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THE GREAT INSURANCE COMPANY FRAME-UP or, O'BRIEN: NO HARM IN ASKING The Case of the Cruising Congressman By BRADFORD A. LANG Justice Extraordinaire George Flut­ ter's tiny little storefront courtroom hadn't seen such excitement since it Those who know do not speak. was invaded last year by Happy Howie "At the time, I thought it was just a big laugh." Harrison and his troupe of pacifist Beth Shapiro Those who speak do not know. priests. The new invader was just as Tuesday, October 11, 1966 Old Zen Saying exciting: Bernard F. O'Brien, Jr., "If s not a face I wHI ever forget." SS agent triple-o-five, who drives Judi Crawford his bright red Chevy from Lansing to Tuesday, October 11, 1966 inmiwiiiiiiiiiiiiminiiiiiini' Detroit and back again at speeds, ap- "\ said, 'Senator, there's more to this than you're telling me," and he just nodded his head away feeling as though I had just ^PWRWIII'FS MiifiLjr'tftJHSfifiper ™3uif'and to the affirmative.'' been forced to attend a five-day who sumebow resembles a straight Sgt. Dan Huifflnr ASMSU meeting. It was difficult to Brendan Behan^.He brought with him Wednesday, October 12, 1966 restrain myself from leaping to my John D. O'Conneil, a nice old Irish­ "If you see on injustice out there and you do not correct it, you should not be a Senator feet and making sarcastic comments. man, and various and sundry other from the Fifth District." Instead, I wrote my comments down semi-respectable inhabitants of De­ Bernard F. O'Brien, Sr. in my Social Science notebook, so that troit's Irish ghetto. Monday, October 17, 1966 you, dear and curious reader, could "You're not going to frame my husband like this." enjoy them in the privacy of your The courtroom jumped to the fren­ Mrs. Bernard F. O'Brien, Jr. own home. I will first offer you a zied beat of the Pepsi Generation, as Monday, October 17, 1966 brief summary of days one through BUI Wilkie and His Sinless Six from "I think I better explain this." four of the trial, then roll into a MSU came to testify to the defendant's Senator Bernard F. O'Brien, Jr. witness-by-witness rundown of the evil ways. Wednesday, October 19, 1966 rest of the proceedings. The form­ The rest of the cast made a repeat "If we take the path where the roses bloom, ladles and gentlemen, thaf s our good for­ er, by the way, is culled from vari­ performance. tune." ous local newspapers, so if you have Judge Hutter, of course, was still Defense Attorney John D. O'Conneil been following the trail religiously holding court, staring whimsically at Friday, October 21, 1966 and are familiar with all the facts, everyone over the tops of his glasses. "I would like to be remembered for something else than being the prosecutor in the Bern­ feel free to skip the whole thing. His sense of humor was still intact, ard O'Brien trial." , and he kept his cool masterfully while Donald L. Reisig people perjured themselves right and Friday, October 21, 1966 The Rape Of Lukens left and witnesses talked of immora] nuiuuiiiwiwiniiitiinmimnimumiiiiiiiimv Everybody by now has memorized acts, rapes, and unethical conduct. to be sunning themselves in the light him guilty of only one of them. As a this part of the case. It's the sexy Don Reisig was back, his glasses of justice, rather than the light of the result, they spent the greater part of part. O'Brien was supposed to have popping on and off and his temper sun on a park bench. They could very their several hours of deliberation propositioned a bunch of MSU chicks, behaving in a similar manner. One well have traded places with the three trying to decide whether the man was posing as "Larry Angelo(w) of In­ is forced to think that he's probably similar little old men on the jury, going to spend the rest of his life as ternational Studios" and asking them a very nice young man when he's not if only they had donned their Sunday dirty old man or a disorderly dirt} to pose for "cheesecake" photos prosecuting beatniks and sexjfiends. finery. But fate had selected them old man. and act in "stag movies". (Question: And Dapper Dan Hankins, our own to be spectators to the drama. All Both counts carried a maximurr Are the words "stag" and "cheese­ lovable campus detective, was at his six men looked as confused as all penalty of $100 fine and/or 90 days cake" out of place in the world of buddy Reisig* s right hand throughout little old men seem to look and, in in jail. A further penalty involving the sixties?). Marion Lukens lodged the trial, smiling sweetly, taking! point of fact, were probably the most the loss of one (1) seat in the Mich­ the formal complaint and five other notes, and possibly coaching witness­ girls showed up to say he'd done the confused people in the room. Imagine igan legislature was assessed the same things to them, though they never es. He's probably also a very nice somebody actually trying to force defendant before his trial. It was young man. did get around to having him arrested nice young girls to do bad things. worse than the old Witch Test. At for it. The permanent residents of the Mercy. least when our forefathers threw courtroom (besides the press, of Mercy was hardly tlie word for it. people in the lake and drowned them, For the reader's convenience, here which august body yours truly con­ they were kind enough to pronounce is a chart I was able to piece to­ sidered himself a member, despite Career Carnival Revisited them innocent. O'Brien was not only gether listing the girls and the dates whatever doubts may have festered O'Brien was tried under two counts: screwed from the beginning; he got on which they were supposed to have away in the minds of the rests of the "accosting and soliciting" and "being screwed twice at the end. been approached. The list isn't per­ corps) included three little old men a disorderly person in a public place.'*, The trial lasted nine days. I didn't fect, but neither is anything else: 'who sat at the rear, obviously happy However, the jury was allowed to find jump on the bandwagon until the Marion Lukens.- May 27 at 11:30 fifth day, at which point it sudden­ am at the MSU Union. June 2 at 9:30 ly occurred to me that there was a pm at Grand River and Harrison. story involved, an Erie Stanley Gard­ Linda Outcalt: May 3 at 1:00 pm ner of at least the second magnitude. on the MSU campus. So, throwing an entire week of classes Christine LeGassey: May 6 at 5:00 to the winds, I marched myself down pm on the MSU campus. to the Lansing Township Justice Court Beth Shapiro: June 2 at 7:00 pm and sat through five days of mildly at Grand River near Abbott. fascinating and exceptionally frus­ Mrs. Diane Slater: Last January trating judicial merrymakings. I came continued on poge 10 The Water Closet Where There's A Will... By W. C. BLANTON There is a major league football Brodie and John David Crow. They Fearsome Foursome can be every­ acceptable to the front office as a team which plays its home games in had to cope with twenty or so other where at once, as John Brodie and source of talent, at least if it's go­ Michigan, but it played this weekend 49-ers and the rest of the Detroit Manty Stickles proceeded to demon­ ing to cost very much. And who else in East Lansing, not San Francisco. team and coaching staff. strate. In four plays, the Lions pro­ in the NFL or any other professional, On October 22, Michigan State put it Sunday, the Detroit Lions of 1966, gressed from poor pass coverage to semi-pros or amateur league would all together, for thirty minutes at members of the National Football no pass coverage, as everyone suc­ attempt to dive play in a third-and- least, and not even Bob Griese, League, firmly entrenched them­ cessfully remained at least 15 yards 21 situation? a Golden Girl, 200 flag carriers, selves in the front rank of incom­ away from Stickles while he scored twenty gaily dancing tuba players, petents right up there with the Boston the winning touchdown. Football fans look to Coach (a title, and THE WORLD'S BIGGEST DRUM Bruins, New York Knicks, and Chicago It isn't really fair to criticize Milt not a function) Harry Gilmer's De­ could save Purdue from the on­ Cubs. Nobody could blow a four-point Plum or the defense for the Lions' troit Lions only for comic relief, slaught. On October 23, the Detroit lead with only 51 seconds remaining trouble, for the situation in Detroit is for they really are that bad. The team Lions had a game with the SF Forty- in a football game—nobody but Tu- so hopelessly snarled that it is ri­ would have a difficult time in the, Niners. lane, Wake Forest and the Lions. diculous. The coach and his play­ Southeast Conference—and they have Two weeks ago, one of the Lions Despite grumbling and back-biting ers, including the team captain, com­ to go onto the field with the Green lay injured, and football fans across so prevalent that even cliques can't plain about each other, while the Bay Packers Sunday. It will be an­ the country sighed in relief when they form, it looked for a brief time as owner compalins about everything. other long, long afternoon for Karras realized that it was Number 16. At if Detroit was actually going to win The player draft seems to be un- and Company. last Harry Gilmer was forced to use a game. It was naturally enough a a new technique—the quarterback. come-from-behind effort, as the Enter Karl Sweetan, who had a 99- Lions are so rarely leading; but Smaller Turning radius yard touchdown pass and four other Sweetan had engineered a strong completions on his record. drive, even with time a factor, and Sweetan came through Sunday, and Detroit had a 24-20 lead. so did Tom Nowatzke. However, they The shock was too much for the weren't playing two-on-two with John defensive backfield. Not even the

