TUE RITES I tit RIGHTS
By MICHAEL KINDMAN f Even before the first spring term class lists had clicked out of the 3600 computer last week, the new season had been welcomed at MSU: the first full-scale demonstration of the year was under way at Cowles House, home of President John A. Hannah. It was one of several indications that the pro testers and reformers on and off campus would be busy this term. As registration began, four of the five opponents of the Vietnam war who had been arrested in October for "trespassing" and blocking traffic in Lynn dominating. By the end of the Louise Holmes, "notorious" daughter of the state Selection Service the Union Building faced their appeal second day, the previous conviction in commander, and Conrad Lynn, New York civil liberties attorney who trial in Ingham County Circuit Court. Lansing Township Justice Court had defended the four war protesters, at the Cowles House vigil last week. The trial lasted two days, the per been upheld, the penalties stiffened sonality of defense attorney Conrad from fines to jail sentences and the right to appeal effectively denied by the prohibition of bail bond. Judge Marvin Salmon was an un popular man in East Lansing the night c of Tuesday, March 29. At midnight, half a dozen friends of the jailed a. war protesters sat down on the side walk in front of Hannah's home, call ing for intervention by him to win appeal for the four. The intervention never came, even though the vigil grew larger and attracted statewide publicity for more than two days. The right to appeal did come, thanks to a higher court's decision Thursday re versing Salmon's interpretation of ap peal laws. But before the four protesters were Encounter s released on bail Friday morning, their sympathizers had set the pace for a week of heightened political The 'New Church' Meets The 'New Left' consciousness such as MSU has rare ly seen. By CAROL HURLBUTT cifically to violation of j^r sonal rights party, slouched back in his chair, As the Cowles House vigil lingered and BILL KUNITZ in Cuba. Dellinger replied, "One has his sport coat off and tie undone. on for about 60 hours, a trial came up to suppress some freedom in order On the other side of the moderator in East Lansing Municipal Court in A middle-aged church leader from to hold onto some freedom and keep sat Jeff Gordon, of Free Student mag tended to decide the legitimacy of a Baltimore with horn-rimmed glasses the experiment gpj^g^JDp Keleher we azine, with his elbows propped on the civil rights demonstration which axe in transition, nofrftuVITIg "In-a w "tSBIS and" face in hands, listening caused the arrest of 59 persons, most ""Shalt not Rill, and challenged the smooth calm fashion. As each revo critically. ly students, for sitting down in Ab clergymen to justify their liberal lution takes place, the blood, sweat bott Road last May 25-26. stand on killing. The local leftists and tears lessen. Dellinger, on the end, was back in Marlene Deutsch, one of the lead came, some area ministers who have Dellinger drew the analogy that his chair making a point with arched ers of last spring's open occupancy been actively engaged in civil rights childbirth used to be considered a hands. He served as a buffer between campaign, had come back to town to came, and Carroll Hawkins, associ terrible, painful thing. "Now that we the audience and the younger memb stand trial, the first of more than ate professor of political science; and understand natural childbirth, it ers of the panel. Being older, he has 50 destined to do so. (Several have our eternal conscience, came. doesn't have to be such a terrible had time to put his experience in per pleaded guilty.) Students from church fellowships thing. Revolution has the same con spective. He was in Madrid during the Miss Deutsch and her suave law were there, several ladies of assort ception, that it has to be filled with Spanish civil war, spent three years yer, Stuart Dunnings, recalled the ed ages and about one hundred others hate and bloodletting. We are now at in a U.S. prison for not registering memory of another spring, a polit were there to encounter and under the point where we should approach for the draft, has lived in the Har ically hot one in its own right, but stand the positions of church-affiliat revolution with different concepts." lem ghetto, has made two trips to the tension that had surrounded the ed groups and the New Left on criti It's unfortunate an artist wasn't Cuba since the revolution and worked open occupancy campaign was missing cal issues. As in most conferences, at the Saturday afternoon panel dis with the Congress of Unrepresented from the trial. After more than a day balance was hard to achieve. Encount cussion on war and peace to catch Peoples last summer. of matter-of-fact testimony, marked er was primarily a rally for the left the atmosphere. Ronald Young, of by technical discussion of trespass ists. The church-affiliated groups, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, sat Ron Young started off the afternoon laws and the timing of the demon probably more liberal than they nor to the right of the group on the edge panel talking about conscientious ob stration, Miss Deutsch was found mally would be due to the milieu of of his chair staring at the tiles on jectors. He urged students to make a guilty and hit with a flexible and con the conference, did not come on very the- floor, an impassioned, almost decision now about conscientious ob fusing set of alternative penalties— strong for God or the church. brooding pacifist. Next to him, Ed jection or to give up their 2-S status fines, short jail terms or service Dave Dellinger, editor of Libera Lemansky of the Progressive Labor continued on page 6 projects. tion magazine, gave the keynote ad The tension of last spring was off dress. His comment that President at the trial, but the tension of this Johnson had the idealism of Jesus spring was on elsewhere. Christ and the political "realism" of The Free University of East Lan Machiavelli drew response from Rev. sing, allied in spirit with the Free Paul Light of the Ecumenical Center, University of New York, California, • Ann Arbor, and Truman Morrison of Detroit and other communities, open the Edgewood United Church. Rev. ed its doors in a pre-registration Light described Johnson as either party that enrolled about 80 people a shrewd politician who keeps lib in ten seminar courses. It claimed it erals happy with domestic policy and represented a new kind of education, holds onto right wingers with a tough with subjects designed to lead to so line abroad, or as an autocrat at cial consciousness and esthetic ap heart basically paranoid about himself preciation, taught by both students and the world he lives in. and faculty of MSU. Morrison called Johnson a "living Within days, however, some of its embodiment of the American delu participants were wondering whether sion of omnipotence and innocence." o they didn't prefer the old kind, or at He said we assume maturity and in 'Encounter' discussion: 'War and Peace1 « (I. to r.) Dave Dellinger, editor. least a different form of the new, nocence and go and rearrange things Liberation magazine; Jeff Gordon, Free Student magazine; Les Younker, and there were indications several on the four corners of the earth. might pull out. From the historical experience of moderator; Ed Lemansky, Progressive Labor Party; Ronald Young, Fel lowship of Reconciliation. The first to do so, Father Robert relatively few frustrations in inter Gardner of the All-Saints Episcopal national affairs we have.built up an Church, announced his resignation at illusion of omnipotence that makes us a panel discussion on free universi think we are morally right. ties that made up part of the week The discussion period was enliv end-long conference, "Encounter: A ened — and lengthened — by Carroll dialogue between church - affiliated Hawkins. He challenged Dellinger and groups and the 'new left'." Brian Keleher to discuss rights in The conference was the big event Cuba or Red China, referring spe continued on page 6 or, There. Somieone from "The Paper" has agreed publicly with something Post Mortem from Zeitgeist. That that can happen Scene: A Roman Catholic Church. A helped me before. Ever since HOW now an established fact, let me take young woman enters a confession you taught me the nature of sin up what I think is wrong with Zeit geist's approach. al and presents herself before the I've been coming to you for ab WE priest as a penitent. solution every week. Why can't you z I begin with the questionl've posed Penitent: Father, forgive me, for I help me now, when I need it so to some of the magazine's staff mem have sinned. desperately? LEARNED bers, to my utter frustration: Isn't Priest: I'm sorry to hear that, my Priest: There are . . . extenuating E anybody else EVER right? child, but I'm afraid I can't help circumstances. The answer, naturally is yes. Each you. Penitent: What sort of . . . extenu TO in its own way, Zeitgeist, CSR, the Penitent: But you must, you must. ating circumstances? I campus anarchists, the Kewpeeities, Priest: I'd like to—you must believe Priest: God is dead. "The Paper," the Free University, that—but it's impossible. Penitent: You're