OBSERVER Vol. 13 No. 2 March 22, 1978

Page 1 Dean Grace Allen Resigns Jane Hurd Freshman Seminar Program G. F. Levinson Quinlan Indicted Scott Porter Open Letter Peter J. Pratt Page 2 Community Events The Christian ‘Way’ at Bard John Burton A Cheap Shot at the Invisible Left Opinions and Alternative Viewpoints Jonathan Feldman Page 3 Students vs. the Administration Mark S. Callahan Editorials Jane Hurd Stargazing Richard Mattiello Blithewood Pig Roast Val Cubano [“Week after week, the maids go home on weekends and the filth collects.”] Andrew Abbatepaolo [“PROOF and everything that the aliens have landed among us!”] Dr. Happy Harry Cox [“Is there any possibility that you folks who decide type size… might show a little more consideration for those who are nearsighted…”] Iska Alter Page 4 Knights of Cerberus John Large The Dolphin Gina Fiering Page 5 A Poem Only Justified by Virtue of the Absurd Takes Tea and Sympathy with Mozart from the Extreme Left New Wave… J. H. Page 6 In Progress… “Little Murders” John Rolfe In Progress… “Crimes of Passion” Shelia Spencer That ’Ole Dawg Music David Grisman Quintet (Kaleidoscope E-5) Robert Levers Live and Let—Live 10 cc (Mercury SRM 2-8600) John Rolfe Honky Tonk Fever Sir Douglas Quintet/Doug Sahm and Angie Myers (Texas Re-Cord TRC 1007) All in the Name of Love John Hartford (Flying Fish FF-044) Moonflower Santana (Columbia C2-34914) Robert Levers Realist Reaction Paul Windigo Page 7 Five Dollar Moon Pie Emmy Lou Harris—Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town (Warner Bros. BSK 3141) Robert Levers Julia—Not an Effrontery Ronald Klein Ecology of Bard Lands: The Grounds Erik Kiviat Page 8 B–Ball Intramural Basketball Bill Moss Soft Ball Bill Moss 765 Kilovolts [Issue Concerning Construction of Power Lines] George Smith Q!· w a.. volume 19 J nu!'llber 2 . March 22, 1978 <0.. ~ ~. I.Uz 1-z·. Dean 6race Al/en Resigns· LL.I @ttnli1Thllc&1lli llffi\@liccil:ecdl 0 z , made. When asked why she d·e­ The corruption ·and mis-manage- called busts were with L.IJ co~o·r~iJ.;...-t:ed ""' . cided to leave Bard, Ms. Alle n said ment _pf Jhe Dutchess County the theri Assistant Oistrict Attorney w that sh e had spent her first year law enforcement agencies can no Gordon (Watergate) Lidqy. Li.!=fdy 0 z discövering what the j9b entailed. longer be kept from the media. !lad flis· .aay ·in court ang we know - ·and this year trying to determine As of last week Sheriff Lawrente · where he ·Js today. It is time z whether or not she desired to keep M. Quinlan was arraigned on a . Quinlan and his boys have their < it. She has concluded that "the number of gun charges. Sheriff's day in court too. job is ~imply not right" for her; Captain Albert D. Traver's felony You can be sure we ha.ve not whether she will take an avai1able · perjury trial began; and two weeks seen the end of Sheriff Quinlan position at another school in the ag_o, Rexford f\1.aine, Red Hook yet. Alrcady it has been specu.lat- future is, uncertain. She s·aid she , police ·supcrvtsor was dismissed by ed he will move Of! to the County would like to return to England to Mayo'r"--l="ell. Quinlat::~:s department' Executive posi~ion. It seems his pay her parentS a "long over aue . is stiil unaer investigation by a confiQ~l}Ce in j.ustiJ;;;e is ama~ing. visit", and tliat if she had any spa . Dutchess,Cq!Jntv .. grat1d Jury, and · time. she would complete a manu­ 1'he Red--Hook trustees are aemand- In a final note it is interesting script on Brecht wh1ch is three ing a full investigation into the that Under-Sheriff Fred W. Scor- quartt?rs of the way finished. Sne allcged arbitrary firing of Maine: alick (appointed to this pösltion was very adamant that she liked On top of all these inter-county two years ago.'by Quinlan) is the Bard, and that it was nothing per­ disputes the state is looking into favored candidate for the Repub- sonal. allegations of ticket fixing and lican nomination to the office of Michael Simpson, classics pro- the bribing of judges. Dutchess County _Sheriff. fessor and close associate of Pres­ On March 1 0, 1978 Sheriff Scott Porter ident Botstein, has accepted the Quinlan announced he would not job as Dean of Students on a five seek another term as the Dutchess year contract basis. After leaving · On Wednesday, March 15th, County sheriff. His retirement Bard last summer, to teach at a . brings to an end eighteen years of the resignation of Dean of Stu­ university in Austin, Texas, Prof. :lents Grace Allcn was announced, · an over-zealous and irresponsible Simpson d'ecided that he disliked sheriff's department. Quinlan and' :tfter some confusion as to ·wheth­ Texas and wanted to come back er or not shc had been fired. Ap . his departmerit have ruled the · to Bard. He should be teaching county with a heavy tnu~b. fo_r tüc parently, Ms. Alle n had ..submit.ted ·one course in Greek translatian in her rcsignation a month. ago, but 'long. Bard, Colleg~ was. vtct•m.t.zed addition to his new administrative by Quinlan s apparatus m Apn., President Sotstein decided to wait. .role. · 1968, when 24 studer:rts were ar­ until a definite replacement was rested on drug or related charges, found before an announcenient of Jane Hurd , and in May, 1969, when 45 Ms. Allcn's intentions was to be students were arrested. These so-