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By CHAR JOLLES that decisions re promotions, appoint­ "Contribution to the department ly the forces of destruction. There ments and' reappointments, because isn't just to the individual class­ is every indication that their criti­ The fact that Gary Groat, editorial they involve value judgments, cannot room, but to the general working cisms did not simply rock the boat, adviser to Zeitgeist, and a fellow possibly be free from considerations of the department....it means posi­ but threatened, in the eyes of the dissenter were not reappointed to of personality. tive, constructive contribution, be­ committee, the very foundation of their posts in the Department of (5) We have no grounds to accuse cause a department like this has ob­ the community of scholars within the American Thought and Language, the committee members of submit­ viously a big problem in what might department. Somehow, it seems, seems to uphold the maxim that he ting to pressure from the administra­ be called community effort. Groat challenged too much too vio­ who lives by the sword will, in all tion. "If you have a community effort lently, and the community cast him orobability, die by it. With these ground rules in mind, one of the important things is ob­ out. This cliche may be our only guide we can begin to extrapolate blood viously the staff members* relation­ The issue doesn't stop here. The in understanding the advisery com­ from the turnip and, the Department ship to that community of effort. committee's action seems justified mittee's decision to terminate the of ATL notwithstanding, interpret "It gets complicated—it's the whole from its own perspective; but it is positions of Groat and Ken Lawless the committee's action. problem of the individual and society, just as sound to challenge that per­ as ATL instructors.* The interview with Ben Strandness, and the paradox of liberty under law... spective. What is for the good of Terminations are not uncommon, chairman of the department, was the "One of our problems is with social the community anyway? Perhaps the of course, but Groat claims the jury most revealing. While a fish tank disintegration. department will run more smoothly, was stacked. That claim is easy to gurgled pleasantly in the corner, and "At the multiversity....there is a without Groat and Lawless, but does swallow. After all, when the master­ a State News competitor hovered tendency for the institution to fly that consideration alone justify exile? mind behind a controversial literary outside and grudgingly waited his turn, apart. What do you do to keep things The burden rests with the com­ magazine and one of his colleagues, Strandness listed for me some of the from flying apart?" mittee to prove that the two thorns both with reputations as dissenters, considerations which make up the pro­ This perspective came through in its side were fatal—otherwise, lose their jobs, it is easy—perhaps motion policy. again and again in other interviews, from out here, it looks indeed as too easy—to see the whole affair —Professional publication ("You but less abstractly (as with two though somebody got screwed. as an unjustifiable purge. see the tangle immediately. What do professors): Data Is hard to come by in a case you mean by 'professional' publica­ "If you throw a rock through the like this. First of all, Groat admits tion?"); President's (LBJ? Hannah?) window, he is saving a few enlightening tid­ —Research underway, fellowships, don't be surprised if he objects." bits for his own editorial in the next offices in professional organizations; "I know how I would react to re­ Zeitgeist. Secondly, what may be —Good teaching. ("One thing that hiring someone who made the public relevant information — namely, the has tied the profession in knots is statements about the department Gary relationship of the two men to mem­ the question of what consitutes a has made. I'd be outraged, not by his bers of the department and their pro­ good teacher. It's a complicated busi­ criticism, but by his petulance and fessional qualifications—is a per­ ness. In this area of professional contempt." (The "public statements sonal matter. Finally, all the faculty competence and responsibility you about the department" appeared in members I interviewed spoke en­ get back again to imponderables, an editorial in Zeitgeist, April, 1966.) tirely in abstractions, which seemed immeasurables. What it gets down My theory, which grants integrity too remote from the issue to be to is the question of the committee's to the advisery committee and re­ relevant. integrity."); jects Zeitgeist qua Zeitgeist as a After interviews with several —Normal progress towards the factor, is as follows: Groat, and faculty members, however, it became doctoral degree; perhaps Lawless, represent not evident that their abstractions formed —Promise in scholarly activity; merely the voices of dissent within a pattern; it became easier and easier —And contributions to the work the department, but more significant­ to read between the. lines. of the department. "before' we begin to extrapolate, it is Strandness lingered here; he necessary to establish some ground couldn't seem to elaborate enough rules. on the question of contribution to the (1) We must realize that the two department. The following is what men could well have been considered he said, almost verbatim, on that individually by the committee. Their subject: cases seem to be related, however, because neither of them can think of any good reason for the loss of their posts—except that they have both been outspoken critics of the depart­ One anonymous caller said he had phones than he can wear, let his poe­ ment. sent the following poBtcard to Presi­ try be recorded on yards of computer (2) We cannot assume that Zeit­ dent Hannah in response to Zeit­ magnetic tape, and let his turns of geist qua Zeitgeist had anything to geist's call last week: language be carefully analyzed by do with the decision. It seems rea­ "Allen Ginsberg is at the crux electrical engineers. Smother him in sonable to attribute to the six com­ of the entire multiversity problem. the thick blanket of the State News. mittee members an understanding of Let him gaze with orlgastic pleasure "If he and his L.S.D. disciples at Beaumont Tower, MAC making the value of artistic expression, whe­ can somehow insidiously be con­ ther or not it's well done. #ay for progress, MSC and MSU. verted to palindromism, their para­ Declare him OFFICIALLY porno­ (3) We have every reason to assume noid defenses will collapse. The graphic, and then begin to make that the members of the committee means is, of course, latent Mass love to him. He won't need LSD." are men of integrity, and that there Media, a proverbial enemy of acid- (Zeitgeist still requests that post­ is some worth somehow in their de­ heads. cards about Ginsberg be mailed to cision. Frederic Reeve, an ATL pro­ "When Ginsberg arrives in East President Hannah by Saturday, in fessor on the committee, has a long order that they arrive in concert history as a forthright critic of every­ Lansing, offer to put him on campus television to lecture before classes next Monday. 319 Administration thing from God's universe to the ATL Building.) department, and as an outspoken de­ of hundreds. Give him more micro­ fender of human freedoiri. Yet he can accept the majority determination of the committee in good conscience. (4) We must sympathetically realize thoughts have wings THE PAPER ^^ * Robert Fogarty's position as ATL instructor was also terminated. 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By LARRY TATE fireside Chat My column this week is not going' Everything is simple, heartbreak­ to have any transition sentences. If ing, larger than life: the Spanish you wish to discover its secret inner people fight for their freedom and coherence, you might try a restrained dignity against the forces of ortho­ psychological approach. doxy, reaction, death. Michigan State, right now, has the Again and again I found myself best chance it's ever going to have moved almost to tears for no reason to get a good quarterly literary I could really pin down. I think it magazine. Peggy Case, editor of the has to do with a scene Orwell de­ Red Cedar Review, is trying her best scribes in "Homage to Catalonia": to bring out a good and RELEVANT "It was like an allegorical picture magazine in January. If you or anyone of war; the trainload of fresh men you know writes good, relevant es­ gliding proudly up the line, the maimed says, stories, poetry, or miscellan­ men sliding slowly down, and all the eous, remember: RCR needs itworse while the guns on the open trucks than you/your friend do/does. What making one's heart leap as guns al­ you submit won't be just decently in­ ways do, and reviving that pernicious terred, as in past years. Promise. feeling, so difficult to get rid of, Deadline is November 14 or there­ that war IS glorious after all," abouts. By now we all know of the accident, End of sincere plug. the carnage, the stupidity, the insanity (Is that a transition sentence? of war; we all know that what glory Sorry.) there is comes blood-spattered and I won't actually apologize for my compromised. Yet, to quote another ] review of "The Shop on Main Street" Orwell line, "No bomb that ever last week; I just sort of wish I'd burst cari shatter the crystal spirit." given it four stars and left it at that. "To Die in Madrid" gives us the I've got more letters than ever be­ crystal spirit of the Spanish War, fore (one) intelligently disagreeing and war IS made glorious. with my review of "Dear John." I After all. probably overstated the negative case, I admit, because everybody had been overstating the positive. I'll accept, say, D wight Macdonald's middle- THE GOSPEL ACCORDING ground review in this month's Es­ TO SAINT MATTHEW quire. In the first issue I implied that the For all kinds of reasons, it's hard State Theatre was no better than its to be fair to "The Gospel Accord­ Walt Disney festivals. The manage­ ing to Saint Matthew." To start with ment has been conducting a fabulous the obvious, I have no idea whether campaign to prove me wrong; we've or not a Christian would respond try to get around it. He gives us all young, attractive, blank, and hard, been having a masterpiece a week differently, in any important way, austere, virtually constanttalk, brok­ yet desperately innocent somehow- since the term, started. Everybody be from the way I did. '••• — ^- .- ,,.,,-. en .by an occasional subdued miracle, Just before they swoop down to slaugh­ grateful, and go often. I found most of the film (by no some interludes with John the Bap­ ter the children of Bethlehem. Thatls means all — I'll come to that) quite tist, and not much else. /hat soldiers look like — watch newd tedious, and it's clear to me why: Now, to a Christian, this might be ilms of Vietnam sometime, if you the story of Christ is, until his final far more absorbing than I found it vant to see. TO DIE IN MADRID betrayal, essentially undramatic. Ex­ to be. I just can't say- And the Crucifixion scene builds cept for the miracles, the entire cen­ Anyway, it's hard to be fair to the detail on detail — one of the thieves' This week is Frederic Rossif's "To ter of the gospel (and, consequently, film just because it's so uneven. It screams and contorted face as the Die in Madrid." This is a beautiful the film) is taken up with the gradu­ begins beautifully, subsides into hiRh- lails are pounded into his hands; film, one of the best documentaries al exposition of a body of doctrine class but nearly unbroken lethargy, Mary's near-hysteria, crying and ever made. When I first saw it, I or, if you prefer, a collection of and finally, amazingly, explodes as stumbling toward her son as people knew nothing about the Spanish Civil religious aphorisms. the Crucifixion approaches into some­ helplessly try to calm her — until War — except for whatever I got out Christ walks and walks, tailed by thing like greatness. What do you DO the aggregate of detail leaps the of "For Whom the Bell Tolls," which the apostles, and lectures constantly, with a picture like that? spark gap and becomes fierce, rag­ can't have been much, since all I about the lilies of the field and be­ Pasolini's approach is close to ing poetry. The whole sequence is one remember is everybody standing a- coming as a little child and forgiv­ plain old neo-realism. Filmed (often of the best things you'll ever see on round saying, "I obscenity in the milk ing seventy times seven times and, with a hand-held camera) almost en­ film. of your mother." Anyway, I went well, the whole works. Even if you tirely out of doors in (I guess) rural And I come back to where I start­ mostly from duty; but after seeing didn't see "The Greatest Story Ever Italy, the picture is full of things we ed: I found most of the film quite the film that long-ago war became as Told" a few weeks ago (as I did), could associate with DeSica: faces, tedious. Maybe being aN Christian much a part of my experience as you've heard it all before. for example, continual