Moffat Leads Baja Trip

^ SENTINEL Volume 20, Number'l l Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022 January 13,1978

Moffat leads Baja trip

By MICHAEL KEARNS a proboscis. This proboscis’ purpose looks ferocious, a Almost like clockwork thi territorial tool in fact, that time of year, a series of event actually hinders more than it take place that only a small per helps. He is an awewome, but centage of people ever get to see beautiful sight in any case. It’s up close. From late December tc sad to think these great creatures late March, wildlife activity a were formerly abundant as long the coast is at its peak far as Point Reyes, but were Elephant seals pup and hunted so extensively for their breed, gray whales bear their fine quality oil that they were young, sea lions swim and nearly exterminated. They are bask among the volcanic rocks easily aggravated during the and cliffs. In addition, migratory breeding season. Approaching shorebirds and waterfowl a- them at this time frigirtens them bound, plant life is often in and may result in crushing their bloom from the winter rains own pups. and killer whales and dolphins Oozing into San Ignacio Instructor Glen Moffat leads students on Baja marine wildlife tour. may be seen. Lagoon created a tremendous Recently, this writer had excitement among the passen the good fortune of joining gers. This is an outstanding Glenn Moffat (professor of biol breeding habitat for the gray ogy and ecology at Foothill), whale. These creatures are grace Student Sanchez wins and another Foothill student, ful giants, outsmarting us at Cathy Nau, for a trip that took every turn. us down along the coast of Baja, How small and unimportant Doug Herman award California. Moffat was one of everyone seemed to feel among the leaders of the expedition, By FLO PALLAKOFF organization which raises funds last year in a tragic accident. our hosts and surroundings, our sponsored by Nature Expedi for and operates KFJC, the Herman, a victim of muscular eyes wide open, listening and tions I international (N.E.L). The The first winner of the campus radio station. dystrophy, died by strangulation looking for a whale to sound, main interest focused on the Douglas Herman Memorial “My field is T.V. journalism when he became entangled in a followed by those magnificent migration of the gray whale and Scholarship is 22 year old Bar and broadcast news,” says San pully device which he used to flukes dripping and gliding, the elephant seals, both species bara Sanchez, according to Foot chez. She plans to enter San get from his bed to a wheel sinking below. The whales put populations were at one time or hill College Assistant Scholarship Jose State University as a junior chair. A trust fund benefiting off a primitive atmosphere, yet another, dangerously low. Chairman, Sidnee Leong. next fall and hopes eventually disabled students was also at the same time, there is an The San Benitos islands lie Sanchez, a second year to receive a Masters degree in established in his honor. The unquestionable intelligence. approximately half-way down Broadcasting major, is the first broadcasting. Douglas Herman Memorial There are around 15-18 the coast of Baja, California. recipient of the $100 grant The scholarship honors the Scholarship is separately funded thousand gray whales left. They, They are among the most established last year by the memory of Douglas Herman, a by the Dead Air Club and is along with the other sea lions, beautiful and interesting islands “Dead Air Club,” a student KFJC disc jockey, who died open to all broadcasting majors. seals and dolphins have fortun in Baja, and have served as ately been in less danger since breeding grounds for California the 1972 “Mammal Act,” but sea lions and the elephant seals then there is the blue whale, for hundreds of years. From a who numbers less than a thou distance, they seem to give one a sand. Unfortunately its value has Transit Center Proposed vision of the fog shrouded Skull been responsible for its near Island from the original “King extinction. Kong” movie. Costello Island, southeast directed to request a study of ters and would “provide a The ignorance of man is quadrant 0f the Moody Rd. and the traffic flow around the Cos sheltered bus stop for Foothill A bull elephant seal reaches well known. All these facts come Foothill Expressway intersec tello Island area, and discuss Students.” a length of 15—16 feet and into play when you are actual tion, may soon be purchased by purchase of the land with the If and when the transfer weighs about 4,000 to 5,000 ly there. The killing here, has the Town of Los Altos for use property owner. Rezoning at center is completed, parking pounds. It’s quite fascinating to stopped to a degree, Mexico was as a proposed transit center. that time will be reconsidered. could be available to Foothill watch these creatures undulate the first to take a hand in this,, A request for possible re The transit center would be commuters at Costello Island. across a beach and lumber into then the U.S., then Canada. zoning of the parcel from the the Los Altos central Santa Those who are tired of driving the ocean. It looks somewhat If you talk to Moffat about current xh acre single family Clara County Transit transfer the back area of the parking lot like a monster inch-worm. The whales, gray whales especially, dwelling use to Public and location. Dave Donahue, Town by 280 and being forced to park male develops a bulbous enlarge you can be prepared to learn Community Facilities (CF) use Engineer, claims the location illegally regardless, may have the ment of the snout (thus his (continued on page 4) was denied. The staff was would be ideal for area commu bus as an eventual alternative. name), that is commonly called Page 2, January 13, 1978, Foothill SENTINEL

The SENTINEL welcomes letters to the Editor. Please submit by 10 a.m. Mondays, Foothill weathers in M-24, the SENTINEL office. Names may be On the Spot withheld from print by the request of the storm writer, but no letter will be printed without the By DAVID COLLINS AND PETER BLISS By FLO PALLAKOFF shades of greens ana author’s identity being known to the Editor. “Sometimes little browns. Rain is sensuous.” RAIN COMES IN MANY FORMS. WHICH DO problems can run into big Because of building problems,” said Walt Editor: YOU LIKE? design, Foothill College operating to respond to Zander, the Facility Super The December 2nd roofs catch an enormous women’s needs, it appears visor of Foothill College. SENTINEL article on amount of water during a that-with a little shop No pun intended, even “Women in Continuing Sigrid Hanson, Liberal storm. ping around—whatever wo Arts: though he was talking Education” indicated that men want, women will “The misty kind of about the storm drain The design does not there are two women’s get.” system. include the usual down rain at the beach.” centers on campus. At Foothill one third This visit to Zander’s spouts, Zander explains. “Wow!’, we thought, “ two of the student enrollment Instead, there is a gutter office (officially, Physical women’s centers on cam this year is women contin system that collects roof Plant Administration) was pus!” so off we went to uing their education. Many prompted by the first run-off and directs it along investigate Room 7A in of these women are trying significant rains in two selected beams. The water the administration build to obtain skills to be Scott Pierce, English: years. than pours off the beam ing. What we found out self-supporting. Many have onto rock aggregate splash “I like hail; to hail and what we would like families and jobs as well as From Zander’s office pads and then into pea- with it.” to clarify for the student classes. These diverse wo window in the Adminis rock drainage paths along body is as follows: men need the diversity of tration Building, one could the walkways. 