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Welcome back to Wavelength Magazine. For those of you who are TABLE OF CONTENTS new to UMB, Wavelength is a student publication featuring news, fiction, poetry, and art from the university ARTICLES community. We are funded by the SAC and, realizing the constraints they are under, are grateful for their support. ARTWEEK BOSTON: 1980 By Maris Nichols 2 However, we are working on a shoe string budget and will need an in- Seabrook By Ken Tangvik # crease in funding in order to uphold School Daze By D. NealandR. Powers W the quality of this publication. Reorganization By Rick Bowers /2 If you would like to help us, please Que Pasa By Nelson Azocar /7 contact the SAC and demonstrate Nantucket By Mary Whelan 22 your support. You could also help us Cheap Eats By Karen MacDonald 28 by submitting articles, fiction, poetry and art work. Drop by our office and Cooking at the Cantab By Rick Bowers 43 tell us about your ideas, or, better yet, come join our staff. Our new office is in Building 1, on the sixth floor, room 91, our ex- tension is 26 9 FICTION We are indebted to the Boston Herald American for our cover photo, and the Artist Garbology By Stonewall Sturges 20 Foundation for our back cover photo of Walter Chocko By Edwin Sullivan ^2 Mather's sculpture. POETRY Arts-Photo Editors Stephanie Romanos The Tony Rubino Mourning Gift By Amy Sisson // Thirteen ways of Looking at a University ByKent Worcester 24 Copy Editors Joe McLellan Untitled By Marion Mclntire . . . jf Maris Nichols Soldier By John Hall 31 Literary Editors You Lie with green leaves By Amy Sisson j/ Maris Nichols Without Special Arrangements By Errol Miller 31 Rebecca Powers Cynic In a Bar By Gary Editor Evans. . Managing 4fl BalNaHar' Linda McPhee Donna Neal By 4Q Before the Great War By Paula News Editors Steffan 40 Meg Hern After the Earth was Torn into By Nadine Goodman 41 Al McNeill In this dimension By Paula Steffan 41 Staff: Nelson Azocar, Ardi Bat- Burning By Allison Hurley 41 manghelldj, Rick Bowers, Kevin Carroll, Jo Ann Kenny, Karen Mac- Donald, Tim May, Karen Schweiger, Ken Tangvik, Mary Whelan.

Special Thanks to: Minerva DeJesus, Campus Controversy Bagley vs Bat 18 Ann Greenan, Mass Media, Point Opinion Press, Roslyn By Jay Alberto 26 Olick, The Artists Foundation, The Boston Herald American, The Pub, The SAC. and UMass Publications.

Printed by Charles River Publishing John Garber , one of over five hundred artists participating in ARTWEEK BOSTON 1980, ARTWEEKrelaxes in his studio BOSTON: 1980 By Maris Nichols

Over 500 Boston-area artists, as well as serious collectors, can be pur- museums, galleries, arts organizations, working in a variety of mediums in- chased from The Artists Foundation and Paperback Booksmith stores, Charette cluding sculpture, painting, graphics, BOSTIX prior to ARTWEEK and is Stores, BOSTIX, and The Artists Found- ceramics, printmaking, photography, available in $25 and $50 denominations. tion. drawing, fibre arts, glass, jewelry, fur- For more information, contact the Artists The kick-off event for ARTWEEK niture, video and xerography, will be Foundation, 100 Boylston Street, 482- BOSTON 1980 will be the ART CART opening their studios to the public from 8100. DERBY on October 15. Boston-area October 18-26 this fall as ARTWEEK One hundred museums, galleries, visual arts organizations, museums, art BOSTON 1 980 gets off the ground. and other arts organizations will be schools, arts councils, and artists' groups ARTWEEK BOSTON, a program of scheduling events related to ARTWEEK, have been invited to create zany and art- The Artists Foundation, is the largest including guiaea tours to stuaios, ful Derby vehicles to take part in the open studio event in the United States, seminars, lectures, film programs, and event. Vehicles, which may be powered and provides a unique opportunity for art exhibitions. The UMass/Boston Harbor by any means except by motor, will run a enthusiasts to meet with outstanding ar- Gallery will be showing work from the course through the streets of Boston, tists in their studios and to view and pur- Radcliffe Pottery Studio during October starting from the State House at high chase original works of art. to coincide with ARTWEEK: Nadine noon, and crossing a finish line in City As a means of encouraging people to Goodman will curate the show. Hall Plaza. purchase from participating artists, AR- ARTWEEK 1980 catalogues listing TWEEK BOSTON will be issuing a 324 artists selected by a jury will be Judges will award a number of interesting including the special currency called Art Money en- available in June for $5.00. A detailed prizes, Walter titling the bearer to a 20 percent discount map locating all participating artists' Mitty Award for the greatest exercise in on any art work they wish to purchase. studios and listing related programs will futility, the Livingston Biddle Award for

Art Money, designed as a marketing ex- be available after October 1 for free. Both the best interpretation of a NEA grant ap- periment to encourage first-time buyers the catalogue and maps will be at plication, and the Van Meergen Award

Jim Haberman's "Ant and Lips," 1979, is one of the many works of art Bostonians will be viewing during ARTWEEK BOSTON 1980. (16 x 20" hand-dyed black and white photo, $300.00.)

' Left ' 'To Life, ' welded steel sculpture, by Ruth Mordecai-Slavet January

for the best reproduction of a famous art work. Following the derby at 5:30 p.m.. Mayor White will host a reception for ART CART participants and ARTWEEK BOSTON artists at Boston City Hall. Raindate for the derby is October 16. Winning carts will be exhibited at what publicity posters call the Museum of Fine

Carts, but which we all know better as the Museum of Transportation. UMass/Boston-affiliated artists who will be participating in ARTWEEK BOSTON are Peter Grimshaw (B.A., Art, 1975), Timothy F. Nichols (Instructor, drawing, 77-78), Martha Podren (B.A., Art, 1975), Nancy Selvage (Visiting Ar- tist, January 1974) and Irene Valincius (1974-78). Nancy Selvage is associated with the Radcliffe Pottery Studio, work from which will be exhibited at the Above "Standing Woman" by William J. Schickel, 28" bronze 1 977-78 UMass Harbor Gallery during October.

below - The Waltham Studio of painter Andrew Haley is one of over INFORMATION OTHER 300 studios open to the public during ARTWEEK, October 1 8-26. Pic- tured in his studio is an untitled work in pastel on paper, 200" x Color slide presentations designed to familiarize the public with ARTWEEK are available to interested groups. Those interested should contact Sue Braham at The Artists Foundation, 482-81 00. A Portfolio of four original poster lithographs has been created for AR- TWEEK BOSTON 1980 by Natalie Alper, Todd McKie, Flora Natapoff, and Richard

Yarde. Each print is signed and num- bered and a part of a limited edition of 150. Sold as a set, the portfolio costs $187.50. After October, any remaining sets will be $250.00. For more information, contact The Artists Foun- dation.

The Artists Foundation was in- corporated in 1973 as a public, non-profit organization that works state-wide with artists in all mediums. Programs and services include fellowships, residence programs, and others which assist and benefit artists in Massachusetts. Contact the Foundation for further information.

For schedules, information on individual artists, maps, catalogues, Art Money, information on the Art Cart Der- by, and a list of participating organizations, artists, and galleries, contact The Artists Foundation. News Analysis Seabrook

6 By Ken Tangvik preparing for the action building became urgent. The group of introduction Preparations for the May 24 progressive activists at UMass began to Seabrook action began last February at broaden its base as many diverse groups It was 10:00 a.m. at the wooded cam- UMB when a core of 10-15 students and individuals began to work together, psite. Individuals were stretching as from H.E.A.T., a registered student especially during the student oc- they became accustomed to the protec- organization at UMB, began meeting to cupation. Once classes ended and the tive gear that covered their bodies. discuss how they would organize for the activists filed for their incomplete Squad leaders were checking on their action called for by the CDAS. H.E.A.T. grades, the momentum for the Seabrook communication signals, testing the members began staffing literature tables action began to build up again. The strength of their shields, and making and sponsoring educational lectures and progressive unity that blossomed at sure of food and water supplies. Tactical films concerning nuclear power and how UMass during the student occupation

leaders were going over last minute con- to stop it. clearly added to the number of students tingency plans as they tried to com- Anti-nuke organizing on campus willing to go to Seabrook. municate in spite of the loud mocking slowed down during March and April as During the two weeks prior to the buzz of lingering, alien helicopters that other issues-the draft, Iranian student May 24 action, numerous strategy pervaded the campsite. Film crews, rights, and campus issues that led to the meetings were held and UMass students press, and radio personnel scurried student occupation of the administration formed into four affinity groups; the Red about receiving mixed reactions from the

campers who were being filmed and interviewed. Several dozen Red Cross medics gravely planned for a large number of injuries. Drums were rolling, tamborines were shaking, horns Melissa Sansome went to Seabrook for blew loudly, and voices began to chant philisophical reasons, "Laws are made to and sing. By 11:00 a.m., the campers were marching down a main road, led by protect the people, and when the laws do a large waving flag. The air, already hot and humid, became thicker from the ten- not serve this purpose, we must appeal to sion and anxiety that began to mount as the higher authority of our own con- the fully equipped individuals began " hugging, shaking hands, and wishing science. each other luck. Before the day was over, several of the marchers would be brutally beaten, hospitalized, and put in- to cells. A Guerilla war in a third world country? NOI The Scene was Seabrook New Hampshire on May 24th, 1980. Strong and growing anti-nuclear sen- timents at UMB were given a chance for expression at Seabrook last May as over 100 members of the UMB community participated in the occupation blockade attempt organized by the Coalition for Direct Action at Seabrook (CDAS). The CDAS is a nation-wide, anti-nuclear, non- violent direct action group, of which

Boston Clamshell is a member. The action, held during Memorial Day weekend attracted over 1 ,600 demonstrators, 800 police and National Guardsmen, 597 registered media poeple, six police helicopters, and dozens of FBI agents. During the four-day affajr there were 31 injuries and 38 arrests in what was the most militant anti-nuclear action ever held in the United States. The highly controversial action raised several issues concerning police brutality, civil rights ol "They treated it like a war. I was in an area where medical help was demonstrators, and the future of the an- needed and I was smashed by the clubs of the state police," said J. ti-nuclear movement at Seabrook and across the country. Brooks. Clams, Ground-Zero, Mass Shutdown / and the Columbia Pointers. Each affinity group, consisting of 15 to 20 people, went through intensive, non-violent Seabrook: What's training sessions and discussions. The four UMass affinity groups organized themselves into a 'cluster' all the fuss about? which was called the Nuclear 'The opposition to Seabrook is Along with a strong determined op- Liberation Front (NLF). Anti-nuke known throughout the world", says Har- position, Public Service Company student groups from Northeastern, owner of the plant, is also Boston University, UMass/Amherst and vard Nobel laureate George Wald, who (PSC), the plagued by financial problems. Since the Clamshell affinity groups from Jamaica has become an international figure. In- plant was first proposed, cost estimates Plain also joined the NLF, making the deed, since the beginning of con- for its construction have risen from $973 cluster almost 200 strong. struction in 1976, after the town voted million to over $3.2 billion. recent ar- The NLF began collecting funds and against the plant, Seabrook has become A ticle in the Boston Globe reported that a purchasing equipment to gain access to the focus of this country's first major ef- the plant including plywood, boft- forts at stopping construction of a continued delay in construction of the cutters,ropes, chains, hockey and foot- nuclear plant by direct action. Unit II reactor would add another $2 billion ball pads, helmets, respirators, and gas In July 1 976, 1 8 people were arrested to the total cost. masks. The Saturday before the action, at Seabrook on trespassing charges. Since New Hampshire citizens voted the NLF was joined by other clusters in a One month later, in August, 180 demon- against construction work in progress tactical role-play outside an abandoned strators were also arrested for (CWIP)charges in their electric rates, PSC

factory in Somerville. Shielding, fence- trespassing. In 1977, over 1,800 people has been frantically trying to persuade in- cutting and blockading tactics were prac- were arrested during a civil disobedience vestors to buy an interest in the plant. ticed by the Boston cluster under the at the plant. The spring of 1978 saw Recently, however, the company has watchful, suspicous eyes of anonymous 1 8,000 people attend a rally on the plant proceeded with an "emergency" electric cameras inside the factory. site, and in the fall of 1978, several hun- rate increase of 4.8%, but they still stand As May 24 approached, many dred protesters were arrested for at- on shaky financial ground. Massachusetts students became convinced that it tempting to blockade the transportation To add to PSC woes, would be necessary to take direct action of a reactor vessel onto the nuclear plant Municipal Wholesale Electric Companies at Seabrook. UMB student Joe Allen felt site. (MMWEC), a consortium of local strongly about the need to go to On October 6, 1979 over 3,000 Massachusetts power utilities, which Seabrook. "The nuclear industry and people attempted to occupy the con- had previously agreed to invest up to government have lied to us time and struction site by cutting down fences. $500 million in Seabrook, has been able time again about nuclear power. The This time the police chose to beat people to obtain only $200 million of that

only way we can end this madness is to away rather than go through the costly money. In march 1980, PSC was forced 24th, its to in- do it ourselves." Melissa Sansome went process of arresting them. May to lay-off half work force due to Seabrook for philosophical reasons. 1 980 was the latest Seabrook action and creasing financial difficulties. "Laws are made to protect the people", was by far the most militant, although Many economic and energy experts said Sansome, "and when the laws do only about 1,500 demonstrators par- have questioned the need for Seabrook. not serve this purpose, we must appeal ticipated. Once again police chose to Early arguments for the Seabrook plant to the higher authority of our con- use their clubs instead of prison cells to were based on electricity consumption science." A CDAS organizer break up the demonstration. estimates during the 1973 'energy crisis'. dramatically stated, "The threat of

Seabrook is very real, it's the equivalent ropes. However, once the fence came bulldozers were called in to clear the of having a loaded gun pointed at our down, scores of police poured into the debris away. heads." crowd of protestors with mace and Late Saturday afternoon, the NLF clubs, grabbing shields and tools from regrouped and carried out two con- the group. As the cluster refor- confrontation groups secutive assaults at the North and South med for another assault, police sprayed gates on Rt. I. Although they were deter- pepper gas into the crowd, creating a mined, energetic, and willing to put their