Freshrn~an S~mi.oa.r erugram !fl!?r.~!~~~~5th of A proposal i~ going before course toad of the Group Tuior. procedure. March, two secmingly unrelated the Faculty on Wednesday, There will also be a Freshmen A second area which is stiil events took place on campus. March 29 which will dramatical- Seminar Prograrl) Director who und~r dis<;ussion is the advisory Community mcmbers wcre greet· ly alter the academic program of will oversee the entire program. · process. ,Un der the latest ver- - ed at their mailboxes by a · mem- . the Bard freshman. · In addition) • . sion the freshmen will be 're- o from Dimitri Papadimitrou, it will contribute to. changes in **·*********************""*** quired to meet with a confer· Bard's Vlce-President in charge the academic life of the rest of "The program will take ene e advisor (in s tead oJ the eur· of fi nancia! affai rs. On the sam e the school, because introductory · · -·shape from the specific re11t Hkmajor adviso(') who will day 12 community ·members re- course offerings will be reduced offerings. The goals are: be pic ed on· the basis of the siding in Bleucher Dormitory each semester and participaling initiation. into the life of studenes interests. It has been had their rooms se'arched bv a .faculty members will spend mo re the coUege and its special strongly suggested by the s tu- "schior · supervisor" attached to of their time doing advisory work fr~edoms and responsibili· dent EPC that some of the teach- the staff of Richard Grlffiths, with freshman. ties, an active participation ers are not capable of intercsterl Bard's Director of the Physical The current proposal is a in the basic syntax of a in this, extensive an advising sy- Plant Office. The Vice- Presi- s~cond version of President .L:.con variety of disciplines and ' stern. An ad-hoc student ·com- dent's memo characterizcd re- Botstcin's plan which he sub- an engagement in comman mittee has taken this problem cent aetions by Physical Plant mitted to the faculty il) Novem- discourse around significant even further and asked "Ooes and Security personnel as being ber of 1977. This program, en-_ intel!ectua1 and artistic is- · more advising equal better advis- · "overzealous" behavior in pur- titled "The· Freshman Program,'' su es." i ng?'' su it of their duties. Dean Mary consists of two segments; a -the Freshmen Seminar Students who are aware of Suggat, speaking at a Comrf!uni-. "Freshmen Seminar" and a Proposal- the program have raised several 1y meeting on Marc_h 9, used the ,.'Freshman Forum' and Confer- other que;;tions about the matter. same tcrm~"oyerzealousriess"-- ence." The freshman seminar The Faculty Semi.te; Burt There is an 'objettion to the man- to describe these actions. Per- would be required both semesters Brody; Wirlliam Driver, David datory-and-structured quality haps unfolding events such as of the freshmen ycar. Enteri ng· Pierce and Terenee Dewshap, which this will producc in the· the "unauthorized" search of freshrnen would choose from ac other members of the Freshmen freshman year. dn recognition Bleucher will allow .members of mong eight to ten possible cour- Curriculum ~ommittee;· Elie Yar- 'bf. thi,? problem the March 29th the Bard Community to reach ses offered within the prdgram d~::n, Frank Oja, Peter Skiff, Benj vote on the program wilf first con· an understanding of "overzealous ;and each seminar class may be amin LaFarge and two members sider whether the program should as a term of increasingly com- further subdivided into smaller of the Student Educational Pol- consist of one~ or two semesters. mon usage. ooverzealousness" . sections (of about 15 sections). ici es Cor:nmittee -(EPC) ·: Stuart ~ It appears to be the sentiment of is a word creeping into the vo- . Each seminar class would mcet Löw andSarah Caffrey and for- scveral mcmbers of the Freshmen cabulary of Ludlow bureaucrats for ninety minutes twice weekly. mer Academic Dean Grace Al· Curriculum Group that this wquld as they scramble over one an- The second part of this pro- len have met several times in defeat the program 's fntent. EPC, other to deny culpability for posal, "The Freshmen Forum and the past few weeks to discuss however, 'recommends that tht! the aetions of underlings. Conterenee " would meet one and modify the proposal. progr2.m be made optional in the The seeMario is riot unfa- aft)rnoon a week for a series of · , lmporta,nt elem en ts of their secor-id semester and be opened miliar in recent me mary. ' 11 0- "lectures, debates, panels, movies discussions are the Forum com- up to the rest of the college. verzealousness" was one of the and plays" to consider a particu~ panent of the program, and the There is also dissatisfaction among obfuscating bureaucratic 'buzz lar idea or theme. This one-cred· changes in the advisors status. the ad-hoc student committee mem words' which eminated from it class would be required of all President Botstein's original pro- bers with the idea of isolating . the Nixon White' House .during freshmen. ' posal envisioned the Forum as freshmen into a program viewed another period in which "higher Two approaches to· advising an eVent open to the entire col- .. as. time consum i ng. Additional ups 11 assingcd blame for "unauth- are proposed under this program. lege which would employ the skepticism focuses on whether or orized" behavior. Ludlow fs not One group of students will meet Joh n Bard monies to produce a not the program is, as it w_as orig· the White House. Leon Botstein in sections with a Group Tutor ,gynuinely stimulati.ng program-. inally designed to be. multi-discipli is hardly Richard- Nixon. Yet, to discull topics relating to the Th.ere .is some feclfng among Cur· nary in approach. it remains a disgusting show of forum on ORW week and have in- riculum Committee members .. The program was desi_gned ·t9 . "blame ass·essmetit" - on the · dividual conferences on the alter- that the present sealed-down ver- me~t the needs ot higli~school stu-~ Nixonian model- - for Ludlow nate week. The second group of sion has tost. much of its excite- dcnts encountering c~lege anq find· officials; intelligent men and warn- To implement thk-program ment and ap peal by lfmiting it- - (collt· on p. 6) . tcoat. on p •. 6)' there will be a reduction of the self to a smaller ·an mare routine TIIE CHRISTIAN 'WAY' AT BARD A Cheap Shot At The . In visible Left This week is Ho!y Weck; the time of The word "fascism" has been used so the year sct asid"c by the Christian Church often by students in deserihing (the) admini· for rcmcmbrance /response/cclcbration of stration practiccs that the time has \:omc to what Christians considcr to bc the supremc The Observcr is an indepcndcntstudent find out just who the real fasclsts are, or mare event in cosmic and personal history. This precisely, whcre the potcntial for fascism lies.. publication of the Bard Colleg~ community. Letters to the Edrtors and event centcrs around a man, jesus of Naz­ We might start by a rcview of Bard politics for other inquiries should bc ad d ressed to areth, whom fo!lowcrs of the Chri<.tian this academic year. At last semcster's. "student Box 85, Bard College, Annandale-on- ·, 'Way' believe to bc God incarnate ('in the forum", which was billcd as Bard's cquivalent to the Grcck" polis (or in othcr such terms), a l~udson New York, 12504. The contents 1 flesll'), one scnt by God bearing God's · of the 0bserver are copyright 1978 by president was chosen (or should I say selected) ow~ naturc ro provide the means by which in what rcsemblcd a polit1cal auction. Whcre Observer luc·. uniess otherwise statcd. human creatures can bc reconcilcd to God, was the cgalitarian spirit?The Jeft-wing Frccdom· The opinions hcrein are not neccssarify to each othcr and .. tq themselves. Four of luving courage?There was none. What thcre those of Bard Collcge or the Editorial the days this week are singicd out to bc was was- It can best be described as a political staff. times in which special attcntio.n is given to co up. particular events in the life of Jcsus. On One of the mare important issues this yc of the prolclJriat who garments and le~ves from palm trecs on The "pet problem" isa prime example are acting in the interests of the state (or the the ground beforc him as a ~ign of their of how Bard polit-ics work. Herc wc havc a majority of students, faculty et al.). COMMUNITY EVENTS respeet and adoration. This day more than minority of pct owncrs, dictating terms to Perhaps wc mrght cxam·ine the admini- . othcrs is a "time for adoration, and· the _ the majorlty. The rcvolutionarles can only la· stration. The president is rcsponsible to the worship service regularJy includes the read­ bei the administration as "dog·hatcrs", while Board of Trustccs. Al thougil this group i ng is it is so clear that th ey are "shit·haters." Yet TOWNE CRIER CAFE ·-·-- Hopcwell Junction ing of the' Passian narrative from one of just as much .a consensus "governmcrit" as our the re ;~re questions to be answered. What a· own senatc, they do operate undera system betwecn Route 55 the Gospels. This account of Jesus' last and the Taconic bout the doings of B & G? Arcn't they fascists? of laws and by-laws which have stability. On !>arkw;ty days on earth---- supper with df.sciples, Arcn't thcy out to tyrannize students?No! the other hand the scnatc and constituti.on are March 24 MARK ROSS and j\.)HN PEARCE arrest, triaf; crui:ifixion- sct the tone of What possibJc satisfaction could they get from flecting non-entities. The new constitution, Mark Ross is a folk singer wl'io the week that foliows, and the members "harassing" us? And what are their motivcs? The S tudent Forum Constitution, may promise 9 :3q p.m. sings the songs of Cisco Houston. of the congregation werc left to retleet on · Are wc ro think that somc sclfish person who to give us morc political auctions. leaves his motor ru n ning is a victim of Fascism Woody Guthrie and Hank William; the meaning of these-events for their own To conilnue this analysrs, i wiil now reflect when hc gets a tickct? J my self was brough t up .upon the state of "us". The 'uotential for fascism as weil as composing some of his lives and to adorc the one who was hailed as King even as he hung on the cross. At in thc,socbl!~tfc'n_vi~·or.m~ntalis_t tradltion which is litcrally written on the wafis. Students who own material.. bclicvcs that the air is. for cveryone, that selfish rec.ently participated in the anti-administration the service~ palm branchcs werc distributed Match 26 !HLL KEITH with JIM COLLIER polluters are going against both majority and petition (and the associated mini·revofution -­ 8:30 P·ill• and FRIENDS ••• Some of the to. all in attendance and a procession was liberai intcrests (anyway .'\llaoists ride bicyc[es}. which had subtle undertones of a personal attack) best country music around. held around the ChapeJ, as the people re­ The "tyranny of the ticket" deserves showed theiT!~e!vcs. to be gullible. How many of M enacted (the Christjan religion makco much closer examination. Students' rigl1ts are indivi· you who signed bothered to finu uut the "othcr sible from the rcsponsibilitles that go with th cm. side? Does not th is expensive education te ach us HUDSON V ALL EY WINER Y ·----·· Highian d . of the essentlal connection betweeri ocf"iet · and action) the joyous cel,ebration of the When students are irresponslble they deserve to· not to believe every th i ng we read~ bc treated as such. I will ad mit that somc of AdoJ ph 's. AdoJ ph 's scrves as the "op iatc" of Kingship of jesljs. The Christian. faith i~ March 25 ANNUAL EASTER EGG and th e Wl)'S in which the tickcts were given out the pcople. lf we are to become content with an historieal faith, and because of this the ll:OOa.m. CHAMPAGNE HUNT werc In än irrcsponible manncr. However, this wharwe have, apathetic under the chains of ree· . April 1 ANNUAL APRIL FOOL'S DAY focus of those who obscrve this day is irr~sponsibility is not a question of endslthe fers, how can we changc things?How can wc upsej. both backward into the past, and forward MASQUERADE PARTY tiGkets themsclvcs).but ot means. J he ~ountcr the status qup?Oo the leftists who shelf ou~ their \ into the future. Palm Sunday is a day in argu me n\. is simple: Yc~, but those 13 & \,crs dollars at Adolph 's e are about the urhan poor, THE BARDAVON 1HEATRE ·· Market Street which ChristianS. express their attitude to give OLI.l tickets fascistically! How dÕes une the problems of Lati n American nations, or cven Poughkeepsic the one wh"O came to die on thtJ' e ross, and givc out ifcketsi'ascistically? Ana arcn~fihe B & ~qut stude~ts' righ~s.?Yes and no •. Th~y are~ d!_di· ,\-larch 25 whom expect to come again· as King ·Gers acting in the interests of a majority of stu­ cat~d_to t~crr xa:;ue J_ccas of r~afity but are thcrrl· EASTER FILM : The Greatest Stö the~' 7:30p.m., over arl. dcnts?I.E., to proteet our health and welfare? scJves victims of a society which feeds on Wise ry Ever Told 9:30p.m. Jhe second day of spedal significance But, but what about those Blithewood and bi­ pota~o chips and diet Pepsi. I ask you, docs a Marxist eat that kind of crap? ' this week is Thursday, the d ay on which cyclc fincs?Thesc .:~re rroblems (if the facts are 1true) but they bccomc serious only after the POUGHKEEPSIE HIGH SCHOOL -- P~ugh'sie Christians commemorate the last meal whic -, administption filils to rcspond to thcm. In onathan Fel d man April 1 THE JOFFREY BALLET COM- j es us shared wi:h.his disciplcs.- It was a.t th I 8:00 p.m. P ANY said,meal,the~o~els 'Take,cat, this ~N~~at)ausfirn is iny body,' wo:~s - ~----•••-•••••••------~-----~------­ which members of all Chris.tian denomina­ THE ARTS COUNCIL OF ORANGE COUNTY tions rrpeat whenever they gather to share ·ART GALLERY --- 120 North St.,Middletowr j-ioly Communion. It was through these words, and through the actinns which ac- l_ April 6 POETR Y READINC BY THEO­ cont' on pg. 7 .8:00p.m. DORE wEiss··

