FIRST ANNUAL ROSE BOWL ISSUE

Vol. I NO. 3 East Lansing, Michigan, January 20, 1966 10 cents

The Children's Crusade : "The Paper" Looks At The Rose Bowl

The author of this article, an MSU student, wishes to remain GOOD CONDUCT anonymous in order to protect the innocent. —The Editor "Behavior was what we anticipat­ ed," said one official with what seems God only knows what the archeologists of the future will make of Los An­ to me hilarious ambiguity. "Those geles, of the palm-surrounded Venetian palazzos, Swiss chalets, Spanish students behaved like any other per­ haciendas, and gimcrack houses-of-the-future that climb the dull green line son would New Year's Eve." said of hills on which the word HOLLYWOOD is written in white letters visible another. (You can draw your own in­ for miles. ferences from that.) "The kids act­ I feel sure, at least, that there will be museums, airy buildings where future ed," said still another, "just like they tourists can view in hermetically sealed cases the artifacts that survive us, do in the residence halls,' a remark the patined Oscars, the faded copies of "Modern Screen/* the Rosicrusian that should give us all pause. Par­ pamphlets telling how you, yes YOU, can Unlock Your Secret Powers. ticularly since the same article dis- cribed in detail the $255 damage done I can even imagine someone taking "accurate, intelligent journalism." to property in the Kent Hotel. the trouble to restore a Forum- I did not see myself as the Ernie sized area like Pershing Square, Pyle of the Beach Party set. This is not meant as criticism of where the romantically-inclined can Nor was the first view of Los An­ the gentlemen quoted or of the State sit in the sunlight and read the atro­ geles cheering. Seen through rain and News, which is overcriticized al­ cious historical novels that will some­ tatters of cloud, the city's pinks and ready. The quotes and story could day be written about our age. "A sickly yellows seemed all to have hardly have been otherwise; state uni­ Friend of Johnson's/' "The Last run together, like a watercolor gone versity officials and state university Days of Santa Monica." The mind wrong. We had to sit for an hour in newspapers, after all, cannot be ex­ reels. pected to issue the manifestoes of the a squalid airport building and watch Sexual Revolution. But it seems certain that our soci­ the rain slowly soak into our luggage ety—fighting one costly foreign war and drip from the bedraggled palm That can safely be left to people after another, maintaining thousands trees around the field. But the parties like the three California girls I met on the dole, wrestling with a grain began three hours after we arrived. the second day of the tour, young tm>Wem,--undertaking vast programs apostles of the New Morality who of puoiic works, going to tiie moon) ~ "** " THE FIRST PARTY picked up, literally picked up on the etc., etc.—will fascinate the future Coming out of my hotel room around street, some friends of mine and me, much as Rome does us. Perhaps the midnight, I found a blond girl lying and gave us a memorable midnight common noun "californian" will even at full length in front of the elevators. freeway ride out to Malibu, where we pass into future languages, the way "'S a swell party in two twelve," smashed vodka bottles and ran crazy "philistine" and "sybarite," not to caucus-races on the beach. The girl she told me thickly. I thanked her. I was with smiled prettily and passed mention "sodomite," have passed into The hostess, an absolute stranger, ours. out as soon as we got back to the car. met me at the door. "Haven't seen The second girl drove, professional­ These thoughts belong to a Cali­ you in ages!" she said, squeezing my ly, while the third traded joy, ama­ fornia-bound plane flight taken with hand. "It must be the way our classes teurishly (in the best sense of the 105 other students, manyof them sex­ have worked out," I suggested. A word), with the boy sitting next to me. ual contenders with clean-knit limbs, glass was put in my hand. Someone brushed hair, and perfect teeth. (Spi- had bought a record player and the Back at the hotel, the two who ro's campus guerrillas had gone to Beatles were heard. A timeless inter­ were still on their feet insisted on Tijuana or stayed home.) val later the hotel manager called coming up to our rooms and giving for the third time and pronounced us backrubs. "You're first," said Before we were off the ground the little blond, pointing at me. "Take they had made the opening moves of the kabbalistic word "police," which effectively broke up the party. (The off your shirt." I modestly unbutton­ the Great Game that was not to end, ed it and bared my back. "All the in my hotel at least, until six nights room was by this time swimming in a golden haze.) way off," she said. I took it off and later, with a topless GoGo contest tossed it across the room. "Now un­ held by seven very drunk coeds in a The girl at the elevators, who had button your pants and get down on room down the hall. (No, I just crawled a^ut 20 feet since we first your stomach." A train of superfast heard about it.) met, directed me to another party thought raced through my head, but Tired of watching unidentifiable in a third floor room with a balcony I did as I was told and strove to hills and valleys slide by below us, looking out on the lights of Los An­ think neutral thoughts while she I stared idly across the aisle at a geles and the kingdoms of the earth. kneaded my back like the good nurs­ student whose acne had connected to I leaned against a pillar and watched ing student she was. As her hands form hills and valleys of its own and lusty young men heave glass bottles disappeared, albeit not very far, un­ wondered lugubriously if it would be into the pool below and beer cans at der the elastic of my shorts, I tried possible to write anything at all about passing motorcyclists. man's Chinese Theater. (My hands and to conjugate in my head the German these golden kids, let alone what "The (A fraternity man who wandered feet, I discovered, are exactly the verb "sein." I could not get past Paper" so modestly describes as into a motorcycle gang's hangout later same size as Frank Sinatra's.) the present tense. (Ah, California, in the week got his mouth bloodied But by night they left by the hund­ California!) by a gang leader who butted him reds for the Strip (as we learned one time, scienfitically, on the point knowingly to call it) and the other I came back to my room after of his chin. Back in our ranks, our fleshpots of Los Angeles, and came some lame goodbuy handshakes car­ man spat out a great deal of blood back to their hotels to break glass, rying shoes that leaked Malibu sand. and then asked, perfectly distinctly, liquor laws, and furniture, to burn My old friend, who now had a friend for some more beer. But I digress.) holes in and vomit on carpets, to of her own, was still at the eleva­ I stayed until black wings began to give parties that ended with caroling tors. "'S a party in seven twenty- in the corridors and the setting off flap at the limits of my vision, and Continued on Page 7 then picked my way back to my room of fire alarms, and to slip off into through halls littered with more bod­ unconsciousness on stairways, land­ ies than "A Spanish Tragedy." ings, balconies, and beds not their That night set the pattern. During own. the day, 8,000 MSU students were I was of course on a "wildcat" the straightest of tourists, photo­ tour (although from what I have heard graphing each other against the Cali­ hinted darkly about Pullman cars, we fornia landscape ("More JEWISH had nothing on the kids on the of­ p.2 editorials families prefer Groman's Mortuary/* ficial trip) and not all students did p. 4-5 "repulsion," "cello/* say signs along the road. A wax such things, but I saw and heard folk-rock museum invites the world at large to enough to make me appreciate the p. 6 war protest convictions "see ALL of BrigitteBardot.", gawk­ tremendous restraint of the January 7 P. 7 lbj's hollow crown ing at stars' homes, making dusty State News article on MSU's conduct p. 8 grill prices pilgrimages to Disneyland and Grau- in California. 2 "The Paper/' East Lansing, Michigan, January 20, 1966

