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How Twenty-Four Inches of Snow Made January 29, 19* Nature has accomplished with two feet of snow what God, Science, City By DALE WALKER Hall and the Free Enterprise System a Better Place of East Lansing have been unable to do for decades. East Lansing is suddenly a better place to live. People seem freer and happier, and a sense of community has developed overnight. It's as though the city has somehow loosened its grip on us. It's a holiday without obligations. No traveling. No gifts. No relatives. Today, at least, the city is ours. I've seen the people in the streets all day, smiling as they pass. Ahead of me in Abbott Road is a football game. Boys against the girls. The air is vibrant and people are shouting. It sounds like a revolution. It's the victory, for a day, of man over machine—of snow over steel and concrete. Everybody laughs at the snowbound monsters buried at the side of the road. Obsolete. Use less. It feels good to have a side walk twenty feet wide. "Off the grass!*' and "Out of the street!'f have no meaning. The boun daries have disappeared under tons of snow. The metronome which runs our lives has been slowed down to human speed. Now we can stand and talk awhile. We can congregate with out ''loitering" or "blocking traffic." It all makes mc long for the Cur- rier-and-Ives world I've never had. Will I be the Oldtimer who remem bers the Great Winter of '67, or is legend obsolete now that microfilm is here? Classes have been cancelled and most businesses are closed. No one seems to mind. For a day or two we've been rescued from the Good- manish "useless work" andLearyish "meaningless activity" of everyday life. There are walks to clear and driveways to shovel, but this is use ful work. Snow is a pleasant hard ship, because it is relevant. People are smiling* Their troubles aren't so terribly individual; our common misery is really joy. People continued on page 13 FOLLOWING ARE THE TEXTS OF SDS' DUAL ANTI-DRAFT EDITORIALS PLEDGES. INTERESTED READERS ARE INVITED TO SIGN AND CLIP THEM AND SEND THEM TO SDS (c/o THE PAPER, Box 367, East Lansing) FOR INCLUSION IN THE MAIN PETI Draft SDS, Not Beer TION. We, the undersigned, are young Americans of draft age opposed By MICHAEL KINDMAN to United States intervention in Vietnam. Several weeks after it was first reported, there is now news to report about the Students for a Democratic Society's new anti-draft union. We hereby form an anti-draft union and declare our intention to: At its meeting last Wednesday, MSU SDS at last adopted a formulation 1. refused to fight against the people of Vietnam; of the union it had been discussing, and began circulating a pledge to be 2. refuse to be inducted into the armed forces of the signed by the union's "members" and another to be signed by girlfriends and other supporters of the members. This good news gets the full support United States; of THE PAPER; like SDS, we have long since tired of talking about how 3. resist the draft; people are having their lives unjustly and unnecessarily upset by the de 4. aid and encourage others to do the same. mands of the Vietnam war, and are anxious to push for change that would free Americans from the draft. But news of a pledge circulating does not really satisfy us. It strikes us as simply an extension of the incestuous creeping radicalism that SDS has been engaging in at MSU practically since' its inception and nationally for a shorter but equally frustrating period. Many of SDS' leaders seem only slightly aware that they are operating in a socio-political context to which they must make concessions. We, the undersigned, are citizens of the United States, opposed to 1 The tendency of SDS small membership here to in-fight and to persist United States intervention in Vietnam. in testing itself on the degree and congency of its alienation is exactly what has kept it from becoming a more broad-based organization. Without go We hereby declare our support and encouragement of all men who ing into the strange psychological habits that drive a group of collegiate wiill : radicals to band together in their radicalism and repeatedly compare each 1. refuse to fight against the people of Vietnam; other's politics, we can safely say that this is not the best way to build a radical movement, which was always the intention pursued in SDS' best 2. refuse to be inducted into the armed forces of the United moments. States; The anti-draft union, even more than many other SDS activities, requires 3. resist the draft. wide support both within and outside the organization; it is toward winning this support that most of the early efforts of the anti-draft program should be aimed. The reason is clear: the Selective Service System is much too big and much too entrenched in "The System" that wages wars to be hurt by a small, self-consciously radical protest, and, isolated, the protestors stand to be hurt more than their protest is worth. The national SDS anti-draft proposal (which, as we pointed out in our article reprinted from New Left Notes, SDS' internal newspaper, as an January 16 issue, is still unimplemented pending further preparations) de insight on the new left. It was prepared not by national SDS but by SDS' Rad pends on FIRST getting support for the idea of a union and THEN forming ical Education Project, the Ann Arbor-based intellectual critics of the it, in the way that will have the biggest impact on the Selective Service national organization. people. 'I he point, theoretically, is to win people over to opposing the draft, which shouldn't be too difficult considering how many oppose the war in one way or anorhcr (see Eric Peterson's article, p. 3 this issue). The point is NOT to show the strength of SDS' faith in its politics, although some 16 Plagues members seem intent on doing only this. THE SIXTEEN PLAGUES OF PARTICIPATORY If not restrained will try to break into the MSU SDS„ already dangerously ahead of the national SDS timetable if it DEMOCRACY AND THEIR INSIDIOUS VAR mimeograph room at 3:00 A.M IATIONS. CataloguedbyDr.VitreousHumor expects to be successful with its union, would do very well to concentrate numorlessness its efforts on its current plans to reach high school students and young who hath cum to compleate this worke after the studie of manie a corpse. Symptoms: The afflicted believe that this has workers, as well as larger number of college students; it must remember a secret political purpose that many people have not had the chance to think through issues of per (or "Physician, Heal Thyself) sonally relevant politics such as the draft. The very valuable concept on Luce'i Disease which SDS has grown nationally is the introduction to the people of the Surregionalism Symptoms: Victim will display a marked politics by which they are ruled. The attempt should be primarily to gain Of which the substrains are: ability to hold down a good steady job. -subway power the widest possible support for, even if not participation in, the union. Agendaism; Spread by a virus which is -prairie power Meanwhile, more or less appropos of the above, we offer the following invariably found in the presence of ob- -cowboy power structuralism. -surfing power THE PAPE: -pussy power Anti-agendoism THE PAPER is publ V kly during regular school terms -NO power Symptoms: During the second day of a hed wee meeting the afflicted will stand up and ask by students of MichigkW rsity and a bunch of their off- The Berkeley Analogy Syndrome State Unive who the hell wrote this agenda after the campus friends. It is\\tended as a channel for expression and Symptoms: Victim tends to ignore small agenda debate has closed. communication of those 1 Ylas events and creative impulses which campuses, rhetoric sometimes resembles make of the university c»PC *it a'fertile ground for the growth that observable in the Confrontation Syn Irreledelicism of human learning. THE V^p^R hopes to help the university drome. Argues for or against a tactic on Symptom: Victim believes that his opponent strive toward fulfillment of t»0^ignest ideals of learning and free inquiry, by reporting and comm^X^a on the university experience the basis of that it either happened at !•< debate has been taking drugs and says and by encouraging others to do so^" Berkeley or failed at Berkeley. In the critical so. phase the victim reads Upset. Death is Tautologism incipient when the victim confuses Hal and addressed to: Symptoms: Patient believes that, if give', Correspondence sh< Theodore Draper. THE PAPE enough time, the people will decide on an Box 367 Resurrecf/omsm ideology for SDS. East ^nsing, Mich. 48823 Of which the substrains are: Offices are 1< ated at 601 Abbott Road ;ast Lansing, Mich. Tel: REPatitis (517) 351-737! -historical resurrectionism; The infected Symptoms: Patient believes that we can will make counter-productive associa get McGeorge Bundy in the movement if THE PAPE: member of the UndergWound press Syndicate. tion with one or more of the following; we would only write more grant proposals EDITORIAL BOARD Wobblies, Hitler, Spanish Civil War, for the Ford Foundation. Eleanor Roosevelt, Stokely. Corporate Literalism fidiior »X • • . . . .Michael Kindman -Port Moronism; Victim will display total Assistant Editor/ ,<'< \ [ Laurence Tate Symptoms: Characterized by careful scrutiny -1 ignorance of the contents of the Port of all National Office statements exceptfund News Editor./' \ Bradford Lang Huron Statement. appeals. Poetry Edito/y- \ Dave Heal •Indigenism; Victim clings to a mystical Contributingf (Editors Ronald Diehl,bavid Freedman, Char belief that the Truth will be discovered, Theoretical Literalism Jolles, Carol Hurlbutt, Eric\eterson, Dale Walker by the unerring actions of the Poor. Symptoms: Patient is continously searching the Media for a Message. To be found at VI V Staffele By ERIC PETERSON of the real reason—but it is irre namese peasants is the superiority some points—for instance, that demo levant here, because the question of the American Way of Life. Ameri cratic institutions in Vietnam a few is one of values. Protection of Ameri ca is rich and efficient (at least years ago would have only hurt the A few weeks ago in the Union can interests without any further superficially); the best thing that country* And his whole argument lounge, a friend of mine told me thought is pretty strictly analogous could possibly happen is for the rest made more sense than when it was she had finally made up her mind to bashing in the head of the boy of the world to become the same. a real possibility. But that's not the about Vietnam. I was a little sur from the next block simply because (Perhaps this is the corrupt form point here; the point is that taking, prised; the war seemed far from he lives there and is different. And of Manifest Destiny. Has the sffi that stand implied faith in certain the overstuffed couch SOME people think that way and ency expert replaced the missionary?) values—and that that stand is not on which we were sitting. But she probably always will. . .but other Very basically, this is just self- being taken any more. sai d quite emphatically that the war people don't. confidence, a belief that we know It is well-established that SOME was totally WRONG. Hers was a very • It is possible to think that our better—but, by itself, that is rather people have rejected substantially basic, emotional reaction to the ob involvement is a GOOD thing; there uninteresting. To repeat: American all American, economic values, just vious horrors of war . .to pictures is the view, for example, that Ameri values are American/economic ones, as some people have rejected each of napalmed children and shattered ca must fight World Communism and it is the too-close identification set of values ever held by anyone. * soldiers. She obviously had nothing somewhere, so it might as well be of material goods with well-being Kenneth Kenniston, to use one current to counteract that reaction. in Vietnam. Well, isn't World Com that lies beneath the justification of example, calls these people the alien There are many, many Americans munism mostly an economic threat? the Vietnamese war. ated; he says they comprise at most 5 per cent of the students at a fairly It would be silly to argue that our select group of American universi values are PURELY economic; I have ties (with, I would suppose, a some just tried to show that a material what higher percentage of professors istic orientation has become so wide and a much lower percentage of the spread that you can't discuss any of population as a whole). our values without getting entangled in Kenniston*s alienated students of it—and that it is therefore some the 460s are only the latest in a long how basic. line of "romantic" critics of in dustrial mass society who have been An example of how these beliefs around as long as that type of so work out in practice might make things ciety. Their "complaint is material clearer: ism, and the goal is spiritual, Two or three years ago, when Viet aesthetic or expressive fulfillment" nam was a real problem for thought (from an article in the Journal of ful people, but had not yet escalated Social Issues, 1967). It is my com to its present size, I read an edi plaint, too* torial in a national, though special- He knows, of course, that the alien interest, magazine. The important ated are not the only protestors of characteristics of Vietnam, it was the '60s; in fact, much of his analy said, were corruption, inefficiency, sis is built around that awareness. confusion, and the lack of any really He talks of a second group, the effective authority. I he editor pointed activists. out the tremendous amount of graft Briefly, these are the external, and waste and talked of the unneces political protestors, essentially con sary misery of the population, espe servative in their values. What they cially through disease. Great poten object to is not American values, tial was there, he said, both in the but that some people (significantly, land and the people—look at what OTHER people) are being denied what Japan had done since the war. This American values say they should is the real heart of the argument, get--education, ihe vote, economic though I don't remember just how opportunity. (Can I make one more much he emphasized it. Vietnam could plug? Ihe goal of the civil rights become everything that Japanis--and movement is really to create black that Taiwan and South Korea were middle-class Americans, with all that in the same position today. True, those who believe that it exists becoming. Vietnam too could have implies. After all, what is education It may not be very flattering to the tend toward an almost religious be skyscrapers and support her own to most people involved in the move Left ideologists, but opposition to lief, a conviction of American moral automobile industry. Vietnam too ment? It's only a stepping-stone to the war does not seem to be founded superiority. But that conviction, could become Americanized. What a well-paying job.) on any clear and positive beliefs— again, turns out to be mostly of was needed was for the United States I think this classification into acti neither the class struggles of Marx economic superiority. How many to go in there and ORGANIZE those vists and alienated is inadequate. ism nor a strict pacifism. Neither of times have you seen the boom-town people. They might not SAY they It doesn't explain some things that those positions, after all, has gained atmosphere of West Berlin contrasted want us, but they would be grateful must be explained. Let's try a more much new support recently (at least to the depressed one of East Berlin? if they only knew. And democratic unitary view. on a national scale); the popular Wasn't there a general self-satis procedures could never work pro The first step is to think of the cry is that Viet Nam is a different faction (at least among those who perly until a stable society had been civil rights movement as a neces kind of war, an especially indefensi were aware of it) that the USSR sary half-way step towards the cur had to import wheat from North set up. ble one, and that, say, World War II Well, I agree with that editor on rent Viet nam protests, as Iidgar was a much different case. America a few years ago to feed Friedenberg suggested last month itself? I won't even mention foreign Let me add that I don't think this continued on page \2 lack of ideology is bad. I distrust aid. detailed plans to save humanity; Another assertion is that we are somehow they never work. (Look at fighting for the freedom of the South in person China.) But OUR current anti-war Vietnamese. sentiment indicates only a growing At least on the individual level, readiness for change. . .and so opens there is here (at least theoretically) up a range of possibilities. This is a real alternative moral justification potentially much more important than Taken broadly, this is the belief g>tofeeip Carmtcfjael n mere change of establishments; that people can hold today that cor for it indicates a widespread dis responds to the widespread convic enchant mem with present established tion that made them accept the sacri values. More specifically; it is a fices necessary for the two world MSU Auditorium THURSDAY FEB 9 response to the complex of economic wars. But again, in practice, it is goals that hay come to dominate tied to economic values—for how and color almost all American values. often have Americans realized that Sponsored by ASMSU 2:30 pm I he predominance of this complex another people might self-determine • of goals can be seen by examining anything but eternal Progress? And and MSU Friends ofSNCC ADMISSION rhe usual reasons offered for our how often have they been hurt when presence in Vietnam. another people did? FREE I'he United St ate s, of course. So by one road or another