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March 24,25 BUSWELL. t;vest market st., rhinebeck tel. 876-2260 March 31 ,Apr.1 KING CRlMSON .BAND April 7,8 JERRY MOORE WORK ,BAND EARTHWORkS ·- Route 9,south of Rhinebed.. ·homas scoun April 1 PLY)W-NIGHT STRING BAND ÄprÜ 8 GEMINI Wines & Llquors Both 8-11 p.rn. Reservations suggested. Call Food service times:- 229-8570 or 876-2949. No Low•r PtlcM In Nftl York.,_,. Sunday - Wednesday I Till 12:30 UPSTATE FILMS ------Rhinebeck . Thursday - Saturday f Jill 2:30 March 23 AN AMERICAN IN PARIS 3 Mlll Street-Route 8 March 28-31 THE IMPORTANCE OF BEIN SUN NOON-3AM BElNG EARNEST .Rhinebeck, N.Y. THURS NOON-3AM MON SPM-3AM M .. r. :H ~p:r.2 lj>\AU DOGS AND ENGLISH­ FRI NOON-3AM tV!EN TUES NOON-3AA1 Aptil 4-6 GuLLIVER'S TRAVELS SAT NOON-3AM WED NOON-3AM ~ree Delivar -Phone: 876-4488 ~I 2 George Smith c;lup.listic and Jt' worst, tcirrupt. A case in Students 'vs: the Administration point: A B.1rrl ~tudt•nt quiet1\' soaking in the tub ;~. 'wc re ~argely obfusc<.ted in later for "damaged shower hcads." !i1 the the 24th. gut if you stand with the 11100n directly I ..... ,."". administration-student meetings, a!though . same dorm, students. reccive fine·s for bchind you and look straight up, you may ge able to see somc of the brighter ones. For yqu Chris­ • 11:00 .j • 9:00 - perhaps uninten tiona!ly. We stiil have yet small items Ici"! on their closet shclves in t1ans, the fuH moon of the 24th is the Paschal to !carn of the fat e .of our damage dcpos­ violation of the surprise ro.om evacuation Moor1, the ftrst full moon of spring. Easter is de­ \12.:00 'L. / 8:00 it fees and intcrest ~'ccruing from them. cc!lct (which is rv, for legal hour hand, at tcn o'clock, pointing up (whcrc as the H.E.O.P. picnic, privatc party that Sotstein seems to imply , I shuddcr to, a coilsulration on the many dubious fining twelve o'clock is on a real clock). For every hou: was; to bc for H.E.O.P. studcnts. Because . think of the degree of d~dicati~n to a new and,. charging practices n ow bei ng uscd to aftet ten, this hour hand is fifteen degrecs of a word gcts around, what was to ·bc fcH somc punitiveness which apparently is pe.rvading rinancially abuse us; 2.) That studen'ts cirde (with Potu-is as the center; left of the t~n 70 peoplc wound up scrving 300; Definite· coHege.· . . t~is alcrt their part.nts to the existence of these o'clock positlon. Fifteen degrees is one-third of ly not w]!!ting to turn anyone away, it .was I also believe that afthough the ticki'!tinE practices; and reqtiest them to voice their the way bctween the line perpendicular to the decidcd to ask Saga to sponsor it. Last hnrizon and a line paralleL tp the horizon. For m.1y be intended to scrve pragmatic, concern/indignation dircctly to the <~dmin· year it was transformed to suve the· whole every hour before tcn, it lS tiftccn degrees right sccurit~-related purposes, the B&G fining istration, and to whithhold payment if .\ schooL · practices in many cases constitute direet neeessarv 3.) that Mr. Papadmitrios i·n·, of tcn o'clock. (lf all this is too confusing, just A major motive For the picnic was .to financial cxploitation of :;tudents who are vcstigate and respand to my charges look at the diagram.) Jnvolve the cntirc Bard Community for .tt alreat1y paying closc to $7,000 a ye;r for himsclf. Surely, if this Collcgc is in Keep in mind that•.this is for the days around least one day in J gencra'l fccling of broth­ tuition, room, and ooard. lf individual actuality financial,ly salvent and ideological­ April frrst, and that it changcs by about four ~rhood {sis~crr!Ood) . Setting the examplc B& G firws serve the purpose of· repairing ly liberai as it daims, the cntire fining minutcs a day. By the middlc of April, wherc th( are -some people which rcally do not get a ,:,.,mages, what are the damagc deposits structure itself should bc reevaluatcd and Dipper is now at ten o'clock it ~vill instead bc at lot of public crcdit but maybe it-'s time for? Mr. Botstcin· mcntioned that they considerab!y mitigated. nine c'clock, By the end of April to the bcgin they got J little rccognition: . help pay "for rou.tine· maintenance. lri any ning of May, it will i:nstead bc at eight ~'dock, Mary Sügatt, Dean of Studcnt_s, per-. casc, they obviou::.ly are not utilized for Mark S. Callahan and ~hc pracess continucs in this way. formed the grucltng task of se11ding ou_t the intendell purpose of paying for indiv­ As menlioned bcfore, the moon i:. full on the personal invitations. aryd ma~ing po~tcrs for idual cases olimproner damagcs to dorms. P.S., in order to guar,wtcc !he press its 24th (Good Friday J at 11:20. On April first, publicity. This year, sh e oncc agam has It seems, then that pcrhJps even the rightful positian in the communit)', aH the sun riscs at 5:39 and .->ets at 6:23.1'he days pledged her hclp. are gctting longcr. · b&slc structurc of the flning system is at responses s.hou!d be .directcd to the · . . wnr'. m~ pg. 7 very· Ieast financially oppertu nistic and Ouscrver.

