Show to hogWogte sods by Wlndell Minot staff reporter When “Many Voices” a black performing group from New York comes to the campus Monday for a Black Emphasis concert they will bring with them a wealth of musical dramatic and vocal talents with which to tell their story “Voices” which is scheduled to appear at the Fine Arts Center that for far too long we Mondayat 8 pm seeks to leave have kept our black history and black heritage not only from blacks but from the whites Now all too slowly we are trying to remedy that grievous error This in part is what the enterprising and lively Voices Inc seeks to do as it speaks forth rightly in “Journey’s Into Blackness” It’s an unusual evening of entertainment that this versitile-an- d one must emphasize that word heavily — troupe of 12 young persons perform They span hundreds of years of often shameful history from Africa to the present There’s a message but it is delivered with skill with humor and with a splendid array of talents the-messa- ge Their performance tells a story of the life of the blacks from villages in Africa to the slave block to slavery in the United States There’s the false glimmer of freedom the unkept promises and the terror used to keep Jim Crow in the place They are all lively and vigorous and some of the music they do is so infectious it’s hard to keep your feet from tapping It’s a tale of black migration from the South to the North from segregation to segregation And an insight into how the blacks look at the storefront church and some of the “shout Gospel” M - “Many Voices” a black performing group from New York will present “Journey into Blackness” as part of Black Emphasis Week April 9 at 8 pm in the FAC CDL Volume 70 Number 65 Utah State University April 6r 1973 16 Pages Journey Into Blackness also brings us to the present which isn’t all a matter of pride White distortion of what blacks are still exists As these exuberant young persons say: “you have got to accept me for what I am” or they point out: The decade of the ’70’s will be known as the second civil war Let there be no mistake it will be war But the ending is imbibed with the spirit thwt should be universal” They cry out to blacks: “we can no longer afford to fight among ourselves” And the close sound a call for freedom and love and the reiterated phrase Yale University School of Music critic Robert B Browne had the following to say after seeing a play performed by the Many Voices: “Watching and hearing Voices was more than a pleasure it was a privilege How it is possible to have so much talent — vocal dramatic musical — on one stage is beyond my conjecture” ' When “Voices” sing you can feel the rhythm of the music penetrating to the depth of your heart See them during Black Emphasis Week 7 7 Abortion polls Results released Student Life recently ran an poll on abortion with Those who suprising results returned the questionnaire were non-LDoverwhelmingly male-anA large number of females and LDS students threw their ballots in the garbage and the result is a poll that is not representative of the views of all the students Of 200 students chosen ran- domly from a registration lists only 19 percent returned their ballots — 66 percent were male 34 percent were female 68 S percent were and 32 percent were LDS opinion d S non-LD- Variety planned at ‘Movie Orgy’ A new concept in showing to be instituted Saturday night when STAB sponsors the first - USU movie movies is orgy “Chisum” “Bonnie and Clyde” “I Love-Y'ou Alice B Toklas” and various cartoons and shorts are to be shown beginning at 7 pm in the UC Ballroom Chairs will be available for those who’d like to use them but there will also be plenty of floor space Admission is $lper person and $150 per couple Refreshments Can also be ' purchased -- -- group largely male the 53 percent supported by the of decision Supreme January Court permitting abortions until the third trimester of pregnancy 39 percent were agains the decision and 8 percent undecided The statement any kind of abortion should be illegal met with 89 per cent the opinions against 76 percent for and 26 percent undecided A by Brent Harker News editor non-LD- S (Photo by Tom Cotwoll) Opinions were widely spread on This weeks ‘Forum’ discussed issues concerned with abortion the governthe question-shou- ld interfere ment by passing laws on 45 abortion? percent agreed the government should not pass per cent disagreed undecided were percent laws 47 8 The poll attempted to ask who has the power over the life of the fetus 63 percent were opposed to the statement a man and his wife give life to a child therefore they have a right to take it away 19 the percent agreed with were cent 13 statement per undecided and 5 per cent didn’t respond to the question per cent agreed that only God gives life 26 per cent were opposed and 29 per cent were undecided 45 per centdisagreed that only victims of rape and incest should be allowed to have abortions 29 the per cent agreed with were cent statement and 3 per undecided --6- 8 abortions To the statement shoulc be legal only in cases where the mother’s health is threatened 69 per cent disagreed and 31 per cent agreed US Court abortion decision Utah stand covered in panel Charlene by J Chris Larson Liberation senior writer USU The United States Supreme Court recently passed an abortion law permitting abortion on demand during the first six months of a pregnancy The Utah State Legislature also recently passed an abortion law providing for abortions in the first trimester of a pregnancy but with several conditions Abortion availability Wednesday its ethics and were discussed April 4 at the weekly Forum Discussion held in the Merrill Library Participation in the discussion were Jean Barnard third year law student at the University of Marie Head Mountain Utah Abortion Women’s Miller River Coalition Joyce States Heights councilwoman and Weir Committee-AW- S Womens of dependant on males in being granted permission for an abortion Ms Millers and Ms Barnard both raised the question of ethics in an abortion decision Ms Barnard challenged the Utah state law and labeled it “clearly unconstitutional” Ms She cited such reasons as the Miller said that the woman requesting the abortion question of who has preem-minenc- e is still unresolved Does having to get the permission of several people as the main the fetus or the mother receive reason for the unconstitutionality first consideration? of the law Ms Barnard asked if a doctor Ms Barnard said that in adis obligated to perform an dition to finding a doctor a Utah abortion if he considers it woman must have the permission unethical even if his patient of her husband if she is married wants it and has consented her parents and the father of the Abortion cont’d pg 7 child if she isn’t married the Both women said that these and permission of her husband and other ethical questions were the father of the child if they holding up abortion lwas Ms Weir said that Helpline aren’t the same person and in some instances even the granddirects questions about abortion to local doctors who in turn parents of an unmarried girl " She said she felt that the woman was still very much (continued on page seven) |