studies of can save it; maybe an extraordinary Vietnam. In "Greatest Story," George Ste­ wizened, weatherbeaten, beautifully actor as Christ could have saved it. The film is oversimplified, sure, vens tried to get around the prob­ ugly and uglily beautiful peasant faces. It's one of the horrible ironies of if not downright false. It tells of the, lem by hammering home the miracles What Pasolini does is to ask him­ the movie business that Pasolini could struggle of (as the narration puts and Christ's spreading renown, and self, given the known historical facts, never have afforded Max VonSydow, it) "an army against a people." No­ managed to get a certain excitement what the actual events must have who at the same time was struggling where is there any indication of the out of the situation; even so, he looked and sounded like. It should be against hopeless odds to bring Christ mean backstairs party politics de­ failed. Pier Paolo Pasolini, who di­ obvious Just how revolutionary this to life for George Stevens. VonSydow scribed by, say, George Orwell. rected this Italian film, doesn't even approach is. and Pasolini together could have made The film opens with a scene show­ a Passion Play for the ages. ing Mary pregnant and Joseph hurt, angry, and bewildered, not under­ standing. He walks away from her morosely, to brood. Suddenly a girl o in white appears to him and tells "Khartoum" has arrived in Lan­ him that Mary's child is the Son of sing. You have to put up with an God. (I wish I were enough of an awful lot to get the approximately artist to explain to you why that ten minutes of Laurence Olivier you'd girl really LOOKED like an angel, probably enjoy. If you have time, the first convincing angel I've ever money, and patience, you might try seen.) He goes back to Mary and they It. "Khartoum," by the way, tries exchange joyful, understanding to glorify war, but its heroic char­ smiles. acter is played by Charlton Heston, Again and again we get beauti­ who is about as movingly heroic as ful little details, so that we think: one of those bronze statues of mounted yes, that's right, that's how it must generals found in public parks. You nave been. Salome and her mother can; almost see the pigeons circling scheme to get the king to kill John his head. the Baptist the Way mothers and Next week I'll take on "Dr. Zhi- daughters we know scheme to get a vago." If you haven't seen it, it's new formal out of Dad. The camera worth your time. But that's about carefully goes over the faces of a all. group of soldiers on a hillside— End of relevant miscellaneous. S.F. Mime Troupe The Theater Of The Absorbed By MICHAEL KINDMAN The auditorium of Ann Arbor High doors, thrown around in ball games School is big, airy, luxurious and and in bed with a topless girl. Very jfcterile, like the rest of the school fa st-paced and imaginative; water­ building. Filled with college students, melons everywhere. The stereotype undergraduates, faculty people and lives, in fact harmless unless you re­ ACLU types dressed in every kind of fuse to let it be. nonconformist and hippie clothing, it The film over, the interlocutor looked like a convocation of the meek, (the overstuffed straight man for the meeting to decide what to do with the minstrels) announces a fifteen-minute earth they had just inherited. intermission complete with "social Last Saturday night, under the au­ dancing" on the stage between the spices of Ann Arbor Students for a minstrels and selected young ladies Democratic Society, they had in­ from the audience. orXDivil Rights in aXTracker Barrel' herited the auditorium for an evening The intermission, as much as any the Mime Troupe's tour de force has been agitating audiences jn its of racial guilt and catharsis. of the performance itself, defines does not end simply with a polemic home city for seven years, by pro­ It was the San Francisco Mime the radical nature of the Mime on the need for brotherhood and ducing plays with obviously political Troupe's "A Ministrel Show, or'Civil Troupe's presentation. Instead of pro­ equality. Rather, it ends with the messages and undeniable esthetic Rights in a Cracker Barrel'" — a viding a relief from the midia-mix minstrels all removing their white value in parks, on street corners, rendering of the ironies and injustices pressures of the show, it continues gloves, unceremoniously but also very in theaters and clubs. It represents of America's treatment of the Negro, the theme by bringing the black spec­ hard to miss, showing four pairs either the newest thing in theater, done all in blackface, with accom­ tres of rationality right out into the of white hands and two black, and a theater of ideas which insists on paniment that seems inspired by the audience, most of which is standing the white actors ordering the Ne­ showing up unexpectedly in people's Fugs. The super-cool audience knew in the lobby already stunned. In the groes to clean up the stage and do lives wherever a message needs re­ what to expect—a clash with all the background, a slow chanting song this and that task back in the dress­ lating, or a return to one of the old­ black-white stereotypes of our twisted whose central line is "white men ing rooms. "Yes, massa." est concepts in theater, theater as history. But the Mime Troupe did not heaven is black man hell" plays spontaneous conviviality meant to en­ make it as easy as, say, "In White over and over. The program notes: "We present tertain and provoke. (The troupe's America." It did not simply take the our Minstrel Show, a Northern pro­ best-known project in San Francisco audience into its confidence and know­ The second "act," if it can be duct, for those who live in the streets has been its summer seasons of ingly preach about racial ignorance identified as that, centers on modern (irony?), by those who live in the "commedia dell'arte," quick-paced marring the American dream. problems of the Negro stereotype- streets. We know, we fear, and we shows, both classical and original, Instead, the"radical theater" of the that is, urban discontent and rioting, rage on." put on free in the city parks, their Mime Troupe puts the audience where police brutality, white liberals, the Later: "We will continue to risk strong politics leading to arrest and it quite possibly belongs: right in the white man's wars, and a confronta­ amateur status, and our own egos in harassment.) action, on the side of the ignorance tion with "The Reverend Brother, order to keep the search

William Hanley's "Slow Dance on parison that can be pushed quite a the Killing Ground" opened Tuesday way), has a great facility with a sort night in Fairchild. I knew before I of intelligent, calculatedly colloquial went that the director had been obliged mockery or self-mockery. Drawing for various reasons to put the pro­ mostly on this facility, he quickly duction together in an unusually short and skillfully sketches in the charac­ time. What we saw Tuesday night ters of the Negro and the girl; the was essentially a preview, although German, who remains resolutely a preview of a brilliant production. solemn, eludes him. A. Leon Wheeler, one of the three His most significant achievement, cast members, has an enormously though, is the creation of an atmos­ difficult role, which, given time, I phere of lurking terror. Subtly, in­ have no doubt he can master. Tues­ sistently, he impresses on us the day night he stumbled or mumbled isolation of the shop, the danger in through enough lines to disrupt the the lightless street outside; the shop rumbles around setting up his Theme menacing set the characters prowl mood rather badly. Suspension of is nondescript, dimly lit, shadowy; the dialogue gets pretentious enough and spring, retreat into shadow and disbelief can only be carried so far. the frightening darkness outside fil­ to make you retch. plunge into light. Nothing is over­ Further, whether it was because I ters into the room until, at the end, But, on another level, he's on to stated. of where I was sitting or whatever, only a match lights the stage. The something. What he's on to (what, Sidney Berger is a splendid direc­ a great many lines ( including the darkness, in fact, is the fourth charac­ in their way, people who write scary tor of plays with small casts (in final, most crucial speech in the ter in the play. stories set in old dark houses are the past, "Long Day's Journey Into play) were simply inaudible. on to) is fear, of the deepest and Wight" and "Oh, Dad, Poor Dad"), I can't, therefore, judge the play Hanley is saying that the world most terrible kind; fear without an indt in concept I couldn't fault any or the production with nearly the is a "killing ground," a dark place objecti We don't have to believe 5f the actors. Wheeler is required confidence I'd like to; certain things, in which guilt, isolation, violence, that the world is a killing ground to keep us a flow of fast, flip, cool however, can be said about both, and death are the only realities. to be afraid of the dark, and at and articulate chatter, and he simply Hanley's premise is unelaborate but The girl naively tries to help the his best and most suggestive, Han­ hasn't learned it all yet. When he suggestive: late one night, a wild, others, but she is, you might say, ley evokes in us the fears Christo­ does, it should be a remarkable per­ morbid young Negro and a girl look­ shot down; Hanley needed a push­ pher Isherwood has described: formance. The problem is that the ing for an abortionist separately take over liberal to say all the things "Death and its army of fears. Not Negro has a lot of cloyingly preten­ refuge in a small candy store on a you and I would say if only that the acknowledged fears, the fears tious lines (like a long bit about a street without lights, in a dangerous, darkness weren't there. She learns, that are advertised. More dreadful "hole in my heart") that I suspect deserted area of Brooklyn. The pro­ finally. ._••••, „£han those: the private fears of child­ could be made plausible by-an-actor prietor is an old German with terrible Now, I don't accept Hanley's phi­ hood. Fear of the height of the high- capable of creating a large, flam­ memories of the Nazi era. They talk, losophy any more than you do (or, dive, fear of the farmer's dog and boyant personality. As it stands, the jab at each other's defenses, and, the vicar's pony, fear of the dark personality isn't sufficiently filled I daresay, Hanley does). Intellectual­ in and the dialogue suffers. -finally, reveal their secrets and con­ ly, there's nothing in the play that passage, fear of splitting your fin­ front themselves. would stand up under analysis or even gernail with a chisel." As the German, Raleigh J. Miller Hanley, like Edward Albee (a corn- a penetrating glance; and as Hanley Where Hanley goes wrong (where (incidentally, WHY do actors use all the stories about old dark houses those Idiotic initials? Just asking.) go wrong, usually) is in trying to is quietly competent in a part that give us realistic explanations for the calls for dignity and quiet competence OFF-CAMPUS RESIDENTS, fear he's evoked. The German turns and not much else. His long con­ out to be spiritually guilty of the fession speech is tedious and I don't EXERCISE!!! death of his Jewish wife and son; see what any actor could have done the Negro turns out to have come with it. (Second incidentally: the Keep Physically Fit! from killing his mother. Big deal. character kept