joking. T STOP even the State News, AS MSU, and the Penitent: Impossible? What do you Priest: This is no laughing matter, Faculty Committee on Student Af mean impossible? Is ... is my my child. fairs have all realized that something sin THAT great? Penitent: But DEAD? Him? 6 WORRYING is wrong with the intellectual atmos Priest: I have no knowledge of what Priest: Yes, him. With a small "h". phere. your sin may be, so I cannot in The Holy Fathers in Rome voted Zeitgeist's mistake is in thinking, good faith answer that. just yesterday todecapitalizehim. E AND or at least in pretending to think, Penitent: Then what? You've always Penitent: Oh, it's too horrid. I can't that only IT understands. This is a bear it. distinct error in a campus com Priest: We have no choice. I KEEP munity in which, Lord knows, the only Penitent: But do you mean I can salvation is through a sense of com never be pure again? mon experience. MSU is developing, OUR Priest: Never. Your sins are your S probably against its will, into a rea own property now, and you must sonably active and almost interesting learn to handle them on your own. COOL campus of the '60's. You must learn to shoulder what T The cultural mentor of Zeitgeist, ever burdens life may heap upon By MICHAEL KINDMAN we might as well admit, is anything your back, without hope of seeing but a '60's radical, cultural or other them lifted by any but human hands. The editors of Zeitgeist, of course, wise. Gary Groat (contest hint: Wil It will be difficult, but it must be didn't even have to MENTION "Thelia m G.), advisor to Zeitgeist, seems done. Paper" in their third-issue editorial, to be nostalgic about the good old Penitent: It's certain, then? There's "Poetry and Truth . . /• They couldI days of the '50's when rebels were no mistake. have made their point without us. rebels and you could tell who was Priest: None. The death certificate Since we are still licking our arti hip. There is nothing wrong with this, was delivered to Father O'Raf- ficial wounds incurred in their second of course, and nothing wrong with his ferty in a vision six years ago. editorial, we of "The Paper" con publishing magazines. But it lends an The Ecclesiastical lawyers have sider this proof of their progress. odd perspective to his evaluations of examined it thoroughly, and judg The difference is that'the petulance the campus crowd, which are made ed it sound. There's no chance of has subsided a bit, the intellectual even funnier when his editors try to error. sniping has been toned down (with express his ideas in their words. Penitent: Six years ago? But why some exceptions, such as ourselves) Zeitgeist is trying to do and say to simple criticisms and mild abuse, have you waited so long . . .? too much and is getting hung up on its LETTER Priest: This was no time for haste, and what is left is an interesting an own conceit in the process. (This may alysis and a few even more interest my child. We must remember it be, as editor Mike Williams likes to According to a newsletter of the. took nearly two thousand years to ing anecdotes and proposals regarding hint, all for a joke, but I'll choose the literary-artistic scene at MSU. MSU Students for a Democratic So exonerate the Jews: that a case to disregard that possibility.) What ciety, "SDS in Ann Arbor envies like this should require a mere Zeitgeist finds—not surprisingly, results is a pompous denial of any considering the tone of its previous MSUJ3DS. TM^^sXm their Uni- ^six years is a miracle of our connection to those people^who really versir$n?dministrators to
By RICHARD A. OGAR like soot in Pittsburgh or smog in standard to (Joyce's) books in order zealous censorship. »> Los Angeles. The Post Office was to determine its effect in the result, The case under consideration in In 1933, the United States, acting only too familiar with prior obscen irrespective of the intent with which volved Samuel Roth, who had been under Section 305 of the Tariff Act ity decisions and knew how subjective it was written." Unfortunately, Judge convicted of publishing obscene "nu- of 1930, brought a civil suit against were their criteria: to insure a con Woolsey failed to fine one: defining die" magazines, and had lost his first Random House for having published viction, then, one need only locate the "obscene" as "tending to stirthesex appeal, despite the objections of Judge James Joyce's "Ulysses/' "on the trial in a city whose subjective base impulses or to lead to sexually im Jerome Frank, who "doubted the con grounds that the book is obscene was as narrow as possible. Philadel pure and lustful thoughts," Woolsey stitutionality of the Comstock Act, within the meaning of that section, phia was the choice, and it came argued that obscenity could be judged adding that dissemination of obscen and, hence, is not importable into the through with a conviction. only "by the court's opinion as to its ity was a ridiculously vague crime, United States, but is subject to seiz effects on a person with average sex and that punishing people for doing ure, forfeiture and confiscation and instincts." nothing more than selling books or destruction." In 1959, the Post Of Woolsey, seeking to be fair, asked pictures that tend to 'evoke thoughts' fice notified Grove Press that D.H. two of his friends—whom he felt sure was carrying governmental suppres Lawrence's novel, "Lady Chatter- Guilt or innocence ought not to were average fellows—to read the sion too far" (Eros, Vol. 1, no. 3). ley's Lover," was "obscene and non depend upon the area in which the book and give him their opinions. Now, The Supreme Court rules against mailable pursuant to 18 U.S. Code trial is held, nor would anyone, I aside from the fact that a sample Roth, 5-4, holding that obscenity was #1461." Neither publisher was ever think, argue that they should. Some of two scarcely makes for statistical not protected by the First Amend threatened with imprisonment or one MIGHT object, however, that this reliability, Judge Woolsey's criteria ment. fines. happens in other legal situations— are wholly subjective: how does one Justice Brennan, writing the maj But in 1962 the Post Office, in a say, in cases of murder involving "objectify" such concepts as "tend ority opinion, offered a three-part curious change of tactics, brought a whites and Negroes in the South— ency," "impulse," "impure" or test for obscenity: CRIMINAL indictment against Ralph And is therefore no reason to object "lustful" except by the operation of In order that a book be ruled ob Ginzburg for having sent three al to the law itself; the defect, one a personal prejudice? scene, the court said, it must be legedly obscene publications through might say, is in the process of ad How can one judge the quality of an determined "whether ot the average the mail: a verdict of guilty would ministration. Normally this is so: impulse or a thought when it is im person, applying contemporary com mean, then, not simply that Ginzburg murder is murder no matter where the possible even to prove that such even munity standards, the dominant theme could no longer publish the books in trial is held. But is what's obscene exists? ("Did you thknk any impure of the material taken as a whole ap question, nor only that he could not use in Ovid, Michigan, also obscene in thoughts while reading this novel?" peals to prurient interest," whether the mails for distribution, but that he Berkeley, California? "No, sir." "Thank you. Next wit it goes "substantially beyond custo could be subjected to as many as 280 In cases of obscenity, the law, as ness.") mary limits of candor," and whether years in prison and as much as well as the defendant, is on trial: a Taking a concensus of opinion is of it is "utterly without redeeming social $280,000 in fines. judge or jury must decide not whether no help: no number of subjective im importance." Ginzburg remarks in Since losing censorship cases has the defendant has published porno pressions ever adds up to an ob Fact (Vol. 2, No. 3) that "while the become almost a way of life with the graphy, but whether or not what was jective conclusion. Moreover, as Sar first two parts of this definition were Post Office in recent years, it seems published is pornographic. To return tre points out in "Existentialism is not especially clear—as even the Su likely that the Eros case was a last- to the case of murder, it would be as a Humanism," "if you seek counsel preme Court itself later admitted— ditch, all-out effort to pin something though the jury were asked not to —from a priest, for example—you the third part was, and publishers on somebody. Ginzburg was arrest decide whether A killed B, but whe have selected that priest; and at bot hailed it as a major breakthrough in ed— not sued—under the terms of a ther or not B were actually dead. tom you already know, more or less, the battle for intellectual freedom." law instituted in 1873 at the insis The courts have not been unaware what he would advise." Neither Judge Whether this were true or not, it tence of Anthony Comstock, a lobbyist of this problem, but neither have Woolsey nor his friends felt that is clear that the Roth decision, which for the New York Y.M.C.A.'s Com they been able to do anything about "Ulysses" was