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Vol; I No. 9 East Lansing, Michigan, March 28, 1966 10 cents

The Winter Of Our Discontent: A Few Things That *

1 Last term's anonymous Rose Bowl correspondent writes: Went On Winter Term I came back from California with an awful twilight-of-the-gods feeling the psychonauts who made only freak that was not helped any by having to spend a day and a half in a featureless trips. room in the basement of the dorm writing the Untold Story of the Rose Bowl. I am reluctant to analyze them. When I was through, I still had half a Spiral notebook filled with the Untold They were, I suppose, Utopians of the Untold Story of the Rose Bowl, a title which wounds more ominous than I mean old school, who believed in a Utopia it to. where we can all dance with laurel It was Just more of the same, really: the state of mind that is California. leaves in our hair. They certainly Surreal landscapes. From the win­ wanted nothing to do with the rather dow of my hotel room at night, the your hands in your pockets. On the sinister Utopia that is about to roll whole city looked as though it were righthand wall is an anatomical dia­ over us all: the world where every­ made up of Rosicrucian crosses and gram that made me blink the first one will be fed, clothed, and educat­ U-Drive signs; from the same win­ time I saw it. Under it is written: ed, and nobody will step out of line. dow by day I could make out in the "We could do this," and, in different If they had anything in common, it yellow haze on the horizon the hangar handwriting, "Great! We could switch was a hatred of Catch-22 and a trick that covered the one-and-only B70 positions!" of talking about every establishment Valkyrie, the fastest and most de­ Some lumpen individual has add­ as "they." Theirs was a silly gen­ structive airplane ever built. (It was ed, "I hope both you guys get preg­ eration with ideals (but no God or destined never to fly, and somehow nant!" but his sentiments are not ideology), and it was probably inevit­ this seemed significant.) echoed very often on the walls. A able that they should fight a war to The only thing I really regretted surly "I will shoot the next queer the knife with an equally silly older leaving out was my visit to Pershing who writes on this wall" is followed generation with both God and ideology Square, the onetime homosexual capi­ by a volley of witty replies. Someone (but no ideals). tal of the West Coast. (The State began a sentence about the inade­ They had, certainly, enormous vir­ News, for some reason, did not so quacy of people who write on toilet tues: they were totally without prej­ identify it in the one picture they walls, but misspelled "inadequate" udice; they were true international­ ran of the place.) and gave up. The only really encourag­ ists, perhaps the only ones; they had Disappointing, really. Except for ing note is on the door and reads: an almost superstitious respect for one little greaser wearing a powder- "MSU Heterosexual Club now forming education; and they had what is pro­ blue jacket and jangling a ring of (underground)." bably the only tenable position on sex. keys (r mentally christened him the I got to know these grafitti fall *<\i Well, I guess I might as well I got to know them fairly well Last Degenerate) the only non-tour­ term, during a mild attack of diar­ stop off there too." through their parties, which made up ists in the square were old men rhea that for all I know may have had Terribly casual. His Hemingway almost all the social life I had winter straight out of Nathanael West. They nothing to do with the diet of starchy idiom was better than mine, even term. My Virgil was a clean-featur­ obviously intended to pass the winter cafeteria food I had just begun. Know­ though his voice quavered slightly ed young man named Ken, who drove sitting under the square's enormous ing about them was enough to make me once or twice. He followed me up me miles off campus to the first of gilt Christmas trees and watching slightly uneasy when I stopped in to and down a couple of flights of stairs, them, held in a yellow frame house fruitcakes like the Negro evangelist comb my hair the first day of winter and when it became obvious that no I could never find by daylight. It's who paced nervously back and forth term and suddenly felt a pair of eyes one I wanted to see was in, he sug­ probably just as well. under Pershing's statue carrying a boring into my back. I shifted my at­ gested we go over to the Union for THE PARTIES OF THE LEFT newspaper which read: A UNIQUE tention. a cup of coffee. The suggestion, when Coming up the walk, I saw a girl MINISTRY BRINGING THE MESSAGE The top of someone's blond, crew- it came, must have sounded slightly with floating hair seated by the light­ OF THE GOSPEL TO THE JEWS. (A cut head was peering over the toilet out-of-place even to him; he stared ed window. She had on blue levis Bible School a few blocks away sends door. We locked eyes in the mirror, at the floor. worn white at the knee and a thick its graduates out to preach their first and I decided that the eyes and hair­ "Naw, I guess not," I said. "I black sweater; her face had that sermons in Pershing Square; their line belonged to someone I knew; in better get back to class. Take it easy." otherworldly quality about it that one the multiversity, after all, one knows I laid my hand on the handle of a associates with the Maid of Orleans. faith must be strong.) door that opened away from the Un­ Glancing back over my shoulder thousands of people by sight. But when She smiled at me quizzically and it the door swung open, I was surprised ion. God knows the poor bastard must was all I could do to keep from shut­ as I left the square, I found myself have been used to being dismissed, looking straight into the intelligent to see that the spooky little cat was ting my eyes with holy dread. a total stranger, and I quickly drop­ but he didn't bring it off well; he look­ The girl who met us at the door dark brown eyes of a very high-rank­ ed sheepish and confused for a se­ ing member of the Committee for ped my gaze and left. had Cossack boots to the knee, a A minute or so later, standing on cond, stammered something, and van­ tweed skirt, and a black jersey (this Student Rights. We nodded slightly. ished down the front stairs. We had The New Left, as I was to discover, the Berkey steps, I heard a soft uniform, and its levis-sweater un­ voice in my ear: "Do you have the never once looked each other in the dress version, is the scuzzy equi­ gets around. face. So do the oldtime Pershing Square time?" It was the chap with the crew- valent of the sorority girl syndrome). cut. I flashed him my watch without I breathed deeply and stepped out Her hair was in a severe bun and types, and I mention the place at all into the unwarming sunshine. only because it is tied up in my mind looking at him and started down the her face was shiny, but it was ob­ steps; I heard him coming behind I avoided the Berkey john for sev­ vious that the Greek young ladies with the first of an irregular army of eral