OBSERVER Vol. 13 No. 22 November 18, 1970
Cover Page [Drawing] Back Page Bucky Bug’s Conjecture Dan O’Neill Page 1 [“The Jefferson Airplane played at the Capitol Theater in Portchester on Friday . . .”] Dana Ahlgren Classiscene Sol Louis Siegel Editorial Geof Cahoon Page 2 Ad Hoc Access Geof Cahoon Letters [“ . . . Thank you for giving my name the Archangelic flourish of M; . . .”] Carl M. Black [“If changes are to be made, . . . Let the students decide.”] Jeffrey Raphaelson Student Judiciary Board Page 3 I Am The Black Flute Lydia Ayers [Photograph] Zachary Bregman If . . . Larry Gross Page 4 Senior Projects Rock Screws Women RAT/LNS Page 6 It’s The Amazing Newshow And Be Sure Not To Miss . . . Page 7 Book Review: You Read It Here First! M. I. Bresler editcrial on page one
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HE HE 'Ble~'l 'Ble~'l The Jefferson Airplane played at the Added to all this came the worst part for Capital Theater in Portchester on Friday both of us: never had we seen so many night. their first N.Y. appearance this stoned-out kids flat on their backs season. I can't praise the Airplane drugged to the gills, on every and ~ny enough; they area totally' new band kind of stimulant and hallueinogin imag from what they were 3,2 even 1 year inable. And this was no pretty sight. ago. The concert opened with a short Combining dawns with wine, with a editorial
The Educational Policies Committee of the Student Senate has decided to suspe11d for the time being the publication of the second half of their teacher evalustions after the disappemtment we·ve expenenced over the responseto last week's installment. We feel that our original reasons for printing the EPC recommendations have been lost in the emotional and academic repercussions in the com munity and that, until the issues have been clarified and settled, the immediate continuation of the remaining evaluations would only intlame and confuse an already out-of-control situation. EPC and the Editorial Board of the Observer believe in and support the set by what seemed to be a local West little speed to keep you going, then original reasons for printing these evaluations of public record, reasons chester group, called E Pluribus Unum, some grass or hash, a bit of acid or mes which were perhaps inadequately presented and certainly widely misunder featuring a temale lead singer who at caline, or maybe even some psilocybin stood. tempted to combine the vocal skills of pius a touch of junk for good measure. Janis and Grace but resulted in sounding And this is no exaggeration - acquaint 1. That EPC is accountable to the student body. Students electedrep embarrassingly plastic and forced. In ances of mine in the area confirmed our fact, the whole band, their sound and impressions. There's a crazy thirst for resentatives to conduct and prepare comprehensive evaluations and they their presence, were so obnoxious, both anything that will get you off, the have a right to know what is presented in their name. Lis and I had to leave. weirder the combination, the better. All we saw as a result were a lot of dullw 2. That wide, immediate, and accurate knowledge of these results would It was at that point that we began to uncomprehending stares. It frightened balance the limited nature of the evaluations. EPC knows that their realize the character of the crowd in the me uniike anything l've felt in quite work does not cover all considerations. Students who felt that a particula1 Capital. Several months ago we went to some time. recommendation had overlooked, exaggerated, or underplayed aspects of see the Dead at the Capital, and although a teacher's work could contact the divisional evaluation committees, as, the atmosphere was far from ideal, it at In contrast to this morass-in which we in fact, they were advised to do at the beginning of last week's article, and least was much more loose and natural found ourselves, on stage the most beaut as they have done since last Wednesday. Many of the hearings were being than the Fillmore East. The kids were iful, most creative rock group of them loud and inconsiderate, it is true, but to all played for close to four hours. The held last week so the fastest and widest medium was chasen to relay infor a much lesser degree than in the City. Airplane's set opened with Jack Cassidy, mation: the Observer. We didn't want students to say later in the term: Besides, the Capitol is much smaller than the bassist, Jorma Kankonen, lead guitar "I didn't know." the Fillmore. But in the space of several and vocals, Marty Balin, vocals and tam months, the disposition of the rock bourine, and Joey Covington, drums, However, our motives upon impact were differently regarded. We have crowd has changed for the worse. appearing as Hot Tuna, the Airplane's been accused of fostering blocs of students against faculty,_ of intimidating off-shoot group. lf you're familiar with the divisional evaluation committees, ofi:hreateNng to-drag rational selee In the men's (?athroom, groups of kids Hot Tuna's first LP, released in July this tian into the streets, of splashing confidential and classified documents were huddled around toking on a joint; year, you know how inspired it is. Hot several narcotic agents regularly patrol Tuna has expanded since the release of across our pages, of playing one teacher against another, of publicly humil the rest of the theater, now, anda num that album, and the additions to the iating human beings in a race for power and vengeance. ber of busts for possession happened group are Papa John, an ancient, skinny, just last week there. In one of the toilet black, electric violinist who puts more We desire only to keep EPC open, honest, and responsible and to ensure stalls two junkies were shooting up, in humor and feeling into one lick than l've that the greatest range of student opinion is available for the divisional full view of everyone else. Despite their heard out of any prominent rock musi evaluation committees' deliberations. bravado, all I could sense in the hall was cian in a long time, and Will Scarlet, a an underlying sense of paranoia and fear remarkably expressive and fluent harp lntimidation, threat, or manipulation is NOT our intent. EPC documents to make matters worse, 2 uniformed, man from the Bay Area. In all, Hot are public record according to the student constitution. The teachers wen old, short-haired policemen patrolled the Tuna cooked for about 2 hours, 6 of the ranked according to numerical score because their results are not absolute aisles of the theater with flashlights, best musicians in 1970 rock, playing but relative. shoving kids back into their seats, order with the dedication and the intensity ing them to put out their cigarettes and that usually characterizes the best per generally creating a most unhealthy feel formances of the vanguard jazz scene. We are aware that publication of their evaluations d id embarrass and hurt ing. some professors. We do not take this lightly. lndeed, this was an impor to page seven tant factor in our decision to stay further publication until our principles were further expiained and explored. But we d id not teel then that one version be given to committees and another to students.
