Florida basketball
team Saturday night was achieved
by a Kentucky team possessing a
split personality.

In the first half, the Gators
achieved a 36-36 tie by driving the
baseline and following their missed
shots. Florida had a 22-12 reboun-
ding advantage at halftime.

But thanks to the phenomenal
shooting, quick hands on defense
and alertnes of guard Kyle Macy,
Kentucky was able to stay ever with
the Floridians.

In that brilliant first half, Macy
scored 18 points on seven field goals
in eight attempts and four straight
points from the free throw line.

“I would say it was one of my
better games," Macy understated.
“I've scored more, but overall it was
my best game. I‘ve never played
better defense.

“I would say that‘s the most steals
(nine) I’ve had. I felt good tonight. I
thought getting the steals and get-
ting the ball down on the break were
important."

In the second half, Macy “cooled
off," scoring 12 more points for his
season’s game high of 30. He was 11
of 13 from the field (one attempt
more than the school‘s individinl
record of 11-12) and eight of eight on
free throws.

That was when the inside trio of
center Mike Phillips, subsitute
forward LaVon Williams and sixth
man James Lee started their
made on the backboards. Between
them, they grabbed 21 rebounds and
started the fast break, wearing out
the previously tough “Gator hide.“

“In the second half, we crashed
the boards, especially Phillips, and
went to the break,” Kentucky coach
Joe Hall said. “None of us felt good
about the first half. We weren‘t
sharp defensively and we weren‘t
getting any support or help on
defense for good pressure.

“We’ve only shown this during the
last three or four games (playing
badly due to letdowns)."

However, the ability of the
Wildcats to respond to their lapses,
as they did in the second half, kept
the Gators from keeping pace.
Besides, who can keep pace with UK
forward James Lee when he builds
up a full head of steam?

In addition to h’s second half
board work and 14 points, Lee
rocked the goal two more times with
his demolishing left-handed stuff
shot.

accolades to the growing list con-
cerning Lee‘s talents. “James Lee is
my number one draft choice for the
pros,“ Lotz said. "He is a great
competitor."

Another UK player emerged to
make a major difference on the
boards. Williams collected five
rebounds and two blocked shots
while playing excellent defeise to
force Florida into several of their 30
turnovers for the game.

“At halftime, coach Hall told us
we were not hitting the boards,"
Williams said. “Maybe it‘s (UK‘s
lapses on the boards) just a mental
problem.“

“The big difference was the first
five minutes of the second half
(when Kentucky blew out to a 49-38
lead)," UK forward Rick Robey
explained. “That shows the strength
of our bench.

Florida coach John Lotz added his

David O'Neil

l'K forward James Lee drives underneath Florida forward Reggie
llannah for two of his 1-1 points in an 88-61 win over the Gators. Lee.
center Mike Phillips (55) and forward LaVon Williams (52)
awakened the Wildcats on the hackboards and fast break as Ken-
tiickv broke out of a 36-216 halftime deadlock.

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DARK, PICTURE.

department, including four who
were fired.

The criteria for tenure evaluation
is based on community service,
university service, research and
publication, and teaching. Senate
Council Chairman Paul Oberst said
although emphasis on each area
varies, publication is “78 percent" of
the evaluation in most departments.

Professors keep a file of research
and other accomplishments which is
sent to the chairman of the college,
along with written recom-
mendations from tenured depart-
ment faculty members and scholars
outside the University.

The chairman sends this material,
along with his recommendation, to
the dean of the college. The dean
then sends the data and his
recommendation to Vice President
of Academic Affairs, Lewis
Cochran.

Cochran sends this data to the

dean of graduate studies, the dean of _

undergraduate studies, and the
Affairs Committee (appointed by
President Singletary for faculty
review). The committees review the
material, add their recom-
mendations, and return the material
to Cochran.

He subsequently makes his own
recommendation to Singletary, who
in turn makes a recommendation
and passes all information to the
Board of Trustees. The board makes
the final decision to grant or deny
tenure.