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·one weck ago tÖday, Wcdnesday M.1rch 15th 1\s far as the. issue· of the freshman an unauthorizcd search occurrco J.t Bluecher seminar prugr.1m is concerncd, it see..;,s to To the ObserV\:r: . To the Editor: dorm. A brid outfine of events i> as follows: me that those anonymous 'mu!titudes of en­ tcring freshrncli <~re really get[jng the raw a studcnt moving into Room 204 at Bluechcr l've bcen up ·all nlght and deaL l can honestly maintain that as the This morning, March 18, Security discovcn~d the room 's nMHrc5s mfssing and glossed-ovcr Bard P,R. picture might havc discovered a mess on the second f!oor l've got the true: story: Up to now! . rcportcd il to Buildings and Grounds. 1\ " it 's minu te appeals, the mandatory semrnars of Tewksbury. Somc thoughtless slob, PROOF and everything that the aliens have scnior supcrvisor wen t to the. dorm and in­ coupled with the throngs of attcntive ad­ or a group or thcm, had empticd the !anded amotig us! Last Sunday's ''Brown­ stituted J room-to-roon1 search for the mat­ visors-would 'ultimately tc read: the rourth Amend­ "overzc&lous" (seems to be the thJt the frustct:s are visiting every week­ Yours in cyestrain, mcnt of the United States Cons.titution and appropri;:ltc!y currcnt slur) atten- end. Either thJI or not gct lough with lska Altcr lion to frcsltmen will scrvc to the loint Statcment on Rights and frccdoms their rules whcn tht: Trustees Jrr hcre. incrcase their attrition rate EDITORS' NOTE: We tmly sympathize with of Students, Scction D., Artide B.l·"lnvest· i\fter all, nonc of us likc to b~;; in hol and .dccrease our'·enthli- your prohlem. Th~· type sizc. is not something lgation of Studcnt Conduct". siasm ratc. I mean, watcr. fredy choseu; it was necessita:ted by our budgct, what is a Jib~:r<1l which dictatcs the number of pages we can print education if Outraged, Special thanks to Bl)b and Jo~h for their ,. i each scmestcr. Because our !;taff has ' prov~n to you don'! hdve ·· Andrew AblJatcp:10lo inestimah!e hdp· on this cditori;J.l · the liberatian · be cxtrcme!y generous in their contrib~tions, this is the only way we c;m publish' the greater P.S. Surprisc appearances by the Trust­ portlou of tlJcir work. But do not Jesp;Ür -- a ees might be nice, too. II!IL !fr0:•,;" ,h·:;t .... median size type face is being orderccl. It sh ou!d help to allcviate both our problems ... ~~ S tiurd - 3 .....' .. .. ~:-r, ~

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The Knights of Cerberus w.ere -- ., . a multi national' organizatibn found·- · the sweet one")~or- "11 Gran knights came · boogeying into the leave a steam ot shit all _over the ed in a remote= province of ltaly. Ver~o".Ho~ever, the leader of shop. Clearly, .nothing Jr-om Ted campaign trail so thick that no- The originators had consisted·-of · the Swollen City chaptcr pre- Weems to "Danny Deavern was body else wants to set foot on · ' Bendix Elfmcycr; a retired Nazi fered;,to be called "T{le Great lost on these guys. it". - . _ · .in charge of the Argentine ni- Dane. · On~or two rather ee-_ "Why can't Councilman An- ''Dear God! . Weil, they've got trous oxide work~;an anonymous centnc reqUirements had ~een ' _tenora be here? This is the third 'him hospitalized, I .assume." :.U.S. investment firm; and Hector pushed t_hrough by the agmg ni- meetmg running that he's misscdl "~o,he's at home under strict. ;.chloride, a rising star 'on tjle tech··. tr?us oxJde magnate; E}fmeyer · .., "Easy on him, Gene. Poor ~edJcals_upervision. Can't let ·· · ;nological scene contracted by the strpul~tedthat- each k.nlght should _ d evi I 's pickcd up a whopping .. h1m out m publ·ic thou gh. Why, · ·

-~.··soviets to mastermind their uran- resp~_ctfuiiXaddres~.h1s eVery co I- case of Co~ytis.".. · only last fnday he took a turn · . :ium digs in the Balkans. The al- :eague as Eu:gene · And for · "Of what?'' for the be~ter,·so .they drove him

· · lianee had worked rather tidily ~h,esak~of. diplom~cy • the rule "Cocytis, a new ly identified down. to h1s favonte .t~proo'm. :from the start. Elfmeyer be- sbod flrm m Amenca. strain of virus, so named because Apparently, t~eco~d1t1on had

· :~t:ay~da keen interes~ in Chlo- . . . · of the way it hits th'e coccyx. . ~prea_d,and h1s b~am ~tarted go- ,tnde s\ pro~osedbreedmg process. . The waf~mgb~rsof !he. 1002 The st~ffseem s to turn up in the .mg the way of h1s s~me.A_ll - .. ·The Am eneans ha.d parlayed e- -. Stereophomc Stnngs bnngmg food 'lriaior party candidates eat he could say the entlre evenmg ·,' :;nough laughing gas a~d.plutonium back by un~orgettablearran~emen1when t~ey're_making their campaign to the sc~~i,ce~ndto .cvcryone ' ·.·to keep our. coastal Clttes warm . _by Hugo Wmterhaulter gave way rounds.' else was Im l1ke you ... " He'd