EDITORIALS Schiff Is Back, But Not Forgotten

Paul Schiff is back in school, and we are glad. If this were a world on Student Affairs has been charged with a massive reevaluation of simple feelings, we could leave it at that, and everyone, even the of student conduct regulations, largely as a result of pressures university, would be satisfied., (If the administration can now toler­ growing out of the Schiff case. Its report is due next month. ate Schiff, there's no reason why we shouldn't.) A new Council on Academic Freedom, comprising both students But, there is more to the Schiff case, even now, than being happy and faculty, is in the formative stages, and plans to work as a or unhappy that he is studying here again. We needn't go into detail lobby for liberal revision of procedures affecting students AND on the reasons many people are still thinking about the case. All faculty. Also, the local American Civil Liberties Union chapter those who think right seem to agree essentially on a few points: (whose support helped Schiff initiate his suit) and the MSU Ameri­ That the university's decision to readmit Schiff was anything but can Association of University Professors (whose strong pro-Schiff "routine"; that it was, moreover, a conscious evasion of what would stand seems to have been instrumental in pressuring the admin­ otherwise have been the outcome of Schiff's suit for readmission, istration into "routine" submission)are both clearly taking a more i.e., a decision and statement against the university; that Schiff positive stand in defense of constitutional and academic freedoms may yet be given a formal decision by the federal district judges here. who still have jurisdiction over the case, but that even if he is, the Only the mass of students still not politically conscious (in terms decision will have less impact now; that the university has em­ of the social politics which include every kind of communication barrassed itself with its own inconsistency and failure to observe in the university) are left out of the rough parallel between post- due process, and has at the same time demonstrated the ineffec­ FSM Berkeley and post-Schiff MSU. It should be said for the stu­ tiveness of the Faculty Committee on Student Affairs, which only dents, however, that they have engaged in more dialogue on: the recently allowed itself to concur in the denial of Schiff's applica­ Schiff case than on any other similar topic since the Committee tion. for Student Rights, Schiff's ideological homeground, was formed More needs to be said, however, about the effect the Schiff case last winter. (This excludes the Rose Bowl, of course.) has had on the university. You will pardon our saying, we hope, that Another item from Berkeley is also helpful. This is from the the Schiff case has affected this university in somewhat the same FSM Newsletter, following the Academic Senate's seven-to-one way the Berkeley revolt affected the University of California. vote in favor of FSM principles: Following the revolt in fall, 1964, graduate students and teaching assistants organized a union, to replace the student government The net result of these two sets of countervailing pressures which had been taken out of their hands some years earlier; the (student demonstrations vs. administration harassment) was to Academic Senate (which supported the Free Speech Movement) or­ create a situation in which the Academic Senate was able to make its decisions freely for the first time. The tremendous power wielded ganized an Emergency Executive Committee which made it more by the administration and the Regents had been canceled out by the independent of the administration: pro-administration faculty or­ mass action of the students. ganized a Faculty Forum to represent their views; student poli­ tical activity increased all over the campus. MSU is not yet at the point where the faculty has been freed from Hal Draper writes (in "Berkeley: The New Student Revolt"): the subtle internal pressures and restrictions which the adminis­ This burgeoning of self-organization among the students and the tration has the power to manipulate. The students have not come faculty (who together, after all, ARE the university) reflected the near this point. new moods of self-confidence and initiative that came in the wake But it does appear true that the atmosphere is much more con­ of the victory. Both the new organizations growing and the new ducive to the types of responsible activity and organization men­ spirits blowing through the campus added up to one big difference: tioned above. This is the first major step toward rearranging the whole university structure could no longer be as easily manip­ power in the university so that the people educating and being ulated from above, that is, from the office of the president. (Presi­ educated have something to say about how the show is run. Lacking dent Clark) Kerr's maneuvering space was sensibly curtailed by a better explanation, it appears we have Paul Schiff and his courage this big fact alone, to which must be added the consequences of his sharply diminished prestige . . . in facing the university in court to thank for this infusion of dignity. M.K. On a smaller scale (the Schiff case, after all, was not a sit-in by 800 students), something very similar has been happening on this campus, and more than marginally as a result of Paul Schiff's willingness to drag the university into court. A Graduate Student Council is being organized, hopefully pre­ Breathing And Pulse paring to gain the prestige of a graduate government. MSU's Aca­ demic Senate was unfortunately still under the heel of the admin­ istration when it last met in December, but the Faculty Committee Slightly Irregular. . . We would like to make clear that "The Paper" Is still alive and publishing, and that we regret the long delay in getting this issue, This Is A Year That Was the first of winter term, to our readers. There are a number of As Lucy (of "Peanuts") has al­ the class perf ectl y seriously, factors which contributed to the lateness, all of them related to ready discovered, this isn't a new "Christianity began with Christ. the malaise characteristic of new organizations. year at all . . . this is a used year. That's how it got its name.") Our somewhat different appearance this issue is the result of a 1966 has done very little to endear Batman arrived, suggesting that, search for a new printer. We lost time, but saved money, and that itself to us thus far, or to supply in the cold dreary light of dawn, it's was important, too. any reason at all why we should have about time to break Camp. Still, to put up with it almost indefinitely. there was an undeniable atavistic In addition, we have spent some time attempting to increase the It began, of course, with the un­ satisfaction in hearing someone ex­ size and organization of our staff. This is important, since it is fortunate incident in Pasadena, which, claim, "Great Scott!" in the proper beneficial to broaden the range of contributors and ideas in "The as we are continually reminded, gave tones of amazement and distress. Paper," and because we have lacked special skills in publishing us the humility and strength of char­ Paul Schiff was readmitted to the our two previous issues. (We still need business and advertising acter we were all so anxious to get. university, and the State News rose people, and writers are welcome, too.) The same day brought New York a to the occasion: "But to us, there In short, "The Paper" is new and suffering from its newness. catastrophic transit strike; LBJ was appears to be a strange inconsistency We sincerely hope we have passed the point where this need affect in the middle of his rather overblown in the University's position on the the prompt appearance of "The Paper" each week. _ _ __ peace offensive, about which the less case." Touche. M.K, said the better. Film notes: 1) We understand that Other disasters were not long in another James Bond movie is playing following. Among them: locally. We will print some comment The once-a-term fiasco of handing on it as soon as we can find some­ THE PAPER out Lecture-Concert tickets was play­ one who has seen it. ed out again, to the accompaniment "The Paper" is published by students of Michigan State University as an in­ of some typically illuminating re­ 2) "The Paper's" special Ror­ dependent alternative to the "established" news media of the university marks from Wilson Paul, series man­ schach Creative-Viewing Award goes community. It is intended to serve as a forum for the ideas of all members ager. To wit: to Brad Smith, State News reviewer, of the university community on any topic pertinent to the interests of this for this excerpt from his plot sum­ community. Neither Michigan State University nor any branch of its student "It's impossible to sell tickets mary of "Repulsion": "When she goes government, faculty or administration is to be considered responsible for the without lines, mainly because of the to bed, a stranger comes and makes form or content of "The Paper." student's indecision when he gets anal love to her." to the ticket window." This was fol­ Please address all correspondence to: lowed two paragraphs later in the Time selected General William "The Paper" State News article with what might Westmoreland as its Man of the Year. 1730 Haslett Road be euphemistically termed a clari­ Report has it that the race was close, East Lansing, Michigan, 48823 fication: with Westmoreland barely nudging out Teh 351-6516 "The problem arises when a large Bobby Baker, E.J. Korvette and Hay- Editor Michael Kindman number of students converge on the ley Mills. Arts Editor Laurence Tate ticket windows at the same time, as Like Lucy, we might be tempted to Funds Chairman John Wolley they did Friday. When this happens write someone and complain about This Week's Inspirations Variety, The Realist a long line is inevitable." this year. But we, too, are left with (This rather reminds us of our the great, unanswered, metaphysical Vol. I No. 3 January 20, 1965 10 cents high-school English teacher, who told question: "Who's in charge of years?" "The Paper/' East Lansing, Michigan, January 20, 1966 3