reminding me of Rod It falls flat, the way any realistic Steiger in "The Pawnbroker," even JOIN THE OFF-CAMPUS explanation would. Sort of in the way down to some identical lines. Sympto­ matic?) FITNESS LEAGUE that the imaginary child falls flat in "Virginia Woolf." Martha isn't Marti Maraden does to perfection Many students who live within a mile distance from your place of resi­ afraid of living withouth the imagin­ the Goodhearted, Hard-Luck Jewish of the central campus area have been dence); ary child, dammit. She's afraid of Girl from the Bronx. Her establish­ too lazy to drive to class. They have 2. Drive to Parking Lot "Y" (in­ Virginia Woolf. And Hanley's charac­ ing monologues are beautifully done; been walking to class rather than tak­ conveniently located on the far side of ters aren't afraid of the police or she suffers from having to serve ing full advantage of parking in Park­ campus); the burden of guilt or the RAF; they're as a convenient straw man in the last ing Lot Y, the commuiters* parking 3. Take a campus bus (which will afraid of the DARK. ict. lot. probably leave you inconveniently far This should have been a theatre- I'm talked out. If you have tickets To combat this unhealthful sloth, away from your class); and of-the-absurd play, not a botched go. If you don't have tickets, don't the O-CFL has been initiated. All 4. Follow the reverse procedure realistic one. Pinter, for example, knock yourself out getting them, but members must take the pledge fo AL­ for leaving campus. knows about the fears you can't ex­ don't tell yourself you won't be miss­ WAYS commute according to O-CFL REMEMBER — driving exercises plain. Hanley didn't have the courage ing anything either. • rules: the arms as well as the legs! of his insight. I. Walk to your car (which is The production brings otit the best probably inconveniently parked some dole-walker in the play. In the dim, vaguely

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The Mills of the Gods Grind Slow­ ly Award: Reuters last week an­ nounced that the Sheriff of Notting­ Friends of THE PAPER ham in England recently pardoned Robin Hood and his merry men "Sheriff Elliot Durham," Reuters reported, "rode into a thickly wood­ ed area of Sherwood Forest to read the brief proclamation: "His illuminated scroll stated: *I, the sheriff of Nottingham, do hereby exonerate you, Robin Hood and your archers, from all accusations of acts 33 Union contrary to law and order of the past*." Two weeks ago, THE PAPER published several articles discussing Careers *66, the university's annual employment recruiting carnival for industry and government. We pointed out then some of the financial con­ The Land Grant Pocketbook nections between the university and the "military-industrial complex,** By STUART DOWTY that spectre of dollar-based totalitarianism against which President Eisen­ hower warned in his Farewell Address. We asked some questions about the possibility of the university's being a center of detached inquiry when it is, Critics of the American "multi­ dustry; some of it comes from earned apparently , integrally tied into the economic life of the nation. The paper versities" have argued that higher income on investments made by MSU. by Stuart Dowty of which excerpts are printed here was the source of much education is threatened by.- 1) the A general picture of donors to of the information in our Careers '66 articles. The excerpts here answer influence and control of academic MSU can be presented: The largest some of the questions we raised then. More answers are to be found in a institutions by "Big Business" and amount of money given to the uni­ paper published by the National Coordinating Committee to End the War in "Big business Government'*, and 2) versity is from the U.S. government. Viet Nam, discussing war contracts at the University of Wisconsin. This the related posture of the universi­ Among the governmental grants, the paper, entitled "Blood Money," as well as further research by David ties to "serve" these interests by largest are in the areas of inter­ Brodeur of MSU Students for a Democratic Society, will be the source providing them with research, tech­ national programs, the sciences, material for a further article on the war economy next week—exploring nical skills, and trained personnel. HEW, and the military. Industrial the redistribution of money that results from concentration of government It is hoped that this report will interests are second to the govern­ spending on war materials.—The Editors. raise sdme questions regarding these ment as donors to MSU; a signifi­ charges by investigating, in some cant amount of the money from these sources is designated for interna­ detail, the financial dealings of one MSU also listed as Investments a garding where MSU funds are in­ of America's largest public univer­ tional programs. Private gifts and vested? There seems to be little sities: Michigan State University. scholarship and fellowship funds bring sizable sum which was used to float in a little over a million dollars a some of its own bonds, and also evidence to support any direct re­ Michigan State University received year to MSU. Agricultural interests holds some real estate for invest­ lationship between the two activities. a total of $37,283,066.00 during 1964- contribute very little to MSU, and ment purposes. MSU earns approxi­ It may be added, however, that friend­ 65 from the Michigan Legislature. firms in the fields of utilities, bank­ mately half a million dollars a year ly and personal relationships between This was, however, only 35.7 per ing and finance, and communications from its investments. a business firm and MSU which have cent of the total income for MSU (radio and television) and transpor­ The picture of MSU investment been established through either one during that year. Also, MSU collect­ tation contribute even less. can be summarized as follows: Al­ or the other of these activities might ed over 11 million dollars from most 40 per cent of the funds MSU also facilitate the expansion of the student fees, accounting for another A second question regarding the has invested are in government notes relationship into the second area. 10.8 per cent of its total income. money which is given to MSU con­ and bonds. Almost 30 per cent is C. Is the public university—using Thus, over half of the money coming cerns how it is used. The general placed in banks and financial com­ MSU as an example—part of any into MSU during the year came from picture of the use of gifts and grants panies (both in deposits and stocks). "military-industrial complex*' in the sources other than the state legis­ at MSU is: Over one quarter of the Fourteen per cent is invested in United States? If the university were lature and student fees. money received is spent in the Natural industrial and manufacturing con­ solely dependent upon funds from In 1964-65 the income from the Sciences; another quarter is spent cerns. About 8 per cent is invested state appropriations and student fees Morrill-Nelson Act was listed as in International programs and pro­ in utilities and 7 per cent in MSU*s a good case could be argued that it being only $385,948 which is well jects. General scholarship aid and own bonds and real estate. Small was independent of any such elite. under one per cent of the Univer­ administrative activities receive amounts are placed in communica­ However, MSU*s direct grants from sity's total income. Other revenue, about one fifth of the money. The tions and transportation businesses the military services are over three- approximately 20 per cent, was areas of agriculture, business and and in agriculture. quarters of a million dollars—a sum brought in through "auxiliary acti­ services, education, and the social Among many questions Which might that cannot be ignored by any ob­ vities" run by the university, i.e., sciences4 split the remaining quar­ be raised concerning the facts above server. As long as MSU remains so activities maintained in relation to ter. The humanities and fine arts are the following: completely involved with the govern­ the operation of campus facilities receive nothing significant. mental and corporate elites in the A. Does the income from sources U.S. it seems appropriate to include as the bus service, parking, book­ Another area of university finance other than state appropriations and store, food services, etc. student fees effect the nature of the MSU in any general "power struc­ vTBiis, there remains a considerable totally independent from the state. ture" or financial and political "com­ appropriated funds and student fees university's academic programs? If plex.** amOunT lrf~" money coming into the is the sum which MSU has invested so, how? university which is from sources in various stocks, bonds and corpor­ It's impossible to be certain what D. Is MSU's reputation as an "agri­ other than the state legislature, stu­ ate notes. In total, the 1964-65 Fi­ things would be like if this money cultural" school deserved? Only 1.75 dent fees, Land Grant funds, or nancial Report listed more than $45 was not coming into the university, per cent of the money donated to MSU •'auxiliary activities." Most of this million that MSU has invested: these but it does appear reasonable to came from agricultural interests; money (the amount yet to be account­ included governmental notes and conclude that much of the research about the same amount came from ed for), we shall see, comes from bonds, common stocks, corporate in the natural sciences, and almost the Department of Agriculture as part the U.S. government and from in­ notes and bonds, and blank deposits. all of the international programs, of the federal government's grants. depend upon this money for theii Of the total amount received by MSU existence. It also seems significant in grants and gifts, only 8.02 percent that this money is being channelled was spent in the field of agriculture. Chart A into rather specialized research pro­ Finally, of the more than $45 million Oranta and gifts to !*SU : Cltissified by wtur* of donor grams rather than into the general which MSU has invested, only 1.34 educational programs of the uni­ per cent is placed in agriculturally related businesses. The answer to These auma are those Amds which the university received versity. tar sponsored extensions, sponsored reserrch, fellowships. the question must be no. scholarships and undesignated gift funds. B. Does money from this "inde­ pendent** income effect decisions re­ E. Can one find significant rela- $ * continued on page }\ 1. Agriculture 296,9>2.7U 1.75 S 2. Industry & Kanufao* turing 2,60k,BI'6.6b 15.32 :' .'•'... *3. U.S. Government 11,723,SU5.66 68.96 Utilities IMAGINE!* Stinilitiii ** 61,836.00 0.31*7 5. Banking & Finance 22,925.00 0.135 6. Communication a end Transportation 3,000.00 0.02 NEW Bnarterlj - ?. Miscellaneous 2,319,1*31.1*7 13-61* •'• S 17,032,557.611 100.216 < open minded # Breakdown of Government errnts: A. Health, Bducotlon, Welfare; and and friendly similar agenoles $ 6,694,159.18 - B. Military (armed services and civil ;. defense) 756,272.86 C. Agriculture 330,06a.96 D. Other (A.I.O. , etc.) 3,91*3,01*1* .66 V 11,723,51+$.66

*» Breakdown of Miscellaneous:

A. Private flfts and estates 330,376.61* B. Research orgs nidations 78,090.97 C. State Agenda a 121,183.30 D. Educational o rgantzetlona 221»,122.1*9 ;'•-:".: B, MSU Programs ind Services 512,81*8.70 r. Fellowship, Scholarship pnd (old name, new scene) — Memorial Funds 1,052,810.37 • .;-;. 2.319,li31.47 manuscripts accepted 325 morrill hall The Ends Of The Earth, Revisited