we are MICH I be there to protect its own led back to the claim that what justi Friends of SNCC Memberships Will Be Sold at the Door interests. I his may be a large part fies what America is doing to Viet ^b ^^^^^h ^^^H ^^^^ ^^H j^k ^^fl ^^ ^^^H ^^fl By tJRADFORD A. LANG The US platform will, I believe, represent a fundamental radical opposition to the whole land-grant, in loco parentis philosophy which has made MSU one of the nation's outstanding centers of mediocre mass education and Great Society indoctrination. Bradford A. Lang THE PAPER, December 8, 1966 In the aftermath of the Glorious "your friendly neighborhood Li Bessey Hall Revolution, many people beral's Club." made many regrettable statements. Grunge. Among them was the above sentence So we pick ourselves up and try taken from the last paragraph of an a new analysis. To wit; United Stu article in which I pointed out that dents is certainly doing a good thing US was full of radicals who stood for when it gets a lot of formerly un- the dismantling of the entire Ameri involved students deeply involved in can system of higher education (not correcting flaws in the system, but to mention the Great Society). The it is certainly not doing a good thing "guys on the ATL advisory com when it abandons its role as the mittee are Liberals," I said, and necessary radical opposition within would soon find themselves locked the confines of MSU politics. in mortal combat with the shining There is a generally accepted hy youth of the United Left. pothesis in the study of the history I was wrong. of social reform which says that Of course, we all make mistakes, most major changes in society are bui that one was a blunder which I due to a small radical minority bitch will probably never live down. For ing about something ten years before United Students is not only not - change comes. (For example, Norman of them off-hand). This is unfortu it so far behind by the time the radical, it is slowly becoming an Ihomas and the Democratic Party, nate, and it is something which a revolution came that MSU would sim organization which (in the words of Columbus, Christ, etc.; Tmsurethere good radical knows but sort of doesn't ply sink into the earth. Or something. one of its members) approximates are.better examples, but I can't think think about too often. Nevertheless, it The relevant question was asked: is probably truer than most things, "How many years can we expect and is,certainly true with regard to before we get some action?" The the American university. If the Won proposal, said Ann, was to be be ders Kiva meeting of US Wednesday fore Fuzak within two weeks, which before last is any indicator (and I was a stupid answer considering the believe it is), the good people of US fact that no answer had been given are not only not thinking about it, to an earlier question of what could they are not even aware of it. be done "to insure that Dr. Fuzak The steering committee members will sign it.'* The answer is, ob of US showed up at Wonders Kiva viously, nothing, and nobody is going dressed to the nines—with the single to sign anything unless they1 re forced exception of Dave Hasenauer, who into it. sported a beard, levis, and boots. I he coffeehouse conimui^ , w^>j The rest of them looked mostly kind next. Dave Macbmber reported that of respectable, making Hasenauer the original idea had been based on look like a Hell's Angel by com "the fact that when Bessey Hall was parison. closed we might not have a place to The meeting was billed as a dis go anymore.0 A great idea, to be cussion of activism and United Stu-% sure—Bessey Hall being the groovy dents jointly sponsored by US and place that it was for a while—how the Wonders Hall Scholastic Com ever, before his speech was over, it mittee. In ieality it was a regular was obvious that the idea had de meeting, but without the usual in generated into what the final pro fighting (for the benefit of curious posal (drafted by US and a group of Wonders residents, of course). What East Lansing clergy) called an "ecu it turned out to be was the last gasp menical coffeehouse." I'm not quite of radicalism in US. sure what an ecumenical coffee - Steve Ballance gave thefirst report house is, but I'm sure it won't be on the grading suggestion of the used for some of the things that "fifteen history profs" (which I am Bessey was. US was supposed to be sure will become a catch phrase like getting a place of its own, where t f Schiff case" and "ATL firings"). revolutions could be planned, buttons < * We want to work out a proposal on and bumperstickers could be sold, which we can get the most support obscene poets could read and exciting from both faculty and students/' he songs could be sung. Til wager a tidy said. What, may I ask, is the point sum that none of those things will of that? Is US planning on merely ever happen in the kind of place now pushing for whatever the majority being planned, wants? What the hell kind of a radi (By the way, for those of you who cal (or even liberal) group is that? might be interested, ASS-MOO is The second project involves open planning on making lots of money on houses; the committee is headed by the Supremes' concert; Dave re Ann DeChant. Bogged down in red marked that ASMSU doesn't "have tape and MHA and WIC meetings, the any money for us right now, but STRATTON committee had not accomplished a after the Supremes' Concert they whole lot. When asked directly what will/' Hmmmm.) SPORTS CENTER the committee was trying to accom The final US project is, of course, plish, Ann replied that they had first the "boycott." Jane Munn, speaking EXPERT FOREIGN CAR REPAIR tried to get their own proposal, then carefully and quietly to the assembled decided to go along with MHA and Wonders residents and press people, ALL MAJOR & MINOR WORK TRANSMISSIONS WIC (the committee members were announced that "the word boycott is the only ones who showed up at the very unfortunate sometimes." It CLUTCHES TUNE-UPS MHA-WIC open meeting). "It's about seems that US has been working hand- as far as we can get," she said. in-hand with the local merchants ENGINE OVERHAUL Well, dammit, once again—what (something that ASMSU hasn't been are they doing going along with MHA able to do, souls of moderation that "RECOMMENDED and WIC (two of the stodgiest, least they are. Nobody wants a boycott or IN EAST LANSING NOTES' imaginative organizations on cam a strike; the merchants have been i pus)? If they do that with everything, very nice and might even agree to they might as well close up shop; lower their prices just on the strength 1915 E. Michigan Ave whether US as an organization exist of their friendship with US. Later, 4844411 ed or not, this campus would con Lennie Laks, another prime mover tinue to stride into the future at the in the price study, announced that same rate it always has, thus putting continued on page 10 - I Char Jolles Meets What began about two weeks ago to b6 a rationally conceived, emotionally restrained article on university re form has evolved since then into a personal outcry—borne of the crush ing realization that none of the dozen or so newly established student com mittees on academic reform is going to do anything truly significant. The esstential problem with the committees that have been and still are being formed in administrative departments, colleges, student government and the Honors College is the state of mind characteristic of many of the committee members. This state of mind has often been de- fined idiomatically as ADS-Math- Dorm Crowd*, a category that in cludes many bright, often brilliant, articulate, witty, preternaturally well-groomed, passionless academic goody-goodies. They are a diligent, sincere group, and normally 1 would be optimistic the ADS-Math-Dorm Crowd about any project they undertake— except academic reform. In the first in the value of continued evaluation monster replaced those comfortable, completed. It is not possible to sup place, the various committees are and improvement of our colleges and wreaking- with- academic- tradition pose that all subjects can be master hurting for applicants; the Academic honors colleges, none of them seems couches with plastic contour chairs, ed in the ten weeks." Co-ordinating Committee of student to believe ferevently in the problem; I find the library unbearable. I used Nor is it possible to suppose that government wanted five members none of them seems to be motivated to go to all my classes, even if they the best possible teaching can go on from Honors College, and was still by—forgive me—pain. were at 8 a.m. in Fee. under present conditions. The consen recruiting publicly over two weeks It undoubtedly seems fre: kish that 3. Boredom with school work. Per sus among faculty and administrators after the first announcement in the one who has been successfulacadem- haps the friost painful consequence seems to be that the teaching and State News. Secondly, the committees ically should complain about it. But for someone seriously intellectual is learning process should make critical are innocuous—in three ways, no less; there is little that's more painful boredom with reading great books thinkers out of us all. This particu (1) the members are "appointed," to someone seriously intellectual by and writing about them and participa lar aim of education necessitates and the likely result in ten sincere, nature than to watch himself de ting in class discussions. much more face-to-face talking be responsible but rather passive mem stroyed intellectually in the following (My responses are peculiar to me, tween teacher and student than goes bers for every desperately concerned, ways: of course. Friends of mine, with per on now, and more "experience in personally involved likely agitator, 1. Loss of intrinsic mo ti vat ion. haps more spirit and strength of char critical writing/' in the words of like me—who, by the way, was select This manifests itself most acutely acter, also feel bored, disgusted and John Wilson, lie is "in favor of ed for one of the two open positions during finals weeks, when every la humiliated with what they must do, any scheme which will promote the on the Academic Committee of the tent tendency manifests itself most but they do it anyway. Other friends need for every student ro endure the Honors College; (2) the issues which acutely. For example, 1 have often have responded by dropping out.) pain of coming to some reasoned will concern all of the academic com been left with this rather hysterical All of these problems, which are comclusion." 1 am in favor of any mittees are, with the exception of the set of alternatives: cram all night frustratingly self-perpetuating, are scheme that allows teachers and stu grading issue, unlikely to lead to rad and get an A on the test, or go to related to one essential development: dents to hear each other think out ical changes or experimentation in bed and get a C. After four years in loud and that makes their encount testing, scheduling and evaluating, awareness of the inherent humiliation high school and three years in col in being forced to run an obstacle er essential to the learning process- but will largely center on making lege of doing the former, and now for under present conditions class academic life more convenient; (3) course and then rewarded for doing finding the latter alternative posi something so infantile so well. But as attendance is rarely considered in students who have been successful tively humiliating, I generally don't dispensable to college education. enough to be in Honors College are long as education in conceived as a go to the exam at all. (As a matter competitive process par excellence, Eureka. n't likely to be dissatisfied with the of fact, I have found that the most whole academic system. While those is long as we recognize no other al- Underlying the following sugges effective way to rebel against finals ernative in evaluating students than tions for educational reform is the who are concerned enough to get on week is to refuse to participate in it. these committees believe undoubtedly incessantly bombarding them with assumption that the most desirable, I was reprimanded with an F only deadlines, assignments, quizzes, ex most effective way for teaching and once; the professor has been indi ams, papers, then universities will be learning to go on is through teacher- rectly apologizing ever since, per student contact, as opposed to stu *For those unfamiliar with the idiom haps aware now that it is humiliating little more than training camps for ADS-Math-Dorm Crowd describes a road-runners. dent-book, student-machine contact for a student capable of worthwhile most of the time. I will qualify that mental condition which seems to char work to be forced to produce the Education must be an obstacle acterize students who either won or course where we are tricked into at one point, but generally it is that mediocre.) Whatever motivated me conviction which sustains my answers took the tests for the Alumni Dis for seven years to be an obedient making blunders, or else there would tinguished Scholarships (ADS) of be no way to evaluate/rate/grade us« to the questions raised by Provost academic goody-goodie no longer Howard Neville in his recent speech fered by MSU, who are good and/or holds its own. Under the present system, professors majoring in math, and who always cannot generally evaluate students by before the Academic Senate. seem to band together in dormitor 2, Loss of powers of discipline. simply knowing them, watching them Neville considers four areas of the ies. They get excellent grades, form This is related to loss of motivation. grow, or listening to them think and undergraduate program: (1) basic re the core of Honors College, and When I don't particularly want to do discover out loud. Too many people forms in teaching and evaluation, (2) are generally independent BUT PAS something, and when the usual are in one class and for too short a education for the nonacademicandthe SIVE thinkers—not boat-rockers. methods of academic chastisement time. As John Wilson, director of nonprofessional, (3) the "explosion Many of the people who work for The become morelaughable than threaten the Honors College, put it: "1 have of knowledge," and (4) student par Paper are or have been "in"' the ing, then I simply can't persuade my no patience with teachers who say, ticipation in decision-making. ADS-MDC.** self to do it. I used to be able to el can do with 20 what I can do with BASIC REFORMS IN TEACHING read a book even if it bored me; I 100/ They are not taking full advan AND EVALUATION: Neville implies **Not to be confused with the AS- used to be able to spend more than tage of what they can do (with 20). . . he is willing to be revolutionary MSU-Soph-Rah Group which dom ten minutes in the library—some "We need devices to break us out here. "I hope the Committee will inates most other student commit times 12 hours—but, to give a repre of the ten-week term, (resulting in) recommend whatever re-organiza- tees. sentative example, ever since some mastery of a subject rather than units continued on page 10 JOHN SINCLAIR, whose arrest in Detroit January 24 for sale and possession of marijuana followed two previous convictions on the same charges, wrote the following poem last October, it was originally published in pamphlet form by the Artists9 Workshop Press, of whiich Sinclair is a director. — The Editors. • The Poem for Warner Stringfellow, • Detective Lieutenant, Detroit Narcotics Squad, who has been single-handedly responsible for busting me on two separate occasions for possessing & selling marijuana / and who stumbled into my new apartment last night by accident over a year since the last time he saw me & two years to the day after he first busted me — Warner you are living in another century, this new one started while you were running around in circles chasing dangerous criminals to keep the city safe from marijuana & people like me — "I know what you are,'* you told me last night, "and when I get you again you ain't gcttin off so easy* Til DROWN you all they'll do is laugh in your face, you're so funny, you come on you worthless prick** you said like someone on your tv set, all that 1930's shit, or 1950's, the century changed at I960, you're as out-of-date But it won't be so easy "next time, Warner, as the House Un-American Activities Committee if there is a next time, who tried to scare the young cats in 1966 because this whole new thing is getting & these cats showed ue wearing Revolutionary War costumes so far out of your clutches laughing at you — you don't even know what it is -- it's 19 sixty-six, Warner, except you can sense it there is no thing to fear with what senses you have left, you know somehow except your jails, & they'll fall soon that things ain't what they used to be, that this world they're fallen now, they don't mean anything any more is changing so fast you haven't even got a place in it no more & even if you kill us all off that's no big thing Warner, we just get born again Your old-time power & control have no place in this world, more & more aware of what's really happening in the universe Warner, & as long as you keep trying to hang onto them but it's too late to kill us all, you missed your chance you'll just get farther & farther behind in 1959, before the whole thing really started until you die, Warner, until you're dead. you've been playing that funny shit for 2000 years Not (oo long ago, Warner, & all you've got is a gun & a badge & a house in a nice neighborhood 1 would have given anything & a car & a tv set just to get my hands around your neck & you can't even talk to your own kids and choke you to death they just don't wanna hear it, you send them to psychiatrists & they go over to somebody's house & smoke reefer But that time is past, there's no