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In America, at Ieast, "classical" music is Who runs American orchestras today? Erich Leinsdorf left the Boston Symphon· ty seven years, and they expect the reper in trouble. The older audiences die off According to Elliot Fleishman, director y because his board simply overworked tory to wear just as welt. To them, the and the kids don't seem to give a damn. of CBS Masterworks in Europe, writing him. The Philadelphia board has always Philadelphiaisa house orchestra, which There isn't a single musieal institution in High Fidelity, January, 1970, "the wanted Ormandy to conduct an inhuman in their mind's eye plays in their Main in the United States that runs on a pro U.S.A. is the only country in the world ly large pereentage of the orchestra's con Line drawing rooms once a week. You fit. (The Philadelphia Orchestra is con today where the fortunes of most sym certs. This is only the beginning of the wouldn't want anything new there, sidered well-off with an annual deficit phony orchestras depend on the gener list of things that lay boards do to Amer would you?" The ladies are perfectly of $150,000.) Classical record sales are osity, the wisdom, the enthusiasm, in ican orchestras. content to stick with Beethoven, Brahms, increasing numerically, but their per deed the musieal tastes and policies of Another big factor is the lack of new Mozart, etc. eentage of the total market has shrunk bankers, oilmen, meat packers, mer repertory, or the supposed lack of it. to the vanishing point - 2% at last count. chants, and housewives. Which immedi Actually; th ere is a good d eal of new So are the record companies, and this is ately ... makes one ask whether musicians "serious" music being written, but very important, because far more people are What is wrong? Weil, I could take up a should be entrusted with the running of little of it is catching on; that is, not · acquainted with music through record whole Observer outlining the problems banks, oil corporations, meat-packing many of these pieces are played by an ings than through concerts. The big today's orchestras face, but it would companies, department stores, and even orchestra more than once. Also, a lot of producers of cl&ssical recordings in make for a rather boring Observer, so households ... There isa more acute need people don't like this new music. (Orman America put out countless recordings of I'li try to give you a general id ea. than ever for the highest professional dy's recent performances in Philadelphia things like the Beethoven Fifth (the skill and imagination in the management and New York of Krzystof Penderecki's latest Schwann Catalogue lists 32 differ First, ours is the only nation that does of the orchestras' affairs. Can this pro experimental Slavonic Mass were accom ent versions of that), all ai med for a not subsidize its orchestras. It the fed fessional skill be supplied by the present panied by noisy departures by members classical market that is dying out. What ~as happened to the generation of mu era! government wo.uld grant its orches type of orchestrai board, eminent people of the audience, hisses, catcalls, and tras and opera companies and ballet but mo~~_ of them chiefly engaged in threats to cancel subscriptions.) What's sic lovers that should have followed? groups mon ey, as does every other gov commerelaiand industrial pursuits? The worse is that a lot of those people hold ernment of a nation that has orchestras, answer must be an unqualified 'no!~ " James Goodfriend wrote in Stereo Re opera companies, and ballet groups, the purse-strings for the orchestras. As view that "today's dying classical market Emily Coleman put it (also in the Janu music in America would be a lot better The trouble with these boards is, while is what it is because no one attempted off. And orchestras need all the solid ary, 1970 issue of High Fidelity), "In to instill a love for classical music fifteen th ey ca n get mon ey, th ey can't d eal with Boston, the wealthy ladies wear hats to arity they can get in these days of musicians. Stokowski left the Philadel years ago in the then impressionable 52-week seasons, spiralling labor costs, the fashionable matinees. In Philadel phia Orchestra because he couldn't get phia, they wear hair nets and tweed and a shortage of orchestrai musicians. to page seven along with the president Öf the board. suits. They expect the suits to last twen- 2
an altemative newsmedia project I phone (914) 768-3666 The Observer is an independent student publication of the Bard College community. Publication is weekly, during the Bard Collega.academic year. Subscription rates are $6.00 per semester. Letters to the Editor and other 1nquiries Should be addressed to Box 76, First off- please read the editorial. You the Life of Tschaikovsky, catied Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 12504. may have noticed that we don't normally ''Tchaikovsky." It stars Richard Cham The contants of the Observer are copyri~t 1970 by The run editorials, when we do we feel it's berlin. ObservRr Press, Inc., uniess otherwise stated. The Obser· important. Next, Bobbi Grey, a member ver isa Member of the U. S. Student Press Association, of the Bard Board of Trustees, has asked The Museum of Modern Art, who has us an Associate Member of the Underground Press Syndi me to write about the "under 40" hon on theirmailinglist and sends cate, and subscribes to Liberatian us two News Service, and orary degree to be given in June. This copies of everything they print it seems, College Press Service. National advertisinq representa degree was instituted last year with its sends us news of the beginning of tive for the Observ• the is UP:; Act Rep. Co., Box 26, Vii. first recipiant being Julian Bond. She'd "What's Happening" series. lt's devoted Station, New York, N. Y. 10014. The opinions exp~ like suggestions from all segments of the to films on pressing social and political ed herein are not necessarily those of Bard College. population of Bard, she'd also like bio problems. The schedule can be seen geof cahoon I editor graphies and reasons why. The Alumni anytime the Observer office is open. david schardt I managing editor