“A jungle,” is how Fizdale
describes the system, but adth, “I
didn’t feel screwed by the Univer.
sity. I knew what the rules were, and
I admit that I didn’t meet the
requirements. The rules are crazy,
but they are the rules.”

Fizdale expressed irony in that he
won the Student Government
Teach‘ng Award last spring and
signed his terminal contract in the
fall of that same year. ”Excellance
of faculty is primarily determined
by the quantity and quality of
scholarly publication," he said.

In cases where professors feel
they have been improperly
evaluated, an appeal to the Privilege
and Tenure Committee (PTC) is
possible. The committee reviews
cases and can ask Singletary to
reconsider or maintain the original
decision.

Oberst said university politics
could play a role in professor
evaluation because, “peOpIe’s
evaluations are colored by what they
think is important. . . not everyone
will be pleased."

“Unfortunately they (faculty and
tenure committees) must make

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KYLE MACY KEPT the Wildcats

alive Saturday night. See how on
page 5.

state

BARGE TRAFFIC ON the Ohio
River is scheduled to resume today
after the Army Corps of Engineers
reported substantial progress
Sunday in clearing the ice jam above
Markland Dam.

“If the channel is cleared, traffic
can resume; but it will be several
days before we return to a normal
pace," said Chuck Schumann, the
corps' spokesman.

Ten barges were jammed against
the dam and over 70 barge tows are
waiting to resume travel when the
channd is reopened.

STATE REPUBLICAN PARTY
leaders met during the weekend and
showed that the Kentucky GOP is
far from dead.

Former Gov. Louis Nunn made
the most noteworthy speech of the
meeting, attacking Gov. Carroll‘s
administration. The meeting also
yielded hints about who next year‘s
GOP candidate for governor will be.

Larry I-‘orgy, of Louisville. is
considered a prime gubernatorial
prospect if the GOP opts for a fresh
face. while Nunn is considered the
frontrunner if the party goes for a
political warehouse.

nafion

.\N ASSOCIATED PRESS survey
shows that 3| US. senators are
either opposed to the Panama Canal
treaty or are leaning against it. if 34
senators vote against the treaty.
ratification will be blocked.

The pact would gradually turn the
international waterway over to
Panama until that country is given
full control in the year 2000. Senate
Ma'prity Leader Robert Byrd (D-
w Va.) and Senate Minority Leader
Howard Baker tR-Tenn.) both
support the treaty but are asking
senators to support two amend-
ments to it The amendments would
guarantee the US the right of

 

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judgments which could be biased."
said George Mitchell, PTC chair-
man.

Mitchell said a faculty member
appealed a decision of non-tenure
last year because she felt the
decision was of a prejudicial nature.
“The grievance was presented as
improper evaluation of creden-
tials." After review of the submitted
data, the PTC made a recom-
mendation that she be promoted.
The female faculty member, whose
name was withheld, was promoted
to associate professor with tenure.

Last year, 26 tenure promotions
were corsidered in four colleges. Of
these, 17 were granted. Eight of the
nine denials were in the College of
Arts and Science. The ninth, in the
College of Library Sciences, “went
up for promotion,” said a secretary
in the office of the college's dwn,
”but was discouraged by the faculty
and left the University."

Anaher assistant professor who
was denied promotion last year,
James H. Fetzer, appealed to the
Hearing Committee. The committee
hears grievances when “a' staff
member establishes a prima facie
case (adequate to establish a fact) to
the satisfaction of the committee
that a consideration violative of
academic freedom significantly
contributed to his non-I
reappointment."

Fetzer, a former UK philosophy
professor, made the complaint on
the grounds his academic freedom
had been denied. Faculty
Representative Kenneth Germain,
who defended Fetzer before the
committee, said Fetzer was widely
known. He had received the Student
Government Teaching Award two
years ago and, according to Ger—
main, “could be loud and forceful.
The university doesn‘t want people
who make waves.”