need of it, you'll die anyway listen to the FUGS & John Coltrane & Sun Ra any thing will, when it stops growing & don't even think about you until they have to go home & there's no more need for it in the world — & what a drag that Is, Warner, going home to their atrophied parents who are dying in their living room chairs There's no need for you now, Warner, tho it may take 20 years watching BATMAN on tv before you or the people you have made it your life to lie to & dancing the frug with Jackie Kennedy in their dreams find out your uselessness & criminality — What kind of life have you got, Warner, when you have to sit & think about me You can't make me a criminal, Warner, for over two years, and I'm 25 now, what're you gonna do . you should know that by now, & your prisons & courts with all these fucking kids don't scare me any more, I know what you are who are crazier than 1 am & I don't hate you any more, I won't let you trap me & don't care what you do, you ain't nothin to them, & in in that tiny little bag of yours, I won't respond four years Warner, half the U.S. population the way you have to have me respond will be under twenty-five years of age because it's too late for that now, Warner, it's just too dam late for those games, You're HOOKED, Warner Stringfellow, you're strung out the whole fucking UNIVERSE you've shot so much of that dope in your head that shit Harry Anslinger & Hoover sold you is right there in front of our eyes but all it is is JUNK, Warner, & it's all I can do & you can't keep selling people junk forever, to stay open to it now they get hip to you, they don't want any more of it while it's still "my" time they've had enough, they want something REAL, Warner, & you just ain't got it to give to them Even the 6 months you got me in your prison, Warner, only made me stronger & less afraid They don't care about titles no more, Warner, a lieutenant of the puny fear traps ain't nothing but a cop, & a cop ain't shit that are your only tool — what're you gonna do, They wanna see who WARNER STRINGFELLOW is, Lieutenant Stringfellow, & what he does with himself, that badge & title when you have to try to arrest ain't gonna fool nobody no more all the people younger than I am not like it has, they'll do like I do &. who smoke marijuana every day call you by your given name, that's all & don't even care about you at all, when you come to bust them any man needs, you won't get me Warner, even if you lock me up again, because you're the one who's trapped in all that Aristotelian bullshit, the world is not black & white, it's all colors Warner, all you need to do is open your God-given eyes and see it & I hope you do, you're a man too, all of us are, and every man is made to be free continued on page 7 ' i ABBOTT questing beatft until 9 I Nepali Gurkhas India Print and Hand-Woven Parsi Print Throws African Necklaces Ivory Rings Assorted Dhokras Sisal Earrings • continued from p&ge 6 •* Happenings In Music I love you like I do any natural-born man but you got to BE a man, Warner, not a cop you got to open yourself up or be Winter Concert shut off completely plays such a minor part in the piece as you are now * By CARL STENSEL that its very direct methods of con from the world of human beings textual organization probably con This Sunday, the MSU Orchestra, tribute as much to musical unity as Come on out of that jail, Warner, under the direction of Dennis Burkh, does tonality per se. Any number let your criminals go, you've just trapped them will present its winter concert. of people seem to feel that the Pas in your silly bag, & there's no need for those games, This concert has been dedicated sacaglia is greatly indebted to the we're all lovely & free Warner to the Florence Opera House which, finale of Brahms' fourth symphony. we're all human beings, & nothing you can do despite severe damage in the recent I am not familiar enough with the can ever change the universe lood, managed to open its season work to go around making asser only two days late. The orchestra tions of such a sweeping nature, I get up to change the record, Eric Dolphy has made contributions to help the but I thought that it was an inter OUT TO LUNCH, it's seven in the morning & the world musicians of the opera house re esting thought, and one perhaps worth changes too, it moves farther place some of the damaged instru remembering at the concert. This away from where you are, my wife turns over in bed ments, and will be asking the audi will be, incidentally, the first Michi she's probably dreaming about you — you put her in jail too, ence to help. gan performance of this work. Warner, but only overnight, & you took her man away There will be three pieces on the When you get to the concert, you for six whole months — we celebrated our 1st anniversary concert; the overture to the opera will notice that 1 haven't discussed while I was in your jail, & it only made us stronger "Italian in Algiers/' by Rossini, the numbers in order of their ap & more together than before—you see Passacaglia, op. 1 by Anton Webern, pearance. This isn't because I've how puny your bullshit punishments are#And now and Charles Ives' second symphony. been following any significant jour we'll bring our own baby into the world Originally scheduled in place of nalistic criterion, but rather because & see what it can do for you, even tho you want to the Rossini overture was Mozart's I've been procrastinating* After all, wipe out its father serenade for four orchestras, K. what can I say in this short space even before it's born 286. The music for this, however, to do justice to Charles Ives, the & my wife feels sorry for you Warner, was unavailable, and so the over Frank Lloyd Wright of music. Actu just to show you what you're up against with us, ture had to be substituted. I was ally, 1 think I've said quite a bit she really won't play your silly hate games— rather disappointed at this, as it already, if you know about Frank that poor man, she says, he must spend all his time has always been my (perhaps some Lloyd Wright, but somehow 1 feel thinking of how he'll get us—doesn't he have what shortsighted) opinion that one that I can't get away with that. anything better to do with his life? of the chief goals of a college musi I might try to get away by saying cal organization should be the presen that Ives was born in 1874, the same And what can you do with her, Warner, tation of good but lesser known pieces year as Schoenberg. lie studied at shoot her? Or lock her up? The problem is of music which its audience might Yale, and had an opportunity to do what're you gonna do with your self, Warner Stringfellow? otherwise never hear. The Mozart some work under Horatio Parker, Let me leave you with that. What will you be in 5 years, serenade is such a piece, as are who seems to have impressed Ives Warner, an Inspector? Like poor stupid Jimmy Fike all of the other things which the not at all. He went into the insurance at the House of Correction? Why don't you orchestra has played; but the Ros business after graduation and by the quit playing games, Warner, & grow up to sini piece is not. time he retired he co-owned the lar be a MAN like the rest of us ''Italian in Algiers" was written gest insurance agency in the United in 1813, and seems deservedly to continued on page 18 (This is the story you wanted me to write about you, have gone the way of most of Ros Warner, the one you sini's operas. However, its over asked me about again last night, ture has stayed with us, and I doubt Just Published & it's the best I can do— that there is a person alive who has made it through high school band and PSYCHEDELIC PRAYERS I hope you can hear it orchestra without playing it. It is dominated by woodwinds in typical From The Tao Te Ching Love all ways Rossini style, making it particular John Sinclair ly suitable to our somewhat string- By Timothy Leary Detroit weak orchestra. It is quite pleasant Psychedelic vellum - ninety- October 6th, 1966 in its own way, and 1 suppose about six pages. as good a choice to fill out a pro For Charles' birthday gram as anything else that is liable I his is a small private print to be lying around in the orchestra's ing preceding hard cover pub files. But I can't get too thrilled about lication, which will be a col it. lectors item in six months. 6ui>{i \nf)invdq o 8) a/17 From here on in, however, the Fifty-five poems, in prepar concert fares much better. I would ation for the session, for re like to generalize unjustly about the entry, odes to the energy pro Passacaglia, opus 1, by Anton Webern, cess, to the genetic code, to who incidentally was shot to death by the external and internal sense an American military policeman* Al organs. though the piece is listed as opus Each copy will contain an ori one, it is not Webern's first piece. ginal design by a psychedelic It was preceded by several others, artist and will be autographed most bearing a very strong note of by the author. Richard Strauss. This piece, written in 1908, finds Webern at the crux Soft Cover: $3.00 of his career, making the great step towards atonality. The Passacaglia is Order From: actually not an atonal piece, but League for Spiritual Discovery comes about as close as it can with Post Office Box 175 out crossing the border. Tonality Millbrook, N.Y. 12545 Grand River & Beverly — one block south of Joy Fri. Feb. 10 The People^ & Thyme *f# Sat. Feb. 11 Zymodics & Rationals • MAviSlQh By LARRY TATE He DOES "use people." While he gets out of the car, upset, and "dis lounges in a bathrobe letting one of There hasn't been a real movie column here for about two months now, co vers'' the camera. "I guess you his girls give him a pedicure, he part of which is my fault and part of which isn't. This is an inadequate think you're going to see the bleed- says glibly that, after all, people try at catching up. in' titles now," he says straight should help each other. Looking at To clean the slate, I'll announce that I will NOT review the following at the audience. "Well, you're not, the camera he leers, "Well, that's films (any of which you can ask me about personally, if you're interested): so you can relax." Whereupon the what we're all here for, isn't it?" "10:30 PM Summer," "The Professionals," "Little Peter," "East of girl in the car calls his name and You feel a little chill. Eden," "Rebel Without a Cause," and "Gambit." the title flashes on the screen, as But it isn't so simple as that. As for plays: I did NOT see"Half a Sixpence" (which I regret) or "Gen he gives a coy little shrug. "Don't nobody help you in this life," eration" (which I don't regret). I just don't have time to review "Desire Alfie says: that is how it is and HE Under the Elms," and I apologize for that. It was a fine production, one of can't change it. It's a mistake to get the best I've seen here. The director (Mariam Duckwall) and cast made "attached" to anyone, because"soon- O'Neill's play into an authentic tragedy, which O'Neill couldn't do. I don't er or later, that's gonna bring you know whether or not Mrs. Duckwall chooses to direct only in the Arena; pain." if she doesn't she certainly should be allowed to direct something in Fair- Alfie doesn't ask girls to love him, child. because he doesn't want them to get hurt; to protect himself, he in turn ALFIE I liked "Alfie" a lot. Which sur refuses to love THEM. But, by grow prised me, because it looked so un _ ing fond of his illegitimate son, he promising: another story of a young falls victim to his own system. When heel who lays every girl in sight the mother marries someone else, he (and seems to be having a great is frozen out. Through the rest of his time of it) only to realize, finally, adventures he finds himself mumbling that he's been missing the REAL sadly about "this kid I used know." things in life. Quel drag, you know? It starts out like a real loser. The "You've got to live for yourself," camera follows some scruffy little (RECOMMENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES) he says to a straight family man, dogs to a parked car, where Alfie trying to get him to see things unsep- and a girl are making out. Then By this time 1 was forecasting a timentally. He tells him that a few the girl's knee hits the horn; Alfie ninety-eight-per-cent probability of months after his death his family disaster. Alfie gets back in the car won't care much that he ever existed. and drives off; ordinary voice-over The man gets upset and says, "Stop, r narration picks up. The next scene, Alfie—you're huting me." Alfie ans outside a theater, is no great im wers that he doesn't MEAN to hurt provement (with a long-too-cute a- him, doesn't mean to hurt anybody. side), but for the next ten minutes "I know, Alfie," the man says, "but What Kind Of Man or so there are only a few asides, you do." mixed with straight dramatic scenes What upsets the man is, essentially, and regular narration, and gradual the truth, Alfie says he knows "bleed- Reads THE PAPER ly your resistance weakens. Finally in' human nature," and he does. It you give in and accept the asides, is sentimental nonsense to think the Wc don't seem to know. Our readers don't talk to us very much the narration, and all as an integral living won't gradually forget the dead, these days — or write to us. Dear Reader, ask NOT what your part of an artistic design. to think that anybody is literally in country can do for you, ask what YOU can do for THE PAPER. This is crucial, because having dispensable to . anybody else. Let's Think, for example, how happy you could make us if you'd just an actor talk to you from the screen face it: getting attached sooner or fille out the little criticism form below and let us know what you in unexpected, disconcerting; it makes later DOES bring you pain. think. you uneasy, like being accosted by a On the other hand, it is' cynical stranger on a city street. Paul Good nonsense to think you can 1) avoid man writes: "In the big city, where THINK that your publication: getting attached; or 2) avoid pain I all are strangers to all and the con that way, even if you can. (And there __ is not as funny-witty-clever-entertaining as it used to be vention is not to talk to strangers, or should be. are plenty of people who do get at then if one forces an acquaintance tached — and hurt — and it's less ._ is too deadly serious. and it is accepted, there is already is too giggly-flippant-jokey and not serious enough. than human to abandon them com the presumption of complicity. . . pletely to their pain.) Alfie finds r is not activist enough—not political enough. When the big convention is broken, out, finally, that: "If they ain't got is not hard-hitting enough—is too cute and harmless. there are fewer conventional defen _ is too In-Group-ln-Joke-elite-oriented-iSH. you one way, they got you another." ses." It is the same with art. Alfie The sentimental side is of course forces an acquaintance, and if you DO LIKE DON'T LIKE the one we're used to getting — the 1 VERY MUCH: accept it you are immediately in old love-conquers-all, happily-ever- the poetry volved, implicated; you can't watch after crap. And there's a broad sen the reviews " Alfie" with the kind of admiring timental streak in the movie (e.g., the drawings detachment you bring to so many Cher's singing "I belive in LO- Dear Suzy movies you know you ought to like, OVE, Alfie," winsomely over the East Lansing Notes and that's a terrific thing in it final credits). You can see it most Land Grant Man self. Admiration is dull, flavorless; strongly when Alfie accidentally sees the cooking column ten movies you admire aren't worth his son again at a christening; as the the music column one you kind of like. the news coverage family burbles out of the church, Alfie the commentary And, just as significantly, you can't stands unnoticed, in the shadows, like the layouts watch it with the sense of moral su a heroine from one of those great old • periority you might expect to feel soap operas standing outside in the confronting a man who (as Life mag snow as the son she can never ac I ALSO: really really: azine inimitably puts it) "uses knowledge marries an heiress. (It's LIKED ,„ — people — mainly women— and throws very distracting here, by the way, DISLIKED them away like tissues." that the little boy we supposedly have Now, Life is overstating the case, n't seen in close to a year obviously If the above form cramps your stylus, write to us and tell us in hasn't grown a bit.) your own words. We like to have interaction with our readers. as you might expect, but Alfie IS something of a rat. Me refers to a More than once.wc* re nudged cozily SO: write letters to the editor; write to Suzy, write to DIEHL about girl as "it," not "she," and (to use East Lansing business atrocities; write to us about funny things and encouraged to feel smug in our hi own term) "stalks" women like conventionally neurotic sex lives; af you've seen; tell us about your summer vacation (just kidding). game. ter all, we're better adjusted than this ANYWAY, let us know you're still kicking. noor Cockney bastard who doesn't continued on page 12 I didn't know what to do with Jim Thomas's last letter when we got it, because it seemed to need a context to be effective Recently I found Bernard Fall's de scription of the place where the letter was written. The relevant excerpt is re printed befow/ along with Jim's letter. I think it gives you the situation. LAURENCE TATE . . .But beyond Artillery Plateau "One of the FO's once stayed for which, with its various units, still 43 solid days on The Rockpile. By gives the impression of spacious the time they picked him off, he ness, there are other, more night was throwing rocks at the passing marish places, like the Rockpile... jets/' The Rockpile is a 1200-foot near- Throwing rocks is a favorite past- pyramid which, though overtowered time