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...there's another band, it's a lot of fun because we feed off each other," says Jeff Wolk. Because the Bruin band wasn't concerned with being funny, the game wasn't as interesting. "They just yelled obscenities back instead of trying to outdo us. We'd come up with a good cheer and they'd just drown it out with their stupid catcalls," Wolk says...
...which was gutsy and fun to begin with. The 19-member troupe does far better as a whole pushing the decibel level to something just short of a primal scream than do any of the principals, some of whom seem completely inexperienced as vocalists. Of the main players, Calvin Wolk, as Berger, the macho ring leader, and Jeff Bercuvitz, as Claude, the occasionally ambivalent side kick, project the message of rejectionism and individuality most effectively. Larnett Son also belts out several impressive leads, including a soulful version of "Abie Baby," a cynical tribute to the author of the Emancipation Proclamation...
...sold the sprightly, respected Chronicle of Higher Education. At a yearly subscription rate of $39.94 (charter subscribers pay $19.97), Education Week claims to report the ABC's of primary and secondary education, the two areas where American pedagogy is most in need of dramatic improvement. Says Editor Ronald Wolk, a former magazine editor and educational administrator: "Our objective is to become American education's newspaper of record...
Education Week's first edition offered a splendid scoop: a series of excerpts from the 91-page secret memo written by Secretary of Education Terrel Bell telling how he plans to dismantle the Education Department and change the Government's role in education. Wolk's staff of 20 provides a weekly summary of education news in short takes, plus clear but comprehensive studies of major issues. One notable example: a detailed and trenchant analysis of the status and achievements of busing just as the policy is about to be abandoned. The paper's 19,000 charter...
Jefferson Vander Wolk plays the Grand Inquisitor, a Machiavellian type who kidnapped the prince to prevent the spread of Wesleyanism, with less character. Vander Wolk's voice is strong, but for a powerbroker his appearance is rather wraith-like until he trips awkwardly into songs...