obscene, but another until recently formed the basis for mittee to Suppress Vice, who public correcting it. Judge Woolsey, who judge with other friends might well obscenity hearings, was no more ob ly outraged (although perhaps pri cleared "Ulysses" of government have. jective than those which had preced vately delighted) Congressmen by charges, realized that it was contin In 1957, the Supreme Court, weary ed it: still around were terms like foisting on them his private collec gent upon him to formulate~^n "ob of the growing number of obscenity "average", "community standards," tion of pornographic horrors. jective" criterion for obscenity. In appeals on the docket, decided to clear "prurient interest" and "social im The Comstock Act made it a felony order to rule a book obscene, he said, up the issue by drafting a test which, portance," which have no meaning 'knowlingly to mail or receive lewd, "it must first be determined, whether according to the New York Times beyond individual bias. obscene, or immoral literature or the intent with which it was written (March 27), would accomplish two The Roth decision proved little objects." The use of such a law, was what is called . . . pornographic, things: first, "Present an objective help to Judge Frederick van Pelt the postal authorities felt, ought to be —that is, written for the purpose of standard that could be applied by Bryan in deciding the case of "Lady enough to pin Ginzburg to the wall, exploiting obscenity." trial judges without constant appeals Chatterley's Lover." He realized, for but, just in case it wasn't, they gave Even if it were not circular (an to the Supreme Court," and, second, example, that "The contemporary yet another turn to the screw: Ginz obscene book is a book intended to be "Safeguard free expression by shield standards of the community, and the burg was tried not in New York, but obscene), such an argument could ing non-obscene matter from over- continued on page 8 in Philadelphia—a change of venues scarcely be satisfactory, for if one made possible, says Ginzburg, "by cannot with accuracy determine the the use of a recent amendment to the obscenity of the book, a physical arti Comstock Act which enabled the Post fact, how can one ever hope to es Office to try a publisher in a city tablish the motives which brough it other than the one in which he pub into being? Moreover, few writers, BIG DOUBLE SHOW lished." (Fact, Vol 2, no. 3) as any literary critic knows, ever Why Philadelphia? Well, for one fulfill their intentions: if a man who thing, the moral fiber is generally of intends to write a great novel can a tighter weave in Philadelphia than write hack fiction, why cannot a man it is in New York; and, for another, who intends to write pornography fail TONIGHT at 8 Philadelphia was at the time seized as well, and write a great novel? (Thursday) with a paroxysm of righteous indig Judge Woolsey, however, realized • * nation over the increasing amount of the inadequacy of such a test, and At Jenison Fieldhouse smut which seemed to cover the city sought "to apply a more objective STARRING THINK, anyone? Educated opinion is formulated by looking at both sides of an issue. One side is often presented, but seldom is the other. "The Paper" makes a JOHN GARY major point of giving the other, often obscured, side. No blacks or whites. "The Paper" has the most colorful shades of gray. TV SENSATION Subscribe to our colorful grays, now!
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Union Campbell's 1730 Haslett Road East Lansing Student Services Marshall Music Disc ShoD ASMSU Candidates And Here Comes The Race Is On, Pride In The Backstretch By LINDA BOYLE and GREGG HILL GEORGE HUBKA Supporting cultural activities, Lu OWENH. ORNDORFF kens asks for more research sur Junior One thing George Hubka is sure of veys to discover students' cultural Owen H. Orndorff gives a three- is that "mistakes have been made in feelings. And for better communica point definition of student govern the past." There's something lacking, tion, he desires better information ment: Member-At-Large Hubka stated. at freshman orientation and possibly 1. It should smooth the relations When interviewed, the night before Student Forums every other week. between the administration and the LOU BENSON campaigning began, Hubka had not yet student body; - Lukens sees next year as a "key Lou Benson blamed the shortcom completed his platform. In general year in ASMSU life." 2. It should have the ability to spon ings of this year's government on he wants more services for less mon sor events that the lower governing unfamiliarity with the new system and ey, and he opposes a salary for Stu BOB NIEMi groups can't handle; said his own experience is his best dent Board members.' Bob Niemi believes in an issue- 3. It should try to coordinate stu qualification. "They were too tense/' Hubka has been social chairman oriented student government, a gov dents so that they feel more a part he said. in a precinct in Shaw and is a past ernment that studies and makes res of the university. He cited Freshman To him student government is es secretary of the Agricultural Educa olutions on questions of concern to Orientation as a means of bringing sentially "a learning experience." It tion Club. students today. this about. must yet prove to the administration "ASMSU is virtually powerless to Orndorff- has had experience in that it is responsible. Benson called BILL LUKENS run this campus. The administration dormitory government plus many all- for a permanent voice for student "Not trying to be master of the runs it/' he said. "Therefore ASMSU university posts including Water Car opinion on the Faculty Committee people," the closed system of stu should spend its time on larger is nival. He is especially happy to have on Student Affairs. dent government should be opened up sues." been a Brody Board representative. Concerning student apathy and lack to include as many people as pos I would like to see what the Student "We made it from a discussion of communication witn tne govern sible. Bill Lukens calls for a "com Board thinks of the civil rights prob group to a really active organiza ment, Benson proposed a reincarna mittee on committees" to eliminate lem in East Lansing. I would like to tion," he said. tion of the recently deceased Fresh friend-to-friend discrimination in ap see the president of ASMSU think of Many of his proposals for action in man Forum. A similar program pointments. A six-man representative the same problems as the President Student Board relate to his experience should be opened to transfer students board could be created. They could of the United States." in complex and dormitory govern and upperclassmen. Also he felt the send out and review general applica "I would like to see the members ment. State News should do less editorial tions for appointed positions. Three of ASMSU start thinking and stop (1)" He would like to see the com izing and more straight reporting of fold benefits would result: Bringing Student Services. "But I would like pensation problem straightened out government activities. in new people, checking on commit to know," he adds emphatically. either through compromise or through On women's hours, Benson be tee members, and increasing effec "I should like to find out just what dispensing with it. lieved there should be no restric tiveness on the whole. powers ASMSU has," he said. "Does (2) He wants to have all-university tions on women living in dorms who "The present government is too it have any? Is it really the govern events coordinated at the hall level are 21 or over. He also called for streamlined," Lukens says. ing body of the students?" so that students know what's going improvement on football ticket policy, Lukens opposes monetary compen "I have a sense of curiosity and I on. the library and bus system. Speak sation and believes in "academic want to find out just how much hypoc (3) More participation is needed by ing against discrimination in cabinet compensation" whereby members are risy or honesty exists on this campus freshmen and sophomores, especially ' appointments, he felt such appoint given academic credit in social as well as anywhere else." important in student-landlord prob ments should depend on experience science for their work in student "I'd like to find out what happens lems. rather than personal contacts. government. to the $15,000 we pay each term. I (5) He favors an open forum on Student government is in the hands Since students tend to identify with think they must be having a little key issues with plenty of advanced of the student. Its responsibility is to dormitory complex affairs, he feels trouble spending it because they are publicity. serve them. Benson is a member of there should be more power on the considering taking salaries for them (6) He suggests that student govern SAE fraternity. He is Mr. MSU. complex level. selves." ment publish each term an open fi "Niemi is concerned with rules in nancial statement in the State News. hibiting the development of respon .lA.his.opinion, wpmen's hours are sibility in students. "As long as there very reasonable. ''In two years'PTB;,' are rules governing his every mo have not seen any real grass roots Third Annual tion, the individual does not have the demand for change," he says. opportunity to gain in responsibil WINDS OF CHANGE ity." JOHN PLODINEC Niemi does not expect changes ov "I think ASMSU has done a gre? Seminar ernight, however. job of performing circuses and it is m He suggests for consideration at hope to goad somebody into somerea THE STUDENT AND THE UNIVERSITY least that several classrooms be open accomplishments," said John Plodi- WORLD AFFAIRS 24 hours a day for study, and that nec. the library go on an around-the- Plodinec differs from the other April 15-16-17, in Erickson Kiva (unless otherwise noted) clock schedule two weeks before final candidates in his emphasis on the role Student Board can play in improving Friday, April 15 exams. "I have had absolutely no exper the quality of education at MSU. 8 p.m. — Keynote Address — "The Role of the University in a World of ience in any organizations at all, in "Admittedly, ASMSU has no power Crisis" — Harry Gideonse, former president, Brooklyn College cluding rightist, leftist and general to make policy, but it does have the Saturday, April 16 mugwumps." ability to speak out/' he declared. 