Word: axelrod
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...public health official, I don't have the luxury to be a moralist." So said an unapologetic New York State health commissioner David Axelrod last week after approving a New York City plan to fight AIDS by providing drug addicts with sterile needles. The controversial program, which could begin as early as this spring, has sparked vehement protests from law-enforcement agents, clergymen and politicians. Says the Rev. Calvin Butts of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem: "To distribute needles is to cooperate with evil. It is a step to legitimatizing heroin...
...groups practice several times a week and finding rehearsal space can often be a problem. Dunster House has a large basement practice room, but few other houses are similarly equipped. The Rhythm Method has solved the dilemma by practicing twice a week in a rented rehearsal space in Boston, Axelrod says...
...Axelrod says his group has tried to remedy the problem. The Rhythm Method recently won $5000 in the national Energizer Battle of the Bands contest and offered the prize money to Harvard to pay for a rehearsal studio. But Assistant Dean for Physical Resources Phillip J. Parsons rejected their proposal because he did not consider rehearsal space for bands a priority. The Rhythm Method is still bargaining with the administration for a space here on campus, Axelrod says...
Undergraduates at Harvard tend to meet people accidentally, and band members are no exception. Kanuth found the original members of the Infidels in 1984 by asking the people he met if they liked music, band members say. And Axelrod says The Rhythm Method's current composition is almost accidental. At first, The Rhythm Method was composed only of Harvard students, but it temporarily disbanded when three of the original four members graduated...
Since then Axelrod says he has performed with a number of different musicians and has "had to ask a few players to leave." Although the members of a band are like brothers, sometimes members are unable to either make the full time commitment or "cut it musically," Axelrod says. "A certain level of professionalism must be kept," he says. Axelrod finally hit on a winning combination with two undergraduates at the Berkelee School of Music--saxophonist Warren Hill and Percussionist David Schommer...