Germain said, “I believe Fetzer
was treated unfairly." He gave the
offical reason for Fetzer‘s
promotion denial as “weak
publication," however Germain
again referred to Fetzer as “widely
known" not only by students, but by
scholars outside the university who
wrote letters of recommendation
concerning Fetzer’s “many
publications."

Cochran said “the committee was
making a quality judgement," not a
quantity judgement, and said it is
“hard to identify a prejudiced
evaluation.”

Fetzer lost his appeal in a split
decision and is now teaching at a
Virginia university.

Continued on back page

priority access to the canal and the
right to defend the waterway
militarily after the turn of the
century.

AMERICANS DON'T THINK very
highly of the business community,
the news media or the federal
bureaucracy, according to a survey
sponsored by the US. News and
World Report.

All 25 areas of the public sector
identified in the poll, including
professionals, labor and education,
scored less than 50 percent when
respondents were asked about their
ability and integrity.

While most persons surveyed
opposed excessive government
regulation of business, 68 percent
said government regulation is
needed to guarantee safe working
conditions.

Labor leaders rcg‘stered only a
five percent approval rating on
integrity. barely eclipsing the marks
given politicians and the federal
bureaucracy

world

.\Il‘NI('I|'.\I. ELECTIONS IN the
troubled (‘cntral American nation of
Nicaragua began Sunday. with
indications that many voters were
boycotting the voting to push
demands for l'resrdi‘nt Anastasro
Somoza's resgination.

The only group which can legally
oppose Somoza. the (‘onservative
Party. said 52 of its l32 candidates
had withdrawn m an anliSomora
protest.

The country has been paralyzed
for two weeks by a nationwide anti
government Sirlkt‘. which has been
marked by demonstrations and
)larxrst guerilla attacks The strike
occurred after the Jan to
assassrnation of newspaper
publisher l’cdro ('hamorro. \Ahn
opposed Somoza‘s regime

weather

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T()I).\Y with light snow flurries and
a high around 15 degrees
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Proposals are shortsighted .

Bills don’t address rural medical needs

The Kentucky legislature is looking very
closely at state medical schools these (lays, and
what some lawmakers are seeing is a chance to
“correct” the distribution of doctors in Ken-
tucky.

That a problem exists is clear to all. After
graduation, medical students begin their careers
in places where they will be most profitable.
Those places are urban areas, often in other
states. As a result, rural areas do not have
enough doctors to meet medical needs.

Some legislators argue that doctors don’t
practice in rural locations because most are
from cities and have no wish to practice in rural
areas. Urban schools can offer a more
specialized curriculum and give better
preparation for medical school, they say.

“Rural students just don’t have a fair chance,”
said Rep. Clayton Little, D-Hartley. “They don’t
have the varied curriculum necessary to train
their minds for the entrance examinations.”

To correct this situation, Little and other
legislators, notably Rep. Bill Weinburg, D-
Hindman and Sen. Tom Easterly, D-Frankfort,
have proposed bills that would keep doctors in
the state through strict quotas and fear of
massive personal debts.

The two most importantbills are House Bill 118
and Senate Bill 54.

HB 118, sponsored by Little, would require the

UK and University of Louisville medical schols
to reserve 10 percent of their positions each year
for each of Kentucky’s seven congressional
districts.

SB 54, sponsored by Easterly, would require
every medical student who is a Kentucky
resident to sign an agreement to practice one
year in Kentucky for evey year of schooling as a
condition for admission.

If the studeit did not sign the agreement or did
not remain in the state, he would be required to
pay back to the state the cost of his education,
estimated at about $15,000 per year.

serve the true spread of potential or talent of
students interested in going to medical school.

Population differences and the number of
qualified students vary among congressional
districts. A fixed number of 10 positions would
mean that some students would obtain positions
while other, more qualified students, would be
unable to get into medical school. It is also im~
portant to remember that students do not go
directly from high school to medical school.
There are four years of undergraduate training
when students from rural schools can make up
for lee-varied high school curriculums.