9 a.m. - Symposiums: "The Student Movement" "Nor does the administration have A Student's View — Paul Schiff, graduate student, MSU to listen to it." But close coopera The Educator's Perspective — Aaron Levenstein, City College of New York tion with the faculty may help ef A Reporter's Observations — Sidney Harris, Chicago Daily News PARAMOUNT fectively to influence the adminis Political Analysis — Sheldon Wolin, University of California at Berkeley tration, Plodinec said. Overseas Reaction — William Mazzocco, Far East Bureau, Agency for International Development News Center With little experience in student 2 p.m. — Discussion Groups: "The Role of the Student" government, Plodinec shows a sur Citizenship Participation — Joseph Roberts, associate professor, MSU Tickets now on sale prisingly good grasp of what ASMSU Student Government: « Fact and Fiction — Gregory Delan, NSA for Ray Charles, is capable of. He Is also well aware Faculty and the University — E.C. Coleman, Southern Illinois University appearing April 12 of the problems of student govern The Role of the Greeks on the University Campus — Tom Gooddale, MSU at Lansing Civic Center ment and of the growing university. Latin America — Kenneth Bode, instructor, MSU "The university isn't making ade The Arab World — Paul English, professor, MSU 211 Evergreen ED 25119 quate provision for the projected stu Subsaharan Africa — James R. Hooker, professor, MSU dent population of 100,000 in 1984," Southern Asia — Baljit Singh, associate professor MSU Open 7 a.m. - 11 p.m. The Far East — Hideya Kumata, professor, MSU; Seigen Miyasato, visiting prof Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union — Frank Pinner, professor, MSU Western Europe — Frederick Kaplan, associate professor^ MSU (ALL IN ROOMS OF ERICKSON HALL) 7 p.m. — Banquet (In Big Ten Room, Kellogg Center) — $3.50 admission 8:30 p.m. — "The Role of the Faculty in the Protest Movement" Speakers: Irving Horowitz, Washington University, St. Louis Michael Locker, National Office, Student for a Democratic Society Lewis Feuer, University of California1, at Berkeley Chris Dunleavy, Yale University undergraduate, former chairman, Ad Hoc Committee to Support the American Commitment in Vietnam Sunday, April 17 9 - 11:30 a.m. -- Studejit Coffee Hour (in Student Services Lounge) Repre sentatives of National Student Association, International Relations Club, MSU People-to-People Association, International Volunteer Service 2 p.m. — Closing Speech: "The Student as a World Citizen" — Robert Ingler, Queens College (formerly of Sarah Lawrence College), author of "The Politics of Oil" and articles on the student movement All sessions free except Saturday night banquet Schedule Registration -- 1-5 p.m., April 11-14, in the Union, International Center and 314 Student Services "The Paper * is not in the habit of examining order that we might learn how likely it is to be the he says. "I would like to see some closely the dealings of student government people, case again next year, we interviewed the candi real planning done on how we are mostly because the issues with which they deal do dates running in the April 13 elections for four going to cope with this/* not usually have much to do with the real world at-large seats on the Student Board and for senior He says that when he graduates the anyway. Our judiciary experience last term proved class officers,—The Editors. student population will be exceeding this to us, but it does not need to be the case. In 47,000 students. "It's a little diffi cult to imagine that the quality of ed students and Student Board. As of now BOB MUSMANNO ucation is going to be as high as there is a four-step process from JIM SINK when we entered/' he says. student to Board. He suggests the Bob Musmanno, Phi Kappa Psi, "Bread and circuses student gov Plodinec cites television classes creation of a complex forum compos begs for a constitutional amendment ernment" has failed to find out what and the library as specific academic ed of precinct representatives and which would provide "a more equit MSU students REALLY want. Jim problem areas. any other interested students. What able apportionment of representa Sink pleas for a "revolution in stu *?How are you going to ask ques ever is passed at each forum would tion" to the Student Board. This means dent government responsibility." Stu tions in a TV class?*' he asks. "More go directly to Student Board for con a "representative from each of the dents of the university would must likely than not if you're not asking sideration. five complexes—to act as voting rep throw down their pencils and arise questions you're not reacting to what's "Legal aid is one of the best ser resentatives of the on-campus stu to overthrow the Faculty Committee being taught." vices of Student Government, but the dents." (Representatives acting as on Student Affairs. Commenting on the structure of students don't know about it/' Car representatives.) The students must be reached ASMSU, Plodinec suggested we wait bine said. There should be a legal Since the process of obtaining high through an extensive information and before changing it. aid representative in each living unit, er offices is too long, Musmanno communication program. This in "It's by no means perfect, but at he recommends. He would be ready proposes a program to get under cludes a "Meet the Press format" this time it would not be good to with information when students are classmen into the program. However, where representatives from all types change it," he says. "To change it referred to him by the resident ad his chief concern is channeling more of groups can assemble for discus visor. money and influence into academic sion. again so soon now would destroy what and cultural interests such as pop Sink says "The people who like to little confidence the students have in He suggests freshmen and sopho entertainment. play clowns" and the committees it/* mores be actively recruited to peti Improving on the inadequate stu they work for should be delegated to tion for ASMSU offices. dent research bureau, Musmanno a non-ASMSU organization such as ART TUNG In the area of women's hours, he said: "I, personally, would just as would like to see the creation of a Union Board. This allows student In accordance with his campaign soon not see any hours. I don't believe new cabinet fact-finding and research government to concentrate on matters slogan, 'Keep ASMSU Rolling/ Art the girls will fall into moral cor bureau for the Student Board. Fin close to the student such as pop en Tung supports an extension of all ruption without them." ally he asks for a booklet of student tertainment. Replace "The Supremes present programs under Student Although his ideas appeared pro rules and regulations and ,a detailed for Al Hirt, Dylan for Womenfolk." Board. Young committees such as gressive, Carbine did not seem in study of ticket distribution policy Sink proposes an all-university movie the handbook and bookstore commit any hurry to carry them out. He be for the Lecture-Concert Series. production, campus art exhibition, tees should receive special atten lieves we will be able to achieve more and outdoor concerts. tion. Tung particularly emphasized if we "build slowly and concretely." Of the existing programs he sup the immediate need for a student "You can't take on ambitious pro Red Cedar Report ports legal aid student loan, human handbook to state cleaxly policies, relations, and the student rights com jects without good people in every mittee. Concerning other programs student rights, and governing struc department," he said. CSR almost blunders "The Pa tures of a non-academic nature. per's" bid for authorization. What Sink commented, "I hate specific Concerning the question of salaries are they doing, competing with As- questions." for board members, he stated that any Moo? compensation must have the support TOM HARMON • * * of the students. This leads to more Tom Harmon has ideas on how to In days of old, a king had court responsible student leadership and make student government more dem