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Letters To The Editor

Concert Congratulations

WUVA and the Student Council
must be congratulated on bringing
John Mayall and Lighthouse to
University Hall this Friday night.
Not only will IFC Weekend have a
first-class concert, but Virginia will
have a chance to see and hear, in
Mayall, one of the truly great forces
in contemporary music. He was
playing the blues years before the
current blues revival. His influence
on progressive hard rock has been
felt in the work of his former
sidemen Eric Clapton and Jack
Bruce; former Mayall guitarist Mick
Taylor is now with the Rolling
Stones.

As a performer, Mayall does
everything: sings, plays several
types of guitar, harmonica, and
keyboard. His sideman for this
concert, Duster Bennett, is a
similarly eclectic talent.

Lighthouse is the Canadian
rock-jazz ensemble that played to
20,000 in Toronto before beginning
their American tour. Skip Prokop,
their organizer, was the percussionist
on Super Session album with
Al Kooper and Mike Bloomfield.
Their brass, string, and electric
mixture are reminiscent of Blood,
Sweat, and Tears, but with more
vocal and instrumental virtuosity.

With the calibre of talent being
presented, and with the proceeds
benefiting the Churchill Jordan
Scholarship Fund and minority
recruitment, the John Mayall-Lighthouse
concert deserves to be a
success. Again, congratulations to
the Student Council and WUVA.

I was mad when they told me
Led Zepplin wasn't going to be here
IFC weekend until I found out
John Mayall was coming.

Now that student activists in all
parts of the country are turning
their attention to the war on
pollution surely it will not be long
before such a campaign reaches
Charlottesville. When it does I hope
the first point of attack will be the
entire lengths of Chancellor Street
and Madison Lane and Rugby Road
from University Avenue to Edgewood
Lane with particular attention
paid to the property of
fraternity houses and vacant lots on
Rugby Road.

While it is undoubtedly true that
the litter and debris was
manufactured by The Establishment
every piece of it was
deposited by young gentlemen
from the University. May they not
prove their sincerity in the antipollution
campaign by cleaning up
the mess they themselves have
made?

We wish to inform the University
community and all interested
parties that the former University
of Virginia Young Democrats has
dissolved itself and reconvened as
the University New Democratic
Coalition. This action symbolizes
far more than a name change. It
represents a whole new orientation
for the club. In the future this club
will align itself more closely with
the policies and programs of the
national Democratic Party. But we
reserve the right to actively support
any candidate the U.N.D.C. deems
qualified. This is to be in contrast
to such organizations as the Young
Republicans who give blanket endorsements
to party candidates.

We feel that the club will be
more beneficial to the community
if we devote ourselves to that which
is correct rather than to that which
is victorious.

I didn't expect to write about
women's fashions to the editor of a
predominantly male university, but
I feel I must reply to your editorial,
Bye-Bye Mini.

I don't believe the mini is out. It
is out for my mother and grandmother,
they never wore it anyway.
But it simply doesn't make sense
for young girls to wear long
unflattering drooping skirts. Young
women today are independent and
certainly have the sense to keep
wearing what they look nice in, not
what fashion editors say is fashionable.

What is "in" for me is what
looks good on me, not what some
"fashion expert?" in Paris says. And
I think other women feel the same
way. So fashion experts you're in
for a surprise. I agree with Jacques
Tiffeau - "Damn the past! I will
not be pushed around by Women's
Wear Daily." I'm not from Outer
Slobbovia and I won't wear those
mid-calf fashions.