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Eastern Illinois University The Keep The Post Amerikan (1972-2004) The Post Amerikan Project 2-1974 Volume 2, Number 10 Post Amerikan Follow this and additional works at: https://thekeep.eiu.edu/post_amerikan Part of the Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication Commons, Journalism Studies Commons, Publishing Commons, and the Social Influence and oliticalP Communication Commons 00·· · rsr .... 2 Table The Post The following statement--with altera tions, appears in the Post- Amerika,.n of every issue. If you' ve read it before, ' please don ' t skip over t he entire POST SEl.LERS thing , cau·se we have written down Contents meeting times f or the next issue. We Bloomington need new people to come to meetings . The Joint, 415 N. Main So if you don' t want to read the Local DA's Liquors, Oakland and Mai n whole thing , slide down t o t he l i s t of meet ing times and commit them to 'Vi dette ••• • •• • ••• • ••••••• • •••• ) Medusa' s Book Store, 109 W. Front memory. Thank you. Gen Tel Besponds • ••••••••••••• 8~~ Maple Grove Tr ading Co ., JlOt N. Main Police Offer Too .Late ••••••••• 10 The Post- Ame r ikan is a newspaper of Space Head Notea • ••• • ••••••••• 11 News Nook, 402! N. Main uncert ai n .origin and unidentifiable Maurice Stans and Local Soys •• 14&15 management catering to t he r adical or Book Hive, lOJ w. Fr ont hip communi ty. At l east tHat 'a what The Cake Box, 511 s . Denver the Pantagraph says. National Gaston 's Barber Shop, 202t N. Center The Pos t s erves as a medium of ex Gerald Pord ••••••••••••.•••••• 6 Lord Nel son' s , Main and J efferson pression for a segment of society Farah Pant Strike ••••••• • ••••• ? Playback, Coloni2l Pl aza, 1500 E. Empire known as the countercultur e and the On t he Rocks ••••• • •••••••••••• 11 movement . Within this broad s pec Alt ernative News Briefs ••••••• 12&13 Pier I , Colonial PL · ~a , 1500 E. Empire t r um exist widely differing opinions Mor e Briefs •• • •••••••••••••••• 16 and world views. We intend t o print US Oil Companies in Arab Embargo ••• 19 U-I Mart 608 Lee St all of them , with only two exceptions1 Mc Donald's Waste ••••••• • •••• • 2J Peifer•s Market 919 N. Madlaon St we will not print anything r acist or sexist. The Post is not published in Feat ure De Vary 'a 1402 w. Ma rket St accordance with a well- devel oped Harr is Mar ket Morris ATe . political theory with the aim of Almonds, CAncer, & the FOA•••• 17 propagendizing its readers into Cr osswor d Puzzle •••••••••••••• 18 Somepl ace Elae JOO E. Washin~ton stricter adherence t o that theory . Legal Str eet Sheet ••• • •••••••• 19 Record Reviews •••••••••••••• •• 20 Decisions are made collectively by The Whole Unive r se • • • ••••••••• 23 Post- Amerikan workers at almost week Normal ly meetings which wilr be scheduled in the paper every issue, like this1 Lobby Shop , !SU Union Wed . Jan. 23 at 8pm Apple Tr ee, 117 E. Beaufor t Tues. Jan. 29 at 4pm Student Stores, 115 North St. Fri. Feb. 1 at 8pm Sat. Feb. 8 at )pm Mo ther Murphy ' s , l l lt Nort h St. Caboose Records, 101 North St. These meetings are at the Post- Ameri Minstrel Record Parlor, Jll s. Main kan office, 114! North St . in Normal, Ram , 101 Broadway Mall 452- 9221. Everybody inter ested in working on the paper in any way Al's Pi pe Shop, 101 Broadway Ma-11 should come. We need peopl e . Omega , l l l Beaufort The Rack, 106 Beaufort We also have office hours. Someone should be in the off ice between 11 Hendren' s Grocery, JOl ~ . Willow and 2, JIWF 1 11- 4 T, Th , and 7- 9 on Wed. and Thur s . evenings. Stop on by anyti me . - Send all news articles , book and re . cord reviews , how-to- do- it ar ticles, information, commentary, ANYTHING, t o the office. This includes . letters to the editor, which we welcome, even though we don ' t have an editor. Subscripti ons cost $1.50 for ten issues, $J for twenty, etc. Buy one for yoursel f and a f r iend. You can make bread hawking the Post-- 7!¢ a copy , except you only make 5¢ a copy on the first fifty papers. Call 452- 9221, 828- 7026 , 827- 6309 , or stop by the office. "1tte•era§eAmerlcan b lilla thechnfkdl un thef8hily-You.give.himaome~e3~i!W'nfy GndlhJei:J&aif\f!of.O~of@S@ . 'hinsJ!0 <.:. f':.> VIDETTE-.CAUGHT WITH DIRTY HANDS (Can it"clean them?