fools. Today they're called presiden makes students better critics of the ocratic and more integrated with the tial advisors. - policies. Paramount is "the i^ea of student body. • • * A VOICE civic action" which distinguishes He is especially concerned with the In reference to the "Cat on Pot" mere student leaders from genuine improvement of local leyeL-govern- caption contest ("The Secret Life of public leaders. — . . - ment. On the precinct level he sees Jim De Forest"): how else do you "The main purpose of student gov too many decisions handed downfrom think I get inspiration for this col ernment is to present a unified stu the higher echelons and too few dis umn? • * • NOT AN dent opinion/* This "group articula cussions of issues being considered tion** with "positive participation un by Student Board. He believes that Even though finals have been over der experienced leadership** is vital Student Board should work with dor for some time now, we know of some to effective student government. AS mitory governments to develop a more people who are just getting their ears MSU is an ('absolute necessity to democratic atmosphere, where opin back in shape. MSU student Society/) Demonstrating ion goes from bottom to top rather • • * his faith in the present system, Tung than top to bottom. Spring term may be the only time called for more student government you have any fun around here, but power in the areas of rights and The use of questionaires to deter remember, it's the same situation for ECHO responsibilities, records, academic mine student opinions is an impor the Campus Police. freedom and general policy. tant plank in Harmon's platform. • * * Another way of bringing Student I used to think that joining the Ma Board closer to the student body, rines took a lot of courage, but that's Senior Harmon says, is to take it out of nothing compared to running for an of petty concerns like turtle races and fice in ASMSU. Member- At-Large into a decision- making character. He emphasized that Student Board VOTE JIM CARBINE should play an important role in any THE QUESTING BEAST rule changing. * Jim Carbine says he has gained » 211 Abbott Road wide support in student government He says he has had limited exper in his drive for the senior seat in ience in MSU student government but (next to State Theatre) Student Board. did serve actively on the East Shaw He has the support of John Mon- General Council. "... a dealer in beat geon, Webb Martin, Jim Graham, He is against pay for student gov and bohemian jewelery PLODINEC John McQuitty, Howard Wilchins, Greg Owen, Louis Bender and Gary ernment members. "If it is passed, and artifacts ..." Parrish. I'll refuse to accept it," he said. STATE NEWS • "Participating in student government Carbine's main concern is with should be something you want to do for (we'd been wondering what we were) increasing communication between the campus." JR. SEAT If you would like SOMEONE to get SPARTAN BOOK your money's worth from ASMSU taxes USED PAPERBOUND Vote NIEMI &v; PRICED AT LESS THAN V2 PRICE 223-225 Ann Avenue, East Lansing Encounter asked, "What does God have to do with The Rites of Spring all this?" Gordon, the intellectual continued from page 1 atheist, replied: "Do you mean God and force the decision upon them or the Church?" Lemansky answered of the year for liberals and left Defense Committee, an aa noc group selves. that if God's workers wanted to carry ists. Speakers and participants cov to handle fund-raising and planning Ed Lemansky talked with pride out communism, that was fine, but ered the entire spectrum from the for the next trial in the Michigan about the New York transit strike communism did not need them. middle to the extreme left, even in Court of Appeals. and other large strikes in the past The Sunday afternoon panel con cluding several churchmen. Before an appeal can be filed, the two years, and drew the conclusion cerned The Movements: Civil Rights, Some members of the group most record of the Circuit Court trial that the strikes were a covert reac and its members were more diverse. likely to appreciate a "new left" must be transcribed and printed, tion by the workers not only against Dave Scott, from the Ecumenical conference were too busy to appre which is expected to cost the de the way the country is being run but Institute in Chicago talked about the ciate this one. The four Vietnam fendants $1,500. John O'Malley Burns, also against their own union leaders. civil rights movement in Innercity in protest defendants and their friends who led the vigil, is chairman of the "We must develop a movement with Chicago, the area of the city where from the vigil spent the weekend group, which claims it must have the power to take away factories from the Negro slums are and where the organizing the Michigan Free Speech money within two to three weeks. people so they can't order employees action is needed. The movement has to make bombs, take the government to be future-oriented, different tac away so it can't order bombs. If we tics must be used in the North than want to make changes, we have to the South; the movement has to be have power." intentional, with a hard core of dis Gordon began his comments with ciplined people to rally others; it has the notice that he had just gotten to be comprehensive, community- drafted, and if the army really want wide and left that way after the civil ed him, he was going in and was rights workers move out. going to organize the soldiers against Conrad Lynn pointed with feeling the war. He felt the American people to the black ghettos in the North, had been sold out by Johnson and Harlem in particular. Harlem has the press in the case of Vietnam. become a virtual police state, with Dellinger, following the three young hundreds of police concentrated there. speakers, reflected on his prison Jack Kittredge, of the National Stu experience. Comparing bank robbers dent Christian Federation and Stu In prison to bankers living off the dents for a Democratic Society, re people in the slums, he said, "The flected the New Left emphasis on banker is no more moral than the community organization—attempting robber; the robber is no more anti to reach the people at the bottom social than the banker." psychologically and economically by ' War protesters on their way out of jail: (I. to r.) Albert Halprin, Howard Hawkins was there again and spark organizing them to fight slum housing Harrison, Fred Janvrin, James Dukarm. ed a rapid interchange between Del- and poor or segregated schools, re linger, Lemansky and himself, on the structuring the welfare system and issue of freedom in Cuba and Red ending the city machine. FUEL: The Torch Is Passed China. They were interrupted by a man Then Clarence Say got up. Here in the audience who stood up and was a man who, in his clean worn One of the most important mani work pants and emaciated frame, per festations of the rise of the so-called sonified what the others in their New Left in America today is the ap suits had tried to say. He was working pearance of the free university. Free No mass movements have arisen to CLASSIFIEDS with JOIN (Jobs Or Income Now) in universities—rather ill-defined col protest its existence. It has only Uptown, Chicago. Uptown is the roost lections of professors and students teachers, students and ideas, all ing place of Southern people who come united to study subjects which are brought together in private apart Coming Events to find jobs and end up on welfare. not taught or are taught badly at ments or other makeshift classrooms. Although it was not formally de regular universities—have sprung up It has only a small fraction of the ENRICO'S "Occurrence at Owl Creek fined, the careful, uninitiated listener at Columbia, Berkeley, Standord, and number of students enrolled at MSU Bridge"—Friday, April 8, in Anthony Hall. —fewer than one hundred at the pre Private, subscriptions at door. MSU FILM at the conference could arrive at an the University of Florida, in Detroit, SOCIETY. understanding of the New Left. Tru Chicago, New York City, and else sent time. Its teachers include var man Morrison said of dissent, "In where. Now there is one at Michigan ious members of the academic com Wanted dealing with a man like Johnson it State: The Free University of East munity, students as well as pro is logical to move to the left and find Lansing. fessors. FUEL possesses only the DEPARTING STUDENTS! Professors taking leverage to deal with the rank hy According to a leaflet distributed basic tools necessary for the educa sabbaticals! Anyone! Help a rapidly aging pocrisy we are facing today." Le by the founders by FUEL—a mis tional process—some would say the grad student and his well-behaved family mansky said "If we want to make ONLY necessary tools. So far it has locate a modest 3-bedroom, furnished or cellaneous potpourri of students, "trained" and "produced" no great unfurnished, house or apartment to rent or changes, we have to have power.