OBSERVER Vol. 12 No. 13 September 17, 1969
Front Page Allen Young (LNS)
Page 2 Proctor Raps An Interview Marion Swerdlow Art Show Varieties of Figurative Art Tits & Ass
Page 3 Join The Conspiracy
Page 4 Miss Amerika Cartoon Kotzky Art Review Kenneth Daly Sounds Willie (LNS)
Page 5 Instant News Liberation News Service Day Of The Dolphin Jerry Bernstein The Day of the Dolphin Robert Merle Quote From Thomas Jefferson Editor Jailed
Page 6 Black Mountain College Roger A. Wicker
Page 7 Continuation Of Previous Articles
Page 8 Editorial Editor Letters [ . . . Consider qualified black applicants for new faculty appointments . . .] Patricia de Gorgoza Cartoon Feiffer Student Senate
Page 9 Easy Rider Quote From Abraham Lincoln Hip? Bad Dope Call Issued
Page 10 White Panther Gets 10
Page 11 Political Cartoon R. Cobb Public Service Notices & Things The Sweet Smell of Money P & F Disbans sel'lr
A black man on the stage, singing about · by Allen Young ( LNS) treatment plants and who refuse to All right. The Clearwater. Pete Seeger. take necessary measures against the In Kingston. Lets find out what, if trouble with the cops. But not in King ston. Not tonight. COLD SPRING, N.Y. (LNS) --a offending corporations. anything, is happening. We shake our graceful sloop, with a 106 - foot way down the hill, under the yellow Pete Seeger is the MC. Bounces up on mainsail, an interracial crew and Ultimately, Seeger and the Clearwater ochre streetlamps, towards whats left the stage, and talks with a lilt and a the songs of Pete Seeger, is plying sponsors would argue, action against of Kingston's waterfront, a tiny rec quick line. The middle aged ladies the waters of Hudson River these the industrialists and the politicians tangular strip of grass wedged between ahead of me are enthralled. But so days as part of a campaign to make will come only when the people are the water and the Miron Cement Com are the kids. Practice, I think. He's its waters run clear once again. aroused. pany's former residence, a dirty red got it down pat. More performers. brick building that still bears the slo Some local, all from the Hudson The idea of the boat, Pete Seeger Some of the people are aroused, all gan "Better Lumber from Better Mills" Valley area. A constant insertion of says, "is to bring tens of thousands right, but against the Clearwater. When between the dark sockets that were Clearwater propaganda. Clean it up. of people to the waterfront. We've the boat was tied up to the small once windows. We walk across the Clean it up. Several black singers. got to get the patient to admit there:s wooden pier at Cold Spring, a lily grass, toward a crowd of 200 at the The few blacks in the audience re· a disease. Many people say, 'It's a white village of 2,000 in rural Putnam far end of the rectanlge, seated facing spond with yells. Seeger says that the sewer, so what?' We bring 'em down County, only 50 miles north of New a makshift stage whose yellow bulbs show must end by ten. City Hall says and they are reminded of what a York City, right-wing hoodlums hassled gyrate crazily in the sheet metal of so. A few local chicks sing. Then some beautiful river the Hudson is and the crew. They stood on shore yelling the warehouse behind it. On my right Woodstock guys. Then the capitain there's no more of that 'so what' such epithets as "scumbags", "blow rises the mast of the Clearwater, sepa= of the ship sings. He makes up for stuff." jobs" and "cunt" and said they didn't rated from the crowd by a cyclone talent with sincerity. want the "communist" boat in their fence, low in the water, a composite of The approach of the Clearwater, its town. "If you want to clean up the ropes and rolled canvas, douglas fir I find myself liking the whole thing crew and the association that raised river,"they shouted at tile crew spars, so the signs tell me. a little better. No one's trying to $180,000 to build and outfit the {which includes black people and hip con me. Seeger all over at once. At sloop is hardly militant. They feel people), "just get off it!" I wonder what the hell the residents the sound booth, with the audience, that the people who live in the towns of the areas collapsing rat ridden rooming talking to kids, blacks, cops, back to and cities along the river need to be The sloop's reception has been mostly house think of all the noise and crowds the stage for another introduction. awakened about the problem. Those positive, however. Some of the money of long-haired white men in the ghetto Since things ara so peaceful, Seeger immediately responsible for the pol for the project, ironically, comes tonight. The crowd is hip. Woodstock. says, the law says we can run past ten. lution of the river, ofcourse, are from old WASP families who live in A sprinkling of Kingston High School; A cheer. Black chick sings Summertime. industrial magnates who own the fac big old Hudson Valley mmsions. older ones, wives, babies, their desert The audience is really warming up. tories which dump waste into the (Seeger and his family have lived for Hudson, and the politicians, bigtime years in a comfortable log cabin in boots make them hip. Kennedy people. and smalltimi, who do nof allocate And cops. Four. No, six. Nighsticks. cont' d on page three appropriate tax money toward sewage cont·d on page three 2 OCTOR
An Interview of all the years I've been speaking, I've cause I was there. If you had treated us. You never come to us, just wait for us by Marian Swerdlow never had such a pretty audience. them like people, you would have had to corre to you. If you guys were handl Young lady, are you a policewoman? more cooperation. I know because I'm ing it right, we wouldn't have to come out 'The Dutchess County Sheriff's Depart I answered, no sir. Not NO Sl R. But there every day. there at all. ment spokesman, Sergeant John P. Daikin, politely, no, sir. He asked me how. I Pat said, We're trying to establish trust, by addresses assembeled officers from the knew about the meeting and I told treating them like people. I love some of Villages of Tivoli, Red Hook and Rhine him about reading the SeptemUer 4 Lewis said, You and the Dean wouldn't these kids. I put up $900 of my own beck, as well as village and town officals Red Hook Advertiser regarding the cooperate and tell me where those kids money after the first bust. Then he told and representatives of Bard College in the class~ and the fact that it was open to were, because I wouldn't show you the about some girl who had become hysterical first of a series of policework classes at the public. I plan to go to college here warrent... l didn't have to show the after her arrest. He asked again that they Rhinebeck Town Hall.' for four years, and I consider myself warrent to anyone but the person I'm carry out the arrest in a different manner. -Kingston Daily Freeman a resident. · arresting. Pat said, If you had come to Sept. 11, 1969 me 24 hours before, I could have had the OBSERVER: Did he ever clarify what he Daikin began to talk about the police fkids you had warrents for waiting in my meant by 'different manner'? OBSERVER: I understand you sat in in relation to the community .. .! don't office with no trouble. Treat them like on a policework class in Rhinebeck. remember the exact quotes... people and you'll get cooperation. MERRY: I got the idea he meant individual How did you first hear of this class? arrests with warrents, without getting a Lewis answered, Proctor, I was busting whole lot of people 1involved. . MERRY ENTIN: I read in the Red OBSERVER: The Freeman quotes him them You don't seem to know what Hook Advertiser of September 4 as saying, 'Our feet hurt, we get hungry, that means. You don't send them any in Afterwards, Wally drove me back to Bard. that judges, FBI agents and law enforce we have financial and social problems, vitations. He talked about the kids he knew, he told ment agents would be speaking to the but the citizen sees only the uniform me there were twelve heroin addicts, or local police. It mentioned that in nine times out of ten ... The fastest way Daikin began, Listen, proctor ... It was an some number like that, here last semester, terested residents were invited to at to ruin your image is to brush off obviously contemptuous form of add though only a few of them had come back. tend. I consider myself a resident. It that man that is asking for help. Spend ress. Pat interrupted, My name is Pat He talked about how they had become ad seemed to relate to the idea of get- a couple of minutes, hear what he has Defile. Daikin said, Listen, proctor, if dicted... not being able to take the tension ting to the community, of meeting to say, and help as