Saturday, May 24, was a long and thick fog and adding to the general bodies on the line, the protestors were grueling day for NLF members. It started chaos. no match for the clubs, mace, and water when several clusters consisting of While the NLF and other clusters at- hoses that came from the other side of about 500 people marched down Rte. 1 tempted to find each other and to assess the fence. To the delight of the onto Rocks Road and made their way injuries, several hundred demonstrators, onlooking crowd, the NLF did manage to through a forest until they came to a fen- including members of the NLF, were pull down several feet of fence, but once ce at the northwest corner of the site. building barricades at both the north and again the police stormed through the While police were momentarily caught south gates to the Seabrook plant on open fence and swung their clubs ran- off-guard, the NLF and several other Rte. I. By using mostly tree branches domly into the crowd. Several NLF clusters were able to take down several and logs, demonstrators had blocked the members were injured during the last yards of fence using boltcutters and gates until police forced them back and assault of the day at the south gate on Seabrook on Memorial Day Weekend, At this time, PSCo predicted a 9.8% in- constant fear of another Three Mile but if there was one point agreed upon crease of power consumption, Island. among demonstrators, it was that the however, present utilities are predicting There are many other environmental police and National Guard used only a 2.7% increase in New England. arguments against the Seabrook nuke. ~ unnecessary force. l, iring the action, At- For this reason, experts are questioning The plant site is very close to the Boston- torney Peter BaHouth from the National the need for the plant. The Concord, Ottowa earthquake fault. In the past 300 Lawyers Guild stated that he was N.H. Monitor newspaper determined years, 28 earth movements have been "shocked and horrified at the way in that New England would still have an ex- recorded within a 50 mile radius of the which police handled the situation." cess power capacity of 18.39% reserve plant site. Marine pollution is another BaHouth added, "the actions of the during peak demand in the winter of problem with the plant. Over one billion police totally contradict the principles of 1989-90 without the Seabrook plant. gallons of water per day will be used to justice." Critics of the plant also point out that the keep the reactor cool. This water would Most of the brutality came from local billions of dollars spent on the nuclear be returned to the ocean 39 degrees war- police and New Hampshire State Police plant could be used for developing safe mer, and this would tremendously upset as well as state police from alternative energy in the area. Study af- the ecological balance of the New Ham- Massachusetts and Rhode Island. ter study, including those made by the pshire Coast. For this reason, U.S. Demonstrators were shocked and Congressional Office of Technology, Senator Paul Tsongas from angered by the seemingly unnecessary show that investment in solar and con- Massachusetts stands against any violence demonstrated by the police, servation rather than nuclear -energy nuclear construction at Seabrook. especially since the action had been would create more jobs, and save more Tsongas believes that the Seabrook publicized as non-violent from its in- oil. A study recently cited by the Boston nuke is situated in "a terribly dangerous ception. "The police were brutal", said Globe shows that hundreds of unused location". A member of Tsongas' staff Judy Brooks who volunteered as a dams in New England could produce as remarks: "Now that all the conventional medic during the demonstration. "They much electricity as the Seabrook nuke. means of stopping Seabrook have failed, treated it like a war. I was in an area This power would be cheaper than we can only hope that the project will die where medical help was needed and I nuclear and would be community con- because PSC won't be able to was smashed by the clubs of state trolled. finance it." police". Residents of New England are also PSC has a lot at stake at Seabrook. "The police had no reason to be concerned about the dangers of the Since electric rates are based on the violent", stated Teri Bertnall, "because Seabrook nuke. Each year the plant amount of capital invested by a utility, they knew the demonstrators were non- would produce more than 1,000 times and nuclear plants are the most ex- violent". the radioactivity of the atomic bomb pensive power plant, the Seabrook plant Rhode Island State Police were the dropped on Hiroshima. Constant low- would guarantee huge profits for in- most impressive force as they marched level emmission from the plant would vestors at the expense of higher rates for the V-formation, clicking the heels of get into the table water and food chain. consumers. The people of New England their shiny knee-high boots. However, Dr. Ernest Sternglass, a professor of also have a lot at stake. They will not more complaints were heard about the radiation physics at the University of Pit- allow decisions concerning their health, Massachusetts 'staties' who were repor- tsburg, has found evidence showing that electric rates, and the future of their en- tedly poking their clubs into the men's infant mortality rates and cancer death vironment to be made by a few whose groins. Luckily, most of the males were rates rise excessively within 30 miles of only interest is profit. The battle at wearing atheltic cups to protect them- an operating nuclear power plant. v Seabrook is not over. selves. Local residents will also have to live in Media and TV personnel were not spared from the police brutality. Several Rte. I, and two people were hospitalized Sunday, and at least one student was reporters, including a UPI reporter were for leg and head injuries. knocked unconscious. heavily maced and one ABC-TV

After a night of long meetings, nur- Numbers of demonstrators began to cameraman was thrown down a hill and sing injuries, and restless sleep, the diminish after Sunday as frustrated and clubbed during a melee on May 24th. protestors arose to begin another day of battered people limped homeward. On Ardi Batmanghelidj, a photographer for confrontation on Sunday. Although Monday there were a few small fence- WAVELENGTH said that he was "scared some small groups went to cut down cutting actions, and on Tuesday morning shit, when a policeman's stick came fences on the south side of the plant, a small number of protestors failed in an within inches of my face." Dorchester most of the action took place on Rte. 1 attempt to prevent workers from en- Community News reported Dave Alden where the NLF and several other groups tering the plant. By late Tuesday af- was "outraged at the conduct of the attempted to blockade the main gates of ternoon, most of the demonstrators police during the demonstration". In a the plant. When that was unsuccessful, were on their way home trying to wooded area near the north gate, Alden several attempts were made to shut- recuperate from the four-day struggle. watched the police and national guard down Rte. I. By using logs, telephone beat and mace a man who was on the poles, police civil rights and their bodies, the protestors and ground in a parking lot. Alden further were able to slow traffic, but the police claims that a policeman responded to the cleared the road using clubs and mace. There were many different inman's request to soothe his mace-stung Several UMB students were injured on terpretations of what took place at eyes by hitting him with a club and

Seabrook - to page 34

9 Are you trying to tell me that on Tuesday we had a Monday Schedule.

I couldn't remember if this class was in School Daze the crayola-blue or preschool-yellow section.

I'm color blind and all the walls look grey tome.

By D. Neal and R. Powers plaza blocks. You mean this isn't Harvard?

As the grass turns brown in the plaza I'm new here. I was held hostage in the Chancellor's of- and those autumn winds start to whip fice by a group of raving radicals. between the Science building and 020, OH! This is building 010.

fall is in the air and so begins another Chris Alberto stopped me in the hall and is year of school daze. UMass/Boston I was trying to find my advisor and they spent 20 minutes explaining why we unlike other universities, here there are moved her department. should have a Student Trustee. no pantie raids, no football captain or head cheerleader to moon over, and no TheT bonfire after the big game with Harvard.

Good-bye Walt Disney. In this university But I never signed up for this class. we face the harsh realities of school life: LATE PAPERS

skipping classes, getting away with late I was working on Wavelength.

papers and trying to understand just For some professors matricide is a

what is going on at this school. The I got lost in the catwalk. lesser sin. To those beloved instructors following are some ideas to help studen- we dedicate this list.

ts cope with these realities, a survival kit You mean today is Tuesday? I thought it for UMass/Boston. was Wednesday. It was due today?

LATE FOR CLASS

Some people never bother with ex- cuses for missing or being late for classes, however, upon occasion a good

excuse comes in handy. If in need try one or more of the following.

I was stuck in the elevators.

I was hit on the head by a falling brick from the library.

I took the wrong bus and ended up at the Kennedy Library.

I was in the express line at the bookstore.

I went to Health Services with a headache and they diagnosed a frac- tured skull and sent me to Boston City Hospital for x-rays.

I got lost.

I sat through 45 minutes of Chemistry 101 and you wouldn't believe the similarities between it and your class on Shakespeare, professor.

I twisted my ankle on one of the broken

10 The Mourning Gift

My mother, the conscientious girl, and her sister, the cook, But the typewriters in the typing room The elevators in 01 really do work. made a gift don't work. The Science building will now be known of a boiled egg Governor King Memorial as The to their father The kids were sick. Building. at the time of the death of his mother. I went to your office the day it was due There are people on campus who know but someone moved your department. who the new athletic building is named The cook, my aunt, for. selected a white egg I had to work. from the ice box, Administration Building, fondly The The brown eggs I left my paper on the back seat and my known as Corrigan's Castle, will now be from the local hens car was stolen. known as The Governor King Memorial were too fresh. Building. How do you change a typewriter ribbon? Fresh eggs cling their shells, The Athletic Building's name won't be to

I broke my typing finger. inside changed because the governor always The flesh '.his one would leaves one token around.

The guy I buy my papers from didn't slip easily from its have one on "The Growth of Capitalist porcelain case Building 010 was designed by a man Opportunities in the Soviet Union." who thinks windows are only a fad that The cook placed will die out soon. the egg in an enamel I was making a copy of it and the xerox saucepan over gas heat. * machine ate the original. Charlie finally got off the MTA and is now lost in UMass/Boston. The conscientious girl, my mother, The books were out at the library. forced her way UMass/Boston will now be knows as the through a small crack in the shell, I lost my notes. MassArt-Boston-State-Governor-King- replacing the white Memorial-University. which had oozed out Excellence takes time. and solidified into

CMPS is shrinking because CAS is baroque pearls. My publisher says it will be out in hard- growing. cover by Christmas. The conscientious girl

There is a $16.00 mandatory yearbook held the yoke I have five other classes too you know. fee in her lap, (Five children may be used instead of whether you want it or not. carefully together they grew classes.) firm. Financial Aid never lost a form. She clung to the inside membrane I dropped my cigarette on it and it BEOG's are coming in on time. and maintained caught fire. the integrity

Harvard Unviersity denies any of the shell It looked like snow and I thought school its having would be cancelled. knowledge of a Columbia as the boiling water Point campus. resisted her.

RUMORS Park Square students know what The cook took the President Knapp looks like. pan from the flame,

The following rumors have been heard immersed the The SAC is constructing a Student egg in ice water rumbling throughout the hallowed halls Union building behind 010 with bricks that the of UMB. Which are fact and which are so yoke fiction? that have fallen from the library. would not discolour. My mother shivered. Building 010 will now be known as The Professors are no longer allowed to Governor King Memorial Building. assign papers due after holidays or Their father folded low on a stool

There are condoms in the G2 level Ad- vacations so that students may have knees at his chin, ministration women's room. these times to themselves. accepted the mourning gift, pleased with

Building 020 will now be known as The The University of Massachusetts denies the kindness c , j i Amy Sisson , Governor King Memorial Building. any knowledge of its having a Columbia of h,s daughters. ^^ Point campus.

11 Former Secretary of Education Charles jonnson ,

By Rick Bowers

An Overview

Over the summer months a comprehensive and controversial plan to

reorganize public higher education in Massachusetts was passed by the legislature and signed into law by Gover- nor Edward J. King. The reorganization plan was passed without public hearings or public debate as an unamendable section of the state budget. The plan abolishes the Board of Higher Education, the Office of Educational Affairs, the Board of State Colleges, the Regional Board of Com- munity Colleges, and the three state university boards of trustees, including that of the University of Massachusetts.

The powers vested in those bodies will be transferred to a newly-created 15- member Board of Regents which has been granted nearly unfettered control of the state's higher education system. But King's reorganization effort has voice will not be heard unless we take a

The Regents, all of whom have been not set well with Massachusetts state drastic action such as this." appointed to staggered first terms by college and university students. The up- Adding to the conflict between the

Governor King, are generally represen- shot of the plan is a swelling conflict bet- reorganization forces and students is the tative of Bay State business, industry, and ween the King administration, which is elimination of student representation in private education. Among those holding fighting to cut spending on higher the higher education system. Formerly, positions on the powerful new board are education, and a myriad of campus in- student trustees held voting positions on James R. Martin, Chairman of terest groups determined to preserve each of the five governing boards of

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance programs and maintain facilities. Ac- trustees in the state. There is no such Company, and the Massachusetts cording to representatives of the newly position on the Board of Regents or on Business Roundtable; Dr. An Wang, revitalized Massachusetts State Student any of the 28 boards of trustees in the

President of Wang Laboratories In- Association (MSSA), the conflict could new system. corporated; and George W. Hazzard, escalate into demonstrations and Left behind by the reorganization

President of Worcester Polytechnic In- possibly a student strike, if the process was the Special Commission for stitute. None of the appointees to the so reorganization plan is not altered. the Reorganization of Public Higher called 'superboard' hold positions in the "What this plan means is that all Education (SRC), a panel of legislators public higher education system. decision-making power for higher appointed to study and draft legislation

Creation of the Board of Regents is education will be centralized in one on the higher education issue. The SRC, only the first phase ia the reorganization board appointed by the Governor," said after a ten month study, filed a majority process. In addition to restructuring the Student Trustee Chris Alberto, a MSSA report on governance in the House of higher education governance system, a member. "We're concerned that this Representatives. The legislation, drafted state house commission has been superboard will represent the interests of by James Collins of Amherst, called for a reviewing various plans to close or con- big business and the King Administration weaker, central board and a number of solidate several Boston-area public in- and not the educational needs of the stronger campus boards. Under the com- stitutions. One of the first tasks of the people." mission's plan, the central board would board of Regents, with it's far reaching The MSSA, with student members control the $300 million higher education powers, will be to study the question of a from across the state, has met several budget and the campus boards would possible UMB, MassArt and Boston times this summer to map out strategies maintain strong policy-making powers. State merger. to oppose reorganization. Students are However, the SRC's work became moot In appointing the new board, King considering a proposal calling for a when the budget committee decided to said,"These people represent a great statewide student strike to symbolize reorganize the system itself. deal of knowledge and expertise regar- their opposition. The proposal, which Reorganization will have far-reaching ding our Commonwealth and its has yet to be ratified, reads, "We repercussions for higher education in educational needs. We are grateful to propose that on Wednesday, October 1 Massachusetts. Until recently, the state's them for their willingness to donate their the entire state higher education system 28 public colleges and universities were time and insight to the important task at go on strike for one day to show the structured in a three-tiered system con- hand - the reorganization and operation state our symbolic opposition to the sisting of 15 community colleges, gover- of our higher education system." reorganization plan. We believe that our ned by one board of trustees, ten state

13 colleges, governed by one board of trustees; and three universities, each of which was controlled by a separate board. In addition, the Board of Higher Education acted as a co-ordinating body for the different segments, and the Of- fice of Educational Affairs provided a bridge between the Governor's Office and the individual campuses.

As of March 1 , that entire system, including the Office of Educational Affairs, will be scrapped and the new Board of Regents will take over. The Regents will Former Secretary of Education Charles Johnson, Representative

maintain full control of the $300 million James Collins, and Senator Gerald D'Arico. higher education budget and will be

charged with the responsfbility of further the unification of the entire 28-campus be appointed by the individual schools reorganizing the state system. The system," Martin said. "The task, while alumni associations. reorganization section of the state great and time consuming, will be vital to The Reorg Drama budget empowers the board to control improving the effectiveness of the

and allocate the $300 million higher state's system of public higher education The move to reorganize the state's education budget; conduct collective and making it more responsive to the higher education system was bargaining negotiations; terminate "ob- needs of the Commonwealth." spearheaded by legislative leaders of a solete or unnecessary duplicative The King Administration has named joint conference-committee which wrote programs"; establish tuitions for all other members of the panel, most of the sweeping plan into an 'outside sec- segments of public higher education; set whom are also members of the state's tion' of the state budget for 1981. The admissions policies, set enrollments and high technology industry and in respon- purpose of the conference-committee even close or merge existing institutions. se a number of the officials of public was to iron out differences between House and Senate versions of the budget, and to prepare a final version of the budget for approval. "What this plan does is rip the guts right Included in the House version of the budget was a reorganization plan which out ofhigher education in Massachusetts, would have centralized much of the it wipes away, with one wave of the pen decision-making power for higher education in one board. The house all of the present governance structures in proposal, however, left the University of " Massachusetts governance system in- the state. tact. When the House passed its budget recommendations to the Senate for ap- Rep. James Collins proval, this section was rejected. The conference-committee, headed by House Ways and Means Committee Chairperson John. J. Finnegan and Chester G. Atkins, chair of the Senate counterpart, had been deadlocked for The Superboard higher education have expressed ap- days on the reorganization issue. Fin- prehension at the growing power that nigan, a UMass graduate, favored this

James R. Martin, a Springfield in- business and private higher education plan, but Atkins, his adversary in Beacon surance executive, has been appointed are gaining in the state system. Hill's annual 'battle of the budget,' and sworn in as Chairman of the Gover- Also created by the reorganization was opposed to using the state budget nor's Board of Regents. Martin was the plan are 28 individual Boards of Trustees, as a tool for reorganization. first of almost 250 King-appointees one for each of the Commonwealth's On June 20, the stalemate ended. In scheduled to fill slots in the new system. public institutions. The campus boards, a private meeting, closed to both the The 61 -year-old Longmeadow resident, however, maintain minimal decision- public and press, Atkins agreed to attach also Chairman of the Massachusetts making power and are little more than the outside section on reorganization to Business Roundtable, said he intends to advisory bodies to the Regents. The the budget in return for the inclusion of a better co-ordinate the system and bring trustees haye the authority to: "ad- dramatic campaign-reform bill. The Con- the state's public colleges and univer- minister and repair property," implement cord Democrat shocked most state sities in tune with Bay State business and review student services, and set house observers by calling for a plan that and industry. parking fees and policies. Eight of the went far beyond the scheme Finnigan "By next March our new board will nine members that comprise each board had fought for. Atkins based his have recruited a Chancellor and begun will be appointed by King, and one will sweeping proposal on a plan drafted by