* teachers, and citizens—the free uni least for 15 months, starting June 1. Can And Gordon said, "I'm an organizer. versity "is an attempt to return to the artists, scientists, or hotel manag promise excellent care. Will supply refer- It's up to the draft board whether ers. And it probabl^ never will. ences, deposit. Phone 332-3108. traditional concept of the community I organize on campus or in the army." of scholars, the concept on which Nevertheless, and in spite of all The New Left seeks social change, great universities have been built in these defects, people still sign up for Service and knows the best way to effect that the past. It is a group of people the evening courses. As the founders change is organized dissent, whether sharing their ideas on topics of im of FUEL have observed, many stu SUMMER OPPORTUNITIES with American dents seem to have a particularly Friends Service Committee. These summer it is students protesting the war, portance and excitement to them. projects offer the opportunity to work in strikes at vital industries or or It is an alternative to the drab, au strange desire to understand "prob small villages in many countries, to work ganizing the poor in JOIN. tomated education of course outlines, lems crucial to modern society and in depressed urban areas, to work in the area By the close of the conference we the individuals it embraces—whether of civil rights and community relations, to credits, multiple-choice exams and or not such understanding is market work with the mentally ill and retarded and were not too sure where God and the IBM cards. The free university is with juvenile delinquents. Projects last eight church were standing but we knew learning, free from the pressures of able or valuable for three or four to ten weeks. Students earn little, break where the New Left was going. Ac finals, research dollars, and 'im credits." even, or pay to participate. Call Mrs. Ele cording to Jack Kittredge, it was age'." Among the juicy pieces of unmark anor Myers at 337-1160 for interview ap etable knowledge available at the pointment. heading toward "a whole society, a FUEL has no deans, provosts, new society where Negroes don't have grades, credits, exams, classroom university in the form of seminars Personal to rebel and students don't have to buildings, tuition, clock towers, side and/or discussion groups (scheduled reject their parents' lives to find a walks, football teams, cafeterias, fra as of April 5) are: The Exploitation meaningful way of living." of Color, by Professors James R. CALLING DR. FISHEL: This MAY be my ternities, cyclotrons, buses or ducks. Hooker, Joseph Roberts, and Daniel last term at MSU (after 20 years). So, once again, I challenge colleague Wesley Fishel, Walden; American Imperialism, by Southeast Asia specialist, to debate Carroll graduate students Roger Howard, Bri Hawkins, political philosopher. Subject: "Ex an Keleher, and Paul Schiff • Anguish, pertise and Vietnam." Any place, any mu $1,500 MUST BE RAISED tually convenient time. /s/Carroll Hawkins, by Martha Aldenbrand and Melvin PAP (Permanent and/or Peaceful) Associ Bucholtz, graduate assistants; Chris ate Professor. for the appeal trial tian Thought in the Post-Christian w • I World, by Professor Milton Powell; Modern Cinema, by Douglas Lackey, For of the four convicted students director of the MSU Film Society; Awareness and Art, by Bob Weil, Money is needed to cover legal fees sculptor; and Mass Culture: from CLASSIFIEDS Ben Franklin to James Bond, by and court costs, and to print transcripts Professor Heyward Ehrlich. Informa tion concerning times and places Call 351-5679 of the Circuit Court trial of meeting, as well as additional subjects, can be obtained by calling 351-5529 or 351-5679. Paramount News Mich. Free Speech Defense Committee There is still time to take part in the Great Ex 211 Evergreen, EL 215 Linden Street periment; no penalties are assessed 332-5119 East Lansing for late registration. BRAD LANG classifieds should be (sponsors are needed) NEXT: The People and Ideas be paid in advance hind the Free University of East Lan sing. A BRIEF LESSON CONCERNING THE VARIOUS DEGREES Neither Snow, Nor Rain, OF LIBERALISM POSSESSED BY METROPOLITAN AS OP . . .Nor Gloom Of Night. . ." POSED TO STUDENT NEWSPAPERS. By ERICOTTINGER Action follows inevitably from choic Thursday night at some time after es already made. Steve Hickson 11, I joined the group in front of agreed, saying "ideas truly held lead Cowles house, hoping to learn how a person into participation." Bill much of a fuss there was and of what Bruzy was rather blunt. In relation nature. The campsite was located to me and all other people, he said, 4 A SATURDAY. APRIL X ltM "I am that someone else." Also, he across the street from Landon dor His original decision that the four mitory, about a block away from the felt that he would lose the opportunity Should the university have had the to have a mind of his own if he and-war demonstrators arrested in the men were guilty seems just. Clearly Union. In some ways it was a rather first place ? the four men were guilty of'tree- pleasant, parklike place to be. On the didn't use it. As Dennis said it, "You passing and disturbing the normal other hand, of course, you must be only have the rights that you exer If the university was right in arresting flow of traffic in the Union Building. careful to stay off the grassl cise." the demonstrators, President Hannah's silence about their being forced to serve It Is difficult to evaluate the ef Along the sidewalk there was an When asked if they thought some fect of the hunger strikers and other were likely to identify them with the jail terms before their appeal could be accumulation of material that might heard was certainly wrong. He was given protesters who sat for more than two have been "what there was when the Vietnam protest movement, if not an opportunity by thin newspaper to take days In front of Cowlee House. Cer tent blew away," except that there with the Viet Cong themselves, they a stand and he specifically declined. Yet tainly they had a right to be there had never been a tent. There were agreed that this was likely to happen. he is chairman of the U.S. Civil Rights and to express their protest, but why sleeping bags, blankets, umbrellas, However, as Bruzy put it, they ex Commission. they chose PresMent Hannah as the pected to convince "enlightened peo person destined to Intervene for them thermos bottles, a carton of Coke The four youths may or may not be In getting ball set for the jailed men bottles, and several sheets of clear ple with maturity." You get "pests, guilty of trespass and the public may or Is unknown. plastic covering which were never screamers and intelligent people," may not sympathize either with them or quite sufficient to cover anything. Dennis said. Miss Heimstadt explain the hunger strikers. But much of the pub More knowledge of the judicial The scene was lighted by porch ed they had been careful to avoid lic, of whatever view, will find the roles process and less emotionalism on unnecessary involvements, empha- played in this controversy by Hannah, the the part of the demonstrators could lights, street lights and the lighted prosecutor and the lower court less than have alleviated much of the difficulty dining room of the dorm across the inspiring. created by th4s wtoole case. road. In the dark the MSU campus continued on page 8 can be a beautiful display of shapes, lights and shadows. It can be, if you are not entirely distracted by the weather and the wind. Eleven of the group were in their Stop The War-We Want To Get Off sleeping bags sitting or trying to sleep. Six or seven more were on By DOUGLAS LACKEY and sang "Mr. Tambourine Man" on something in it after all. their feet, talking and pacing about. The war in Vietnam has caused in the way back. Seth inquired between The parade paused at the Campus I started interviewing, taking each many people a strange inversion of drags on the bottle, "Why do we Martius triangle for a puppet morality awake-looking person in the line, values: protest has become ordinary; demonstrate every day?" He received play on the war—atrocious, but no one from left to right. When I reached the quiescence extraordinary. The war's no answer and went to sleep. minded, and there were a few good third, someone's transistor radio senseless horror is a fact of life, We arrived an hour early; the wea hits, especially in a conversation be came through with a little gem call lived with, dealt with nowadays with ther was freezing and the wind was up; tween a general and the woman called ed, "The Ballad of the Yellow Ber a surprising absence of any emotion the only sign of the coming demon Vietnam: et." At about the same time two save the numbed realization that these stration was five motorized police "Pardon me ma'am, but could you people started throwing eggs. Since cruel things, seen nightly on CBS, tricycles clustered around a White show me the way to get to Veet- they threw very quickly to expedite splayed daily across -the front pages Tower stand. nam?" their getaway, they did notthrowvery of newspapers, are still happening, The radicalization of the peace "Why?" well. Most of the eggs missed. after two ye^yspf reasoned argument movements in the past year was "Gotta stop agression." The second barrage of eggs fell and mass protest, two years in which strikingly in evidence in the in "How will you stop it?" Just as I was completing my inter the United States converted no Viet scriptions