you can.' that school was doing what it was sup of work, about broken homes, with parents them face to face, of seeing how they posed to do, there wouldn't be any need away all the time in Europe... One guy, he feel. MERRY: That's when Pat Defile raised of us coming out there in the first place. said, fell apart when his father committed his hand.He wanted to know if that The administration should take care of suicide. Wally really is a good guy- he OBSERVER: What happened at the courtesy and consideration could ex this - clean it up themselves. thought I didn't think so. He told me that class? · tend to everyone. He started to talk the police are really coming down on this about his experiences as a proctor at Pat kept saying. I know you've got to place this semester. He said that Security MERRY: A Sergeant Lewis started by Bard. He said he'd seen two busts. He bust. Its a terrible shame that kids get had tried to establish trust with the students, asking each of us our names- there knew they had to bust, he said , in into it. But if you have to, here's what but that they didn't realize how hard the were sixteen people there. I gave my these cases as well, the manner made the I'm arguing ... and Daikin interrupted police are going to come down on them- name, but didn't identify myself as a difference. Then Lewis started to talk and said, We can talk about drugs some Bard student. PCtt DeFile and Wally across the room, saying What do you other time, and he went back to talking OBSERVER: It looks as if we face a Brewer both identified themselves as mean? abot Accidents in Depth. choice of individual busts by our own proctors at Bard. Lewis began to talk Security office, or a repeat of the ar about accident cases ... how to use Well, answered Pat, your men came into bitrary and indiscriminate terror of the little forms. a dorm room and asked a student his At the end of the meeting, Lewis and Pat last two busts, name. He'd< answer, the ask the officer resumed arguing about whether Lewis MERRY: I guess you could say that. Finally the speaker, Daikin, arrived. He his name. He could have told him. Lewis had to show the warrent to Pat and the was speaking on 'Accidents in Depth'. said, but we don't have to- we have our Dean. Lewis said to him, I wish they'd names on our uniforms. Pat said, but After a while, he said, You know, of just hurry up and change the law, but you were in plainclothes. I know be- meanwhile, I wish you'd cooperate with
ART SHOW tits
Bard College's Art Department's first pro fessional exhibition of the year, "Varieties of Figurative Art," will run from September 4 to 28 at the Proctor Art Center and will YELLOW SPRINGS.ass Ohio (LNS/Fred) be open to the public from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. daily. A fashion photography crew from Playboy Magazine-- described by the The attempt of the show is to reveal the Daily News as "four guys and one good· several ways in which representational art looking chick"--recently went to An is being developed by American artists of tioch College, "bastion of New Left quite different aesthetic tendencies, ranging radicalism.''to shoot pictures for the from an extremely explicit treatment of magazine's fall fashion forecast. Before still-lites, figures and landscapes on the one the five departed in disarray, five male hand, to a highly suggestive and interpretive students paraded nude to protest Play reaction to them on the other. boy's "glorification" of nude women, members of the Women's Liberation New York artists whose work will be repre Movement accused Playboy of exploit sented include Philip Pearlstein, Herman ing women as playthings and their Rose, David Sawin, Luisa Matthiasdottir, "mindless flaunting of the female body" the crew's supply of men:s fashions Gabriel Laderman, Wolf Kahn, Robert De were stolen and then returned by stu Niro, and Bruno Civitice. dents who intended to mail the clothes From Boston there will be Joe Ablow, a back to Chicago. former teacher at Bard, who is now teach ing at Boston University and has been President of the Antioch Community head of its Department of Art. government, Peter Fessenden, said that part of the protest was because Paul Wieghardt, a prominent artist and Playboy pigmeat hustler Bruce Draper smiles wan "we're tired of (Jeople coming here teacher in Chicago, and a former student ly at naked opposition. At Grinell, as at Antioch, because of our radical, hippie, New Left of Paul Klee and Kandinsky will also be image. We're tired of being a zoo."When students stripped in protest of tits and ped~ represented. ass asked if the five nude men (the sight dler. of which caused the Playboy girl to turn several shades of red and leave the Finally, work by two of Bard's faculty room) were arresed, Fessenden said, will be on display: Stephen Pace, well "Of course not. They wouldn't arrest known in New York, who is joining the anyone for that here." Back in Chicago faculty this fall; and Matt Phillips, De a Playboy spokesman stated, "We're partment Head. Mr. Pace has had many in favor of nudity, but the only thing shows, most recently a June exhibition about nude college students is that at the Graham Gallery in New York. they look so funny." 3 Join The ConspiracY
CHICAGO (LNS)- The Anti-Riot Section of the absurd in Congressional Commit won't live past the trial. His wife is--a the intent to "incite, organize, promote. of the 1968 Civil Rights Act permits the tee meetings -- a tactic which obviously major stock-holder in a corporation which encourage, participate in, or carry on a federal government to throw any radical disturbs the government even though it makes gadgets for the Vietnam war, and, riot." A riot is defined as an act or threat or movement organizer into jail for five does not involve a disciplined revolution not surprisingly, he has a record of giving of violence by one person in a group of years if he so much as discusses a planned ary organization. draft resisters and other "subversives" three or more. The key word is "intent" ::iemonstration or rally with two or more the harshest penalties permitted by law. a riot need never occur. Thought-crimes people. John Froines a·nd Lee Weiner are Univer are already• on the books. In it's first run the government is trying sity radicals. John is an assistant profes After three costly delays, Magoo decided to pin the responsibility for the police sor of chemistry at the University of 0· not to rule on a defense motion for the Another of Attorney General John riot in Chicago during last August's Dem regon and Lee is a research assistant at release of illegal wiretap records the gov Mitchell's chief weapons in stifling the ocrat. ConventiDn on eight key move Northwestern University in Chicago. ernment readily admits to having. The government's opponents is the Long A ment people- Rennie Davis, Dave Del While the government's attack on reason? The motion was of such a heavy mendment to the same act. The amend linger, John Froines, Tom Hayden, Abbie Froines and Weiner is somewhat mys nature that Magoo felt he could not pos ment-- Louisianna Senator Russell Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Bobby Seale and terious because they are so much more sibly rule on it until after the trial was Long's contribution to the jurisprudence Lee Weiner. If convicted, the eight men obscure than the other defendants, cer over. Conspirator Abbie Hoffman reta of repression --makes it a felony to make face up to 10 years in jail and $20,000 tainly the most amazing indictment is liated with a claim that he is Judge Hoff any effort to get in the way of any cop in fines per defendant. that of Black Panther Party Chairman man's illegitimate nephew, but Magoo who is going about his "business." Com Bobby Selase. The illegitimacy of Seale's ·was unmoved. bine that one with the conspiracy laws The conspirators make rather strange indictment is even clearer considering The Conspiracy staff has been coopera which make it illegal for two or more bedfellows, representing widely differ the fact that he spent less than four ting with Students for a Democratic people to "agree" on an illegal plan, even ent points of view within the movement. hours in Chicago during Convention Society (SDS) in plans for a national if they never make an illegal move, and Three of the men were leaders of the Week --to deliver two speeches, which action in the fall. The main slogan for you have all the necessary machinery for National Mobilization Committee to bore no clear relation to any other action. that action is "Bring the War Home!"