Association would also like some sug bruce warshavsky I copy editor gestions for their Honorary degree. I n One last thing - Radio Havana Cuba has addition mike apfelbaum /layout to this, she asked me to point announced the "Radio Havana Cuba's editor out that graduation is a student affair Tenth Anniversary Contest" with the john katzenbach I editor on leave and that she would Iike to see mare stu eight winners receiving All Expense with: nancy scott, susan aberman, marion swerdlow, dent involvement in it, which after all, Paid Trips to Cuba. The participants is a reasonable argument. must answer in 500 words or less the mike bresler, jackie, dana ahlgren, larry gross, sol question: "What is the significance of louis segal, lydia ayers, michael may, tia sutter Thought you'd like to see some of the Cuba's victory at Playa Giron to Latin real junk mail that comes in here. We've America." Entry blanks can be obtained graphics: mike bresler, marion swerdlow .received notice that United Artists has at the Observer office. just released a brand new movie about geof cahoon photos: zachary bregman EDITORIAL continued from page one This year's EPC evaluations are the most comprehensive and objective ever gathered at Bard. The committee members ran themselves ragged pre paring them. They labored long weeks, vigilant against any trace of bias c!7ld or carelessness, to produce recommendations based upon all and only Woc available student testimony. The community will have an opportunity to judge their accuracy and fairness when they are placed on reserve in the library. The publication of faculty evaluations, busy that only much student pressure by the EPC in last week's Observer, is could force them to abolish anything. A Finally, we would like to defend David Schardt, who has been the individ the origin of a thoroughly nasty business. senate that blithely announces its inten ual singled out for most of the resentment and bitterness. This has been lf any good result can be found it is only tian to violate the constitution because unjust. As a member of both EPC and the Observer he has naturally acted that the Educational Policies Committee "it's really too much hassle to change it. as liason and implemented only the decisions of both organizations. The has demonstrated its own uselessness. No one will really mind," a senate that entira Editorial Board stands behind its policy and it is the editor who is sees no inherent contradiction in the ultimately responsible for its contents. In mare than one case this year, the assignment of legislative powers to a EPC reconimendation had little or noth judicial body and which is indignant at Geof Cahoon ing to do with the actual report that a the slightest disagreement is not going to \ professor received from students. I n the abolish EPC. lndeed, I don't think case of Mr. Tieger, for example, inade Senate witt be found abolishing work or quate evidence was used to condemn duties for anyone except themselves, so him in EPC while the vast majority of loathe are the members of that body to students testifying in the Divisional taking responsibility. Committee supported him. Although EPC considered its verdict as difficult When the issues regarding the Black and to render, the verdict was ordered none Latin dormitory were raised, the Senate theless and the decision was quite dif· tookits stand without conducting STUDENT open ferent at the Divisional Committee level. meetings among the student body at large. Consequently, no one real ly knew The very act of publication raises several what was going on, and both the Black JUDICIARY issues. The Walter Committee document and Latin students and the general stu specifically states that all materials used dent body were screwed \ for it. This was Dear Sir: by the Evaluation Committees shall re because the Senate was too lazy to con BOARD main confidential and shall be shown to sult its constituents. In editing the CARL M. the faculty member concerned so that BLACK inter view, thank you for giving The S.J.B. was reinstated as a function he may gain from the criticisms. lf the my name the Now the question of co-ed dormitories Archangelic flourish of M; for Mystery ing organizational body by the student Walter Committee document, a joint . is to be raised. The Senate has directed and other beauteous wonders. senate with the election of 4 new mem student-faculty-administrative committ It was a the Student Judicial Board to conduct deliciaus bers last week. They include Rick ment, supercedes all other legislation, surprise, a homage. open hearings. (It would seem that Weinberg, Henry Jones, Julie Gelfand, then the EPC proeesses area part of the Senate, having learned to hold the hear Sincerely, Kurt Hill, and senate appointed chair Walter Committee deliberations, and the ings, stiil doesn't want to do the job it carl J. black man of S.J.B. Geoff Cahoon. The pur publication of those "confidential" self.) Pointed out to the senate that the pose of the board will be to make rulings materists is not only a matter of bad hearings are its own responsibility, not on the constitutionality of student sen taste~ but a violation of the good fai.th that ate decisions and to hear cases regarding of the Walter report. of the Judicial Board, the senate feels that SJB should be given something disciplinary action by the administration \ to do, even if that something is in via related to a student. Their powers de The continuance of EPC in operation, lf latian of constitutional function. Busy changes are to be made, if committees rive from the constitution. after the implementation of the Walter are to remain work is created, and committees that no in existence after they document, is somewhat analagous to the longer are useful are resurrected. serve their function with new functions They first dealt with the question of co situation had the Senior faculty contin (whether the new function is in vialatian ed housing in their first case, which they ued voting among themselves on tenure of the constitution or not), Iet the stu The Marcus administration student heard last night; cases may fatlow that and then handing its results to the Walter oi dents decide. A complete