1) Room 7A in ad women’s programs at see the long-awaited wa The drainage paths ministration is Georgia Foothill. Each program ters cascading down the flow into the underground Meredith’s office out of meets a need; there are no campus’ steep pitched storm drain system, a which comes the Contin duplications. Dennis Cartwright roofs, transforming heavy series of pipes 24 to 32 beams into modern day uing Education for Women We would like to ap Science: inches in diamater, that gargoyles. program. This program plaud the SENTINEL for “Snow is one of the empty into the creeks or Students hugged provides entrichment doing a feature article on nicer forms. I like es sewage systems downhill. building walls as they courses, community short women’s studies oppor pecially the crystaline The biggest storm-re scampered from class to courses and other flexi tunities but we found the crystals.” lated probelm on the hill class, gingerly avoiding the ble projects that serve article misleading at points top campus, according to mini-waterfalls from above women. and sometimes patronizing Zander, is erosion. and quick-forming rivulets 2) Foothill also offers in tone. Women’s studies Zander keeps tabs on and ponds on the ground. a women’s studies pro still has a very small bud potential and actual pro Hans Mooyman, undeci Overnight, the dry creek gram. This sprogram, co get. The women’s center blems (clogged drains, ded: bed between the campus ordinated by Peggy Moore, and peer counseling for leaks, pooling, sidewalk “Snow. I don’t like it and parking lot B ahd offers an A.A. degree in women have only the safety, signs of erosion, wet because I ride a motor become a torrent, fed by women’s studies and many etc.) with a crew of 31 money they raise them cycle.” gushing storm drains. transferable undergraduate people, including Grounds courses in several depart selves. Faculty, sfaff, and According to Zander, Foreman, Albert Moniz. ments. students have pushed to he and the District office Each crewman carries a 3) There is a Women’s get these programs for wo of “Plant Services” (Phy communication device and Center on campus located men. It takes more than sical Plant Administration) can be dispatched to the in L-7. Women can drop “shopping around”-what- scene of a problem at a in, get coffee, study, join ever women want, we Terry Callahan, Environ How was Foothill Col moment’s notice, rap groups, and find re know we will have to mental studies: lege weathering the storm? are “definitely discussing" sources and notices of work for! “Lots of rain and Very well, according to the possibilities of a events and services for snow. I’m into that.” Zander. “catch system”—an eco women. Peer counselors Submitted by The “We maintain the nomically feasible way to and a Women’s Collective Women’s Collective. drainage systems whether capture water run-off and are also available. Questions about this there’s rain or not,” he reuse it for irrigation be The SENTINEL arti letter may be referred to Rain brings incredible fore it gets away downhill. cle concluded, “whatever Georgia Thomas 948-8555 diverse ideologies are or Jinx Kuehn 326-7575 EXCITING THINGS ARE HAPPENING AT THE ACADEMY OF ART COLLEGE. The. 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Area residents who will not be on field yields oil for only a few We had paintings campus during the week to pick up a copy decades. of the sea—now we have painters of The Sentinel newspaper may have Once the whole world was A sperm whale calf, new under the sea who feel as well copies sent to them by writing to a frontier challenging man. Now born by the polar ice, will as see what they are painting. Newspaper Courses, Off-Campus Office, Foothill College, 345 El Monte Road, Los the land is explored, occupied, outlive the oil fields—if we let The most profound chan Altos Hills, CA 94022. and bursting with people. Only it. The living resources of the ges in our views have to do with the sea remains as Byron des sea will help to feed us forever our basic understading of the "Oceans: Our Continuing Frontier" cribed it, “dark-heaving-bound- if we only can control human world around us. Working on (Oceanography 10; QO10-60R) less-endless and sublime.” It is ignorance and greed. Fisheries and in the heaving sea, scientists The "Oceans" course will cover the to this frontier that people in their present form, however, have come to a new perception history of scientific and geographical voyages, descriptions of the earth and its turn increasingly in the hope will not help much more than of the solid land they left ocean basins, the geology of the ocean, its that it will offer the riches of they do now. What can be hoped behind. chemical and physical properties, marine the frontiers that are gone—or of hunting? We would not be The floor of the abyss is split mammals, the cultures and lifestyles of because it seems the last hope. what we are, nor in our present ting apart; the land moves; ocean peoples, and man and industry's impact on the oceans. In America the hope surges predicament, if we had not whole continents drift from high. This is only fitting, for no pie to equator; and the his Foothill's David Roderick w ill be in- invented farming 10,000 years structor-of-record. He will conduct an great nation has. been more ago. The world needs to farm tory of the world is not what orientation session on January 11 at 8 p.m. intimately linked to the sea the sea and herd the fish. it seemed. This revolutionary on campus. Two seminars and two exams throughout its history. Nor none The most advanced and pro viewpoint, as startling as the will follow for four units of credit. so negligent of that link when ductive farms in the world idea once was that the earth other frontiers beckoned. Across are in America. One very impor moves around the sun, is open "Popular Culture" (Hisiory 25) the sea our ancestors came, tant reason for this pre-eminence ing new frontiers of the mind American life styles and leisure pur suits will come under close scrutiny in this willy nilly, in an unmatched is the advancement of agri that will help us to understand course-by-newspaper featuring columns migration. Only the Polynesians cultural research that occurred the physical frontier of the sea. by nationally known scholars and ob went farther seeking homes, and in the Land Grant Colleges. The sea is a continuing fron servers of contemporary life. them the sea conquered. The Taking note of this, the nation tier because it has been too Among the contributors will be Nat founding Americans clung to the Hentoff, writer for The New Yorker and is beginning to support the Sea strong to be subdued. The bal- Village Voice; Betty Friedan, founder of sea at first, and most of us Grant Colleges and foster the lance is changing. We have not the National Organization for Women; are still clustered there in the development of the resources fished the oceans clean but we Robert Lipsyte, sports columnist for The great cities that began as ports. of the sea. I say “ beginning” probably could. We have not New Yorker Post; Andrew Hacker, More and more the sea interests poisoned them but we