 

'Neither bill offers

foolproof solution’

 

It should be emphasized, though, that neither
of these bills offers a foolproof way to bring
doctors to rural areas.

Under both bills, there is no provision that
would require doctors to practice in rural areas.
Not all of the urban areas are outside the state,
and doctors would still be likely to settle in
Louisville or Lexington.

Little’s bill is based on the strict enforcement
of arbitrary quotas, quotas that will probably not

There is little chance that Easterly’s bill an
escape from committee, and potential medical
students should find that an immense relief.

If the bill passed, they would graduate from
medical school into indentured servitude;
required to practice one year in Kentucky for
evey year they attended medical school in the
state. Should they practice elsewhere before the
time limit expires, they would be legally
responsible for their education’s cost.

Easterly’s bill is morally repugnant and

deserves to be quelled. Similar bills have even
been found uncomtitutional in other states. Even
worse is the likelihood that the best medical
students would be driven to other states that
don’t use such draconian restrictions. Kentucky
might keep a few more doctors, but it would lose
the best ones.

The central question is how much the
educational process should be used to correct
something that is not its fault. In these two
remedies now before the legislature, the
corrections are shirtsighted and unfair.

A better way to increase the number of doctors
practicing in rural Kentucky would be to start
solving the problem at lower levels, where it first
begins. Grade school educational programs in
the state should be upgraded, perhaps with
special funding for programs aimed specifically
at raising rural interest in medical careers.

Many small communities in the Midwest have
found success with voluntary sponsorship of
medical students. In return for pledging a fixed
amount of years of service after graduation, a
town will pay the cost of a student’s education.
Kentucky communites could begin to use similar
steps to plan for answering their medical needs.

These and other alternatives to find more
doctors for rural areas should be explored before
the drastic measures now being discussed by the
legislature are implemented.

 

Schools should be for learning,
not for mandatory attendance

By ROGER SIPHER

CORTLAND, N.Y. — A decline in
standardized test scores is but the

most recergindlcatorthme'rican 7,, .....

education is introubie.‘ .~ ..

One reamn‘for‘lhe‘é'n'sis 'is ”that"

present mandatory-attendence laws
force many to attend school who
have no wish to be there. Such
children have little desire to learn
and are so antagonistic to school
that neither they nor more highly
motivated students receive the
quality education that is the bir-
thright of evey American.

The solution to this problem is
simple: Abolish compulsory-
attendance laws and allow only
those who are committed to getting
an education to attend

This will not end public education.
Contrary to conventional belief,
legislators enacted compulsory-
attendance laws to legalize what
already existed. William Landes and
Lewis Solomon, economists, fould
little evidence that mandatory-
attendence laws increased the
number of chfldren in school. They
found too, that school systems have
never effectively enforced such
laws, usually became of the expense
involved.

There is no contradiction between
the assertion that compulsory at-
tendance has had little effect on the
number of children attending school
and the argument that repeal would
be a positive step toward improving
education. Most parents want a high
school education for their children.
Unfortunately, compulsory at-
tendance hampers the ability of
pimlic school officials to enforce
legitimate educational and
disciplinary policies and thereby
make the education a good one

Private schools have no such
problem. They can fail or dismiss
students. knowing such students can
attend public school. Without
compulsory attendance, public
schools would be freer to oust
students whose academic or per-
sonal behavior undermines the
educational mission of the in-
stitution.

Has not the noble experiment of a
formal education failed? While we
pay homage to the homily. “You can
lead a horse to water but you can‘t
make him drink." we have
pretended it is not true in education.

Ask high school teachers it
recalcitrant students learn anything
of value. Ask techers if these
students do any homework. Ask if
the threat of low grades motivates
them. Quite the contrary, these
students know they will be passed
from grade to grade until they are
old enough to quit or un til. as is more
likely. they receive a high school
diploma, At the pomt when studeits

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could legally quit, most choose to
remain since they know they are
likey to be allowed to graduate
whether they do acceptable work or
not.