weeks (as much to avoid mutual alienated young men I met during win­ me before I had reached the bottom. had nothing on her in looks. (The We were shoulder to shoulder when embarrassment as anything else) and belief that girl radicals are all for­ ter term. He was by far the worst I never saw him again after I started case. we turned onto the icy walk leading midably intellectual and terribly plain to Morrill Hall. With the tail of my going back. is something of a slander, inciden­ THE CHANGELING eye I could see him: totally unre­ (That's how it is in the multiver­ tally; my acquaintances on the New markable face, not the least bit pret­ sity, men. That's how it REALLY is.) Left include St a dozen absolutely The doors of the water closets in ty, clothes that were cheap without beautiful girls *ith little or nothing the second floor john in Berkey Hall being Bohemian. He was small and THE SUBTERRANEANS going for them upstairs.) have all been torn off; all except one. didn't look strong. For reasons I only imperfectly un­ continued on page 6 The walls behind the single remain­ "First day of classes," he said. derstand myself, I got involved win­ ing door have gradually become cov­ His voice was like an aeolian harp. ter term with the MSU underground, ered with homosexual date-making: "Yeah." the kids who were born at the high- I^Ei "Can anyone satisfy my sex desire?" "Nice weather for once/' water mark of American power and inside 1 "I must have sex with a guy." "If "Yeah, I guess." prestige and twenty or so years later you want. . , be at the Nat. < < Whereya going?" found themselves without a rendez­ p 3 ' eros conviction 1 Sci. Building tonight, 12/8/65, with < t Morrill. Got to see somebody. tt vous with destiny, a little Lost and a 1" little Beat, and sure only that they p 4-5 "the in-crowd" 1 were not going to join the Pepsi 1 ' Generation. These were the romantic p < 6 free university 1 outcasts, the malingerers, the drop­ 1 outs from the Great Society: the SNCC p 7 the multiversity 1 workers in denim jackets, the young 1 ' Trotskies (vessels of the abstract p 8 "a way of seeing" 1 virtues) in steel-rimmed glasses, the 1 ' poets of unknown merit, the motor­ cycle-riding rock 'n' roll musicians, EDITORIAL Letter Compensation Gratitude Gratify not your hunger, dear, And be ye not unkind. Be you I wanted to take this opportunity to Not unkind. Kindness all is time's. express my congratulations on your And every triumph you knew. recent approval by the Board of Stu­ Will Get Us Nowhere dent Publications. Certainly this pas­ We loved in that Spring, exulting. ses as some consolation for the Our laughter challenged the wind, • months of frustration and agony which Rending its fabric to tatters Don't get us wrong. We think authorization from the Board of Student your staff and your publication some We swore, we vowed would not mend, Publications is fine, and we're glad to be selling ads and actually "selling" how suffered through. copies. We just don't want to go overboard polishing apples and thanking But even ecstasies alter, everyone who made this great moment possible. At long last, your publication now Sifted and driven down the sun: First of all, it's pretty damn silly that we had to fight for months just for will stand or fall on its own merits, The sands, the sands were faltering, the right to publish advertising and sell a newspaper that everyone wanted to and will be judged as itself, and not Flying as leaves in their season. see succeed. The university's publications and distribution rules are still as a downtrodden crusader for free dumb and should be improved immediately. (Several plans are doubtless being journalism. Initials, so lovingly carved, discussed right now; we've heard of one or two.) Wrinkle and gray a filigree But now, for some reason, it's up to us to "prove" we deserved our auth­ Once again, let me express my best Of years. Whose was the pierced orization, to "prove" again the need for "The Paper" at MSU. This shouldn't wishes to you and your staff for the heart, be, of course; we should have had to prove all along only that we could make coming quarter, and offer my encour­ Whose the arrow? And already it. That's one of the things wrong with stupid rules. agement to you in your efforts to At any rate, here we are, "The--authorized--Paper." We'll keep trying to continue to exist. Your memories quicken no tear, write, print and circulate as much of the different stuff as we can. We are Resonate no note from afar; interested in news, much more than our issues to date have indicated. We'll Sincerely, Jim Graham Nor light any evening dark, try to build up the reporting coverage, and will concentrate on feature articles Or halt fair morn in Shalimar. analyzing what the university and its community are all about. Member at Large We are interested in columns and other expressions of opinion, in topical AS MSU Board JIM THOMAS writing, in poetry, in drawing, in photography—most of all in a presentation of all these things that gives a balanced idea of what it's like to live and develop in the community of scholars which is or should be the university. That's what "The Paper" is all about, and, we would like to think, that's how come we've been authorized. But it's hard to be grateful just for the rec­ ognition of that fact; we'll keep trying. M.K. Our Kind Of War

Winter By Terry O'Connor Jim Thomas, as far as I know, is As the Red Death had stolen into scheduled to be shipped to Vietnam in Prince Prospero's castle, the war had April. come to MSU, and moved in disguise Not very long ago, he was a stu­ through the corridors of Berkey. Time dent here; a few weeks back, he came magazine calls it "the right war at the back on his last leave before being right time.'* Picket signs call it "this shipped out. In that time, he submitted senseless bloddy war.** Either way, it a poem to "The Paper'*; that is howl is war, and a part of our lives. knew his name and situation, although I had never met him. Tests will'soon b& given to college One afternoon I was going to Ber- students to determine which of them key to check on the paper's sales when will remain di*aft-exempt and which somebody told me he was thereselL»— will not. We will 'all jffi in class- ing. It was between class breaks, and questions wjjpdur machine-scoring I found him sitting and reading in the pencils, and-^jtfst as in our Basic deserted corridor, with the paper's College days—we will count on the money in a cup beside him. curve^ to- puU&Us through. And what He looked strong, but not like my happens to those on the bottom of the image of a Marine. Wearing glasses, curve? In the past, they flunked ATL he looked quiet, and scholarly. I was or Humanities; Now they may die. somewhat disconcerted by him, but I managed to introduce myself,askhow sales were going, and compliment him The war reports come in every on his poetry. I had a vague, fumb­ day, on the radio between rock *n* ling desire to ask him about the war, roll songs, on television between cig­ but even if I had known what I want­ arette commercials. The New York WOOLY CSR BEARS