could. professor of government at Queen* although the program is several College; Nathan I. Huggins, professor of the city dwellers for sport, years old, because the appli Few scientists believe that we history at Columbia University; and Alvii* surfing, and diving, but it was cation of science and industry have significantly altered the vast Toffler, author of "Future Shock" and not always so. to marine food production is open ocean, but near the cities "The Culture Consumers." In those ports we once surely in its infancy. Here and we have. Even a sea as large as built a merchant fleet that the Mediterranan may already "Crime and Justice in America" (Social there in the world we crop Science 30X; RT52-60R) cluminated in the clipper ships— oysters and shrimp and other be in danger because it is en Despite efforts to combat it, crime the queens of the seas, when the high cost foods. Likewise we are closed—and many of its bur persists as a pervasive, ever-expanding ’49ers sailed to California. By learning to cultivate lobster and geoning industrial cities dump phenomenon of American life. Thus the causes of crime, theories of prevention, 1890 when American Admiral abalone. Even on a large scale sewage as they did in ancient, Mahan wrote his great theore and means of control (police, courts, these developments will not feed emptier times. corrections) will be explored in a third tical analysis, “The Influence of very many people, but they Even the open sea is de newspaper course "Crime and Justice in1 Sea Power Upon History,” the may encourage greater advances. fenseless against the pollution America." fleet was gone. We built it again The plants and animals of our of some new materials created Anbnentation to the course will be held on campus on Friday, January 6, at 8 p.m during the World Wars, watched farms are not those we acquired by man. No organisms nor it rust, and again it is gone. Two reviews and two exams will follow fot from the wild state millennia natural reactions affect them, 2 units of college credit. and they will become ever IN PURSUIT OF LEVIATHAN ago. They were specially bred to grow rapidly, resist disease, more objectionable for ages to Biographical History: Geneology (Socia Science 70A; RT70-60R) and yield food. come. Finally, we face the From the tiny ports of New Learn how to trace your own "famih The plants and animals of ultimate pollution of nuclear tree" and its relationship to regional England issued the men who did the sea remain to be bred for wastes, not necessarily those movements and national historical not fear to battle in his own our purposes. Why pursue the from power plants which might developments in the newspaper course, element the largest animal that possibly be containable. A "Biographical History: An Introduction to tuna? Why should he not forage Historical Genealogy." ever lived. From pole to pole for himself and return to our twenty-minute exchange of nu and through the tropic clime cooking pots like the salmon? clear rockets could poison the An orientation to the genealogy columns is slated for Thursday, January they pursed leviathan for his oil To change the tuna we must sea. until one day a new frontier 12, at 8 p.m. on campus. Two seminars and change our viewpoint. The frontier of the sea has two exams also will be held for students opened and cheaper oil was much to offer. Properly devel seeking four units of credit. found on the land. All that re CHANGING VIEWPOINTS oped it can provide challenges mained was a tradition, a few for future generations of pio men telling sea stories and a Not long ago all our views neers. People who have the few women staring moist-eyed of the sea were derived from the spirit and will to farm, herd, uncontrolled resources are not. of deep sea oceanographic ex at the sea. Those and an epic land, but attitudes and view and mine the sea. People who “Boundless,” but the emerging peditions and has made more masterpiece, Melville’s “ Moby- points are changing. The hor teach, study, paint, and write law of the sea could bind it. than a thousand scientific dives Dick.” rors of the deep have become about the sea while they are on “Sublime,” let us unite to keep with an aqualung. He served That was a century ago. the shy creatures of Jacques and in it. There will be a price it so. on the White House science Now the oil fields of the land Cousteau’s movies. What was to pay and, as times change, H. WILLIAM MENARD staff in 1965-66 and is a con grow as elusive as the great white a global myth of a flood has some of the moist eyes gazing joined the faculty of the Scripps sultant to Congress, various fed whale. A new Breed of Ameri become a measured, dated glo at the sea may belong to men. Institution of Oceanography as a eral agencies, learned societies can has turned to the sea seeking bal rise in sea level. We had However, we shall never learn professor of geology in 1956 and industry. A member of both oil from the continental shelf. chanteys about the whale—now to conquer the new frontier un after serving as a naval officer in the National Academy of Sci Monstrous and marvelous towers we have recorded the eerie less we first control ourselves. World War II and as an oceanog ences and the American Acad rise from the waves, and the moving song of the whale him Nothing could be worse for rapher with the Navy Electron emy of Arts and Sciences, he accents of Texas are heard from was the first to discover many self. Can we, with such a song mankind—or the sea—than a law ics Laboratory in San Diego. the North Sea to the Persian echoing in memory, still hunt less technological race. “ End of the fracture zones in the floor Gulf. These too will pass—a leviathan? less,” wrote Byron, but the He has participated in a score of the Pacific Ocean. Page 4. January 13, 1978, Foothill SENTINEL

Genealogy: researching your family background

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR . , not interested in, or likely Recently advice on how to There are both psychologi about their family background, to find, historical material of research your family back cal and social obstacles to will vaguely mention that their value; because it is very difficult ground, advice on how to do research of this type, if you ancestry includes . . . , and then About the instructor . . . to provide even the basic guid historical research, has been research in your own family mention several European ethnic Russell Grigory is a histori ance necessary for even well- offered by a savings and loan background, or appear to be groups, without actually having an trained in the Ph.D. program educated amateurs engaged in association, an airline, a national doing so. one iota of evidence. at Columbia University. He has such a complicated endeavor; talk show, and national news One must be prepared for American society has suc had extensive research experien because they do not want to be magazines. Admittedly, the derisive statements, suspicious ceeded to an impressive degree ce in this country and in Europe, advice was no worse than that attitudes, and outright hostility. as a result of Americans attemp and has taught basic and advan linked to disreputable, or simply offered by the traditional sup Though tliis may be hard to ting to practice a belief, admit ced courses in modern European incompetent, participants in pliers of such guidance. Indeed, believe for those who have never tedly proclaimed on a wider and American history at Con what can be described as the most of it seems to have