Abolition of archaic attendance
laws would produce enormous
dividends

First, it would alert everyone that
school is a serious place where one
goes to learn. Schools are neither
day-care centers nor indoor street
comes. Young people who resist
learning should stay away; indeed,
an end to compulsory schooling
would require them to stay away.

Second. students opposed to
learning would not be able to pollute
the educational atmosphere for
those who want to learn. Tachers
could stop policing recalcitrant
students and start educating.

Third. grades would show what
they are suposed to. how well a
student lS learning. Parents could
again read report cards and know if
their children were making
progress.

Fourth. public esteem for schools
would increase. People would stop
regarding them as nay stations for
adolescents and start thinking of
them as institutions for educating
America's youth,

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Sculptures by Judith Jamaal

Fifth, elementary schools would
change became students would find
out early that they had better learn
something or risk flunking out later.
Elementary teachers would no
longe have to pms their failures on
to junior and high school.

Sixth, the cost of enforcing
compulsory education would be
eliminated. Despite enforcment
efforts, nearly 15 percent of the
school-age children in our largest
cities are almost permanently ab-
sent from school.

Communities could use these
savings to support inditutions to
deal with young perple not in school.
if. in the long run, these institutions

prove more costly, at least we would .

not con fuse their mission with that of
schools.

Schools should be for edmation. At
present, they are only tangentially
so. They have attempted to serve an
allenmmpssing social function,
trying to be all things to all purple.
in the process they have failed
miserably at what they were
orig'nally formed to accomplish.

Roger Siphcr is associate professor
of history at the State University of
New York. at Cortland.

As a freshman [was taught by
this professor who told a huge
class of rookies not to be angry
that the University had giver
them numbers and taken away
their names.

 

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“That’s your number, your
very own number,” he told us.
“Be proud of that.”

He was making fun of the im-
portance of machines, playing
down the paranoia many have
about the power the University
gives them.

I must admit that l sym-
pathized with the Univesity. I
know if I were running a joint this
big, I’d want to use computers
instead of nearsighted clerks with
long noses and big teeth.

But times change. These
stinking machines have gotten to
me.
You can’t ever buy a Macke
meal without being ripped off
every third time. It’s inevitable.
No one is exempt. The money
drops, the bucket of bolts buzzes
and your item stays put, safe and
snug in its little plastic womb.

Theonly recourse you have is to
hang around the machine for
three days until the Macke person
comes to restock it. Then you can
go up and demand your money
back. I‘ve made it a habit now to
sidle up to any Macke person i see

 

and ask for a quarter back. i’ve
paid tuition for three semesters
this way.

But that's a common problem.
What really set me off against
those machines in general was a
story i heard coming out of
Murray State University:

A woman who had majored in
education was preparing to take
the National Teacher‘s Exam in
hopes of receiving her teaching
certificate. Her name is not
important. But in keeping with
the spirit of this tale, let's call her
Number Seven

0n the day of the exam,
Number Seven rolled out of bed
feeling like a bag of melted
caramels. She later found that the
cause of her malady was an inner
ear infection. Dizziness,
headaches and nausea ac-
companied her to the testing
classroom.

It was all she could do to
complete the test and her scores
reflected as much. The numbers,
which informally classify testees
as genius, near-genius, marginal
studeit and moron, had her
pegged as a vegetable.

But like most standardized
tests, it was available to be taken
again, and Number Sever gave it
another shot. Healthy th's time,
she did very well.

But came a letter from the
company. the Educational
Testing Service, mired
somewhere in the swamps of New
Jersey. It said something to the
effect of, “Dear Person: Our
computer has electronically
decided that there is no way a

The automated campus

Both candy bars and test results
are in peril when computers take over

' vegetable such as yourself could
possibly have done so well on the
second attempt at our wonderful
test. You must have cheated.
Therefore, we refuse to accept
your scores on the National
Teachers Exam. Try plumbing."

it loses something in the
translation, but you get the idea.