HIBERNATED . . .AND WHILE THEY FOUGHT ed to ask or why I wanted to ask it, Times recently ran a front-page bat­ WINTER TERM. IT OUT-THE PAPER SOLD tle photograph, showing a soldier fall­ the question would have been in bad ing backward as a bullet hit him. REFRESHMENTS. taste, somehow, in the cloisters of Politicians in Congress commend Berkey. I said I really had to be sacrifice; protesters parade forlornly going and left him there, reading and outside the White House; draft quotas selling papers. are increased; polls reflect confu­ A few days later, he submitted a sion in general but solid support for short article describing his feelings "our boys." The number of people as he faced the war. GI's, he said, not directly affected decreases stead-'' now "must fight without the past's ily, and the possibilities for rational comforts and justifications—patriot­ discussion seem to decrease in direct ism, hatred and illusions that their proportion. Soldiers die, and are re­ war is all-important." He went on to placed. say that the "bright volunteer spirit drives few into the recruiting offices. The war may well go on for years. That enthusiasm has been claimed We in college are like men in an over­ EDUCATIONAL TV CAME A LONG WAY DURING WINTER TERM by M-2-M, the Peace Corps, 'The crowded lifeboat; some have to be Paper,' which offer adventure and pushed over the side to save the rest. usefulness not so close to the bone I won't pursue the analogy; suffice it as combat." to say that our time is limited: four I didn't know how to take that. In years, more with graduate school, context, the tone did not seem con­ less with upper-division standing. And THE PAPER temptuous, but it was just a matter of we all wonder, as we sit in classes and go to meetings, finding our "ad­ "The Paper" is published weekly during school terms by students of Mich­ context: "adventure and usefulness igan State University. Its purpose Is to provide a channel for expression and not so close to the bone as combat.*' venture and usefulness not so close communication of those ideas, events and artistic Impulses which make of Implicit in the words was a quiet to the bone as combat," if help will the university community a fertile ground for the growth of human learning. and devastating irony. arrive in time. It is toward fulfillment of the highest ideals of learning and free Inquiry A few weeks earlier, "The Paper it that "The Paper" hopes to help the university strive, by reporting and com­ As Jim Thomas wrote, "War con­ menting on the university experience and encouraging others to do so. had run a gag eulogy for Doug Lackey. cerns a nation, prime cause,/Remov­ "The Paper" is authorized to operate on the Michigan State University It occurred to me that we might some­ ed from conflict.** campus by the Board of Student Publications of Michigan State University. day have to run a real one for Jim I saw him only once, but I find Please address all correspondence to: Thomas. I wondered who could write myself speculating about him. He will "THE PAPER" it, and whether, if it appeared, our be alive when this is printed. He will 1730 Haslett Road readers would think it was another probably be alive when out-of-town East Lansing, Michigan 48823 hoax. subscribers finally get their copies. Tel.: 351-6516 or 351-5679 I remembered Jim sitting in Ber­ He may even be alive when the war Editor . Michael Klndman is over. On the other hand, he may Arts Editor . . Laurence Tate key, pursuing our kind of "adventure and usefulness not so close to the bone not. Vol, I No. 9 March 28, 1966 10 cents as combat," and began to feel the pre­ I am afraid for Jim Thomas. And sence of war. for all of us. THE 'EROS CASE': Nine Judges In Search Of A Law

by RICHARD A. OGAR of obscenity or pornography which but it IS on a record by Richard does not ultimately rest on individual First of Two Articles Dyer-Bennet, obtainable by mail (or Once upon a time there was a mag­ taste. The extent of the resulting on Censorship is it that HEARING evil isn't quite azine—in the sense that "Horizon" confusion becomes evident if we con­ so bad as seeing it?). The transla­ and "American Heritage" are mag­ sider that the Eros ruling is clearly the magazine pornographic? If we are tions from Ovid's love poetry are far azines—"devoted to the joys of love inconsistent with the results of prior to judge by the ratio of "dirty words" less ribald than some uncontested and sex," and called, appropriately obscenity trials; I hope to demon­ to "nice, everyday words," it would translations from Catullus which I enough, Eros. Eros was available only strate, in fact, that there are no be impossible to make a case: there have seen, and the translation of Aris­ to those who could afford a $19.50 grounds for condemning Eros which are more four-letter words on pages tophanes' "Lysistrata" is certainly yearly subscription rate, but, as it would not, if consistently applied to five and six of Henry Miller's "Trop­ no more "obscene" than the one turned out, one subscription was other publications (and this does ic of Cancer" than there are in all made by the noted classicist, Dudley enough, for Eros was banned in De­ not seem too much to ask of a law), four issues of Eros combined—in Fitts. cember, 1962, shortly after the pub­ condemn them as well. fact, I remember at times being ir­ The erotic poetry of Robert Burns lication of the fourth and final issue Ginzburg was ostensibly charged ritated with Eros for its SQUEAM- and the Earl of Rochester have not, of the first and only volume; its with sending three obscene publica­ ISHNESS in this area. And we all so far as I know, been tested separ­ publisher, Ralph Ginzburg (now the tions through the mail: these, in ad­ know that the courts have ruled that ately, nor has DeMaupassant's short publisher of Fact) was subsequently dition to Eros, were a bi-weekly "Tropic of Cancer" is not obscene, story "Madame Tellier's Brothel," sentenced to five years in prison and newsletter called Liaison, and a book on the grounds that a book cannot be but none of these was singled out by a $42,000 fine. entitled "The Housewife's Handbook judged on the casis of individual pas­ the prosecution (at least, in the orig­ When Ginzburg's first appeal fail­ on Selective Promiscuity." These sages taken out of context. To be con­ inal trial). ed to win a reversal, he took his case latter two publications were obviously sidered pornographic, a publication But maybe it isn't the literature to the Supreme Court; in an issue of thrown in to "weight" the govern­ must AS A WHOLE be "utterly with­ but the artwork which offends—you Fact (Vol. 2, no. 3) devoted to his ment's case, since neither could pos­ out redeeming social value" (what­ know, the paintings of sly pornogra- side of the Eros trial, Ginzburg seem­ sibly be used in itself as a grounds ever that is). phers like Correggio, Degas, Rem­ ed fairly confident that the Court of prosecution. All right, what was there in Eros brandt, Vermeer, Hogarth, Toulouse- would reverse the earlier decisions. Liaison, in Ginzburg's words, as a whole which made it such a