come attempted such research. Many scale than it has been practiced, necticut College and at both Genealogy Industry; because, from those very sources. people will consider you to be that equality does not require Illinois and New York State though they are a small fraction As people’.s interest in their odd or strangely threatening, people to be the same in regard Universities. Material in these of the total, the most publicized own family background has perhaps even “ un-American.” to religion or ethnic origin. Such articles has been excerpted from genealogical researchers are increased, so has the availability Probably only Americans variety can even include differ a course he developed and doing their work for religious of misleadingly simple, and would display so prominent a ences in family background and taught in the Social Science purposes; and because of the outright bad, advice. Tacking on national symbol as the Statue of the knowledge of those differ Division at Foothill College antipathy of a significant por the suggestion to consult your Liberty with an inscription on ences, without unravelling the tion of the general public toward local genealogical library simply INTRODUCTION its base using the phrase:-“Give American social fabric. As people researching their own compounds the problem. me . . . the wretched refuse of Americans, we remain remark family background. Even many of the family ably and irrationally sensitive to All courses should begin your teeming shore.” Even By default therefore a great histories of famous “old making allowance for a variation differences in family background. with a justification for their many people interested in, and families” and royal families are in the understanding of the The development of democracy existence. Any course that in doing useful research in, aspects enough to cause even the most words, its affect is a represen and the increasing opposition to cludes some of what is common of history, and acquiring and conservative and generous of the principal and practice of ly called Genealogy is certainly tation of American immigrant preserving valuable materials, historians to become convulsed inherited privilege is still con required to do so. origins sufficient to warm the have been left dependent almost with laughter and thrash about fused with research into family The purpose of-this course hearts of the coldest foreign entirely upon the guidance of on the floor cackling hysteric critics of American society. backgrounds, which is a valid is to give some basic guidance to well-meaning amateurs who ally. people interested in finding This inscription is only one note historical study, and which is usually don’t realize how un The genealogy of the Dutch information about individuals in a theme in American society, particularly important in regard prepared they are to offer royal family is claimed to go who lived in the past, including a warning to avoid looking into to American history. Even guidance. Sometimes these back 2,000 years to a King of details of life-styles in various the family background of Ameri “Genealogy” has been a tool in amateur researchers are left to Armenia. Father Mathew times and places in Amer cans— those descended from recording relationships, rather outright swindlers. ica, whether the individuals O’Brien in 1901 was historically “wretched refuse.” Of course, it than a justification for the and religiously fortunate enough does add to the American passing of privilege through being researched were ancestors Historical research requires to be able to claim a genealogy over-confidence in upward such relationships, or a claim to of the researcher or not. quite a varied background of of 130 generations going back mobility. some form of distinction. experience and knowledge, not 5,905 years to Adam and Eve When people engage in what Many people even seem con only to find material and know and the creation of the world. is called “genealogical” research, Early in the epic evolution vinced that the normal curiosity its meaning, but in order to Americans have an admir they are engaged in aspects of of American society the disparity of anyone about his family relate such material to other able interest in the do-it-yourself background is really the desire historical research and, except in in the origins of our people historical elements. approach, and a healthy disregard rare cases, they do have the seems to have frightened us. Yet to find some noble ancestor. A Those amateur historians of self-proclaimed “experts.” advantages that properly trained no political unit has ever had a result of this is that librarians with experience in limited areas But a line should be drawn and experienced historians could homogenized society. have loaded library shelves with and materials are not to be somewhere. Historians should expensive, colorful, and quite provide. Not only can these To create a political nation, dismissed. Some of them are object, just as surgeons would useless books on Heraldry. I historians make the research an over-emphasis on unity was admirable people who have object to a determined and believe there are just as many easier, in some cases they alone unavoidable. Americans seemed provided valuable material and well-meaning amateur entering people looking up the family can make it possible. to have felt themselves compel given generously of their time an operating room with a Boy cattle-brand. Historians who have done and knowledge. Certainly all led by their search for the Scout knife. Historians and abolition of abrasive forms of certain types of research some serious researchers know that surgeons can make enough mis times have had a considerable distinction to hide or ignore Even P. William Filby’s the sharing of knowledge always takes on their own. And his amount of experience in recon their family backgrounds. In handy reference book for begin increases the sum total of torians cannot bury their mis structing details of the lives of secure in a new and rapidly ners is entitled American and knowledge, whether between takes, or invoke any malpractice common, and not so common, instructor and student, or be changing environment, remem British Genealogy and Heraldry, insurance at all. bering the essence of the Euro people of the past. This kind of tween amateur and professional though the author (Director of research has been done for historian. Lack of guidance, or bad pean political-social system to be the Maryland Historical Society), biographical purposes, and to The objection is to those guidance, can lead industrious based on powerful and privi- devotes only about 19 pages to form and refine generalizations amateurs familiar with" only a and .serious amateur researchers liged local families, it was better Heraldry in a book which is a not to assume the burden of about various aspects of history. narrow area or period who into unnecessary blind alleys, selected list of 5,125 sources, Historians generally do not sometimes write general guides, waste a lot of their time, and appearing different from one’s and runs to 467 pages. associate themselves with geneal frequently from what seems to often produce a faulty or wholly fellow citizens. Americans gener An oft repeated excuse for ogical research for one or more mythical end-product. The waste not searching out one’s own be the left-overs of their own ally participated in the creation of the following reasons: be to the history profession is also family background is the fear