To the Editor: never considered myself big, import­ damn. Because he spends his first This letter is in reference to Brad­ ant or intelligent (perhaps the reason six months learning the ropes of his ford Lang's recent article "At the I never got very far in the multi­ job (which doesn't vary from base to ends of the earth" in your Sept. 29 versity) and never took part in dem­ base) and the other seven thinking PAPER. It is part agreement, part onstrations. In all respects, you might about home. Because he spends eight rebuttal, part advice, part pet theory say (and rightly), I was a nothing, hours sleeping in hi6 own bed, eight destined to lead said type of life. To the Editor: (from the vantage point of daily ob- hours in his new-found girl-friend's During the past school year I read servation)and part sounding off about More later, but I digress now. bed and eight hours thinking of how THE PAPER with some faithfulness nothing in particular. Lang seems to think (almost like de short he's getting. and was often enlightened, occasion­ Before taking exception with some Toqueville, though not as perceptive­ Yeh, you tell me about Joe Airman, ally amused, and thoroughly outraged two-thirds of said article, it might ly) he can stereotype the average soph major in history living at Fee a time or two. On balance I agree perhaps be best to give some back­ 'fly-boy." Perhaps. Probably, as a dorm. For every one you give me, with your recent editorial—you should ground information on the author of matter of fact, but hardly after one I'll show you 1,000 goof offs, 1,000 have some sense of satisfaction about this treatise. month on tour with a USO group. apathetic, incompetent, inept, ineffi­ "being THE PAPER." I am a 24-year-old airman second Here at Osan Air Base, Korea (con­ cient non-existent average American However, one note bothered me— class (the next lowest to oblivion), sidered a hardship tour, but nothing boys who choose a career in the Air you sounded downright smug. The way a college drop-out (after 118 semester less than paradise for the average Force "because it's easy." Sure it's I occasionally find myself sounding hours at CCNY), an individual who airman, single or otherwise), "he" easy. The Air Force is just a big, when teaching a class loaded with never cared for much besides bridge comprises some 98 per cent of the impersonal mother where a fellow can freshmen. Sir, this ought not to be. and girls (a rather strange combina­ troops. You might be interested in hide, a big soft, warm and secure Sincerely yours, tion if you know any bridge addicts), some of the statistics. During a 13- womb behind whose screen he can con­ a non-f rat man and a teetotaler (known month tour here, the airman (this tinue breathing—the US Air Force, W. Fred Graham, Asst. Prof. includes sergeants and officers) av­ Justic Morrill College to lushes as a stick-in-the-mud). I where he can curse, get drunk and not erages 4 cases of NSU, one of gon­ care and yet condone his actions "be­ orrhea and .6 of syphilis. Of 3,000 cause everyone else does it too," |On base, estimates range from 2,000 (again, sergeants and officers in­ to 2,300 go down on normal week day cluded). nights, another 400 on week-ends and ail but 100 on payday nights. Impos­ No, Lang. Worthy and noble as your NEQ-CJLASSIIIED idea is, it just isn't the answer. The ing, aren't they? answer lies somewhere in the phil­ Coming Events Lang says that Joe Airman's mood osophy of the country, something "is one of despair and boredom. which has been bred and spread. You FLAWLESS Gibson J-45 with hard­ He couldn't care less about what he is New Year's Celebration and post­ shell case. Call 489-0648 or see can choose your own reasons why. doing, he follows the pro teams at I'll just tell you the facts. poned observance of Battle of Ronnie at Paramount News. home religiously, smokes heavily and Nechtansmere to be, Sunday, Mott's likes to get into fights." Bravo I He My experiences in the Air Force East! Interested are invited, also: For Rent: One room apartment, pri­ have been such that a much con­ UFCP, M-20-M, The Mott, Crooked also hates the base, rounds up lovely templated book, if handled with care, House, BAP, WMUA, and (if exist­ vate, inexpensive (cheap). On East Playboy pin-ups and his taste runs, could be a best seller. All I've ing) Counter-M-20-Ml Direct in- Michigan, Lansing. Call 487-5715, predictably, to "Fuck the Air Force," seen are just so many bodies; capable quiries—35192161 after 6. or similar type literature. Again, of impregnating enough girls to make bravol the Sultans look sterile; just so many Personal Very perceptive, Lang. Would you bodies without heads. It?s tragic *.. • Congratulations to the world on its care to tell me how more USO shows And therein rests my case. 5970th birthday this Saturday at 9 CORNLORD would make these savages a bit more a.m. We wish you many more. From tame? Or an MSU project? I'm in­ The Long-Awaited. Half-*Assed Bi­ the ADS-Math-Dorm Crowd—the only top cat needs seeing eye dog, must terested in your fairy tale about Joe ography of Myself by an Observer... group oh campus with two 100 per get baboon off back, gaining -on- Airman being a soph history major in and other assorted trash not worth cent pure people—Saint George and vegetable-expres s steal uncle henry* s Fee dorm. Tell me more. mentioning: the Bunny. For more information call carhorn and blow. 638 hagadorn. Better yet, let me enlighten you Since joining the great legions of 353-1271 or 353-1363. first. We have a 10-lane bowling great UNITED STATES Air Force Groovie Susie—feet are for walking alley that is almost bankrupt for want heroes, my inferiority complex has Wanted through leaves. Bacardi is for of business; a theater which shows turned to one of superiority. This smarties. Bigots carry champagne first-class films to empty seats, but could be attributed to one of a number WANTED: Someone to love my room­ bottles. I'll stay awhile, but remem­ Frankenstein Meets Billy The Kid to of reasons, the most probable of which mate. Must be male, moral, and not ber it's just a state of mind. a packed house; a library with several are either that 1) I am really far interested in getting married during (????????????????????????????????) thousand books touched only by the superior, or 2) I am too dumb to next two years. Best if age 20 or Later. . .when you're in Boston, look librarian's hands. We have a slot car know better, or 3) I'm crazy. older, upper middle class, Protestant, me up. I'll treat you to a nickel bag racing track that, for want of business, Somethow, though, I've found enough objective, scientific, healthy, affec­ of pot. Love, Timmy. P.S.—have a is idle 25 out of every 24 hours of the to keep me occupied from sunup to tionate, at least 5*10", white. Repub­ (bloody), cool 6574th on Monday. day; a service club, which for the past sundown and through the night. So lican, nonconformist, non-domineer­ five years has won the highest US Air what if I'm taking courses with Mary­ land U. And who cares if I'm a mem­ ing, intellectual. I am absolutely seri­ Does President Hannahknowwho Force award for excellence, that goes unnoticed. We have pool tables that ber of the theater group, you say. ous. If interested, phone 355-3567 Allen Ginsberg is? Saturday, October Precisely. I'm neither academically before 10 P.m. are constantly used, a bingo and Monte 29th is POSTCARD DAY! Send Presi­ Carlo night that is packed because inclined (having flunked out due to dent Hannah (319 Ad. Building) a post­ absences) nor theatrically inclined Wanted: Location of draft tests to be these fellows can get something for card, preferably Sparty, and tell him. nothing. (never having been on stage before.) given November 19. Call 351-7175 or Rumor has it that college presidents But I am trying. I do care about being 337-9098. (For SDS.) desire personal contact with students. Whatever happened to the Univer­ informed (I subscribe to the two Eng­ 38,000 personal notes should be con- sity of Maryland courses which al­ lish-Korean newspapers here), about Goods, Services, Etc. vlncing.—ZEITGEIST most have to be closed down because learning the culture and custom of the Have you placed your vote against less than 15 of 3,000 care to enroll? country (Korean Life and Culture How about the folk dancing, silk Opera Lovers! I can provide you with Mad Mothers? Time is short; all course), about Showing natives that entries must be postmarked by Mid­ screen, art classes and touVs which foreigners such as myself aren't as free admission to performances of the are never filled? We have programs Metropolitan Opera in Detroit May night, October 30th. Note: Don't for­ bad as the average shithead makes us get the SPECIAL ADDED BONUS— for guest lecturers, a theater group all out to be and about bettering my­ 22-27 in return for transportation to which is nearly folding, courses lead­ and from Detroit from MSU. Only voters who identify Allen Ginsberg self. Isn't that what life is all about? correctly are eligible for a genuine ing to degrees for non-high school slight strings attached* CALL Bob irn grads, free flicks on the customs and By the way, I am a past editor of mediately at 355-6390. autographed copy of Ferlinghetti's UNFAIR ARGUMENT W.ITH culture of this country and her peo­ the Defender (US Air Force's Korea ple. You name it, this base has it. paper, which took second place Air The Magic Barrel arrives! Schadchan EXISTENCE (first prize), or five one Why, then, don't these things have Force-wide recently), present head of service available famous New York year subscriptions to The Paper (sec­ external releases, protocal, etc., and City schadchan (marriage broker) now ond prize). VOTE AGAINST MAD an audience? Why? Because the aver­ opening Lansing branch for dating. MOTHERS. age airman doesn't give a good god­ Barry Goldberg Send picture and descriptive letter ZEITGEIST Culture-Fest V. Coral to Pinye Salzman, c/o Herskovitz, Gables, Rathskeller. Monday, October 520 N. Walnut, Lansing. No charge, 31st, Halloween. 8:30 to ???? POE­ of course, unless marriage occurs. TRY: Steve McMath, Alan McBeth, To the Editor: some influence on the curriculum, This is not a joke. ' Roy Bryan, Tim Wernette, Robert Glad you liked The Orange Horse. tenure, hours, right down the line. Vander Molen, Richard Thomas. I have a special fondness for it my­ Tell them that a university is a LEGALIZE ABORTION. Libertarians FICTION: Loren Lomasky, Mark Kup- self. Please send me extra copies of cbmmunity of scholars. They'll be and humanitarians sufficiently con­ perman. FABLES: Ken Lawless. this issue here at ATL. shocked at the news. Students, teach­ cerned to campaign for legalization of JAZZ: Bud Spangler, et. al. FOLK: I am in complete sympathy with you ers, ideas, books—they comprise a abortion and to organize and under­ Chuck Taylor, Ed Henry, Al Finney, on the four-letter word issue. That university. You fight for that revol­ write a local group are invited to Tom and CATHY Clark, The Sunny- battle was won years ago anyway. O, utionary concept, a real academic contact Legalize Abortion, POB siders, Jim and Jean Frank, Ted they haven't heard about it here at freedom that includes students, and 24163, Los Angeles, Calif. 