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educational system in Massachusetts," Finnigan said. The highlight of the House debate came when Collins walked to the podium. The 31 -year-old Amherst Democrat, had only a single night to prepare a rebuttal to Finnigan's argument and he was unsure of how to attack the reorganization plan. He could point out that the plan eliminates positions that had existed for over a century, appealing to his colleague's sense Representative John J. Finnigan Governor Edward King and of tradition, and then point out the Chester Atkins, Senate Ways and Means Chairperson hurried atmosphere in which the plan was drafted, appealing to their reason. former Boston mayor John Collins and The great debate He was also unsure whether to criticize George W. Hazzard of Worcester the backroom nature of the budget Polytechnic Institute, which called for The next afternoon, when Speaker of meetings and possibly anger the House the creation of the powerful Board of the House, Thomas McGee, dropped his leadership. Collins decided that an all Regents. out gavel and brought the House to order, attack was in order. After the closed-door meeting the reorganization drama began to un- "Mr. Speaker, what this plan is Atkins, Finnigan and other members of does fold. The business at hand was to vote rip the guts right out higher the conference-committee told a of education yes or no on the entire $6 billion budget, in Massachusetts. It wipes with crowded state house press conference away, including the section on reorganization. one of the pen, all about the comprehensive plan which wave of the present The stormy session evolved into a governance structures had been written into the budget. The in the state. ..The debate between Collins and Finnigan. political sharpees announcement sent a number of who move so sleekly Finnigan argued that an impending through these halls are waiting to inevitable political forces into motion and now decline in the 18 to 24 year-old line up for the $54,000-a-year jobs this initiated a political battle royale, between age group would translate into declining plan creates and the $300 million those legislators who supported the plan blank and campus representatives struggling enrollments in the near future and that a check that will control public higher to maintain jobs and programs. central board would be better suited for education." Education Secretary Charles John- son quickly branded the plan "a precipitous and simplistic approach to a complex problem" and warned that "This plan will not allow the ad- similar attempts to centralize decision- making power in small boards "have ministrative duplication of services and been abysmal failures." Representative James Collins, him- waste of money that has been going on self a member of the reorganization com- for too long now. mission, stood outside the house Cham- bers rapidly scanning the budget document. "This is an attempt to gut higher education," Collins said. "This Rep. John J. Finnigan plan is essentially a takeover of the system. Collins also reacted strongly to the process used to implement the plan. He charged the process was "completely dealing with the decline. He also told But Collins' fight was uphill from the undemocratic" and called the plan, "a House members, that two-year, skills- very beginning. The leadership in both scheme cooked up over a poker table by oriented programs should be increased the House and the Senate had been ac- leaders of the House and to meet the needs of the state's high tively soliciting the support of other Senate." The next task for the leader- technology industry. Finnigan also lam- members of the General Court and lob- ship was to get this report through the basted the present system calling it both byists from the Governor's Office had House and Senate. By including the "inefficient" and "fragmented" and ad- been stalking the state house halls drum- reorg ding that the current educational leader- ming up support as well, in addition, report, which prohibits revisions or ship had proved itself resistant to legislators could not single out the amendments, the leadership was now change. reorganization plan for opposition but forcing the hands of their colleagues. 'This plan will not allow the ad- were bound to vote yes or no on the en- The House and Senate were now voting ministrative duplication of services and tire $6 billion document. A two-to-one to either approve or reject the entire waste of money that has been going on margin of approval in the House and a 1981 budget; to end the long, tiresome for too long now. There is a pressing slim 19-to-15 vote in the Senate cleared budget process, or to start all over again. need to have a centralized, organized the way for passage of the plan.

15 Board of Regents The Coming Conflict higher education budget in order to minimize competition between schools DAVID BEAUBIEN is a graduate of Reorganization is a law, a law that the for scarce funds, but added that the cam- UMass and a former member of the King Administration and a number of pus boards of trustees should be em- Board of Trustees. He is also vice- legislative leaders have fought long and powered to set policies for their in- president of EG&G, an international cor- hard to bring about. Student groups, dividual schools. poration. faculty organizations, and some state Disagreement exists among students ROBERT CUSHMAN is the Chief legislators are hopeful that a far-reaching as to whether the Collins bill goes far Executive officer of the Norton Com- political movement can convince enough. Nonetheless, student groups pany. lawmakers facing re-election to amend have been working on the reorganization SISTER JANET EISNER is President of the plan. effort and state house lobbying; voter Emmanuel College, and a former mem- Legislation to amend the plan is registration and demonstration plans are ber of the Community College Board of being drafted by Representative Collins, being formulated. The Massachusetts Trustees. who has called for a grassroots coalition State Student Association has held three GEORGE ELLISON is the former Chair- of students, faculty members, alumni, meetings on the issue and the group is person of the State College Board of and interested citizens to oppose the currently attempting to gain support for Trustees, and runs his own instance reorganization effort. "Demonstrations a one-day student strike on October 1 to agency. are good," Collins said, "but students symbolize their opposition. ARNOLD FRIEDMAN was a member need to register to vote, lobby at the The State Legislature re-convenes in of the Higher Education Reorganization state house, and write their elected January and a full-scale political battle Commission, and is Editor of the representatives." between backers of the reorganization Springfield Union and Sunday Collins legislation will not abolish the plan and opponents of the measure ap- Republican Newspapers. Board of Regents or save schools like pears imminent. Even the most adamant HONORABLE FOSTER FURCOLO is a Boston State from being closed or critics of the reorganization plan admit former Governor of Massachusetts, as merged with other institutions. Collins that stopping all changes in the well as a former Congressman and State favors amending the plan to create a education system is impossible, but Treasurer. He is recognized as the foun- weaker central board which would act as many contend that a grassroots effort to der of the current community college a co-ordinating body rather than a policy- minimize the impact of reorganization system which was established in his ad- setting board. Collins said that the cen- can be successful if the necessary ministration. tral board should maintain control of the student support can be galvanized. DR. GEORGE HAZZARD is a retired President of Worcester Polytechnic In- stitute, and a member of the Higher Education Reorganization Commission.

FATHER FRANCIS J. NICHOLSON is a Professor of Law at Boston College Law School.

DAVE PARESKY is a former member of the Board of Higher Education; President of Crimson Travel, and a graduate of Williams College, Harvard Law School, and the Harvard Business School.

ELIZABETH RAWLINS is an Associate Dean of Education at Simmons College.

DR. CHARLES SANDERS is Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital,

RAY STATA is President of Analog Devices, a founder of the Massachusetts High Technology Council, and a major advocate of relating the curriculum of higher education to the needs of the private sector. DR. AN WANG is founder and President of Wang Laboratories, Inc., and a former member of the Board of Higher Education.

NORMAN ZALKIND is former Chair- person of the Board of Trustees of Southeastern Massachusetts University, a recognized civic leader in the Southeastern Massachusetts Com-

munity, and a highly successful investment executive. 16 . /Que Pasa?

By Nelson Azocar

Este articulo es el primero de una para mucho de los recien llegados esta la formemos un solo frente para luchar por serie de cuatro que saldran posterior- oficina de servicios especiales que se nuestros derechos sociales, humanos y mente en las proximas ediciones. ubica en el edificio 01 sexto piso salon politicos que nos afectan directamente. La union de estudiantes hispanos 88. Para esto los invito a formar parte del

(HSU) en conjunto con la union de Existen tambien varios estudiantes hispanic Caucus que tiene sus bases estudiantes Puertorriquenos (PRSU) hispanos elegidos por voto popular y que legates en Washington D.C. y que estara queremos darle la bienvenida y desearles son los representantes en los distintos en operaciones en UMB para el mes de buena suerte a todos los estudiantes que sectores y que ustedes los pueden Septiembre. Aqui es donde discut- han ingresados a nuestra universidad ubicar en las oficinas del SAC, asamblea iremos neustras diferencias y el como tambien a los que ya estan aqui. o el senado y sus nombres son Carla tipo de estrategia que usaremos para Nosotros esperamos que se mantengan Yllanes, Ignacio Espinoza, Dave Perez los anos venideros, que como les dije an- en la lucha y que participen en las ac- (asamblea), Saul Ortega (asamblea y tes seran muy complicados y dificiles de tividades estudiantiles como tambien SAC), Nelson Azocar (senado y SAC) y entender si estamos solos y si no for- sociales que la universidad ofrece. Octavio Ramirez (SAC). Como pueden mamos nuestro propio grupo para que Muchas de estas actividades seran apreciar no estan solos y hay muchos futuros legislatores nos favorescan tanto ofrecidas por el comite de actividades otros estudiantes que estan dispuestos a en el piano educacional, comunal y para el estudiante (Student Activity ayudarlos. politico.

Committee) que esta ubicado en el Quisiera agregar a esta lista al direc- Otra sugerencia es la de registrarse edificio 020 tercer piso sala 425 en con- tor del SAC Robert Camarieri que es un para el voto en las elecciones Presiden- junto con las dos entidades hispanas especialista en los Boricuas y de la isla ciales y estatales de este ano. El (HSU y PRSU) que se ubican en el del encanto, y que es una persona muy secretario de Estado SR. Michael Con- edificio 01 cuarto piso salones 1 24-1 25. accesible que le gusta ayudar y entiende nolly invito a los lideres comunales y Actualmente estas organizaciones los problemas de los hispanos en U.S.A. estudiantiles a cooperar para una necesitan de la cooperacion de los Otra de las cosas que me gustaria registracion masiva de los ciudadanos estudiantes para que sirvan mejor al cominicarles es la existencia de un gran hispanos que no se han registrado! estudiado hispano como tambien para Centro Atletico el que contara con Hispano deja oir to voz y registrate para tener un centro de operaciones, ya que facilidades para basketball, piscina olim- las elecciones que vienen! este ano sera de gran agonia para las pica, pista de hockey en el hielo, salones Companero espero que nos apoyen y organizaciones estudiantiles, para danza, judo, balompie, beisbol, ten- sigan nuestros sugerencias para un especialmente para las minorias. Este nis, y muchos otros deportes. futuro mejor. Para mas informacion, llamado lo hacemos como estudiantes y Todo esto generara un nuevo preguntas o sugerencias pueden escribir representantes hispanos y les pedimos a movimiento de estudiantes que antes a Nelson Azocar Wavelength Magazine ustedes companeros que muestren su estaban ausentes porque no existian las Edificio 01 sexto piso salon 091 apoyo a las actividades que los estudian- mismas facilidades. Esperamos que tan- Quiero despedirme pero no sin antes tes hispanos ofreceran durante el ano to los atletas negros e hispanos tengan la darle las gracias a la directora de academico. oportunidad de demostrar su destreza en Wavelength Magazine Donna Neal como

Estas organizaciones estudiantiles sus deportes favoritos. asi tambien a los miembros de la revista estan disenadas para dar consejeria y Separando el panorama atletico que me dieron espacio, su apoyo y apoyo a todos los estudiantes en existe la parte politica de esta univer- sugerencias para completar este articulo. general. Podemos agregar otros centros sidad que es bastante grande ya que es Nelson Azocar dentro de la universidad que tambien una universidad estatal y los fondos H.S.U. prestan servicio al estudiantado hispano provienen de los impuestos con- Presidente como la oficina de consejeria hispana tribuciones otros recursos. Lo mas im- que esta ubicada en el edificio de I ad- portante es que existen varias alter- ministracion segundo piso en la cual natives politicas y nuestro consejo es Francisco Chapman es el consejero. que se inscriban en cualquiera, pero, que Tambien tenemos la oficina de de apoyo participen en las acciones y decisiones academico que se ubica en el edificio que estos grupos lleven acabo. 020 tercer piso salon 625 donde esta Elsa Otra de las cosas importantes es que Orjuela que es la consejera academica y la comunidad y los estudiantes hispanos B

17 Campus Controversy

What methods do you think

students should

use to affect

reorganization?

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Jonathan Baron Kristin Bagley

In order to plan effective student resistance to Governor King's plan for the reorganization of higher reorganization, we must examine UMass/Boston's most education is an insult to the democratic process and'studen- recent protest effort. Last spring's protest focused on good ts must mobilize and take immediate action. and obvious concerns and was led by many intelligent, ar- The plan, which was tacked on to the state budget, ticulate and thoroughly dedicated students. Yet, the over- passed through the State Legislature after King made whelming majority of students and faculty greeted the several deals with the leadership of the Massachusetts crusade with indifference or hostility. The more protestors House and Senate. There were no public hearings or open appealed to the UMB population to take a hard look at their debates on the issue. administration, the more people here examined and Part of King's plan calls for a super board of regents criticized the protestors. Everyone's sensibilities seemed far whose chairperson, James Martin, defines his role as that of more offended by the demonstrator's growing list of "making eduaction more responsive to the economic needs issues that demands than by the brought the protest of the state's industries." This super board has 14 other together in the first place. members, the majority of whom come from big-business I agreed that the expanded demand list was perhaps bad backgrounds. Only two members of the board are women strategy, but I asked critics, "Do you disagree with any of and one of these women is the only minority representative. the demands?" "Of course not," was always the reply, There is no student representation on the board.

"but the chancellor can't do anything about them." I found this a perplexing response. Naturally I'd respond with, This board of regents that King created has the power to "Well, so what?" "It just looks stupid, that's all," was the "compose a five-year master plan for higher education. clinched-jaw retort. A more revealing clue to the reason for Within this master plan, the board will have authority to the general antipathy with the protest surfaced when off- establish, alter or discontinue any program, department, or campus socialist and communist groups began showing up institution as it sees fit." King's plan, in effect, is giving a at the rallies to distribute literature. "That's not going to do centralized board complete and absolute control over all them (the protestors) any good," I frequently heard, "It looks higher education, leaving individual institutions arid studen- bad." Then came the charges that the protestors were sim- ts virtually powerless. ply professional demonstrators; they just want to skip In order to save higher education from being under the classes or they are attempting to revive the sixties. The complete control of big business, which has shown itself to situation then became obvious to me. Protest critics were be totally insensitive to educational needs, students must filled with the values and self loathing that all poor classes begin to organize at their schools. Students must learn to are taught so they can both defer to the elite body, and op- work together and to be tolerant of each other's political press themselves. Thus the learned preferences: reasoned- philosophies because many different forms of non-violent appearing composure vs. shouting out your cause, three- activism will be necessary to gain a voice in higher

18 Baron Bagley

piece suits vs. the uniform of the proletariat, getting even education. vs. getting mad, going through the proper channels vs. At times, working within the establishment can be ef-

making a scene, a well groomed goatee vs. a bushy beard. fective, but when the political system is so obviously

What did people learn from the sixties? Simply, that if corrupt that it refuses to listen to its constituencies, people you're a member of an oppressed group and you want to must take action into their own hands. change, change yourself and join your former foes. No Most politicians are hopelessly wrapped up in their own state college or University protest that outwardly fights for political futures and do not share the genuine concerns of the proletariat, even though the student body is of that the people. Often, they must be forced to listen to us. Letter class, can succeed when those same students are busily writing, voting and lobbying are fine in certain cases, but in engaged in the attempt to wash every trace of proletarian an issue as important and crucial as reorganization, it won't character off themselves. be enough. Throughout history, major positive social The fight against reorg has to appeal to the majority of changes have not come about when people pleaded with the state higher education population. These persons feign politicians. Rather, they came about when people organized the methods the elite employ in order to qet things done. and took direct action. The anti-reorg effort must offer participants advancement In a direct action, people empower themselves to

in, rather than alienation from, "the system": An anti- strive for change, following the law of their conscience. In reorg organization must function like any other mainstream this country, if people had not taken direct action, women

political pressure group. This involves 'hit lists' of un- would not be voting, black people would still be sitting at sympathetic legislators, voter registration drives, slick per- the back of the bus, and labor unions would not exist. In this suasive literature and political campaign work for sym- university, if students had not occupied the Chancellor's of- pathetic candidates. Our anti-reorg warriors should wear fice last semester, many issues which affect every UMass the armor of the elite rather than the cloth of protestors. student would never have been exposed. Some people The lobbying effort need not be full of rhetoric about quality seem to think the student occupiers were being extreme in education for poor people. Instead our lobbyists should their desire for a voice in their school,, just as women, dwell on re-election, the unpopular governor and the zeal blacks, and labor organizers were thought of as being ex- with which students can campaign. Reorg threatens many treme at various times in recent history. While some on the schools in several districts. Therefore, we can coordinate UMB campus reacted to the student occupiers negatively, our power and influence. Faculty in such areas as the others realized the importance of the students' action. One departments should history, language, art and management department-head at UMB responded to the student occupation by saying, "It's about time students were willing to Marxist study list. And, yes, the administrative elements get arrested for a just cause." could be' very sympathetic and supportive; power is the We were forced to take direct action last spring in order currency of bureaucracy and reorg stands to give them all a to take the lead in this reorganization struggle. Direct action

'pay' cut. Such a plan may sound to ambitious-it is not. An .will most likely be needed for our voice to be heard and opportunity to work with faculty, administrators and listened to. politicans would offer anti-reorg participants the education, Direct action implies a commitment; a show of strength reinforcement, and contacts that will attract the host of and courage that is desperately lacking in today's society. people necessary to do the job. However, we should not carry out non-violent, direct ac- There are various philosophical and moral defects in this tions haphazardly or spontaneously. Non-violent, direct ac- plan but as the late socialist organizer Saul Alinski was fond tion should be carefully thought out and used strategically of noting, "The best things are done for the wrong for specific reasons at specific times. reasons." The student occupation was a good example of people empowering themselves. Although most of the student demands were not met by the administration, there were many positive gains from the action. Students at UMB are now more powerful and organized. One can be sure the ad-

ministration will take the students seriously from now on.