- a police state. End the War in Vietnam, a coalition of a new and more intense phase in the radicals and liberals which called for In order to keep the offensive, the eight struggle against U.S. imperialism. The Conspiracy refuses to make the large demonstrations outside the conven "conspirators" have set up an office in trial a matter of apologetic technicalities. tion. They are:Dave Dellinger, whose Chicago under the name of The Conspi· The action is scheduled for October 8 Abbie Hoffman says, "We aren't playing pacifist ideology put him in jail during racy. They do not plan to sit quietly un through 11. cent~ring in Chicago with games. This is the biggest political trial World War II; Tom Hayden, one of the til their trial starts on or about Septem support actions throughout the country. of the century." leaders at the Port Huron Conference ber 24.So far, the Conspiracy's lawyers- On Friday, October 10, there will be a which founded SDS seven years ago, Charles Garry, Bill Kunstler, Lennie march on the Federal Building to protest * * * although he hasn't been active inside Weinglass. Mike Tigar, Mike Kennedy the-Conspiracy trial. The following day, SDS in recent times; and Rennie Davis, and Jerry Lefcourt -- have conducted a a massive march will be held to call for The Conspiracy has available a variety of an urban-community organizer. fuitless campaign of court motions to the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from literature, including leaflets, bumper force some semblance of due process Vietnam. stickers, buttons and posters. A brochure The chief promotors of the Yippie media out of the U.S. government. describes the case in detail. The button, myth, Abbie- Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, The laws under which the Eight have brochure and bumper-sticker are being are perhaps more glamorous defendants The presiding judge assigned to the been indicted may well surface again in sold for 25 cents each,the poster costs than the Mobe organizers. Abbie and Conspiracy trial is Judge Julius Hoffnan, the government's drive to crush the na 50 cents and the leaflets are free. Postage Jer~y are the personification of everything often called Mr.Magoo for his startling tional action. The Thurmond Amendment and contributions are appreciated. Ad Chicago's Mayor Daley finds disgusting. resemblance to the General Electric Com to the 1968 Civil Rights Act makes it dress inquiries and orders to: The Conspi They devote most of their energies to no pany's near-sighted mascot. Judge Magoo illegal to cross state lines or use interstate racy, 28 E' Jackson, Chicago,lll. 60604, holds-barred spur-of-the-moment theater is 74 years old and many Conspiracy commerce {such as mail, telephone,tele phone 312-427-7773. -street theater in the streets and theater staff members are making bets that he vision and Other communications) with +-~--- SHIP ' "\ cont'd. from p.1 ~ Beacon, N'Y ., but have known decades Pete is chairman of the board of the of red-baiting from neighbors') Among Sloop association and is currently lead I r ...-. _"*"..,.-.. the contributors to the Hudson River ing a battle to place the ship firmly Sloop Restoration, Inc., the 2,500 in control of the young politically-minded member group which owns the ship, crew. There are those in the association, 1/ are the Rockefellers. the Ottinger Pete told LNS' who don't dig the idea Foundation, and Reader's Digest.Oid of an amateur crew (they want to have fashioned conservationists, such as experienced professionals running the the scenic Hudson Preservation boat), who want the boat to spend Association (which has been successful more time in scenic upstate and less ly fighting Colsolidated Edisons's plan rsaow time around New York City (fewer cont'd. from p.1 of building a power plant on Storm blacks up there, presumably), and w.ho King Mountain), have also shown want to keep children under twelve off Then she goes wild with St. Louis like that in Mexicd, it means you're a support for the Clearwater. Most of the ship while it's sailing. (One of the Blues. And I'm warming up. It's chilly virgin. Wonder if the guy holding her the money was raised at folk song most pleasant things about the sloop now, and the crowd's down to about hand knows that? concerts, however. was the way the crew treated the dozen 150. But they're the ones who didn't tumbfing children on board; they were given work just come to look. They came to i Some kids up front have started Before sailing south to Cold Spring, to do and they did not have to be told I dentify. An~ everyone knows it. and dancing in the grass. The cops have the Clearwater visited Newburgh, an disappeared. The sound crew starts every minute to get out of the way or to star. old river town which was once George I look up idely and see a shooting dancing around the stage, and half the be careful~) I Washington's headquarters and how Maybe an omen. What if the earth audience joins in. Women, kids, black, up. Or maybe a tidal wave i~ has one of the worst black ghettos I opens bald, button down, fire marshalls; all When the Clearwater visits a town, school more in order. Are the gods watchmg in the Hudson Valley. Thousands, children visit the sloop and learn about dancing together in Kingston's ghetto this tribal ritual? Suddenly the sound night in the funky light, black and white, young and old, came its history. Displays tell about the problem on a Saturday down to celebrate at the Newburgh of a tuba. There's a brass band on now more yellow than ever. Pete Seeger's of water poll!Jtion. Pete Seeger, Allan about the Woodstock waterfront (guess who lives in the stage. Somethi.ng Aunapu -and others entertai11 with songs. in bell vision. Alf the people. It's over ~ith a great decrepit water Choir. or something. A chick buildings around the old guy gasp and Seeger takes the stage for a final front). The crew of the Clearwater is bottoms on the tromborle. An Will the people listen? The beautiful with ··!?Uspenders wrapped in the tuba. song. Applause, people break up and cars hopeful that the presence of the ship sloop Clearwater, Pete Seeger's charming I And lots of horns. Off they go, ooom begin to start, headlights, dirty streets. made more Newburgh at the waterfront songs and the crew's peaceful commit pah pah, backed by a bass drum, and People still singing. Pete Seeger sends them not only of the filth in people aware ment to their task cal"f only be a begin I the whole night seems to come together. away singing. What incredible corn. Ameri the river but of the plight of the city~s ning. This fall, the Clearwater will con S!!e!iJer's tapping his foot and smiling. cana. Some PR man's dream. And I really black population. feel good. A little taste of some choreo tinue its sailing up and down the river, He knew it would happen. Even the with the expectation that thousands of graphed corner of a possible life. Pete was one of the main architects I rumble of a passing Chris Craft seems school children will visit the boat and rounded and fitting. Water, stars. yel of the Clearwater project and knows No riot,No heavy scenes. Everybody learn about its history and its purpose. low light, brass bands. almost as much about sailing the boat The fight to clean up the Hudson is happy. I just can't seem to accept it. It's as the captain. He loves the Hudson part of a larger fight to clean u~ the_ contrarty to what I've been taught. How and has spent several years dedicated The chick behind me is clapping.She's filth arrl sickness across the nat1on; Jf wearing a poncho w.it.h the corners do you deal with something you know to the project. The boat was first con the Clearwater helps to win people can't exist. Far out. Pete Seeger doesn't ceived in 1966 and left the Harvey F' hanging off her shouloers touching the even glow. to that greater fight, she is indeed a ground in front and behind her. Some Gamage shipyards in South Bristol, good sloop Me., on May 17, 1969. body told me that if you wear a poncho 4 MiSS ArT ReView by Kenneth Daly green -light areas are dotted light ATLANTIC CITY N.J. (LNSI ··Two green. He has absolutely no consis hundred women came as they were to the Unfortunately, I find very little to get excited about in the current tency of brushwork as it varies Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City, from area to area. They are pictures N' J' Sept. 6. Bereft of false eyelashes, show at Proctor Art Center. The and not paintings. wigs, uplift bras, vaginal deodorantS and show, entitled Varieties of Figu the.rest of the standard American equip rative Art, supposedly shows the viewer some of the new directions Sidney Goodman is a slick illustrator ment for masking humanity, the Ad Hoc he sets up