reorganization, government pledged itself at election witt include the "animal situation" and Committee for use as evidence. EPC has if not abolition of EPC is needed now the constitutionality time to be in favor of closer contact be of previaus decis become a busvwork committee. Little that the Walter document has passed. ions including tween itself and the student population blue laws (social regula thought has ~n wasted in the The judicial board must be re-examined last few at large. In a great burst of enthusiasm tions) and its own jurisdictional powers. years on the value of it, and now that it so as to determine whether or not its at the end of last term they outlined a is not really needed, no one has suggested· current matters of concern are constitu lf there are any complaints regarding great plan of action for senate. Now that it'might be wiseto disband the the tional. More than anything else, the rules and regulations, or difficulties con Marcus government seems bent on committee. I advance such a notian now. p~r Senate must be made to realize that eerning life styles of a conflicting nature, petuating, indeed, upon strengthening, The jo int cõmmittees of. the Walter doc they must abide by the constitution, the S.J.B. will hold an open session \ a bureaucratic system that feeds on the ument, with freely elected student repre not walk around it .. .lf they want to every Tuesday night in Aspinwall 304 energies of concerned students, draining sentation to the same propartions as change the constitution, fine. But no before the regular closed session hears a effort from the real concerns and desires EPC (two students per division), makes longer can we just ignore it. The Student case. of students and rechanneling that EPC's job obsolete. I say Abolish EPC. energy Senatahas broken good faith, not just into committee work. The committees with the faculty in the case of EPC but rise I ike Rube Goldberg machines i nw It is not so easy to abolish committees with the student body as a whole in re the sky, and the MarcLis as it once was. The ser:'late is very con Senata wants to gard to its own irresponsibility. give the judicial board a "little something eernad with visible government and With to do." keeping people other than themselves jeffrey raphaelsan
\ 'i am the blackflute' 3 "He better show up, he better show up pants with a bright green handkerchief, She sanganother song, "lf my body was "When the evening willow weeps, and soon, and he better be good," I thought and sauntered back, then came forth and a drum, and you tapped my skin, Got night comes tapping at my window, I at exactly quarter of eleven, last Thurs stuttered, "You walk ... You're walking my mind messeel up, baby ... " Her pout take three pills to make me sleep .•. You've day night while I was sitting in the Bard through an alley and for the first time ing expressian gently projected pain. been sleeping for a long time, baby, Theater waiting for Gylan Kain, the in your whole life ... you're walkin' wake up" she moaned for a finish. poet, to show up. He should have been through and you check Mickey Mouse there at 8:00, but due to unalterable and he say you got to go around and you Gylan regained the stage, squirmed circumstances, he was late. say 'Oh, Wow!: "he moaned "and there's tbrough "black bastard!" Screamed, a whole fuckin' lot of dogs and cats and stuttered, gesticulated, "I ain't black!" At eleven, somebody remarked, "They there's shit on the walls and you nine or He guitarred and twitched, using his belt should charge half price." The drummer ten ... Oue pasa? Oue pasa? he screamed. buckle for the hole in the guitar. His played with his spray-painted drums for "The circus is in town; the circus is in voice even squeaked up aod down like a a while, setting them up slowly. The town; and you never get out of town!" guitar, then accused, "You white lights dimmed and brightened and flick motherfuckerl" then whined, "I ain't ered. Some people tried to play with "Far be it from me to get into your white!" and twitched his pelvis, pounded the organ. thing," he taunted the audience again. his hands and jumped up and down like "l'm just on stage with a light. We're a puppet_in a tantrum. Gylan strode on stage and acted like he reaching total theater where nobody lis was afraid to apologize. "l've been late, tens to anybody ." "Anyway," he sighed, "llove you chil but not for a gig. Not Iike this. But dren out there, but I got some nasty we're here now. And I asked about Performing a palpitating belly dance, he things to say. I don't know if you're your curfews because I saw so many up shrieked, "Open up your legs and scream, ready for it." Half the audience chanted, set faces. And l'm a very nasty mother Lucy!...Talkin' about the pitch black "Say it!" and someone said, "Don't say fucker and I have tostand up here and bitch from the green room!" Most of it." He froze into a statue and contemp apotogize. Weil, I hope we can get it to the people in the audience clapped quick lated it. "All right! All right!" gether -- y'all together? I mean, you're accents and yelled at the end of that one. all so beautiful to look at but I felt a "Janis Joplin," he screeched, crossing certain air of constipation. Weil, l'm "You know what organs are, man, they's himself, "Silly lookin' bitch ridin' on her here, motherfucker!" a bitch!" he quipped when the organist broomstick tryin' to get next to some had trouble with the organ. Then he magic ... Mother of the blues -- what the His body rocked to the accompaniment grinned a canary-swallowing.smile. hell was that?" as his hand twirled. AAAoww! He He playeda spiteful, angry, defiant Wolly Armstrong yelled a death scream. talking about a "Co- "Motherfuckers buyin' tickets to the puppetshow and don't even know they're 68 in it!" He conducted the drummer as he drew the circles with his arm. "My soul was on fire!" he kneaded the air Harlem was an idea with his hands. photo by Zachary Projecteel out of the skulls of pretentious gray matter Bregman lnstitutionalized make believe Lydia Ayers
Harlem was in fact a home for the mentally iil A graveyard of underground spooks Who momentarily transcended death by way of fucking themselves With a needie or a joint or a bottle Or lying themselves prostrate before some fabricated alter • ""UO!l:>aJJnS