The Pressure Of Nonconformity By RICHARD A. OGAR

Although I am generally predis­ whenever these fine representatives They make me sick to my stomach." certainly, but it at least curtailed any posed, by temperament and experi­ of the student body (the future lead­ It took no more than a glance in further discussion. ence, to expect the worst of people, I ers of America, I am told—and I see his direction to decide that something But he was far from finished; like am nonetheless amazed at the fre­ no reason to doubt it) rose row by row had made him sick to his stomach, his soul-brother of the previous week, quency with which they manage to ex­ in a slow crescendo to get a better and was beginning to work on my own, he began kicking me in the back, until ceed my greatest expectations—and view of an exciting play, despite the before my attention was diverted by his companion for the day—evidently perhaps even more amazed at my fact that, by standing, they wholly yet another voice; "I certainly would aware of his friend's scrawny physi­ masochistic inability to avoid seeking obliterated the image on the screen. sit down when people are dying." I que and unaware that I am a paci­ them out on their own turf. Now it's basketball season. Basket­ assumed he meant in Viet Nam, al­ fist—tried to dissuade him from an­ Take football games, for example: ball crowds are generally a better though there was no reason why it tagonizing me further (I suspect he I go out every Saturday and take what­ lot than football crowds, since bask­ couldn't have been Central Park as felt that liberalism was the best de­ ever I can find of my seat, despite etball has neither the traditions (if I well, but I was hard put to find a fense against being called upon for my conviction that the other 76,000 may be allowed a euphemism) nor the connection between my sitting down physical assistance). have come not to see the game, but to social lustre of football, so that most and Mr. Johnson's casualty list, which Despite the noise of the crowd, I display the latest fashions in lunacy. of those who go, go to see the game. I had always presumed was in the managed to catch the following snatch The game itself seems merely an ex­ But this comparative docility is de­ direct provenance of the Pentagon. of conversation: "He has a right to cuse which affords them the opportun­ ceptive, for it takes surprisingly little But I had little time to puzzle sit down if he wants to," said the ity to prove conclusively to the rest to arouse them to full-blown cretin­ out such conundrums, for yet a fourth friend, to which my antagonist re­ of the world that they haven't let in­ ism. fellow turned around, looked me plied—"Certainly he has the right, telligence go to their heads. I've found that one very effective squarely in the eye (in our forthright but he also has the right to bear the So great is my devotion to the stimulus is simply to remain seated American way) and spit out the most consequences of his action." game that last quarter I stood in line during the singing of the Star Spangled damaging epithet in his vocabulary— These last few words had an in­ for three hours before the tickets Banner. Now, aside from the fact that "Nonconformist!" credible impact on me, and I felt my were even printed in order to see the I've heard it several times before, The judgment having thus been mind suffuse with the soft light of Michigan - Michigan State game on and feel that its hardly a tune to set passed, the sentence was executed by satori; for here, in this least likely closed-circuit television. Possessed me whistling, I don't believe in com- a robust fellow seated directly be­ of places, I had found the key to the of an incredible naivety, I had thought munial displays of nationalism, neith­ hind me who spared neither oppor­ dichotomy between the espoused I would at last be able to enjoy a er flags nor anthems strike me as tunity nor exertion in tapping out a American belief in freedom on the one game in relative peace; unfortunately, symbolic of anything beyond them­ spritely rhythm on my back, using, hand, and the systematic denial of it the world does not long coddle its selves— a fact which no doubt accounts mind you, nothing but his knees. on the other. innocents, for what transpired during for their great popularity among the The following week, my wife and I Everyone, it was clear, is per­ that game—so much the worse for general public, since it precludes the attended the game with friends, and, fectly free to do as he pleases, but being out of context—demonstrated possibility of their ever lapsing into out of consideration for them, I stood also free to have the hell kicked out beyond doubt that it is the bleacher thought. for the national anthem. But, either of him by anyone who disagrees. And antics, and not the game, which lures because they're drawn to me, or be­ so it is that—in my eagerness to students out of the dorms and into The first time I took the risk of .acting upon my principles by re­ cause they're ubiquitous, I managed learn—I have decided to go to church the stadium for an afternoon of psy- to sit in front of an impassioned next Sunday and stand when everyone chodrama. maining seated, I was aware of a num­ ber of hostile glances from self- moron. else is kneeling. Who knows? I may All of the traditional banalities— appointed leaders of the herd, but felt, By some perversity of nature, it discover the real truth of religion. booing the opposition, its coaches and with inexplicable optimism, that this seems that the most dedicated pa­ fans, cheering for good old MSU (sans would be the end of it. triots are always the worst singers, cheerleaders^ proving—if proof were But it soon became evident that I and this fellow evidently made it a needea—ThaT they are wholly super­ had been spared thus far only be­ rule never to be exceptional. His fer­ fluous), laughing at injuries on THEIR cause it would have been irreverent vor, which shone through every flatted "THE PAPER'S" special Kiss- side, hurling garlands of toilet paper to cause a scene in front of the tone, aroused my curiosity, and I And-Make-Up Award goes this week from the balcony after each State flag; once everyone was seated, how­ turned back to look into an incred­ to President John A. Hannah and score, and counting off the points— ever, one plucky, if adenoidal, student ibly riddled complexion, redeemed Paul Schiff. President Hannah's half were faithfully observed, despite the rallied to his country's defense by only by the eyes, in which glistened of the award is dedicated to Asso­ fact that none of these could have posing a rhetorical question to a a frenzy rarely seen outside the bed­ ciate Dean of Students Eldon R. Non- any possible effect upon the events friend: "Did you see those two shit- room. namaker, who was the first to apply on the field. heads over there?" (The other shit- But, rapture or not, I could stand no to the Schiff decision the definitive Dr. Pavlov, had he been able to at­ head was my wife who, out of def­ more of his bellowing, and sat down word: "Routine." tend, would certainly have had him­ erence to me, had also remained for the last six words of the anthem; self an afternoon; no doubt he would seated.) The friend replied without so once the song had ended, however, I have chuckled (in his sly Russian way) much as a second-thought: "Yeah. felt him tap my shoulder: "I beg your pardon, sir," he began in an affected intellectual tone, "but may I THIS WEEK, a special John-Wayne-Mom*8 ask, would you have sat down if the -Appl^-Pie-God-Country-And-General Mot­ I band had been playing the anthem of ors Award goes to public servant Charles SUBSCRIBE TO C. Wells, for fearlessly reprinting In the I the Viet Cong?" State News "I Am The Nation/' a heart­ I The vehemence with which he ut­ warming self-portrait of America: tered these last two words sent a "I am a ballot dropped in a box, die roar I shudder through me, but I recovered of a crowd in a stadium and the voice of a in time to reply that, presonally, I choir in a cathedral. I am an editorial in a I newspaper and a letter to a congressman... I didn't give a damn what they were I am Tom Edison, Albert Einstein and Billy THE PAPER playing. 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The above poem is re­ I As to black segregation, printed with his permission from the l It was not "black and white"; November, 1965, issue of Univer­ Unwise "agitation" sity College Quarterly.