a mood in both of his Committee for the Miss Amerika Demon of figurative art. Undortunately, for works. The drawing of the girl is stration arrived on the Boardwalk armed the most part, this is not the case ... bad not only b~gause he is inconsistent only with determination and political the figurative pieces being merely in his treatment of the drawing as a analysis. derivative of French painting. total work (instead we see a head in un-realized space), but also because Their purpose was to: This is the problem in reviewing the girls' left shoulder is incorrectly -Express solidarity with the sister con· this show. Most of the paintings are drawn, and it's no artistic device. testants who are pressured into epitomi certainly palatable and agreeable zing the roles all women are forced to to our sensibilities. The ideas are Looking at the better work, Louise play in this society not altogether new,. they are re Matthiasdattir's very handsome still working and exploring French ideas :·Reject the degrading image of women life shows [JS some gutsier painting. as propagandized by the Pageant con which we accept as basically sound and The somposition is original and in- cept : brainless, smiling, sex-object pieces agreeable. The artists in this sJlow of meat. are definitely not placing them- -- Protest the blatant racism of a Pageant selves out on a limb· for there which has never had a non-white finalist. is security within the framework teresting, and her handling of paint --Boycott the products pushed by the of painting they have pursued. The with heavy brushstrokes and flat Pageant sponsors, and demand an end paintings are colorful and sometimes areas of color- keeps the paint on to the symbolic use of a woman to sell precious, but gutsy they are not. the surface in a way some of the those products and the attempt to mani other painters do not (particularly pulate us all as consumers. You can't knock apple pie, and there . Laderman). She uses strong, vi· --Denounce the Pageant's collaboration women from the committee planned to are a thousand ways of cooking it· brant colors very nicely and they never with the bloody Vietnam war and the stage a demonstration inside the hall in I don't find the paintings essential approach being precious. practice of sending Miss America over support of the liberated beauty. However, enough to beo;;"l +o understand each seas each year to urge our men to kill pageant officials discovered the traitor in painter's personal easthetic. I'm be Phillip Pearlstein's paintings bore me and die "in defense of American woman their midst in time and threatened her ing snobbish, certainly, but thats my in that his eye does all the work · hood." with conspiracy charges and economic prerogative. .. while his imagination rests. But he sanctions against her and her parents if There are paintings which set them has a very honest approach · to put The women gathered in J.F.Kennedy she did not stop the demonstration. The down exactly what he sees. This he selves apart from the rest, either Plaza in front of Convention Hall,chant girl's name cannot be revealed at this does · but so what? ing, singing and performing guerilla time. The demonstration was called off. because they are better or worse. Looking at the worst, I think theater behind double police barricades As I stated earlier, I don't find a which separated them from onlookers, Pageant officials and lawyers harrassed Gabriel Laderman;s pictures are pathetic. They are not paintings hell of a lot of new and gutsy figu who occasionally thre w rocks and sand the demonstrators in a variety of ways. rative work in this show· but I can't at them as police looked on. Committee organizers suspect that they because they do not involve them selves with any interesting ideas be too critical of most of the painters were responsible for the last minute exhibited. There are painters who are On the Boardwalk, women passed out "Collapse" of the two buses they had rent of space, color, light or line. They look like copies of photographs. progressive and make the ideas, and ·leaflets on abortion, daycare centers ed to go to Atlantic City. there are painters who take their and welfare. Reactions from the crowd His palette is predominantly one ideas and work into them more fully. ,¥aried. Some accused the women of being Pageant lawyer Leonard Horn obtained the color which is boring., and his il For the most part, in this show, we "jealous" of the pageant contestants, o- · so-called "Minnie Mouse injunction" which lustrator~s eye sees nothing more have the second category of painter. . thers were on ·authority trips and thought maC!e it a criminal offense to even think than a cameras - shadows are dark that all protestors should be arrested. about djsturbing the pageant, say anythir:tg "obscene" about Miss America, emit nox· One woman complained, "They're dirty." ious odors, use loud or offensive language_. Her husband replied, "They are clean in or distribute offensive literature. Judge · their hearts." Casiero of Atlantic City upheld the injunc tion, saying, "Is it true they came here Many in the crowd agreed that the con last year without underwear?" sumer is exploited in our society. An or SOUNDS ganizer of the demonstration (she pre Miss America was asked at her first press fers to remain anonymous) tord LNS that conference what she thought of the dem by Willie (LNS) one of the 50 Miss America contestants onstration going on outside. Her male care to imitate," soon she may be known in was a woman's liberation "plant. "Fifty taker told her, "Don't answer that questioft. her own right. Following an exciting set of appearances at the Newport Fold Muddy Waters and Paul Butterfield Festival comes her first album on Mer have just cut an album together for cury, Willie May "Big Mama" Thornton. Chess,_to be titled ~!_hers~!lc!.§..o...!]!_, She has long had two albums out on with Otis Spann on piano. All were Arhoolie Records (Box 9195,Berkeley) very happy with the session, as indica· which are, in my opinion, still superior, 1 ted in an interview with Don DiMichael but the Mercury album will be the one THEY DOW T THE F1RST MISTAI The riot area is near the scene of the 19 riot which took lives and caused$___ million damage. Mayor said he would appoint a committee of leaders to in vestigate the rioting. Shot and killed ____day night was _____of ,-----Street. Patrolman -~--said he shot the Liberation News Service boy as he saw the youth turn and ap- proach him in a "threatening manner." (ed. note: the following "storv" comes to us from the practiced journalistic hands at the Chicago Journalism Review) editor An uneasy calm settled over racially tense today as National Guardsmen and police stood by in case jailed of renewed outbreaks of trouble. The side of the city has been ITHACA' N.Y. (LNS} -·Bruce Dancis, wracked by sporadic sniper fire, looting editor of the First Issue, the undergrounc and arson for ____nights. monthly published at Cornell University, is in the Federal Youth Center in Ash Mayor _____said __day: land, Ky., serving an indefinite prison "I think we have the sutuation under term for violation of Selective Service control." laws. The trouble broke out____ day night Bruce tore up his draft card at a public as rumors spread through the ____ rally on the Cornell campus in Decem Side ghetto area that a __year old Negro ber, 1966. He was sentenced under the ____had been shot by a pol iceman Youth Corrections Act to a term 0-6 while_:_ ____a ______years, and his appeals ran out last month when the Supreme Court refured _____j:ersons, including _____ to hear his case. He turned himself in to police and firemen, have been in Federal authorities in Syracuse, N.Y., jured in thevioence. on May 20 to begin his term. Negro leaders, , Under the Youth Corrections Act, the Rev: and Jones offenders are released when they are toured theriot area ---day night deemed "rehabilitated," but there is in an attempt to restore calm. no predicting how long Bruce will be God forbid we should ever be 20 years in prison, since the standards for re without a revolution. "It's just a small percentage of trouble habilitation are determined by the gov ernment. makers and kids causing the problem --Thomas Jefferson, 1787 out there," said weary r Police Chief ------· "Most of the day D1 the DOLPHIN The Day of the Dolphin word. Second, he cannot combine these him back into the sea. But Fa and Bi Red China). When Fa and Bi realize contracted words, so as to make the leap that there are men on the ship, it is too 1 say that when they die they will go by Robert Merle, translated from the from the word to the sentence, the