90024. and Marsha Johnson. MSU but there are plenty of unde­ they'll hate you much more than they cided battles they haven't heard about hate Henry Miller. I CLASSIFIEDS stmjust $1/50 words 351-7373 | either. Fight them on student rights, Ken Lawless get a real student government with A 'Reliable Source' Strikes Back To the Editor: dale suntans. The representative ex­ In this year of protest the willing­ cellence of this group has brought ness to put presumably thought direct­ us new students from all over the ed pen to paper seems to guarantee United States and Asia as well. But that the protest will be published. just try to get a feature story or Faculty members (myself included) photograph in the student paper BE­ are usually reluctant to write let­ FORE the annual final concert here in ters to editors since many feel that Lansing. When a picture of a per­ they will be dismissed as parochial formance does appear at all it is usu­ yes-men. We have the additional job ally almost a week late and was taken of combating stupidityor at best mis­ by a photographer DURING the per­ informed inertia in students who want formance, to the dismay and dis­ to call themselves professionals in traction of the audience. I have re­ the Arts. frained from praising the Beaumont Quartet and Richards Quintet lest it As a member of the coprophagous be dismissed as chauvinism. music faculty (who strongly suspects that you would be sued for libel had We had hoped that THE PAPER you used a more coloquial four- would help rectify this situation but letter Anglo Saxon word) I feel that to our dismay things have gotten a protest is both justified and neces­ worse, not better. You cannot expect sary. If this protest is to have any support from responsible readers who effect it is necessary for me to state must wade through paragraphs of my qualifications as a judge of the pseudo-sophisticated jargon to find situation here at MSU (nota bene - a sentence of fair criticism. none of this nonsense about "Reli­ Critics outside the Arts obviously able Source"—if this source is the do not realize that students flock to same one who wrote the ludicrous the large midwestern universities be­ The War Economy, Sort Of review of the Beaumont Quartet per­ cause the faculties, facilities, and formance at Kresge then he (or she) opportunity for personal growth are should return to plumbing or build­ greater here than anywhere else in To the Editor: sponsible for particpant selection for ing trades). the U.S.A. To maintain the contrary Since I transferred to the multi­ Careers '66, a group of super-pa­ After completing my undergraduate is to fly in the face of established versity from a much smaller school triots who wish to insure that only education in New York City I began fact. I have heard just as bad per­ (located in the oil capital of Michi­ companies who really contribute to the my graduate training at Indiana Uni­ formances in New York, Berlin, and gan) I have never missed reading an war effort would be given represen­ versity in Bloomington. With a two- Rome as I have heard here in East issue of your publication. This not to tation here on October 10 and 11. I year interruption for study in Ger­ Lansing. If you would take the trouble say that I agree with all you say. find this most unlikely. In any event, many I continued my studies there to send an open-minded and well- However, for the most part your the investigation I suggested above until joining the faculty here last informed critic to local performances should prove them right or wrong. September. I think this qualifies me you could serve the entire commun­ articles are well written, and I have Concerning the SDS leaflet I wish enjoyed them. to evaluate the cultural atmosphere ity. If no one is available to fulfill to point out a few amusing passages. (particularly musical) here in East this task, why not stay at the club An exception to the above was your house and try to impress each other. critique of Careers '66. Many of (1) Just what is the connotative Lansing. meaning they wish me to assign to We would prefer this to three-quart­ your remarks appeared rather point­ Broadsides at the Arts are no new ers of a column inch of glittering less. You seem to criticize to be the following: "And while you are thing and a candid well informed fighting and dying. . .somebody back generalities. It is the glitter of fools' critical and nothing more. I think critique of conditions in a university gold. you took a very interesting exposure home will be making lots of money." environment is both necessary and -and weakened its effect by draping it I never realized their logic in this valuable. What many of my colleagues Coprophagly yours, • ^rittr *'new left" idealism concerning area was so materialistic. here particularly object to is the carp­ the whys and wherefores of the war (2) They speak of some men doing ing tone adopted by self proclaimed William D. Elliott v- in Vietnam. - anything for a billion dollars, but culture critics who patently lack Instructor of Music History, I feel that you have a very in­ they did not make specific who they knowledge of the several arts suf­ Literature and Musicology mean. Company presidents, board ficient to justify even a simple opin­ teresting case to plead when you members, those in the higher levels . discuss the financial ties between ion. of company administration, stock­ Speaking for the musicians, both the university and the companies holders, and employees are all in­ To the Editor: that were chosen to take part in the students and teacher, I have found it I am a freshman coed. I discovered clude in their condemnations, I sup­ incomprehensible that the student career carnival. You also implied pose. THE PAPER immediately upon my that those who were responsible for newspaper totally ignores those arts arrival on campus. I read the first the company choices also have finan­ (3) I think, unlike SDS, that the whose budgets do not allow them to two issues and liked them very much. cial connections with the companies companies would be happy to stop advertise. We have several fine stu­ I was proud of THE PAPER'S very involved. I would be most interested producing war goods no matter how dent ensembles who have established existence, as well as the things it the war ended—win, lose, or draw. excellent reputations all over the said, so I purchased a subscription in your elaboration on this. SDS obviously doesn't know that the As 1 understand it, there is a list United States. One in particular, the to be sent to my parents and brother. profit margin is greater the farther State Singers, tours during the two When I read Russell Lawrence's poem of organizations that come to this one gets from govt, contracts. campus every year and "fish" for weeks between Winter and Spring in- the third issue, which will be the (4) Why is it that they take Sgt. Quarters, often performing three first issue to greet my family, I personnel. I think that there is a times a day. These students, many of waiting list for those who wish to Duncan's word as THE truth? The was ashamed. opinions of the vast majority of other them not even music majors, do not appear but cannot due to lack of enlisted personnel run quite con­ return to college with Fort Lauder­ Lynn Head space in the union. trary to his. When I was in the army Now, it seems to me that if the I neVer knew any sergeant whose university was interested only in ex- word I could take without a rather \ posing its students to their employ­ large lump of salt. Too bad SDS ment possibilities in various indus­ doesn't have the same policy. tries, from one year to the next there (5) As to their concern with our Insult, Injury October 20, 1966 would be some variety in the repre­ militaristic government, I suggest sentation from each industry. If there they relax a bit. President Eisen­ Miss Char Jolles is not, then I would be very interested hower's remarks were more caution­ October 18, 1966 THE PAPER in knowing why not. ary than anything else. There are Box 367 If there is irideed no variety, per­ several EX military commanders who WMSB-TV (Channel 10) East Lansing, Michigan haps no one but those who were here feel that the military has little or MSU Dear Miss Jolles: last year wanted to come this year. nothing to do with the military, not East Lansing, Mich. In reply to your letter of October Perhaps the choice of the partici­ to mention policy decisions in govern­ Gentlemen; pants is being made on the basis ment. Case in point, Gen. Twyning. 18 to WMSB-TV, the format for the of expected financial gain (though We understand from a State News television programs concerning can­ any actual gain would be very small, I was particularly entertained by article of October 17 that represent­ didates for the Board of Trustees unless there is some "better mouse Mr. Hill's remarks concerning the atives from three student newspapers provides for the participation of a glad hand techniques of the various will be able to meet candidates for student editor from one publication trap" in the mind of one of our company representatives. His last fellow students). Perhaps some mis­ the Board of Trustees, et al, on a of each of three universities, namely comment, however, was most reveal­ series of television programs. The State News, University of Mich­ guided sense of duty to an organiza­ ing to myself and several others. I tion that is in some way involved! shall keep it in mind should I ever We would like to request that igan Daily and Wayne Collegian. Ques­ with the university precipitated its' Michael Kindman, editor of THE PA­ tions concerning the candidates from ; have the fortune to read any more of choice as a participant. A look into his writing. He said "Perhaps if I PER, also be permitted to attend the students of this university should be these areas, or similar ones should were interested in systems control programs. After all, there will be directed to Mr. Kyle Kerbawy of the prove very interesting. Why don't you of component development I might a Killingsworth, a Kupelian, a Ker- State News, who proposed the pro­ take one? understand." Bravo, Mr. Hill, your bawy~why hot a Kindman? grams and is helping with their pro­ I do not rule out the possibility that; admission is commendable. An immediately reply would be duction arrangements. seems to be the basis of the SDS appreciated. Thank you very much. Very truly yours, ••• t leaflet. That is; there are in charge Sincerely, Colby Lewis of this school, and the committee re­ Robert Haskett Char Jolles Manager of THE PAPER cc: Kyle Kerbawy to get him into trouble, mainly be­ cause it wasn't true). Tarrant also spent a great deal of time testifying FRAME-UP to Bernie's whereabouts on May 7 and 14. It was an interesting story, continued from page 1 but quite irrelevant, since nothing of an immoral nature was supposed to have occurred on those dates. It or February in North Lansing. later became evident that O'Brien's Judi Ann Crawford: A long time attorney didn't know on which dates ago, so much so that her testimony he was supposed to establish an alibi was ruled inadmissable by Judge Hut- for his client. John O'Connell was an ter, so it doesn't matter, anyway. extremely absent-minded old man. A guy named William Wilkie testi­ Oh yes, said Tarrant, there is fied he saw Miss Lukens and O'Brien something else. He had overheard together on the 27th, and he copied Dan Hankins say something