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OBSERVER Vol. 11 No. 9 & 10 November 7-14, 1968 Cover Page We Got The Bird Jeff Wilde Back Page New Records Record Review Ken Vermes Page 2 More Trouble At Berkeley Phil Semas, College Press Service News Bag Draft News From The Boston Draft Resistance Group Page 3 Humphrey Promises & Wishes Analysis: Students Re-Think Humphrey John Zeh, College Press Service What Nixon Would Do Page 4 Resolved: That the Board of Trustees Adopts the Following Statement of its Position at This Time, in the Matter of College Social Regulations Senate Michael Tolkin Page 5 SDS Action Francis Fleetwood Grad Schools Susie Schmidt, College Press Service H.P.C. Wayne Robins Page 6 City Stuff Frank Meltzer Calendar Page 7 Bard Movies Showing Contempt Peter Munichiello Page 8 Fashion Photographs Peter Aaron Page 9 Continuation of Fashion Photographs Peter Aaron Page 10 You Are What You Eat . Yum Mike Tolkin Art Review Debbie Cook Page 11 Book Review Geof Cahoon Lost in the Funhouse John Barth Poets I, II, III, IV, V, VI Rob Hall Page 12 A Note From The Underground Theatre Richard Cohen Photograph Peter Aaron Footnote To A Story Pierre Joris Allen’s Ode Pierre Joris Page 13 Untitled Poem Jeff Rudick Untitled Poem Anne Panquerne Untitled Poem Nick Hilton The Night They Burned Disneyland Norman Weinstein Wallace Stevens Never Had It This Bad Norman Weinstein Page 14 Cartoon Feiffer Editorial Little Richard’s Almanac Page 15 Letters To The Editor [“Thanks . For publishing Miss Koedt's ORGASMic article . .”] Jeff Newman [“Educational Policies Committee . Distributing faculty evaluation forms.”] Alan Koehler Clancy Charlie Clancy Menus IA.RD COLLEGE 1-bt-Profit Organization A.NNA.NDA.U-ON-HUDSOM U. S. ~AGE NEW YORK 12504 PAID Annolndale-on-Hudsan, N. Y. RrTUIN lEOUESTED Permit No. 1 J1[W IU:COIW~ spaghetti ravioli manicotti heros pizza FREE CAMPUS DELIVERY BEC ORD REVIEW 11~12 Tues -Thursday and Sunday By Ken Vermes 11-1 Friday and Saturday Two new records- John Handy- Proj TR-6-7611 ections (CS 9689) and Savoy Brown 27 East Market St., Rhinebeck, New York Getting to the Point (London PAS 71024). The Handy record is as re laxed and sharp as the picture of the leader on the cover. Red Hook The sonority of Handy's alto with Fabric Shop Michael White's violin is amazing F.&BIUCS and new. Handy is very unassuming • NOTIONS yet has a strong talent for putting e McCALL PATTERNS together a beautiful group sound. e BUTTONS The outs on the record are varied, e ZIPPED sour and sweet, encompassing trad W. MABKBT PL l-IM itional as well as free forms. Savoy Brown is a-British blues group. TAKING PRIDE Their music is much closer to the IN PRECISION traditional blues than the work of Pride of craftsmanship loolres every one of .lur Moore's white bluesmen in this country. They mecllanies to proceed create an unadorned sound that is with preclslon on every JJike and HohhJ an outgrowth of the country and Job of auto repair. Their skill makes a big differ Center urban -black blues tradition in Amer ence . lD your favor! 1 PL 1-9344 ica·. The group s relaxed, simplified Boate t, Ked Book blues conception is founded upon Smith Motors the vocals of Chris Youlden and the Ine. Bikes, Repairs, Parts lead guitar of Kim Simmonds. The Pbone PL 1-1111 Hobby Supplies up-tempo instumentals on the album, Reate I, ... lleoll. N.Y. The Incredible Gnome meets Jaxman and Getting to the Point, are strong and precise while Honey Bee is a beautiful rendition of the Muddy Waters• tune played by only guitar RED HOOK DRUG STORE and bass. It would be somewhat false to listen to this record without a thought to "Th~ Friendly Drug Store" the American black blues players KED HOOK, N.Y. PLateau 8-5591 who originated and still play the form, yet Savoy Brown's proficiency is impressive. .... FREE DELIVERY~ Prescription Speeialisb Complete Cosmetic Line FANNY FARMER CANDY Tires, Batteries General Repairs PLB-5673 RED HOOK JEWELERS Boots, Moccasins; 9G and 199 Jeans, Fringe Jackets Barrytown Fine Diamonds, Watches and Jewelry Route 9, "W111clr and Jewelry Rep11ir" Nat te A 'llltal'a IJQHr Store 11 Nor.tlt Broadwa:r PL 1-1373 Red Book. N. Y. 12571 RIKERT'S ROLAND A'BRIAL ~~AUTO BODY SERVIC Fine Wines and Foreign and Domestic COLLISION Liquors TILEPRONE: PL 1-6!71 REPAIRS 24 HOUR TOWING SERVICE Rt. 9 North • TR 6-4·740 • Rhinebeck 1l NOBTR BBOAJ)WA"I ~ HOOK:. N. Y. page sixteen MORE TROUBLE AT berkefey by Phil Semas College Press ServicE signed and proposed by the black students, and hir ing more non-white· professors, counselors and Berkeley, Calif. (CPS)--Hoping to either win other staff members, including campus chancellors their demands of "close