---The Editors. "The Paper/' East Lansing, Michigan, January 20, 1966 Repulsion: Not Quite Old Hat to kill next? hypnotizes her, like a bird before a presented with the same visual soli­ By RICHARD A. OGAR But "Repulsion", while it makes snake, and sends her into psychic dity. use of horrifying incidents, reaches withdrawal. Yet the viewer is always able to Apparently the easiest way to ca­ beyond these toward a higher end. When her sister leaves for Italy distinguish between these two worlds; jole the American public into for­ Polanski is ultimately concerned with with a lover, Carol is left alone with and it is remarkable that Polanski .' saking the television set for the movie neither murder, nor with the clini­ her fantasies, which build in horror was able to achieve this separation theatre is to assure them that the cal details of his heroine's distur­ and intensity as she vacillates between without resorting to the usual cine­ film being shown is just like one bance (despite such clinical details her desire for sex and her fear that matic cliches—whirling vortices they've already seen. After all, no­ as Carol's compulsive washing), but these desires will be fulfilled. She which drag the viewer into the chaos thing is quite so irksome as being with plunging the audience into the sees imaginary assailants every­ of a character's mind, scenes which called upon to make an original re­ midst of a deranged view of the world. where, and imagines herself raped move in and out of focus, or images sponse. The precise nature of Carol's aber­ each night by a swarthy stranger. which undulate like the surface of the ration is never revealed, nor are its Hands grab at her from out of the sea. Thus, it is not surprising to find causes; Carol is presented "in situ," walls. Her world, which had already Instead, he relied upon the quick advertisements for "Repulsion" in what we might call a pre-psycho- begun to crack, is rent more and more cut from one scene to another—as proudly displaying Time magazine's analytic state. violently, until it seems that it will from Carol's imaginary rape to a shot opinion that the film is "A classic fall in upon her. chiller of the 'Psycho' school," for Her over-riding symptom, as the of her lying unconscious on the floor the promoters themselves could title would indicate, is an extreme re­ Her fears reach their crisis when —which separates fact and fantasy by scarcely have come up with a better pulsion for sexual contact; she is her playboy-suitor (who somewhat the very suddenness of the shift, as catch-phrase with which to lure the compelled to brush her teeth after implausibly appears to have fallen in though the viewer had himself just unwary into the theatre—nor one more being kissed by a young rake (who has love with her) breaks down the door been wakened from a nightmare. Real­ superficially true. selected her for his next conquest), to the apartment and discovers her, ity is further distinguished from fan­ and the smell of a man's tee-snirt alone, but not entirely defenseless; tasy by use of corroborative evi­ While both "Psycho" and "Repul­ is enough to make her vomit. But this she hysterically bludgeons him to dence from the outside world; the sion" deal with psychotic killers who is only half (and perhaps the least death with a candlestick, murdering playboy is seen among friends, Yvonne dispatch their victims with something important half) of the problem, for him as much to kill her own de­ (Carol's sister) is heard talking to less than finesse, the resemblance Carol is also fascinated by sex. sires as to protect herself from pos­ the landlord, so that these charac­ comes to an abrupt halt at this point, sible attack. ters, in effect, vouch for each other's She cannot simply withdraw from existence. for "Psycho," despite its craftsman­ sexuality, as do the nuns in the con­ The murder, however, solves no­ ship, nonetheless belongs to the minor vent next door, who evidently derive thing, and Carol is driven to kill But the stranger who appears in genre of the horror, film, and omits great satisfaction from tossing a ball again, this time slashing her land­ Carol's bed each night is seen no­ none of the requisite trappings—an around among themselves. She can no lord (himself a remarkable example where else. And Carol never hallu­ old house on a hill, thunderstorms, more resist the impulse to listen to of imperception) to ribbons, after cinates outside of the apartment build­ a grotesque mummy, and a score of her sister's rather vigorous love- arousing him to the point of attack ing—her psychological microcosm,— doorways, from any one of which making in the next room, than she can by hiking up her nightgown to expose and rarely in anyone's presence (when might spring Tony Perkins in all his keep herself from smelling the tee- her thighs. a wall cracks in the kitchen, Yvonne transvestial glory. And despite the shirt. But what is remarkable about the is conspicuously off-camera). psychological hoopla, all carefully ex­ Any object vaguely suggestive of film is not its story (which is, in a If I have not mentioned the acting, plained by a psychiatrist at the end sexuality—a crotch-like crack in the sense, only bizarre), but the manner it is because, although competent, it is of the film, the viewer's attention is pavement, or a hole in the wall which of its telling. Polanski stations his not really important. "Repulsion" is held to two time-worn questions: she cannot, despite her desire, bring camera somewhere between subjec­ a director's film, and its virtues are who's the killer, and who^s he going herself to penetrate with her finger- tivity and objectivity, so that the more cinematic than dramatic. viewer is neither wholly within nor But it is unfortunate that most of wholly outside of Carol's mind. Polanski's work was wasted on the The world of the film (with one MSU student body (which, we must The Absence Of A Point lapse, in which the suitor and his remember was able to sustain "Gold- comrades discuss recent conquests finger" in a ten week run). Those in­ By LAURENCE TATE good guy after all, a secret noncon­ and future stratagems) is thatof Car­ capable o f understanding anything Someone ought to do a full-scale formist who is just the sort of guy ol's deranged sensibilities, yet it has novel or" significant generally react sociological analysis of "The Ab­ you'd want to marry your sister, been removed from the private realm either by sneering condescension (as sence of a Cello," with particular which he does. of her consciousness and superim­ evidenced by State News reviewer attention to audience reaction and box- The scientist gets a lucrative job, posed upon the public realm, so that Brad Smith) or by laughter, thus un­ office performance. one reserved especially for geniuses; the two coexist and interpenetrate. equivocally demonstrating that they I am not, alas, a sociologist, and and he is reconciled with his wife, The actual crack in the pavement can't be taken in by anything so fool­ there isn't much to say about the play whom he had alienated in his efforts which transfixes Carol and the purely ish as art. It is to edify such people in artistic terms. It was an assembly- to get the job. hallucinatory cracks in the wall are that Mr. Magoo cartoons are made. line situation comedy with a plot line At the second intermission I was slightly more idiotic than most. speculating as to how the author was In a functional, nondescript (and, going to engineer his happily-ever- one may guess, inexpensive) living- after ending, but I must admit his in­ room set are introduced a number of genuity surpassed my wildest expec­ To Zeitgeist, With Humility. functional, nondescript sitcom char­ tations. acters, in this case a family of pur­ Obviously the play makes no com­ ported intellectuals. ment upon anything in the real world; Dad (Hans Conried) is a warm, it is an excuse for a lot of wise­ human, wonderful famous scientist in cracks, put into the mouths of what­ debt. Mom is a warm, human, even ever characters happen to be onstage more wonderful clas sical scholar. at the moment. There were some de­ Daughter is a golly-whiz-super-fudge cent lines, but, in lonely opposition to what seemed like everybody else in wholesome college girl, of the sort the auditorium, I found most of the that is usually described as pert and evening extraordinarily flat. winsome. Dad's sister is an outspoken, sophisticated, eminently nubile wid­ Hans Conried is a good character ow. actor, and he did enough with the little The other characters are equally he had to make me wish he'd had an predictable. awful lot more. Ruth McDevitt, playing The play's premise is that, in a lovable squeaky-voiced neighbor, order for the scientist to get a pro­ also did a great deal more for the fitable executive job, this group of play than it did for her. lovable free spirits must pretend to In a minor role, a young actor conform, disguising their pseudo- named Eldon Quick had one scene in iconoclasm in pseudo-respectability. which he was rejected by the daugh­ A Madison-Avenue type shows up; ter, and played it so skillfully for in Act One, he is made to seem in­ pathos that it was hard to accept credibly stupid and repulsive, reciting his reversion to stereotype in the rest rhyming company slogans at every op­ of the play. portunity. The other actors were positively In Act Two, he discovers the fam­ born for these roles. ily's true intellectual nature, and As for the really important aspect seems to cross the scientist off the of the play, I would say, yes, it company's list. looked like a VERY sound financial In Act Three, he turns out to be a proposition.