of genealogical research—which of the myth of the melted cause they believe that their to be deeply regretted, when it finding “a horse-thief’ in the accounts for the strange charac American—in the face of all laboriously acquired special can be shown that those engaged family, or “illigitimacy.” Yet 1 ter of some of those guides. evidence to the contrary and in skills should not be used in in such research usually do not can’t imagine a rational person Frequently these people are opposition to rationality. Stran such an “uneconomical” em resemble the stereotypes, and who wouldn’t prefer that to reminiscent of blind men more gely, a great many Americans ployment'of their time; because with proper guidance can fre finding himself related to royal or less familiar with the single came to feel comfortable in such research is believed to be quently produce significant ty, which has provided history looking about suspiciously and relatively unproductive of useful part of the elephant each has material. And these people far with some of the most appaling resentfully at those who didn’t conclusions; because it is be examined, who then individually out-n umber the diminishing pool examples of humanity imagin lieved that those researching proceed to write textbooks on of graduate students in conven appear properly melted. Fre able, and some of its most their own family background are Zoology. tional history. quently Americans, when asked famous bastards. Foothill SENTINEL. January 13, 1978, Page 5

COURSES BY NEWSPAPER Crime: no simple solutions

By JEROME H. SKOLNICK flects through political advocacy different and conflicting views— and so it changes. Teetotalers Editor’s Note: This is the scrupulously obeyed the Pro first in a series of 15 articles ex hibition laws; drinkers did not. ploring “ Crime and Justice in Drinkers changed the law. America.” In this introductory During the 1960’s, laws article, Jerome H. Skolnick, prohibiting marijuana use Director of the Center for the amounted to a new prohibition. Study of Law and Society at the People over 4 0—who drank University of California, Berke whiskey—complied with the law ley, discusses the scope and and were offended by younger nature of the crime problem in people who smoked marijuana. America and concludes that As younger people are becoming there are no easy solutions. successful politicians, penalties This series was written for for smoking marijuana continue COURSES BY NEWSPAPER, a to diminish and may eventually program developed by Univer disappear. sity Extension, University of We could introduce criminal California, San Diego, and penalties for manufacturing de funded by a grant from the fective automobile brakes, which National Endowment for the kill and maim thousands. But we Humanities. Supplemental fund don’t, because in recent years ing for this course was provided the automobile manufacturers’ by the Center for Studies of lobby has had more clout than Crime and Delinquency, National Ralph Nader, who proposed Institute of Mental Health. such laws in the Congress. Copyright 1977 by the Re Maybe that, too, will change. Other crimes—serious street gents of the University of Some observers have proposed to solve the crime problem in the United California. crimes such as murder, rape, assault, and robbery—are almost States by locking up more criminals for longer periods of time, but prisons universally condemned. It is such as this one at San Quentin have high economic and social costs. Americans are upset about these crimes that are the focus MOTIVES OF CRIMINALS into the drug traffic. This is an accord with constitutional pro crime. of proposals to “solve” the unexpected social cost of punish tection. crime problem by increasing the ment. There are many others. We are understandably an Our legacy of slavery, severity and certainty of punish The war on crime looks Particularly for young gry and frustrated when we immigration, and culture con cannot safely walk down city ment. more and more like the war in people, being a criminal may flict, combined with the ideolo streets, or take the kids on a Why, then, not simply Vietnam. Those who pursue it even have advantages over work camping trip for fear the house enforce these laws more rigor are largely ignorant of what ing in a boring and unrewarding gies of free enterprise and con will be robbed in our absence. ously and punish swiftly and motivates the enemy. job. One can earn far more steal stitutional democracy is unique We are morally outraged surely those found guilty of ing cars than washing them. in the world. As David Bay ley’s violating them? Many people- Even the risk may prove advan recent work comparing high when we discover that business Of course the threat of including some prominent tageous. In some circles, a American with low Japanese men and government officials punishment deters. But nobody have been conspiring to use criminologists—have advocated “jolt” in prison offers an affirm crime rates shows, we are not this seemingly simple and there is clear about how much threat ation of manhood—as well as strictly comparable to Japan or, public funds for private gain. deters whom with what effect. fore attractive solution to the advanced training in criminal for that matter, to any place Sometimes, frustration vir For example, millions of pre problem of American crime. But skills and identity. Thus, the else. tually tempts us to demand the sumably rational human beings such a solution is not so simple. administration of justice can ridiculous—to insist that there be are not deterred from smoking Although politicians—as A criminal justice system can generate criminality as well as a law against crime. In fact, of cigarettes even though the prob well as some scholars and increase risk for a criminal— deter it. course, many laws already pro abilities of punishment through police spokesmen—will try to but not by much, and at higher Actually, the most promis hibit and threaten severe punish cancer, emphysema, and heart sell us on apparently simple cost than many people believe. ing targets of deterrence are ment for all sorts of conduct, disease are clear and painful. solutions to the American crime including armed robbery, ob white-collar criminals—business problem, we should remain HIGH COST OF People often believe that present struction of justice, failure to executives and professionals— skeptical. In the past simple PUNISHMENT benefits or pleasure outweigh report income, and the use of who have the most to lose by solutions have not worked. future costs or threats of pain. conviction for a crime and are various drugs. Unless we understand why, The social and economic Heavy punishment programs more likely to weigh the poten Yet, for many reasons, we the future will prove comparably can also incur unexpected social tial costs of committing crime cannot count on the criminal costs of punishment are often unsuccessful. We have to know underestimated. It is easy to call costs. Several years ago Nelson against its benefits. law alone to work perfectly, what doesn’t work to find out for a major expansion of law B. Rockefeller, then governor of to prevent crime entirely. what might. The reasons for past enforcement resources; it is less New York, proposed as an First, not everyone reveres failure and possible remedies will easy to pay for it. answer to street crime that harsh FUNDAMENTAL be further explored in later criminal law, or not in the same Policemen, courts, and sentences, up to life imprison