Harlem is a bright-colared graveyard Where feeling good is being dead And getting high is dreams of things dead always "When are we going to live, that's what dents towards one another. These I want to know" - Maicom Mcdowell as scenes have a chilling intensity which is Harlem is that happy home Travis, in !f... heightened by the homosexual refer ences. The image where the wretched turned tricks for a vision of one of the whfps caressing his cane, the variaus bru~ities The dope is there, the In the last year or two Hollywood has church is there, the bar is there of the priest in Geometry class, these And riches in magical tried futHey to reach the vast "youth" credits have an accumulated weight which All in saran-wrapped market, with a number of films about is packaged lies very effective. Anderson's direction is To teil the blind "things are not as they seem" in Harlem student activists. These films, character ized by one cynical critic as "tear-gas marvelously controlled and the material romances", such as "Getting Straight", has a resonance, aided by the superb "Whan Bard College noted for?" The caine Lady with outstretched hand car "The Strawberry Statement" and"RPM" camerawork (by a Czech, Miroslav audience tittered. "Hmm. lwouldn't essing the white powder ... And the truth have reduced the complexity of our Ondricek). want to live here." "Hey, man, nothin' is God on a white horse living inside fast tonight .. l'm strokin' a woman. And contemporary situation, and have emas you ... Little Willy Armstrong-Janes danc culated But this clinical and rather cold artistry, I Iike to h<~ve a woman to talk to." the real force of student protest. fng on the edge of a knife ... " The bongo Basically those films are just Andy Hardy isn't right for the variaus attempts at drummer swayed back and forth. Gylan fl icks brought lyricism. That damned old equation be The flute drifted up and down while he superficially up to date. was smug. "But I don't worry," he The kids are sweet, tween motor-cycles and freedom is a told, "We make love in the burning tene lovable, and gentle, sniffed, "I don't worry about a damn and the authorities bit tired by now. At that stage, Ander ment and you scream ... l fall against your· are good too. With thing ... Have a little mercy and reach out love son is depressingly unoriginal. The sense back like a panther in heat." The and understanding all will be weil, flute for me ... " he beseeched, contorting of liberatian that we're supposed to teel softly caressed the etc., etc. room. "Pain-glass twice. He sent out waves of sound and doesn't really come off. The one excep woman I look into your face as into a waves of movement. Lindsay Andersons's tion is the beautiful slow motion shots of mirror, but you shatter as so much glass." !f isa daring effort in a different direction. Although Wallace on the high bar. That one scene "In the beginning," the organ and drums I don't consider it a complete success has more transcendance and beauty, "I am the black flute your vulgar lips re crashed, "was the word." He pulsated as a work of art, it has the sort of genuine than an hour of motorcycling around in fuse to play. I knock at your door ... and panted. "I am cloud, I am rain, I intensity, and integrity, green fields. Com e out; I am not F lash Gordon am tears of my sun, I grow into you." which makes nor most American efforts the silver chalis." He rowed with his body in this vein look across the water The mixture of realism and fantasy just of the stage. Screamed sick. "Wow!" doesn't make it, in my opinion. Ander His shirt stood Iike the tissue of a fuschia First of atl, the film does not approach son's hand is too heavy for scenes that lady His belt buckle reflected slipper, slashed in a V neck with silver patterns the problem of student discontent from are supposed to express anarchic free on the floor. the perspiration crying, buttoned with "And the child is the pain, a political point of view. True, posters dom. But the ending does work. I cry," his words It has two seeds. stroked the air. of Che and Mao are obliquely in evi a kind of lagieal inevitability. Anderson dence. But the heroes have no explicit doesn't cop out. In order to affirm "You are Gail Martin sang, not starvation's child, for your "l'm just a sanctified political consciousness. They revolting themselves the heroes must destroy; it woman spirit cup runneth over as love's river and the movin' crazy through my against a system which is inorganic, is this paradox which the film presents. fire engines fade bon e." The organ played with as we run into the mir and sterile, and lifeless. This psychological The time for "reason" is out the window. ror." The audience applauded. aga inst her voice. Sh e was relaxed, "That easy, rationale seems to me, to be a very per I think it is important to realize that the was polite of you," soft, gent le. he taunted. "l'm "Bye, bye, pretty baby, ceptive metaphor for the more explicitly heroes we're applauding are shooting going to change the program. movin' on down I anticipa the line," it picked up political rebellions we have seen on their tellow students as weil as their ted a river of people and the audience with the waves run picked up and clapped. campus. teachers. They have gone beyond poli ning together." "Got a tasty lover; Got a symbiotic re tics. Their revolution is finally a cry of lationship: I keep him hot, He keeps Anderson is strongest in his depiction of despair. "You motherfuckers cometo me fit .. .lf you're salt college to pork daddy, I ain't the claustrophobic school atmosphere. study alienation. l'm going to teil you your bacon rind." He shows the sadism of the ''Whips" and Larry Gross what alienation is." He dusted off his at the same time the sadism of the stu- 4