As I stated previously, many different forms of activism

will be needed in this struggle. We, as students, must strive to rise above our petty differences because otherwise, we will lose sight of the most crucial issue: the reorganization of

higher education, which will greatly influence all of us.

Together, we must be unified, tolerant, and strong if we are to have any chance of stopping "all the King's men".

19 B Garbology The study of Trash

By Stonewall Sturges

Then it's off through the dimlit corridor, "No, Eduardo," Paco says, "I can't of rolling along on clackety casters. drink now. I have to work in a couple Down there. In there. Out there. Paco. He views as a kind of privilege hours." Never, never, never is garbage right here close to you. Below you the wastebasket the fact that when the workers leave the '"Tonto! Bullshit, man! You let sits - a detached metal mouth never building at 5, he enters. Part of a special Eduardo buy you something!" closed. You feed it brown paper bags, team, he. That's what his boss says. So Paco goes in. receipts, messages received, apple Paco likes the New York Times Spacious. The place resembles a cow cores, a light bulb mindlessly determined Magazine (he fishes your copy out of the barn. Paco and Eduardo get shots of rum

(like sperm) to wade to the bottom, a trash on Mondays) for the ad- and sit down in a stall-like booth to the note written to yourself in a fit of vertisements. "Live the legend," Lenox side. boredom, which reads: "I need a man to China & Crystal chimes. The A multi-faceted hunk of green glass grind against." diaphonous, auburn-haired transplant masquerades as an emerald on Eduar- After you leave at night, a Puerto from cow country has risen to welcome do's fat finger. Beads of sweat form a

Rican sanitation engineer - call him Paco you into her penthouse dining room. A tiara on his forehead, but it melts and - empties this elite waste, these office blue night mutes the lights in the moun- runs down his face. He mops his brow orts. But suppose Paco's a budding gar- tains of Manhattan. The Gordon Girl of with a red handkerchief. "I'm the king of

- bologist. In that case, watch out. You Philadelphia her eyes whisper, "take everything. I gotta be high before I can inhaled a two oz. bottle of gin at your me, you Latin equestrian trainer." And swing," he sings. Then: "Ain't you hot? desk? Paco knows. You threw away the what does one make with Midori Melon Don't this heat make you want to pin

"Day 16" calendar leaf, on which 1 you Liqueur? Paco sends away for the free some Americana to the wall and fuck had written:"Livia's, 32 Westmoreland recipe book. her?" Paco nods his head and smiles

St., at 8 p.m. Cocktails"? Paco's seen it. Before coming to work, Paco hangs because of the note in his pocket. The

He knows where you are. around the neighborhood. It smells of high ceiling is like the night, and under it And you at Livia's, roaming with that cigars and, of course, urine. The Paco swaggers back from the bar. Two pack of single women through a cocktail sidewalk is a bubblegum graveyard. Spat more rums on the table. fog. You don't realize, do you, un- out and walked on countless times, the "Like to suck cock?" fortunate worthy, that Paco could be stuff has been flattened into black spots. Paco looks up:"what?" stalking you - hidden in the rhododen- Twilight at noon - a colonnade of stan- "My usual stock," Eduardo says, dron or up on the roof waiting, like a chions for the elevated train shades the pointing, "rum. Stock. Drink it all the Hollywood psychopath. Paco. He's got street. And rust climbs up those stan- time." the lowdown on you, you independent chions like fertile moss. The brick faces "Oh." yet sexy woman, creation of Madison of buildings suffer blackheads. They both tip their heads back and Avenue fabulists. Shameless windows lack shades, and drain their shot glasses simultaneously. boxes of light glare inside, even on this Eduardo licks his lips. His eyebrows go Bars of sunlight slope through the broiler of a day. Vehicles: battered up; his chin, down. He opens and closes windows of your empty office. Two buses, muffle-less station wagons, nervous his lips. Smacking noises sail across the requisite avacado plants stand like sen- Volvos prone to wrong turns, the table like smoke rings. tries at the door. An electronic eye peers gashogs of pimps who wear fedoras and Paco suddenly becomes into the room from its aerie where two feathers, extant Corvais. All accelerate talkative: "Did you know that I fainted walls meet the ceiling. Deserts of ash all the time. An anachronistic man once in the chaooaral? Yes, I did. In New and cigarette butts occur daily in hawks fish from a cart with wagon Mexico. The heat did it. I had hitchhiked ashtrays. Paco must empty them. wheels higher than his head. His voice somewhere, but then I had to walk. I sat But before he does that, your gar- rises each time the traffic accelerates. down by the side of the road to rest and bologist forages in the wastebasket for fell over. Luckily, a police stopped and any promising gobbets. He pockets your The Warehouse Bar. It looks like a helped me. I would have died if they did crinkled note:"l need a man to grind warehouse, all right. The sign, con- not help. I don't know why I thought of against." Thinking about you, he emp- spicuous only because it's the dullest that. It was forgotten." ties your trash into a larger can in the thing on the street, sprouts no neon ten- "Yes, you must be careful of the out- hall. It's on casters. And it sports a large, drils. Just crimped and rusted iron. side heat," Eduardo says. He hands green petrochemical sack, the garbage Eduardo, a mysterious man who lives in something to Paco under the table, a bag. The mass exhales like a laboratory Paco's building, stands in the doorway paper bag. "You know what I got in lung when Paco presses it With his boot. and invites Paco in. there, man?"

Garbology - to page 37

21 Nantucket

By Mary Whelan

Nantucket Island is fifteen miles long and three and half miles wide, and lies approximately twenty-five miles off the

Cape Cod coast. The island is best known as an international summer resort with over fifty miles of sandy white beadhes and thirty thousand acres of land maintained in its natural state. Swimming, boating, fishing, and a myriad of other outdoor activities are popular throughout the summer while a great many restaurants, souvenir shops and specialty stores cater to the tourist trade and support the island economy. During the summer months, the island's population often climbs to over fifty- thousand per day as tourists pour in by ferry and plane to take advantage of the warm weather and island scenery. Among the summer visitors are a number of U Mass/Boston students participating in the Nantucket Summer based on the history, culture and beauty house. Other local night spots include Semester. of Nantucket. The Brotherhood, The Tavern, and The UMass/Boston's American Chicken Box. The Box is among the Civilization Program offers the summer While enrolled in the summer more popular weekend spots where the program on Nantucket which consists of program, most students live in the beach crowd goes to hear what is usually two courses, one weekly seminar, and a UMass field station, located seven or a good, live band. lengthy research paper focused on some eight miles from town. The house there, While Nantucket's present is cer- aspect of the island. Edward Stackpole, overlooking the Nantucket Harbor and tainly interesting, its past is interesting as maritime history expert and Nantucket offering a beautiful view of the ocean, well. Nantucket was originally inhabited historian teaches 'The History and has a kitchen, two dormitory-style by the Wamponoag Indians but in 1602 Culture of Nantucket," and Dr. Wesley bedrooms and two bathrooms. Bartholomew Gosnold, an explorer Tiffney, Director of the UMass field The island itself is surrounded by thrown off course enroute to Virginia, station at Quaise, teaches "The Natural beaches and much of the land is covered became the first European to sight the Environments of Nantucket." Both cour- with moors. The Nantucket Con- island. Fifty-seven years later the set- ses meet for an hour daily and are run on servation Commission owns much of the tlement was founded by a group from a six week schedule. Combined with land and has managed to preserve a Salisbury, Massachusetts which had fled weekly seminars and the paper, the cour- great deal of it in its natural state." religious persecution there. From the ses provide students with an interesting Among the wildlife that inhabits the very beginning, the island provided look at the island of Nantucket. island are rabbit and deer as well as isolation from the mainland; a charac-

In the past, UMB students have ex- pheasant, hawks and the varieties of teristic still embedded in the cultural plored a variety of aspects of the island. ducks and birds which make bird wat- heritage of Nantucket. Topics of research paper have included ching a popular pastime. In the 1690's many of the islanders biographies of island women, But for those who bore easily, the entered the whaling trade, which proved educational studies of island schools, night life on Nantucket is not bad either. successful, and Nantucket was con- studies of the fishing industry, ar- The Mad Hatter and the Atlantic Cafe are sidered the whaling capital of the world chitectural studies of the island homes restaurants which operate year-round; by 1 740. Eventually, most of the island and even works of fiction and poetry the Gaslight Theatre is the local movie population became involved in some Nantucket - to page 36

22 Financial Aid Notice

Dear Student,

The Office of Student Financial Management would like to inform the student body of the University about recent oc-

currences in the area of financial aid. The funding for the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) program, due to an attempt by the Carter Administration to balance the federal budget, has been reduced for the 80-81 Academic Year. Each

student's Basic Grant has been reduced by $50. This means that the maximum BEOG for 80-81 for UMB students is $1 162 for

in-state students and $1750 for out-of-state students. Since the Department of Education has sent our office three different payment schedules, some students have been informed of the correct amount for BEOG and others must reduce their BEOG by $50. We apologize for the confusion regarding these awards.

In addition to the decrease in BEOG, the federal government has reduced the University's funds in the College Work-Study (CWS) and National Direct Student Loan (NDSU Programs. Since we have already allocated monies to students on the basis

of last year's funding levels there is a possibility that we may have to decrease CWS and/or NDSL awards by $100 - $200 per student. We are trying to determine whether we need to pursue this course of action and will notify financial aid recipients of

any change in their award amounts before school opens. In light of this, we would appreciate written verification from studen-

ts if you plan to cancel your CWS or NDSL awards.

We would also like to remind students that we do not have any emergency loan funds available for books, etc. If you are

receiving financial aid and are entitled to an excess payment (monies over and above your tuition bill payment), this payment

will not be available until approximately four weeks after classes begin. Students are expected to use monies from their sum-

mer savings, HELP loans and other resources to pay for books, supplies, transportation, etc. for the first month of school/ Financial aid cannot be considered the only resource for students and must be supplemented by other funds acquired by the

student. Also, remember that you must be registered (after ADD/Drop) for 12 credits (or be registered for five competencies

for CPCS students) in order to be eligible for your full BEOG and campus based aid awards. Otherwise your financial aid will be

adjusted. Also, Mass. State Scholarships (BHE) monies will not be available until October. Again, you must be registered (af-

ter Add/Drop) for 12 credits in order to be eligible for any payment under this fund. Since financial aid eligibility extends for

eight semesters only, failure to complete 1 2 credits each semester could result in ineligibility for a 5th year at the University.

If you have any questions regarding your financial aid or on how to apply for BEOG or HELP loan, please call 287-1900, ext.

2311. If you need a part-time job during the Academic Year, please contact our Job Development Office at 287-1900, ext.

3271 . We have many jobs available in the Greater Boston area.

Again, we apologize for any inconvenience resulting from this situation. The University, along with other higher education affiliates, has expressed our concern regaru vj the status of financial aid funds. We urge you to contact your congressional

representatives about the impact on you of the decreases in the federal educational budget.

Sincerely,

Grace Muscarella, Director Student Financial Management

P.S. The news is not all bad. Some dependent students who were eligible for BEOG last year were considered ineligible this year because of their earnings. The Department of Education has decided to recalculate these BEOG applications for those

dependent students who contribute to th6ir family income (if that income is low). The students who are in this category will be

receiving adjusted SERs (Student Eligibility Reports) in August. Please bring or mail the SER to our office a.s.a.p. so that we can process your BEOG.

23 Thirteen Ways of

Looking at a University

(1) A star, and the night Are one. A star, and the night, and a University Are one.

(2) The sun passed through openings And danced on the faces of those caged inside of the University. At that point...

(3) The University stood silent Surrounded by a reserved bay whose cold water refused to make waves.

(4) An old man died in a broken bed,

unaware that his life had been shaped by the University.

(5) Nothing made sense to anyone. It made less sense at the University.

(6) Acne, like

politics, is part of youth at the University.

(7) The University marked the passage of all

seasons. Ice chilled it,

snow reminded it of romance, water

made it recall early life as mortar; but

the sun, oh, the sun made it important.

24 (8) The University itself appeared to sway and bow as winds tore at small boats in the harbor.

Needless to say, the University was not a boat in the least.

(9) Far away islands taunted the University.

Birds mocked it - blackbirds in particular.

They ran to it and cried "you are nothing but brick and pretense" and were right.

(10) UMass Publications Light uncovers delusion and makes clear frozen and forgotten truths. Universities do nothing of the kind.

(11) "When you're a University — you drive a car When you're a University — other Universities check you out"

(12) I know my own limitations; the hazards of taking thin sheet glass and

molding it into song, the danger of idle

chatter and the further danger of idle life.

That the University is not involved in wha I know does not matter

In the least.

(13) We can climb to the University and back. Or, we can climb Kent Worcester •I 1 1

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UMass Publications UMass Publications Opinion

The Political Assassination of Senator Kennedy

multi-million dollar publishing cor- with the title "Teddy?"; but by the time porations have the means to create the show was aired, the question mark images which can negatively influence a had been dropped. In his article Mr.