CONTRADICTIONS articles in this 15-part series on way. By passing a law we may prisons are expensive. It is ment, be imposed for drug institutional crime, street crime, even make the prohibited con cheaper to send a youngster to trafficking, and that sterner There are no easy prescrip duct more popular. President the limits of the criminal law, Harvard than a robber to San enforcement and heavier punish tions for crime in America. It the administration of criminal Hoover’s Wickersham Commis Quentin. And the average San ment be imposed against drug has become an intrinsic part of sion, which studied the effects justice, and the organization of Francisco policeman now draws users, many of whom are en life in this country as a result punishment. of Prohibition on the nation —with pension—more than gaged in street crime. The “lock- of fundamental contradictions during the 1920’s, concluded $25,000 per year, to say nothing ’em-up” approach seemed sen of American society. We main that a new institution—the of his police car, support equip sible and hardheaded to many tain an egalitarian ideology NEXT WEEK: Gilbert Geis, speakeasy—made drinking ment, and facilities. New Yorkers fearful of walking amidst a history of slavery and Professor of Social Ecology at fashionable for wide segments of The recent experience of a the city streets and to numerous contemporary unemployment. the University of California, the professional and middle “law and order” administration law enforcement officials. We say we are against organized Irvine, discusses white-collar classes who had previously not that poured billions of dollars Yet a recently conducted crime, but millions of us enjoy crime. experienced the sinful delight through the Law Enforcement “New York Times” survey of and consume its goods and of recreational boozing. Assistance Administration into 100 New York City judges, services—drugs, gambling, pros JEROME H. SKOLNICK is It is evident that the passage the war on crime is exemplary reported on Jan. 2, 1977, found titution, pornography. Director of the Center for the of law, especially criminal law, and sobering. While violent that the new, very tough nar We demand heavier punish Study of Law and Society at the does not always work out the crime rose 174 per cent from cotics law failed to deter illegal ment-longer prison terms—yet University of California, Ber way those who advocated pas 1963 to 1973 , local spending for drug use in the city. Further fail to appreciate the social and keley, where he has also been a sage foresaw. law enforcement multiplied more, over half the judges be economic costs of prisons. We Professor of Criminology since more than seven times—and lieved the laws had worsened support the Constitution and its 1970. He previously taught at LEGISLATIVE POLITICS L.E.A.A. poured in $3.5 billion the situation because youngsters protection of individual liberties Yale University, the University —immune from the harsher —yet criticize judges who insist between 1969 and 1974. of Chicago, and the University Second, criminal law re provisions—had been recruited the police conduct themselves in of California, San Diego. Page 6, January 13, 1978, Foothill SENTINEL

Mirra of American Life What manner of mirror ?

By DAVID MANNING WHITE It's the Texaco Oil Com pany sponsoring the broadcasts Editor's Note: This is the of operas from the Met for 38 first in a series o f 15 articles consecutive years during which exploring "Popular Culture: Verdi, Puccini, Wagner, and Mo Mirror of American Life." In zart were heard by more than a this introductory article, David billion listeners. Manning White, Professor of A COMPOSITE PICTURE Mass Communications at Vir Every society, o f course, ginia Commonwealth University, from earliest civilizations on, has discusses the scope and nature been typified by its arts, the of American popular culture, way its people dressed, the which he sees as a mirror of the foods they prepared, its music, way most o f us spend our its religions—a composite picture leisure hours. This series was that can be defined as that so written for COURSES BY ciety's culture. NEWSPAPER, a program devel And what of American oped by University Extension, society today? University of California, San It is characterized by a pop Diego, and funded by a grant ular culture so pervasive that from the National Endowment Americans spend at least one- for the Humanities. third of the total hours of their lives as w illing participants in it. A MASS-MEDIATED SOCIETY. Customers and employees in the television section Our popular culture, which Walt Whiteman intuitively of a New York department store watch the Special Senate Committe hearings on Water understood what popular culture started in the 19th Century, gate, May 17,1973. was ail about many decades came to a peak during the 20th before sociologists began to use Cerltury with the rapid decline During those 60 hours every Tarzan? Each day we Americans Unlike Shakespeare's Mark this all-encompassing term. o f the w ork week. Whereas our week of the year when we are at are m olding the elements of Antony, our intention in this "leisure," the mass media are As Whiteman put it, "I great-grandfathers put in a 72- popular culture into our lives. series is neither to bury nor hear America singing, its varied hour week in 1900, by the competing ferociously for our to praise popular culture, but carols I hear." All around us we 1970s we, their progeny, worked eyes and ears, to inform , per Popular culture, then, is the rather to examine the ways suade, but mainly to entertain continuous process that mirrors hear, see, touch, wear, and taste about half that amount. it reflects some very important us. the varied carols of our own Some Americans, a relative the manner in which most aspects of confemporary A m eri Americans spend perhaps the indigenous popular culture. ly small number, have chosen Because o f the universality can life. greatest segment o f their lives. A It's Arthur Fiedler, smiling to fill their leisure with the of popular culture, most of us In the next 14 weeks a mirror, by its very nature, usual as the sales of his albums with "high culture" in arts and lit feel that we know the media- group o f distinguished scholars ly gives a realistic picture of the Boston Pops passed the 50 erary fare that has traditional made celebrities much better and writers w ill discuss various what appears before it, but there million mark, while quoting the ly attracted the wealthiest or than our next door neighbors. facets of today's popular cul are some m irrors that distort and composer Rossini that "all music best educated elements o f so When an Elvis Presley or a Bing ture, examining its roots in the some that focus on our grotes is good except the boring kind." ciety. Crosby dies, there is sadness American past, its power as It's Dagwood and Blondie queness. But most Americans pur felt by 100 million people, each a gigantic industry, its role Bumstead, L'il Abner and sue their leisure in terms of mass of whom had his or her version If the image of ourselves is in interpreting (and sometimes Mammy Yokum, and good ol' entertainment. And it is mass of Elvis or Bing reinforced hun less than the idealized picture we affecting) social change in our Charlie Brown and Snoopy. entertainment—entertainment dreds or thousands of times might wish to see, we should national life, and even its pro It's 750,000 of us who produced fo r a mass audience— by movies, records, radio, and not blame