.:and glowing weil into the wintry to ~nam.ateur det.achment.. o~ "Weil, 1'11be damned!' The say that and then _he'~let '[oose·::

'dawns. Any oRc Qf Ch luride 's -Le&Jonnalres h<;mkm~,out Blg guy's down with a back ailment, these lo~d,sa:domc ~tggles~nd .. ,Politboro sponsors grew booming-_. NoJse From Wmetk~. ~ormally, hub?" ' . raucous .mtes.tlnal .noJses. Fmally

~lyenthusiastic about synthesizing · · Sally kept the shop s ~adJo ~lued ·· . That s pytting the matter , wound up w1th. h1m dropping-·

.· ~anitrous/U238 compound until · to a_n obscure FM statlon that l1ghtly. Th ts stuff eats up the ~.-'turdsleft and nght. Th ey uscd · hc was scnt on a leave of·absence carned. New Orleans R&B tunes, backbone !ike you ne:ver seen. · newspapers to dean it all up."

to an Armenian rest home. ~ouths1deblues, and the proletar- · :rurns the whole spinal column ·- . . • - ,... . The mai n charter a:nd local Jan_landm~rks from M,otown and m~ojelly - evaporates it, you . As the kntghts freely m9ulged

;guidelines for the Knights were Phllad~l~h1a.But she d had to . ~,1ghts~y.~nd all th.e whil_e -m slaps on ~hebac~k, ex?tlc hand-

·~uncomplicated and. in many ways can -Wri~JeMae Thorton & a Sm ok· _1t s caus1ng ttssue from the ass" shakes, .and ~roll.d1s~uss1ons of -similar to those of othe_r service ey Robmson .a~thologyfor the ~oletq swell up and proHfcrate secretanes With tlts-ltke-waterm:l"

· · ~organizations.As a rule, chapter . aeole~natroc1t1~s dcar to her pa- , llke cancer. Takes over the whole· lons-l~tell-ya,Sally took cover m :head s were to be herald ed as tr? ns hear~.. 8?-do-dee-do-doh! '·· damn body and brings on monu- the dmgy storeroom.

1 "11 ·Dulce", (meaning, of course, Fmgers snappmg 1rregularly, the __mental diarrhea~.,.Makes a man . l .. . . john Large

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In Progress .. -Little M~rders THAT 'OLE DAWG MUSIC. 1ends a raw edge that is rarely heard in J Occ. ALL IN THE NAME,_OF LOVE ' David Grisman Quintct (Kaleidoscope F.-S) There are some weak spots though. "You've - John Hartford (ffying Fish FF-044} At t~is stagc of the game; the forthcoming Although 'this album camc out almast Got A Cold" suffer'!\ from a !ack of en th usiasn This album, which just happened to be productton of J ules Fciffer's "Little Murdcrs" a ycar ago, it ·has not recicved the attention in the vocal departmcnt, and on "Art for Art': , lying around the Observer office, was releascd appears a cc~tain success. Opening Satun.iay, last summer, so perhaps some you hav_e it merits This dclightful aJpurn continue~ to Sake" To ny o'Malley sound s I ike a hoarse -9f March 25th m the (,reat Hall of Prestan the ;urprt;~ with its. ingenious blend of swing, Peter Frampton. Ye.t, the band never sound­ already hcard it. For those who are not play directc? by W_illiam Drivcr and star;ing, ed bettcr than it does on the particularly familiar with john Hartford, you might re· Shaptra, A!ltson S!rong, Ian Blackman, b!uegrass, and traditional folk which thcy Kar~n enchanting version of "l'm Not In Love." member h im as Gl en Campbell 's back-u p Basrf Stcclc and Jaye King is an odd blcnd of _ - refer to as "Dawg Music". Part of the magic guitarist and banjoist on the old ''Good Tfme humor, suspenst:_~mc mcloJr;-rma. ' -- · comes from the instrumentation: 2 mando· Marvelously played, exce!lentty produced, The story centers around a "norma!" middlc· lins, a guitar, a fiddle, and_an uprignt bass. 'Live and Let LIVE promises·even beiter Hour". Hartford's best known son~:i "Gentle dass farr;ily who are pretcnding that all is weil T11ere is something about their tight arrange­ thfngs to come from 10cc. on my .\1ind", is inciuded herc and is nicely despile the fact that th ey are forever bei ng har­ ments which allow many laose and wondcr· John Rolfe . arranged so that each niember of his band rassed by heavy breath i ng on the ph'one and that ful things to happen. I think that this is \ can put in a solo. The other ten songs, all their ncighborhood isa p!ayground of s;nsclcss easily one of the best al burns of 1977. HONKY TONK FEVER originals or co-wr1tten, are light, infectious ldllings. Alfred Chamberlain, a young; nihilistic · Sir Douglas Quintet/ Doug Sahm and country wester-blue grass tunes that are i n­ photogr<>.rher who refuscs to acknowlege th is world gone m_a9, marr_ies the family's daughter Robert levers - Angie M~·ers {Texas Re-cord TRC 1 007) fused with a sort of giddy hay sccd humor. Patsy, a man-tsn, domtnatmg woman who at· Sir _Douglas Quintet? Didn't they have The best cut on the album, "The S ix O'Cock tempts to snap Alfred aul of his self-inflicted a hit in ,the sixties with a song cailed "Mend· Train anda Girl With Green Eyes", sounds :\:oma". The play isa brtJtally fun ny look at the LiVE AND LET - Live ocino"? Y'mean thev're stiH around? Weil, ..• alot like some of.Roy Buchanan's mare tlrusions which wc harbor in order to insulatc us­ • TO ee (Mercury, SRM-2-8600) yes. Thislive album is Doug Sahm's twelfth country flavored songs, and contains a nicely from the (rightening world outside. distortcd pedal stcel guitar. Harford's vocals In rchc"arsal, the cntire east seemed weil suitcd After the departure of keyboard/ and hc's stiil bclting out his own curious mix­ hcre, and on much of the album, will prob- to their r\Jies, espe~(ally l4n Bfackman, who has guiti:lrist Lal Creme'and drummer Oevin God­ ture of rock, country, R & B, Saul, and more'than a flair for portraying, with wit and ley' the two remaining founding members conjunto music. The album, with the cxcep· ably remind you of Kris Kri~tofferson. A style, a grurr:py, opinio~ludio vcrsions, psych cd'eiic era: The Th irteen th Floor tle va Santana (Columbia (2-34914) Alternating witll "LJH!c Mu-rders" will be Tony O'Malley's lacy ARP WQrk serves as a tors. This album says morc about why The Santana band is tak· joe Orton's "Crimes of Pa:.sion". The title ac-­ nice replacement for the string arrangements dancing was invented than all the disco tunes i ng no cha n ees on this -one. · ~ioonflower tua)Iy. encompasses two works, \.vh ich re First wc on "Feel the Benefit" anl'People in Love". ever written. U11_fortun-ately, probably the is a combination of live performanc:;cs perrormed at the Royal Court Theatre on a only way you could adrJ a copy of this album double bill in J une of 1967. "The Rufffan on The lo"!Uitar work of Ric Fenn and Eric Stewart and studia cuts which ~how a versatile the Stair" was his first play, originally pro­ to your coJiection is by mail i ng off for it to gr~up of musicians running through the duced as a radio broadcast in 1964: (when. Or­ this addrcss: history of the many versions of the band. ton was 31 ); "The Erpingham Camp" was tele- Texas RE-Cord Co. It indudes live renditions of !iucessful vised in 1966. · Box 19 earlier tunes such as "Saul Sacrifice" and The former play stars Basil Steele as a Bulverde, Texas 77163 !'Black Magic Woman", a few disco oricnt· young man who suddenly cnters the life of ]Records~l cd songs, lively versions of tl)e latin "Let joycc (Jane Perke!). She is not unhappy in the Robert levers the Childrcn Play" and "D-ance Sister relationship she has w!th Mike (Ian Blackman), but finds the young man altractive and frigh­ / tening .. A> the play progrcsses, his involve-ment with each of them deepeos and darkens. REALIST REACTION nfdke a. distin<.:tion bctween 'Formalist 1-te­ sus peets, reccnt llard-i::d ge ·· ~bstractions.11 The second production takes place at a alism', 'whicll he refers to painters who, Color Field Painting, etc., have developed. British holiday camp. Vacationers anticipate a ·while worf-:ing in a rcalistic manner, continue : Furthermore, it secms plausible that these fcw week~ of entertainment and rclaxation, On Sunday, March 12, an artide writ­ to respand to many of those conccrns raised prior trad itions never saw tlJ e lat e Cezanne but encounter quite a diffcrent experience. in reccnt abstract v.;ork, and 'Organic Rea!· ·Though these plot !ines soun·d somber, ten by Hilton Kramcr appeared in the New _. as presenting abstacles, but rather, accepted ism', which he applies to those producing Orton 's works are masterpieces of satire. He York Times, in which the author essential· as transitional aspects which might not have painting in which "subjcct rnattcr seems to had little faith- in so~;icty, and insisted that ,ly heraJded the rebirth of realism. While been fully realized by the artist. play a mare organic role in determining 1 "AH moral credos':- are heroic daydreams." Be­ Mr. Kramer made several important points The point at which Mr. Krimcr rcally \ cause the wor!d is run by fools, the only way concerning ..the diversity of attitude and ap· both pictorial form and details of represen- see ms to go crrant is in his understand ing to write is to portray the lives·of fools or proach among contemporary realist painters, tation." . of the role of the 'avant-g;rrde' in art. It their victims. Thus he deah with lower class It is for this second group of painters ' .. ' seem:;. that if he is to b-e bclieved, 'true' pe9plc and ·_"themes stiil fashionable ... brutality, he a!so came, to certain particuarly danger· ous conclusions about contemporary, and that Cezanne, w~ learn, represcnts the pri­ avant·gard_e art has in the past descendcd ja!=kboots, rape 1 perversion, necrophilia, all mary stumbling block. Particularly onerous sqrts of kin_ktness behind the sofa and inside past, art. from above with no previous tics to art his· for them is Cezannc's tcndency towards the wardrobes of drab suburban homes."* He Mr. Kram.N.Jn~;Judes in the realist to ry. Fortunately, th is is not the e ase, and ~ himse!f firmly _stated, "I'm a success because 'movement' those using common, rccog­ ~an unfinished, sketchy quality seen in his it was no more true for Gu_st~ve Cou~1bet I 've take n a hatchet to [the public ]and hacked nizable subject concJ,Jrrcnt with a dc-empha­ major art trends of the 60's, both objcctive than it is true for Vita Acconci. _ my way in." , sis on brushstrokes and other tactiJc maucrs, and non-objective, have arisen in part out of Wh:n rpight bc most unscttling about Mr.f His humor is oftcn blatantly scxual, and The realist paimer, he suggests, is determin­ a rcaction to this aspcct of Cezannc's work. Kramcr's article, th.ough, is_his implication always macabre and outrageous. Ye·t ha has ed "to represent with some measure of ac­ Pcrhaps the critic has forgotten, among that .1n artist today would do just as weil been dubbed ~'the Oscar Wilde of Welfare State cu~acy what is obse'rvable in immediate _others, Synthetic Cubism; Suprcmatism, and gel)tility", and the term is totally appropriate .. to look at Corot as at ·Malcvich, or in other experience." Mr. Kramer goes further to Neo-Piasticism, movemcuts from which, one Uke W_ildet Orton created dialcgu"es which ovcr w~rds, that it is pcrfcctly legitimate to paint flow w,tth verbal i,ronies, puns ;md sexual innu· endocs. They occur so ~ap_idly_ th4 (!1. laughing at one y~u may wcll mtss the ncxf. But don't !et that preyent you_ from laughin~•. (With the superb quallty of Ü11s humor, yo-u couldn't ifc NATU AMINS. SUPPLEMENTS lc COSMETICS' you tricdJ J ust experience, and enjoy! FNFRfrt«ll HEAl TH FOODS . 'sheliJ Spencer­ CUSit-rl .IMPORTED CHEESES ~ * llilary S-purling, "The Spectator-;, mond..y th"' satu•~ 9:30 --5:00 , .

