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Washington Sees Two-Part Protest: Peaceful, Violent

Washington Sees Two-Part Protest: Peaceful, Violent

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± Vol. LXVINo.,1 TRINITY COLLEGE, HARTFORD OCTOBER 24, 19H7 Amherst Faces Strike Objecting to Parietah The Amherst student to the recent threat. There was Council has threatened a no additional administration or "school-wide student protest" if student reaction to the event. any undergraduate is expelled or The * Council , last spring suspended for violation of parietal requested suspension of parietals, hours, The action is the result but the plea met with aflat admin- ol an administration statement istration denial. Present hours threatening expulsion as punish- stand at 10 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. ment for parietal infractions. weekdays, and to 12:30 a.m. Sunday. Saturday, however, in the Saturday hours were increased last first case of parietal violation week by one hour until 1:30 a.m. since the issuance of the state- in accordance with the 2:00 a.m. ment, the student involved was put hours at Smith and Mt. Holyoke. on disciplinary probation for one (Arnherst's hours are year--the standard penalty prior MORE lenient than those at the College, which are from 12:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday, to 11:30 p.m. Fridayand Poor Turnout Sunday, and to 1:00 a.m.Saturday.) Condemning the regula- Cripples AD tions as "cruelly imposed from PENTAGON LIGHTS silhouette National Guardsmen cordoning off entrance against student dem- the outside," the Council refused onstrators in second and violent protest Saturday evening in Washington. to enforce them, stating that en- _-___ ^^ __„______(Ai.-,i-K-iato1 Press Photo) Problem Talk forcement would be up to the The disappointing attendance at college itself. The administration Alpha Delta Phi's discussion of interpreted this as a call for more social, expansion, and financing stringent enforcement, which took Washington Sees Two-Part problems Thursday turned the the form of the expulsion/suspen- meeting into an AD bull session. sion threat. The only non-AD participants were Dean of Students William N. Bobbins Winslow, Jr., assistant Swartzbaugh reacted to the call Protest: Peaceful, Violent director of development, and the for student protest by issuing a TRIPOD reporter. warning stating that protest would by A. Rand Gordon House President Richard Meloy be met with "mass dismissals." '68 blamed the poor attendance on The mobilization to "confront the Warmakers" in Washington brought together tinder a.united (Violation of hours at the banner representatives of every anti-war faction, coming from California and Cambridge, both the lack of personalized in- College brings the student before vitations. Meloy hoped indepen- Medusa. The College has been passive and violent. Negro and white, socialist and capitalist, hippie and student. dents would be present to make traditionally strict regarding The attendance, action and treatment: of what had been billed as 's largest anti- fraternity members aware of the parietal violations, and most cases war demonstration seem to indicate that it surely was the most significant protest held to date. independents' desires. have resulted in suspension or dis- Not only did it strike t\ responsive chord around the world as manifested by echo demonstrations, Criticism of the present social missals,) but the Saturday rally sponsored by the National Mobilization Committee.to.End the War in Viet- ' structure dominated the talk. The The Amherst police, just as nam vibrated with overtones of futurity, as national party politicians' reactions have shown. groulTgenerally agreed that some Medusa, will not search rooms. More significant than the reasons for the gathering are the political repercussions it has caused attempt should be made, perhaps in The girl discovered Saturday at to resound within the established party structure. Further, the forms of protest are evolving; the form of a social survey and Amherst was found as a result Washington witnessed both a peaceful and a violent demonstration on October 21. .evaluation, to determine exactly of her failure to return to her what the dissatisfied independents school at 2:00 a.m. Her school Seemingly in league with no one, the reports of most public news media were radically di- want. James Broers '70 felt that notified the Amherst police of her vergent from the reports of eye witnesses. (Continued on Page 6) destination. The College was represented at the mobilization by approximately 20 members of the academ- ic community. One undergraduate was jailed during the closing hours of the demonstration, and another at one point found himself in the midst of a tear gas attack. Student Cars Towed The rally as it occurred existed in two ideologically separate entities; the planned, peace- - ful gathering and march from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington to the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and the later, violent stormings of the Pentagon building. The latter assaults took Following Complaints place well after the planned rally had concluded. The conflicting accounts of the numbers and ethno-ideologieal orientation of the participants At least four cars belong- curred after the College had re- ing to college students have been quested that police patrol Summit were filed during the 10:.'JO to I p.m. assembly around the reflecting pool which runs between towed away by the police this week, more frequently in response to the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, where a podium had been raised. Police reported Alfred A. Garofolo, di- recent thefts from parked cars. estimates set the crowd at 50,000 to of),000. However, Stephen Minot, assistant professor of rector of Campus security. The These included hubcaps, batteries, English, concurred with other College attendees in estimating the gathering "at well over 100,000 cars were parked in the No Par- a stereo tape recorder, the top people lining both sides of the pool." king zones flanking College Ter- of a convertible, and in two cases In direct contradiction to many local radio accounts, which categorized most of the partici- race at Summit Street. the car itself. Both cars were pants-as black nationalists and hippies, Minot observed that the rally was attended largely by recovered the next day, minus college students with less participation by hippies and adults than last spring's mobilization The police action occurred tires. in . , after continous complaints by The New York ilines' account of the assemblage discredited Hartford residents that the parked the reports that the body'was controlled by communist and black cars obscured their vision when putUTG CutDQck Likely turning onto