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Page 4 Paper Sun April 27, 1977 Final Election Results Bo*er ln Washington ■ FIRST PRIMARY- 3/24/77* Coordinator of SAB Donna Cornell ......................... 249 Jack Falvo .............................. 239 Jack Harris...............................158 Vice President of Administration John Butler ................................. 16 Lisa I p p o lito .................... 257 Chris Mooney ............................82 Roger Quay ............................ 125 Eric Rotzinger............................88 Dalton Vanterpool .................. 142 ♦First primary was declared invalid due to 40 ballots that w e r e i d e n t i c a l in p e n , handwriting and candidate selection. The possibility existed that secfrnd place in Vice President race was in error. SECOND PRIMARY— 3/29 Coordinator of SAB Donna Cornell . ......................... 190 Jack Falvo ...............................138 Jack Harris...............................122 Vice President of Administration John Butler.................................21 Lisa I p p o lito ............................ 149 Chris Mooney ........................... 72 Roger Quay .............................. 90 Eric Rotzinger ........................... 46 Dalton Vanderpool...................91 FINAL ELECTION— 4/14 President Dennis W oodgate .................... 189 Thomas Kershis ......................... 83 Vice President of Administration Lisa I p p o lito ............................ 205 Dalton Vanderpool .................... 86 Recording Secretary Roger Quay . ................................ 82 Chris Mooney ........................... 71 Coordinator of SAB Donna Cornell . . ...................... 183 Jack Falvo ............................... 103 Albany Internships SASU is accepting until April 23 a limited number of applications to SASU's Fall ’77 Albany Internship Program. SASU offers students the opportunity to work in lobbying, writing higher education news, or in advancing special projects. All interns work under a director to help them develop their skills and to acquire a better understanding of how the State government operates. Legislative interns meet regu larly with law makers and public officials and work to develop bills concerning student financial aid, voting rights, and other issues. Communication interns produce a News Service weekly and write press releases' concerning higher education which are distributed to SUNY campus papers. University Affairs interns can develop and research areas of their choice. Students arrange academic credit at their home campuses, are expected to work regular office hours, and will receive $250 stipends to defray moving ex penses. Contact SASU at 109 State Street, Albany, New York, 12207 or call 518-465-2407 and ask for Joel Packer, Stephan O'Sulli van, or Dianne Piche. Senior Senators Robert Gargan..........................198 William Ingram ....................... 182 Dora Sm ith ............... 171 Kate D o y le ...............................200 Gerald Anderson .................... 186 Eric Rotzinger* .................. 36 Jan Christopher* ...................... 35 ♦Rotzinger anjj Christopher were write in candidates for the sixth Senior Senator. Rotzinger won by a vote. SIDENOTES— The PAPERSUN applauds former President Joe Eberle’s decision to make the vote totals p u b l i c . Th is enables the candidates to know where they stand after the primary and what they need to do in order to win the election. It also gives forth trust ,in the entire student body by allowing to see the results. Previously, by withholding the vote totals and allowing one Senator and a few friends count th e b a l l o t s , and by just announcing the winners, students could feel alienated by the thought of the Senate being a self-serving secretive clique that might even be choosing whoever they wanted in office. By releasing the vote totals, this alleviates all doubt, and we hope future URSA Senates will follow the same policy. Also, there has been student grumbling about the high cost of the Spring Weekend. Last year, it was $7.00 a person, $13.00 a couple. This year, it is $13.00 a person, $25.00 a couple, nearly a 100% increase for the exact same thing. I spoke with Bill Foye, then the SAB Coordinator, and told him that some students were outraged and were thinking that “ SAB is holding back on our Student Activity money and that’s why it’s so expensive,” and “ they’re saving our money for the students of next semester.” Said Mr. Foye, “ Students who think that don’t know what the hell they’re talking about. We spend every penny of all the SAB money on the students before the ’ 76-’77 term runs out. We are obligated to this, and we do so. It’s just that we’ve spent so much more money and did so many things that we just don’t have as much money as we did last year.” Jim Allen March Of Dimes Young and old alike are urged to participate iri the March of Dimes Walkathon on Saturday, May 7th in Utica. The twenty mile trek will start at 9 a.m. at Mohawk Valley Community College in the “G” parking lot near the tennis courts. Those who don’t have enough sole power to hike the distance can help by sponsoring a walker. “The walkers will be walking for those who can’t,” says Benjamin L. Niles, Oneida-Mohawk Chapter Chairman. “More than 250,000 children are born in America each year with physical and mental damage.” For further information, contact the March of Dimes office at 733-6636. Sponsor registration forms are available at 414 Trenton Avenue or your local school office. Meets With National Student Lobbies by Susan Westling (SASU) - “Should we call you Commissioner Boyer now?\ “Just call me Ernie,” replied the new Commissioner of Education and former SUNY Chancellor to a student's question at a recent Washington meeting with repre sentatives from the National Student Lobby, whose five-day convention in Washington in cluded workshops, Congressional lobbying and the meeting with Commissioner \Ernie” Boyer. The 20 student representatives urged Boyer to place a student intern in the Office of Education. The intern would compile a directory of student governments across the country to coordinate communications between the Of fice of Education and students and act as liason for students with the Carter administration. Boyer was “attracted” to the idea, and said such an intern would be “beneficial.” Students requested the Office of Education to sponsor an annual conference to train student peer counselors and express grievances on new financial aid policies. Boyer called this a “superb” recommend ation. The representatives suggested that there be students input on the 1978 budget proposals for educa tion, which the Office of Education will begin preparing in a few weeks. “I see no reason why a meeting (with students) can’t be set up at a strategic time,” Boyer said. NSL Legislative Director David Rosen felt that the hour-long Boyer meeting was the most productive meeting with Educa tion personnel that he had