on the signs: last year, "Well, we have bombs and things »i views. In this case the attackers dis namese, killed many by accident, and the average sign dithered on about « 0 * played a certain amount of tactical more on purpose, and gained the de negotiations; now the signs read "End As the play went on, a large coun sophistication. One group threw from served opprobrium of the entire the War in Vietnam, NOW," "Stop ter-demonstration developed behind across the street. Another threw from world. the Killing," "Support the NLF's the triangle—headed by four black the direction of Cowles house. Pro So it was that when MSU-SDS, Liberation Struggle." One sign bore banners reading, "This is a Commie testors were splattered across their Lenin House and Howard Harrison the portrait of a napalm-scarred Parade." Insults were hurled in both jackets, pants and faces. left March 26 for the Detroit segment child and asked, "Why are we kill directions, and only the interposition The protesters were not martyr of the International Days of Protest, ing, burning, torturing the Vietna of several mounted police prevented a types. They wanted the police. One the conversation on the trip down mese?", answering—"To prevent pitched battle from taking place. Even of them volunteered to make the trip, drifted to other topics—the multiver free elections." The Afro-Asians the peace marchers after two years of offering to take me along on his sity, the question of thought vs. ac carry their signs flat against their frustration were in a mood for action motorcycle. tion, of the nature of philosophy, of bodies, without sticks: "Ho Chi Minh and attack. At the police station we were di the commitment to one's profession Never Called Me a Nigger." Swinging out on Woodward again, the rected into a well-lighted room dec vs. the commitment to one's poli At 4:30, the half-frozen mob shuf march jogged right towards Cobo Hall, orated with the American flag and tics: no talk of Vietnam, for here the fled forward onto Woodward Avenue, past the Pontchartrain Hotel and its wanted posters. After taking our decisions have already been made, some 2,000 strong, guided by parade state room—inside the people drew names, addresses, and phone numb and all that remains is this inces marshals and guarded by mounted back the curtains, and we could see ers, and asking a few questions; the sant pounding against a brick wall. police. Except for angered motorists, the candles burning on the tables and police put my companion down as On the trip, too, we made ac who will submit peacefully to parades the hard sequins on women's dresses having made the complaint. I went quaintance with the youngest repre in uniform but honked in chorus when as they peered in amused clusters down as a witness. The police were sentatives of the New Left, Shem and confronted by the motley obstruction out at the marchers with all the suf courteous enough: I went back to the Seth, 2/2 and 3/2 years old, two bright of a peace parade, there was an focating arrogance of affluence._ scene in a police car. However, they round wonderchildren, mysteriously ominous absence of counter-demon Cobo Hall that night was host to a were being given a rather impossible attached to a Berkeleyite mother nam strators. Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner, which task. How could they hope to sift, ed Sue, who both drank bottles on the Passers-by gazed blankly from the the politicians of Michigan consum out of several thousand possible sus way down, chanted "Stop the War" sidewalks; a girl asked her date mate by the wearing of green card pects, the fellows who had thrown the whether we were all communists; a board hats on which appears the leg eggs. middle-aged dowager heaved herself end "Jefferson-Jackson." Those that Back at the scene I listened while across the line muttering, "Scum, wore them shrunk into the building the police were given descriptions scum." Five blocks down the march, at our approach; "Don't want to get picked up on the run, finished inter a grey-haired, tall and heavy-set man contaminated," one man said. The viewing Bill, and paid my respects ran along the sidewalk, waving his marchers filled the sidewalk the to a relic—an egg that hadn't broken. arms like a demented man and bel length of the building, picked up step All of the protestors were quite lowing, "CREEPS, CREEPS, you're and chanted, "LBJ LBJ, how many sure about their purpose. As they all creeps! Do you hear me? Your kids did you kill today?" and "Give saw it due process ,0f the law had day will come!" "That's right," a LB J a green beret and send HIM to been violated and somebody had to do marcher shouted back, but the parade Vietnam." Inside the Jefferson Day something about it, preferably Pre marshal pleaded that hecklers be paid ceremonials went on unconcerned, un- sident Hannah. Leslie Heimstadt be no heed and a mounted policeman put contaminated indeed by the ideas out lieved that bail should be granted his horse between the man and the side: "One Man, One Vote, Selma, immediately in all cases. John Den parade—his shined shoes were visible Saigon." nis said the Supreme Court had es beneath the horse and he could still Next day we learned that nation tablished that the denial of bail should be heard swearing, "Even the cops are wide it had been the largest peace not be used to prevent an appeal. on the side of these commie bas demonstration in history. Few coun Apparently, the Michigan Court of tards." ter-demonstrations or pro-war par Appeals agreed, since on Thursday Seth, riding atop Rein Mohr's ades are planned—the strategy of the it set bail for the four prisoners. William Ratner, freshman Army ROTC shoulders in the parade, later re right is not to counter but to sit I asked why they were there. Why student, holds his sign at the free speech marked confidently, "I'm not a tight. For it is not a democracy that not somebody else? "You don't shove creep." And the apolitical pacifists wages this war, but an Administration your responsibility off on somebody rally Thursday afternoon. He was later in the parade began perhaps to wonder —a government, not its people, and a else," said Dennis. Louise Holmes required to leave and disciplined by his that if Communism meant being on government's army, against a peo felt that there was no real choice. commander. such a march, then there might be ple. Civil Rights Conviction MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE OTHER TRIAL By LOUISE BOKO A part of the war on inequality tion, but she doubted that very much Her case is planned as a test of came home to East Lansing last had been done about it. the courts* sympathies on the dem week. Many people attribute almost dir onstration. The remaining 50 - odd Marlene Deutsch, a former MSU ectly to the demonstration the Human demonstrators (several pleaded guil student and one of 59 protestors ar Relations Commission's recent six- ty immediately after the sit-in and rested in a sitdown demonstration on month study of the open housing prob others since then) will be tried in Abbott Road last May 26, was found lem in East Lansing. The commission groups or singly when Miss Deutsch's guilty Friday of blocking traffic. was scheduled to make public a pro adjudication is completed. The demonstration protested lack posal to the City Council on the mat of city action on alleged housing dis ter this week (too late to be discus crimination in East Lansing. Those sed here). Vigil. . . arrested were campaigning for an The university, Miss Deutsch said, "open - housing" ordinance which Marlene Deutsch is booked at the East makes East Lansing a rather cos continued from page 7 mopolitan community, much moreso would penalize landlords found guilty Lansing Police Station after the Abbott sizing to reporters that the issue of discrimination in renting. than most towns its size. She does Road sit-in last May 25-26. not think it right that students should was due process—not Viet Nam. Last spring's campaign began when be refused housing because of pre The method for protesting had been several students were refused hous jury in her trial because "they were judice, especially when there is so decided upon at a meeting late Tues ing on the basis of race. The first opposed to demonstrations in gener day night. Bruzy felt that it was the action was a picket of the home of a large and diverse a student body. al/' Moreover, MSU's President John best way to stay within the law and woman who had refused to rent to a still do something. Miss Holmes Negro student. To break a law and to chance being A. Hannah is the chairman of the sent to jail is a great risk. A jail U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Miss thought it was better than going to After the Committee for Student sentence mars one's record, Miss Deutsch (and she is apparently not jail, cheaper and more effective. Rights, the NAACP and the Friends of Deutsch said, but the demonstrators alone) thinks President Hannah has Hickson analyzed the alternatives in SNCC endorsed the campaign, enthu hoped their risk would awaken the been lacking in his action on civil terms of people, their physical pre siasm built through a series of "con community to the seriousness of the rights