Bronze and Blue Revue schedule for Thursday
Vista Photo by Daniel Smith
The "Civilized Tribe", left to right: Ronald Lee, Clifford Parrett, Joe Fine, Chris Cord, Clyde Con-
ner, Jeff Kidwell and Murray Butler, recently crowned the 1983 Southern Comfort National Collegiate Dixieland Jazz champions perform to well-wishers at a reception to honor the band. The reception was held at the Sheraton-Century Center Hotel March 7.
By Price Oswalt The 27th annual Bronze and Blue Revue talent show, will be at 7 p.m. Thursday in the University Center Ballroom. "This years theme is a vaudville theme called 'Do You Remember When'," said Colleen Garside, sponsor of the University Center Activities Board (UCAB) which is sponsoring the revue. Garside said there are two catagories, bronze with individual acts (one to four performers), and blue with group acts (five or more performers). Those entered in the bronze division are Kenny Ott, Candice Cash, Sam Hendrick, Joanie Gregory, Celia Patman, Kevin Hess, the Baptist Student Union and John Burrus. The group acts include Alpha Gamma Delta Fraternity, Sigma Kappa Sorority, a band called Two Hour Parking, a group called Stray Cat Strut, Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity and a group called Zoot Suit. Garside said all the acts will be judged by seven judges on the basis of theme, costume, originality, difficulty and entertainment value. "This years judges are John E. "Skip" Wagnon, director of special events; CSU Foundation Inc.; Dean Hyde, associate professor of art; Pat Flippin, drama coach of Moore High School; Warren Williams, KATT Radio; Karie Ross, KOCO-TV Channel 5; Wade Carter of Wade Carter Enterprises and Roger Cooper, KWTV Channel 9," Garside said.
THE YI~Tg Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma
March 15, 1983
Vol. 81, No. 44
Allen leads Oklahoma campaign for Mondale By Tonia Sykes The 1984 presidential election is 19 months away. However, for one CSU student, the campaign to amass support for his candidate starts now. Lee Allen has been appointed chairman of the Oklahoma Students for Mondale Organization. "I will be coordinator for all the campuses across Oklahoma to muster support for Walter Mondale for president in 1984. However, the first priority is to find the appropriate female counterpart to chair the organization," commented Allen. "We always try to do that in the Democratic party (male and female counterparts). It could be someone from CSU, but we're also looking at two women from OSU and one from OU." It's going to be difficult to get a Mondale campaign generated because of the time factor, Allen said. "For those who are politically unaware, the general attitude is `Who cares? That's (the election) too far away.' However, it is a sign of the times. People are really upset with the national administration and they're jumping up and down all over the country." Allen said it's pretty well conceded by the powers-that-be in the Democratic party on the national
level that Mondale will come out the winner at the convention. "Mondale had more power than any vice-president in the history of the United States; consequently, that gave him more experience and more practical use of his abilities." Although Mondale does have some small problems with foreign policy, he's building his bridges back and getting that resolved, Allen said. "When it comes to domestic problems, where we're having our problems today, Mondale's a master. He's one of the most educated people we have up there (Washington) with the possible exception of Kennedy, and Kennedy's already endorsed Mondale." Allen said he feels that Kennedy's endorsement practically assures Mondale of the New England vote, and with the Carter strongholds in the deep South, Mondale will probably get those votes also. "California is fed up with Reagan. They didn't like him as governor, so they got rid of him. They want somebody else in Washington. Whether it's the Republicans in LA or the Democrats in San Francisco, they don't want Ronnie," he said. "However, we don't want people to get the impression that Mondale's comfortable with 'I'm
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going to be the Democratic candidate.' We're out to work for it because we want to get it fair and square. "As time goes on, especially this fall, Reagan will have to decide if he's going to run. The minute he does that, it puts our campaign on the road. We'll know if we're running against Reagan or X No. of other opponents." The Midwest block is the Democrats' problem, according to Allen. In Kansas, they've got Dole; they also have Arkansas, New Mexico and Arizona which they're not sure of. Mondale will probably not do as well in Oklahoma as the Democrats would like, he said. "John Glenn is pretty strong in this state; he'll probably win the nomination from Oklahoma. Therefore, Oklahoma is a prime target for us." The best way to target an area is to recruit students — get them involved, get their support and get the machine rolling, Allen said. "This is where the organization will become instrumental. Tradition dictates that younger students
are more concerned about their campus activities; consequently, the upper 20's and early 30's are usually the targeted age. "We don't see that on this campus. Most of our politically concerned students are younger than 25. We do have a broad range of ages in our Student Senate, but most are younger than 25." Politically motivated people cannot be determined by age, Allen said. "You can't just pick an age and say these are going to be political and a different age is going to be apolitical." The fact that CSU is a commuter school is a great concern, he said. Commuters that come in from Logan County, Oklahoma City, Del City, Midwest City and many other smaller communities include a very broad age range. "I think part of the problem at CSU is that there is just too much apathy built up across the board. OSU has a high percentage of commuters. They're not a commuter school like we are, but they're still very active and very vocal. "OU is vocal for other reasons.
They're the No.1 university; they're expected to hold up the `big brother' image. They're also expected to be the leader which is fine. We need a leader. "But CSU needs to take up the `little brother' image and get more active. That's not to say more radical — just take part and not just on the national level. We have local elections coming up in Edmond. We have problems in the CSU school community that the Edmond political machine should be concerned with but it's not. The reason it's not, Allen said, is because they (the politicians) know there aren't any votes coming from CSU. "CSU as a block does not vote for anybody or anything. Edmond can have something on the ballot affecting CSU directly, like putting a major highway through our campus, and nobody from CSU will vote on it. "We have a roadway problem in front of University Center. We've tried for two years to get something accomplished on that bump and the city council, the mayor's office and the city Continued to page 3
Kennedy chosen outstanding graduate By Price Oswalt Tom Kennedy, criminal justice management and administration major, has been selected as CSU's Outstanding Graduate Student for 1982-83. Kennedy serves as the director of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI). He received his bachelor's degree from CSU in 1972. He has served as chief of detectives for the Victoria Police Department in Victoria, Tx. and as chief of police in Junction City, Kan. Kennedy joined the OSBI in March of 1973. He moved to the position of deputy director by 1976 and to director in February of 1978. Kennedy's service includes membership on the Governor's Task Force on Crime, Governor's Advisory Committee on Crime, Board of Mexico Legal Examiner's Advisory Board, Oklahoma State
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control, Chemical Test Board of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Sheriff's and Peace Officers Association, Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy Associate, Governor's Mini-Cabinet on Public Safely Matters and the Commission on Children Youth. Kennedy was selected at the age of 29 to attend the FBI National Academy, one of only 200 selected during 1966. In addition to Kennedy's professional activities, he has served for several years as a member of CSU's Criminal Justice Advisory Board. In that position, Kennedy has supported the development and growth of criminal justice at CSU, relative to both oncampus and off-campus activities. Kennedy will receive his master's of arts degree in May.