llT.t L&L Rtf111EIECK tf.'t., IlS12 10 Eaat Market Sueet Health FRESHMAN SEMINAR (cont. from. p. 1) AED HOOK, NY. 12572 i ng themselves in teltee t!-Jally -~nprep~red •for school and tho counter the fact that Bard's CHEZ annual loss of freshmcn studc:nts i~ high. The problems are very real yet the question persists; d·ocs th Is program solve the. p_rob !em? · MARCEL Note: Anyone interested in voicing opinion of the program should contact Sara Caffrey Tues-Sat S-lOPM and Stuart Low. Sun Noon-1 OPM \..; -'-8 f levinsan CLOSED MONDAY! OPEN LETTER. (cont. from p. 1) en who should-1 know pettet, t~ constantly teil members of 'the Community that subor­ dinate personnel are responsible ror "ovcrzea­ !ous" behavior. The lcsson of the Nixon White Hous·e is that the man ,in charge engen· ~ered a climate of opinion, a working atti- -· tlldc, which seeped down to lower function· aries pursuing their erstwhi!e legal and "auth· orized " · d uties. The time has come to remave the man in the Ludlow hteratcny ·wnö has engendered a' climate of opinion antithetical to .th-at· · · TAKE.- OUT ORDERS which should !Je_ present on a liberar·arts col­ Rhinebeck Wine & GRINDERS lege campus. The man is Physical Plant Di· GREEK SALAD reetor Richard Griffiths. The hostile climate Liquor Store of opinion can be seen in the contitiuing "o· BE~R & WINE . verzea!ous" aetions of men who are merely attempting to carry-out their duties as pcr­ FREE DELIVERY scribed by the man in charge. lf the senior By ReserV(lt/oh only members of Ludfow have the courage and Rt.9G· Rt. 44 Rt. 22 honestly to· match ~heir intelligence and con­ Order Before 9 pm for • LARGEST SELECTION OF Rhinebeck Pleasant ·V~Jiey Dover Plalns eero for the ;wefl-being of Bard, they will re­ DOMESTIC AND IMPORTED WINES OeJiveries afler 10 pm. move Richard, Griffiths from offi ee f_orthwith. IN NORTHERN DUTCHESS 87~3131 635-3777 877-3662 ~Peter J. Pratt Miiiimum S ordeB 41 East Market St., Rhinebeck Open 7 Daya -11 A.ll. to MlclttiQht 6 ECOLOGY OF BARD lANDS: -,- ...-,- -· r-.----~- ,.----~ 1 experiences again. The~· have become im•olved THE GROUNDS Dance'', and the hit "She's Not· ·there" ' · in different worlds, and 1 those worlds meet onl~ l3edrock at. Bard i~ largcly mantfed old ' an Zombies number rather without' under bizarr(' circumstances, as in the case of oy glacial deposits, but outcrc")S c~tegory in Santana's oeuvre. The only ·. · , the NO!.zi holocaust. can be seen along the Saw KUi, the h1story left ..__..,...____ iJ Anothcr misconccption of the reviewer was out of this · pa~:kage is some edge of South Bay, around the cem­ of the more jazz-Iike wanderlngs of Carl~s .JUUA Not ,an. Effrontcry th~t the "movie lattempted][remainedl.insincere.' etery and in the ridge southeast of ,The film does Santana. He is a good guitar player not deaf with Jewish p1mecution, the f'ilm Center. At . . . " . " . .'but instead these~ si'te~. beds though not great, and on more than makcs the specific point, as julia tel Is one Upo~ rcadmg the rev1ew of the f1lm Julia m Lillian at the restauran}, that. the money Lillian (layers} of gray st;a_le ._!lnd ~ray sa_~d­ occ:asion has foi-gotten stone alternate;1thc t'hat • On the the last 1ssue of the OBSERVE~,_1 was struck by has smugglc.d into Germany wiH be used nQt on lv age Is middle whole, this iS" a strong albym and worth how three short paragraphs typt~tcd w~,at I cons1- to rescuc Jews, bJ.Jtmany otliervictims of rersecu­ Ordovicfecn the s~me f1!m, but th;n ( reahzcd I hil.d not _young, iri.retrospect nalve, Lilliah Hellmari, before are often graded; that fs, the grain. Five Dollar Moon Pie . . r~ad ~ revrew of another flfm but rather ;my the House Ur.American r'\ctiviries Committee cost size increases from top to bottom EMMY LOU HARRIS - QUARTER ·f1lm;,l~.other word.s,_ the.contenr. .of the film~had •l,cr her career, her home, and finally Hiimmett, of the bed. This resultcd from heavier.. MOON IN A TEN CENT TOWN been d1sto~tcd so as to conform toa precon- who was sent to jail although hc was al ready iil (larger) grains settling out first during (~arner Bros. BSK 3141) .ce!ved not1on of w~at.~ Bard studen_t sh,?u!d . with emphyscma. It is also Lillian HeHman por· the LJndenvater landslides befieved to th mk of an e~pcnSJve ~ Holl'>:wood film stamng trayed as shc is rcm'cmj.nrlng herself in te rm s of have dcposited. these b_eds .Qfl the Jan~ Fonda; l1tt~c tho~gllt see~1s to h~ve bcen . her relat1onship continentat slope. Over a long pcriod Emmy Lou Harris' fourth with" Julia; possibly foolish, unpre put mto the ~_u_hJe_ct of the rjYie}V, wh1le a,llreat pared, JWkiVard, Jnd cg]alnl'.:_aiways of time between landslides, the fine album is flawless: nice songs, good pro­ ner_vous. Re­ ~eal of ~ffort app~ars t~ ha' e bccn ex~ended on. gardless, Jan e Fonda is hardly an actress wh o is days settfed very slowly. ductions , and top musicians. So what's 1mpressmg t~e _revtewer ~ peers as to h1s mutually '"worshipped [by 1 housewives", and the eli ehe is After deposition, the sands and wrong w[th this record? That it is nothing pseudo:sophlstt_ca~cd att1tudcs. H~wcver, th_erc .·· an old one that is ~xtra-abrasive in this context. clays were subjected to pressure from but a pleasant album. Thi~ Is not to say IS not!ll~~ sophiSticated about rr_eJu~!cc .o~ , trre- First, Ms. Fonaa took scveral years out of her own overlying sediments and graduaiJy con­ that it does not have its moments. Her sponslbtltty, and as aresult the fllm Julia has career iri"ordcr to become involved in the so rt of soJidated and became rock. Later, sound has always been a rather sucessful been. done ~ gr~at injustice, as_has the Bard com- !eve11ts the film is concerncd with, tnosc of a poli- · the~ s~dimentary rocks were g~tJy. ,rnunrty, to whlch blend of country & western and rock n' so many of Its thcmcs are of 'tica! nature. I will not here appraise \hat involvc- dcformcd du ring changes in the carth 's the-utmo_st releyan<;e.. roll elements and this is no ex ception. . ment but 1 helieve it sa fe to assume 1t d id not en- crust accompanying tf1ree different T_h: frlm never "wis~ es ro pr;usc" the name ' dear her to the vast majori ly of housewivcs, that periods of mounJain-building. A cur­ She and Willie Nelson do a beautiful duet of L11l1an Hellman, bu_t IS lntended as a study _of , is if my vcrsion of the cultural stereotype is the rent belief ls · fliat gravi~'( on. the song "One Paper Kid",,and the her greatest caus~d the self·~o.ub~ as_a pers_on and a_n artist; sameas the reviewer's. Morc importantly, to im­ crust to sfide ana wrinkle on the side Do!ly Parton tune, "To Daddy"is sung the purposc of Lillran- s rn1ss1on Into Naz1 Germ~ ply that "flousewivcs'', a grciup s~Hf.constituti'!g of a deep trcnch. Folds were formed with intcnsity and understanding. But, all l'lY 'faS not to _Portrav her as a ~ero, but to sh_ov. a majority of American women, are morons wtth and much breakage of the beds oc­ in all, th is album fails her madequactes when faced wnh a world ex1s- . d. . . · f r· , to e ap tu re th e cn­ · b , d h f 1 d 11 10 to one's o\vn 1•• oncc curred. Subsequent stream tmg · · · taste an 1n te 1ge n ee m e , ~ ._ and gfacia! thusiasm which was eviden t in last year's e~ on er ow n peace u 'proteete CXI~- again ridiculous, especially when we consider the erosion of tremendous tcnce, where the greatest amounts of concert tour and her last album, Luxury dange~ was not havmg subiect matter of the film. Aithough "Julia" stars rock left the parallel north-south a success on Broadway. The scr~pt was . adapted two women, it is Liner: I hope her recent '!lf~ · will not most emphatically not a "wo- striking discontinuous low ridges frqm_~ sl_o[~ of the sa_me naf?1e 111 Pc_numento man's picture", result in a whole slew of albums lilorina ~o!aäas At 10 a.m. floodpl.iin Grounds,supplicd the cinderblocks, wood i n the Commons, the contestants (free), Pay Bar (50 cents for any cfrinl(). umlerlain by alluvium can for the lst Annual Saga !le found close to the and stakes necessary for the pits, as weil Car Ra!ly wHI ap· During the day , contests such as potato slow meandcr- as garbage cans, tables Dear.. Here they will obtain their ing reaches of and preparation of sct of sack races, pie oating contests etc;. will be the Saw Kill and the t!'le grounds. _ Though this author did not clues (after leaving a $2.00 entry fec/vehicle) ­ s.ponsored. Student suggestions for unusual smaller strcams (partlcularly the stream · -see hlm prior to writing.this bclween the article, l'm · which wil! send them to choseh spots in contcsts will be considered and stlould bc Modular dorms and HHtho­ sure we can count on his help once agafn. Dutchess County in a· head free for all to submitted to Gregg .. wood}. Gene Mason- once again pfedged his help make the best time. These spots will be Topping ,off the day at· 7 p.m . th ere wil! TIH: topsoils thal formed on these in clearing the administrative paperwork ne­ 'manneu by students who will dock the con­ be a band {s) playing ( at !east one good jlJ.rent matcriafs vary In texture, drilin­ cssarY. to make. the_ event .<\ success. testat]ts as they appear. T!:!_e students with one). agc, acidity ana other characteristics In which influence the dcvclormcnt the middie of all this, is a man who the three best times will reccive the following It is hoped that this day wi!l ·9r; hclp to plant anC: anima! populations. The through the years has consistently donated prizes: ( l) a first place trophy and a b/w f,ring the fecllng of community fnvolvemcnt si!ty clay loams forrnes.l on the lake his time and efft;>rt to the_ .cause of bringing portable TV. {2) a second place trophy all students, in not only in participation but clays are very fine texturcd, deep, hea­ the commt.:r1Hy together. That man is John and a (llgital clock radio. (3) a third place in preparatior.. Since this will bc a schooJ vy soiis rich in Ilme and neutral .ln re­ Gonzalez .. Last year John, the Saga Baker trophy and a dinncr for two .at Foster'~ event, therc will be a future schedulcd - action but nearly impcrvious to water not only raised the pigs (hormonc-free) but At 12 noon, i·n the soeeer field, Saga meeting to go over th.e dctails with Gregg. and plant roots. Water runs off the he and his chosen helpers were in Btithe­ will makc hot dogs, hamburgers and servc slopes and ponds on We would !ike represcntatives from cach of level areas, so wood at 4 a.m. placing the animals in the drinks (soda] as weil pass th ere is of te n either ;t lack or an excess as out balloons the various dubs to bc thcre as welt as · · pit and starring the fire. He was there al! of water for plant growth. M;;ny plants­ ~nd T --stlirts unti1 about 3 p.m. Sometlme !lon-dub merr.bers day and incredibly was (non-partisan studcnts}, and small burrowing anima!s {e.g., sala­ stiil kicking during in that period the contestants , wuuld · bc. to appcar at the mecting prior to the 27th, l"handers, moles) seem unable to live the evcnitJg. · - . back in order to receive their pnzes. ln .and 4lso on.I'\P,rjl 29, ~o help _plan and mak_e on these soils bccausc of the impcrmea· Gr~g-;-m;tlentfectiõiiatc!y known by., the meantime , the Saga 5oftball team will the day a memorablc one. Everybody like· s• l:lifi!y .if th_e_.~ln sponsorship. From the intervie w I ha d At 4, the treat begins whcn everyone ment to make the event cnjoyablc. the steep river bluffs (such as hctween .vilh Gregg, the outlook for this year's pic­ mcves to Blithewood lawn for the Hog Biithe_wood and the Fi~fd 5tJtion), nic seems to indicate Val slump1ng i\ will be a. memorable Roast Luau whose menu will bc~ Roast Cubano of the clays oftcn occurs fol· Jowing heavy rai ns. Ttie _clay becomcs . 7 cont'-' on pg. 8 765 I<·ilovolts