mea~ J back to the land. Thus, the dolphin late. The mines are deposited and the French by Helen Weaver, N'Y: sure of human logic. Ivan, for example, possesses the notion of a god (man) plot is fulfilled. The Americans are up Simon and Schuster (320 pp) 1969 pronounces his own name as the contrac· of a life after death, and of a paradise in arms at Red China, and World War tion, Fa. Sevilla and his crew must put lost (land}, and can be said to have as Three seems days away. Fa and Bi de by Jerry Bernstein t their heads together and think of some valid a religion as any man on earth. cide that men are bad altogether. They means of getting Ivan to combinP. syl are discovered, and a sympathetic spy lables. In the midst of an affair ne is The violend reaction of the public and helps Sevilla recover the two dolphins. Data on the bot.tle- nosed dolphin, or having with his assistant, Miss Arlette the press was two-fold. Most people tursiops truncatus, reveal that this LaFeuille, he decides that, if his subiect, hailed the eve!1t, as prestige and scien Sevil\a then becomes subjected to a species possesses a brain larger than (Ivan) is endowed with similar sensitivi tific advance. A minority scoffed at the somplex system of espionage. The man, with a cerebral cortex (memory ties (thus supposing a human element in notion of dtlking animals as talented dolphins must be kept from talking. center) as highly differentiated as that the subject of the experiment) to man, freaks. Teen-agers b_egari Fa and Bi Followed by CIA and spies of numerous of homo sapiens. In the early sixties that perhaps Ivan needs a lover. Sevilla clubs, fashion took a turn in the favor organizations, in a series of nightmarish research published by Dr. John lilly himself feels with Arlette a sense of ra-. of dolphin-trimmed dresses, pop revelations, Sevilla becomes aware that suggested the strong possibility that the newal. For the first time, he states,he songs were written about dolphins, and the American people cannot accept the dolphin possesses his own language, con is not sacrificing one of his faculties for a new dance called ''the Dolphin" sud idea of the humanity of another species, sisting of shriU whistles emitted from anothe~; the work of the experiment is denly appeared in Minnesota and spread or (on the level of current politics) of the spirical (the respiratory organ of the going well, accompanied by a feeling of across the country. another race, and that the dolphins will dolphin, located on his back). personal vitality. mean nothing but power and prestige Thf. introduction of <'!.female, named But the greatest horror of all was the to Americans. The government and mili This evocative research served as inspira Bi (dolphin for B'essie) does in fact plans of the military and the government tary (informed by spies) take these sen tion for Robert Merle (one-time winner spur Fa (Ivan) to combine syllables. to employ dolphins as the carriers of timents as unpatriotic, even communist. of the Prix Goncourt), in writing ~is He is happy at learning to do this and nuclear weapons and as instruments of novel. The fact that the dolphin in teaches Bi, and the twomiraculously demolition. The navy planned to begin .J.b.~Q~of the Dolphj_'l_ cannot be captivity was upon occasion known to make the transition from word to training dolphins in tactical maneuvers classified in the genre of science fiction. imitate the human voice by repeating sentence. as soon as possible, thus putting Ameri· Set just a few years away, in the early sounds of words, is carried one step .ca without a doubt, at the lead in the 1970's, with America on the brink further by the author, who romantically After several months of conversing in nuclear race. of World War II I, the power complexes, endows the dolphin with the ability to English, a press conference is held.Se the threat of nuclear exhilaration, the po speak english, and hence, to converse veral reporters pose questions to the Through trickery. when Sevilta is in sition of the mi\itary running the country, with man. Dolphins, who answer in complete conference, the Navy sneaks into his running the president like the strings of honesty. Because every~ing that is lab and steals his beloved Fa and Bi. a marionette, are situations all too real. We watch the fictional character, scientiS1 said is taken as real to the dolphins, They are taken out into the ocean on The issue of the dolphin is not remote Henry Seville, estabfish means of commu they can neither lie, nor deal with the a demoUtion mission. Harnessed with enough to offset certain qualities which nication with his dolphin, Ivan, who was hypothetical situation "if." Fa and Bi mines, they are sent to destroy an are real. raised in captivity. relate their feelings about man, that enemy ship (which turns out to be they love men and the land they live American: a plot by the military in This book is a chiller! For every meta Sevilla teaches Ivan to use a small voca one. which the sacrifice of two hundred physical marvel evoked at the thought of bulary of about forty words. At first, American. ~sailors aboard the vessel, the intellectual dolphin, the author m~tch progress is rapid, but then two obsta Fa and Bi recound how once, their IM>Uid be used to cause sufficient re es. up one grave doubt'as for the people cles present themselves, as deterrents ancestors lived on the land, and loved action again~t the communists, blaming of America (or the world, on implication) to Ivan's development of the competent it. Terrible creatures came along, who it on Red China, and starting World to comprehend the meaning of communi use of language. Firstly, he cannot pro tried to conquer the dolphin, and drove War Three, simply dropping a bomb on cation with another species, without nounce more than one syllable in any translating it into power. Black Mountain College by Rog~r A. Wicker Mark Hopkins' hoary chestnut about a teacher and a minumu requirement of all academic logs, a pre~ no fraternities or sororities, no imposed rules and a student on a log constituting the ideal college has sident, a dean of the college, a dean of men and regulations, no required courses and no football never gained much academic ground in American women, and a registrar, all of whom are more or team or organized intercollegiate sports of any higher education. And while his idea has been al less subject to a board of trustees or regents. u kind. (One year the students squandered $12.80 ternately embraced and discredited,it has a lasting Rice and his assodates sought to eliminate as many on homemade athletic gear in the college gymna value, as shown by the number of small, experimen of those "impediments that ordinarily stand be sium.) And this was in 1933, three decades be tal colleges that have tried his approach, including tween the teacher and the student," as possible. fore the free university idea evolved from student Mark Hopkins College in Brattleboro, Vermont, unrest at Berkeley and New York University, three and the now defunct Black Mountain College. And to that end, Black Mountain College had no decades before student-faculty dialogue gained non-teaching presidents, no trustees, no deans, the fashionable position now prevalent in some Black Mountain College, just outside the present day town of Black Mountain in Western North Carolina, roughly 20 miles from Asheville, was an ...... attempt, from 1933 to 1956, to put into. living ~,1;,- .;_.:__:;., •• :.: _ ;_.:_- __ ..:;:::_:_ -=-:_,._;__·--- terms the philosophy of Mark Hopkins and BMC's principal founder, John Andrew Rice, a Rhodes scholar, was a graduate of Tulane Vniversity and -·---~--- ~ -= --~---.. -'='---==---~- ,___...!'~~------·· - a genuine American educational rebel. His out - -- ~~~:·,:;:::;.