Lautrec, Orozco, Roualt and Picasso. His confidence, however, was sadly "consisted largely of interviews with dangerous publication? One could If so, most of the Skira line of art misplaced, for on Monday, March 21, psychologists, digests of scientific point to the expurgated condensation books ought to be impounded, and all five of nine justices—none of whom, papers, and reviews of articles in such of "Fanny Hill," were it not for the teachers of art history ought to be apparently, sees anything at all joy­ periodicals as the 'Journal of the Am­ fact that the Supreme Court also rul­ arrested for operating high-brow ful about love or sex—voted to uphold erican Medical Association'." It ed Monday that the UNexpurgated peep-shows. the conviction. would therefore seem almost impos­ "Fanny'Hill" was not obscene. What What about the photographic es­ Thus the progress made in the last sible to condemn Liaison without about the excerpts from Frank Har­ says, such as those on Jack Kennedy ten years toward freeing literature condemning its sources as well. ris' "My Life and Loves"? Well, or Marilyn Monroe, or of prostitutes from sexual taboos has been in large To prosecute Ginzburg for distri­ the entire book has been published by on the Rue Saint Denis, or lovers part annulled; just when it seemed buting the "Housewife's Handbook" Grove Press, and is even today being in the New York subway? If these that the Court was finally pulling it­ is clearly absurd, since the book was sent through the mails without inter­ are pornographic, I must demand, self out of the judicial bog in which mailed out by its author for several ference. for consistency's sake, that the en­ the obscenity question has always years before Ginzburg took over the Perhaps the offender is Mark tire rear section of Paramount News been immersed, it lost its footing and job, and is still being sold through Twain's "1601": I'm not aware of be confiscated, and Hugh Hefner be tumbled back in. the mails by The Realist; to convict any court ruling on this as literature, continued on page 5 Verdicts in obscenity cases have Ginzburg without convicting the author never been clear-cut (fourteen separ­ and Paul Krassner, the "Editor and ate opinions were required to settle Ringleader" of The Realist, is to three such cases--Ginzburg*s among invest law enforcement with the logic 'PAPER' STAFFERS, New And Old! them—in Monday's decisions) for the of a roulette wheel. simple reason that,.no one^JhMever The issue, then, if there is one at Come tO the Staff meeting! 8:30 p.m. Thors., March 30 Room 32 Union <£to6»^able~4G"--derive' «ftjT definition' allv must rest witlr Eroa itself. Was At The Realist Our Only Sacred Cow Is Irreverence

Okay, so it looks as if we've sold out to the Establish­ Admittedly, our circulation has gone from ment. So The Realist has been sanctified in News­ 600 to 54,000 in seven years. Well, so what? week, the Herald Tribune, Playboy and—axe you ready The Realist is still edited for 600. Krassner —Pageant. All right, so the editor, Paul Krassner, has was still censored on the Mike Wallace been listed by Esquire as one of the 100 best people In show and the Les Crane show. We still sent the World. True, Bruce Jay Friedman speaks in Black a humane abortionist on a retirement trip with his wife. Following are the Humor of the Feiffer-Krassner-Bruce axis. highlights of our 15 most sacred issues. Lucky you, they're still available.

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Althea Gibson ' • Ashley Montague Peter Blaire Noon the ADVERTISING BROCHURE which Montague Summers Sam Clemens The Eros Case. . . he had mailed out in order to solicit Hugo Winterhalter subscriptions. Little Egypt But Ginzburg is nonetheless headed Kingman Brewster Osbert Sltwell continued from page 3 Par Lagerkvist Mick Jagger for prison, a victim of arbitrary jus­ Blind Lemon Jefferson George Pal imprisoned as a high-priest of smfit. tice. His case has proved not, as the Sir Ernest Rutherford Jenny Lind There were, of course, those pho­ "State Journal" (Tuesday, March 22) Alfred Brendel Helen Lynd tos of the erotic sculpture on the seems to think, "that censorship Alfred E. Newman Thomas Constable Black Temple of Konarak, but these has a place in American life," but Alfred Durer were also reproduced in Evergreen that, unless jurists are able to come Carmen Basilio up with a clear and precise definition Alfred the Grest Carmine DeSapio Review, No. 9, which was cleared Alfred Chester of obscenity charges. Well, then, of the crime, no conviction for ob­ Constance Garnett scenity can ever be just. Alfred Kazin Gale Garnett what about the photos showing a Negro Elia Kazan Sir Arthur Conan Doyle man and a Caucasian women actually Ilya Kuryakin Chris Wilcot TOUCHING each other? One might Peter Krepotkin J. Paul Getty make a case were it not that a sim­ CONTEST HINT: Mrs. Sirimavo Peter Pan Robert Apisa ilar portfolio by Emil J. Cadoo which Baniaranaike is prime minister of Hermes Pan Karl Friedrich Gauss appeared in Evergreen Review No. 32 Ceylon. Hyman Rickover Phillip of Macedon was ruled not obscene, even though Eddie Rickenbacker Bob Smith the poses are far more "intimate" Baron von Richtofen John Smith than those in the Eros series (or is Barrie Chase Sabu it that any mixing of the races is Barry Fitzgerald Sabicus obscene?). Ella Fitzgerald Carlos Montoya As for the articles which appeared Delia Reese Charles Dodgson in Eros, I doubt that anyone would Pee Wee Reese Leo G. Carroll care to label Drs. Eberhard and Phyl­ SAVE St. John-Perse Paul Baules lis Kronhausen, Albert Ellis and The- Karl and Irma McDonel Lord Haw-Haw odor Reik as smut-peddlers: nor do Theodore Bikel J.R. Tolkein I detect a sensual leer in the eye of Jerry Lee Lewis Shirley Bassey noted philologist, Eric Partridge. Are USED Colin Chapman Buck Ram subjects like the contraceptive in­ Del Shannon John Mordaunt dustry "ipso facto" obscene? If so, Miles Davis Walter Savage Landor every employee of the Youngs Rubber BOOKS Murray the K Harry and Bonaro Overstreet Company is engaged in a pornographic Gert Frobe Wrong-Way Carrigan enterprise. A.J. Foyt Max Planck In short, I can find nothing in any Martin Meyer Phil Spector issue of Eros which can, with any Thor Heyerdahl Ernie Bushmiller pretense to rationality, be called GIBSON' Sir Christopher Wren Max Murnigham obscene—w ith one exception: the Christopher Robin Spiro Tesseris pages which Ginzbueg devoted to re­ On Grand River Edward W. Sparrow Lurleen Wallace printing a number of vicious letters 1 Block West Of The Union Edward Lear Max Curtis from people who were offended by Jack Tar Jack Klugman Sir Hugo Drax Gertrude Berg Slim Pickens Max Shulman Jim Kweskin William G. Groat earrings and thumb-pianos at Lord Kelvin Vince Guaraldi Lord Cardigan Vince Lombard! 