, The Wavelength Opinion page offers campaign without the full awareness of Dugger asks why, taking this as a clue to opportunity to ex- UMass students an the citizens who read the publication. what the press was doing to Kennedy. press a point of view on important issues The most recent major political event "A major network, in its protected and and events. In each issue students may in which the population was dependent privileged exercise of its news function, use the Opinion page to develop an in- on the media for information was the was challenging the candidacy of the depth argument on the topic of their 1980 Presidential Primaries. The public one potent liberal contender for the ultimately choice. Drop off submissions at the chose a candidate whom they Presidency by specially focusing almost thought best represented their desires; a entirely on the one big minus in the Wavelength office, 1-6-91. " choice based on the images and mental Senator's record, 'Chappaquiddick' impressions construed by the press. writes Dugger. Many believe that some of the major Very rarely, Dugger notes, is there By Jay Alberto media outlets engaged in what can only any mention of the Senator's 8,500 votes

If one is asked to define major dif- be called a vicious crusade to discredit a on record, during his seventeen years ferences between the United States and leading contender for the democratic service in the Senate. The abundance of the Soviet Union, two of these dif- presidential nomination: Senator Edward material available for discussion of ferences would surely be that we, in the Moore Kennedy. This sideline campaign domestic and foreign policy was virtually free world, have the treasured con- may have caused Senator Kennedy to ignored on the show. Instead, CBS and stitutional rights to freely express our in- lose the presidential nomination of the Mudd used Chappaquiddick as part of a dividual opinions concerning any party he has relentlessly served for vengeful attack on the Senator, thus political event, and to choose the person eighteen years. overshadowing his outstanding record. we feel is fit to represent those opinions. The fiasco started just before Dugger further states that "Mudd

In fact, we tolerate the publishing of all Senator Kennedy announced his can- was remorselessly critical and dubious. ideas - no matter how perverse they didacy. It began with Roger Mudd's CBS He made special use of the medium to may seem to the general public, i.e. por- special on the senator last fall. The prejudice those watching by telling us nography, Nazism, the ideologies of the program, taped in August but not aired which Kennedy hesitations and flin- Klu Klux Klan and Communism. Indeed, until some three days before Kennedy chings to watch for before we saw and it would be hard to argue contrary to officially announced his candidacy, heard them, and then after we had seen this; many would even say there simply produced an image of a slow-thinking, and heard the chosen segment, by is no argument, worthy of our time. Are syntactically-tangled Kennedy, being for- telling us what was wrong with what he we not 'free to choose?' Isn't this the ced to repeat under unusual interview had just let us hear Kennedy say. spirit of both our political and economic procedures, his Chappaquiddick story. It Many have agreed that this in- system? By what visible means can one was quite clear that the long-time family terview created an image of a confused claim otherwise? friend, Mudd, was out for a kill on the Kennedy and left the impression of a Being neither a believer in absolute bewildered senator. This one hour show candidate who was not sure why he truth or in the defunct philosophy of was condensed from some twenty-four wanted to run for the Presidency. Ken- positivism, I would like to present an hours of unscrupulous interviewing by nedy's response to Mudd's interview argument, based partly on fact, which Mudd and his associates which had been becomes more comprehensible when suggests an existing limit to how 'free' edited and pieced together in such a way one considers that Mudd was a long- we are to choose. My premise that there that Kennedy appeared a rambling and time family friend from whom Kennedy is, in fact, a limit to our freedom to reticent man, hardly fit for the Presiden- never expected such an attack. choose, is based on the facts that the cy. Dugger feels that this interview human cerebrum, peculiar and complex, In the June, 1980, issue of 77?e raises issues concerning the network's is malleable and is subject to a significant Nation, Ronnie Dugger noted in his ar- new triopoly of the publicly owned air- degree of manipulation through clever ticle that a full page ad in the New York ways. He states, "Only once before did literary means. Hence self-interested Times announced the Mudd program this issue heave into view, when- the In-

26 ternational Telephone and Telegraph Carter's expensive military programs. In Globe on December 7, 1980, ran a front Corporation almost merged with ABC. fact, one New York Times article said page story entitled, "Iranians See Ally in

Tbe issue is: how did three corporations Carter was forced to increase military Kennedy." The article stated that on get this stranglehold on national spending because of Iran's revolution December 2, at nine-thirty in the mor- television news, and why, when it is and the Soviet soldiers and equipment in ning, in the Los Angeles studios of KN- vulnerable to such objectionable use as Afghanistan. The fact of the matter is BS-TV, Kennedy would not comment on the Mudd program on Kennedy, should that many charges were levelled against the Shah's admittance to a U.S. hospital the triopoly continue to be tolerated un- Carter's increase by top politicians in the because of the hostage situation. But, der the anti-trust law? Democratic party. Why didn't the Times the article stated, twelve hours later in

In a Washington Post expose, Ken- mention that Kennedy is forced to fight the KRON studio in San Francisco, Ken- for health care because moderate in- nedy took the opposite tact, blurting out nedy's oil holdings were portrayed as if come families are in danger of having that the deposed shah "should not be they reflected his credibility on energy their life savings consumed by the granted political asylum in the United issues. The impression wa" "hat Ken- spiralling prices of our health care States, that his regime was one of the nedy represented the big oil industry. system? Every private firm hired by most violent in the history of mankind What the article failed to mention was Congress to investigate the economic ef- and that he has stolen umpteen billions that in 1 975 Kennedy led the fight which fects of national health insurance of dollars from his people." ended the outrageous oil depletion showed that a federal insurance policy The press sensationalized what allowance. He also fought for the would be anti-inflationary. As Kennedy would seem to be strange behavior on minimum tax bill, reducing tax shelters, stated, "Inflation is the biggest spender the Senator's part; they failed, however, and for a larger oil windfall tax than the of all." to mention the Carter administration of devastating press statements one which eventually became law. The One the most which suggested that the events in Kennedy's campaign was the shah would be given permanent political impressions left by the Post and coun- "who gets the shah" fiasco. The Boston asylum if he wanted it. Also ignored was tless other articles were not only inac- curate but also unjustified. Opinion - to page 42 Other press coverage which served Carter and the Republicans well was the notion that Kennedy was a big spender. For example, an April 21, 1980 article in Time magazine reports that Kennedy stuck 'doggedly' to his liberal economic policies, "despite the national con- servative tide." He insists that balancing the budget will not do much to curb inflation, and he assails proposals to cut social spending: Kennedy is quoted as saying, "We cannot fight inflation on the backs of the poor, the elderly, the working people." The article further states, "He continues to push his expensive plan for national health insurance (an extra $28.6 billion a year, by his own estimates)"

Kennedy's programs might be expensive, but expensive for what? For federal housing rehabilitation programs, public housing assistance, rent supports, urban mass transit, food stamps, unem- ployment compensation, soil con- servation, youth job programs, worker safety, expansion of educational opportunities, child care programs for low income women, and aid to local rape centers. He fought cut-backs in social security and strengthened national home health care for the elderly. About balancing the budget to fight inflation, the fact is that the Congressional budget committee showed that Carter's aggressive attempt to cut job and other programs by cutting federal spending by $20 billion would only affect inflation by one- tenth of one percent over two years, while dealing a devastating blow to low- income people. Never did we read about

27 Cheap Eats for Starving Students

By Karen MacDonald

B-rring, B-rring. Oh, the telephone.

It's ringing. Answering it, I hear the voice of a UMass friend. "Would you

tike to join me for a bite to eat or a drink? We haven't gotten together in a long time, you know." My stomach says yes

but my heart pounds as I quickly think of my financial state.

"Sure, I'd really like to. What time

can I meet you?" The words come out

of my mouth as if I could not control

them. I hang up the phone and my anxiety runs rampant.

"How can I afford to eat out?" I won-

der, but I calm myself down, knowing I must stop this self-pity. I'm not any different from 95% of the students who attend UMass. We all Buzzy's Famous Roast Beef know what it's like to live on a shoestring budget."

Looking at the positive side I decide for light there must be good, inexpensive places Whether I am in the mood a Charlies's Kitchen, Brattle to eat and drink in Boston. It's just a breakfast or one that is heartier, the food Square, Cambridge matter of finding them, hence began my here always pleases my palate. This

hunt for these havens of inexpensive small donut shop is best known for its This restaurant is a bargain no matter gourmet delight. delicious muffins. Large and crumbly, what time of day hunger strikes. The Organizing the search was simple. these delights are a steal at $.35 each. decor here includes dark paneling, tif- Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and after-dinner The wide variety, suited both to the picky fany style lamps, and Boston ferns. (Are activities rounded out the categories. and the more adventurous, includes they real?) Photographs of the Kennedy Prices listed below are meant to aid you such staples and exotics as blueberry, family which appear on the walls add an in determining which is the best choice cranberry, squash raisin, chocolate, and interesting touch. for you and your budget. There is a marble. A light breakfast can be The breakfast menu offers pancakes definite difference between where you savoured here for exactly $.82, including or French toast for $.90. For the same can afford to eat on pay day versus coffee. price you can order two eggs cooked where you can afford to eat on the day A choice of bacon and eggs along any style. Two eggs with ham or bacon before pay day. This is true whether you with a muffin is very good when the cost $1.65. The eggs are served with have a work-study job or work off cam- stomach is begging to be filled. While home fries and toast and portions at pus. eating, you can listen to as wide a spec- generous. - Charlie's are Breakfast Sometimes I don't feel like trum of musical sounds as the variety of

cooking it. Other times I just want to muffins. The tapes in the Harvard Donut Perhaps you slept through breakfast treat myself to breakfast out. Here are juke box include Loretta Lynn, Frank or just haven't had a chance to eat until two sure bets for appetizing, inexpensive Sinatra, Janis Joplin, the Spinners, and after noontime. Charlie's is a good lunch breakfast eating. Tom Petty. time place also. The Harvard Donut has a definite One recent afternoon I consumed a The Harvard Donut, 647 local flavor; the waitresses are friendly Charlie's cheeseburger Special: two Massachusetts Avenue, and know the menu well. Lunch is also thick, juicy hamburgers, two generous Central Square, Cambridge served here at reasonable prices.

28 hunks of melted cheese, all served on a tamale with chili sauce, Spanish rice, and

sesame seed bun, with a large side order. frijoles refritos - all for the low $4.25. of French fries, and a good sized salad, There was a lot to eat, in fact, too much

all for just 2.50. I ate to the sights and for me to finish. sounds of the Boston Red Sox as there is The menu includes beef tacos for a TV located near the bar. $4.00, cheese tacos for $3.75, bean tacos Other cheap eats include broiled for $3.50, and a Vegetarian Special of a steak for $4.50, roast beef, potatoes, a cheese taco, a tostado, frijoles, and rice vegetable, and gravy for $3.95, and for $4.00. And for the student who is scallops or clams for $3.25. Draft beer is scraping the bottom of his or her pockets served in a chilled mug for $.75. for leftover change there are hot dogs steamed in beer for $.60. Speaking of Buzzy's Roast Beef, 327 beer, it's cheap here: a 12 ounce bottle Cambridge Street, Boston of Miller costs $.80. This is a fun place to fill up on Tex-Mex food arid beer. This is another place to fill a hearty lun-

chtime appetite. A fellow student who Dinner-For myself dinner is the most wishes to remain anonymous, finds Buz- important meal of the day. Occasionally

zy's Super Roast Beef particularly I skip breakfast or lunch, but my delicious; "Buzzy's Special consists of stomach protests too loudly to skip din- roast beef drenched in Buzzy's own bar- ner. becue sauce and heaped with onions

and mushrooms." It costs a reasonable PCrP London Pub, 12 Cen- $2.10. He also recommended their roast tral Square, Cambridge

beef knishes ($.60 each). "I find them

delicious and a great bargain," he com stands a Mexican statue who sports I have only praise for this restaurant. mented. Chinos and a beige vest over a red shirt. It has a comfortable 'make-your-own' at- of the Buzzy's is not your run-of-the-mill That night he wore a sign around his mosphere. It is larger than any

type restaurant. You may have noticed neck which read "Kitchen closed at 10 restaurants I have mentioned so far and their signs which are located next to and p.m." A black moustache and frizzy the spacious, uncramped look makes me above the small white building, while black wig round out his Mexican ap- feel more relaxed to begin with.

I drinks riding on the Red line. Inside is a counter pearnace. My friends and ordered for ordering and another counter to To start us off, the waitress brought before dinner one night. Light beer on stand at while you eat. Outside, there around a basket of frijoles, with a dish of tap is $.60 and is served in a chilled beer mug. Wine and most standard drinks are two picnic tables. Unfortunately, if their own hot sauce. We listened to you decide to eat at them you are sub- various sounds such as "Help Me Make are $1.10. You can't beat these prices. well besides. jected to watching the traffic jams from It Through the Night" while we mun- And the drinks are made Cambridge and Charles Street. In ad- ched away. By that time our main cour- One of the true buys here is the fish sandwich for $1.95; a large piece of dition to your sandwich, you also con- ses had arrived. I had the Mexican sume the fumes from the traffic along Special; a beef taco, an enchilada, a Cheap Eats - to page 43

with your meal. That is why one UMass student hinted at take out service; "Buz- zy's is a good place to get food to go" he suggested.

This student made some final com-

ments including, "Buzzy's roast beef is excellent, and the prices are fair." He further described it as "Good urban cooking." He summed up the rest of his feelings with "If you like Fenway Franks you'll like Buzzy's" and "It's a good break from Big Macs and Fenway Franks." Well you decide for yourself.

The El Phoenix Room, 1430 Commonwealth Avenue, Brighton

The tone here is Tex-Mex all the way from the food, to the music, to the decor. There are brightly colored pinatas hanging in the dining room and murals of The El Phoenix Room Mexico on the walls. In the dining rooms

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Soldier . Her lacerated flesh weeps that echo dawn 's coming healing fluid. that hide my mail Abstract thoughts, vague notions The other child -- in warm soft crevices hover like bombs she lies enfolded. I have come waiting to annihilate tomorrow to believe in. Soon The dark brown earth mother in the gentle morning Errol Miller lingers with outstretched arms new pink petals and ' to recapture her loss slow growth

Sisson young soldiers treading through mud Amy 1980 of blood and tears June as night descends to envelope their sorrow

John Hall 31 3l/WA/o^O " " " Chocko Goes

to the I.C.C.

By Edwin Sullivan

The Door Opens. you forever. You can do nothing. We Please tell the Board Chocko faces a long, unhealthy- determine just how much progress you just what steps you looking table. He is given a chair have made on the Wheel of Life and are have been taking to situated right in the middle of the neck of disposed to believe that you have made restructure such an the table, so that he can have the none at all. We are the Keepers of the obviously hostile at- pleasure of whipping his head from side Public Trust. We are Perfect Men. Are titude towards duly to side. There are six people already you with me so far..?" constituted social seated here and there around the table. "Well..." says Chocko. authority mumble On his right is a young man he has never 'This Board," continues Mr. Drop, mumble and- er- seen before. On the right end of the "is a new and exciting attempt to bring society in general, table is Mr. Farawaynow, a man with together into one place all of the as it were. Can you whom he exchanges a sentence or two ridiculous pomposity and random in- tell us that?" every month or so. On his left are the justice heretofore scattered throughout Chocko: 'That was such a only two people in that room who know the institution in various andsundry this- long time ago. Chocko even a little: House Officers #1 and-that Boards and Committees. We What about now..?" #2. Throughout this entire interview to concentrate. review all ap- and want We Mr. Dribble: "We're not con- they will say nothing at all. At the left plications for Work-Release Programs, cerned with now, end of the table is Mr. Dribble, the Social Hospital Programs, Furloughs, Education Mr. Chocko. We Mr. Dribble in clearance Worker. does not know Release- short, any outside only look at the but will find this han- is or Chocko, he no ours to deny. We also approve deny past. Will you dicap. Nor will Mr. Drop, who has never Unit Changes, Job Changes, the please answer the even met Chocko, and who now faces Changing Seasons and the Changing question?" him across the neck of the table... Tides. This is Armageddon and We are Chocko: "Well, in 1747, "I'm Mr. Drop, Mr. Chocko. Is there Good. Our decisions are arbitrary. Do when I was the anybody here you don't know?" you have questions?" second youngest "Well," says Chocko, "I don't know Chocko: "Is this the Boat to son of a poor coun- you." China..?" try woodsman, I "I just told you, I'm Mr. Drop," says Mr. Drop: "Good. Well then, shot some paper Mr. Drop. "Now, do you know Mr. Dribble, would arrows at the village everybody here?" you like to begin?" priest.." "Well," thinks Chocko to himself. "I Mr. Dribble: Mr. "MMmmm.. did?" don't know you..." Mr. Dribble: "You Lefs Chocko, I see here see.. I can't seem to "Good," says Mr. Drop. Now, this that when you were board- find that here., wait twelve years old a moment., no, it "I don't think- " interrupts Chocko, . you were arrested, must be lost., did gesturing towards the man on his right, along with two com- you kill the Priest?" "I don't think I've met this- panions, for "That's Mr. Just-there," says Mr. Chocko: "With little paper throwing rocks at a Drop. "He's only here to observe." arrows?" Police Car. Can you "Oh.. " says Chocko. Mr. Dribble: "Well., did you hurt tell the Board just "Now," Mr. Drop continues, "this the Priest.." how you are dealing board is the Institutions,! Classification with that problem?" Chocko: "No, I missed the and CantCant Board set up under priest. But we did Chocko: "I was twelve years Newruling-number-l-forget-which in or- put a few dents in old then.. der to review and Confuse every in- the police car.." Mr. Dribble: 'That's beside the dividual within this institution. We are Mr. Dribble: "I see. You here to spend five or ten minutes judging point, Mr. Chocko. Chocko - to page 45

33 Seabrook - from page 9

saying, "I'll give you water, you faggot mother-fucker." According to Alden, when the police saw him taking pictures "We'll be back again/' Alec Johnson of the incident, they charged him, knocked him over, and tried to break his promised the courtroom audience. camera. Alden managed to photograph the incident and keep his camera intact although he was hospitalized with a leg injury.