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The Sound Of Protest Has Begun To Pay of course, Woody Guthrie. By MARTIN GROSSMAN Young performers such as Tom "The Sound of Protest Has Begun Paxton, Phil Ochs and Buffy Sainte- to Pay" is the title of a new song Marie have continued to explore this written by Fred Hellerman, well- more traditional mode of expression known to folk-music enthusiasts as an and have (unlike Dylan) so far re­ original member of the Weavers. As frained from electrifying and adding recorded by the Mitchell Trio on drums to make their sound more Mercury Records, it features what is palatable to the fickle teen-age au­ known in the trade as folk-rock or dience. Byrds-style guitar and high, piercing Another important influence in the harmony similar to that popularized current trend is a movement that we in recent years by those California might refer to as the Beatles Back­ "castrati," the Beach Boys. lash. The history of the topical song of the past few years has been in­ The title, and these lines taken from extricably intertwined with campus the song, activist activity. A new interest in Some rebels are commercial some rhythm and blues, primarily an Amer­ are not. ican Negro form, came along with the Some rebels make a million some new interest in civil rights. get shot, The Beatles Backlash, then, was a serve to comment on the recent, movement into rock and roll by many startling trend of the pop song toward American pop-folk musicians, who social and political commentary. until overwhelmed by the musician­ Popular songs, in this country at ship, irreverent wit and personality least, have traditionally avoided com­ of the Beatles, so different from pre­ menting on issues that are in the vious rock personalities, would never least bit controversial. The topical have thought of trading in their Martin song was for long anathema to pro­ D-18's for Fender electrics. ducers who are now madly scramb­ Among teenagers, such pop-folk ling to record "message songs" that groups as Peter, Paul and Mary, the range in political comment fromP.F. Chad Mitchell Trio and the Kingston Sloan's poorly written anti-war song Trio, always big with the college •"Eve of Destruction": crowd, had pre-conditioned youthful Can't ya hear whatl'mtryin'tosay, taste to the point where they were If the button is pushed there's no ready to hear something other than the runnin' away, moon - June - croon pablum that had to the even more poorly written and Continued on Page 8 Photo by Elliott Borin morbidly conceived pro-war song of­ fered by Jan Berry (of Jan and Dean), "The Universal Coward": He's young, he's old, he's in between ——And he's so very much confused. The Eve Of Disruption He*ll scrounge around and protest all night long. He joins the pickets at Berkeley By DAVID FREEDMAN folk-rock songs provide little or no 'Nietzsche never wore an umpire's And he burns up his draft card positive suggestions for the allevia­ suit' & Paul says 'You wanna buy And he's twisted into thinkin'fight- Radio music used to be comforting. tion of the problems posed: slaugh­ some clothes, kid?' & then Rome and in' is all wrong. Until less than a year ago, it was pos­ ter—on the highways, on the battle­ John come out of the bar & they're So, simultaneously with the writh­ sible to turn the dial and hear about fields and in the rural areas of the going up to Harlem . . ."--presum­ ing, jerking bodies and pulsating beat lost lovers, broken trysts, hand- South—is merely denounced. ably riding the Nova Express. of today's high-powered, fruggy, camp holding and Florida surfing. There The only contemporary song (this in One can't disagree that some songs scene you have greedy record com­ were also occasional songs by Peter, the folk tradition) I ever heard that definitely swing, however—especially pany moguls pushing political mes­ Paul and Mary and the Kingston Trio posed a solution to the threat of "Like a Rolling Stone" and "From a sages in pursuit of green dollars. that presented standard, comforting communism is the conservative Buick 6." Dylan's only admission that Some are sincere, no doubt, but a patterns of life, death, love and ret­ "Compromise," which, by historical at present his poetry is not terribly brief examination of the industry's ribution—practically the only other analogy to Nazi appeasement in the sanitary—nor, incidentally, excep­ history shows that more than most style to be heard was country music early stages of World War II, im­ tionally good (excepting "Mr. Tam­ are monetarily rather than idealist- on stations like WCKY, Cincinnati, plied that the free world should launch bourine Man," probably his best cre­ ically oriented. Ohio. a nuclear attack on Red China. Unlike ation)—is a remark on the album: Bob Dylan is primarily responsible Then Bob Zimmerman—Bob Dylan the message in most folk-rock music, ". . . the songs on this record are not for popularizing the current trend to his public—changed his style and the verses in this song project a pos­ so much songs but rather exercises toward topical song on the contem­ rock became revolutionized into folk- itive (though, in my mildest opinion, in tonal breath control"; Dylan is to porary music scene, even though he rock (folk message with a rock beat unreal) approach toward the solution be commended for his ability to himself has forsaken what he calls in the background). Many folk purists of a problem. change styles rapidly. were aghast; rock fans were awe­ "finger-pointing" songs for a kind MERDE IN THE RUE MORGUE of quasi-poetical, abstract jumble of struck. EXPONENTIALLY SPEAKING obscure images and rhythm that disc Suddenly The Words had arrived Bob Dylan's latest album, "Highway A fair amount of Dylan's material jockeys and trade magazines have via the Byrds, and The Message was 61 Revisited," contains his most re­ is ostensibly phony, and this had in­ taken to labeling "folk-rock." revealed in all its glory to the un­ cent innovations in music and poetry. duced side effects in imitators at- believers. Not long afterward, there All but two of the nine selections on Continued on Page 6 Dylan seems to have come around was a field—nay, a veritable forest— this record are backed by organ, full-circle to his beginnings with of competitors; Barry McGuire, Sonny electric guitars, and/or piano. All what he calls his high school "ba- CARL OGLESBY nannaband." A Chicago magazine once and Cher, the latest Stones sound, nine are backed by drums. noted that Dylan (ne Zimmerman) and even the latest Beatles sound. (A recent article—Dec. 17—in the •National President of SDS "used to be a rock performer in The Word is usually anti-war, anti- magazine section of the New York on Hibbing, Minnesota, until his social hate, anti-adult, and (ostensibly) anti- Sunday Times discussed claims that VIET NAM conscience began to bother him." commercial. Yet folk-rock sells, in Bob Dylan is the most outstanding spite of the fact that some stations poet now producing work, so the term MIKE LOCKER It must be noted, however, in any (e.g., in Phoenix, Ariz.) have refused "poetry" is not mine alone.) on criticism of Dylan that his songs re­ to broadcast "The Eve of Destruc­ DOMINICAN REPUBLIC main far more interesting lyrically The back of the album itself reads tion," among other vignettes in the as almost passable William S. 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War Protesters Convicted Of Trespassing Their Opinions Were Unpopular