ever seen. Students discussed with Boyer their main lobbying issue, full funding for an $1800 ceiling on Basic Educational Opportunity Grants. Carter proposes a $1400 ceiling on the grant program, while Boyer supports the students’ suggestion. “1800 or fight” was seen on students T-shirts as the slogan for the lobbying sessions with Con gress referring to the BEOG ceiling. New York students met with staffers from Senator Javits and Moynihan and Congressmen Rangel and Solarz offices and the Director of the Senate Sub-com mittee on Education. Manhattan Democrat Charles Rangel said he supports full financial aid funding, especially to subsidize New York residents whose state financial aid programs were recently cut. Rangel added that he felt Congress was for student aid, but full funding was being held up by Carter. He encourages students to write to the president urging his support. The convention was highlighted by elections for the NSL Board of Directors, where SASU Executive Vice-President Dianne Piche was elected to the Board and Joe Sweeney from Montgomery Coun ty Community College in Philadel phia was made Chairman of NSL. — Soul Music — (Continued from page 1) Indeed, according to Shirley Graham DuBois, “It was from this African-Arabian influence in Spain and Southern France that music and art in Europe took on new life - or better still, that the Renaissance was born.” Additional support for this can be found in Gustave Reese s book “Music in Renaissance.” In it he mentions the presence of blacks in Europe around 1851 and that the modern English dance originated from the Moresca, a word found in the dialogue of Blacks who were enslaved there. , , . It is also true that Leonin, a French musician of the Middle Ages, consulted the De Musica of St. Augustine, an African Catholic Father, before beginning the so-called “invention of the rhythmic modes, from which western music is said to have originated. It is important that we get away from the traditional idea or concept, that African music was cut off from the outside world for centuries, and that it existed in a state of limbo until the Colonial Era, when it was raped by outside forces from which it has never recovered. To the contrary, Africa has always been in contact with other parts of the world. Fact number one, African empires existed in the second century starting with the empires of Ghana and extending through the Mali and Songhai empires. All three were either near to or encompassed Timbuktu, the first stop south of the Sahara on the trade routes to West Africa from the Mediterranean. The city reached its Zenith towards the end of this period, and all along it was a center of learning and trade throughout Europe's Dark Ages. Fact number two, many western instruments which operate on the same fundamental principle as do the African instruments, and if we would consider the long traditions of these African instruments, they might well be the ancestors, the archetypes of European instruments. The European piano can be conceptualized as an elaborate mechanized version of the African Sansa, thumb piano, made from metal strips and fastened to a hollow piece of wood, or in some cases a gourd resonator. The strips are of gradulated length so that the desired pitches and scales may be obtained. Interestingly enough, the Western Brass family is no more than the African horns which were developed from the horns of various animals. It is important to make note of these various African instruments, because of the,overwhelming mis-conception that all African music dominated by the drum and therefore, said to be solely rhythmical. Such falsities derive basically from western bias towards melody and African music has a quality of being much more functional than that music o f Europeans. I realize that up to a point, all music anywhere has a function, be it to make work better, please the Gods, or for just plain pleasure, however, there can be no doubt as to' the fact that African music was much more closely related to daily living than that of European music. There is an immense amount of music for the little things in African life, as well as those with a special purpose. For instance, all continents have lullabies for putting little babies to sleep, but in the Fon and Dohomey tribes, there is a special song children learn to sing when they loose their first tooth. The Akan and Ghana have a derision aimed at habitual bed wetters and a song sung at a special ritual designed to cure Enuresis. Such examples of the social use of African music are endless and it’s safe to assume that one could go on and on, page after page writing them down. However, there are other areas I must touch on before concluding this piece. Sometimes I ask myself was there a much closer connection between music and every aspect of life which goes much deeper than the existence of song for special purposes? Francis Bebey, the camerovian writer points out that groups like the Dovaia have no indigenous word for music. They have words for musical forms like a song or tune, but tjie idea of “music\ itself has never been abstracted from which it belongs. The musical art is so much a part of man himself that he has seen no purpose in giving it a separate name. Consequently, Africans are beginning to feel that they should make no distinction, for instance, between music and dance. They should above all, avoid the European habit of speaking as if one accompanied the other and separating the two. For Africans, the sound of music is only one element in a total experience which includes the sight of costume, the sensation of dance, and so on. J.K. Nketia, of Ghana, points out that “music making is and always will be an activity with a dramatic orientation, performance, attitude, bold movement, costume, and audience response, all these binded together.” African music was also closely involved in religious practice. Music, on the other hand, was not essential to European Christian, rituals, no matter how much it might have added to their’ impessiveness. For Africans however, their ceremonies simply could not take place without the appropriate music. It should be quite clear by now that European and African music are not totally alien to each other, and that African music did have (to a large extent) certain influences on the European form of music, which can not be discredited no matter how calculated the efforts to do so. Today, the two forms are far closer together than either is to Chinese or Indian music. The similarities as well as the differences will be important ones in the outcome of what occurs when African and European collide in the new world. This piece only gave a few examples o ft he influences and differences between two cultures. The true influences that Africa has had upon Europe is still a long way from properly researched. However, new judgments must be made while constantly looking beyond the Greeks, remembering that those same Greeks had an expression, “Always something new out of Africa.\ T