The I nner College isn't the only place at this school where creative energy runs rampant: seniors are §enior projects doing senior projects. Usually stu dents have to wait until the spring senior project burning to discover I can't really teil anything about what Senior project? lt's an awfully sen, my project will be, because it is going to point. Most recently l've been eor the marvels that Bard seniors had ing doing a participant observer stl year. But this be an experiment and I am planning on been working on all using Bard students as the subjects. a suicide pact... · time we're not going toletthat happen. Here, in this issue, we have Bonnie Marcus Back in May, I thought I would dc printed (and illustrated) il random study of radicalization: How do e list of some of the projects now in I am studying the theme of art in Ala ary people become radicals, I aske the works. You'll notice in read ll~~~~hfl. There really isn't much I can say about David Schardt my "project" - it' s essentially_a continu ation of my work, which is making music. Marilyn Bontempo men, ·. usually found in groups of fours ai Homage paid by offering sexual accessibility, applause, group worship, gang bangs at Ai The whole rock scene (as opposed to rod depends on us being there. Women are nect these places of worship so that, in between rock screws women the real audience (men) can be assured of get· they're told:about in the lyrics. And THE GREAT PRETENIJERS: The whole star trip music, it took me a while to see that we weren 't even woman Weil it's not in rock is another .realm where macho reigns supreme. considered a real part of the listening audience. At that woman supposed to be like? - we have to be l At· the center of the rock universe .is the star - first I thought I was being paranoid, but then I heard to be just a plain old cunt got to bt flooded 'in light, offset by the light show, and the so many musicians address the audience as if it were and even that!s not enough _: we've source of incredLb1e volumes of sound. The audience all male - "I know yhou all want to find a good - you know, not uptight; not demanding, no remains totally in darkness: the Stones kept wornan ", "When you take your ol' lady home or clinging or ·strong or smart or anything· b1 back on a man 's f thousands waiting sevenil hours till nightfall before tonight ... " "This is what you do with & no good in a way that never cuts they would come on stage at Altamont. The stage is woman ... " ek. etc. It was dear that the concerts And- so women remain the last legitimate set for the men to parade aroun.d acting 01,1t wcre directed only to men, and the womcn_were not property that the brothers can share in a co ·· violence/sex fantasies, ·sometimes.fucking their guitars considered people but more on the level of exotic world. Can't have a' tribal gathering withm thensmashingthem, writh4lg bare chested with leather dome~tic animals that come with their masters or and dope and beautiful groovy chicks. fringe flying; . while the whole spectade is enlarged com e .to find masters. Only me n are assumcd. sm art -For the musicians themselves there is t1 lOO times on a movie screen . ·behind them. And enough to understand the intricades of the music. special property - groupies. As one groupi1 gig. Sor! of lik watching a • group like the Mothers of lnvention Frank Zappa laid it out when he said that men come "Being a groupie is a full-time two or three ·~lfrie perfonn is a lesson in totalitarianism - seeing Frank to.. hear the music and ehieks come for sex thrills. Dig musician ... you have stay as high zappa define sound and silenee with a mere gesture it! hang . out with and you öf IT of his hand.; There is no psychic or vistialör auditory intellectually enlightened as a group ~ö if you 're going to have an) space for any one but the perfonner ·- even Ir. It was a real shock to put this all together and You 've got are a non-profit call girl, geish: 40Q,OOO are _gathered. This intensity could be. realize rock music itself - all the way from offer. .. you housekeeper whatever the müsician needs." fantastic but ,it is : abused ~ · I remernber ·lesse Colin performing artist to listener - rcfuses to allow any Young of the Youngbl00ds ·turning to his audience valid: ptace-foi women. And yet·l know there would This tota;l dis~egard and direspect for v with disdain ''the least you cö,uld do is clap along." never be rock festivals and concerts if women weren 't ;onstant in th~ .rock world and has. no ex ·Fit$t ·you force the audience into passivity and then t.@re ·~ even: tf1pugh we have nothing to do with the Not eve n J an is Joplin, the all time queen of J ~..ift1ply that they· are (ocked. up f-o~ JlO.HnoY.u\g. _ Jnt4~C. Somehow we~re very necessary to rock made her pain evident in all her'blues - th: · ~ · $MltE· QN YÖU~ BROTHER:' Son}ethii1S· else cu.Jture .. . made them ·real. And the male rock world J a~t ~h John Hershey '--·-, grinder. Camus ... blah blah ... Existentialism ... Bozno .. . So I decided to do a history of the con Mark Winters temporary student movement. But another senior (an editor of this very newspaper) was doing that topic al ready. So I will have to content myself with the question "Why did SDS tall apart?" I Senior project is about Ezra Pound- have already met two second semester confused but enthusiastic. seniors who have done their projects on this subject, and my advisor has already Carla Bolte asked me to detine "apart" ... Marian Swerdlow What l'm working with is rhythm. I make this rhythm with shapes on big canvases (about 4' x 6' or larger when I get some money). l'm also thinking that and secluded agonies everywhere in the -histories of I might have some movies as part of my ea ch one of us. And when-that collides with the j oy project where people create th is sam e we never before were permitted there is ·a force kind of rhythm, or animated movies. There are two parts to painting (and unleashed that is glorious and wild. A force that will same with films), form and content. change the world. Tigresses gone mad with pain and The main part of my project will be the made sane again through sharing - a beginning from changes that happen in the form, from which to move on the craziness of the world - tha.t one work to the next. Content is really we see from the destruCtion of Vietnam to the the important part and it means emotion. destrm:tion of the humour and other things you can't talk planet. about. I feel only awe at our possibility, oondering where our unhampered feelings can lead us to - what Gail Vachon culture. what society, what education, what music and dance. what ways of living will be ours? We have no way of knowing. The new culture begin.s as soon as women rneet togethcr, · learning that the seemingly private and isolated thoughts each one of us have been feeling all this time are things that all women . ;they're always on <: tage w sharc. It started out shy and tentative and awkwa.rd the microphone, and nuthing between them arid the whcn wc first all met togethcr. And it grew iiTto a audience b~t their own bodies: So it is not suq)rising fury and a power and a joy that was more intense that Janis became an incredible sex object and was than anything l'vc everexperienced. And now there'is . ·.rclated to as a cunt with an outasite voice. Almost no reasan for us to go back into the alienation and everyone ~ven vaguely connected to rock heard isalatian of Woodstock Nation. Not in Woodstock malicious stories about how easy she was to fuck. Nation or in any of the other cultures men have This becarpe part of her legend and no level of fon~·cd and will try to force on womcn. It ca n 't bc stardom. could proteet her because when you get now. Wc don 't want to force a c-ulture on any one - down to it :sh e was just a woman. wc wa11t to make space for every human being to bc AND WHO COULD BE FOOLIN' ME? And· real in . But wc havc been told until we too believed it whoever thoughü this was all the brothers were tlwt wc are crazy and weak and depcndcnt and offering u:s when · they rapped about the revolution? irrational and. frivolous and uriattractivc and stupid. Why do ,we stick with it? Women identified with In culture arter culture men have dcstr.oycd our youth cul'ture as the only alternalive to our parents'· minds and fucked ovcr our bodics. And govcrnmcnts uptight and unhappy way of life. We linkedup with of mcn havc napalmcd and lynchcd and murdered rock and ;never saw how it fucked us over. Partly this and starved all of us who d id n 't have the power to was because we bad no sense - of being wom~n -rcsist. It can't be now. together ' with other WOJl1en.Partly beca:use it was Now wc are rcclaiming. Redaitning the Janis impossible to think of ourselves as performing as Joplins and the Billie Holidays and the Marilyn exhibitionists in macho sex roles, so we didn't Monrocs that bl'long to us and have always bclongcd wonder 'why ther_e wereri"'t .more -of us on stage. Partly to us eve n if wc didn 't always see iL As Billic Holiday because we identified with the men and not other said. ••(t's the casiest thing in the world to say every women :when we heard lyrics that put wonien down. broad for hers~lf -- saying it and ucting that way is And alot becallse we have been completely. cut off one thing that hus kept somc of us behind the ~ight from perceiving what and who really are _on '_o-ur side ball wherc w_e have been living for ycars." It can 't be and what and who don 't want to: see us as whole anymorc. Bc<.:au~ wc are learning how to share with people. e ach othcr and Jcarn from cach other and make music In a world of me n, J an is sang our stories. When sh e and !Hake love with cach othcr and dance together died, one of the few Hes that I stiil had left with rock without any comp':·ting and conquering and snapped. It can 't be that women are a people without l'go-tripping bullshit ways of human beings dealing a culture. · with-e ach other. from RAT I LNS 6 FOLKS: Folkdancing of the international var ietv is being offered every Saturday , night at 7:30 in the gym. No exper ience is neeessarv, only the desire to have a good time. wed. THE MAGICIAN (Ingmar Bergman, 1958), 101 min. Max Von Sydow and the best of Berg man's repartory company are in this film, set in the 19th century, which deals with the confrontation between a magician-artist (Von Sydow) anda man of science (Gunnar Bjornstand). fr i. DUCK SOUP (Marx Brothers, 1933), 72min. Perhaps the finest of all Marx Bros. com edies. This one has Groucho as the king of Fredonia. A brilliant political satire, free of dewy-eyed Kitty Carlisle. N.Y. TIMES-- LIMA, Peru -- Thieves N.Y. TIMES-- The major national organ broke into a lima residence and, finding su n. ization of liberai Roman Catholic lay DON QUIXOTE (Grigory nothing else of value, stole the two Kozintsev, men, in what it called the first detailed 1957), watchdogs left by their owners. 110 min. study of available diocesan financial rec An excellent film portrayal of Cervantes' ords, asserted yesterday that reports on classic. Nikolai Cherkassov plays N.Y. TIMES- JOHANNESBURG, South "The church finances were either impossible Knig,t of the Sorrowful Figure", Africa -- After Sam Spector died, author and to come by, or inadequate, misleading Yuri Tolubeyev is Sancha Panza. ities needed 26 truckloads to clear the and self-serving. elderly man's home of mare than a mil The National Association of Laymen lion newspapers STUDENT DISCOUNT CARDS he left stacked in every said its study of the financial records of roomandin the garage. Under the 23 of the nation's 160 dioceses and arch mound of paper in the garage they found dioceses indicated a "reluctance of chl.Rtl an old automobile. leadars to give full and complete finan Mayfair Theatrr cial accounting," and that "this reiue N.Y. TIMES-- ANACA, Venezuela- tanee verges on major scandal." Jose Bonzales, 38 years old, never last his caol for a moment when the police arrested him for walking down the street in the nude. "What do you want me to do, die ef the heat?" he protested. 