on The Rockpile. Sometimes by nearby mountains, commands a the VC crawls right past the sentries view of five valleys and cost the of Lima Company at the base of the Marines dearly last summer when mountain and throws rocks at the they had to dislodge determined VC Marines. They, in turn, throw them machinegunners from it. It's top has back. "Finally we threw a grenade enough flat space for two medium- every fifth time. THAT stopped sized dinner tables. Twenty Marines them." and two artillery FO's (Forward Ob On so small an area, claustro servers) live on it for weeks at a phobia as well as boredom or the time. Its helicopter platform is com equally merciless sun or rain are posed of a series of loose planks real problems. The problem of what jutting out over a 900-foot sheer to do with the human excrement was drop, and through what can only be almost insurmountable until a deep called idiotic pride, the Marines in chimney was found to one of the sist on using their unweildy 11-34 uninhabited grottoes below. And then choppers, whose tricycle landing gear there are the monkeys, a thieving prohibits settling down on the plat lot who often pilfer the meager ra form; rather than using the Army's tions. WHEN THE Marines routinely Hueys" whose landing skids acco informed Lima Company Below that mmodate themselves easily ro it. they were going to shoot some of On the day I went there, a Marine them, the reply came just as rou returnee nearly lost his grip as a tinely: "Are they VC apes or friend- gust of wind pushed the 11-34 from lies?" its landing-hover stance. For some mad seconds the man hung on by his From The New Republic, fingertips until the door gunner and I dragged him in by his clothes. Yet January 14, 1967: this was a "good" day, because the "'You Can Tell 'Em, Buddy': weather permitted the landing o£ a chopper* Bernard B. Fall from Vietnam" f^^^^^^^^^^Hj. I ^fl ^^^^^H ^^ ^B ^^^^M ^^^^^B ^^^^^^fl ^B ^B ^B ^^^^^1 ^^^^^H ^B ^B ^^r ^^B I ^1 ^^r ^^fl^B ^B ^^r^^B ^^r^^B ^^K ^^B ^fl B^^^^ THE ROCKPILE, • Nov 29, 1966 Dears Mike and Larry, This is encouraging to me because a reflection rather than a preaching. Payable this is Payable Lima over. This is Payable over. This is Payable Lima how do you hear this station over. To an Unborn Pauper Child This is Payable five by and smooth over. By lamplight in some sodden bunker This is Lima roger hear you loud and clear but slightly fuzzy do you When questions of rectitude rest with your father, have a cold over. when to love This is Payable negative over. protests an innocence This is Lima roger you must have crickets in your area, out. of wrongs committed not against your conscience Payable Lima this is Payable Kilo over. but by me, when memory This is Payable Lima over. recalls only inadequacy This is Kilo let's try to avoid these superfluous (sic) transmissions You may see what a grim business it is, my son, over. * to survive. This is Lima you mean like this one over. This is Kilo that's affirmative over. * When boredom strikes, so does silliness; witness this exchange: This is Lima roger out. Payable Lima this is Payable Kilo over. This may be too drawn-out for publication, but such things boost morale This is Payable Lima over. endlessly. This is Kilo. Request correct time over. addendum: This is Payable Lima correct time is 2150 over. Payable this is Payable Lima over. This is Kilo. I copy 2150 is that correct over. This is Payable over. This is Payable Lima. I don't know if that's correct but that's what I This is Payable Lima request to know status of crickets in your area have over. over. This is Kilo. Rog out. This is Payable roger crickets are few, far between, but noisy over. Payable this is Payable Kilo time check over. This is Lima like radio operators over. Payable Kilo this is Payable time is 2148 over. This is Payable roger operators out. This is Kilo roger 2148 Payable Lima this is Payable Kilo over. This is Payable Lima over. This is Kilo you're three minutes fast over. In one of my spurts, which seem connected with the full modn; ' This is Lima thanks out. Payable Kilo this is Payable Lima over. To a Rock Ape This is Kilo go. • Caught in barbed wire This is Payable Lima roger going request the correct time over. quick eues no service This is Kilo correct time is 2150 over. to a dull brain This is Lima roger Payable this is Payable Lima over. in darkness movement This is Payable over. plunged, seemed to climb the wire This is Payable Lima request time check over. "second platoon, some animal This is Payable correct time is 2155 over. a monkey; it's dead" This is Lima roger Payable Kilo this is Payable Lima over. of epitaphs: he sat This is Kilo. I looked at my watch wrong over. sunning, picked lice 1'his is Lima roger out. tried to get through wire Payable Kilo this is Payable over. "all secure, negative contact." This is Payable Kilo over This is Payable let's watch that over. be prepared for more. This is Kilo say again over. This is Payable disregard out. Jim T / methods of evaluation, is that we phenomena as the Free University GharJolles meets... have comprehensive examinations, to flourish; also, serious attention - pedagogical in nature, administer should be given to student requests ed at reasonable intervals. These for specific courses. would not test how much you know, STUDENT PARTICIPATION IN but what you have done with what DECISION-MAKING: Neville makes a you know; you would take them when false distinction between the "angry" you considered yourself ready. Peda and the "responsible" students, but gogical in nature, these exams, var we know what he's getting at and at ied according to the nature of the least he commendably recommends curriculum pursued, would provide listening to both groups. In the area continued from page 5 a framework or perspective through of academics, however, as I've al which the student could lend mean ready pointed out, students have lit tion of subject matter, colleges, is the large university. The larger tle to say, or at least those students community must always be available ing to his accumulated learning. They faculty, administration or education would consist of glorified "thought who have managed to secure positions al practices that may be necessary to insure maximum flexibility of on the academic committees. I wish curriculum and to keep open to the questions/' to evaluate, after all, the to guarantee a vital program/' He student's ability to think critically. Dr. Dietrich hadn't been so correct also suggests that "undergraduate academically uncommitted student as when he said in ah interview, "You education is NOT GOING TO BE many alternatives as possible. EDUCATION FOR THE NONACA- 9 DEMIC AND THE NONPROFESSION 're not going to get a critical view IMPROVED greatly ' under existing The major drawback to the Justin AL: A public lecture system, with of the system by students who are course offerings and traditional pat Morrill model is its tendency to take the opportunity for seminars, would successful in it. You'll get a critical terns of teaching and evaluation* (his teachers away from their departments provide the "exposure*' to higher view of the grading system not from emphasis) What does Neville con of instruction, and integrate them into things that is the ideal of demo those who get A's, but from those sider "traditional"? The teacher- programmatic units—i.e., into small cratic education, without demand who are hanging by the skin of their student, teaching-and-learning rela colleges that have a generally defined ing that the nonacademically, non- teeth and working hard." tionship? Commented James Rust, as academic orientation (Justic Morrill: professionally-oriented student de If students would stay away from sistant dean of the College of Arts interlational relations, languages; fine vocational incentives. course-teacher evaluation (which stu and Letters: College 2: science; College 3: so THE EXPLOSION OF KNOW dent government unsuccessfully un "The only teaching materials that cial science). Wilson pointed out that dertakes every year),J and get down most of us in this college know about decentralizing into small program LEDGE: Neville asks, "What is worth teaching," implying he realizes that to the business of evaluating their is the book and a piece of chalk. matic units could scatter depart entire educational experience, per I'm as conservative as most of my ments—a factor that must be con there's no such thing as an "explo sion" of knowledge. His question, haps they could contribute a valuable colleagues in this manner. History, sidered "but not inhibiting"—and perspective on what's right and what's literature, philosophy—I can't see "teachers want to be, and should of course, is almost unanswerable, but my feeling is that what is worth wrong with MSU. Theoretically, then, how any newer system is much of an be, integrated into the departments the best thing Neville's Committee improvement. In the humanities, the of their concerns." If this is the ma teaching is what people want to learn, whatever they must know to survive, on Undergraduate Education could one-to-one situation of learned man jor drawback to the residential col do is listen to students; I have a ter and eater student — it's hard to lege, then I think it's a minor one, whatever changes them, whatever makes them better. rible feeling, however, that the com improve upon that. or at least, one that could be easily mittee will take the "responsible" "All 1 can do as a teacher is over do me, given some thought. Ample facilities should exist at more seriously than the "angry." point out what is worth reading and So, if Provost Neville and his Com every university to allow such then help with the reading. Some of mittee on Undergraduate Education our teachers could take their teaching wish to "improve greatly" under jobs more seriously; this, I think, graduate education, they might give would do more for the cause of un the development of residential col dergraduate education. leges priority over, say, the expan "We need to do more experiment sion of closed circuit television clas ing, like with closed circuit tele ses. The development of residential vision. But in the very nature of our colleges is self-limiting anyway, as subject matter wc are limited. It's indicated by John E. Dietrich, di possible that there is more use for rector of the Educational Develop (experimentation) than we have any ment Program (EDP); the demand, notion of. But how do you program in practice, for such specially ori Milton's Paradise Lost, for God's ented programs in probably not as sake?" great as the demand for the small residential unit. If education is not to be more continued from page 4 posal was changed to a letter to the training of experts—a task easily Which brings me to another sug MSU Board of Trustees condemning and effectively supplemented and of gestion I'd like to make (and which 'boycott' was 'a very dangerous word them for their failure to elect a ten assumed by technological de has been made before, and imple to use.' When the merchants hear chairman (the implication being, of vices—then any structure which per mented elsewhere) about structuring it, he said, they think of a bunch of course, that somebody is playing mits the most possible teacher-stu undergraduate education: public lec students with signs parading around politics with our education). Suffice dent, master-disciple, human being- tures on announced topics, supple in front of their stores. 'This,' he it to -say that the proposal was de human being contact deserves im mented by library and laboratory said, 'is very primitive—it's ef feated by a large majority in a voice mediate trial here. Justin Morrill work; groups of students concern fective, but. . ' (Laughter.) vote, thus setting the tone for US College, with its emphasis on semin ed about or interested in a par non-involvement in anything but the ars and tutorials, represents such a ticular subject could approach de Well, the merchants may begetting most trivial, specific campus issues. structure; the consensus among most partments or instructors to request very nice right now, but (as Ron Goody. educator-administrators seems to be particular lectures—or perhaps sem Diehl pointed out in the last PAPER) Unfortunately, things have connec that decentralizing the university into inars. (Criteria would have to be es some of them have been screwing tions with other things. The open small residential colleges is the tablished to determine who attends students for year •* and will continue house policy cannot be divorced from dreadfully expensive but necessary the seminars; with a public lecture to do so unless strong action is taken in loco parentis; in loco parentis alternative. system to replace courses and cre immediately. It looks like Diehl's cannot be divorced from the whole Oddly enough, they agree with Paul dits, gradepoint couldn't be a cri criticism of AS MSU in his last column pattern of American life which gives Goodman, who writes: "Since per terion; imagine, being selected for a may be applied instead to United rise to wholesale denials of civil sons are lost in the sheer quantity, course for some reason other than Students, and doubled in spades. liberties, ridiculous sex laws, and diversity and massiveness of the un your unauthentic, delusory grade- The final item on the agenda was (by the way) the Vietnam war. If iversities, and especially during the point!) a vote on whether or not US was United Students insists upon operating present period of expansion and ex This alternative deserves serious going to send a letter to California without cognizance of thse connec cessive mobility, critics propose set consideration, despite its apparent condemning somebody for firing Clark tions, it will find itself operating out ting up smaller 'colleges,' relatively incredibility. It would greatly bene Kerr. After much discussion ( some side reality, and thus without much self-continaed and self-administer fit the bright but academically con relevant, most irrelevant), the pro real effectiveness. ing, within the larger administration. fused, school - tired, seriously in How is the mean size determined? tellectual student, who world be able It must be small enough for face-to- to flounder around freely for x years face relations; to insure frequent with impunity, pursuing academic meetings of students and the colle subjects at whim, and maybe discov giate teachers, and conversation and ering who he is and where his in commensalism of students with the tellectual passions lie. Assuming that A Request same studies; and also to recruit by young people will continue to en acquaintance rather than records.'* ter college immediately after high (p. 297, "Community of Scholars") school, any truly humane university - These are the major advantages to scheme must allow for the uncer the small residential college, accord tainty, the yet-undiscovered talents, The parents of Jim Thomas have written us asking for copies of his ing to most educators: it serves as a the fickleness of its young inhabi poems and articles; those we can supply. They also ask for a copy of "focal point, a loyalty" (Dean Rust) tants; I am convinced that declaring the picture published with his obituary on the front page of the December encourages "community" among stu a major at age 19 or 20 is an empty 23 State Journal; that we just don't have. We ask anyone who may have dents who share common concerns gesture for most students. that paper-, or who saved a copy of the article; or who knows or has some (John Wilaon, and allows teachers The principle objection to the pub thing that might be of interest to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, to send it to: and students to associate with each lic lecture system undoubtedly con Roy O. Thomas other for longer periods of time. But cerns testing and grading. My sug 1371 Eastern Avenue whoever recognizes the value of the gestion, which is not by any means Morgantown, West Virginia Justin Morrill model is quick to point original, and which is a direct re out that its most liberating context sponse to Neville's quest for new - The Rational Observer: THE PAPER'S News of The Weak Cop-out of the Week: THE PAPER Happenings, "The distribution of this ment (next to a picture of a Marine Division of General Motors is a institutes a news-in-review column money is currently being discussed standing at attention) on the end flap two way street. You give and you get. made of awards, departments, and with Dr. Eldon R. Nonnamaker, As of one of its boxes: "THE MARINE Here's what you give. Yourself. Your other funny things to avoid having to sociate Dean of Students, -vLo is CORPS BUILDS MRNI I rain for duty energies and ambition. Your talent expected to make a decision in the on land, at sea, and in the air. See report all the news that's fit to print. - and time. Your ideas and abilities. Dale Walker and Brad Lang takeover next few weeks/ " your local U.S. Marine recruiter." All that you are and all that you want the column's editorship, and the or The first mighty shot in the MSU The Do Unto Others My Dog is to be/' iginal idea — sublime in theory — Cultural Revolution was recently fired Bigger than Your Dog Award: to a * * * * plummets to ridiculousness in prac by MHA and WIC, who have banded group of Norwegian students who, The So You've Been Wondering, tice. together so that their movie pro irritated by anti-US demonstrations, Too Award: to The First Presbyter • * * • gram may provide, among other have erected a replica of the Berlin ian Church, whose sermon last Sun Too beautiful to spoil by giving things, "better titles/* I he first Wall near the parliament in Oslo day was entitled "IF GOD IS DEAD an award: San Francisco under movie in the scries was "Captain which bears the sign: "The Berlin WHY PRAY?" ground