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July 5, 1973

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Independence Day probably meant little more than a holiday and firew orks to many Americans. M a n y undoubtedly took it
for granted/ and others, in som e manner considering it a m ockery, no doubt scoffed while taking their day of leisure.
W hat it really m eans for all of us here is that whatever joys we find in life, along with the sadness, resulted from the
determination of a group of men 200 years ago.

For what we have wg owe to them a continuing debt of gratitude.

Page 2 — Thursday, July 5

Zo prof studies mama buzzers
to learn about growth secrets

Flies!
The new dean of the College of
liberal Arts is playing around
with mother flies.
Actually, there is no need for
campus voyeurs to come a le rt
Dr. Charles Woolf also is a
professor of zoology, and for the
next three years his dung is
going to be the investigation of
m aternal effects in the fruit fty.
None other than Drosophila
melanogaster.
Woolf has been awarded a
$46,827 grant from die National
Institute of Health for his
project, which concentrates on
gene regulation of early

development. His findings, he
says, will be applicable to many
other organisms.
He has begun with refutation
of a belief commonly held by
biologists.
That is that parents have an
equal genetic influence on their
offspring.
Contrariwise, Woolf said his
research indicates the mother’s
genes, in fact, control early
development of the offspring.
He selected the fruit fly for his
study because more is known
about its genetic traits than any
other organism.

Second session wolk-thru
scheduled Saturday only
W alk-through reg istratio n for the U niversity’s
second 5-week sum m er session (July 9-Aug. 10) is
scheduled for S aturday, Ju ly 7, from 8 a.m . to 12:30 p.m .
As w ith e a rlie r sessions, reg istratio n m ate ria ls m ay
be picked up in th e MU Rendezvous Lounge, m aterialscheck com pleted in th e MU M aricopa Room and fees
paid in th e Arizona Room.
C lass card s w ill be available in the various colleges
and departm ents, w ith die exception th a t c a rd s for the
College of L iberal A rts w ill be distributed in th e Social
Science building.
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L ate reg istratio n days a re Ju ly 9 and IQ a s a re those
for Drop-Add. M aterials a re to be picked up a t the MU
Solarium , c a rd s obtained from departm ental offices and
fees p aid in th e MU A rizona Room . Tim es a re 8:30 a.m .
to noon and 1-3:30 p jn .
S tudents signing up fo r night classes m ay do so on
Ju ly 9 from 0 0 p.m . Au operations will be conducted in
the MU.

A couple of poems
It’s raining on th e ]
And the clouds, diffuse before the moon,
Are letting fall soft shadows
Like leaves upon a stream .
The shadows on die sky
Are mountains lost in for away cloudlight,
and the misting rain
Is turning all foe shadows wet.
The shadows’ trees seem not to stand,
But lie flat beside their earthbomd tracery.
This train knows no m m » * ,
It cannot stop
To taste the rainy skies;
I cannot lie beneath the clouds
Amid that wet twining
Of branches and leaves,
Upon the dany and breathing ground,
With the dark, prone images of trees.
Charles Carreau

The flies have a lifespan of
only 10 days, and a pair can
produce several hundred off­
spring. Their genes and
chrom osomes also can be
manipulated.
The usual development of D.
m elanogaster requires the
proper formation of imaginal
discs in the larvae. The discs
soon fold out, forming eyes,
legs, wings, antennae and
mouth parts.
Woolf said substances in th e .
mother’s genes are responsible
for development of foe discs. If
the substances are missing or
.modified, normal development
goes awry.
In his research, mutant genes
are utilized to produce ab­