Along with a legal team, Alden and Alec Johnson, who was charged Another bizarre criminal case in- several others who claim to have been with criminal mischief and disorderly volves Dorchester resident and parent

victims of police brutality and civil rights conduct was scheduled to appear in Tom Ryan who was arrested at violations plan to file suit against the court on September 4, but while he was Seabrook on charges of assault on a state of New Hampshire for the attending a court hearing in support of a police officer with a pair of boltcutters. "atrocities and injustices that occured friend on July 17, the state of New Ham- Ryan was picked out of a small group of

during the weekend". Alden confidently pshire offered to reduce his charges in demonstrators on the south marsh as he states, "We have several sources of solid return for a guilty plea. Johnson ac- was rinsing out the eyes of his wife who evidence including photographs, and cepted the deal and payed a $50 fine. had just been maced by a state police. "I even though the case will go on for "We'll be back again," Johnson never even had a pair of boltcutters in maybe five years, I'm sure we'll win a promised the courtroom audience. my hands", said Ryan. But nonetheless, large settlement eventually". Women and men were often dragged by their hair and police caused many noses to bleed by fiercely kicking their way into groups of people who were sitting down. UMB student Beverly Feldt said she was "freaked

out when I saw a policeman intentionally stepping on a woman. The policeman was really enjoying hurting her", added Feldt, "It was really sadistic."

.and justice for all

UMB students Chris Alberto and Alec Johnson, along with 34 others, were arrested at Seabrook and charged with misdemeanors. Another two people were arrested and charged with felonies. The arrests and subsequent trials led many protestors to question the New Hampshire judicial system. Alberto was arrested for disorderly conduct after he tried to protect a woman who was being hit by a policeman's club. During the incident, Alberto was struck on the knee by a club and was helped into a medical tent.

Minutes later, state police surrounded the medical tent and took Alberto away.

"I couldn't believe it," said Alberto, "I was shocked when the state police dragged me out of the medical tent while I was being examined." On July 11, Aiberto was arraigned in Hampton

County District Court. He pleaded innocent to the charges, and was fined $25.

34 on the day before his hearing, Ryan was SUCCESS OR FAILURE? claim police often did not discriminate facing 15 years in prison, for a crime he between innocent bystanders and those was accused of committing at the first While the debate over the success of aggressively protesting when they took demonstration he had ever attended. the May 24 direct action continues, most out their clubs. When he arrived at the hearing with of the participants and organizers felt Although the May 24 action did not several supporters, Ryan was greeted by frustrated and disappointed after the live up to most expectations, many the state attorney general, a judge, and four-day protest. The biggest disap- members of the CDAS believe there was from the action. Hampden County District Attorney. The pointment was the decrease in the num- some success gained D.A. had previously claimed the state ber of participants after the direct action The Public Service Company spent hun- dollars trying to had enough evidence to prosecute and of October 6. dreds of thousands of sentence Ryan. But when the case came There are many different reasons keep demonstrators out and this will cer- before the judge, he offered to reduce May 24 failed to attract the thousands tainly add to their financial troubles. An recommended sentence of 15 years in of people needed to make such an action action such as May 24th is likely to in-

prison if Ryan pleaded guilty. Ryan successful. One of the biggest problems fluence the prospective investors the repeated to the court that he was in- was the severe criticism the action plant so desperately needs. "Potential investors will have to think twice about financing a plant that is periodically attacked by thousands of demonstrators," points out Kristan Bagley, a UMB student. "Potential investors will have to think WHAT'S NEXT financing plant that is twice about a The big question in the New England periodically attacked by thousands of anti-nuclear movement is "What do we do next?" Currently, most members of demonstrators, " Kristan Bagley. the movement are working on anti-draft registration and towards ensuring that a safe-energy referendum will be on the November ballot. Many CDAS organizers feel that the next direct action

at Seabrook will not occur until after the next major nuclear accident. The CDAS

nocent. The D.A. and the Attorney received from the individuals within the is working on an emergency action plant General huddled, came back and offered anti-nuclear movement. Although this to ensure that a major action could be a sentence of one year in jail if Ryan criticism raised some legitimate con- called within days of a major nuclear ac- plead guilty. Despite his at- would cerns, many of the individuals speaking cident. UMB student Beverly Feldt torney's advice, Ryan repeated that he out against the action appeared to be would like to see a peaceful march at innocent. After several bargaining was putting their energy into publicly ex- Seabrook in the near future that would pleas by the state to which Ryan replied posing their views rather than at- emphasize "love for earth, rather than

, state finally gave up. After "no" the tempting to exert a constructive in- hatred of the status quo", but she would turned the last state plea for Ryan down fluence over the nature of the action. be willing to organize for a direct action a $25 fine, New Hampshire State At- Another problem that members of at Seabrook if a major nuclear accident torney General Greg Smith yelled out the CDAS point out is that there is less occured. UMB student, Kent Worcester angrily, "Tom Ryan, go home", and the enthusiasm in the anti-nuke movement feels that direct action will play a role in case dismissed. Ryan and his sup- was than a year ago when Three Mile Island the future of the anti-nuclear movement, porters gleefully left the courtroom while shocked the movement into action. A but not just yet. "We must come up Ryan's lawyer stared in disbelief. nation-wide" anti-nuclear march in with a strategy that will allow for the in- Ryan is now preparing to sue the Washington D.C. during April which was tegration of new people into the state of New Hampshire on charges of expected to draw half a million people movement. We must find ways to help police brutality. Ryan claims he was only turned out about 25,000. Many channel the anger and frustration that "beaten senseless" in a small room at other New England anti-nukers stayed many people feel towards the nuclear in- the construction site after he was away from Seabrook on May 24th not dustry, into constructive action", ex- arrested by four state police. Ryan fears because they disagreed with the action, plained Worcester. Valery Davy, UMB his vision in one eye may be per- but because they were simply afraid of student and tactical leader at Seabrook, manently impaired from the beating he the violent reactions, of the police. As believes that direct action and education took. According to Dave Alden of the one young woman pointed out, "I've got work go hand in hand. "We should con- Dorchester Community News, Ryan has three kids to support, I wanted to be at centrate on educating the public for before and after photos of his beating Seabrook, but I couldn't afford to get now and then we can decide when the which will be "solid evidence to prove hurt and hospitalized." Concerns such time is right for another direct action," the charges of police brutality". as these are very real; demonstrators states Davy.

35 Although many of the Boston Clam- Nantucket - from page 22 turned the island into a summer vacation shell and CDAS members are politically phases of the whaling trade, either by spot. For many yearswhaling, alongwith aware and very active in minority, supplying the ships with some of the the generally shared religious and cultural women's and working-class struggles, goods needed on their long journeys, or beliefs of the islanders, has kept Nan- they have failed to bring racial and class by sailing off on the ships in search of tucket a small close-knit community. diversity into their own organizations. A whales. The sense of new Clamshell office in Jamaica Plain is The eighteenth century was the a communal identity developed trying to address this problem by golden age of Nantucket; a time of ex- primarily from two basic fac tors: the working with local community groups in pansion and wealth for the island com- physical isolation of the island from the hopes of forming strong and lasting munity. The process of whaling was the rest of the country, and the series of political ties and friendships with the long and often ships would be out to sea historical events in which the island differed local neighborhoods. The Red Clams af- for four years at a time. These journeys in view from the rest of the country. finity group from the Boston Clam office changed the traditional roles in many For example, the islanders followed a policy of neutrality in Cambridge is planning to engage in families with women becoming the in wartime and would not similar work by organizing on local com- managers of many stores and openly support their country. This policy munity issues in the Cambridge working- businesses. The participation of women often antagonized the class neighborhoods. was a practical necessity and an integral rest of the country and the people of Nantucket UMB students will begin meeting part of island life. Whaling was as en- were apt to think in terms of soon to plan an anti-nuclear strategy for terprise that involved the total com- 'us' vs. 'them', an attitude that made the community a unified, close-knit the fall semester. There appears to be munity and the people of Nantucket con- structure. much energy within the UMass network tinued their highly prosperous whaling These factors made Nantucket for planning direct actions in Boston at industry until the middle of the nineteen- unique in character in the nineteenth various key locationis such as Boston th century when because of industrial century. Small, close-knit, and physically Edison, and the First National Bank of changes, intense international com- isolated, even the tourist industry has Boston, a major financer of nuclear petition, and a dramatic decrease in the not eliminated the independence and power. "We will and must continue to whale population, the whaling trade ideas of the native islanders. fight nuclear power in a determined ef- declined sharply. With the age of fort," says Joe Allen, "because time is whaling at an end, the island community running out."

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"No." prising an arrival as the first cold snap. horse got away from me. A moped "Naked girls only a half-inch high!" All the leaves fall off the trees. Your lim- spooked her. Jeez, I'm so sorry. Jeez, illness is A plastic bag lines the paper sack. bs are sore. Why is it that ma'am. Jeez!" The policeman alter- surprise? Paco opens it to smell the fumes from a always a nately rakes his hair and pulls his well of glue. "Try it," Eduardo says. A Paco recovers; His chaparral was earlobe. You regard him, this lumpy blue long inhalation - the bag crackles and only a mirage. sycophant, with a loathing reserved for shrinks as Paco sucks its gas. Im- Here is a description of how you look cockroaches and feminists. mediately, all his senses are packed in in your finery on this hot day. You've Meanwhile, Paco returns triumphant.

- cotton and mothballs. His face locks it- worn a sleeveless terrycloth blouse No longer dressed in polyester and self into a mindless smile. Heart racing, pool blue. A white shirt terminates high sneakers, he. Now Paco wears beige his last thoughts concern a caveful of on your thigh, covering blue panties. The riding tights with a lump at the crotch bats streaming into his lungs. rest: naked legs which end in white san- more exciting than a codpiece, shiny

Coming to in Eduardo's apartment. dals. The man in the Kelly Girl ad would black riding boots, a collariess white cot- Grotesque, unreal sight! Eduardo, his call you quite attractive and sexy. ton shirt with ivory buttons. And he eyes pupil-less crescents of white, holds Opening the door of the bank to carries a riding whip minus the lash. He the sack to his mouth like a feedbag. His leave is like opening the door on a dismounts and secures the now mild body freezes as he sucks: it groans as he preheated oven. You exhale and think of beast to a parking meter with a master- exhales. Freezes and groans. His free the swimming pool in your apartment fully executed bowline knot. "Madam," hand fumbles around the vicinity of building. he turns to you seriously, "I trust I have

Paco's waist, landing on the large belt As if having entered from a cool slit caused you no harm." And without buckle now, his finger tracing the con- in the air, Paco appears by your side, waiting for an answer, he pivots and ad- tour of Paco's zipper next. walking in the same direction. You dresses the policeman: "sir, I have the

of returning your horse. that it Paco rolls his head (as if a throbbing notice differences. Clothes, first of all. honor See stays under your control always." The headache could be shaken off like a hat). His carelessness insults your efforts to policeman, shaken and cringing says, Then he shoves Eduardo's hand away. be spruce. Sneakers, faded denims with "Jeez, sir, Jeez! A moped spooked her!" Eduardo stands up and takes the bad a skull-and-crossbones belt buckle, 100 away from his mouth, staggering. percent polyester shirt (the design por- Paco seems to nave grown taller than

The dying breeze makes it cooler out- trays hula girls on sunset beaches - how you. side, but it's still hot. A fly buzzes past gauche!) Paco stands about three inches You've always wanted to dine here,

Paco's ear, and Paco has the thought shorter than you. Like a younger or a at Rousseau's Eatery, but it's been too that the fly is sizzling in heat - a dead car- poorer man (both of which Paco is, of expensive for you. "No matter, madam," cass frying in mid-air. Gasoline vapors course), a shorter man grates against Paco says, "money? Bah! What is and the smell of cigars mingle in his your romantic sensibilities. How strange money? Que sera, sera." Paco's eyes nose. Like lightening, a sudden shock to be thinking along such avenues! sparkle like Clark Gable's as he holds the illuminates mysterious things; he sees At the corner, Paco thrusts into your door open. "After you," he says, and

all is his internal organs, then darkness face the crinkled note. "See? See? I seen bows. again. He must rest there against the you note. You know me, and I know The receptionist, poor insect, fails to wall. you.What you want now?" he asks. His recognize Paco. "I'm sorry, sir," says

your is an invitation-only Will Eduardo come out? eyes scan the surfaces of she, "Rousseau's Let him. sunglasses. Humiliated, you turn away establishment." Hardly has she uttered respect for the It is the chaparral all over again. But with a greater this blasphemy when the maitre-d' swif- this time the anachronistic man is there, wastebasket. tly upbraids her: "No, no, no! Mr. But an accident throws you two hawking fish. Paco pants. Whenever the Esquado never needs a reservation. together. Paco butts you out of the the hawker raises his voice, his eyelids go Never, never, never!" They both path of a runaway horse. You grasp a up:"squid! clams! crabs! clams! crabs!" apologize, and Paco nods his head to in- parking meter and watch as Paco The voice generated by the little man dicate his pardon. gallops down the street after the crazed, amazes Paco. It comes from nowhere. Led through a grove of tables, you white animal. Clenching your fingers, in Small, lost in an oversized TEXACO ser- arrive at one set off from the others. Four exaltation, you draw your dainty fist to vice shirt and baggy chinos, the man's candles in silver holders burn, sprouting your mouth as Paco catches the horse. shape hides itself. His head, shaven node stalk-like from a rococo wreath of fruit Reins flap like streamers. He grabs them, that it is. reminds Paco now of a and exotic flowers: blooms with petals runs alongside the frightened animal. white as lace; siren; next, of a throbbing red warning like deckle-edged tongues Then, in one bold motion, he springs up oriental flowers which dangle light. The surreal impressions succeed skirt-like into the saddle. The animal rears on its on a vine; psychedelic radar dishes one another like matches going out in a hind legs, punches the air with its front windy dream. All the traffic takes a left legs. Pedestrians flatten themselves with collar penises (wnat a daring turn, leaps over the curb, and flies into against buildings. thought!);range-petalled flowers like

Paco's ear. The hawker directs it there. So entranced you've been that a flames - someone has inked black lines Do you remember illness? How you policeman tapping your shoulder has not onto them. Then there are the ones you lie down to endure? What surprise oc- made the least impression. Now you turn can identify: phallic ferns and red snap- ma'am, I'm so sorry. The curs when illness really is here, as sur- around. "Jeez, dragon - lemons crowd near the stalk like

37 testicles. And Paco has slid a peacock chest) smiles at you as if he had just Desserts feather from the centerpiece to tease shaken hands with a rat. Beignets Souffles en Surprise your cheek, brushingly. Two bananas arc On the sidewalk alone, you realize (Surprise Souffle Fritters) over this plenty, like tusks, and the that you've left your sandals under the Abricots Gratines whole thing blares out its elephant table. What's wrong, girl? Did he poke (Apricots Gratin) message: EAT! you with a needle dipped in L.S.D. or Mince Pies From over your shoulder, white wine something? (Mince Pies) cascades out of a fairyland decanter into You pad along with the other com- Macedoine de Fruits Rafraichis crystal glasses. The underling who ser- muters, fearful of glass shards. People (Macedoine of Cooled Fruits) ves this ambrosia - and she returns glance at you and mutter. Remember Glace Alhambra whenever your glass threatens to those dreams where you get to the office (Alhambra Ice) become empty - whispers to you. "It only to realize that you've come in a Bombe Nero pleases us to serve you," she says. nightgown? This is like that. How dif- (Bombe^ero^^ Illuminated primarily by candles, the —^^^^— ferently people look at you - as if you place smells sacred. A temple of the were plague-ridden. Really, only the palate. Your garcon has arrived, and into By the time the Cinderella Tournedos soles of your feet are grey. No one says your hands he slips the menu: arrive, you are drunk enough to blurt out hello. Banished from the commuter club. this: "Cinderella tornados! Cinderella You curl your feet under the bench on