types, driven to distraction Newman, M.D,/' and admission was Wall is a Breach of Human Rights." * * * * by police harrassment, have organ raised from IOC to 25(5. The Undermining Media Award: ized "Non-Violent Counteroffensive * * * * to the federal government's new 10 Save Your Sol Department, I' 11 Number One/67.'1 The morning after MORE ABOUT CALIFORNIA PO per cent telephone excise tax which Follow The Sun Also Rises In The a particularly distressing example LICE DEPARTMENTS DEPART will be used exclusively to finance East Award: To the sponsors of the of police brutality, posters appeared MENT: the Vietnam War. KEEP MICHIGAN ON STANDARD all over the Haight-Ashbury district. Justice For All in the Land of The Ayn Rand Creative Altruism A- TIME campaign (now being waged in your friendly neighborhood movie They read: What would be the result the Free Purple Heart Citation: to ward: to Col. Charles Wv Van Way if all little kids used their WATER two Los Angeles cops who, accord Jr, dean of students of the American theater) who are fighting tooth and PISTOLS to SQUIRT the COPS in the ing to the Los Angeles Free Press University in Washington, D.C., who nail to keep the state from running lower abdomen, whenever they get (UPS), "are walking the streets free was recently quoted in the student two hours afoul of "natural" time/* out of their cars? (A water pistol today despite the fact that both were newspaper as saying, in reference Evidently, there is a strong Druidic costs as little as 190.) Do you know caught red-handed taking home mar to the troops fighting in Vietnam, lobby, since supporters of the move any little kids? Can a little kid shoot ijuana while on duty/' They found "They have shown understanding and ment claim it will "disrupt religious a fly at ten paces? Kids DIG water it in a telephone booth, compassion to the people of the coun practices/' among other things. (Pop pistols. Cops dislike wet pants. If The MSU RAs' Award For PDA try they are supporting and are pro down and see their ad — the sun is you were a cop, would you get out Prevention: to the San Francisco ving once again the values of our the star of the show.) of your car to get squirted?" * Police Department, for the recent society and the altruism of our * * * * That afternoon local merchants be arrest of a young married couple people.'' on a charge of embracing too vigor The Great Loco Motive Chase gan distributing free water pistols. No Comment: A Dow Chemical Makes Waste Department, Late • * * * ously while in line of sight of a Company ad in last Wednesday's State Bloomers Division is filled this week STUDENT GOVERNMENT ATRO neighborhood grocer. We also a- News carried the following headline: ward Second Prize in the Universal with Jim Graham, who called the CITIES DEPARTMENT: "If you're a '67 grad. ..YOU'VEGOT other day requesting favorable public Render Unto Caesar Award or, Creative Protest Contest to the peo A DATE with the Man from Dow/' ple who organized a Kiss-In in front ity for his long awaited (rarely an Secular Religious Proposal of the The Witch-Hunt Begins: "Six mem ticipated) decision to at last register • Week: "Attendance at the informal of the jail to protest the arrests. bers of the state House of Represen We see this action as the second- his opposition to the war in Vietnam. meeting appears to be by invitation, tatives proposed a special investiga THE PAPER, as requested, does not and the grace of the student board. to-the-last in an obvious progres tion committee Wednesday to look into sion of public protest demonstrations wish to embarrass Mr. Graham by The point is, they who give can student activity on campuses of state- mentioning the fact that he spent also take away." (Ellen Zurkey, State toward the ultimate protest against supported universities/' (StateNews, man's inhumanity to man. The First student money for a trip to a student News, Wednesday, Jan. 1) Friday, Feb. 3). leaders conference in Washington to What About Us? sub-Department: Prize is still available. * * * * announce that opinion. 'The eight dormitory newspapers have * # * * Hot Employment Tip of the Week: been given a grant of $1000 a year THIS WAR DEPARTMENT: From a GM ad entitled "TWO WAY * * * * by the State News. Corollary Where The Guns-And-Butter Award: to an STREET/' we take the following un A Special Award for Void Man Does He Fit In? additional sub-De- Unidentified Potato Chip Com; any, believable quotation: "Like many aging: to the State News' Outlook . partment: According to Wilson Hall which carried the following announce things, working for AC Spark Plug column. Entrop y is a drag. ' • , f • i could be justified. Almost everyone sure of its values would not tolerate ' felt that the issues were clear-cut; the current levels of dissent. Beyond Gold and Evil . • we had no real choice, at least after Political protest and unrest do not continued from page 3 • the war had started. Or consider explain this general discontent, of at the University College Symposium. Let's go back to civil rights for a World War I, which was to make Course. They are only symptoms. From Little Rock to Selma, na moment. Those television newscasts the world safe for democracy. Even A thorough explanation would be very tional television made it painfully were seen by everyone, and if a few the Korean War was accepted; the difficult to find. It is obviously going clear that conditions existed in the people went out to march, many Spanish-American war was popular to deal with the failure of many United States that could not be tole more inevitably stayed at home with despite making no more sense than strongly materialistic value system * rated according to traditional ideals. a vague unrest — especially those the present one. They were all at to provide a satisfactory basis for As Priedenberg said, this condition young enough not to have formed least BORNE well—and there was life, but there are many books you generated a half-way protest, a rela values. Well, Huntley and Brinkley always some enthusiasm. can read to convince you of that. tively safe rebellion. Demonstrators are still there now (and so is Har Now look around. Where is there There is more to be said than this. asked only reform—but reform is rison Salisbury), and a lot more enthusiasm about this war? Where There are still some funny facts change, and asking it required a lot faith has been lost. is there evidence that Americans left over; there are, for instance, of thinking, and the loss of a lot of "But that's so oversimplified," consider it worthwhile? economic reasons to be AGAINST faith in society as it existed. Civil you say? Dying is simple. It really There are certainly many in - the war ("guns or butter"). But flights, thus, was a start. doesn't take much sensitivity to be dividuals committed to the war— my whole argument has been to in Today, civil rights is ... well, aware of pain. If hundred-thousand- but even more certainly there is clude rather confused positions under I hesitate to use the word "dead/' range casualty figures can be ig no sincere, emotional societal com "dissatisfaction"; that obviously But it is at least relatively dor nored (and they can be, by some mittment to it. There are too many leaves a lot of room for contra mant, Stokely Carmichael notwith people), the loss of a son or a people like that girl, to whom the dictions. Maybe I can explore some of standing. And very few people would brother or the boy down the block justifications that can be offered them after mid-terms. deny that Vietnam is a big part of cannot. aren't good enough. Generally, a so the reason. The PRESENT scenes "Yes, but how many families didn't ciety more sure of the worth of its on the evening news certainly sur lose someone in World War II?" goals would not have the mood of pass any of our home-grown attrac That's just the point. THOSE losses the United States in 1967. A country tions. Vietnam is simply a more important issue. Protest has changed accordingly. cas( is excellent — particularly Julia Instead of talking about the "white MOVIES Foster as the mother of Alfie's child power structure", the East Village continued from paqe 8 and Vivien Merchant as the woman who KNOW that love is the greatest thing has the abortion.) Other in 1967 ponders our world, since sliced bread. A MAN AND A WOMAN "the shredded end of the Protestant But — as I said to start with — Ethic—that monstrous and mutated this isn't basically how the film "A Man and a Woman," another film child of the Industrial Revolution.'* works. We are involved enough with critic has said privately, is great for Young men serve years for burning Alfie to see that he lives by at least putting you in the mood to go home draft cards rather than days or months a partial truth; compared with a girl and beat off. for walking on the wrong side of the who whines and incessantly asks him I personally can't testify to that, street. if he loves her, he seems halfway but if it's true then the film is good Dissent is also becoming more... sensible. In his way, Alfie is like for something. could I say ecumenical? "The -time the buy in the Simon and Garfunkel Otherwise it's a chicly photo has come for a Pow Wow, a Peace song, "I Am A Rock," who says, graphed fairy tale for pseudo-sophis Pipe, a Gathering of the I ribes both "If I'd never loved I never would ticates that looks like an animated political and psychedelic: on Saturday have cried." Of COURSE it's sick, collection of ads from The New York January 14, Berkeley political acti but there are times in all our lives er and plays like an adolescent day vists and San Francisco's hippies when being a rock begins to look dream. have agreed to join in a love feast pretty attractive, somehow. Besides, You know: it's like those what- that will hopefully erase any mutual Alfie has fun — and probably gets sor t-of-a-man- reads-Playboy ads, skepticism remaining between them. more out of life than most of us which always show a mountain climb What these two radical groups have superior types do. er or a deep-sea diver or some recognized is that, despite their dif Still, Alfie is at least half wrong thing: just the sort of man that the ferences, both are engaged in moving and he has to face it sometime. He sort of man who ACTUALLY reads sees his son in the church while a Playboy—some pimpled teenage boy married woman is at his flat abort who uses the centerfold for the same ing his child; when he returns and sees thing this picture may be good for— the dead foetus, his face is distorted would really like to be. with unexpected grief. The unborn The woman in "A Man and a child is the (unconscious) symbol of Woman" is a glamorous fashion- * the son he gave up, the only person model type who works in movies he ever loved. (though not as an actress); her hus In the next scene he's decided to band — a daring, romantic stunt- 1' settle down' ' with a middle- aged man—was killed doing a stunt. The woman he likes for her unsentimen- man is a professional racing-car tality, for the way she too is care driver; his wife—a beautiful psycho ful not to get attached. To show his tic—killed herself when he was in affection, he brings her flowers for jured in a race. the first time — only to find her Even hip young couples (who could with another man. n't, of course, be fooled if the film "What's he got that I haven't?" starred Rock Hudson and Julie An he demands. drews) see the beautiful people do With a mixture of amused con ing exciting things and sign, "Ah! tempt and simple that's-how-it-is The Real Us!'* out from under th e shadow of the frankness, she says, "He's young Sure. It's not incredible that people Establishment into the sun of free er than you are. . .Got it?" There are taking this thing seriously, but dom. So they have decided to stand is genuine affection on both sides, it's depressing as hell. up together in what both hope will be but they are both committed to their a new, strong harmony." (EVO, Vol. cynicism; he gives her key back MADEMOISELLE 2, #4). On a more local level, a and leaves for good. (This is a beau This is not nearly as bad as every member of MSU SDS recently urged tiful scene, easily the best thing body's going to tell you it is. Since THE PAPER to become more poli Shelley Winters has done.) the script is by Jean Genet, you and finally settle on one for to tically involved: "we're both fighting Left alone and facing a distant shouldn't be surprised to find that night's fire, as she arranges her hair the same attitudes.' dead end, Alfie is puzzle i. He seems 1) it deals with a fairly exotic kind and makes up her face to go out and Dut SDS, THE PAPER, and the to have got most things his own way, of perversion; and 2) it deals with it in destroy as an act of love. West Coast groups are all pretty but: "I ain't got my peace of mind, a romanticized, adolescent, but genu Unfortunately, the whole thing tee conscious and explicit expressions and without that you ain't got no- inely poetic way. ters on the edge of parody and oc of dissatisfaction—and there is a thin.' " The film concerns a spinster casionally topples over. When the second point to be made about pro He looks at us ..and says, "What's (Jeanne Moreau) who expresses her spinster and the woodcutter finally test: that it makes no sense to re it all about?" then with a little shrug frustrated desire for a handsome come face to face, he is (perhaps strict the label "dissatisfied" to adds, "Know what I mean?" woodcutter by starting fires, caus symbolically?) carrying a snake a- only that level. Bet your life, kid. WE know. ing floods, poisoning livestock- round his waist. He asks her to touch For where does this analysis leave (I should add anticlimactically that things that give him an opportunity the snake. In an absolutely unfor the girl I mentioned at the start of 1) Michael Caine is of course per to be heroic, but that he, as a for gettable moment, the snake crawls this article? She has never £een in fect; 2) there are a few scenes — eigner, is blamed for. I realize it's over her hand as they stare at each a demonstration, she belongs to no especially a barroom brawl and a strange, but at least the first half other and the woodcutter says, "This formal organization, and I'm sure pseudo-comic bit in a doctor's of of the film is good enough to take you is the first time we've really met." she would be glad for a few hundred fice — so bad they seem to belong into" the woman's bizarre sealed-off In the last half, beginning with a unexpected dollars. How can I say in a different movie; 3) The picture world where, away from human con long flashback, the picture loses focus she is part of a general repudiation is shot in bright, awful color that tact, the most outrageous things seem and fatally allows us time to reflect of economic values? Only by admitting runs steadily against the grain of the logical, even inevitable. The detail on things like plausibility. Still, I en that much of that repudiation may story—which should have been in is beautiful as her fingers run a- joyed it, even if I did stop taking it be confused and only half-conscious. •black-and-white; and 4) the entire cross a row of ornate matchboxes - THE PAPER, East Lansing, Michigan, Week of February 6, 1967 13 continued from page 1 leave their houses and enjoy the out doors. Neighbors speak to neighbors; even talk about the weather, just for once, has substance. Work is shared. We all cooperate, since none of us are specialists. Even the police are helping out, instead of prowling the streets in search of money and respect. Today, in the brotherhood of car-pushers and snow- shovelers, we are one. With steel and concrete covered up the city seems almost old-fas hioned enough to be composed of wood and dirt. Straight lines, square buildings and right angles have been bent and softened in the redecoration. The drifts, paths and piles of snow are monuments to the unconscious art of man and the natural beauty he has destroyed with his order. There is a lesson here which should be obvious: Man has not made a better world for himself. He has failed at this most important task, and Nature, without trying, can beat society is so constituted that the false faith, we have assured our hard way what should have been ob him at his own game. good theoretically fises above the selves that, if a ma n follows his vious. Science, business and govern The ''Progress" of the last twenty evil—in our factories, our labora wallet, he will be guided down the ment contain their own values, and years has not been progress at all. tories and our legislatures—and no path of public service, though he these, as long as we permit, are not We are making a faster world, a more concern over the human consequences walks backwards. Moral and human humanistic ones. The pursuit of pro orderly world, a more complex and of these things is considered neces istic concern is resisted in this fit, the quest for power, and the search scientific world, but not a more liv sary. enterprise. It is called Bad Busi for knowledge (which is a kind of able one. We are meeting more easily This is our faith—our way out of ness. power) soon become ends in them the needs of production, the needs of perplexing issues. It is our knack THE GOVERNMENT GOD: We be selves. They are then pursued as the economy, the needs of govern for moral escapism. Unfortunately, lieve that democracy and the Two worthwhile in themselves, and the ment and science, bui not the needs this faith has not been justified, and Party System functioning freely will consequences are ignored. Since the of human beings. That a snowfall the consequences of our apathy are lead us to a better world. Our Govern systems are naturally NOT infallible, could so enhance our lives for a day rolling in. Our patriotic nihilism ment God is theoretically infallible. it becomes possible to reach