Remember the kid in grade school who
could send teacher into catatonia merely by
entering the room?
He had, to say the least, a behavioral or
learning problem.
But help may be on the way, not only for
teacher, but also for the boy or girl who has
trouble in class — or causes it.
Dr. Alan Brown, ASU associate professor of
special education, heads up a unique class this
summer that studies 12 youngsters with
learning ex' behavioral problems — most of
them boys from 10 to 15 years old.
A first for ASU special ed, the program is an
outgrowth of one Brown conducted in Guam
last summer. He is assisted this summer by
Bonnie Rabe, ASU alumna and teacher in foe
Tri-City Mental Health Center.
Their program departs from the norm
prim arily through its use of video and wireless
audio aids, and also by its contextual use of
psychological reinforcement.
The class is held in the basement of the
College of Nursing. Two cameras broadcast
pupils’ actions to a video monitor in an ad-'
joining room where attending school teachers
observe.
Between foe two roams a control room is
sandwiched where technicians operate the
equipment and supervise the recording of video
tapes.
Mrs. Rabe, in the classroom with the pupils,
communicates with Brown and the teachers in
the other room by wireless microphones and
earphones.
In this manner he can make unobtrusive
comments or suggestions on a child’s behavior.
AU the children in the class had their
problems extensively documented by teachers
and parents before they entered the program.
Most of them are failing and have expressed
strong dislike for school. Among their problems
are: fears, tension and nervousness, conduct
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D students know things formerly known
only to mystics and sages:
that learning comes swiftly and painlessly,
never in hardwon stages.
If coerced into taking a subject
they are doomed to rem ain untaught;
learning is all illumined state
which will only descend unsought.
The worst point to which such flhsnined might fall
would be actually taking foe class;,
they’d pick up imperfect, flawed knowledge
and fail while seeming to pose.
Hail, then, to our D and E students,
last bastions of parados!
Recognize as true doctrines
what we bad thought learning Hocks.

normal effects. Their varying
quantities introduced to off­
spring help the scientist
determine the quantity and
quality of the unknown sub­
stances also introduced.
His next step is to isolate
those substances* determ ine
what they are and how they do
what they do.
Woolf’s research team in­
cludes Jagadeesh Pyati, post­
doctoral student, grad students
Diane Cone, -Gary Duncan and
Merry-Beth Pyle; and Mark
Spitz, an undergrad.
These, along with their
leader, support his statement,
“Developmental genetics is one
of the g reat frontiers of
biology.’’

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dependency, drug abuse, lack of emotional
control and problems with attention and con­
centration.
Mrs. Rabe said with their generally poor
self-concepts, the teach er’s attitude is
especially important.
The children’s disruptive activities are “not
disrespect as much as a way of expressing
anger and protecting themselves.
“We try to reinforce positive things by
praising or rewarding the most appropriate
behavior,” she said.
As incentive, the pupils can earn up to $10 in
foe classroom. They earn points toward the
money by completing assignments, ignoring
disruptions, raising their hands for help and for
outstanding behavior.
If a child misbehaves he is placed in “Time
Out,” a separate room (also monitored) where
he cannot earn points and where often he must
complete a task to work his way out.
“Time Out” infractions are handled in­
dividually, and all pupils know foe rules
beforehand. Daydreaming can be a “Time
Out” offense just as readily as disrupting the
classroom.
Brown said most of the youngsters respond
to the juvenile cooler very quickly, although
sometimes it becomes a waiting contest bet­
ween teacher and pupil.
In such a case, “If we’re to get him on the
right track, we’re going to have to take control.
Setting limits and adhering to them is foe best
approach,” he said.
“If teachers can develop the necessary
skills and attitudes to work with these
youngsters they stand a better chance of
making a significant positive impact than all
foe other helping professionals.”
The current program also involves the
teachers attending the class with taking the
children on various recreational outings.
In the fall the program will be expanded by
adding several other classes with different age
pupils.

Thursday, July 5 — Paga 3

Preservation Hall at A SU

Jazz world's greatest arrives
They’re coming back, and if the
highlight of ASU’s sum m er en­
tertainm ent is to be singled out, surely
the performance of the Preservation Hall
Jazz Band must be it.
Thursday night, July 12, Gammage
Auditorium sees the return of the jazz
band with the appropriate title of “best in
the world.” "
Billy and DeDe Pierce, pianist and
blind trum pet player, bring back to us
the group which shatters the barriers
between young and old, forges a common
humanity and leaves behind the wistful
memory of an older American time.
T ie Preservation Hall Jazz Band plays
it the way it used to be played, because
they were there when it came to life.
Ages in the 60s, 70s and even 80s, they
grew up in the New Orleans jazz era of
King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton and Kid
Ory. When marches, quadrilles, blues,
spirituals and ragtim e all merged into
“jass,” as it first was called.
Its sources were the marches of
funeral parades, the old spirituals and
gospel quartets, the music of Creole
people.
Each member of Preservation Hall
played on die river boats, in the sporting
houses and at the dances. They were in
the bands thattnarched in funerals to the
cemetery, and in the wagons that drove
the French Quarter, fighting it out when
two bands m et a t a. corner.
DeDe Pierce, born in New Orleans in
1904, was blinded by glaucoma, but the
intensity of emotion that pours from his
trumpet reflects a soul that has seen
much more than eyes ever could.
IBs wife Billie was bom 66 years ago in
Florida and was accompanist to the
legendary Bessie Smith.
Other members are 83-year-old “Big
Jim ” Robinson, trom bonist, from