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Funny-Y o u-Should- Ask-That De­ partment: Billy Graham, addressing A- Negative- Attitude- Never-Got- STUDENT BOOK STORE, INC himself to the question, "Is God Anybody- Anywhere Department: A motive entitled "This Picture Is Cen­ dead?", explained, "I know God is 421 East Grand River Ave. East Lansing, Mich not dead because I talked to him this sored" was banned last week in Con­ morning." necticut. boots, which I tossed onto a pile on top of Ken's motorcycle boots, and I could only wonder at the kind of "Hi," she said. "Kick off your reception I would have gotten had I boots." been wearing penny loafers. She never even glanced down. It "C'mon," said Ken. "You've got so happened I was wearing desert to meet Liam." We picked our way across the living room through groups of guitarists in CLASSIFIEDS Beatle hats and girls wearing ear­ rings I could have put my hand through, and took a sharp right to the Coming Events kitchen. Liam, who did not seem to be "THE PAPER" STAFF MEETING. New staff particularly interested in meeting members welcomed. (Openings for reporters, me, turned out to be a tired-tooking, artists, ad salesmen, circulation and busi­ ness people.) Old staffers should attend. melancholy young man with a spade 8 p.m., Thurs., March 31, Room 32 Union. beard I had first seen on an As­ syrian centaur in the Smithsonian ENCOUNTER: A Dialogue between church- Institute. He had on, of all things, affiliated groups and the "new left"—Satur­ an MSU sweatshirt, to which was day and Sunday, April 2-3. Schedule: pinned a small orange button with the Sat., April 2: 8 a.m.--Registration, $1 per person. legend; DON'T TALK, SHOOT! DON'T 9 a.m.—Keynote address; "Critique of the THINK, FOLLOW! IT'S THE AMER­ Great Society: Vietnam, a Case Study"-- ICAN WAY. The letters were tiny, Dave Dellinger, editor, Liberation magazine. and during the course of our conver­ 10 a.m.—Respondents: "Reflections on sation a myopic girl came up to Li­ Crises in the Great Society"—Rev. Paul Light, Ecumenical Center, Ann Arbor; Mr. am, leaned rudely between us long Tom Smith, Channing-Murray, East Lansing; enough to spell out the message, Father Joseph Walsh, Newman Center, Wayne smiled, clapped Liam on the should­ State University. er, and went away. 2-5 p.m.--Panel: "War and Peace"; A. Conscientious Objectors and Pacifism- Liam had been described to me as going to have to start a classier the living room. Several couples were Ronald Young, Fellowship of Reconciliation. a sort of prophet without honor in set." This started an argument on dancing the Nigerian High Life—Liam B. Disarmament—Dave Dellinger, editor, his own university, but he was ap­ Lady Macbeth's sex life. Someone and the girl who had met us at the Liberation magazine. parently not feeling very oracular pointed out three of the pups to me door were doing a hornpipe, quite C. Imperialism and the "Third World"— that night (neither was I, for that as being named Hannah, Fuzak, and oblivious to everybody else—to some Richard Rhoads, editor, Free Student maga­ matter), and nothing he said was par­ African music. zine; Ed Lemansky, Progressive Labor Par­ Schiff, but this may not have been ty. ticularly memorable. official. Ken's guitarist friend lifted a four- D. Film: "Which Way the Wind." I next got led down to the basement I wandered upstairs and found an foot African mask off its hook on the 8 p.m.—Panel; "Free University Move­ to see a litter of pups Lady Mac­ Amazing Spiderman comic book to wall, held it up before his face, and ment— Richard Rhoads, editor. Free Stu­ read while Ken and a friend in a blundered out the door. He appeared dent magazine; Jerry Badanes, poet, Ann beth, somebody's dog, had just given Arbor. birth to. They were playing clumsily Beatle cap retired to a room off the a moment later at the window, where Sun., April 3; in a fenced-off area under a naked kitchen to work out anti-administra­ he danced briefly for our benefit and 11 a.m.--Sermon; "Non-Violence"—Ron­ light bulb, and they occasionally look­ tion folk songs on their guitars. I then flashed us the universal gesture ald Young, Fellowship of Reconciliation (at ed up at us with broad and unintell­ joined them in time to hear Ken's of contempt. "What's that, your sperm Alumni Memorial Chapel). igent faces. "Ballad for Administration Para­ count?" everybody shouted in uni­ 2-5 p.m.—Panel; "The Movements; Civil noids." son. Rights"; "Lady Macbeth got herself by A. Black Liberation South—Rev. C.T. Vi­ some German Shepherd up the I found a corner with a sofa which The Maid of Orleans and a rock vian, Southern Conference Education Fund. street," a girl told me matter-of- looked stuffed to bursting but which 'n' roll musician in blue denim had B. Black Liberation North—Rev. David gradually sunk back out of sight on a Scott, Ecumenical Institute, Chicago; Conrad factly. She lifted the dog's sharp- sighed and sank when I sat down on Lynn, civil rights attorney. New York. nosed face up to hers and said scold- it; a conversation was in progress, mattress lying near the door, doing a C. Community Organizing—Rennie Davis, ingly, "Now, listen, Lady, you're and I listened politely while watching thing, as we say in the trade. Lady Education Research Action Project of Stu­ Macbeth wandered in on her way out­ dents for a Democratic Society; Jack Kit- side and gingerly planted a foot on the tredge. National Student Christian Federation girl's stomach. "Goddam you, Lady!" and Students for a Democratic Society. This space is purchased to demonstrate that the girl shouted, sitting bolt upright, 7 p.m.—Address; "China: Sino-Soviet and Sino-American Relations"—Maud Russell, and then breaking into a mandatory Far East Reporter (at Wesley Foundation, the MSU Young Democrats supoort "The Paper smile when she s,aw the whole room 1118 S. Harrison Rd.) was laughing at her. Her voice, I ALL SESSIONS IN PARLORS A, B AND-C, was sorry to hear, was like Ethel UNION BUILDING, UNLESS OTHERWISE Merman's. NOTED. Information: Wesley Foundation, 1118 S. Harrison Rd. JOIN continued on page 8 CHARLIE CHAPLIN. Four Essanay come­ dies, including the all-time classic, "The The MSU Young Democrats Tramp." Open to the public, with subscrip­ tion card or 50 cents admission. 7 and 9 p.m.. Sat., April 2, Conrad Hall. Sponsored Call 485-2362 or 355-9462 Marshall by MSU FILM SOCIETY. Music For Sale CAMERA FANS: For sale, Pratika IVB SLR F28, Fully automatic lens; Minolta view Free University of East Lansing Co. meter; Honeywell 64 B Strobe camera and meter, under 8 months old. All equipment perfect condition, lists $239.90, will sacri­ a fresh approach to education Why not stop in and see our fice for $115.00. Please write E. Borin, 131 Albert Ave., giving phone number where you new larger record department? can be reached. Yes, we have expanded to allow Spring 1966 Course Offerings: you a better selection. Personal Try our V.I.P. room for sheet Join STUDENT PEACE'UNION chapter now LIFE DRAWING—Louis Wein, graduate assistant in art, music. being formed. Political buttons and stickers SKETCHING— Louis Wein of all varieties, sizes, colors and shapes MODERN CIVILIZATION: MAN VIS-A-VIS POWER—Vincent Lomhardi, 307 E. Grand River ED 26997 carrying various mottoes and inscriptions MSU instructor in social science; Wednesday evenings are in the offing. Come scan left-wing THE EXPLOITATION OF COLOR; THE AFRICAN EXPERIENCEOVER- library now being assembled. Donations of SEAS—James Hooker, MSU associate professor of history and books, periodicals, leaflets or handbills ac­ African studies; Joseph Roberts, MSU assistant professor of po­ cepted.