··:-:--.. ;·-- -~~-r-- . ,, ._· spoken ideas arnounted to a rebellion against the raccoon coat American colleges of the Coca Cola era of the 20's and 30's, Generally speaking, American higher education then was centered around the German university ideal --that is, in Rice's words, "stuffing the head full of facts," but not possessing self-knowledge. The European 'tradition stressed the intellect and emotional development was neglected. The business of helping students develop insight into how to live in and cope with their world, and the rrake their education relevant to the condition of existence was not thought worthy of the attention of the universities. Rice and the founders of 131ack Mountain College were seeking a balance between emotion and in tellect. Seeking intelligence,by which Rice meant "a subtle balance between the intellect and the emotions." A close friend of John Dewey. Rice had taught at several colleges before BMC, and he said in his autobiography that most of them were glad to see him go. He sought an ideal that would embrace the search for intelligence and the Mark Hopkins notion of what constituted a good and thorough educational base. At Black Mountain, Rice gathered around him nine close associates from Rollins College In Winter Park, Florida, and elsewhere and nineteen students. Rice had been fired from Rqllins by the then Pre sident, Hamilton Holt, on charges that now seem to have been inflated, and from a distance seem esoteric and purely "technical," but such is the stuff of which academic infighting is often made. Rice described the fight at Rollins as a "liberal college in an illiberal town, with the inevitable conflict when the college has to decide not to be liberal," so as to avoid offense to the college's donors. Ptofessor Rice left Rollins and several faculty friends from there followed him, some from sym pathy with his cause and others because they had been fired for supporting him, despite an American Association of University Professors' report that upheld Rice's position. But they were willing to take on the adventuresome chore of founding a new college, in every sense of the word, in the advent years of the Depression. Thus it was that Rice and the Rollins professors ended up at Black Mountain at the suggestion of Robert Wunsch, former drama instructor in the Asheville City The Studies Building Schools and later faculty merrber at Rollins and 1940 BMC . . Everyone worked at Black Mountain College B~ilding uti the shores of L!:ke Eden at the new because they were totally involved with the con campus was shared by students .and faculty, male Explaining to a friend in 1933, what he was seek tinued existence of the College. Unlike most col an.:~ female. Even the diffing of the foundation ing by the founding of a college of an untried leges, even today, the students at BMC had a trenches. Women were aUow~d to work wherever concept, Rice said, "Now lookat Mark Hopkins' vested interest in keeping the college functioning. they felt the could handle the job, and there were log. Between the teacher and the student sit as The heavy construction work on the Studies almost no shirkers. · American colleges and universities. working jointly with the other elements of the 7 college setup and processes is, in actua.lity, indirect 1n the absence of deans, presidents and trustees, sociology - sociology grounded in artistic values, Rice and the college's founders turned to the idea which are positive and eternally active in their of participatory democracy, where everyone has objection to incongruity." a say about the things, rules and forces that govern his life for the administration of the college. Drawing classes under Albers were not just drawing Black Mountain was governed entirely by the mem classes. Albers realized for example, that student bers of the college community, students and faculty So-and-So was a timid young person, a victim of included. More specifically, a board of six faculty all sorts of fears, a product of contemporary fa members and the chief student officer elected by mily and social conditions and trends. Albers the students as their policy-making voice on the helped the student in subtle ways, part of his college's board of fellows, as the gover~ing faculty teaching technique. He helped him overcome the group was called, administered the affa1rs of the feeling of fear and uncertainty when faced by college. Each year the faculty would elect an ~d Johnathan Williams came to Black Moun a huge sheet of black drawing paper- the student ministrative head called the Rector. The post In tain as a student and later founded his drew a line., Albers was there, watching, helping, volved being primarily the titular head of the c~l own private press in Highlands to publish encouraging and ]oking with him. A few months lege, functioning much as a present day academic avant-garde poets and novelists. Williams of Albers attention and the student begins to . dean. Other student officers included four repre is a representative of the shift in empha· draw fairly well, the timidity is gone and he gra sentatives who met weekly with the board of sis to the literary arts after the Albers dually becomes a new person. fellows. left. By 1936, the college had established a solid re And not so long ago, Fred Hechinger of the the putation in academic circles. But in spite of this New York Times blandly asserted that "student From the beginning of the college, Rice and his it remained obscure to the general public. And power" as a viable student demand upon the associates decided that art would be .the center in 1937, with the help of financial'backers, the faculty and administration of a c~lleg_e was u_n of the college's attention, partially because art college purchased a tract of land across the valley, feasible beacuse a college population 1s trans1ent, was felt by them to be a reflective process. The a summer resort on Lake Eden,- now"CampRock. with four year turnovers. Yet Black Mountai~ was mont for Boys. Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer student must think about what he is going to do, already there in 1933, and the Blac~ Mountameers do it, and then reflect on what he has done. At the were commissioned to design a building complex had a plan for coping with the trans1ent nature of for the Black Mountain campus, but financial time of the college's founding in the rented Lee the student body. It was simply that at least half of difficulties caused these plans never to be carried Hall of Blue Ridge Assembly, owned by the YMC~, the student body for every new academic year was out. Architectural models and photograph~ of a uniquely creative tearher was growing uneasy to consist of former students, as control group and the models were as far as the Gropius-Breuer design a over the growth of Nazism .in his native Germany. to initiate the newcomers into the spitit of the could go. college and its unique participatory democracy. Josef Albers, later one of the fathers of abstract An alternate plan, utilizing student and faculty The same rule of thumb was applied to faculty labor, was decided upon. Architect A. Lawrence expressionism in American art, w~s a f~culty me.m selection. ber at the Bauhaus in Dessau, wh1ch H1tler ordered Kocher, a former editor of Ji[chiNkt!!fJ!L~cor.d,. designed a complex of buildings for a self-contained closed as "degenerate and Communist." Albers !n the college's application of democracy, there college plant. And in 1941, the first of the three was seeking a way out of Germany, chafing under were at first and for many years after, no votes Hitler's regime. Through the Metropolitan Museum proposed buildings was completed. Students and on matters concerning the entire college. The faculty alike dug the foundations, mixed the con take~ of Art, he was persuaded to come to Black Moun board nf fellows and the student representatives crete and hauled the rock for the foundation walls. tain after Rice had heard of him quite by chance. met and discussed the problems facing the col leg~ Under the supervision of Richard Gothe, a German Rice acted on the hunch that Albers was the man and in cases of vital importance, the entire college refugee· with European work camp experience, ~he faculty and students would discuss, hash andre the college needecl to put into effect hi~ ideas on the importance of art in general education. entire college community raised the walls of the1r hash the problem until a general consensus was new. Studies Building. ft had approximately 60 reached the theory being that voting would have Albers came to Black Mountain, speaking little individual study rooms for students and faculty divided 'the community into disgruntled minorities on three levels, and a large faculty rreeting room was English, vvith his wife Anni, ~ noted text~le de and arrogant majorities. Necessarily, group functions called the KochP.r Room, in honor of the building's signer and weaver. He fitted m so well w~th the of this nature precluded a large student bodX. The Black Mountain scheme that he stayed and taught designer. The Studies Building, now in disrepair, college was kept small (about 100 studen_ts) In from 1933 to 1949, turning down several offers was the only one of the Kocher designed group tentionally to avoid the faceless~ess and Imperson that was completed. Actually, it was occupied from more affluent colleges that were able to pay ality of large student.bodies, and to make a more before it was completely finished, and it never whatever