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. A"rin wrestling: in brief on th'e world's
most misunderstood sport .
/By HOWARD L. MIJ~LER-11
What is this man doin to that.
nun? a review
/By JULIE SOSNIN-5
A love match:
women's tennis
recruiting five
years behind
/ By LAURE CHARLES-tO
Vol. 50, No. 13
New
Wave
Strikes
Back
Part 1:
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By BOB NEDELKOFF
Let's begin with specific inci­dents.
I s I L L E •
1. As you all know by now, Sid
Vicious, formerly the bass player
for the Sex Pistols, charged with
killing his girlfriend/manager
following an unhappy narcotics
episode, is being kept under 24-
hour guard in New York, so that
he will not kill himself before he
can be hauled up to serve his 25
years in the clink as an example
for those who would continue to
champion "punk."
2. In the Village Voice, we re­cently
had an article by Lester
Bangs on the Vicious case. In it,
various theories about the homi­cide
were discussed. What matters
here is an incident which gives
the New Wave community (in
New York, at least) a foretaste of
its future.
Some weeks ago, Tish of New
York's Sic Fucks, an outfit for
which Dean Thomas (ex-Louis­villian,
previously drummer with
No Fun) recently worked, attend­ed
Punk magazine's awards cere-mony,
at which the distinguished
guests, rather than going over
the Spungen homicide itself,
wondered what it would mean to
the survival of the scene. Tish,
upon leaving, got part of the
answer. She was greeted by a
mob of suburban kids, who, hav­ing
read her facetious article on
punk sex for New York Rocker,
expected her to live up to it. She
was crudely propositioned, she
laughed it off, and she was re­warded
with a right to the jaw.
The kids, of course, need not
worry about retribution. New
Yorkers, after all, have bigger .·.
things to chew over than what : ;;:v--­happens
to a bunch of trouble-some
punks.
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·Recently the University of Louisville
has had to replace several deans
and the vice president for academic
affairs. The search for a new dean
for the College of Arts and Sciences
continues amid controversy and re­cent
failure. Positions must be
filled because the former admini­strators
have quit. But, why do
university administrators resign?
Dr. Arthur Slavin became dean
of the College of Arts and Sci­ences
in April of 1974. Three years
later, in May of 1977, he quit.
Dr~ John Dillon, the ex-vice
president for Academic Affairs,
said that Slavin "worked miracles"
during his three years as dean.
"He did things in three years
that some others could have work­ed
at for 20 years and never ac­complished,"
Dillon said.
After being so successful, what
prompted Slavin to resign? Slavin
himself admits that the reasons
Brain Drain
·why do U ot: L academia resign
their adminirstrative posts?
.• • it's the '~pressure'
By STEVE LUCKETT
photo b;r Martin Grossi
are complicated. He aid that a lot
of people thought he re igned be­cau
e of conflicts with the U of L
President, James G. Miller. Slavin
aid that though he did have con­flict
with Miller at time , that was
not why be re igned.
"It was a combinatioR of things,"
he said.
One reason was his health.
"The job began at seven in the
morning and did not end some­times
until 11 at night," he said.
"I wasn't sleeping well and was
way overweight."
There were also problems with
the job itself.
Slavin complained of problems
in getting a pre-commitment from
the administration on funds that
would be needed to meet the in­creasing
enrollment problems in
A&S. He said problems with the
budget made it difficult to focus
on long-range plans.
"I found my elf doing things
over and over again after they
were worked out at the college
level," he said.
Slavin said that "the character
of the university" supplied many
pressure points. He aid faculty
and students put pressure on his
time, and that orne department
members were very aggre sive in
representing interests for their de­partments,
which, he add., they
should have. He . aid facult _, and
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