--John O'Malley Burns, 351-6762. litical science; Daniel Walden, MSU assistant professor of American thought and language Allison. Come Home. All is Forgiven. AMERICAN IMPERIALISM, EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL MANIFESTA­ TIONS— Roger Howard, Brian Keleher, Paul Schiff, graduate stu­ dents in political science and history; Thursday evenings Godot is gone. Please stop calling. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS—John Ellis, graduate assistant in sociology; SAVE Monday evenings ANGUISH: PHILOSOPHICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, SOCIOLOGICAL AS­ We'd still like to sell you a clas­ PECTS— Martha Aldenbrand, Melvin Bucholtz, poets and graduate sified ad. Now we can even do it assistants in American thought and language legally. Cheap, too. Just $1 for 50 CHRISTIAN THOUGHT IN Till-; POST-CHRISTIAN WORLD—Milton USED words, $1 for 50 more. We print all Powell, MSU assistant professor of American thought and lan­ the usual sortsof classifieds (when we guage; Fr. Robert Gardiner, All-Saints Episcopal Church; Tuesday have them to print): for rent, wanted, evenings personal, employment, etc., etc. We MODERN CINEMA (in conjunction with MSU Film Society showings)— BOOKS also print a "coming events" thing director, MSU Film Society; Friday and Saturday evenings follow­ and anything else you fell like spout­ ing Film Society showings ing off about, under "sound off." All at the same rate—50 words for $1. Pre-Registration Party: Just call 351-6516 or 351-5679, or submit your ad at Paramount News 8 p.m., Wed., March 30, 130 Linden St., East Lansing GIBSON'S Center, 211 Evergreen, East Lan­ sing, 332-5119. (Also, we'd like it (additional times and places of course meetings as well as information On Grand River if you would pay in advance.) on reading lists, etc., will be available) 1 Block West Of The Union The Law Of Averages And You: A Warning

By HEYWARD EHRLICH in need of self-help. If your teaching PERCENTILE NORMS AND MEAN RESPONSES FOR THE is "above average" (average), you The effort to evaluate teaching and may relax in the mass. Only if you courses at Michigan State by means MSU STUDENT INSTRUCTIONAL RATING REPORT find yourself "below average" (ter­ of a multiple choice form given to The following percentages and averages are based on 28,685 student responses in 658 rible), need you start worrying. And students has produced some results sections during the Fall 1965 term. An additional 3,010 students in 101 sections if you find yourself "far above av­ which are, to put it blandly, highly also responded but the teacher's level (i.e. full-time or graduate assistant) was erage" you had better start doubting curious. not reported, and those responses are not included below.* whether students really believe they Nearly 20,000 of the Student In­ F.T. = Full-time faculty (instructor thru professor) G.A. = Graduate assistants are anonymous behind their electric structional Rating Report Forms were Part I pencils. submitted on full-time teachers and 1. Were the major objectives of this course made clear at the outset? Though the SIRR is now designed half that number on graduate assis­ ,for teachers, surely the TIRR (Teach­ tants in the fall of 1965. There were er Instructional Rating Report) cannot 14 questions put on a one to five be far off. Students then may expect rating scale and 19 more on a true- to bring home to their parents the false basis. doublethink that they talk too much/ In virtually every case the profes­ too little in class discussions 76 per sors did better than the G.A.'s, but cent of the time on the average. the margin of difference was aston­ You there in the loafers! Definite­ ishingly small as measured by mean ly above average! Straight C. Your response. Whether this proves some­ friend there behind the chewing gum! thing about teachers or about ques­ A perfect average, that is, F. tionnaires is left for the reader to de­ Only time will merge the SIRR and cide. the TIRR, producing the heady STIRR. The truth of the matter is that stu­ The questionnaire will have to be re­ dents putting marks in the forms fined, since responses now run as high seem to automatically give either the as 65 per cent for some items on the best (1) or the next-to-best (2) rating top (1), and as low as one per cent no matter what the query. On only at the bottom (5). three questions did the sum of the Where's the bell-shaped curve? two worst responses (4 or 5) equal There's too low a ceiling on the top. one tenth of the total. At least three higher degrees of Hence, an innocent reader of the Orwellian superlative will be needed sliding-scale questions would con­ before we can see that bell we love clude that all courses at MSU are so much. Perhaps "below average" above average in statement of objec­ should be eliminated from the test tives, clarity, instructional prepara­ sheet: then we can start at average tion, availability of assistance, tol­ and work up. erance, instructional mannerisms, Indeed, the "law of averages" elim­ student attitudes, fairness, interest inated the small olive, and it will and the like. get you, too, if you don't watch out. Such conclusions are highly flatter­ Perhaps it already has. ing. Perhaps there is some interest in knowing which responses are more *Percentages for each response may not add to exactly 100% because of rounding off Heyward Ehrlich is a beleaguered assistant flattering than others. But my ob­ and no response" to the item. professor of American thought and language. jection to the findings on the whole — The Editors. is that they are impossible. Perhaps each of a dozen brands of cigarettes can claim to have the mild­ est product on the market. The fact that such a claim when applied to The Virtues Of Multiversity By DOUGLAS LACKEY MSU teaching is backed by the sta­ tistical weight of 28,685 rating form Since the free speech explosion at the society gives them a "job (cer­ to the catastrophe, the Harvard fresh­ answers does not make the assertion Berkeley last year, it has become a tainly not "work") which rots their man often avoids study and develops more true or less absurd. common plank of radical platforms to brains, poisons their spirits, and a second identity: takes LSD, writes The devil belches forth the most oppose the "multiversity": those pays them a salary, in that order— poems, paints. In a few cases, new fire and brimstone in true-false ques­ mammoth institutions, state support­ I consider it a grace that such a talents are unleashed; in most, the tions. Did you know that 88 per cent de­ ed, that provide an uneasy mixture of society also provides its victims with results are bad poems and worse nied they had TOO MANY quizzes, tens of thousands of students with a means for avoiding jobs for another paintings. and that 66 per cent of the same tens of millions of dollars. These four years, in