SPORT S Most Bardians, due to Bard's isala­ tions in regards to the Red Hook area tions from the world outside of Annan­ Many area environmentalists believe dale, ncither know nor cure .1bout the there is a direet relationship betwcen 765 kilovolt power :ines which are the power plants and the power lines. threatening to wind t11eir way through One of them is john Mavret/ch, of Mid­ Dutchcss Country. Hudson Nuclear Öpponcnts, an organiza­ To some dcgrec this is understandablc. tion which is suing Con-Ed ovcr allcdged The 765 kilovolt !ines would havc only propcrty vialations during their nudcar a ncgligib!c elfeet on Bard. The !ines power plant siting studies. At a reccnt wouldn't pass through the Town uf Red meeting of the Red Hook Conservation Hook, but.through Milan, to our east, Commission, Mr. Mavretidt chtracteri;ed and through Clinton and Pfeasant Vallcy, the power plants and power !ines as to our southcast. We probably won 't bcing very closely related to one another. even see the 12·story high towers, and No one can claim to unde.rstand the won 't suffcr from any of the supposed biological et"fcc_ts of 765 's. Th ere are biological e ffcct>. biologlcal effects. on this, all agrec. How­ Nonc the lcss, wc should be con· ever, tagg1ng the handie of "harmful" or cerned. 76S's"arc not il phenomenon "benign" to these cffects becomes a very limited to New York. The~· havc al~ diffkult proposition. Therc simpJy hasn't ready been built in MinnesoL1, and m..~y been enough time to study the long-term soon come to your homctown, espedal­ · effccts of 765 's on- people living near ly if you live in the Northeast, so you · them. Gus T_ilfman, of the Cary Arbore·. may want to know about them. tum, calls 765's, "one morc ris.k. wc don't 765 kilovalts equals 765,000 vo!ts, need.'' The Public Service· Commission ot about 7,000 times the voltage of (PSC) sidcsteps the issue by saying, "It your home electrical current. (most is possiblc, though not. established that modern homcs are wircd for 11 0 valts) continuous long-term exposure to btectric Electric companics dcsirc lincs of this ficlds" within the range produced by the strength becausc they claim thcy lose 76S's, "may resu!t 'in some biologkat lcss elcctricity during transmission if effccts. . • It is not certain whether they use lines of th~s voltage. 765's, such cffects would be harmful.'' \ohn how ever, s.till lase a lot of electricity. Dyson, former New York State Commcrcc In fact, if you walk under thcm with Commissioner, el ai ms that he found no a fluorcscent light bulb, it wil! light up. reaso11 to be concerncq about health lf the !ines werc pl