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I n case you haven't heard, Grace and Paul Kanter (rhythm guitar children who have today beeome the BOOK REVIEW: and vocals) are having a baby any day market. Our generation was brought up now. (They are planning to name it on the slick "entertainment" of tele "God"). I was surprised she even deeidee vision, whose general use by Madison to appear on stage. She was literally 9 Avenue Hubert Humphrey has ealfed mont_fls pregnant, and yet, despite the "an inexcusable waste," and on all the enormous strain of singing for several pop radio stations. Classical music re UREAD 11 HERE FIRSI ! hours over the astounding volume of the quires a different kind of attention from lt's probably safe to say that few people In a quieter vein, but of no less signifi band, she managed to pull it off admira its listeners than rock, and our current on this campus were aware (until now) cance, are such facts as the date of the bly. The band went through al most en andTV, radio, records don't help much of the fact that the first national Corn invention by Robert Chesebrough of tirely new, intense, free-form music from toward developing an "ear" for the Husking Championship in America was Vasefine (1878), and the marketing, m their upcoming album, Emergency. A classics. Then, of course, there is the held on December 1, 1924, on a farm in 1857, of "Gayetty's Medicated Paper - special surprise for me was the emergence shadow of the Almighty Buck. For Polk County, lowa. To reprint here the a perfectly pure artide for the toilet and of Joey Covington, the new drummer, as record companies to keep feeding us name and score of the winner would be for the prevention of piles." Those who ~ blu~-e~ed_soul singer of surprising abil rock is cheaper, easier and 1'80re profita merely to destroy the deliciaus suspense heard Dr. Ryan Drum's leeturea few lty; h1s smgmg lessons in Oakland really ble than their going to the trouble of in which the reader now finds itself. weeks back will recognize immediately show- the result sounds I ike a mixture developing a new market for the classics. But the answer to this and many other the significance of this event, and .!_QY_gl~ of Frank Zappa's voice and Mick Jagger's. questions of equal or slightly less signifi who's heard of Freud can do something As you can imagine, Joey adds a new, Which brings us back to repertory. The cance can be found in an important new with the fact that Mr. Gayetty's name unexpeeted dimension both to the Air current philosophy behind classical re book by Joseph Nathan Kane, entitled was watermarked on each sheet . plane's stage presence (he constantly cording seems to be that the companies .J.h~e.~.!s.~J.3..QQ.li._Qf_fJ!mous F irst Facts. laughs and fucks around) and to their should stick to Beethoven and Co. until The significance of this ta~f.weiT-wfitten vocal sound (with Joey's voice, that they stop selling altogether, then drop volume is that it's the first popular-priced It is to Mr. Kane's credit that he can makes for an even greater degree of tuli them. I n an artici e in the September 13, (tho unfortunately, abridged) edition of handle, with one straightforward narra ness and flexibility in the Airplane's vo 1970 New York Times, Charles Wuorin the trivia elassie which originally appearm tive style, items of such widely diverse cal sound). Furthermore, his style of the winner of the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for in hard-cover in 1933. emotional content as the first street pa drumming, added to the way he has his music, claims that the only way to save rade held by a mystic society (the Cow tom-toms and bass drum miked, gives classical music is with a new repertory: While the continuity of this work would bellian de Rakian Society, in Mobile in the Airplane's instrumental sound a modern music. Writes Wuorinen, "Who probably teave the heavily plot-minded 1830), and the first flea circus ("Extra distinctly more aggressive and effective is the new public that the new repertoire reader cold, those with a taste for epi ordinary Exhibition of the lndustrious rhythm. will reach? It is precisely those young sodic, contrast-filled epics will find this Fleas" in 1835). people that the record companies failed book a real joy. I n point of fact, is "Starship", one of the songs from Paul to influence as children to respeet and there one whose heart would not quicken One could continue with these items Kantner~s soon-to-appear solo album, require serious music, but are now mak its pace at the stirring tale of Senaa until the cows go home, but I feel that was a pnme example of the Airplane's ing handsome profits on rock and the Samma, "an Indian juggler from Madras," the examples thus far offered aptly por n~w level of perfection. Vocally, the like. Many of us engaged with contemp and the first sword swallower presented tray the ambiance of this consciousness A1rplane have never been mare impres orary music now share the conviction to the American public? What pathos, raising book. The only criticisms I sive, with Paul's voice underpinning that this group of impressionable and what tense drama in the beautifully un would offer are that 1) Mr. Kane Jimits Grace's free experiments in tone and relatively unprejudiced youth can easily derstated sentence, "Samma swallowed his purview to strictly American "firsts " phrasing floating over Marty's direet beeome patrons of serious new music, 'a sword manufactured by Mr. William thus denying the international indeed ' cresting. The instrumental core of the and in vast numbers." (As a matter of Pyle of New York as a substitute for the cosmic, nature of all human e~perience, group, Jack, Jorma and Joey, provid ed a fact, I've noticed that rarely does an one lately stolen from him by some vil and_ 2) most of the book is frightfully mu_sical foundation that can only be de in thi6 age group rejeet this music lain.' " Here Mr. Kane's skillful use of bormg. scnbed as a definitive example of van first hearing. Just today, one of the original quotes to enrich his prose is guard free-form rock. Jack's bass across the hall from me came in and beautifully demonstrated. M.l. Bresler sh_ook the entire theater; his playing is asked me what that "weird" music I was without doubt reaching towards other playing was. He seemed to be quite im- planets and levets of energy. Jorma pressed with Berio's 1969 Sinfonia.) 111,_• .-...... _..llllllli __ ... couldn't play badly if he wanted to· his duets, interaction and trade-offs with "The present moment," Wuorinen con Jack are as exciting visually as they are tinues, "offers unique possibilities to musically. The Airplane aren't standing the record companies, for now commer stiil. cial self-interest and cultural responsibil ity can be made to interseet. There is a We couldn't help but be totally sucked large public, the young, who will res1por1