the mirror. Our bable future. waited in line three to four that is a major factor in dis television. collective dreams, anxieties, and It is our hope that this hours to see the art treasures indeed our sheer existence have series, utilizing the oldest o f the tinguishing modern popular cul Advertisers spend more than of King Tut's tomb at Wash fashioned the m irror. Perhaps mass media, the American press, ture from other, earlier forms $35 billion a year in these me ington's National Gallery. the mirror only reflects the will help many Americans un of folk culture. dia, bombarding each o f us w ith It's the Reader's Digest for masks and the myths we want to derstand the implications of liv Mass entertainment itself 1,500 messages a day to tell the 40 million readers who believe about ourselves. We are ing in a "mass-mediated" socie- was made possible by the tech us what to eat and wear, and thrive on its apple-pie whole the mirror; the mirror is us. ety, and thereby enable them to nological innovations of the how to get rid o f the nagging someness; it's also Hustler and define more clearly the kind of 19th and 20th centuries. News headaches that the "outside" Since we are investing a to Penthouse for the millions of popular culture most meaning papers achieved a key role soon w orld gives us. tal o f about 25 years o f our voyeurs who thrive on a peek ful to their lives. after the 1830s, when improve lives in our "leisure" hours, over the transom of the primal It is a hugh complex of in ments in the printing process we cannot afford to be compla scene. dustries that provides our pop DAVID MANNING WHITE is and increased literacy made the cent about the quality of our ular culture, and if it is a costly Professor o f Mas Communica It's Muhammad Ali pro flamboyant "penny press" so popular culture. Therefore, a tions at Virginia Commonwealth business, we apparently are w il claiming, "This is Joe Namath's pervasive. M otion pictures fo l continual, constructive feedback University, having previously ling to pay the price. It is a country, but my world." lowed at the turn of this cen between the culture-consumers, been a Professor of Journalism very profitable enterprise for the It's McDonald's where they tury, radio shortly thereafter, as Alvin Toffler has termed us, media moguls who can best at Boston University from I949 do it all fo r you and gross about and finally, that most pervasive and the popular culture dis grasp what the public wants. to 1975. He served as general $3 billion a year. Viva Big Mac! of all popular culture institu pensers, whether they be in editor of the New York Times' It's six out o f every 10 tions, television. OUR LIVES REFLECTED New York, Hollywood, or Wash A rno Press series on Popular ington, D.C., is imperative. Culture in America, 1800-1925, Americans watching "Roots" THE MASS MEDIA Imagine a m irror so vast and for eight consecutive nights, Rosenberg, of "Mass Culture: Today we, as a nation, extensive that it reflects what Whether the media barons eclipsing the television audience spend more than 600 billion most of us Americans are need us more than we need them The Popular A rts in Am erica," that previously made the movie which was influential in creat hours each year just w ith the reading, listening to, or looking begs the question. They pro "Gone With the Wind" the ing interest in popular culture mass media of television, radio, at when we are not to ta lly in vide the mass culture that fills leader in spectator events. research among academicians. newspapers and magazines, m o volved in our daily jobs or our leisure hours; but we make it Other books include "The Cel It’s John Wayne's face wait tion pictures, and phonograph sleeping. Ten times as many of lucrative for them. Our common ing for a sculptor to find another records and tapes. These media us could identify Archie Bunker goal should be a national pop luloid Weapon: Social Comment on Film," "Journalism in the Mount Rushmore to immortalize are the instruments through as Chief Justic Burger or Secre ular culture that is enlightening him for succeeding generations which most of our popular cul tary o f State Vance, and who and enlivening as well as enter Mass M edia," and "Pop C ult in of Americans. ture is disseminated. couldn't describe Dick Tracy or taining. Am erica." Foothill SENTINEL, January 13, 1978, Page 7

Frameb7e Close Encounters of the Third Kind

A select group of government scientists await the moment of contact. Melinda Dillion as Jillian Guiler and Gary Guffy as her son, Barry, huddle together as something extraordinary takes place outside their home.

By DAVID HERN of the plausible. One At one point in the adorable child ever to Claude Lacombe, the sup first full-scale screenwrit- might be tempted to say, film, the camera catches a appear in a motion picture. posed world authority on ing effort. It shows. The A circular spacecraft “They don’t make ’em like glimpse of a Walter Keen He is sure to melt the UFO activities. script, for the most part is resembling a large, tin fry that anymore” except for painting, the epitome of heart of anyone who ever Melinda Dillon plays nothing much to speak of. ing pan with evenly spaced the fact that they never bad taste in the art world, hated “The Little Rascals” Jillian Guiler, Barry’s Spielberg, now only 2 9, is green and red lights around did quite make ’em like hanging on the wall in the or Shirley Temple. His in widowed mother with a fulfilling a lifetime dream the circumference lands in this. Neary home. This typifies nocence and the innocence quietly dignified pleasant in “ Close Encounters” by a large field. The craft To fully enjoy “ Close the distinctly “kitschy” of others is the central ness. This is her first including everything he looks as if it were made by Encounters,” the first American life Neary lives. core of the film. The screen appearance since always wanted to put into a youngster in a junior viewing must have it’s Until one day, he is ex curiosity with which Barry playing Woody Guthrie’s a screenplay, relevant or high school shop class. A share of surprises. So, I will posed to events he has plays his toy xylophone is wife in “ Bound for Glory.” not. At times he slides section of the craft folds reveal as little of the plot never even been forced to of the same intensity as If for no other reason, precariously close to out into an escape chute. as possible for review pur think about, much less our feelings of wonder laurels are owed to Spiel “making ’em like they A small green creature poses. deal with pragmatically, in ment when we gaze at the berg for the sheer magni used to.” with feelers sprouting The story surrounds his life of stifling domes heavens and ponder our tude of his undertaking. The plot elements and from his head emerges the mysterious connec ticity. Dreyfuss creates role in the cosmos. As might be suspected sequence of events are ob from the ship and says in tions between a five-note Neary with such polished Guffy also exhibits an from that statement, how viously geared more to a squeaky, monotone tune, an irregular dome “nurdliness” that we too uncanny acting ability. No ever, “Close Encounters” ward achieving an end voice, “greetings, earth shape and Roy Neary, a share in his panic over a doubt, Francois Truffaut, only warrants the use of than sustaining a narrative. lings. We come in peace. likably simple-minded shattered paradigm. the famous French film selected superlatives. Luckily, Spielberg inter Take us to your