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Louisiana who played with an arm y band
during World' War I, and clarinetist
Willie Humphrey, bora 1901 .in New
Orleans.
“Cie” Frazier, 69, is considered the
finest drummer from New Orleans since
the late Baby Dodds.
Sitting ip with the tuba is Allan Jaffe,

who founded Preservation Hall in 1961
with his wife Sandra.
Their goal was to rejuvenate the real
New Orleans jazz and give regular work
and proper recognition to the great old
musicians who still are a living part of
this American a rt form.
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band is,

without question, the greatest remnant of
that art.
Tickets for the 8 p.m. performance are
32 from the Gammage box office, 968-,
3434. The program is free to students with
sum m er school receipts, and to
U niversity personnel with cam pus
service cards.

DeDe Pierce, leader of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. The sound that comes
from his trumpet, attuned to that of his fellow performers, is equaled by no other
to be heard today. When they, advanced In years, have gone, an Am erican era
goes with them.

Not only once has it been ventured that, having developed
championship football team s, we should now try to produce a
university the football team can be proud of.
Friday night some fellows from out of town dropped into
Grady Gammage and showed us there is more to college than
football and cheerleaders.
The Bqys from Syracuse was presented by the Theatres of
file College of Fine Arts. Singing mid dancing their way through
the musical frolic of long lost brothers id » , enduring mistake
after m istake, find each other, the Lyric Opera Theatre and
University Players entertained a responsive audience.
The comedy was probably a bit risque when Rodgers and
Hart originally produced it in 1939, but today it was family
entertainm ent with a flash of m ale chauvinism.
The romantics in the audience were touched by such old
songs as, “Falling in Love with Love,” “This can't be Love,”
and “Came with Me.”
The quality of singing was generally good, but occasionally
the orchestra overpowered the singer. The Duke, played by
Joseph Kloenne, had more than his share of such problems.
Needless to say, Forrest Bachtel, the Sergeant, had no

'Boys From Syracuse'
shows college can mean
more than football heroes
difficulty; just imagine a robust, jolly cop, Keystone type, from
Central Casting.
Very effective and reminding us of a young up-and-coming
Ethel Merman and at other times Joanne Worley, was Luce,
played by Peggy Davidson. Michael Lancy, as Antipbolus of
Syracuse, freon his solo early in the first act, was consistently
good.
Sally Rice, as Adriana, displayed an excellent voice. Her
“Falling in Love with Love” was the type that set the old folks’
hearts to fluttering.
Playing the two Dromios were John Windsor and Gary
Naylor who both from time to time had us confused as to who
was wbo. The sim ilarity was often uncanny, even to the knobby
knees exposed by those cheerleader looking outfits. Maybe
that’s where we saw them before.
If you think there was a female set of twins, it’s because
Nancy Ries played both a maid to Adriana and the “Guardian of

the Gong.’’ It was a cliche bit of business of h not tall girl with a
large-gong.
A word (doesn’t 'cover much) about the Courtesans: The
Endowment Fund of the University should look into these. The
Amazons could stand a looking-into also. Mother wouldn’t
believe they were only in fi» old Normal School.
The sets were uncomplicated and well-done but for the
Sorcerer’s smoke screens, a tad holier than Mr. Nixon’s, if you
can believe th a t
Whereas the original Broadway production used treadmills,
Nancy Bloemendall used the Gammage turntables much to the
same effect of allowing the audience full knowledge of the set
shifting.
The architecture in fi» ASU production was not a
completely accurate representation of that of Syracuse of Sicily,
nor that of the designs used by Renaissance productions of
Roman Comic writers like Terrace and Plautus.
The Boys from Syracuse is a modernized version of Comedy
of Errors by Shakespeare, who seems to have liberally helped
himself to Menaedimi by Plautus of Republican Rome.
Costuming was modernized, most pointedly in that of fi»
Courtesans. They may have been dancing at Tequila A Go Go
when caught in a time warp.
A .J.C .A .