the guise of "educa­ This waste of time is tragic, for in sample denied they had TOO FEW oppositions have been of two sorts— tion." these cases the second identity is quizzes? (I am only quoting statis­ those that attack the size of such The multiversity gives everybody secondary—the most important gift tics.) universities per se, and those that at­ a chance to let loose and perhaps of these people, now being wasted, Did you know that 82 per cent de­ tack, not size itself, but the clumsy even to learn something; without the is their intellect, their capacity to nied TOO MUCH time was spent in way in which size is now handled. multiversity, this latter is impos­ deal capably with ideas and intelli­ class discussions, while 70 per cent That arguments of the second sort sible; with it, it is possible, and to gently with the world. also denied that TOO LITTLE time can be justified should be manifest make it actual requires improving the Compare this with the situation at was spent in class discussions? to anyone who takes more than a cas­ quality of the multiversity, not ques­ MSU. Here the intellectual finds no (These are majorities bigger than ual look at such a school as MSU. tioning its existence. difficulty in seeing himself to be those which elect American presi­ But it is arguments of the first sort different from the mass—in a school dents.) that concern me, since these fill the THE SLUDGE TEST where the average G.P.A. is 2.4, Be that as it may, the Utopian bulk of the radical literature, and The preceding paragraph gives the his grades, among many other things, conclusions of the questionnaire are since none of them seem to me to be impression that the multiversity is will quickly set him apart. Indeed, he most interesting. Did you know that convincing. filled with unmotivated student sludge, may sometimes find his intellect di­ 44 per cent felt that they had put in I see no inherent evil in a large and this is to a large measure true. rectly under assault; for example, more than average effort on the av­ university, or in its manifestations— In the multiversity, then, what is to when he faces the stupidity of the erage course, and only 13 per cent the TV lecture, the IBM card, the happen to the serious student, the State News each morning. thought they put in less than aver­ giant class. On the contrary, such one bent on and directed towards Such attacks do not destroy intel­ age effort. (These statistics, mind institutions, at least in principle, learning? Won't he be pulled down to lectuals—they make them acutely you, are total, proving only that a may present certain advantages. the level of the sludge around him? conscious of what they are. At Har­ lot of people think they are working Through the efforts of catholic sex The problem of sludge can best be vard, the assumption of intellect tends too hard.) and the Catholic church, the popula­ handled, I think, by considering in to dissolve it; at MSU the challenge Did you know that 62 per cent rated tion explosion is hard upon us. What contrast the fate of a large percen­ to it may bring it forth. their instructors better than aver­ is to be done with the swelling class tage of bright students at a univer­ • age, and only 11 per cent worse than of college-age citizens? The radical sity where there is a notable ab­ SIZING UP average? (What in the world can "av­ answer; put them in thousands of tiny sence of sludge—Harvard. The seri­ So far, I have attempted to justify erage" possibly mean here?) little schools. And who is to staff ous students that arrive there have size in general. Now I wish to con­ And did you know that 47 per cent these schools? No answer is given, developed during high school an iden­ sider the effects of size. The catch­ rated their courses above average for there is none; the fact is that the tity in which their realization of their word of the controversy is "dehum- and only 18 per cent held them to be output of trained personnel is barely own intellectual curiosity and gener­ anization," and the standard argu­ below average? keeping up with the increase in en­ ally higher intelligence plays a large ment is that the growth of the multi­ The march of superlatives should rollment. role. Then they arrive at Harvard, versity cannot but bring with it a loss not, however, cause anyone to be The alternative, then, is to send where everyone is intelligent and of personal contact between teacher alarmed. The olive packers long ago the bulk of these people off to work, everyone is curious; no matter how and student, the creation of oppres­ threw out the small-medium-large- since, as it is gaid and said truly, smart they are, three fourths of the sive "administrative" positions, and extra-large designation in favor of most multiversity students fool class seems smarter. the transformation of the student into medium - 1 a r g e-collossal-orgiastic. around for four years and learn next Their minds, which in the past had a student number. The first two com­ When you mean average, henceforth to nothing anyway. set them off from others, no longer plaints, I think, are misplaced: it is say "above average," or people will Now, it is true that man's life distinguish them. Their identities, my experience that any student at think you mean "lousy." takes its meaning from his work, and pinned to their intelligence, no long­ MSU who pushes a little can estab­ lish personal contact with the faculty; If you find yourself rated as "av­ perhaps that is why it seems to me er identify. With all intelligent, in­ erage" (below average), you are badly that so many lead meaningless lives; telligence loses meaning. In response continued on page 8 I began to tune in on the conversa­ tion around me, which had gradually Included me in it. ". . . grew up here," one intense young man was saying, "and I played with John Han­ nah's children. I REALLY knew now their community works." His face *ras lit only by a sliver of light from a streetlight outside, but I could tell that he looked disgusted. "How'd you end up here?" he ask­ ed me. I explained. "Oh, so they buried you with the green-and-white too, eh? Her too." He meant a girl sitting off to his right, her face also lost in shadow. We were silent for a moment, weighted down with adolescent sadness. Then the young man began to talk, about the univer­ sity and about society, and I realized I was in the presence of one of the A WAY OF SEEING condotterieri of the student wars. It was time to burn, as we say in the trade. As we were working our way Helen Levitt's photographs of East Harlem, taken in the early so subtle, their lyricism so gentle and unassuming, that they toward the door, Ken asked me what 1940's, have been collected and published with a companion leave the reviewer with little to say-and Agee says much. I would have done if I hadn't come essay by James Agee in a volume entitled "A Way of Seeing" Topping Agee is impossible, so in reviewing we simply re­ to the party. I shrugged and said some­ (The Viking Press, 1965). produce here a few of the most accessible shots from this thing about a normal square weekend. remarkable