these -makes this evident. ("No evil exists in America") is Though his real desire is for power short-term goals (wealth, election, I he world of Twentieth Century crumbling rapidly. Our old "God" (the misplaced values), he must serve prestige, etc.) without achieving the America is advancing, but in what is not in his heaven (he has truly the interests of the people to gain "inevitable" long-term goals (real direction? We have a million labor- died or dropped out) and all is not and hold this power. What the people progress and a better world). The saving devices, but living is more well with the world. We have long need will be drafted, debated and en systems can be short - circuited. complicated than ever (and unbear since progressed to other gods, and dorsed. What is bad for us will die Loopholes can be found. The moral able for many). We have better ways it is these false faiths which have in committee. The Good will be re homeostasis is lost. of "defending" ourselves than ever let us down. warded with Election, the Bad .with We are now losing our faith, and before, yet we are less secure and Defeat. Objects of worship: The Sys should be. Our gods are not dead, more endangered than at any time tem and the politicians themselves. but they are dying, and the symp in history. In the face of staggering THREE MODERN GODS THAT FAILED The pious are called Good Citizens. toms are everywhere: material affluence, we are still un THE BUSINESS GOD: We believe Moral Escapism: We believe that BUSINESS: Ralph Nader has shown happy. that capitalism and the free enter those who seek power (for whatever us. General Motors does not care Though our scientific, technologi prise system functioning freely will amoral or selfish reasons) will ul about US. Con. Ed. does not care cal and economic advances have been inevitably lead us to a better world. timately be forced to serve the public about the air we breathe. Madison remarkable, they have not been fol The Business God is theoretically interest, or their power will dis Avenue does not care about the beauty lowed by comparable moral and spiri infallible. Though his main concern appear. Moral and ethical concern of the cities we live in. The mass tual progress. is money (the misplaced values), he need not be asked of them (and cer media do not care about the content Clearly the failing is not that we are must serve the interests of the people tainly not expected). It is Poor Poli and its effects. I he goal of business unequal to the task; it is that we have to earn this money. What is needed tics. is to SELL, and we should have known not tried. Consistently we have de will be manufactured, distributed and THE SCIENCE GOD: We believe all along that what is good for us and veloped tools of great power and then bought. What is bad for us will never religiously that the pursuit of know what we can be sold on are two misused them. We have misplaced come into existence (or into the mar ledge will lead us finally to Truth different things. our efforts and misplaced our values. ketplace). The Good will be rewarded and then to a better world. The more GOVERNMENT: We were given a The consequences should not seem with Profits, and the Evil will be we know, the greater our control choice in '64 between War and Cor surprising. punished with Bankruptcy. This re over the environment, and the harder ruption. We chose the alternative Americans have traditionally pos ligion includes as objects of worship: our enemies will fall. What we learn which promised the least bloodshed, sessed an extraordinary faith in their the Budget, the Economy and the will be good for us. There is no but we received BOTH in spite of systems and institutions. Our Way Gross National Product. The pious evil in the game, because Truth is this. And then, loophole of all loop of Life is righteous in itself and are called Gonsumers. good. The Good are rewarded with holes, we were SOLD on this. The needs no further justification. Our Moral Escapism: Through this tenure, grants, prizes and contracts. American people were presented an <•*/.", The Bad go unnoticed. Objects of elaborate series of fait accomplis • " 8 worship: the white lab coat, the jour and then taught to accept them by nals, the Wisdom and the Truth. The the best political P#R. man in the pious are called laymen, and the country. When public opinion, in priests are Scientists. stead of governmental policy, be Moral Escapism: We do not ask comes the dependent variable in the moral or ethical concern of the lay democratic formula, the system has T I men since they are unqualified. Like been beaten. Lyndon Johnson stands wise, the priests in their quest for as living disproof of the perfect truth must be left free. To ask selectivity of our system. Ihc War otherwise is Unscientific. invalidates its checks and balances. These have been our Three Great We have all lost faith. But the goal Faiths, and our failings. The ethics, of politics is power, and we should we thought, were implicit. What will have known all along that what is sell is Good. What the politicians good for us and what we can be force- can sell us is also Right. And, of fed are not the same. course, what is True is also Good SCIENCE: Knowledge is power, and for us. Though these things are not power in itself is neither God nor equated, Good follows from them, Devil. Faith in science can never for that is the nature of the universe be absolute as long as man is fallible. and the advantage of our institutions. Until substantial human progress is This cannot, of course, be always made it appears that every advance true, and we now have learned the continued on poa« 1 4 . these things as our REAL motives. No System, no faith, can assure us that politicians, scientists and busi nessmen seeking power, knowledge and financial gain will serve OUR needs. Where values are misplaced, loopholes will always be found and our ends will be lost in the struggle which we call the means. It is just such short-circuiting of the machin ery for improvement which has left us wondering how we can be so miser able in the face of such fantastic scientific, legal and economic pro gress. These issues are not as abstract as they may seem. The future will abound with conflicts where the needs of institutions go against the needs of men. We must learn to see these things and respond. If we are to make a better world for ourselves, we must disclaim all belief in the inevitablity of progress, and we must ask of those in power ^^^^^^^^^^^ta_ J^^^^^^^B^ ^^^^^a. machines kill us and replace us. that they TRY. We must ask of them Psychology is used to resist change— that they act counter to THEIR values to persuade, sell and propagandize us. — that they forget at times what is Feeding knowledge and new means Good Business, what is Scientific, continued from pog« 1 3 into our power structure has only and what is Good Politics and what made us less free, less safe and is humane and morally superior. puts us in greater danger. Our fan less powerful as individuals* And, Someone must begin to lobby for the tastic technology has produced a so in the face of this, science has de people. ciety apparently less suited for men clared itself morally not responsible Until our efforts are properly di than for machines. for its results. rected and humanitarian values find We have beaten many of our old The point I am making must be their place in the modern world, we enemies with our ingenuity, and we clear. If we are concerned with human will continue to be embarrassed by have invented others. Our medicines values and the creation of a legiti our failures. become diseases in themselves. Our mately better world, we must have Pray for snow. JANGS Woman* Work 1 Big League Lisa, "What just What a broad! YOU are able to DO, (8 She struts on unknowing streets Baby, Obviously feeling Is RESONATE! (No one cares for her YOU know, (No one sees her waltzing Reflect & (to yet-unimagined dirges ImPLOsively?" How he laughed JUDY LONGLEY When I cited my loving, And he's not a laughing man. CO I "Instead, Unconscious Stream They have a FIRE hydrant in their LIVING room! f I I co C Unwed ebon moonlight C Simple Sin n and Garfunkl met a pi man going to the fail said single sighirl|i n to the sky man let me taste your yheres while Alice had tea in several broken w;*itche s (the late important Sates) the gypsy mad hatteI dreaming monkees strangled hourglass in their hands the loyal sport of A) thur mingled base circu§ 476 *sigh* Heffnerson irplain aches off seafoam meersh dancing Marys christ strung on bosses a flood strumm. ng in his hyde flurry up plea^ d, it's tyme themesang thf : Thames shakespeare &vo n calling down the years dur* yesterday t day and tomorrow you know 1;pfce r alwyas never won't could merl in spell backwards? writing on ^entagramophones the science ; faction i can't gee no sciencefiction roiling sto ned SOI iewhere some wor Judas Barabbas tS te Jaws died hoarsely with the ma\lbon e of an ass x the bower of -, he bible (cave to cadaver death to breat seth to beth « sheba to SarutnOT mean wn i just sat a round and played with my elf DAVID HEAL Cross Word Puzzle This ersatz proto-poern contains a large number of allusions. Some of them are far more obscure than others and are cleverly designed to re sist detection by all but the most astute of individuals. THE-: PAPER challenges its readers to track down as many of them as possible and send them to us for validation by the author. Some kind of groovy prize will go to the genius who does the best job. Answers next week. When man and beast walk paw Hack-work Eight Miles High in paw back into that ageless vaulted What is better? To write slimy cathedral in verse of freedom; to remind (they once walked blinking from together) oneself of a silver sky-ship (not a When children break from eggs bird or a plane or even what's his name) on sun-warmed highway beaches gossiping flying high and low with the speed of imagination, with turtle midwives The formless form of an idea? (about a marriage long since consummated) r i And a dull red sun sets one last time Or would you prefer to write .' across the rusted sand of vacant windswept and talk of a small child's kite, continent merely for the sake of a form; (the whistling dust reclaiming long forgotten dutuj rhyme, scan, adhere to the normv Then will confusion cease, God breathe again and living become plain. It seems to me that one way MIKE DURPHY is unfettered and free and says something, but the other is beauty without thought. Perhaps thought and beauty are mutually exclusive? I only said perhaps, soul brothers. Unfortunately even the complexity of our tongue sometimes leaves much Government Patterns to be desired. In order to make it fit, something must go tomorrow came • one day late Besides, what rhymes with ectoplasm (which is a and nice word) and means the ethereal beauty yesterday was early by two hours of a Dee Ann? time screamed in the hollow emptiness of limbo SETH McEVOY the self inflicted agony of loss impinged the tortured mind scattered With colorfully upon the dead ceiling the gentleness of water with creeping down a square granite block * dull patterns hung from ethereal gallows to a pool of Clearwater and rivulets and rivers down further, further down the green hill, the noose hung the hangman gently I remember a certain such encounter. and The word that was spoken was soft as the morning the trap dropped on two-legged rats when the dark first gets broken and sunlight is forming, stealing as full of something as water at dawning, constitutional cheese with grimy baptismal and living. iron-grip paws VICTOR ST JOHN idh SATURDAY, February 11 NO LISTING SUNDAY, February 12 1:30 p.m.—Recital Hall—Pianist JoseRim- Lost or Confounded ALLEN GINSBERG IS coming to East Lan baldi, former graduate student at MSU, sing soon, courtesy of ZEITGEIST. Are plays Sonata in C Major by Haydn; Etude, you prepared? is MSU prepared? Can you Opus 10, No. 6, by Chopin; and"Islamey" WANTED: stimulating, male, intellectual, think of a place that seats 5,000 poetry by Balakirew. with shovel, to help me dig out of massive fiends? Will MSU force him into the Civic 2:00 p.m.—News in Perspective—Among MSU snowdrift, i.e. ADS-Math-Dorm Crowd, the topics under speculation is the re Center in Lansing? Will MSU arrest him if PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS February 7-13 Shaw mixer. Farmer's Week, and Polly he sets foot on campus? Will President lationship between President Johnson and Pan-Hel. Call Syd, 353-3156. Hannah give him a reception at Cowles House? the 90th Congress, especially on the Watch for news in your local rag, TUESDAY, February 7 basis of the Democrats' narrowed lead in the House. WILL THE person who took my coat at the 11:30 a.m.—The Creative Person—a visit bacchanale at Leslie St. two weeks ago 3:00 p.m.—The Creative Person — Joan THE FABLES is East Lansing's best-selling with Canadian Richard Williams, a film Baez, one of the best-known American Saturday please call Don at 353-8173. The paperback. Culture-Fests are East Lansing's animator who is generally cited as one songbook in the pocket has sentimental value singers of folk songs in the world, Gut- most popular form of mind blowing. Bessey of the few top-rank creative artists in lines her political beliefs and talks about . . .Mv mother gave it to me. ___ Hall is East Lansing's most popular sit-in his field today. location. ZEITGEIST is Michigan's best sel the opening of her school, the Institute 12:30 p.m.—Assignment 10—"Bombs Are for the Study of Non-Violence. WANTED: GIRL who responded to last ad ling literary magazine. Allen Ginsberg is Possible"—a discussion on whether or America's most widely read poet. All pro 3:30 p.m.—Cineposium—the first in a series and fits rhe following description: Name: not the bomb is a real threat and an of programs offering a uniqueopportunity Ann....Campus Address: South Hubbard.... vided as a public service by Zeitgeist people. examination of the extent of Civil De After a cruel autumn murder, ZEITGEIST is to view and to hear acritiquebf the works Home: Crosse Pointe, but moving to Bal fense preparation on the local level. of new and established filmmakers. moral Apts., Southfield. Blonde hair and returning— soon. 7:00 p.m.—Spectrum—"R and D: A March blue eyes. Call Doug - Shaw. 355-9087. 4:00 p.m.—Your Right to Say It—"Is the Beware! Beware! fearful and trembling gut on '! ime"—an examination of the applied 'Safe Auto* Possible?"—James Mancuso, less ones! A man, a poet,amessiah is arri scientist's role in industry, focusing on board. member and chairman of public LOST: Polished gold wedding band with ving in East Lansing soon. From LSD to free Lockheed - California's Rye Canyon relations at the National Auromobile Deal three diamonds in star shaped inserts. Lost verse to free love to freedom, there is no one Laboratory, one of the country's most ers' Association, explains his opinion on the way to Hubbard from the Women's to match him. Some missed Ferlinghetti; important centers for aero-space re that the Federal Government's safety IM last Thursday noon. Obvious sentimen some missed Snyder; but only Brody rats and search. requirements for automobiles are un tal value. . .Please return. Reward. 353- U.S. members (previously of the Orange realistic. 6527 Winona. Horse) would wake up and discover that Allen WEDNESDAY, February 8 4:30 p.m.—NET Journal—"What Happenec 1 Ginsberg has departed. ZEITGEIST predicts 11:30 a.m.—Spectrum—"R and D: A March Up There' —an adaptation of the Japan WOULD THE KIND, gentle, lovable, sweet, there's a poet prophet comini ese-made film which won firsr prize in on Time" — see Tuesday, 7 p.m. the Prix Italia--Documentary Division'' cuddly person who found my gold wrist- 12:00 a.m.—Mil Journal—"France Is Dead: watch nesting in a Union washroom please for Us account of the investigation fol Offers Long Live France"—a documentary on lowing a plane crash in lokyo Bay one call 332-4649. I will be eternally and in the changes in France since World War II, ternally grateful. There's a reward, too! year ago. BUMPERSTICKERS: "MAKE LOVE which created a chasm between the old 11:00 p.m.— NE] Playhouse —"La Mama -NO! WAR"; "TURN ON....TUNE IN.... and the new France. Playwrights*'—an introduction to three DROP OUT."; "Dump Johnson in '68'*; 7:00 p.m.—Young American Musicians — plays by three young playwrights whose Sex "Ihe Great Society...bombs, bigotry, bull Pianist Barbara Nissman, graduate stu works have been performed at La Mama shit.''; "War 1$ GOOD BU$INE$$...IN - dent at the University of Michigan, plays Experimental Theater Club in New York Would like to meet good-looking girl who VE$'I YOUR $ON"; "Legalize Spiritual Dis the. Andante spianato and Grande Polon City, including Jean-Claude van ftallie's can enjoy sex without emotional attachment, covery" — 50C each — Johnson, 528 Lake- aise briliante, Opus 22, by Frederic "Pavane"; San Shepard's ''Fourteen hun agrees that this is good, clean fun. Should view, Bayport, N.Y. Chopin and Ricordanza, one of the Trans dred Ihousande"; and Paul Foster's""She be between 4'9" and 5'7", between 18 and cendental etudes by Franz Liszt. Recluse. w * 23. Intercourse welcome but not necessaryl ANYONE INTERESTED in forming and or Call Dave, 355-94:>7--between 3 and 5 30 : joining a French Club please call Karen THURSDAY, February 9 if possible. Larson at 355-2443. 12:00 a.m.—Your Right to Say It—"Vietnam MONDAY, February 13 PUBLIC Sl-JRVICU ANNOUNCEMENT': Lone PSYCHEDELIC INCENSE Imported from and 'Managed News* "—ArthurSylvester, India, $1.00 packet ppd., also Sandalwood Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public ly SDS activist wishes beautiful buxom mis 12:00 a.m.