By MICHAEL KINDMAN supporters of the war that the dis­ tribution was all right were ineffec­ Justice of the Peace George J# tive. Hutter is a small man, hunch-backed By 7 p.m., Hutter HAD dropped and withdrawn, with a small mustache count 3, but had granted the rest of and a little black and gray hair left. the case to "The People." He presides over a storefront court "Someplace there is a very fine on Michigan Avenue, in the never- line between untrammeled liberties never-land between Lansing and East and anarchy," he said, declaring the Lansing where the Township of Lan­ defendants guilty of trespassing and sing is the authority. obstructing free access. Hutter's courtroom is a small Free on a ten-day stay of sentence, store, converted just enough to let his with a $35 fine and$32.50 court fees bench block the plate-glass window at each to pay, the four declared they the front, but not enough to remove the would appeal. And Lynn said he would Auto-Owners Insurance clock from be back, to fight this "classic case" the smudged yellow and brown walls. of political liberties. It is the kind of courtroom—recep­ tion desk in the adjoining former store, Hutter's office to the rear- where couples are married in a rush, where traffic violations are tried, where disorderly conduct cases are resolved. The Ten Best It has surely seen few days and few trials like that of Dec. 17; it is Films Since 8 1/2' a rare day when nationally known per­ sonages act out a small-scale human "S%" is a good dividing point for drama in Judge Hutter's court as they the recent history of film, since it both did that day. They were there to decide ended and summarized a brief but whether it was a misdemeanor for JBSVS CHRIST brilliant age of cinema, one which students to dictate their own uses began auspiciously in I960 with Res- of university buildings, over the ob­ Wantedt - for Sedition, Criminal Anarchy, nais' "Hiroshima, MonAmour,"con­ jections of the administration. Non-Registration for the Draft, Vagranoy, tinued with "Ashes and Diamonds," The visitors began filling up the "L'Avventura," "Viridiana," courtroom before the appointed time and Conspiracy to Overthrow the Betabliehed "Breathless," "La Notte," Vivre sa of 9:30 a.m. They had a long wait Government by the Revolutionary Use of Love* Vie," "Jules et Jim," and "Last for the judge and the two lawyers Year at Marienbad," trailing off fin­ who would represent The People vs. Dresses poorly. Said to be a oarpenter by trade* Ill-*nourished. ally in 1963. Howard Harrison, et al. They flowed Has visionary Ideas of establishing an anarchist society* Associ­ The films that followed these seem over the chairs and out into the ante­ ates with common working-people, the unemployed and buaa« Its unable to recapture this high style, • • been seen in groups of nixed race* Alias: "Prince of Peace,* rooms and offices at the back of the "The Son of Man," &o., 8ec. Bearded. Dark-skinned. Marks on and eclecticism set in, as evidenced court. hands and feet as the result of injuries inflicted by an angry by my list: They looked like a strangely mix­ mob led by bankers, generals, respectable citizens and legal auth­ 1. Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick) ed group—some women in slacks, orities* 2. A Hard Day's Night (Lester) some in dresses and new coats; some 3. To Die in Madrid (credits var­ men in jeans, some in suits, others ious) in clerical collars. They looked mix­ 4. Juliet of the Spirits (Fellini) ed, unless one recognized the faces 5. The Pawnbroker (Lumet) as a sampling of the student and 6. Before the Revolution (Berto- faculty left at MSU and a few other A flier of the Evangelical Catholic Communion, Brotherhood lucci) interested parties. and Love of Christ: "Christ, the Rebel" 7. Repulsion (Polanski) 8. Knife in the Water (Polanski) JUST ROUTINE? 9. Red Desert (Antonioni) had pleaded guilty ("I want to join Fuzak were among the witnesses sub­ 10. Nothing But a Man (Roemer) Judge Hutter took his place at the the Peace Corps") were arrested by poenaed. Hannah showed up, left, and bench around 10. His first question, campus police after causing a furor returned in the mid-afternoon when DOUGLAS LACKEY addressed to the defense counsel: at the carnival and being asked to it was his turn to testify. He looked "Mr. Lynn, what is your first name leave by carnival and Union officials. bothered. and your address?" They were arraigned on the three Fuzak must have been bothered, Conrad J. Lynn, 401 Broadway, counts Oct. 13 before Judge Hutter, too; he went to his scheduled Big New York City." bound in chains by the police who had Ten meeting in San Francisco any­ Disruption Conrad Lynn, a pacifist and sup­ brought them to Lansing from Ingham way. The defense, impressed by the porter of black nationalism, has de­ County Jail in Mason. power of its subpoena, decided against fended many whose cases for ex­ citing him for contempt of court. Continued from Page 5 tended civil liberties have made na­ "THE WHOLE DESTINY" Hannah, even in the territory of tional headlines. He was there for the student-rebel enemy, was impres­ tempting to duplicate his image- more than a routine misdemeanor "The defense," Lynn said to the sive. "I've been president of Michi­ crowded songs. Perhaps the most trial. judge, "knows this is not a routine gan State University more than 24 caustic side effect is the attempt to Ingham County Prosecutor Donald prosecution for a technical violation." years," Yes, he had discussed stu­ provide an intellectual framework for Reisig started out with a different He sought dismissal of the third dent political activity in administra­ The Word. assumption: the only thing that was charge, concerning violation of the tive meetings in recent months. No, "The Sounds of Silence" by Simon not routine was that the defense was university's "selling and advertis­ he did not remember saying the Union and Garfunkel, presently number one all excited over essentially a minor ing" ordinance. Building was the place for unimpeded in many parts of the country, is a case. "If in the university we cannot have political debate. perfect example of the phony intel­ Lynn had flown out from New York unpopular opinions freely expressed, lectual style created when the anti- for two days, at the request of the then there is no future for our so­ "UNIQUE ROLE" war-etc. message is distilled to a Evangelical Catholic Communion, the ciety. This case involves the whole few jumbled images. Dylan is some­ pacifist rebel sect whose clergy in­ destiny of our society." Lynn asked, were the arrests of times able to write coherent words cluded two of the defendants. But the testimony of the prosecu­ James Dukarm, Fr. Bert Halprin, for his songs, but his imitators gen­ The four defendants were arrested tion reflected the opinion that this Howard Harrison and Fr. Fred Jan- erally lack the talent required for Oct. 12 in the Union, for distribut­ case was simple. The manager of the vrin "based in any way on the unique this task. ing anti-war literature without per­ Union Building, the director of the contribution MSU had made to the war "The Sounds of Silence" has its mission at the university's Career Placement Bureau, the secretary of in Vietnam?" In fact, did MSU have pseudo-intellectual background taken Carnival. Lynn said their constitu­ the university—looking annoyed—and a team of 24 professors in Vietnam from some Zen-Buddhist ideas—the tional rights had been violated; Reisig the men who ran the Marine and Mich­ helping Diem? "The answer would sound of one hand clapping, static said it was the university's right to igan National Bank booths, near which have to be no," Hannah said. but ever-changing time, etc. After "prohibit at certain times and places the arrests took place, all testified Was university policy affected by several listenings, this song seems activities which might not be pro­ that anti-war literature was out of the the role the university has played in as barren (aside from its intriguing hibited at other times and places." ordinary at a Career Carnival. A Vietnam? "No," Hannah said, and sound) as the conclusion of exhaus­ The university had prohibited tres­ campus police sergeant: was the only destroyed the most potent argument in tion it reaches. passing on university property, ob­ one who could identify all four de­ the defense arsenal. Dylan's disruption of innocent or structing free access to university fendants. Hannah left, and the rest of the naive-naughty rock and roll was re­ buildings and displaying signs and The defense put on a better show. afternoon was spent in testimony freshing, but his imitators have posters on state property. The four MSU President John Hannah and Vice which failed to convince Reisig, or brought forth little but soft and bitter defendants, along with a fifth who President for Student Affairs John Hutter. Even statements by student fruit. The Paper/ East Lansing, Michigan, January 20, 1966 7