} vious editor Carole Halicki's ac~ quiring of a public relations job What Next? With th~changing of editorial guard thanks to•friends in h.,i.gh pla~s." The Vidette has committed some at ISU's student-run newspaper, facts (Halicki's ~uote to . one~ reporter.) hav~ emerged concerning' some question jou.rnalistic atrocities i n the able practices of the past! past year and there's no reason Colburn, according to News and Publi to believe they won't continue doing Under the one-year Vidette editorship cations head Richard Godfrey, in his the same. Fledgling editor Pierce, of student Jim Baumann ·(replaced in brief career had been·'"brought here to ·while hopefully' not having to contend January by Greg Pierce) the paper · .control the Vidette and woul d have with the Berlo corruption machine, has revealed strong and conflicting controlled it but for his sudden re wil l still have the difficult task of ties with a segment of the University signation." (Said sudden resignation putting out an honest paper that is administration. Through a tumultuous followed on t he heels of Berlo's sud watched and purse-controlled by high year the paper was steered with a den resignation. ) According to Godfrey , er ups with ma.nY "friends of the single-minded set of loyal ties that Colburn was responsible for the re University." has been known ~o smash facts in · its ·Placement of an innocuous "Hot-Line" sway. tape in place of a straight story on Pierce, in the past, has indicated the· house that Godfrey had prepared that the Vidette should get into some In the interest ot cleaner journalism, . for dissemination in the midst of the decent investigative reporting. Let's this article will look at some of controversy. hope his new position and the high those loyalties. pressures won't keep him from remem• So much for the ethics of Baumann 's bering that dream or force him to re prospective employer and ISU ' s past vise definitions of "decent report David· K. administration. ing" to tit the administration's dictionary. The final two issues ot the Vidette controlled by Baumann conta~n~d a ~wo- Other Influences · p-.rt "news ·analysis" on the much dis His predecessor has blown i t (and cussed David Berlo mansion. PUrporting But of course the Berlo brigands are good luck in future endeavors, Jiml ) to explain the facts behind the ex not the only ones .who have had influ Let's hope Pierce doesn't. I SU needs un1 versity president's questionable ence over Baumann•s Vidette. News and a student newspaper. building plans, the article referred . Pub. head Godfrey htmself hasn't been •· · to memos it said were presented to a lily white transluecent. -- Denny Colt the committee of state senators and representatives investigating the As reported in these pages earlier, residence (henceforth referred to as Godfrey was instrumental in scaring the Juckett committee). the paper into a retractio.n for a column ·about landlord Vic Armstrong, Some of the memos don't exist. labelled a "slumlord" by a strong set of .implications in the article. Referring to a garage that was being built contrary to funding capabiU In a phone conversation reported, in tie&, for instance, the article as part, two issues ago, Godfrey receiv signs blame for the•supervisory ed and acted upon the words of a cal blunder" to Keith Scott. "He was ler who turns out to have been former presented .with a request to build a ISU attorney Bob Lenz. The call, which concrete slab, .. the article~wri ter . impelled Godfrey to eventually call a stated in an interesting instance Vf dette staff meetifig and present them ot ·cont'-leing passive voice, .(.How .was · w th . • · ~ibel panic, had been made by he pi<ejent~d with this request~ By . Lenz "as 'a friend of the University whom? How was this request worded?) because of his past employment." ·. " ••• and to put footings under it to '.( God.fr~y • s words.) save the cost of ripping it up later if a garage was added." Lenz, Godfrey says, had !121 been act PEOPLE'S FOOD· ing as an attorney and had, in fact,. If su.ch a ~equest .exists in writing, declined t o take the case from Arm MEETING the Jucke~t committee never saw it. ~strong--whether from loyalty to the Its existence is as mysteriously am~ University or from reali zation of the People s • Food is going into its biguous as the sentence that refers difficulty in generally proving libel third year and is about ready t o isn~t clear. · · 'f1;.o it. move into the old Beehive. Let' s have a meeting so we can muster What i s interesting is the image of ·up some energy to open the new More Problems a landlord accused of being a slum Peoples• Food Center. lord calling Lenz, 'a lawyer who is ·The.-·news analysis" has a further also a landlord, and lawyer/l andlord more basic .problem in reliance on With food prices in the stores Lenz subsequently calling the Uni bordering on ridiculous, we've those memos that actually do exist.