little book. Liana* s hornpipe partner crossed the Agee's essay is no slight effort, since Levitt's pictures are room to squeeze my hand. D.L. "Don't worry so much about what's hip or square," she told me, looking "Oh, I plan to survive, all right, into my eyes, "worry about what's I said, as mildly as possible. "But REAL." you'll make it too." I blinked but promised I would. Kinsella shook his head. "Not me. I'm thrashed. Really. I'm mindf*ck- THE INVISIBLE CITY ed." The party introduced me to an un­ Kinsella's idiom takes getting used derground university without classes to; actually, he'll be around to bury or schedules, an invisible city with us all. crossroads in Spiro's, certain booths The people at the party were most­ in the Union grill, and Berkey Hall. ly familiar, but there were interest­ Its inhabitants were a far more varied ing additions. One chap wore a black lot than it might seem from outside. eye patch with a "Make Love, Not They included the political science War" button stuck through it. (I was professor who dismissed his classes wearing two buttons myself. One of with : "Onward, SpahtansI Go out and them said, "Wir geben uns mehr win!" and the renegade assistant pro­ Muhe." The other one said, "Help fessors who wore zippered suede us WIN! CometoSUNDAYSCHOOL.") boots into Spiro's (a cafeteria across Another, a personable rock 'n' roll Grand River, in case anybody has to singer who ran through half a dozen ask) and sat defiantly reading the Dylan songs before the evening was out-of-state newspapers while their over, had a ring through his ear, coffee cooled. and told me that four or five of his They also included people like Pet­ friends did too. er, who showed up at MSU a year Two girls I recognized from the ago looking perfectly straight, except dorm cafeteria, of all places, looked for a graduation tassel he wore around at me oddly as they came in. his neck like a talisman. (It was a "Don't I know you from some­ reminder of a summer he had spent where?" one of them asked me. She photographs by helen levitt from "a wave scene --new york: viking press, 1965 knocking around the Midwest.) Peter had on a dark blue Beatle cap. gradually got scuzzier and scuzzier "The dorm," I said. as last year progressed, and finally "Are you KIDDING me?" (Some­ went round the bend altogether on one thing surely ought to be said about own brand of rock 'n' roll. Someone named Driscoll mixed his memorable evening when he mixed this phrase; its use reached epi­ I decided it was time to go and went highs, as we say in the trade, getting himself a batch of morning glory stew demic proportions during the term, looking for Kinsella, but he was doing mindf*cked on anti-histamines and —a bouillabaisse of gin, Lipton tea, a talk think with some dizzy kid who then staring for an hour into a 500- and one English professor even work­ watt bulb. and hundred of ground-up morning ed it into two lectures on irony.) had theories about Death and all; he glory seeds. "He's not," said the other girl, wasn't interested in going home. I fin­ And Kinsella, walking back to the ally got a ride with a Lansing Com­ dormitory, took a wrong turn on East SITTING IN A NOWHERE LAND who had blond hair to the shoulders and wore a heavy wooden cross around munity College student who spent most Grand River and was- within two Parties continued apace. Fairly her neck. "I've seen him around the of the trip back trying in vain to get blocks of the state capitol (miles away typical was the one about the middle the name of the girl I was with. in the freezing cold) before he real­ dorm." ized his mistake. of the term which Ken and Kinsella, "Are you Kinsella's roommate?" But we had left too early. a mooncalf who pretends to be a stu­ (Kinsella actually lived in my dorm, Kit got violently sick and had to be That's how it is in the multiver­ dent, took me to. I took along a girl in a room decorated with hanging taken home. sity, men. That's how it REALLY is. from the dorm and a visiting friend fishnets and jazz album covers. He from my distant hometown. played jazz and burned incense almost Coming through the door, I happen­ around the clock, but his roommates, ed to mutter something about "price instead of murdering him in his bed, Multiversity of admission: your mind," a catch- had gradually become almost as ali­ The school is small, and the phrase from a Herman Hesse novel enated as he was.) student has no place to hide, no way which is much admired in certain "Huh-uh," I said. "I'm here on my the reason that most don't do this is to avoid the pressure. I far prefer circles. This blew Kinsella's mind, own steam." not because they can't, but because the MSU structure, where contact is as we say in the trade, and he spent I think the girl in the Beatle cap they don't want to. available when wanted and avoidable the rest of the evening hopping from my have said, "Are you KIDDING The attacks on administrators, at will. And if it be argued that all sofa to sofa like some great bird, me?" again, but this may be a false properly formulated, are attacks on small schools need not be repres­ shouting "It's relevant! It's all rel­ memory. The girls, whose names BAD administration, not on adminis­ sive, I can reply that all multiver­ evant!" Occasionally he slowed down were Kit and Shannon, got to be great tration per se. sities need not be inhuman. long enough to explain: "All these friends of mine, and we ate dinner The third complaint, that size by I have avoided mention here of the relevant people here. Really. And together a couple of times a week its very nature brings dehumaniza- legion flaws that are present in the they're not going to survive. They do for the next month; our table talk tion, is most serious. The assump­ contemporary multiversity (cf. Stu a thing now, but they aren't going to was the verbal massacre of the mid­ tion of such complaints seems to be Dowty's article in CSR's latest Or- survive." dle class. that, while all size is bad, all small- ganon), because what has concerned He looked at me, and his eyes Conversation rose and fell around ness is good; in truth neither of me is the concept of multiversity, not flashed strangely, as though they me. these is the case. In fact, from per­ its present instances; and so far I were made of glass. (The only light The room was slowly filling up with sonal experience I can say that the have found nothing intrinsically per­ in the room was blue, and dangled newcomers, some of them terribly average small prep school, and the nicious in it. I should hope, then, from the ceiling on a chain; every­ straight. Ken and two friends started 4< little ivy league" college that is that arguments directed against mul­ thing in the room had suffered a mys­ what amounted to a community sing; its extension, is far more oppres­ tiversities make their target the qual­ terious sea-change.) "But you, you're when they ran out of blasphemy and sive and repressive than the average ity of these bodies, and not simply going to survive. You can verbalize." radicalism, they fell back on their multiversity. their existence.