Hors D'Oeruvres was a tornado, wasn't she? Whirled which you sit. Only ten more minutes un- with her prince, Medaillons d'Anchois through that dance hall til the next train. (Anchovy Medallions) and then she frizzled out!" Two "nice" girls sit on either side of Cerises a I'Allemande Paco's laughing, and he folds his han- you. One hands you a paper flag, an ceiling (Cherries in Vinegar) ds together. Looking toward the American flag, on a swizzle stick. 'The Crevettes et Ecrevisses he says, "Oh, dear Perrault, what silly Unification Church...." and Prawns) ideas have you lodged in this pretty girl's (Shrimps "Get away from me, you fucking head?" Cornets de Langue fascists!" you scream. Dead silence. (Tongue Cones) (Pretty! He called you pretty!) Even the ceiling lights seem to state at Duchesses Caviare You step out of your sandals, rub you. Into the Railhead Bar for a fast one. (Caviar Duchesses) your feet on his shiny boots, toenails It's carpeted. As the martini goes down (all the to your feet), you hash over Consommes blushing. And Paco himself is not idle. way an incident of a few weeks ago. You had Consomme aux Cheveux d'Ange He tickles your feet with his riding crop. been out with "The boys" from the of- (Angel's Hair Consomme) A gush of giggles flows from every fice. A girl in pseudo-peasant garb Consomme Julienne drunken pore in your body. It's as if crossed the street ahead of you. She (Julienne Consomme) every facial orfice had a naughty little wore a full-length skirt, a black shawl, behind it doing Fish man whatever was and a purple babushka. She wore steel- Anchois Frais necessary to make you laugh. The rimmed glasses, too. 'The boys" shot (Fresh Anchovies) eyelid man gives you a twitch; the nose snide comments at her. You laughed Tortue man, an itch. And the lip man grabs your then, but now you feel sorry. (Turtle) lips and tries to draw them into your At home, you lock yourself into your Re/eves & Entrees mouth, like grandma's inverse pucker. apartment. Such a nice apartment it is. Filet de Boeuf Your laughter blows the lip man out, but Quite! Well-furnished beyond your

(Fillet of Beef) a belly-laugh inhalation sucks him back means it is. Sand-colored corduroy Toumedos Cendrillon in again. loveseat, 1978, $400. Floor-lamp with (Cinderella Tournedos) Alhambra Ice. It arrives on a silver glass shade, 1979, $120. Three- Cervelle de Veau et Amourettes sea shell. Vanilla ice-cream and dimensional freestanding unit (2), 1976, (Calf's Brains & Spinal Marrow) strawberries with an infusion of liqueur $40 Wall-to-wall shag, 1979, financed. Cotelettes Laura and caraway seeds. Between horse-like Beta-Max. And on and on/ (Laura Mutton Chops) slurps of coffee you decide. (Really there You draw some water in the bathtub Moussaka was no decision to make.) "Come over and sit on the edge, washing your feet. (Musaka) tonight, Paco," you say. He places his The doorbell rings, and one name - Paco Souffle de Alexandra brown hands on yours. - explodes in your mind" The bathtub (Ham Souffle Alexandra) Then everything evaporates. You burps as you dry your legs. Queue de Boeuf en Hochepot feel like a whore. And no wonder! This Seen through the peephole, Paco on- again in (Ox Tail Hodgepodge) isn't Rousseau's Eatery! It's some rush ce appears his riding boots, shirt Mr. Pain de Foie de Veau hour dive smelly with cigar smoke. A beige tights, and cotton as Esquado. An he holds your white san- (Calf's Liver Loaf) drunken table in an unclean booth holds dals. Levraut a la Vendome the crusts of a pizza, and a half-drained (Loins of Young Hare Vendome) screwdriver in a juice glass is yours. You let him in, of course. Salades Paco as he really is (short, inarticulate, Paco bows and says nary a word un-

Salades Simples sunset hula girls dancing across his til he has recovered his upright posture (Simple Salads)

38 . . .

and fixed his grave eyes on you. Into your modern, modular kitchen Paco turns his head toward you. "Madam," he says, "you left these you go, very aware of your teardrop ass "I'm beyond trivia, now," says his ex-

behind. I hope their loss did not cause as you walk. "Now, about that drink," pression. Eyes shut, mouth in a grim-

you to suffer an indisposition?" you say: the homespun quality of your mace as if he'd just sipped sour milk, he

Your face glows with em- voice suddenly alarms you; really, it's lets you look at him. Take a long look. barrassment. "No!. ..well, come in for a the same voice of that pudgy nine-year- Looking at him makes you think of Clint drink?" old you once were. So you sophisticate Eastwood and unshaven Mexicans in

"Madam, I will." And Paco steps your voice by making it husky: "Har- dusty ponchos. The hot sun crinkles the over the threshold into your living room. vey's Bristol Creme," you say, as if the air: stones turn to tinfoil; dust, to glass. Rapt at attention, he suspires in that question were a command. And you Out of his poncho, Paco draws a musket, macho, equine way; his nostrils expand return to the living room with two and he looks at you with bloated lips. and contract sexually. overlarge glasses which sport sand- The unaimed musket dangles from his

"Well?" — and you shrug your blasted swans. "Want to watch / Love hand, heavy, "Dun't be alarmed. shoulders — "like it?" Lucy. I've got it one my Beta-Max," you Seester of Mercy, I need water for my Paco furrows his brow so deeply that say. leetle ones," he says. Paco's head sinks it looks like he's grown a handlebar The episode you select is the one into the sandcolored plush of your mustache above his eyes. He pauses where Lucy is in Hollywood, and it's loveseat. Each of his groans sends a with this mien, and then come the Ricky Ricardo Jr's. birthday. The kid's scirocco of heat into the room. You civilities: "Madam, Ma-dam, allow me to going to pitch a fit unless Superman unlatch and push open the windows; compliment your talent for furnishings. comes to the party. So instead of parallelograms of sunshine move along

Your shangri-la is like, like.. .like... I grope; disillusioning Ricky Jr. about Superman, the wall like golden elevators or square mere words cannot express..ah! Your Lucy wangles it so that Superman shows angels. "I'm dying," Paco whispers, - - apartment is like 1 have it like the first up. "help me." tulip of spring amidst a field of tenemen- A vision. The figure on the loveseat,

- ts in a city of despair! I gaze upon this As the credits are superimposed over breathing laboriously (he will live you masterful room and it soothes my ner- that emblematic heart of grey, you turn can count on it), wears sneakers, ves. A sanctuary of love beneath the to Paco and ask, "did you know that polyester hula girls, and a skull-and- clashing waves of hate! A slope of George Reeves, the actor who played crossbones belt buckle. Alpine flowers on the side of a spurting Superman, shot himself because he had With the medics, Paco will go. With volcano!" (You get the phallic imagery in been stereotyped by the Superman your new insights, your reputation will Paco's arch metaphor.) role." go. For now, perhaps neither is a loss.

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39 Cynic In a Bar Before the Great War Logic cum rationality will make you sane /. a dark bare earth even if you hate the sound close to my eyes Of rain. "The best sane wet experience enormous a swelled just is nostalgia" moon overhead Said the naked volunteer he hurls the brick at the moon promoting but it doesn't reach Jello in it plunges The Haven Room: back into an earth crater filled with Some talk about self-worth, liquid plastic the gray plastic splashes a mile Photographs of someone you know, up freezes in place forever A flash of light exposing postures of those professional sane people Who do like the sound of rain. II. A movie showing me and a friend strangers making sane love wearing dusky rose and blue robes on a seawall met where the road forked three ways narrow road cobblestones dirt and in a closed dry-cleaners, a of and You could hear the surf just outside the village and smell the chemicals they were bakers driving plain wooden carts loaded with long breads of the respective sane sex spots. % Gary E/vans III. the men stand

tall nude members huge and erect their skins orange and shadowed by the moon feet solid on the bare charcoal earth too close to my eyes

it passes in front of a huge orange moon shiver down my calves will they float back through the velvet

IV. in our Capital after the Great War Bai Na Har' and the homecoming later the broad avenues deserted (the cross-lying homestead) smudged white stucco

perfect hedges left in the sunlight My study is too big to heat. you can see for miles The shining, frozen blocks of coal nothing (dragged by tractor over Cairne Nan Eiorne) barely warm the kitchen where for an instant Creole mammies mouthing a church song we live now no with washing and the Radio Times. sound then it's gone

In the front room where my work is Paula Steffan hangs our dead lame sheep

(I killed it in the byre)

It's curing with my books while I am passing from kitchen to eiderdown upstairs, passing

my cold room, and its carcasses.

Linda McPhee

40 After the Earth Was Torn Into in memory of Rosiland Huidekoper and Mel Gordon

In this dimension After the earth was torn into a numbness fastened itself onto each moment in this dimension rivers of blood froze onlookers the tulips are colored rose-orange as you ran along the road in silence with yellow at the base of the cup leaving behind your wife under the old grape arbor under a knife on the kitchen floor in the cool sea mist

After the earth was torn into but for only an instant screams still carried over the hill the tulips are screaming we whispered Come Back silently to whatever you could believe in inside an endless vaulted chamber as a father the walls are pale gray haze in the uneven breath of your child just the tulips as aflame on the floor and the high windows After the earth was torn into etched with diamonds we saw your face in crowds and window panes white on white a stunned group stood at the body hoping for answers outside the windows my vision closed in on you on the sanitarium lawn like the last Jew running through in the new spring sun her parents' church screaming Take Me red-cheeked blond nurses criss-cross on garden walkways After the earth was torn into sound passed above us Paula Steffan friends could not sing the hymns the earth was torn into again screams hang in silence now the rope in your cell tightens our gasp Burning

Touch and move from the flame that burns you. Nadine Goodman Drawn to the light, (moth to the flame)

you can not hold it,

or let the warmth fill you for longer than an instant.

A moment of memory, electric wire of nerves blue with fury and speed. Shock! From the growing fire of enities within- so tender to the wind.

Forget the scars pain has healed away,

ugliness is a debt always liveable from day to day. But the scars that never heal, the sore redness of open wounds gouged in heat, they blister and break and blister again under the constant current of a soul searching for an end.

Allison Hurley

41 Opinion - from page 26

Rockefeller and John J. McCloy were the shah." Nor was there any mention of that most of Carter's maneuvering had using all their political clout to keep the police terror or torture. It is no wonder taken place the day of Kennedy's shah here. What the Senator had ac- that the press that had always referred to statement. tually said was, "Our firm national com- the shah as a 'liberal modernizer' came A New York Times article dated mitment to the safe release of the down hard on Kennedy. December 2, states that "President Car- hostages does not and cannot mean that Kennedy had for some time, sharply ter gave.. .the deposed Shah of Iran, tem- this nation must condone the shah and criticized the shah's rule. In his own book porary sanctuary today... and left open the record of his regime. Few things Decisions For a Decade, there are many the possibility of permanent asylum if could more seriously undermine our ef- chapters critical of the type of foreign another suitable haven for him was not forts to secure the release of the policy which led to the rule of the shah. found abroad. ..But Mr. Carter did not hostages than for the United States to The press focused on unrepresen- rule out the possibility that the Shah condone the repressive dictatorship of tative behavior of Senator Kennedy in or- might be given asylum." The same ar- the shah as rule of Iran." Kennedy con- der to create an image of an irrespon- ticle quotes the White House as saying, tinued, "How can we justify taking in the sible man incapable of being President. "We will not force him to leave or stay shah with his umpteen billions of dollars The only loser, at least morally, in this against his will." Although the press sen- that he'd stolen from Iran, and at the fiasco was the press. sationalized Kennedy's behavior, calling same time say to Hispanics who are here it strange, it did not attempt to legally that they have to wait nine years categorize the similar behavior of the to bring their wife and children to this President in such a way. country?" A December 3 article in the New A Time magazine article titled "Ken- York Times, quotes President Carter as nedy Makes A Goof," suggests reason saying that the length of the Shah's stay to doubt the Senator. in America would depend on "...his Professor Noam Chomsky and medical condition and the decision on a Professor Edward Herman in their book, permanent place of residence." The ar- "The Washington Connection and Third ticle also states that Carter "has rejected World Fascism" quote a report by the In- any appearance of forcing the shah ternational Commission of Jurists; "The out.. .and did not rule out the possibility tremendous power wielded by SAVAK is that the shah might be given asylum." reflected in the fact that the chief is The following day the Times reported given the title of Deputy Prime Minister, that "President Carter has never The SAVAK permeates Iranian society proposed permanent political asylum for and is reported to have agents in the the shah." Once again, even though the political parties, labor unions, industry, Carter administration seemed to con- tribal societies..." They also state that tradict themselves on the Shah situation, 300 political prisoners have been of- the press, although it reported it, did not ficially executed three years since 1977 sensationalize it as they had done with and that estimates of 25,000 to 100,000 the Kennedy statements. political prisoners were being held at that While the December 7 article in the time, none of which were being "well- Boston Globe accentuated what was treated." Quoting * Martin Ennals, seen as strange behavior on Kennedy's Secretary General of Amnesty In-

part, it failed to mention the strange ternational, (Iran) has the "highest rate of behavior of the Carter administration death penalties in the world, no valid which "...began a discreet diplomatic system of civilian courts and a history of campaign to help the shah find a safe torture which is beyond belief. No coun- haven to replace Mexico but drew a tight try in the world has a worse record in cloak of secrecy around its efforts." human rights than Iran." The chief CIA

Again, the attack seemed to center on analyst on Iran from 1 968 to 1 973, Jesse Kennedy's actions rather than on the Leaf stated that the practice of torture by Carter Administration's strange SAVAK as instructed by CIA officials behavior. "were based on German torture Likewise, the media distorted the full techniques from World War II." context of Senator Kennedy's statement, Considering that in October of 1967 only using lines that would be most Kennedy had held highly publicized damaging to his campaign. However, hearings vividly detailing the most given the full context of the statement gruesome horrors and magnitude of the

and the circumstances surrounding it, civilian casualties in Vietnam, most of things become much more com- which were blamed on the U.S. and

prehensible. South Vietnam, it is not surprising he

From the day the Shah arrived in the should criticize the shah in 1 979. US, the Carter administration had taken As quoted by Chomsky, William Dor- the position that he was in this country man and Ehsan Omad state: "We have solely for treatment of cancer and been unable to find a single example of a gallbladder problems and that he would news or feature story in the mainstream leave as soon as medical treatment was American press (prior to the revolution) completed; Henry Kissinger, David that uses the label 'dictator' to describe

42 Cheap Eats - from page 28 fresh, fried fish (not a frozen fish stick), served with a liberal portion of french Still Cooking at the Cantab fries. The Chef's Salad is another

bargain. It is large and won't hurt your wallet at $2.50. The dinners are excellent. They In the ups and downs of the music income with either a generous salad top- dustry money, fame and prestige are ped with feta cheese, or a vegetable and among the most common measures of either roast potatoes or rice. One par- an entertainer's success. Little Joe Cook, a 50's style rock and ticular evening I ordered lamb shish- kebab for the very reasonable price of. roller now playing four nights a week at $3.45. The lamb was tender and there the Cantab Lounge in Cambridge, has a different philosophy. He believes that was plenty of it, along with onions and peppers. The roast potatoes are mouth- "doing what yOu love most" is really what makes a singer successful, and by watering, I recommend them highly. A friend chose the shrimp salad as her that standard, Little Joe should rate at main course. She was also satisfied with the top of anybody's hit parade. her selection, which boasted plenty of "I'm happy any time I'm entertaining

fresh, pink shrimp in her salad. and I really like the people here in Cam- bridge," "I like The P&P is a relaxing change from Joe says. any music that the hurry-up and get-out atmosphere of a is soulful and the people here seem to In 1955 rock and roll was sweeping lot of restaurants. The juke box leans like it too." the country and Joe Cook was singing Soulful is the his with a spiritual called towards country western and there is a way Joe describes group The Evening music and the folks at the Cantab seem Star. A year later he formed the Thrillers TV near the bar. This is one place I would

to agree that it is entertaining. His and wrote a song he hoped would be feel comfortable eating alone. A must if you are in the vicinity of Central Square. biggest brush with fame came in 1957 recorded by the group and make him when he recorded a million selling num- some money as their manager. When it The European, 218 Hanover ber called "Peanuts." His current act is came time to record "Peanuts," the lead Street, Boston generally a rendition of that and other singer quit the group and Joe was cast popular tunes that made the 50's into the limelight. "The guy who was

Although this restaurant is not as musically unique. Backed up by a tight supposed to record "Peanuts"

reasonably priced as the P&P, it deser- foursome called The Thrillers, Little Joe chickened out at the last minute," ex-

ves to be mentioned. The pizza is usually includes such unforgettable plains Joe, "so I recorded it. The next

wonderrul here. The portions of cheese, tunes as "Silhouette in the Shade," "Big thing I know we had a hit on our hands." vegetables and meat on these pizzas are Girls Don't Cry," "Sherry," and a few of That one song changed everything.

generous. A small Mozzarella cheese is his own songs which brought him Joe quit his job at the Campbells Soup

$2.95, a large is $3.75, and an extra large widespread but shortlived notoriety factory in Philadelphia, bought a $10,000

is $5.10. A small cheese, mushroom and twenty-five years ago. car and began touring the country with pepper pizza cost $3.75 as compared to Recently Little Joe Cook has been names like Fats Dominoe, Screaming

the large which is $4.95. An extra-large is expanding his act to include more than Joe Hawkins and Louis Armstrong. $6.10. just the bygone ballads of the 1950's. "Peanuts" stayed on the charts for six- Baked lasagna, manicotti, or spaghet- Joe was raised on spirituals and has in- teen weeks, selling a'million copies and

ti and meatballs can all be consumed for corporated into his repertory songs like catapulting Joe and the Thrillers to the

$3.60 each. Fettucini Alfredo is $4.50 "Nearer My God To Thee," and "If I had top of the music heap.

and chicken cacciatore is priced at $4.25. a Hammer," which he delivers with the After "Peanuts," Joe recorded The night a friend accompanied me enthusiasm of a true believer. These, "Echoes Keep a Calling Me" but this to this establishment we treated our- combined with a few blues numbers and time the record did not take off. selves to a delicious appetizer of garlic some recent Joe Cook originals, make a "Echoes" did make the group some

bread for $1.00. The bread was dren- night at the Cantab a unique and unusual money, but it was clear the song would ched in butter and the garlic was musical experience. never become a million seller. Even-

definitely fresh. For Little Joe Cook, it began in 1 923 tually, Joe slipped entirely off the charts.