The Children's Crusade Continued from Page 1

two," she called to me. "Not to­ spent sunlight flashing on their slide ing the bitter dregs. Conversation night/' I told her. trombones as a crowd right out of scrupulously avoided morals too ob­ On New Year's Eve, we all be­ European newsreels spilled down out vious to draw. haved like (sic) any other person of the stands and rolled and broke A girl named Kim (at MSU parties, (sic) would, and I wish I knew whe­ over the goal posts, smashing them as in the Communist Party, everyone ther or not to believe some of the war to splinters with their own body is on a first-name basis) told us stories one heard about that night. weight. (Someone later gave me one about a man who had fallen against Like scores of others, I spent the splinter, which I carefully put in an her at the game. She had turned first morning of 1966 trying to get envelope and brought back with me.) around to see his tongue lolling out two blotto friends to bed. (The man­ On the way back to the ranks of of his head and later heard on the agement had prudently given us a party buses, a young State couple, hands radio that he had died of a heart at­ in an almost furnitureless room on lightly linked, began to sing "We tack. Did she know at the time he was the ground floor.) Shall Overcome." People smiled wan­ dying, someone asked. "Well . . ." 'Til never forget this," is what ly. "Someday - ay - ay -'ay," the two Kim rattled the ice in her glass. "He sang, the late afternoon sunlight full didn't look too cool." one of them, weak from vomiting, in their faces. must have wanted to tell me. But all And so it went, the city flickering Photo by Elliot Borin he could earnestly repeat as I pick­ outside like an enormous model of ed apart his Windsor knot was: "1*11 THE EVENING AFTER the brain. We exhausted all permis­ never forgive you, man. Really. I'll sible topics around two o'clock, and never forgive you." I kept a key to Parties that night were subdued. there were several minutes of dead their room and went down and got We were in a yellow mood, not win­ air. Then, deliberately, a kind of them up Rose Bowl morning. I'm not ners, and yet too well off to have the delicate horror shining in every face, sure I should have bothered. satisfaction, however morbid, of tast­ we began to talk about classes.

THE GREAT DAY Did those of us who saw the game live, if that is the word, have any real advantage? Well, we did get to Johnson.. The Hollow Crown see that miraculous bowl of hills, every detail perfect in the afternoon light, that made the stadium look is self-defense since it forestalls Since the Security Council has not even smaller than it was. And the By DOUGLAS LACKEY eventual Communist aggression given any regional agency whatsoever skywriter who repeatedly spelled out against us"—are specifically ruled permission to intervene, the U.S. over our heads theword"BATMAN." On several occasions the Johnson out. cannot justify its acts under this We did get to hear the cheering, administration has stated that the Those who wrote the Charter were article. UCLA's opening "Boo Moo UI" and United Nations represents the world's well aware that all aggressors pur­ The arguments given here to sup­ our own "Kill, Bubba, Kill!"followed foremost hope for peace. Yet, at the port to fight for peace and in self- port U.S. conduct vis-a-vis the U.N. by this exchange: same time, the actions of the John­ defense. What IS sanctioned is mil­ have failed—and these are more de­ MSU (immodestly): WE'RE NUMB­ son administration in Vietnam have itary defense against an armed AT­ tailed and careful than those the ER ONE! WE'RE NUMBER ONE! completely emasculated that organ­ TACK, until such time as the Secur­ President usually offers to the U.S. UCLA (wittily): NUMBER ONE ization: flouted its charter, neglect­ ity Council takes control of the situ­ public. WHAT? NUMBER ONE WHAT? ed its authority, defied its prin­ ation. Johnson's commonest rationale— MSU (ominously): YOU'LL FIND ciples. Now, since the U.S. itself has ob­ that the U.S. is responding to a "sol­ OUT! YOU'LL FIND OUT! Since the U.S. Senate has ratified viously not been attacked, U.S. justi­ emn pledge" made by Eisenhower, We did get to hear the occasional the U.N. Charter as an effectively fication for war in Vietnam must be Kennedy and himself to the Saigon gov­ sickening..crack of colliding bodies binding treaty (thus making it part as follows: 1) South Vietnam is a ernment, shows much less under­ and once (perhaps we imagined it) of "the Supreme Law of the Land") nation under direct attack; 2) The U.S. standing of international law. the hollow "poomph!" of Mr. Richard Johnson's acts are more than hypo­ engages in collective self-defense in First, Eisenhower himself pledged Kenney's muddy foot connecting with critical; they are illegal. Not only defending it. (Both need to be proved no military support to South Vietnam. the ball. do they threaten world peace abroad, to assure justification.) Second, since South Vietnam is not a But all this was proverbial ashes but they challenge the principle that This justification is false on both legal state, the pledge has no legal in our mouths. For those of us at public officials, including the Presi­ counts. First, South Vietnam is not a status. Third, since the Saigon gov­ the game had to preside as Greek dent, are subservient to the law. "nation"; the Geneva accords of 1954 ernment is conspicuously a U.S. pup­ chorus at our own tragedy. In this case, as in others, Johnson only recognized all of Vietnam as a pet, the "pledge" is in fact a "pro­ "State!" shouted one cheerleader apparently has acted with little re­ single state. Even if South Vietnam mise to oneself" and is therefore winningly, flashing teeth as white as spect for the procedural legal safe­ has in fact become independent since vacuous. Fourth, and most signifi­ Chiclets up at us. But no one was guards that form the first line of de­ 1954, attacks, even from North Viet­ cantly, no such pledge can legally having any. State's final ball-carrier fense of democratic freedoms. Such nam, still constitute "civil strife"— supersede the U.N. Charter. had just gone down in a windmill of lack of respect is both a cause and a and Article 51 cannot be invoked. Article 103, the so-called supre­ limbs, and the only sound in the sta­ symptom of authoritarian govern­ (Whether North Vietnam has made macy clause, reads: dium was our own aeolic breathing. ment. such attacks is itself debatable, but "BATMAN,'* said the sky. The guiding principle of the U.N. this argument shows that even if it In the event of a conflict between "TEN!" shouted thousands of UCLA Charter is the substitution of inter­ has, the U.S. still is not justified the obligations between members of students, watching the clock. national law—the Charter itself—for in its response.) the United Nations under the present "NINE!" the Clausewitzian dictum that war Second, the U.S. cannot be collec­ charter and their obligations under "EIGHT!" is an extension of politics. In times any other international agreement, tively defending in South Vietnam, their obligations under the present "Oh, Jesus," said someone behind of distress, this principle entails the since it is not a member of any charter shall prevail. me. replacement of unilateral military ac­ regional security system in that area "SIX!" tions with multilateral actions under that could possibly qualify for collec­ Ironically, this clause was insert­ "FIVE!" the aegis of the U.N. tive defense. "FOUR!" ed in the charter at the particular Ch. I, Article 2 (4) of the Charter Study of the U.N. Charter clearly insistence of the United States; now "Oh, Jesus." reads: reveals that collective defense must Johnson violates it to fulfill his pseu­ "TWO!" All members shall refrain in their take place within logically coherent do-pledge to Saigon. UCLA roared then with throats of international relations from threat or geographical regions—the sprawl of brass, roared until it seemed the President Johnson has often spoken use of force against the territorial SEA TO is not within the intent of the as if American honor were staked on sky must split, while the UCLA card integrity or political independence of provision. Even so, no vote on the section hurled into the air cards of any 6tate . . . question has been taken by SEATO; defending this so-called pledge. No ten, count them, ten different colors thus, even this weak pretense of col­ mention is made, as defense pro­ and the MSU band, drawn up on the There are only two exceptions cited lective defense is lost. ceeds, of the lost honor of the United field, played on, tinnily, futilely, the to the above rules, Articles 51 and 53 States, as it violates its pledge to the of Chapter VII. Since the U.S. has Finally, Article 51 is clearly in­ U.N., signed by the President and en­ clearly defied Art. II, the legality of tended to be a stop-gap before the dorsed by the U.S. Senate. But more U.S. actions hinges on whether or not Security Council acts. Unless the than honor is being lost by U.S. these actions count legally as excep­ Security Council i s demonstrably intervention. A Student's Prayer tions. powerless, no years-long, escalating How can the U.S. request that any conflict such as that in Vietnam can nation bend to the peace-keeping pro­ Uncle John, who art in Cowles Article 51 of the Charter reads: be countenanced under this article. cedures of the U.N., when it itself House, hallowed be thy land-grant. The Security Council has not been ignores them when it suits its in­ Nothing in the present charter shall shown powerless—indeed, the ques­ Thy budget come, thy will be done impair the inherent right of individual terest? Further, how can the Ameri­ in Nigeria if not in East Lansing. or collective self-defense if an armed tion has not even been brought up, can people safeguard their liberties Give us this day our daily Jell-O, attack occurs against a member of the although the U.S., as a concerned through law, when the President him­ and forgive us our crib sheets as we United Nations, until the Security party and a permanent member of self abrogates "the Supreme Law of forgive those who raise the curve. Council has taken measures to main­ the Council, is obliged by the prin­ the Land?" ciples of the Charter to do so. Lead us safely through registration, tain international peace and security. The very fact that such questions and deliver us from the Gables and It is important to note the severe Article 53 is even less applicable can be raised demonstrates the hypoc­ the Red Cedar. For thine is the uni­ restrictions this article places upon than Article 51: risy of present policy, and the truth versity and the football team and the what legally constitutes self-defense. The Security Council shall, where that the surface glitter of military first keg of spring term forever and Any justifications—like "if we don't appropriate, utilize such regional ar­ "victories" abroad cannot compen­ ever. Class dismissed. fight here, we'll be fighting some­ rangements or agencies for enforce­ sate for this deep- seated loss of ideals -BLISS where else," or "fighting in Vietnam ment action under its authority. at home. R "The Paper," East Lansing, Michigan, January 20, 1966