Fine Arts Camp ends
in multi-program finale
The 28th Annual Fine Arts Camp, which attracted 300 high
school students to campus for two weeks, draws to a close
Saturday.
For the next three days 0 » visiting students will present a
multi-faceted entertainment series free to the public.
The schedule for those days is as follows:
—July 5: Drama workshop production a t 6 p jn . in the Music
Theatre; student recital a t 7 p.m. in,room 510 of the Music
building; and a dance concert a t 8in Women’s PE.
—Jaiy 8: Forensics tournament from 9 to 5 in the Language
and Literature building; student ensemble recital a t 8 p.m. in
file Music Theatre. An awards banquet a t 6 p.m. in the MU
Arizona Room requires reservations from the Fine Arts Camp
office (965-2819) and $3.50 per person for dinner.
—July 7: Continuation of the debate tournament from 9 a.m.
to noon; piano ensemble concert in the Music Theatre a t 8 pan.;
rad the highlight of the session a t 2 p.m. in Gammage when
camp band, orchestra, choir and jazz band combine in concert

Page.4 — Thursday, July 5

M o d e rn stud y lab
m eans self-reliance
for stud ent nurses
The College of N ursing a t ASU has a dandy new lab o rato ry of
m odernistic gizm os th at give a new sla n t to study.
F ilm s, slides and tap es, along w ith p rac tic a l training aids,
a re p a rt of the Independent Study L aboratory th a t has g en erated
a new concept in individualized study.
The difference is th a t seldom does a lecturing prof intrude
upon the in struction. It m eans m ore relian ce on stu d en ts’ selfm otivation, bu t it ap p ears to be w orking w ell.
The lab is located on the second floor of the N ursing building.
It contains an audio-visual section w here students see m edia
presentations rela te d to th eir courses, and a p ractice a re a w here
nurses-to-be can p ractice the techniques learned in the
laboratory.
The lab w as designed to allow each student to study a t his
own pace, according, to A ngela Stum pf, associate professor of
nursing.
...
She said the new system m eans students a re n ’t locked into a
sem ester fo rm at, but “ have access to m aterial when and a s long
as they need it.”
The C ontinuousP rogress C urriculum , a s it is called, allow s a
student who h as m astered one are a to m ove into the next study
section.
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Such a set-up, of course, conceivably could resu lt in a student
languishing in the rudim ents forever. B ut Stum pf said th e danger
is not very re a l. N ursing students, ju st as those of any other
discipline, w ant to advance.
“ Most of them have a definite goal in m ind. They w ant to
becom e a professional nurse and get out th e re ,” she said.
The lab is open 12 hours daily, and so is flexible enough to fit
in m ost study schedules. A full-tim e lab m anager, M ary
H am pton, and student em ployes also a ssist in operations.
.
The lab has 10 study c a rre ls, a film projection a re a for 12,
video decks or m onitors for 16 and a p ractice are a for six.
Subjects on such things a s giving injections or adm inistering
oxygen a re contained in 231 slide cassette program s, 30 film s and
100 videotapes.
The p ractice a re a has scrub sinks, surgical instrum ents,
hospital beds and m annequins.
The lab o rato ry ’s innovative and in terestin g concepts w ere
m ade possible by a 5-year, $355,000 g ran t from the’D epartm ent of
H ealth, E ducation and W elfare.
P a rt of the g ra n t h as gone tow ard m aking film s, such a s
“ P re and P ost O perative C are” and “P hysical A ssessm ent of the
Newborn In fan t.” A 16mm film will be produced this sum m er on
fam ily health p ractices.
Also, to keep the m ulti-m edia lab presentations cu rren t, 12
N ursing faculty m em bers a re developing instruction in th eir
individual a re a s of expertise.

Egad, Helen

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the pincers, e h ?

Actually, “Helen" is not the poor dear's name at all. She's lovable old
Mrs. Chase, confidant of student nurses everywhere. Along with the
glittering tool rack she serves as a practical training aid for A SU 's
nurses-to-be. Elsewhere in the Independent Study Laboratory are
sophisticated audio-visual aids which the student peruses at her own
pace.