here. sence, and time: all of these things frontations" with city officials and problem. "As far as I'm concerned, John work in favor of a protest action. discussions of the housing situation. Mayor Thomas believes it did this, Hannah just hasn't taven the interest When I returned the next morning, On May 17 students staged a sit-in out at least to some extent. He said the he should take. He can go down to things were very much neater. The side a City Council meeting where city has progressed in the open hous Mississippi and make sweeping re egg fragments had been largely clean their ordinance proposal had been ing question. He would like to be forms—and they need them—but he's ed away, as was a carp that wasn't referred to the city's Human Rela lieve the city would have made pro done terribly little in his own back quite dead when it had been thrown tions Commission, a group consid gress even without student protest, during the night. ered ineffectual by the protestors. yard," he said, but he recognizes it as a Miss Deutsch is going to appeal her Later Friday morning, when the The sit-ins were carried out of "definitely important factor." case. Although she said that her law prisoners had been released on bail City Hall and deposited on the back Still, Miss Deutsch rather doubted yer, Stuart Dunnings, was "brilliant" and the vigil was broken, there was lawn. that the demonstration last spring and Judge William Harmon was "quite nothing left but some egg fragments Later the same week, Mayor Gor did much good. She agreed that the fair and impartial," she did not feel and a couple of cigarette butts. The don L. Thomas, a professor of speech community was aware of the situa that she had received a fair trial. grounds department is very efficient. at MSU, told leaders of the protest that a statement on the legality of an open housing ordinance would be made public at his talk before the campus NAACP. Eros Case... motion or methods of distribution of Bosley Crowther notes in the same The Mayor had no such statement continued from page 3 this book." issue of the Times that the Eros de at the May 25 meeting, and denied •. But if it was,ruled in Roth's case cision "contains a sharp warning and^ he had ever promised one. limits of its tolerafice cannot be mea that, if the advertising is obscene, a moral for the people in the movie « In an effort to dramatize their sured or ascertained accurately." the book ought to be, and in the case industry who have been letting the feeling that students and their de Denying the Postmaster General any of "Lady Chatterley" that, if the ad advertising for some of their pic mands on open occupancy were being special competence in judging cases vertising is obscene, the book may tures be more suggestive and of put off, 59 demonstrators sat down of obscenity, Judge Bryan pointed to be, the Court decided in Ginzburg's fensive than the Pictures them across Abbott Road in front of City the role of personal opinion in such case that, if the advertising is ob selves." Hall, just after 11 p.m. that night. matters: "Plainly 'Lady Chatterley's scene, the book MUST be. Such a And what about automobiles, per They were arrested and taken to Lover' is offensive to the Postmas ruling could bring about some rather fumes, hair creams and cigarettes, all Ingham County Jail in Mason, some ter General," he wrote, "and I re bizarre consequences, if uniformly of which are sold through more or less transported in a university-owned spect his personal views. As a mat applied.* overt sexual appeals? bus. ter of opinion I disagree with him A man named John B. Wise was For those who might#bject that only Mayor Thomas said last week that for I do not personally find the book convicted in 1895 for sending in mail a weirdo would be turned on by a re the demonstrators did not have a offensive." If he had, one must pre a book composed of the racier sec cessed filter, I must point out that reasonable complaint when they stag sume, it would have been. tions of the Bible, thus proving that the Supreme Court, ruling on the case ed their protest. "To impetuous youth "Critics of the old (i.e. roth) stan the Divine word out of context is of Edward Mishkin, a publisher of who don't like to slow down, we prob dard," reports the State Journal Divine smut. sado-masochistic books, pointed out ably looked like we were stalling," (March 22), "had claimed it was so Under the "Eros" ruling, however, that material may be judged obscene he said. But he went on to say that unclear that books would rise or fall I could get the ENTIRE Bible con even if "it leaves the 'average per the long-time residents of the city on varying interpretations of 'pruri demned as obscene simply by ad son' cold but appeals to the prurient probably felt they were making pro ent interest' or 'community stand vertising it obscenely: if it could be interest of only perverted people." gress on the open housing question, ards'." So the Court waded in once proved that I had "tried to 'titilate' What are we to make of Lady Clair- "if not rapidly, then efficiently." again, and, following history, ended by (sic) the public's sexual interest in ol ("Does she or doesn't she?"), While the mayor says he definitely making matters all the worse. "Jus marketing (my) product, then the Perma-Life bras ("When a chic wo encourages student participation in tice Brennan," reports The New Re courts may take (my) advertising 'at man undresses what do you see?") or community affairs, he thinks that the public (April 3), "writing for the ma its face value' and declare the book Bonnie Fluff Fabric Softener ("How protests should be made within the jority of five, allowed that he could obscene" (N.Y. Times, March 27). to make a hard man a softie")? law. He feels that methods such as not be quite sure that Ginzburg's Or suppose I advertise Dr. Eustace civil disobedience are too great a In short, the recent Supreme Court wares were really obscene ... So Chesser's book "Love Without Fear" decisions demonstrate once again the shock for a community like East Lan he helped himself to his conclusion (or any other marriage manual) in an sing to absorb. futility of deriving an objective stand by finding that Ginzburg's advertis extremely salacious fashion according ard of obscenity. Obscenity is, after But Miss Deutsch said that simple ing, even if, perhaps, not his ma to the courts, I am selling an obscene all, a state of mind, and, as Gore protest is often not enough . Sometimes terial, 'stimulated the reader to ac book, but does it mean that Dr. Vidal points out in the New York Re it is necessary to shock a commun cept (the material) as prurient; he Chesser WROTE a dirty book? If I view of Books, "Since what arouses ity, to shake it a little. "Civil dis looks for titillation, not for saving then advertised it quite innocently, X repels Y, no two people are apt obedience," she said, "is a last intellectual content.' That is a pas would it no longer be obscene? What to respond in quite the same way to resort. We did not use it indiscrim sage to be pondered." . if I quite perversely advertised it in the same stimulus. One man's meat, inately." The question of advertising is not, the Evergreen Review as a dirty as they say, is another man's poi She said that civil disobedience is of course, new to obscenity cases. book, and in Good Housekeeping as a son ..." an old civil rights tactic and that its Samuel Roth was at one time pros chaste one: is it then dirty half the purpose is to bring an issue into the ecuted for FALSE advertising: "Roth, time and clean the other half? It seems about time that the Su spotlight. But it is a serious thing as he did more often than not, had Since books may now be judged preme Court realized this and ceased and must only be used when nothing published some tame stuff, advertis in terms of their advertising, why setting themselves up as arbiters of else will work. The students, she ing that it heaved with passion. The not other products? Paul Montgomery decency. feels, had exhausted all other meth Post Office felt that he should have writes in the New York Times (March The New Republic reports that ods of communicating with city of kept his word, even if it was a dirty 27) that "Dr. Ernest Dichter, con "Justice Stewart admitted a couple ficials to no avail before they sat word." (Eros, Vol. 1, no. 3). And sidered one of the founders of mod of years ago that he could not quite down in the street. Judge Bryan, although he pointed out ern advertising, noted that the Court define (hard-core pornography), al Miss Deutsch remarked that most that "No one is naive enough to think had accepted a long-standing claim though he knew it when he saw it." people do not realize the seriousness that Grove Press did not expect to of advertising men, that the image of To convict a man of a crime which of purpose of civil disobedience. She profit from ('Lady Chatterley's Lov a product produced by advertising and was first defined during the course of cited as evidence the 60 or 70 people er')," nonetheless saw "nothing of the promotion is part of the product it his trial is far too much like shooting who had to be dismissed from the 'leer of the sensualist' in the pro self." first and asking questions later.