So hee’s this hulking mass of
circuits and plastics, sitting in a
God-forsaken place such as New
Jersey, telling a woman a
thousand miles away that she has
magically been nailed dieating.

The exam proctor signed a
statement to the effect that the
students in the classroom were so
sparse that the space between
them prohibited any cheating.
Number Sever tried to explain
that she had been ill. Nothing
helped.

Number Seven enlisted the aid
of an attorney but then decided
not to litigate. A panel of ad-
ministrators at Murray will
decide her fate.

My sympathy has shifted—
from the harried University,
swamped with thousands of
glassy-eyed, knowledgeseeking
numbers, to a woman who has
possibly had her future stolen by
a push-button bandit in New
Jersey.

Suddenly, a nearsighted clerk
with a long nose and big teeth
doesn‘t look so bad.

Dick Gabriel is the Kernel
Managing Editor and his column
appears every other week.

 

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Gale and Craft excel

despite rude crowd

By WALTER TUNIS
Arte Ir Entertainment Editor

Friday began as a typical
UK concert.

Tire Student Center Board
brought two more great
talents to the SC Ballroom,
the 'hrlsa bluesrnan J .J. Cale
and the lesser known Paul
Craft. .

Unfortunately, it was also
typical in that the crowd was
unnecessarily rude to both
Cale and Craft throughout the
even'rrg.

No sooner was Craft in-
troduced to the audience,
when the loud insults came
rushing forth from several
impatient, drunken members
of the audience. It was very
much to Craft‘s credit, that
he was able to patiently wade
the rudeness some of the
audience showed to him.

Craft, who accompanied
himself on acoustic guitar,
breezed through his forty-
minute opening set, with a
smirky grin on his face.
Realizing the troubles with
the audience, the singer
handled himself extremely
well.

Things would have gotten
worse, if Craft’s set not been
such a hit with the audience.
His music was a collection of
ballads, tangy country-guitar
instrumentals, humorous
dialogues, and a lot of honest,
implied vulgarity.

Craft’s best known con-
tribution to the music world
has been “Midnight Flyer,” a
song made popular several
years ago by the Eagles and
seveal other country and
Western artists.

By the time Craft had
concluded his set, the
audience had given him polite
aprialse.

Following a shirt break,

Cale and his four piece
backing band came on with l

“Travelin’ Light.” Cale
immediately assumed a low-
key stage appearance.
Dressed in work clothes, he
was obviously taking his
music very seriously.

Cale’s band was very clean,
playing a comfortable
electric rock-blues format.
Cale’s guitarwork formed the
backbone of the music, as he

Through the course of the
evening, Cale played the
material that was made
popular by other artists, like
“Magnolia” and “They Call
Me the Breeze," as well as
several of his own favorites
like “Ride Me High,” “Hold
On,” and “Nowhere to Run.”

Cale favored his rock
material through the concert.
He even performed fuller
arranganents of his older
work. But he still came back
to h's blues foundation on
songs like his classic “Call
the Doctor” from his first
album, Naturally.

The concert’s finest
moments came during
“Cocaine.” The 1976 ballad
from the Troubadour album,
has been also recorded
recently by Eric Clapton and
for all the punch that Clap-

ton’s version gives to the
song, it couldn't touch the
way Cale and be hand per-
formed it live.

Following “Cocaine," Cale
introduced vocalist-guitarist
Chris Lakeland, who led the
hand through two infectious
blues numbers. Although she
only joined the Cale entourage
only a few weeks ago,

Lakeland‘s singing and
playing were very
professional.

During her numbers the
other members of the band
were featured, with Cale
playing only a supporting
role. Guitarist Bob Boatman
adlbd several fine, quick
solos, while bassist Nick
Rather and drummer Jim
Korstein formed a tight,
durable rhythm section.

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excellent hour and a half of his music to a sold out
crowd Friday at the Student Center Ballroom.

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