The Free Market And The Grill

Dormitory grills recently raised their prices, purportedly in order to keep up with commercial restaurants in East Lansing. This fact, and the rationale for it, has been widely reported. Here is another side of the story. -- The Editors

By LEO ZAINEA

It was late evening and, as oft 25, plus 5 cents cover charge and

happens, I was growing exceedingly • • • hungry. "Cover charge—for what?" I So, out of necessity rather than shouted. choice, I found myself drawn to a grill Everyone in the crowded grill be­ of ill-repute. gan staring at us. The waiting line was longer than "When the juke box is playing we usual, but increasingly severe hunger automatically add 5 cents," he retort­ pangs arrested any thought I had of ed with military precision. "Just like walking out. the posh off-campus restaurants "Yeh, whaddya want, Sir?*' a surly charge for their atmosphere." He voice bellowed. continued: "I'd like a hamburger and large ". . . 15 cents for the orange drink, orange drink, and please don't burn 5 cents for ice, and 3 cents for the the meat/* I implored. But I knew cup. That comes to ah-h-h-h, 55 deep down he would. cents." "Don't sweat it, chief," he replied "You mean 53," I corrected him. confidently. "Fifty-three, plus two cents ser­ I watched with dismay as he slapped vice charge; 55." the meat on the grill and three-foot A bystander abruptly caught my flames rose up. attempted swipe, as a third hunger He worked feverishly to salvage pang struck. "Fifty-five cents for a the meat from the consuming flames, hamburg and drink? That seems ter­ while four employes scurried around ribly expensive for a grill operating him in typical Keystone fashion. While on a state university." waiting I surveyed the novel prices "Well, chief," he agreed philos­ hanging on the wall. ophically. "It's just the economic BLT 35 cents—with bacon 40, with facts of life you'll have to face." He lettuce 45, with tomato 50. Ham extended an open hand. sandwich 45 cents, with cheese slice I paid him hurriedly and turned 55. Tomato soup 25 cents, chicken toward an empty table with my now- noodle 30 cents, alphabet soup 25— cold hamburg. plus 2 cents per letter. Hamburg— "Sir? Would you like a toothpick raw 30 cents, broiled 25. with your rheal? They're only . . ." "I think I've got it," he said, slyly "Forget itl" slipping the pattie in the cold, hard bun. I hesitated a minute, then cur­ iously lifted the bun up to see— nothing. "Where's the meat?" I askedfran- tically. "Let's see." His hairy hand ex­ Red Cedar Report plored the burger. "Oh, here it is under the sliced pickly." By JIM DE FOREST "Sorry about that, chief," he quip­ ped, with dime-store wit. "It shrinks The laws of geometry state that no The Sound Of Protest. . . a bit when fried. two solids can occupy the same space. "Will there be anything else?" The law-makers never rode an MSU Continued from Page 5 the popular-topical song is coming My lower lip began quivering. "Yes, bus. into its own in the music business. a large orange drink, with plenty of * * * been spoon-fed to them from Tin Along with new sophistication among Pan Alley from time immemorial. ice." Another law of geometry is that the pop musicians who are now incor­ "There's an extra charge for ice. shortest distance between two points This trend has had a refreshing porating jazz, folk and classical forms Do you still want it?" has a chain-link fence running per­ effect on the banality of contemporary into their performance and projecting A peaceful man, not given to fits pendicular to it. pop lyrics. For instance, in tne them against the background of a rock of anger, I began counting to ten. * • * links' hit, "Well-Respected Man": beat, a new form of pop music is I reached three. In the time of Elizabeth I England evolving. "How about a cup? You'll need a blossomed forth and produced Shakes­ And his mother goes to meetings The topical song is and will con­ cup for your drink. They're only peare. In the time of Elizabeth II While his father paws the maid, tinue to be part of this. Like the three cents." England blossomed forth and produced And she stirs the tea with coun­ peddlers who hawked broadside bal­ "Yes, yes, I'll take it." sellors the Beatles. That's the blossom busi­ While discussing foreign trade lads on the streets of our cities in Another hunger pang shot through ness! And she passes looks as well as bills colonial times, the airwaves will offer my system. * • • To every suave young man. songs of commentary and satire to an "What's the damages," I said, We speculate that it will take mar­ audience ever increasing in aware­ intending a pun. ket analysts a decade to discover why And he's oh so good ness and interest. "Well, lemme see. The hamburgis the consumption of toilet paper in­ And he's oh so fine creased sharply in Pasadena in late And he's oh so healthy December. In his body and his mind. * * * He's a well-respected man about town VVhen As We Were And Ageless I've always admired advertising Doing the best things so conser­ majors. I could never lie with a vatively. When as we were and ageless, grasses came full straight face. green from the ground; we opened each as does * * * And he likes his own back-yard the morning, together sound by sound. One Spartan reads every issue of And he likes his fags the best Playboy magazine. He likes to keep And he's better than the rest abreast of the situation. And his own sweat smells the best Seeing was something our eyes had imagined, And he hopes to grab his father's knowing not but year from year; we wished for » » * loot nothing other than wishing and dreamed that We search constantly for Truth— everywhere was near. which is rather difficult via machine- When pater passes on. scored multiple choice. But he's oh so good, .... Hoping to live every kind of living, we stepped * » • from stone to stone as carefully as fire from Winter term: that time when you A song like this, immaturely con­ wind to wood; we gave ourselves unto ourselves wake up, look out the window, and ceived as it may be, would have been as only our giving could. decide to sleep through your one impossible to sell in past years and o'clock. its strong language would have in­ Yet all that we were was not enough, all that * * * vited censorship on any U.S. radio we would seemed undone; more suddenly than We know of one chap who would station. Today, however, this song is it happened, we closed each one by one. like to become a university admin­ in the top ten all over the country. istrator, but he doesn't know a thing In spite of its many shortcomings, ELAINE CAHILL about chickens.