leader.” power company employee The other star of director who perfected the Although Spielberg sperses a good share of This stereotyped en played by Richard Drey “ Close Encounters” is the art of directing children conscripted his first film, spectacular mini-episodes counter with extraterres fuss. Neary is the arche character of Barry Guiler, with “ Small Change” had “The Sugarland Express” to keep the suspense level trial beings has been seen typal family man—quiet, played by 4 year old Cary a direct influence on based on a true incident, up. in everything from T.V. practical and relatively Guffy who is, without a Spielberg. Truffaut also “ Close Encounters” for all The latter portion of commercials to Bugs boring. doubt, the single most appears in the film as Dr. intents and purposes is his the film contains an Bunny cartoons. “action-packed” mountain The greatest service side helicopter chase remi “Close Encounters of the niscent (to be polite) of Third Kind” performs is Hitchcock’s “North by that of completely dis Northwest.” Though well pelling this and all other executed and entertaining, common conceptions of the scene cannot be ex space visitors with a polite, plained away by yelling but emphatic boot out the “homage” and running for cinema door. It is the first cover. In a 2 + hour movie, and last word on the UFO it carries a bright, red, in American films. It takes “ FILLER” sign. away the cynical laugh and The overwhelming replaces it with excitement fact is “Close Encounters and open-mouthed won of the Third Kind” is derment. infectiously enjoyable. Steven Spielberg, who The film begins slowly and proved himself more than builds to a marvelous, capable of holding a sus visual crescendo. Whatever pense film together 2 years complaints one might have ago with “Jaws,” has about the film tend to created a new film of fizzle away in the emo awesome scale and power. tional contagion of a With the aid of Douglas theatre-going evening. Trumbull (the special ef “Close Encounters” is a fects wizard of “2001”) landmark film that will ;and a battery of Holly- no doubt be used for ■'wood’s most revered future reference. It carries ■cinematographers, Spiel Melinda Dillion searches for Richard Dreyfuss during a Air traffic controllers crowd around radar screens to a large cinematic burden berg weaves the most out mysterious government evacuation. track an unidentified flying object. and yet, it manages to landish yarn into the realm remain pure, awe-inspiring fun. Page 8, January 13, 1978, Foothill SENTINEL Scotty beams down SHIGLDS & YbRNCLL to Flint Actor James Doohan, paying the $2 registration ChPTII/hTC CROWD who portrayed Scotty on fee. Because of limited the original TV series seating for the “Star Trek” By MICHAEL LEMKE Music composer and “Star Trek,” will speak program, reservations are Shields and Yarnell’s conductor Norman Mamey at De Anza College on required. Interested per Jan. 7 performance at and drummer Cubby Saturday, Jan. 21, at sons should call the SLS De Anza’s Flint Center cap O’Brien, a former Muske 7:30 p.m. in Forum 1. 90 office, 9964674. tivated the near capacity teer, accompanied the two The program, “Star- Although Doohan audience. The two mimes mimes and along with the Trekking with Scotty,” is may be best remembered received a standing ova Foothill College Jazz En sponsored by De Anza’s as Engineer Montgomery Fanfairs tion. semble, Bass player Mario Seminar Lecture Series 90. “Scotty” Scott on the Surachi and a group of Community members starship “Enterprise,” he is Robert Shields and strings, provided fine back may attend by enrolling in a veteran of 31 years Lorene Yarnell gave what ground music for the the SLS 90 program and as an actor, and has ap Fanfairs on tour they call a “ space-age show. peared in over 100 stage vaudeville show.” The act, Nearing the end of plays, 4,000 radio shows, written solely by Shields By LYNETTE KELLY Fanfairs will conduct their act, Shields, a native and several hundred tele and Yarnell, included im Fanfairs return The Foothill College a “how to” clinic for all San Franciscan, whose ca vision shows. provisations, theatrical reer began on the streets singing jazz choir, Fanfairs, will of the choirs, Mattson bits, music, dance and a perform in concert at the said. “They will demon of San Francisco’s Union film clip of the two Square, called the audi New club Foothill College theatre on strate how they do performing at Union The Foothill College ence “much better than Sunday, Jan. 15, at 8 p.m., things—the right way to to Square, where their career Fanfairs will sing a broad following the group’s re them.” the Las Vegas crowds planned together started. we’ve played for.” range of vocal jazz music turn from a six-day tour of The tour is a yearly in their “Home-From-Tour The concert was spon Foothill students in southern California. event, Mattson said. A rousing cheer greet Concert” on Sunday, Jan. sored by the day and terested in starting a lo The performance, “These various directors ed Shield’s announcement 15, at 8 p.m. in the Foot evening student associa cal chapter of Amnesty which will consist of new know of our group and its that Shields and Yarnell, hill College Theatre. International, a world material from the tour, reputation. Two of them tions of Foothill College. who are married to each Phil Mattson will con wide organization which will be “the group’s major asked us to come down Ray Jason, a fellow other, have been given duct the 18 vocalists in a helps to free people im concert of the year on and do a clinic. I said we street artist and friend of their own series beginning program of hits by Cole prisoned because of their campus,” according to couldn’t come for just Shield’s, warmed up the shortly on CBS. Porter, Richard Rogers, beliefs, are invited to at Fanfair director Phil Mat two days, so they lined up audience with some ama Shields and Yarnell Barry Manilow, and Stevie tend a meeting Thursday, tson. other schools.” zing juggling. Jason’s act concluded their appear Wonder. Included in the Jan. 19, at 1 p.m. in Room The group is currently According to Mattson, ance with their first ever performance will be selec folded juggling of a hai- S-3. touring various high “The education experience television set, the '“ro tions from the Fanfairs’ chet, sickle, and machete Representatives from schools and colleges in in touring is in appearing bot couple” eating break new album and Fanfair and juggling two hatchets two AI chapters in the southern California. Sin in different concert sit fast. The Saturday night’s arrangements soon to be while devouring an apple. bay area will discuss the gers will be performing uations. Singers must learn performance clearly sup released by Hal Leonard Throughout, Jason en organization’s objectives to adjust to various con Publishing Co. both as solo artists and as gaged in friendly bickering ported Groucho Marx’ and explain how it ope cert halls and audiences. statement that “These two Tickets for the con a group, and will conduct and joking with the out rates. It’s exciting to perform are going places.” cert will be $3 general a music clinic at each sch spoken audience. Information may also for people who are doing admission and $1.50 for ool. be obtained at the “Club similar things, but on a students and senior citi Evening concerts, Fanfare” on Thursday, different level.” zens at the door or in which are open to the A LOT OF GROUND FOR YOUR STUDENTS TO COVER? 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