Bill Mass SHRIMP SCAMPI SEA SCALLOPS BROILED IN LEMON BUTTER BOX 85 IARO COLLEGE ANNANDALE~Ofli~HUDSON. Entree Price includes: observer NEW YORK 1250A Baked Potatoes-Unlimited Salad Bak~d Bread-Choice of Desert Cofte or Tea. semi-fluid and slips and oozes downhi\1, te n quite steep, and ·drainage: "S"un ex" leaving tipped and uprooted trees in posure and other diffcrences haye a small areas. The more acid, coarser· large inHuence on the patterning of vcg­ texturcd till and sand soils pose fewer etatlon in the forests ..·Th us Annandale problems for organi-sms, although the Rd. Is a dividing line. between two typt' Pfus Entertainrnent sand may occasionally bc rather dry .of topograpll"'-.A't'ith, howev'et, a regfon- between rains due to rapid infiltration ;i( slope lowaro. th~ Hu?so'!. ~hro~~hol!t:· of water. The waterlaid soils (alluvium The.· steepesr 10cal slopes are -::5-.~ and ticlal marsh muck) are very moist '(15-30 or rnore meters in I OO 1m:ters) or flooded most of the time~·so water in the ravines on the rivcr bluff> a!ong_ levets control ecology here and onfy the bays. The old trails in the woods, organisms tolerimt of flooding can take some of them nearly obliterated, tend advantage of the rich sources of nutri­ to follow the crests of these clay rid~;es. fpam the Bar ents in these soils' high content of or- These trail s and old roads are excellent ways to expiorc Bard landscapc, but ~nic f!!!l!tcr. .. _ the MOLSON'S .75 ..-···1 opographic relief j~ not great at beware of the abundant poison·ivy. In red, white, r(Jse' winter, the poison·ivy vines (up to two MICH .70 Bard, and elcvations ran!!"c· from sea level BUD .65 at the bays to 200 ft. (60 m) at the inches thick) are recogniz.ed by a pro­ cemetery to 30.0 ft. (90m) at th e top fusion of aerial roGtlets which look nke of the Whaleback hiir on the east sida hair attaching the vincs to the support­ of Rt. 9G. Howcv~r. the__Jopography ing trces. is locally rugged duc to the ngrtl1-south Next issue: The Plants .. DINNER SERVED FROM 6:30-7:30. Make reserva.tions with checker eluring bedrock ridgcs, and the ea~t-west rid.Q;es ENTERT AINMENT FROM 7:30-9 :OO regular meal hours . and 'ra vin es sculptured by ste am erosion Erik Kiviat ·b the. clays. These elav ridges are of-