Although the prices are considerably in Philadelphia where he sang spirituals With all his money spent, Joe gave up higher, it is worth stopping by. The food in the church choir as a boy. Joe's his expensive Cadillac for the fork lift he is authentically Italian and the portions mother and three aunts were all had left behind at the Campbells Soup

are large, plus being in the North End is preachers and when they weren't Factory in Philadelphia. fun. After eating, take a walk around. preaching for Jesus they were But Little Joe Cook never stopped

It's a short distance to the waterfront sometimes preaching against rock and doing what he loved most; entertaining.

also. roll. "I didn't sing rock and roll when my Today he's got a new buch of Thrillers

mother was alive because she believed it behind him and he's continuing to sing Ann's Cafeteria, 250 Hun- was the music of the Devil," Joe says. the "soulful" music that he loves most, tington Avenue, Boston "If she were alive today I think I'd still be much to the delight of the crowd at the Here's a cafeteria-style restaurant singing nothing but spirituals." Cantab. you could have walked in during the

43 1950's. Pink formica-top tables with foil-wrapping-paper type wallpaper is now $3 or $4," this student continued. wooden bases fill the room. Around characteristic of this place. You can meet The range of movies include current these are wooden chairs with bright kelly street people here as well as wealthier movies, counterculture films such as green vinyl backs. Fastening the vinyl to folk. Reefer Madness, and old flicks including the chair backs are rows of silver studs, The reason I come here and why the likes of the Marx Brothers. giving Ann's an almost surrealistic look. most do is to hear the sounds of Little The other major asset of Frank 'N' In the back of the room forms the Joe Cook and the Thrillers (see inset). Steins is the wide assortment of beer. cafeteria line. The prices are reasonable. They play here most Thursday, Friday, "There are literally hundreds of kinds of My choice was the roast beef dinner for and Saturday nights, although there is beer there," the student pointed out en- $3.50. The roast beef was tender and usually a dollar cover charge Saturday thusiastically. When I spoke with the two large pieces were heaped on my nights. Their repertoire includes "You management they weren't able to give plate. However potatoes served with the Make Me Feel Like Dancing," "Dance an exact number, but did assure me they meat were instant, and green beans Your Pants Off You Disco Freak," and carry at least one hundred kinds of beer. were the overcooked, canned variety. "Elvis, The King of Rock N' Roll" besides There is a friendly student at- The spaghetti with meat sauce looked Little Joe's million dollar hit, "Peanuts." mosphere at Frank 'N' Steins. The ser- like a bargain at $2.25. Salisbury steak I recommend frequenting this club vice is very good also. The UMass with potatoes, vegetable, and onions with a group of friends, preferably after student who was so outspoken about was a low $3.10. Another sign read, "A partaking of a few drinks each. As a this place summed up his feelings with cheeseburger, French fries, and coleslaw woman, I Would not come here alone. "It's the best investment a movie and for $1 .30." Keeping in mind that the food Some would call the Cantab a dive, but it beer lover can make in Boston." is authentic cafeteria style the prices are has interesting aspects to it. One is that low. How can you beat the $.25 sodas? you can view firsthand a band that made Ken's At Copley, 549 $.25 sodas? it big in the 1 950's and to some extent Boylston Street, Copley Arthur Fiedler used to eat here (Ann's never left era. that Light or dark drafts Square, Boston is located a block down from Symphony are $1 .10 and $1 .35 will buy you a Miller Hall). Photographs on the wall remind or Miller light. you of this. Frank 'N' Steins is a must if you like This is a reliable place for after-dinner snacking. Their omlettes, For dessert I tried the cheesecake movies and beer," a UMass student sandwiches, which was very good. The flour-base recently commented. There is a $3.00 and desserts are known throughout the crust was flaky and the cheese filling membership fee, but that entitles you to Boston area. Some of the definite favorites include was smooth and rich. A generous cherry free admission to view films for one year. the two-inch high great western omelet- topping ran over the top and the price "That is a buy when you consider that te priced at $3.40, the turkey club san- was a very low $.70. the cost of viewing one current movie is Cheap Eats - to page While we were there we interviewed 47 a few of the customers to see how they felt about this establishment. One elderly gentleman informed us that it is Other Rumored one of the cheapest places to eat in the area and the service and food are good. He added that he eats there daily. Located near so many well-known Cheap Eats sights; Northeastern University, and the 1. The Captain's Wharf, 326 Harvard 7. Buddy's Sirloin Pit Brattle Street, Christian Science Center, besides Sym- Avenue, Brookline "good reasonably- Cambridge phony Hall, it may be worth your while to priced seafood" 8. Golden Horde 1281 Cambridge stop by and try it for yourself. 2. International Deli, Brighton Avenue, Street, Inman Square, Cambridge North End Inexpensive After Dinner Allston (near corner of Harvard Avenue) 9. Regina's Hanover Street, Middle Eastern menu "You will eat plen- Quincy Market "Excellent pizza and Establishments and ty and well for $2.00". if you go with a group of friends you can

There are, believe it or not, good 3. Chung Waah 92 Harvard Avenue, eat inexpensively. inexpensive places to listen to music, Allston 10. The Quetzal Centre Street, Jamaica drink, snack and watch movies. Here's a 4. New Asia Somerville Avenue, Somer- Plain Vegetarian cuisine, conveniently sampling: ville located within walking distance of the The Cantab, 738 5. King Chaun 1215 Commonwealth Arnold Arboretum. "The Arborway San- Massachusetts Avenue, Avenue, Allston "Great $1.95 lun- dwich, the Moss Hill Sandwich, and the cheons." Jamaica Pond Sandwich are all served Central Square, Cambridge. 6. Dolphin Seafood 1 1 05 Massachusetts here." "The next time I'm Michael's 52A Gainsboro Street, As a staff member of Wavelength Avenue, Cambridge 11. craving seafood I'll think of the Dolphin" Boston "A good place to hear jazz and magazine I am prejudiced towards the - not real cheap, but reasonable. drink cheap beer." Cantab since it is the birthplace of Wavelength. There are other reasons for coming to this bar however.

It is a funky club. The shiny, striped, 44 " " " " " ""

Chocko - from page 32

destroyed the Police thousand times sin- didn't tell you why they were ap- Car." ce 1962. It doesn't even look the same proving you?" Chocko: "Just a few little

I don't Yes- I don't dents.." anymore. Chocko: "No..

look the same. You know. I suppose it Mr. Dribble: "And what were don't look the same. was because they your feelings when You're looking at found no reason to you destroyed the me now. What do deny me." Police Car?" you see Now..?" Mr. Drop: "Well then, Mr. Chocko: "My feelings?" Mr. Drop: "I see now that in Chocko, can you Mr. Dribble: "Yes. Did you May, 1962, you give this Board any powerful?" feel... were given 30- reason why This

Chocko: "Well, not really. I Chocko: "Wait. What are Board should not just sort of felt., you looking way out deny you?" twelve years old.." there for? I'm right Chocko: "Was that the Bus Dribble: Can you Mr. "MMnnn.. here in front of you. to Riverside..?" tell the Board then, So look at me now. Mr. Dribble: "Mr. Chocko, you Mr. Chocko, just I think I've been in say that the last why you were this camp long disciplinary report throwing rocks at enough for you to you received was the Police Car in the get some idea of over a year ago. first place?" who I am and what What was that for?"

Chocko: "Because I was I'm not. So, what Chocko: "Heww.." twelve years old.." do you see Now..? Mr. Dribble: "What?" Mr. Dribble: "That's no reason, You can see that I'm disciplinary Chocko: "It's been so long., Mr. Chocko. I know no don't you have it many twelve year problem- the last right there in front old boys who don't write up I got was of you..?" go around throwing over a year ago. I rocks at Police work hard at my job. Mr. Dribble: "Yes, but we'd like

Cars.." I get alQng with you to tell the

those around me. I Board." Chocko: "I'm sure you do.,

bother no one. I but there is no other Chocko: "It was for making trouble. reason." cause no home brew..

Just last week I was Mr. Dribble: "I think there is Mr. Dribble: "And drinking it?" approved for another reason, Mr. chocko: "Of course.. Education Release Chocko." Mr. Dribble: "Were you aware, at and all I want now is Chocko: "You do..?" that little baby the time, that it is Mr. Dribble: "I think you were twelve-hour furloug- against the in- throwing rocks at h to- stitutional rules to the Police Car make any alcoholic Mr. Drop: "You've been ap- because you wan- proved by the beverages, or to ted to kill the Village have any alcoholic Provisional 1 /3rd Priest." Special Con- beverages of any kind in your Chocko: "Is this the Train to sideration Board for Lisbon?" Education possession, or to drink them?" Mr. Drop: "Mr. Chocko, tell us Release?"

Chocko: "Yes, I aware of about 1962.." Chocko: "Yes, and- was that.." Chocko: "1962..? (to himself: Mr. Drop: "Why did they ap- Mr. Dribble: "And yet "1962.. the Bay of prove you?" you went Pigs?") ahead and made it Chocko: "What..?" anyway." Mr. Drop: "Yes, 1962. In May, Mr. Drop: "Can you tell this you were Chocko "Yes.' 1962, Board why the given 30 days for- Board approved Mr. Dribble "Why?" Chocko: "Wait a minute., you?" Chocko 'To drink it- look, wait a minute. The that was then., what Chocko: "You're kidding.. world has turned it- about now? You Mr. Drop: "You mean they self around several can ask these two

45 house officers- ask Mr. Dribble: "Were you ever a Chocko: "Well.." them., there isn't member of AA.?" Farawavnow: "I see." even a hint of me Chocko: "No." Mr. Drop: "Mr. Chocko, I making or drinking Dribble: Mr. "And you don't go believe you were in- home brew in the to AA meetings volved in 'Coun- last year because I now.." seling' at one time, no longer make it Chocko: "No." were you not?" and I no longer drink

it." Mr. Dribble: "Why not?" Chocko: "Was that the Door to the Backyard..?" Mr. Dribble: "That's beside the Chocko: "Because I'm not an point, Mr. Chocko. alcoholic- Look-" • • • The last disciplinary Mr. Dribble: "You say you're not report last year was an alcoholic, Mr. Mr. Drop: "Mr. Chocko??" only the last of Chocko, and yet Chocko: "What..? Oh.. Yes, several before it, it three times last year Yes., at one time..

you know what I you were caught Yes.."

mean. .What I mean with alcohol.." Mr. Drop: "Why did you stop is mumble mumble I "Just once around Chocko: going?" see here that within the block, Lord.."

Chocko: did I stop a space of only two "Why months you 6 going..? Yes., why received three did I stop going.

Well, I'll tell you.. separate disciplinary Farawayno w: "Mr. Chocko, what it's like this, you reports for having programs are you an alcoholic participating in here see.."

beverage in your at M.C.I. Stillborn?" And Chocko tells possession.." Chocko: "Programs? Well, them.. Chocko: "That was over a let's see.. I'm in the, year ago. What uhh, UMass House Officer about NOW." program. And, #1: "You want to step then, there's That Mr. Dribble: "Are you an back inside, little program there., alcoholic?" Chocko.." and That one over Chocko: "No." Mr. Drop: "Mr. Chocko, the In- there.." Mr. Dribble: "Then how do you stitutional Classifica- Farawaynow: "Are you involved in tion and CantCant account for these the 'Fellowship' Board composed of three separate in- program?" Perfect Men and cident reports in- Right volving alcohol Chocko: Fellowship? Well, I seated on the Hand of God has within a space of was., for awhile.." very carelessly con- only two months?" Farawaynow: "But you're not anymore? Why did sidered and neglec- Chocko: "I would say that it you leave- was there ted to discuss your was extreme bad some trouble?" application for luck." cer- "Trouble? No, no furlough Mr. Dribble: "You mean to say Chocko: tification. After little trouble. It was just you have no alcohol the or no deliberation problem?" that, uhh, during and many important summer, you see, it Chocko: "The only alcoholic sounding grunts was light til about problem I have is and groans this 8:30.. and I was out right here in this Board has decided late working in the room." that, due to your garden, you see- til Mr. Dribble: "But you did have dark.. and distant and very distant PAST, you an alcoholic 'Fellowship' just problem at one are PRESENTLY in- sort of., trailed off., time.." capable of taking you see.." upon yourself the Chocko: "It seems I still do." Farawaynow: "You mean working enourmously com- Mr. Dribble: "Do you go to AA in the garden was plicated respon- meetings?" more important to sibility of a Chocko: "No." you than Fellowship?"

46 Cheap Eats - from page 44

dwich for $3.60, and the symphony twelve-hour furloug- plication for

omelette which consists of tomato, h. Our decision is ar- furlough cer- cheese, bacon strips, peppers, and onion bitrary. We are tification. Could you

for $3.60. I recommend the knishes )3) Good. You may ap- tell us about that?" with gravy as an appetizer for $2.10. peal our decision, of Chocko: "Is this the Door to

When I asked another UMass course, but you may the Cellar? student for his feelings about the desser- just as well whistle Mr. Just-There: "..and then straight

ts here, he swore by the fresh strawberry in your cups. Any up the stairs as far

cheese pie for $1.85. He also recom- and all appeals are as you can go.." mended the eclairs for $.85 which are automatically referr- filled with a fresh creamy custard and ed back to us to

' carefully frosted with a semi-sweet evaluate and" decide chocolate icing. For the true sweet upon. You don't

tooth, there is the hot fudge brownie - 2 stand a chance. Too scoops of ice cream and a fudge brownie bad for you. That's

topped with hot fudge. Milk was all. The Board will suggested as the beverage to ac- review your case

company this gastronomical delight. again in six months.

Speaking of drinks, full pint shakers Chocko: "Ok.. Six Months of Bloody Mary's, Cape Cooders', Tom are up. Review or Vodka Collins', Sombreros or Tequila me.."

Sunrises can be consumed for $2.25 Mr. Just-There: "Mr. Chocko, I see each. Other alcoholic bargains include a here that six months 32-ounce pitcher of draft beer, light or ago you were dark, along with the use of three mugs denied by the In- for $2.35 Sixty-ounce pitchers of the ternational Ap- same, along with the use of 6 mugs, cost plesauce and Pariah $4.70. Board on your ap-

Breakfast, lunch and dinner are all

good here, but I am partial to the after

dinner drinking and eating. It's a great place to stop by after a movie or dan- THG RUNNGR9 CLUB cing. Open on weekends until 3 a.m.

That's all the cheap eats and drinks I

had the time and money for. I hope you have been able to add at least two new starlight cruise places to your own individual lists. Finally, wherever you go, please remember to treat service people humanely and to tip them. After all, you may find out Friday Sept. 26th that the waitress at Charlie's Kitchen is $8.00 per person also in your economics class. ,

Live Band "BreakDown"

Ferry Leaves From Rowes Wharf (near Aquarium) Exactly 8:00 p.m.

Arrives Back 1 2:00 a.m.

Tickets available at the Runners Club

1 -4- 1 70 or the 01 cafeteria.

Sorry No Refunds

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