-- News in Per8pective~see Sun tress. Fun and games desired!!! Must be incense Burner $1.00 each ppd. Handi Affairs, explains his opinion on the matter crafts. Long Playing Indian Records - Ravi of withholding information from the public day, 2 p.m. free and uninhibited. No hippies or teeny- 7:00 p.m.—Spartan fcportiite— filmed high bompers. Call H , 337-9217. Shankar, All Akbar etc., free price list. in times when the country's safety is Indiacrafts, P. O. 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FREE FREE FREE FREE (50 cents 8:00 p.m.—Opera, "Lucia d; Lanin-i-r - which we believe to be the theater's chief, is service charge) PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS February 7-13 if infrequent, contribution to the common moor" by Donizetti, Performers intLv: life of man.' ^_^^_ Lily Pons and Richard I ucker, IF YOU H ELI EVE that you have PSYCHIC TUESDAY, February 7 ABILITY, or if you wish to contribute to SATURDAY, February 11 Would you believe that at 10:30 on Wednes the advancement of parasychological re 6:30 a.m.—"The Morning Program/' fea 11:45 a.m.—"Recent Acquisitions," Oilier: day nights you can hear the music of India, search, or if you would just enjoy parti turing classical music, news, weather Hansen and Ken Beachler listen to and Africa, Eastern Europe, the Far East, Middle cipating in an experiment on ESP, Volun and Mike Wise (week-days). discuss news recordings on the World East, Near East, Southeast Asia, South teer by calling 372-1620...7-11 p.m. T 8:00 p.m.—News, a quarter hour report, Series label. America, American Indians, and other non- & TH or 9-11 W. with Lowell Newton. 2:00 p.m.--The Metropolitan Opera, live Western traditions? Well, not all of them each 8:15 p.m.—"Scrapbook," interviews, fea from New York. Today, a performance time, but as many as Maria Nichols can fit Grande Ballroom Posters. $1.00 each or 3 ture stories, classical music and jazz of Benjamin Britten's "Peter Grimes," into her program — "Music Around the for $2.50. Send check or money order: with Steve Meuche (week-days). with Jon Vickers, Lucine Amara and World" on WKAR-FM, Wednesday nights, Uncle Russ Travel Agency, 7729 Kentucky, 1:00 p.m.—Musical, "Wait a Minim." 10:30. Geraint Evans. Conducted by Colin Davis, Dearborn, Mich. 48126. 5:00 p.m.—"News 60," a full hour report 7:25 p.m.—Hockey, MSU and Michigan. prepared by the WKAR news and public After the game, til 1:00, classics by re SRL HAS ARISEN! True to the saying that affairs departments. quest on "Listener's Choice." "you can't keep a good liberal down," the YOU WANT TO LIVE off campus, right? 8:30 p.m.—The Chicago Symphony orches Student Religious Liberals are holding, in Of course. But Greeks aren't cool. And tra in Concert, with guest conductor SUNDAY, February 12 addition to our Sunday night film series, apartments necessitate being twenty-one and Charles Munch and pianist Nicole Hen- having lots of money. So what's left? 2:00 p.m.—The Cleveland Orchestra ir. a series of discussions Sunday mornings riot Schweitzer. Program includes music Concert, with violin soloist Daniel at 11 a.m. in the Old College Hall in the Elsworth (men's) Co-op. by Berlioz ("Symphonie fantastique"); What's a co-op? Well, call us at 332-3574, Majeske and Louis Lane conducting the Union. We will talk about everything from Ravel (Piano Concerto in G) and Roussel orchestra. Music includes Havel's sex to cybernetics and probably back to or drop in at 711 W. Grand River. (Suite No. 2 from * 'Bacchus and Ariadne"). It's the good life, boobie. "Mother Goose Suite": Bernstein's sex. Seriously, we will try to bring up Serenade for Violin, Strings, Harp and issues that are meaningful in relation to WEDNESDAY, February 8 Percussion; Lutoslawski's "Venetian the quality of human life. 1:00 p.m.—Operetta, "Ihe Desert Song." Games" and Schubert's Symphony No. 5. 8:00 p.m.—"FM Theater," a BBC produc 8:00 p.m.—"The Toscanini Era" with Gary tion of "The Hippolytus of Euripides/' Barton. Two hours of recordings led by 10:30 p.m.—"Music Around the World" with Arturo Toscanini. Marta Nicholas (premiere). 11:00 p.m.—"Offbeat" with Steve Meuche. 11:00 p.m.—"New Jazz in Review" with Bud Spangler and Ron English. MONDAY, February 13 1:00 p.m.—Musical, "Sweet Charity." THURSDAY, February 9 3:00 p.m.--The Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra in Concert, with Kenata lebal- 1:00 p.m.—Musical, "Kean." di, soprano, and Carl Karapetian con 7:00 p.m.—Ihe Detroit Symphony Orches ducting the orchestra. Music by Mozart tra in Concert, with Sixten Ehrling con Verdi, Ravel, Schubert, Ponchielli anc ducting. Music includes Dvorak's Sym Puccini. phony No. 9: Ravel's "Mother Goose 7:55 p.m.—Basketball, MSU vs. Indiana Suite"; Respighi's "Neste Romane." 10:30 p.m.—"Music of Today," the firs 9:00 p.m.—"Jazz Horizons," til midnight, o f three programs featuring the musi with Bud Spangler. of Leo6 Janacek, Diehl Attacks A Tax ing and no restaurant is allowed to to students. It would be interesting to sell drinks, the quality of food will find out if any .or all of these travel suffer immeasurably. Anyway, The bargains are not quite what they are Best Steak House serves a rather billed to be. After last year's Rose palatable steak dinner for about$1.32 Bowl trips some people complained (to your order). One girl mentioned about the accommodations they were that she dropped some money on the given compared to the ones that they floor there and one of the employees were led to believe they were going returned it to her, which is really to receive. This issue stems in part rare of late. from item 3 in the "terms and con Further comments on the meat ditions of booking for ASMSU Easter situation include the following: A trip to the Bahamas 1967/' which professional butcher made a review states; of food stores in the area for his "If all seats on the chartered son at MSU and found that one of the aircraft are not filled, the exact cost fllt^ best (for meat) is Willard's HiLo of the flight will be pro-rated be (1400 East Michigan). Czubak's (1600 tween the members who have signed S, Logan) is also supposed to have up for the trip, which may result in good meat. an increase in cost." Of course, it We have also been told that the seems silly that a flight to the Ba photo developing service at the East hamas might cost $800 but what if Dear PAPER Reader: seeking a cooperative understanding Lansing Margin Store is of ques only three people signed up for the between stores and students. One such tionable quality. One customer had an trip? Back at Eberhard's, our secret establishment is Miller Brothers' entire roll of film ruined, including Finally, our contribution to the reporter may have discovered just Shoe Repair (501 East Grand River). prints of the ruined film. The entire Too- True- I o-Be-Funny Department: how the Big E does make a profit. Several sources indicate that their matter was referred back to the the United States was recently de They were recently observed to have prices are fair and they tend to be processor (Margin Store would not scribed as the world's first over charged 8 cents tax on a 99-cent pleasant and prompt. accept any responsibility) and nothing developed country. purchase. Also complimented on this week's has been heard since. Thus, about So, if you have any complaints which Over-taxing is vogue nowadays, tour was The Best Steak House. This S3 was wasted through what was de you would like aired or any compli as borne out by Michigan's own sales is East Lansing's closest approach to scribed as Margin Store's caveat ments vou would like distributed tax system. Consider that while we a real, live restaurant so far. As most emptor. please call 351-7373 or write ro Box are cajoled into believing that there people know, as long as East Lansing Tlje last item is a suggestion re 68, K. Lansing. 48823. is a 4 per cent sales tax here ac has an immature approach to drink- garding the vacation trip deals offered DIEHL tually that is a deceptive figure. For example, when you buy a 55-cent item you pay 3-cent tax which is a 5,45 per cent tax and when you buy a i3-cent item and pay 1-cent tax Jfc that is a 7.69 per cent rate. •« Even in New York City where the established rate is 5 per cent there as food, which proves that some tax systems are fairer than others. An example is New Hampshire's lottery. { The revenues from that type of legal ized betting provide that state with excellent schools, etc., without a breath about a personal income tax. What is so ironic is that a lottery At.i could also bail Michigan out of some of its financial straits were it not for some of our more Pharisaical citizens and legislators. The WCTU lives! Let me relate a recent scene at DeWar Cleaners. A lady stopped there tuna. Add salt, pepper, and a hand- leftist sprinkling of salt and pepper. to pick up some cleaning and asked to ful of parsley. If possible, also add Add the diced chicken. Let simmer use the phone. While she was on the a chopped hardboiled egg. When this for an hour or so, stirring occasion Hello again, scuzzy cooks! This mixture is thoroughly heated, fold in ally. The final offering this week,in phone, Mr, DeWar took the pack- week's featured food is that bland the rice and serve. Serves four to deed the ultimate end of this ar ages and carefully placed them in and somewhat righteous staple, rice, ticle, is a recipe for a special meal. her car. This is merely typical of Rice is yummy, versatile and cheap. six. Next come the sauces, both cali You know what a special meal is: DeWar's fine services. Also, speak- It can be used as the base of a meal, when you girl moves in, when you ing of good services, we have been ad- served as a side dish, or employed brated for about two cups of cooked rice. J he first, modestly entitled try to reach your boyfriend through vised that Fuller Standard Service in other ingenious ways. Rice, in his stomach, when the computer has (1100 East Grand River) has pro- short, is a groove, Simpering Simple Swift Sauce, is in deed child's play ro make. lake one given you a 20-credit four-point for vided good, honest service to cars. And, it's simple to prepare. Just the last term and you weren't even It's too bad that many people won't follow the directions on the box or of those small twelve-cent cans of mushroom steak sauce and mix it enrolled: in short, any special or find out about such good service be- bag of converted rice. But be sure it's festive occasion. Have your local cause of overpriced gasoline, the easy quick-cooking kind you buy. with a can of tomato paste and a beaten egg. Add a pinch of rose friendly butcher bone several chick E. L. Notes has no direct con- And when I say follow the directions, mary, salt and pepper, a palmful en breats. About two will be right nection with the upcoming boycott I mean to the letter—precisely. By x>f grated cheese, preferably Par for the quantities in this recipe. planned by United Students. It is nice the way, if they say "fluff" the rice, mesan, Cook until bubbling, then Now, melt four tbs. (Tablespoons) to see that some students are con- one simply stirs it gently with a fork serve. butter in a skilled, adding a half cerned enough about their part in the when it's finished cooking. Also, just 'ihe second is so simple it's un cup celery (diced), one small chop community to fight against anonymity, about all brands of rice are just the ped onion, and a quarter cup al However, there have been some en- same, after cooking, so buy the cheap- titled. Just take a can of chili beef soup, undiluted, add a chopped green monds. Cook over low heat while couraging responses from most of est. I'm told, however, that there's a constantly stirring for 15 minutes. the merchants in East Lansing in new brand out aimed straight at the pepper, and heat, adding plenty of 1 red pepper and salt. Add one and a half cups cooked political hippie—Uncle Ho s Convert rice, a half teaspoon salt, two tea ed Rice ("A Marxism in Every Mor Next comes the recipe for Absol spoons sugar, a pinch and a half of sel"). utely Superb Chicken Rice Soup. This is a morning-after dish, cannily hav thyme, and two tablespoons grated This week's recipes include one ing saved the broth and picked the orange rind. Stir for a while, then casserole-type dish, two dauces to bones to save morsels of succulent stuff the mixture into your wait pour over rice, a sou using rice, tender meat. Cook the rice separately, ing chicken breasts. Place them in a and a spectacular impressive Rice- preparing enough to provide one cup pan and baste them with a mixture Almond stuffing for chicken. of cooked rice per quart of broth. of orange juice and melted butter. The first dish is perverted kedge- When cooked, put into simmering Cook them for 45 minutes at 325, Ihe integral cotton candy Emily ree. The food from which this one is broth. Dice in a small stalk of cel then turn for another 45 minutes on the Dickinson comparability award, ex- derived is a staple breakfast treat in ery and a medium-sized carrot. Add other side. Baste frequently. . . pose division: I o the university jani- Gid English mystery movies, and is a quarter cup canned corn. Season tor who said, "It's really nice to made with fresh salmon. The scuzzy work over in Van Hoosen during version is much simpler and less with lots of parsley, a pinch of poul (Next week: Better tea, or cooking break. I hey leave their beer right pretentious. Take two cups of cook- try seasoning, some thyme and a touch with grass.) of rosemary. Add a liberal if not in the refrigerator. ed rice and set aside as you mix one can of undiluted cream of celery soup with one can of flaked, drained editors. However, in other instances when there is a tie vote on the Ad Individualism Or visory Board the issues are turned To the Editor: over to a committee called the Stu Paul Goodman said it; "MSU is a dent-Faculty Judiciary. Presumably nursery school." Does that bother that_ body would be empowered to you? Is a nursery school bad? Isn't settle a tie in the vote for new edi the whole American capitalistic - tors as well. The Student-Faculty fashioned system a nursery school? and reasonable goal. The present Judiciary is made up of 4 students And is that bad? Board of Student Publications is to appointed by ASMSU and 7 (yes, 7) Before you rise up red in the face, be replaced by a body known as the faculty members selected again by pin a button on your fur vest and Advisory Board for the State News the PRESIDENT. Decisions of this scream for a social change, you and Wolverine. The Advisory Board group can be appealed to the vice- might wish to have in mind your is to be made up of 4 students (2 president for student affairs whom ultimate goal. Is it that you would nominated by AS MSU and appointed I am just guessing is appointed by like to see a society of free, crea by the PRESIDENT and 2 selected the PRESIDENT. tive, individual thinkers? First, what from the student body by petition to Anyone for negotiations and free is a society, what holds it together? the PRESIDENT, who shall make elections in Vietnam, a Job Corps, Free thought? Last, what is free, appointments), 2 non-voting admini or another Civil Rights bill? creative thought? What is individual strators, and 4 members of the facul Bertram E. Garskof ism, something you try to get by in ty selected "according to the pattern Assistant Professor of stituting social change? What's your employed for establishing member Psychology slogan, "Come on, group, let's get ship of faculty standing committees." together and be individuals"? In case you don't know what that last Hypocrisy can be a fun game, as juicy bit of jargon really means, the THE PAPER: long as the game doesn't play you. procedure for the establishment of We have formed an electric blues That would make you the game, faculty standing committees on this group and we are very interested in wouldn't it? campus is simply direct appoint getting in touch with anyone who could Playfully yours, Nonsensorship ment by the PRESIDENT, help us in any way. Dexter Hamlin - It is obvious that if the Admini For Peace, To the Editor: stration retains control of the choice Stone and Egg My personal definition of "Liberal of editors, the Administration re 202 Van Wagoner Reform" is as follows: the creation tains control over what is written Oakland University of a complex organization or struc in the State News. That is to say Rochester, Michigan To the liditor: that a different State News would 48063 Your country has been counting ture to hide rather than change exist ing injustice and to mollify rather (freely) "happen" with Joe Frat- armaments and poison gas as part man as editor than with Bob Hippy of her gross national product. They than succor disadvantaged individuals and groups. Example: Article vii of as editor. So the question of veto ...MUSIC are a total loss if not used, and far power over choice of editors is a continued from page 7 more destructive if used. the report of the Faculty Committee on Student Affairs concerned with crucial aspect of student freedom States. The country which cannot tell an academic freedom for students* This of press. Here is how the structure This last, rather unrelated-sound asset from a liability destroys her section of the report is ostensibly (set up, remember, to prevent cen ing fact is, I think, more important credit, as we have. a victory for the idea of an uncen- sorship) works with regard to choice than it sounds. It most probably Margaret Butcher sored student press. Paragraph A of editors. The incumbent editorial accounts for the fact that Ives felt Chestnut Lodge states in part that " faculty, ad board designates its choices for new himself free to write any kind of Rocksville, Md. ministrators, and students who are editors to the Advisory Board, which music he wanted. Feeling neither not staff members may provide ad is free to affirm the chices or to the pressure of his critics nor of vice and criticism but shall not exer choose among other students interest his patrons, he was able to produce o the Editor: works which were years ahead of his How about running a memorial for cise any powers of veto or censor ed in the positions. No procedure is ship over news or editorial content...'' established, as far as I could see, time. He was able to anticipate in the* people Jim Thomas killed? They for the possibility of a tie vote on some way practically every " signi had no choice* Let's look at the structure which the Advisory Board over choice of ficant musical advance of this cen Stuart Dowty is designed to carry out this worthy tury, and much of his music, now fifty years old and more, might have - +Dea r Suzy Creamcheese, r been produced five, ten or fifteen,, i Need a solution to any problem, big or Ihis is a subtle cry for HELP!!! years ago. His fjLn.ancial~-ift4epeTf'- small, up or down? Ask Suzy Creamcheese, Even though letters are imperfect dence also accounts, I suppose, for THE PAPER'S handy-dandy, knowitall ad- means of communication (no non the number of unplayable and nearly ! vise columnist, pictured here in all her verbal cuss and all that), 1 hope you unplayable pieces he produced. He wisdom. wrote everything from a song for will be able to see and understand soloist and piano that required four i Exchanges are likelv the vast complexities of my pea- measures o f string quartet to one Iished, unless specified ' sized soul. piece which is reputed to require to On my walk through the labyrinth ! All problems will be *&*2&* ***~* ninety conductors. He even wrote Suzy care of THr ...