to Judi down O'Brien's license number to Crawford before she testified last prove it. Pretty sneaky, if you ask week. It was: "He's the one in the me. blue suit." Yes, that's right. Campus Various policemen testified that Police fans, O'Brien had been wear­ they had seen O'Brien meet Miss ing a blue suit that day. Hutter stared Lukens on June 2nd. That's called a at Dan and Don. Dan and Don stared "stake-out." at the table. Tarrant looked pleased O'Brien was arrested at the Capitol with himself. Come to think of it, on June 3rd. He went quietly, testified DAN AND DON THE HARDY BOYS wil I i am bi shop I was a bit ecstatic myself. Dan Hanklns, and that was the case for the prosecution. frame-up which the defense had talked The defense had a few tricks up a whole lot about but had never come its sleeve. First it called Air Force right out and supported with much Captain Donald Osterhout from Co­ testimony. Stated simply, .their con­ lumbus, Ohio, who testified he'd been tention seemed to be that O'Brien to bed with Marion Lukens two years was being framed by certain insur­ ago. As if that wasn't bad enough, ance lobbyists who. were not at all three days later she went to the happy with the "brash young fresh­ base legal officer and accused the man senator's" (O'Connell's words) poor guy of rape. Charges were never crusading against insurance profi­ brought because the facts were in­ teering. He was chairman of the Sen­ sufficient. ate insurance committee and had in­ "Did you ever force her in any troduced two bills dealing with certain way?" O Connell asked. injustices which he felt existed. "No, sir," Osterhout replied. "If However, you notice I said that the I'm not mistaken, I kissed her good­ defense "seemed" to be contending bye." the above. Their defense of this rather Of course, Osterhout had to tell his shaky notion was always hazy and al­ wife about the incident before he testi­ ways tentative. I'm sure they realized fied. O'Connell was later to describe that it would be folly to come right that action as one which took a large out and say, "Bernard O'Brien is amount of "intestinal fortitude." being framed by the insurance lobby, "With men like him in our fighter and we're going to call all those planes," said O'Connell, "our coun­ people in and .gej Jtas, dastardly .filPt. . HUTTER: 'I'M NOT^STATE MAN MYSELF' try is in the hands of men with out in the opent" O'Connell always GUTS!" And class, too. left the door open to the possibility cide the matter at a later date. Out Reisig then began cross-examining The defense called two Senate Ser- of a case of mass mistaken identity. with the jury and on with the show. the man in a style known as Bait­ geants-at-arms who testified that they They tried to play it both ways, The first defense witness of the ing the Witness. Reisig played tht saw O'Brien in Senate chambers spreading themselves rather thin in day was one John J. Fitzpatrick of game well, brilliantly eliciting state­ "right around 11:30" on May 27. the process. But, as I say, Monday East Lansing, a member of the House ments from Tarrant to the effect that Does that hour and date sound fa­ was another day. of Representatives for eighteen years. he had been in the Boy Scouts, that miliar? You bet, baby. He knew Bernie very well, he said, Mrs. O'Brien had heard whatHankins Michael O'Brien (no relation, but The Man With The Very Good Morals and when asked about the young man's said, too, and that there had been Bernie calls him Uncle Mike), an­ The fifth day of trial dawned bright "reputation for morals," replied that lots of other people present when he other senator- type, testified to the and early at 9:30 in the morning. it was "very good." made that phone call. Bang. Bang. existence of the "mysterious" Larry Consciousness hadn't blessed me at Lillian Scieska, a Senate secretary, Bang. Angelo, who he said came to see that hour in months. The first half next testified that she had run into Okay, said Reisig, if you're so Bernie one day. Of course, he only hour didn't improve my mood any, O'Brien at Mass frequently, and that smart, where was O'Brien on May saw him Tor a few seconds, but. . . either, because Reisig and O'Connell his reputation for morals was "very 6? I would assume he was in De­ "The Rev. Donald F. Miller, an spent that entire period of time citing good." All the secretaries thought so, troit. Do you know that for a fact? assistant pastor at Holy Redeemer the proverbial "lengthy legal prece­ she said with a slight smile. Appar­ No, but I'm pretty sure. "Why?" Catholic Church in Detroit where dents" concerning the admissibility ently he had never once laid a hand asked Reisig, moving in for the kill. Bernard O'Brien is a parishioner, of the testimony of Marion Lukens* on any of the girls at the Capitol. Because it was his wedding anniver­ testified to the good character of fellow coeds. The defense next called Mr. Thomas sary, answered the witness. Bang. the senator." (The State Journal, It's just not fair, argued O'Con­ F. F. Tarrant, Bernie's campaign Reisig advised the witness not to page A-12, Thursday, October 13, nell; the other girls weren't press­ chairman and a father of two ("one leave town, and court was adjourned 1966.) ing charges. If a man was on trial and one on the way").The defend­ until 1:30. A pretty secretary testified that for burglary, would it be proper to ant's morals reputation was "very In the afternoon Irma Broniman O'Brien was a "good guy," another bring in his past crimes? good"; Tarrant had "never heard a and Sarah McCarthy said that O'­ sergeant-at-arms said he saw him Of course not, said Reisig, but this bad word against Bernie O'Brien." Brien's morals were "very good." in the Capitol on May 27 at 11:45, is different. Precedents establish that Tarrant had spoken to O'Brien Sally McCarthy had played with Bern­ and the trial recessed for the week­ it is legal to bring in corroborating in the Senate chambers .by tele­ ie in the Holy Redeemer schoolground, end. Four days of testimony had been testimony to show the presence of a phone "shortly before noon" on May and her husband later served on the gathered, and O'Brien had not yet "scheme, plan, or system" (a phrase 27 at the same time O'Brien was altar with him. broken down and confessed like they Reisig must have used a dozen times). supposed to have been propositioning Then it was Papa's turn to testify. do in all the Perry Mason stories. Such testimony was quite proper in Marion Lukens. He had called his Bernard F. O'Brien, Sr., a former Ah, well, Monday was another day. "a matter of this type of nature," boss to remind him of a meeting member of the Michigan legislature Hopefully, the next week would he said. His grammar may have with Detroit Councilman Brickly and C42-'44), had lived in the same De­ bring more specific testimony con­ been doubtful, but his logic was im­ and Mr. Dale Feet at the Botsford troit neighborhood for thirty-five cerning the insurance company peccable. The judge said he would de- Inn that day (a statement which later continued on page 11 years. His son Bernie had been born (As a result, I was ignored by the en­ and brought up and had gone to Mass tire press corps, with the exception there. Speaking with just the slight­ of Bobby Soden of the State News, est of Irish accents, O'Brien said he from then on. Ah, the life of a cub was in the real estate, building, and reporter is not all peaches and cream, insurance (ah-hah!) business. folks.) O'Connell asked him a yes or no They had been married for five type question about his son's "rep­ years and had produced four chil­ utation for morals." Papa took a dren so far, ages, four, three, one- deep breath and began, "My son. . ." and-a-half, and six months, with a Yes or no, said Hutter. Yes, said fifth on the way. Her husband's rep­ Papa. "Would you believe him under utation for morals was "very good." oath?" "I would believe my boy un-. He was also "very good" at truth­ der any statement!" fulness. And, yes, Hankins said it all He was then asked if he had ever right: "He's the one in the -blue discussed any of his son's proposed suit." Mrs. O'Brien had been forced insurance legislation. Yes, many to slam the door in his face to pre­ times. One particular conversation vent further unethical behavior. Pos­ occurred in January of 1966. Bernie itively, de icious. Court adjourned af­ came to him and told him of certain ter the n :t irrelevant witness. bills which might make him lose his As th .ifth day of the trial ended, business. Bernie was sponsoring Reisig and Hankins drove away in those bills because he believed there Reisig's dark blue Mustang convert­ were certain injustices in insurance ible, the rear bumper plastered with coverage of tornado damage, fire stickers proclaiming Reisig's affinity claims, and auto cancellations. Said for such diverse champions of civil Papa: "If you see an injustice out liberties as Romney, Griffin, Scodel- there and you do not correct it, you ler, Brown, and Pittenger. I follow­ should not be a senator from the ed them down Michigan Avenue to Fifth District." Just like that. He Grand, where we parted company. said Bernie rose "with tears in his They drove off into the sunset heat­ eyes" and said, "Dad, I thought that's edly discussing the day's testimony, the way you'd see it!" while I drove off toward home pon­ Papa O'Brien was magnificent. The dering the weighty decision awaiting prosecution had no questions. The jury the elderly little jury. was a visibly moved bunch of old That night I wrote the following: moms and dads. Reisig is definitely the villain in this Mrs. O'Brien then took the stand. piece. It's the loud-mouthed young The other reporters knew her im­ whippersnapper with his blind eye­ mediately; I had to suffer the em­ witness vs. the kindly old Irish lawyer barrassment of writing her name and his poor, fat, framed Servant of down after I heard it, thereby clas­ the People." My opinion was later to So when he asked me to pose for cheese cake sifying myself as a gross amateur. change dramatically in Reisig's favor. pictures, I just naturally thought "he meant. . . NftYt VrWIr Pggil T... Pi,I; &&WOlTWeets Donald the Boy Wonder