salary he might have wished. But he was cohesive community life. Smaller groups, as a gen primarily a teacher, and the Black_ Mountain set really was finished according to the plans, but it eral rule are more flexible and hence more dynamic, was used nevertheless. up was ideal for his ideas of teachmg art, color and and the founders of BMC realized this. Their em "Werklehre" (work with materials and forms). phasis was not on turning ·out vast nu m?ers of_ Robert S' Moore, Jr., writing a catalogue forward During the second world war, anti-German feeling Black Mountaineers, but rather on helpmg the1r for an exhibit of Black Mountain artists at East was responsible for renaming the materials and students achieve a maturity of emotion and Tennessee State University in 1966, said the "move form class in English. intellect. And this was most easily done in a small (across the valley), which was the college's imme college. Years ahead of the protests of the Be~- diate salvation brought with it new problems, A visit to an Albers Werklehre class was described I • I keley activists, years before Clark Kerr enunct~ted and was ultimately another factor m the colleges in 1938 by journalist Louis Adamic, in his M.Y. the concept of the multiversity, Black ~ounta_m was decline." For the 700-acre tract destroyed the America where he said, at first "the work that he seeking to avoid mass education, stressmg the Im closeness of the community. The former unity of do there looks ridiculous ... They portance of the individual's development. · ;-ndhT;-~udents one building was destroyed when the college oc take, say, a piece of yellow cloth, and a lady'? cupied the several Lake Eden resort buildings. The slipper, or some such seemingly irrelevant _or In There were no formal graduation requirements Studies Building contained only rooms for classes, congruous group of articles, then work With them, for BMC and the college for several years pur studies and very little social contact, whereas together and individually, trying to ~rrange them so posely did not seek accreditation. ~he c_u~r~culum everything was carried on in the old Lee Hall, in that each thing enhances the form, Ime, texture and cluding eating and sleeping. was divided into the junior and sentor d1v1s1on. color values of each of the others, and' helps to When, after approximately two years of general tie them all together into a well-proportioned, har - studies in the junior division, a student felt ready The resort buildings and their maintenance, the monious, effective picture. to concentrate on a major field of study, here roads the increased college farm, all required quested an oral and written examination designed extra 'time and effort taken from studies by both "It is, in fact, important training in see.ing things, by the entire faculty. . . faculty and students. Worl War II brought yet in discrimination, in taste, in acquiring a sense of another phase of development and problems to For graduation,a student not1f1ed the Recto~ form, line, color, porortion and in handling ma when he felt ready to leave the college .. Out~1de the college. Much of the student body was drafted terialc: . . examiners were called in from Colum.bla ~m "It is also an indirect aid to the students 1n gettmg or volunteered for army duty. The college became, versi.ty,the University of Chicago, Un1vers1ty of to know themselves and one another, for there practically, a girls' school, and enrollment dropped . North Carolina, Tulane, Harvard, and most of are inner reasons why I want to place this bottle sharply. To counter this, the college initiated a the Ivy colleges. These e~amin~rs were scholars here and you there. It is action. Things happen in series of summer institutes in the arts and music preeminent in their particular f1elds. And they that class; things that can be seen, touched, changed. which proved an enormous success. Visiting artists all expressed surprise at the br.eadt~ and scope analyzed, reflected upon." Adamic commented such as Willen de Kooning, Ben Shahn, Franz of the knowledge of Black Mounta1~ students that after several months of this sort of art work, Kline and Jean Charlot provided an inportant they examined. Not being ~n accred1ted sc~o~l, the student, when home from college in the st,Jmmer stimulus to the college. Charlot, an important Black Mountain made spec1e11 arrangeme~ts w1th or on vacation, is able to see in his hometown the figure in the Mexican art movement, was a summer Columbia, the Un;versity of North Carolma, the same incongruities, not only its architectural, but - teacher at BMC in 1944, and he painted two fres- University of Chicago and a few _others for Black if he is a successful Black Mountain student- also Mountain graduates to enterthelr graduate de-. its social and spiritual incongruities and disharmo continued on page 10 • partments, despite their lack of formal credentials. nies. "Thus, art instruction at Black Mountain, STUDENT 8 EDII DRIAL SENATE Events at the Senate Meeting of September 15th were as follows The recent dispute with Student Senate concern ing the status of the Observer budget has made --Mr. Roberts, of Slater Food Service, defended it clear that some action must be taken imrre the quality and variety of Dining Commons diately to prevent the possible demise of a free food. student press at Bard. The issue concerns two points - the structural independence and the fi -- Jeff Rr.phaelson announced that a Food Com nancial independence of the Observer from both mittee will· be elected from HPC to help plan student government and Administration. the Slater menue First, the Observer m.JSt become a structurally · --Mr. Rr,phaelson also pointed out that the recent independent student organization. At present outbreak of virus seems to have stemmed from the Observer is incorporated, which . leaves the a power breakdown recently, which affected the members of its staff financially liable for its Red Hook area. Red Hook reports virus out debts. Second, the method of financing must be breaks, too. brought up to date. Submitting a budget to the Budget Committee· has been shown to lead to --Mr. Roberts reported, back in the food depart editorial control by Student Senate. An indepen ment, that he throws out more food every day dent billing system must be established to insure than is consumed. the continued availability of funds for the campus newspaper, without risking editorial control via -Results of the Budget Committee election were economic sanctions. Ideally, such a system would announced. Elected were Charlie Johnson, incorporate some means to audit the Observer's 3ruce Warshavsky and Mark Zuckerman. account to insure continued responsible service. Tt-e Red i3alloon and Sc,ndwich concession were Unfortunately, subscriptions cannot be sold on an awarded to Bruce Arnold. individual basis to students because of the size of the college. Six hundred students can support a newspaper only if ll¥!!.f.Y:Q..~ contributes. An independent press is a luxury which, if desired, has to be paid for. they felt the decision to be a close one, but liked the work, personality, and "teaching pro gram" of the second better. This letter is addressed to those at Bard who ,______in gqod conscience wish to rectify imbalances caused by past and present prejudice. I do feel that it is irresponsible to encourage black ap ·-- plicants and then try to be "color-blind" when • the decision to accept or reject is made. Letter to the Editor: highly qualified printmaker I know, who is also black, a man with many years of teaching ex The directive to open the college to qualified Earlier this spring, President Kline issued a di perience, a professionally exhibiting artist, a black instructors should be withdrawn if it is rective to all departments at Bard to the effect friendly, mature and considerate individual. He not to take priority; as a goal over a few points that a special effort should be made to mnsider visited the campus and was interviewed by the of merit one way or the other. If a black must qualified black applicants for new faculty ap·~ art department. I was, for som.. e reason, not in presume that the ~m!!