-^2>^. J67. East of life I take all the wrong turns (and \ some pieces (e.g. the Universal Sym k Lansing — P ' I've, lost my string so I can't turn phony) which he never intended to be f back). I finished. Here I am — 19 years old, college However, the second symphony, i sophomore, and I'm everything that is being a rather early work, is not as (The following letter was not writ wrong — impossible as all that. This is not ten to Suzy but was referred to her for 1. El. Ed. major (oh security, se to imply that it is easy, but I shall analysis. Only excerpts appear)., curity); have more to say about this later. Dear Miss Creamchecse, 2. Dormie (and I even like my ousemother); The symphony is an almost unbe A student in my Anthropology class, The world is populated with a whole 3. Have a steady who doesn't drink lievable mixture of folk tunes, pa strikingly attractive in appearance, shitaree of hopheads and escapists. or swear (until this year he thought triotic songs, hunks of Beethoven, has been performing rather poorly. We live in a dream world mortally pot was something to relieve your Brahms, Dvorak, Bruckner, Bach, concerned over the fate of some South Wagner, and anything else that Ives After two quizzes in which she re self in). felt like including. However, the piece ceived straight D's, she suggested Vietnamese or of some black Alabam To make matters worse — I don't ans or of three insignificant instruc is not a Peter Schickele production, that closer contact with her instruc have pierced ears, I shower three and neither is it trivial. Nor is it tor, indeed, an intimate relationship tor's in ATL. When the hell are we times a day. buy my clothes from going to wake up and realize that we a mere collection of random themes. with him, might improve her grades. Knapp's Campus Center and I read The themes used are rationally aren't going to LIVE long enough to the State News more often than THE Of course, 1 want to give every make any high-minded changes? chosen, and all are designed to add one a chance to improve his (or PAPER. to the picture that Ives is attempt her) grades; and I do believe in The first rule of life is self- 1 realize I'm a mess. A non-con ing to convey. Whether you like mo closer relations between faculty and preservation—you, you sleepy son- formist, a societal reject in these dern music or not—whatever you like students. Resides, who knows whether of-a- birch are going to die! What modern times. My parents won't speak in music—I think you will find some there is not something to hypnopedia. the hell are you going to be about it? to me because I'm so straight. I've thing to like in this symphony. Anyway, my student and I then did in been kicked out of the house three fact cultivate a very satisfying in . . . .all considerations aside, the times for wearing a skirt to dinner— Unfortunately, I have a major res timacy. Yet, to her surprise as well hick from Texas, his wife the bird, even the SDS-Math-Dorm Crowd ervation about this concert. A student and their counterparts in Russia and doesn't want me!! orchestra is not a professional or as to mine, the quality of her aca China are going to murder you and me ganization, and Ives' second sym demic work has not improved a bit. and that guy over there because we Suzy, I'm depending on you to mold phony is not a Rossini overture. It She still gets D's in her exams. What me, conform me. I want to BELONG. v are stupid and they are ciminally in- is an extremely difficult piece, that is wrong? sant. To (sort of) paraphrase an idi Love, would be a challenge to most pro H.H. otic American nero: 1 know not what E.R. fessional symphony orchestras, and course others may take, but as for Dear E.R., I would say there aren't ten college Dear H.H., me — BETTER READ THAN DEAD! orchestra directors in the country About sleep-learning: "early to bed D.M. Ask Abby next time. With the fan who seriously consider playing it« and early to rise" will perhaps make tastic cultural barriers of this mod If the performance is successful, it will certainly be a tribute to the your student wealthy if she is healthy, Dear D M. ern world as they are, you can't ex but the rest was just thrown in for a # pect an answer STRAIGHT from the efforts of Mr. Burkh and of the- rhyme. In your case. . .NO. HIP. orchestra members. Student Rights and Response Abilities when your committee was appointed against the practice of campus police solution to these problems would be and therefore I have not seen those taking pictures at political meetings to abolish it and subcontract its drafts of its work dated prior to keeping them on file and or turning duties to the East Lansing police November, 1966. I am greatly im them over to other law enforcement in much the same way the Univer pressed both by the quality and scope agencies? 3) What protection do stu sity of Michigan does with the Ann of the latest document prepared by dents have against the taking of their Arbor police force. It should be your committee. pictures on campus by either law en noted that the development of the I would like to make some com forcement agencies? 4) What policy campus police with its peculiar dual ments that fall into two categories: should guide these students who are relationship with the sheriff's de those referring to areas covered by asked by law enforcement agencies partment is a recent development your document, as well as comments to serve as informers regarding the in the history of this institution. concerning one area where I feel politics of other students? 5) What I would be happy to meet with you there is a significant omission in protection or redress should stu or your committee to discuss the your committee's report. dents have against members of the specific situations that have arisen Page 15: Item 10 states: "The stu administration who either publicly over the past few years that lead me dent has a right to protection or privately use what are alleged to make these recommendations. against improper disclosure of to be law enforcement reports to Sincerely, information concerning his denounce the politics of students? Bob Repas grades, views, beliefs, political Although pages 11-12 deal with Associate Professor associations," etc. Exactly what the maintenance of records at Michi Grading: Close constitutes an improper disclos gan State University, I doubt whether the campus police or law enforce (Editor's Note; Mr. Repas has re Dear PAPER: ure or to whom it would be im ceived no reply to the above letter. proper to give this information ment agencies off campus feel that You came very close to doing it they are in any way covered by The committee's report, as recently in your editorial on grading (Jan. should be defined. Most requests revised (not in accordance with the for such information come from those provisions. In regard to the 23). Closer than my colleagues in campus police, at least, the easiest suggestions above), is now close to th e History Department, closer than employers and government agen final passage.) cies. Since certain of these areas the State NewsD But you backed off too soon. fall within coverage of various The very important thing about ' state civil rights laws or the 1964 Movies grading is NOT that our grading Civil Rights Act no such infor mation should be given to private methods are invalid, that grades do continued from page I 2 not mean what they are supposed to employers. In the case of govern ordinary. There is compassion in the mean-. Nor is it that our methods ment agencies investigating the film, but its essence is horror, the lack precision (of the sort that could politics of students applying for quite seriously. jobs requiring security clear - This is Tony Richardson's best di sort of horror you can feel in the be attained by adding pluses and recting job, technically speaking. corridors of one of MSU's newer minuses),, Nor that grades are used ances, I would hope your com dormitories — all glass and cool capriciously and sometimes brutal- mittee would make the following There is none of the crude nudging recommendation: 1) Any faculty or cut-and-paste haphazardness that colors and straight lines — when member asked for confidential has characterized his recent films. you realize that, no matter what No, not any of these* Ihe impor 'information regarding a student's The whole story seems to move in a they say, this wasn't builtfor PEOPLE tant thing is that grades are a posi job application should ask the in dark, hermetic world plunged in evil at all; it's the other way around, tive deterrent to learning (whether vestigating agency to submit the and obscenity. Which is the idea. somehow. they are pass-fail, pass-fail-honors, questions in writing. 2) The ans Not too surprisingly, most critics or ranging from A to 2~-, or per- panned the film and it died at the ccntiles) They get in the way, and, wers of the faculty member should SECONDS v be returned in writing with a copy boxoffice. I don't really know why at least where those things that have You probably didn't go see "Sec the best American films are often to do with being "educated men and to the person being investigated. yf 3) No information should be sup onds" and it's not likely to be brought misjudged and ignored in America women" ax£ caacamastf "*^ » Is, back by popular demand, so I should (cf., "The Group/" "War Hunt," so far as I can see, no reason for plied to any governmental agency involved solely in checking a stu probably tell you the plot before I go "Lolita") but the principle behind giving them thai would begin to com it is no doubt depressing as hell. pensate for their destructive impact dent's ''loyalty". any farther. upon' the context of human learning Page 21: Item 3 states: "At least 72 Well, briefly: a middle-aged execu and growth. hours prior to the hearings the tive trapped in a life of quiet desper THE ENDLESS SUMMER student shall be entitled to the ation is contacted by a mysterious 'I here are, certainly, some in following...." I feel that 72 hours and sinister organization that offers "The Endless Summer*' owes i^s stances in which a strong argument in some cases may be far too to arrange his "death" and "re considerable success (financial) to its can be made for grades--especially short a period of time for a stu birth," with new fingerprints, a new having been released as an "art" in professional studies. We would dent to prepare an adequate de voice, a new face, a new name, a new film, or at least a film of respect like to know that someone who suf fense. It would be far more de profession — a new life, it seems. able artistic intentions. The people fers to operate on us has passed sirable to error in the direction He accepts, and we are shown the who have reviewed it (and most people anatomy. But that does NOT mean of too long a period rather than steps whereby he is transformed into who are seeing it) are not people who thai we have to begin the process a young man (now played by Rock are likely to have seen its direct of professional credentialing in too short. Therefore, I would sug gest a minimum period of 15 days Hudson) and set up as an artist in forerunners, like "Ride the Wild und**rgraduate school or in with the possibility postponing a lavish beach house. But his new Surf" (with Fabian) and "Surf Party" high school, by saying that if ' the hearing for an even longex life is carefully controlled by the (with Bobby Vinton). 1, on the other Billy does not gei an A in high period if there were extenuating organization: a woman he meets and hand.. . school chemistry tv- will noi be able circumstances. begins to love turns out to be an The usual teen-rock-surf formula to be a doctor (will not be able to Page 52: The office of the Ombuds employee of the organization, as is to have Fabian sing a song, then enter the college, hence med school, man. Your committee has recom signed to smooth out his "adjust cut to "surfing, have Fabian kiss Ann of his choice). That is preposterous. mended that the Ombudsman be ment,'' and his neighbors all turn ette Funicello, then cut to surfing, So wha t we must ask is not how to appointed by the President of the out to be "seconds'* like himself who have Bobby Vinton hit a bully, then make grading more precise, nor even University. I think such a method turn on him viciously when he tries cut to surfing, etc. You get the idea. how to make it more humane. We of selection would hopelessly com to talk of his true past. If you go on this way for 80 or 90 need to start with the view that the promise him because in the eyes For all the appearance of a new minutes you've got a movie. The need for grading must be established of the students, whether rightly life, things haven't changed; he goes formula in "The Endless Summer" is before any particular course is grad or wrongly, the Ombudsman would back to see his wife, posing as a to follow two surfers around the world. ed. (And come on, now, if "honors'* be considered a stooge of the ad- friend of her late husband, to try and As it works out, they talk to the na students are REALLY honors stu m inistration. Therefore, I think find out what went wrong. What she tives, then surf, get a ride to the dents they do not need grades for re it is absolutely imperative for this tells him follows from everything next place, then surf, absorb local wards and incentives. Neither do we faculty member to be elected by we've seen: he spent his life getting color, then surf — etc. have evidence that if we did not fail "things*': success, a house in the people out of school they would stay the students themselves either by One wave looks pretty much like a campus wide election or a selec suburbs, and all the rest. He didn't another, frankly, and the search for around and clutter things up. They love or hate or feel much of any might leave, anyway.) tion process carried out by repre the "perfect wave" the narrator sentatives of student organi thing, since he was so absorbed in makes so much of is in film terms You cannot win acceptance for that zations. Much of the success of getting what he thought he wanted. about as exciting as a search for a view in the academic community but the committee's recommendations His new life, he realizes, has only perfect bowling alley. ! he narration if you are going to bargain, you will depend on a dedicated'Om- been a new collection of things, as in general is heavy and sophomoric, ought to start from a position that budsman who has the confidence worthless as the old ones. rather like the sort of thing that best serves your own interests. of the student body. Once he has learned the truth, usually accompanies somebody's Marvin Grandstaff The major omission in the com the organization can't let him live. home movies, Assistant Professor mittee's report relates to the rights (I meant to be briefer than that, Eruce Brown, who made the film of Education of students in regard to the univer but the more I think about the pic —come to think of it—more or less sity police and other law enforce ture the more sense it makes and the as a home movie, is at least a good November 21, 1966 ment agencies. Some of the prob better it gets.) photographer, though, and surfing for Professor John M. Reinoehl lems that arise are the following: Except for a couple of lapses (like long stretches is fun to watch. I Committee on Student Affairs an unfortunate grape-pressing orgy), couldn't say I MINDED the picture, G-62 Wilson Hall 1) What protection do students liv John Frankenheimer directs with pre exactly, but for God's sake, it wound Campus ing on campus have against police cise, bitter brilliance; individual up on some ten-best lists and is practices that would be illegal search frames remind me of Richard Ave- being treated as art. I haven't heard Dear Professor Reinoehl: and seizure if they lived off campus? don's photographs, making the ordin anybody calling "Ride the Wild Surf" I was not on campus last year 2) What protection do students Have ary look bizarre and the bizarre look art. collage by gary roelofs / 1 u 44 c c » i2 howdja come out in MATH last term?" * G u CO t c 8 5 c •*-< ahhh, Not That Well, how 'bout Yourself?" G Quiet minds broken * G u stored in Knvironmem € < Much The Same. Much The Same. f f s o T3 T3 5-1 si £ / — < 5