1: [AJNUUJ TU MICHIGAN oTAlK UNIV.^111 continued from poge 7 • Orantt and gifts to MSUs Classlfled by field of use tionships between University trustees and directorships in corporate and These* sums are those fund9 which the university received l),i»6,vrt.ja for sponsored extensions, sponsored research, fellowships, 1. Aremy •'<•• llltl-ril.ltli.nNl LwvllijBwM business enterprises? Contrary to scholarships and undesignated clft funds. 2. ."."•ill. nil ci.Mice Kinir*!.-|tiun 2,663.591.0.! .', 374,6117.84 what might be expected, there are J. N. 1.1..n 1 l-»tilule ur •!••..! 11. very few. One might speculate that 1. tori rouiKl.ilion 1,154.778.41 1. Agriculture 1.36li,0.rtai"nt of Acricnllur'- )3",06H.'.*, >lr. nod Mi . ,u»y derrick iV),. Ar-iy ityukufl 111,017.53 OF EXECUTIVES AND DIRECTORS"; (1) Includes arch uses as arTictil tural econor-i cs, ooll 20. Community SCJiOOl Intermnij. llO|!»«:' Artuinislr ill. ,11 116,729.05 university administration is listed. (2) includes marketing, packaging, b:s'n«3s end maru*cemnt, 22. NV.tiun.il :i.rit ici.cls.ral.ip 106,996.00 accounting. Hotel, rest., and lrstituti jnol training, •' U. i. Nnvy 106,959.96 tranepprtation, food science and social work. 25.' F. Who is the university "ser­ 24. Hott rvund'tioo 106,307.00 vicing"? Students? The public? Busi­ (3) includes engineering and math. 25. :>fmn-5 (bjion*ored .-.xlensiuo) 102,700.26 ness? Government? In terms of the (Ij) Includes psychology pnd communications. 26. U. b. uffi.:« of locntional habublJitaUua 100,977.50 funds considered in this report the Kellogg Conpuny 99,395.4* (7) Includes any overseas and intern--ti ,n»l procures, 27. university's service seems to be ' 93,017.78 regardless of specific type of pro,-rsn. <>*. U. .>. Air forco oriented more toward business and 29. International Center and institute til.OOO.OO government than toward the public 30. Midwest university Consortium 78,276.04 and students. There is little indi­ cation that the research conducted federal government have influence with funds from private and govern­ in the running and control of the seems safe to assume that such sums mental grants has any significant mental power in our society. It both university? It is obvious that busi­ of money imply certain types of in­ gives and receives in its role in this impact upon students at the univer­ ness and government can at least fluence by their donors. sity. power structure. influence the affairs of the univer­ The image of the Ivory Tower MSU's paycheck is, to a consider­ Indeed, John Hannah has boasted sity to the extent of withdrawing or university, isolated from the pres­ able extent, written by people in top that he can "tap his campus spe­ increasing their financial support of sures of society and able to pursue positions in America's corporate and cialists, get an answer to most any research and certain other univer­ independently the higher education governmental structure. This fact question for government or research sity programs. It seems safe to for each individual, is incorrect when should also give us adequate reason groups within 30 minutes." (cited in assume, in any undertaking, that a applied to today's public university. to seriously consider how much say RAMPARTS, April, 1966.) That or­ certain amount of informal influence Our examination of Michigan State's these "pay-masters" have in the ganizations usually invest and dis­ and pressure accompanies a financial financial dealings beyond its state operation of the public university. tribute their money in ways generally relationship; in many cases explicit appropriations illustrates very well Specifically, after understanding the beneficial to their own particular stipulations and conditions also ac­ that MSU is much more than simply nature of MSU's financial commit­ interests seems to be an assump­ company grants. When one considers a public institution of higher educa­ ments, we need next to ask the ques­ tion uncontradicted by the examples the millions of dollars involved in tion. Instead, it is a vast corporate tion—and investigate quite serious­ found at MSU. MSU's financial connections with both enterprise; it is inextricably woven ly—jugt how much, and in what way, G. Does either industry or the business and government, it also into the web of corporate and govern­ the money talks. Bob Maizlish (1947 - 1966)

"But then they danced down the streets like dlngledodles, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who Interest me, because A student here was hit by a train the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad last week. The police have listed to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones Bob Maizlish as a "probable suicide.' who never yawnor say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fab­ His friends would like to believe that ulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in his life was more important than his the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'awww!' " death. Jack Kerouac ON THE ROAD

Presidential Press Conference On The Late Massacres In Manhattan THE PRESIDENT: I'd like to take Our policy moves along broad lines— this opportunity, before any ques­ what's good for one is good for all, tions begin, to inform my fellow I always say. citizens of their latest commitments. 0.: There have been unconfirmed As you know, it has been the policy reports that large numbers of wo­ of this nation, the policy of my ad­ men and children are being killed ministration and that of my predeces­ as by-products, so" to speak, of the sors, to defeat aggression, wherever pacification process. Would you care it may be, at whatever time. On this to comment on these, Mr. President? occasion, we are fotunate in having THE PRESIDENT: Yes, there have the opportunity to defeat the per­ been some reports, greatly exagger­ sisting aggressiveness of the Jews ated, of course, by those wishing to in Manhattan. A directive was filed give aid and comfort to the enemy. on this matter over six months ago, At my request, the commander in and we have been carrying out sys­ that area issued instructions over tematic pacification of the island since six months ago that these reports attempts, however, since they have that this country is open to negoti­ that time. I am confident that the be minimized, and I expect shortly become an integral part of pacifica­ ations anywhere, at any time. You American people will support our that they will be eliminated. tion policy. do not seem to realize that more than policy here, and all our policies, as 0.: Part of the problem is that 0.: Mr. President, can you tell us Manhattan is at stake here. One is­ they have always done in the past. women and children, to a large ex­ now what the substance of the terms land, more or less* doesn't amount to QUESTION: Can you give us some tent, tend to be found' with the aduh of these negotiations are? a hill of beans in our eyes. What IS examples, Mr. President, of their males, are they not, Mr.- President? THE PRESIDENT: Well, we're important is that the world concede aggression as it has occurred on the THE PRESIDENT: Yes, our re­ somewhat open-minded on these—we that this country will not tolerate island? ports indicate that this is so. You can want to get negotiations going first, aggression, whatever the cost, and THE PRESIDENT: They have at­ be sure our fliers take that fully into before moving on to specifics. The that its policies, once begun, are tacked our planes, continually, with account on each and every one of their only prerequisite we see at present pursued to final solutions. Think of rifles, with cannon, with rocks, with missions. It is not any easy thing to is the suicide of all the adult males, what the image of this great nation whatever means at their disposal, be president and responsible for the and even at that, we leave the means would be in the world's eyes, young without regard or concern for the safety of this flower of our finest entirely to their own choosing. Con­ man, should we begin now to renege lives of our fliers or of international young boys. trast, if you will, the flexibility of on our solemn commitments, as they conventions. They have mistreated 0.: Have you made any attempts, our demands and the adamancy of come to light. Finally, let me re- and held our pilots as prisoners. . Mr. President, to initiate negotiations their refusal. It should leave no ques­ emphasize the moral dimension of if that isn't aggression, I don't know with the Jewish community? tion in the mind of any objective ob­ this particular policy. Now it may what is. THE PRESIDENT: I should say we server. seem to you that the principal suf­ 0.: What, means do we have, Mr. have—peace is always foremost in 0. Should the aggressors continue fering incurred is on that island President, of distinguishing Jews our minds, in thi6 as in all our to resist, Mr. President, do you over there, but that's not what it from non-Jews in the pacification policies, in point of fact; offers of foresee any cut-off point when the looks like from here. You have no procedure? peace were extended to the aggres­ amount of destruction will outweigh idea of the anguish we bear, as we THE PRESIDENT: Well, that is a sors long before their aggression was any particular gains envisioned by continue to persist in this course of difficult question, and one to which detected. I have sent my ambassadors your policy? justice. I can say in all sincerity our strategists, I can assure you, have across the face of the globe—to THE PRESIDENT: I don't like the that it hurts us more than it hurts devoted much thought. The results of Madrid, to Johannesburg, to Cairo, tone of that particular question. It them. But, God willing, we shall this research are classified as yet, in continual attempts to initiate ne­ smacks of defeatism unworthy of a overcome. but looking from the positive side, I gotiations, but with heavy heart I country such as ours. I think I have — Thank you, Mr. President. can say that we have found that this report that these have met with no made it plain as a pikestaff who the issue is not so important as it seems. response. We will persist in these aggressors are here, and reiterated DOUGLAS LACKEY

genuine grass-roots movement forms CSA Ignores Student Apathy

DATELINE BEAUMONT, Oct. 20— of CSA were heard to express the way in vain." elected. After all, if a student tries Last night's meeting of the Commit­ following views: "Behold, all interest is as the to vote, that's PRIMA-FACIE evi­ tee for Student Apathy (CSA) was "Now student government has got to grass, and all activity of man is as dence he's not fit to be a member of labeled an overwhelming success. go. You know, I've suspected for a long the flower of grass; for lo, the grass CSA and shouldn't have a vote. No, An estimated 38,000 students stayed time that it didn't really represent the withereth, and the flower thereof 1 was appointed by the previous pres­ away to demonstrate support. Said students. This clear expression of decayeth. For the trumpet shall sound, ident who was appointed by the one one ecstatic member of Friends of student non-opinion gives unmistak­ and all men, not caring, shall ignore before him. How else could it be?" CSA, "This is wonderful. I've never able proof of that. We can demon­ it. Who goeth forth and weepeth shall "Oh. I see. Well, when do you plan seen such an unenthusiastic response, strate that no representative to stu­ doubtless return, flank of mind. to have the next meeting?" I think this is a definite mandate. dent government has the support of a Blessed are they who don't care, for "I haven't decided yet. Does it We of Friends of CSA will start to majority of students And that s only the they shall have no worries." really matter?" implement the will of the students beginning." This reporter asked the President A poll of passing students concern­ immediately, in keeping with the dem­ "Daaaaa." of CSA what HIS plans were. He re­ ing the Committee for Student Apathy ocratic ideal." Asked how she planned "It is for us, the Friends of CSA, sponded with, "Why should I have any elicited the following comments: to do this, she replied, "Oh, I don't to be dedicated here to the unfin­ plans?" "What does apathy mean?" "They know. We'll find a way. With such ished work, that great task, of im­ "But you're President, aren't you? can go their way. I go mine." "What, tremendous non-support, how can we plementing the verdict given here. You were elected by the members. me worry?" fail?" We must make sure these students, You're supposed to. . .". «^ Several other members of Friends our fellow men, have not stayed a- "No, as a matter of fact, I wasn't LYNNE CRONQUIST