_system for such decisions pointments or replacements. cluded in the group screening other applicants is to be used, and he knows that the college has for this job, nor in the final decision- making. no black faculty, why expect him to apply? Taking the directive seriously~ I felt encouraged The job was given to another, also qualified to recommend to the art department the most man, who is white_ The group conceded that Patricia de Gorgoza by Paul Cassidy (LNS) 9 "Easy Rider," directed by Dennis Hopper, starring Hopper, Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson, written by Fonda, Hopper and Terry Southernm produced by Peter Fonda. Columbia Pictures. Ever since Jason went chasing after the Golden Fleece, Daniel Boone hunted In dian scalps and "elbow room," and Tom WASHINGTON D·C; (LNS) -- Sunmoning Mexican government; once the mariiuana and Jerry floored their Corvette and fol the vast resources of the National Aero is discovered, the U.S. would then supply lowed Route 66 on Channel 4, adventures, nautics and Space Administration (NASA) benzydiethyl amino benzoate to spoil tourists, bums, poets and fugitives have torn and the Departments of State, Justice and the mariiuana. up their roo~s to "get away from it all" and the Treasu,.Y,the Nixon Administration find "answers"- to find themselves. is girding itself to fight the good fight. Benzydiethyl amino benzoate is a nausea It has announced the launching "Operatior inducing chemical. Frank Bartimo, head of Intercept" the nation's "liiJrgest search the Department of Defense drug abuse com and seizure operation by civil authorities." mittee, gleefully told Life Jllagazine all about it: What can Super-Government be up to? Will it round upthe Mafia and deport "Let's say we give some to the Mexicans. them to the moon? Sweep the skies free They find a marijuana grove and they The latest in this parade are pedant Peter from pollution? Stamp out VD? No. _spray it. The plant absorbs the compound. Fonda and giggly Dennis Hopper, looking Nixon is waging war on marijuana. People buy it and try to smoke it. Well, for America in the film "Easy Rider."They · you can guess what kinds of complaints push heroin in L.A., make enough money The Administration strategy involves a the dealers will~ be getting. Just the to buy jazzy motorcycles and cut their own two-pronged attack: increased controls smallest bit of the chemical toucjled to umbilical cords. Rewing up their bikes, they in the United State.s and pressure on the tongue and you really have to spit to head out on the Yellow Brick Road. Desti Mexico to place a program of eradication get rid of the bitter, bitter taste." nation: Mardi Gras, New Orleans, La., and and control of marijuana among its the East. highest priorities. The Life reporter pressed, "What really happens if you try to smoke it?" Hair blowing in the wind, spectacular The New York Times lists the proposed Southwest as their set, the Riders bathe improvements in control on this side of "I don't really know," said Bartimo. in pot, while the. screen vibrat~s fine the border: rock music and glorious techmcolor. --Pursuit planes and some motor torpedo U.S. officiats c~im that the main burden 1 prayed this hip travelogue would run boats will be used for the first time. of responsibility for stopping the flow ten hours. The romance of "1969:Hip --More observation planes will be added of marijuana into this country lies Odyssey" completely caught me up. to a strengthened border patrol. with Mexico. --The Bureau of Customs and the Bureau The problem begins when the riders ofNarcotics will get additional inspectors As an "inducement" to make Mexico find their ,.answers."As tourists right and investigators. live up to its obi igation to keep young along, they're attacked by the 'straight' --NASA is developing new gadgetry to Americans pure, the U.S. will declare world of "crackers, rednecks, pigs,etc." track down the evil vveed -- it is working Tijuana off-limits to military personnel. and welcomed by the ,outcast' world on a remote sensor devic~ capable of of communal hippres, whores, an in· detecting the presence of marijuana from "The effect on the local economy would tellectual, self-sufficient rancher, and, ~:~lanes flying over fields in inaccessible be substantial" states the study group by implication, by blacks. mountainous areas. report. adding that the U.S. should put other border towns, indcluding Juarez The vulgar white rural poor are depicted The study group for "Operation Intercept" and Nogales, under the same restriction as the source of violence; they represent suggested i.n an unpublished report that if the Mexican government doesn't toe the "system" the marketplace where the U.S. provide the sensor device to the the line in eradicating the marijuana everyone's greedy after a piece of the traffic. · "pie." envious and paranoid. Hold down a "straight" job and you take orders from a boss, stop sign, or IBM card;·you become repressed. Wear a crewcut and watch Lawrence Welk. But outside the "system," either phy. sically, (communes, ghettos, or the CALL underworld) or spiritually (drug, al cohol, or "mind game" worlds) people are open to each other's feelings, tole rant and capable of intimacy without. issued a blush. "Capitalists generally act harmoniously, WASHINGTON (LNS) --The Vietnam and in concert, to fleece the people." Moratorium Committee is calling for So the battle lines are drawn. Th¢ ·-Abraham Lincoln,1837 a periodic moratorium on "business "system" vs. the "free alternative."The as usual.'' beginning October 15, "in Riders are the Free, and we all know order that students, faculty members who are the bad guys. and concerned citizens can devote time and energy to the important work of So "Easy Rider" imagines itself to be taking the issue of peace in Vietnam a stunning protest against the brutal, to the larger community.'' The "Call/' flag-waving racist reactionary mentality signed by about 300 college student of George Wallace types. And an affir body presidents, is being organized by mation of gentle simplicity, a plea for ex-McCarthy campaigners. kindness, since the "outcasts" simply want to be left alone. And the reality is, if your hair is long, skin is black, or you use big words, watch out on the backroads of America! It's all so true you wish it weren't a fairy tale. But it is. "Easy Rider" is. About 40 or 50 years ago, William Z. 1111r Foster, (who joined the early Communis1 an alternative newsmedla project Party) went bumming West, also "look BENNINGTON'VT' (LNS) --Denise Lever (914) 758-8755 ing for America." His trip is "Pages tov, well-known poet and wife of Mitchell From a Worker's Life." Read his book Goodman, one of the defendants in the sometime and contrast it with "Easy Tile a-rnr Ill tU omc1a1 atudeut publleatknj of th• Bud Collep Colll!lllUIIty. Publl Spack trial, hit the graduating class at ..UO. Ill ftN1r7 n.ur.dq WI-llie ucb Hmnter, acept bolldq•, \O'IIeatltn.. ; .tc. Lettarll Rider," because Foster learned to see Bennington College this year with a com ., Cloe editor m...t be .--tnd b7 the lloadq p...... UUC pjJ!Ic.atlon I Box 7CI/ Campu• the main enemy, the main source of mencement address attacking the privileged llall. IIU...wd penou wilD ...Uh _..lltudoat llllbacrflltltlaa m!Q' write Tile Editor I ~ a..ner I ~Budoloo I N""' York /12504. The opinion• a:prw•lld violence and blook-sucking in that same and elitist place they had spend their last b.rela an .x MONAriJ)' tbo•• of Bud eon •. American South which "Easy Rider" four years. The girls took it well, their plays around with. It isn't the redneck parents took it well, and even the adminis george b. brewster I editor in chief ~ \ cracker-pig whose racism keeps him from tration seemed pleased. But it was no sur "U. 0 fighting the men responsible for his prise that the Bennington Alumni magazine, til f anita scnee I layout editor \~r:,\ thin wallet, his lousy job and his slipshod which customarily prints each years' com thorn mount I managing editor . ~If...~ \j...,o education. It's the big landowner, the mencement speech, had declined to publich . lorenzo black I photo editor ~,"<. ~oO. big banker, the factory boss, and the Miss Levertov's. The editor claims "reasons john katzenbach I editorial columnist Dixiecrat politician. of space." luther douglas I circulation manager They use that one for genocide, toq.don't wayne robins, mike roddy, marion they? swerdlow I writers 10 BLACK MOunTaiN cont'd. from p.7 and the Mexican art movement is captured in distinguished from the rest by Ginsberg because the massive, blunt figures. Other American artists "he doesn't say anything EXcept what he absolutely received valuable training while at Black Mountain, knows-- simple-- like on a basic, simple level, very among them Kenneth Noland and Robert Rausch short, epigrammatic, elliptical, like --" enberg. I went out. Through these summer institutes, the college be Got a beer. came a new center of American art and music, Ran into a milk truck, with composers such as ERnst Krenek, Stefan by God, Wolpe and Lou Harrison. 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