this place down,'' Univer· The "black students had remained aloof from their dissatisfaction with the university and the sity of California students have suspended their the student effort earlier. ~'This i s your univer- regents· strike for a week of campus organizing. sity and you (whites) are the ones who have to Charlie Palmer, president of the student bod' The strike, officially voted at a rally of about liberate it," explained bon Davis, a ::>pokesman and Konstantin Berlandt, editor of the Daily Ca~l.i: 3000 people on Monday, was in effect only a day for the blacks. ''\Ve also know that getting credit fornian, announced Monday that they would fast and a half. Tuesday night a meeting of about 500 for Eldridge Cleaver's course won't end university "until those in power in this state--in the politic a voted to suspend it until Nov. 6 in the hope of or racism." But he added that black studen1s.would and educational systems--return to a discussion ganizing a more effective strike. support the strike if the white students s'howed the) the issues of academic freedom and courses. WE Estimates of the effectiveness of Monday's were sincere in their opposition to racism by ad- will not accEf>b political statements as honest star opting the and Tuesday's strike varied. Most strike leaders additional demands. Both said they decided to fast because they ha estinti:t.ted that 25 to 30 percent of the campus' Support for the strike was even lower among "exhausted the regular channels of appeal" withm the faculty 28, 000 students were staying away from classes, than among students. sttike leaders getl lg anywhere, and that they reject violence a~ had hoped that the American Federation of Teach- a tactic but checks by the Daily Californian and other but feel they must take some action. / · ers would newsmen indicated support was probably not great vote to go on strike. But the teaching a~ six other students ba ve joined them. er than 10 percent. sistants voted -Tuesday not to strike although they Other students were trying to go right to the did recommend that AFT members not cross stu- source of the Rick Brown, the main spokesman for the stu problem. A group of law students dent picket lines. They dents, called the strike "fairly successful" and will meet Nov. 6 to vote planned to go to Sacramento to try to see 1l>v. again on the strike. Ronald Reagan, who has said it had given "unity and organization" to the refused them an appoint- Carl Heiles, professor of astonomy, told movement which began over denial of credit for a ment. And eight UC student body presidents. have rally Monday that as much as 20 or an experimental course in racism taught in part 30 percent challenged Reagan to a debate on statewide televi· of the faculty might by Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver. eventually go on strike but sion on "the role of the regents in the running of Although they still want credit for the Cleaver not until after negotiations over the Cleaver course the university·" now going on between the Course, the striking students have expanded their faculty and the regents Students have almost rmtirely rejected militan are completed. He said demands. When they called the strike last week that might take until tactics like last week's take-over of Moses Hall, January. which they demanded no university or court action a- ' on student called "phony radical posturing. The administration gainst the 197 persons arrested in sit-ins in Sproul has come down hard against students for a. Democratic Society (SDS) was unah and Moses halls and the hiring of more members the strike. William Bouwsma, the vice chancellor to generate much enthusiasm for a sit-in in Sprou of minority groups by the university. for academic affairs, warned that any faculty mem Hall last Friday· The sit-in was thwarted when t~ Tuesday night, at the request of the Afro bers or teaching assistants who strike may be fire( administration locked all the doors to the 1iiiildirig' American Student Union, they added further de denied reemplyment, or face "other appropriate Meanwhile, the students arrested in Moses H~ mands for the establishment of a black studies sanctions, " according to a resolution passed by the planned to sue the university to have their interirr department by next fall, immediate funding and regents to deal with an earlier strike in l966. suspensions lifted. They argue that the suspensio staffing for black studies curricula already de- With the strike smouldering some students imposed by Heynes almost immediately after thei were searching fbr other ways of making known arrest, will prejudic~ their cases in court. • I I - THIR)S AND • THEIR PRiCE ..