Prof spends 20 years on grapevine
T hey sk u lk in th e d a rk e s t
com ers, and they sit in the loftiest
se ats; som e live in squallor and
som e in luxury; they do th eir thing
a t all hours of the day.
From all w alks of life they come.
They are the gossips, the tid b itters,
the rum or-passers and the sea
law yers.
And fo r two decades an ASU
p ro fe sso r of m an a g e m e n t h a s
c h a rte d
th e ir ,■ p ro g re ss.
S p e c ific a lly , th e so u rc e s and
m ethods of the office grapevine.
*i A m ost unusual pursuit, perhaps,
but to D r. K eith D avis, “ the
grapevine is m an’s b irg h rig h t.”
^ It has been w ith us down through
th e ages. “ It m ay take the form of
sm oke signals, tom -tom s, colored
flags, tap s on the prison w all o r
ordinary conversation. W hatever
form s, it’s a lw a y s'th e re .”
Its om nipresence few people
would have reason to doubt, but in
refu tatio n of com m on belief D avis
fu rth e r says grapevine inform ation
is fairly reliab le. About 75 p e r cent
of th e tim e.
“ P e o p le te n d to th in k th e

grapevine is less a c cu ra te than it
really is because its e rro rs a re
m ore d ram atic and consequently
m ore im pressed on the m em ory
than its day-to-day routine and
accu racy ,” he said.
Not only th a t — it’s speedy..
D avis re la te s a grapevine leap}
sev eral hundred m iles w hen,
an em ploye of a m anufactj
firm , w as on leave in Flqjjji
D uring th a t period an j
of the com pany said he’c
the grapevine th a t J g A a s
his job.
The pg
saying
distance"
everything"
e in the m ail
His resignaf
th at sam e day.
An investigation "disclosed th a t
Joe had talked in F lorida w ith a
friend. The friend la te r had called
and talked to his w ife. The
grapevine operation had begun.
It seem s the rum or-m ill is a
“ coeducational in stitution,” with
m en activ e as p articip an ts as
wom en.

But se c re ta rie s a re the big
w heels, according to D avis. His
rese a rc h indicates th a t se cre ta rie s
pass on tid b its four tim es m ore
than o th er em ployes.
U sually those tid b its tra v e l a
v ariab le, circuitous ro u te, w ith
e v e ra l p e o p le s p re a d in g th e
atio n to la rg e r groups.
__f fo r exam ple, 87 clerks in
our office know (hat M abel w as
ireüy m arrie d la st S aturday,”
a v id s a id , “ th e w ord w as
probably sp read to these 87 by only
10 to 15 clerk s. The rem ainder
knew th e inform ation, bu t did not
spread i t.”
T he g ra p e v in e
a p p a re n tly
flourishes during activ e periods,
such a s personnel changes. It also
is a good indicator of em ploye
a ttitu d es: a m essage a s sym bolic
expression of one’s feelings.
“ If th e rum ors a ré saying th a t
Joe is q u ittin g , this m ay m ean th at
his asso ciates wish he would quit,
th at he w ishes he could qu it o r th a t
his w ife is quitting h er job, or
som ething else or nothing a t a ll.”
The office w ithout a grapevine,

then, is in bad shape. D avis said,
“ If em ployes a re so d isin terested
in th eir associates th a t th ey do not
discuss who will get th e next
prom otion and why M artha w as
la te to w ork, w e often suspect they
a re abnorm al.
“ An organization would be sick
w ithout it. It reflects a deep
psychological need of people to talk
about th eir jobs a s a c e n tral life
in te re st.”
The person who a ttem p ts to
stam p out the rum or-m ill in his
office is doom ed to failu re, D avis
said.
“ If th ere is one thing a ll of us
have learned from our experience
and research , it is th at hom ocide
will not work w ith the grapevine.
“ I t cannot be abolished, rubbed
o u t, h id d en u n d e r a b a s k e t,
chopped down, tied up, m urdered
or stopped.
“ If you hush M artha, som eone
else w ill probably tak e h er place on
th e g ra p e v in e , b e c a u se th e
grapevine is m ore a product of the
situation th an it is of the person,”
he said.