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Making more than just music California Music Project brings tunes to local K-12 schools Cody Hauete rIssue date: 5/13/08
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Media Credit: Anne Rigor
Warming up the vocal chords is part of the daily class routine for chamber choir students at Independence High School. Hay Jordana, a fellow California Music Program teacher guides her students during vocal exercises on Monday afternoon. Each week, Jay Jordana, a senior music education major, spends eight to 10 hours with music teachers and students at Independence High School in East San Jose as part of a program that works to improve the face of music education in California's kindergarten through high school classrooms. Go to Article
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Ted Rudow III,MA posted 5/13/08
In "The Secret Power of Music ",Tame (1984 said, "Moving from the gut to the brain, music has been a powerful 'encoder', a term in psychology for something that helps determine the way we received and think abou our world. In other words, music has an inside track to our subconscious levels of our minds." In "Music Key", Berg (1973) explains, "How do you tell the difference? Does it make you want to be good and do good, love and be loved? Or does it inspire you to be evil and do evil, and be rebellious and destructive and hate, like some of Wagner's music inspired Hitler to destroy! Does it inspire or oppress? What affect does it have on your spirit?"
One of the greatest forces that influence people and even drives them on the brink on insanity is the increasing violence portrayed in the music and rock videos. National Coalition on Television Violence studied 900 rock videos and reported that 46% contained violence or indicated violence. Another way people are answering "ads" in rock music is through suicide or the recent killings on high school campus'! Now the second biggest killer of young people in the West, surveys have found that as many as 1 in 7 teenagers in today have tried to kill themselves. Again, there are many factor contributing to the tragedy, but clearly the acting out of the lyrics is a major part!(Rudow III ,Henry T. (Aug.1995) "Music Therapy",Master Thesis-San Jose State University)
Jeremy Spencer, the founding member of "Fleetwood Mac", said it best on his cut, "Psychic Waste", when he sang, "From out of California, come sights and sounds of offensive to the taste. Ah, every night in my livin' room, some jerk is dumping tons of psychic waste!" (Aurora Productions)
Ted Rudow III,MA
Class of 1996

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'This Queer Life'
Don't give up the fight


Michael Rizzo
Issue date: 5/8/08 Section: Opinion

Michael Rizzo



Fourteen weeks ago, I started writing a column, and gay came out. "Sex in the City" meets "This American Life" with a gay twist - that's how I pitched it.

Staff bought it, and in 74 years of the Spartan Daily, it's the first editor's column to have a recurring gay theme. In the 23 years of my life, it's the first time being gay has been so exhausting.......
"No. That's not OK. Good enough is not good enough. When the president of our university takes a stand against federally institutionalized homophobia, we need to rally behind him. While our university enters the most preliminary stages of planning a million-dollar campus queer center, our voices need to be heard. And if we want administration to purchase $10 unisex bathroom signs for the less than 20 single-occupant bathrooms on campus, our voices need to be loud.
You have to talk about it, and you have to say it. You have to say it out loud, and everyone has to listen, because any kind of love is fine. It's the hate you have to watch. And if they don't want to go there, we'll take them there, because "there" is real, and 10 percent of the world's population has pitched a tent - there. "If I don't 'go there,' then it's like I was never there at all," comedian Margaret Cho once said. "If we all got together and had this big too-much-information, go-there voice, if we just went and did it, that would equal power, and that power would equal change, and that change would equal a revolution."The gay bar is worth a shot. Gay blood is not bad blood. Different is not wrong.???"

Nahum's warning to Nineveh, years after Jonah, is a warning to us also: "Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid" ( Nahum 3:11 ). America is drunken with lust, drugs, violence, evil sex--and intoxicated with success and prosperity. "Thou shalt be hid" means this country will become powerless, reduced to nothing, unable to act or to solve problems. Our mortal enemies will plunder us. Society will crumble under the weight of unsolvable problems.
In Jeremiah's day, when he wouldn't quit proclaiming doom and defeat, they threw him in a dungeon. They beat him. The religious leaders and the political leaders ordered him not to utter another word of judgment. They tried to shut him up.Plagues of incurable illnesses: "The Lord shall make the pestilence [sickness] cleave unto thee...with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation" ( 28:21,22 ). "The Lord will smite thee with the botch of Egypt...and with the scab...whereof thou canst not be healed. The Lord shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment [panic] of heart" ( 28:27,28 ). "The Lord shall smite thee...with a sore botch [boil] that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head" ( 28:35 ). "The mark of AIDS is the purple blotch--the incurable boil!"
Ted Rudow III,MA
class of 1996