Summit Street from > ' nationalist elements. In fact, the Times indicated that only a College Terrace. The police have — dozen Negroes participated in the Pentagon procession while been ticketing cars illegally parked most of their 153 comrades repaired to South-west Washington, in that section for about two weeks, the predominantly Negro district, for a rally of their own. said Garofolo, and "at least two" TRIPOD ADDS TO STAFF While gathered at the memorial, several speeches were ad- of the towed-away cars had been dressed to the assemblage. The opening remarks delivered by tagged previously. David Del linger, the sponsoring committee chairman who was Students whose cars have been The Editorial Board of the TRI- rnlze, the TKIPOD has cancelled arrested later in the day, pointed to the evolving form which towed away, first must go to the POD has expanded its staff with plans for its annual dinner and anti-war protest was taking. Referring to the immediate gather- Hartford police to discover its the election of new members to has trimmed to a minimum its ing, he stated that "this is a beginning of a new stage in the location, said Garofolo. They then its news and editing board. complimentary subscription list. must . pay a parking fine of $5 Additionally at the Board meet- .Only Trustees (as the TRIPOD'S American peace movement in which the cutting edge becomes and towing costs of $10. ing its subscription and circul- publishers), advertisers, and se- active resistance." Assistant Dean of Students Leo ation policy to non-students was lected colleges now Del linger spoke as chairman of the loose confederation of nard Tomat emphasized that stu restated and clarified. receive free subscriptions. Sub- some 150 groups which have allied themselves in their mutual dents park on Summit at their own Although the quality of this scribers for the I9G7-G8 newspaper. distaste for the war in Vietnam. The mobilization committee, risk. Technically it is illegal year's freshman writers "is per- will receive issues through next while united in distaste, did not attempt to agree on any meth- for cars to be parked anywhere on haps the highest in the past four _ September as now orders were not ods or approaches to the ending of the war. The avoidance of the blacktop, as is customary on years," according to Chairman 'filled until early October. specifics reflects the wide divergence of political ideologies Summit Street opposite Mather Jeffrey E. Lucas '68, "with the Elected to the Editorial Board election of the new Editorial Board as a Contributing Editor was represented on the committee. Hall and Jarvis. Ticketing opera- The speeches delivered following the committee's initial state- tions were in force on Wednesday in early December the TRIPOD Michael P. Seitchik '68, still afternoon, and Garofolo expressed will probably be forced to dis- LOOKING FOR MOTHERBALL as ment of protest and cooperation took on the tone of personal confidence that the tagging was a continue its twice weekly publi- a regular columnist. Promoted animosity directed toward President Johnson and thereby gave Prelude to further car removal.The cation schedule. Both financial to the staff after only brief proof the protest significant future political significance, especially of their versatility as apprentice Coiiege is trying to have 'these restrictions and a limited number considering the opinion there represented by the young and fu- areas labeled as tow-away zones. of editorial candidates from the pen pushers were juniors Judd ture majority of the voting population. Previously, Connecticut tickets sophomore and junior class make freeman, Wilbur A. Glahn, III, The comments of well-known pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock - were frequently ignored by drivers the outlook for continued semi- William D. Hough and Wayne L. weekly publication bleak." Slingluff. took on a particularly personal bent in his pronouncements con- with out of state plates. (Continueci on Page 5) The increased police action oc- In an effort to further econo- (Continued on Page 4) . OCTOBER 24, 1967 PAGE 2 Western Farce of 'Miser': Campus Chest Finale: Musical Freak Show Stage Company Turns Pop The musical extravaganza con- by Warren Kalbacker tinued, Interspersed wftli sick jokes ami romindnrs of the pur- horses were the greatest thing by Steven Bauer Seven" pounds its way into ear- pose oi' the event-to raise money drums throughout the theatre. since sliced bread. Jose, the Span- It all began just like the Holly- wood Palace, except for some for charity or something. You walk into the Hartford Nothing is to be taken seriously ish servant, is played with naive Hick music was dispensed to Stage Company the night be- by anyone but the actors, and this simplicity and incredible accent by reason the celebrity emcee didn't show. What followed, under the a full house by three members fore Moliere's THE MISER is mood is emphasized as the play Peter DeMaio. The leading role, of what was originally billed as to begin its run, having heard the unfolds. that of Skinflint, is acted with guise of "Campus Chest Finale," proved to be an Interesting mix- the "Jug Band." This portion outrageous rumour that Jacques Moliere's plot is too complex meanness and prejudice by Henry of the show proved to be so stim- Cartier, the founder and producing ture of the traditional, the con- 1 and too implausible to even begin Thomas. Yet, he could have done ulating tlmt the masses demanded director, has transformed or much more with the part. There temporary, and the disgusting. transplanted the production into a to unravel. It Is filled with human an encore from Peter Johnson, vices and misunderstandings, mis- are facets to any character, even Bedecked in traditional college Western and has even changed the clothes (three piece suits this Mark Loether, and Gunther taken identities and double re- to a farce; and one can only wish Wright. title to SKINFLINT OUT WEST. that Thomas had taken time to year), the Trinidads rendered sev- The setting by John Conklin is a versals. It includes moments of A pause for station identifi- brilliant hilarity and moments polish more than one facet. eral songs in the traditional col- marvelously Intricate representa- lege style. The tunes ranged from cation brought out a number of bordering on crudeness. Much is of worthy praise cigar-smoking executive-types tion of a decrepit ranch. Wooden here, and there is a little to folk to Mock Rock. After a half- beams, old chairs, hoop barrels, There is a knock-down-drag-out dozen numbers, the group gave who delivered plugs for their criticize. The overall success of favorite charity. and bales of hay fill the stage. You fight complete with broken chairs the production must be credited to their act a needed shot in the sit back and wait for the play to and flying bodies; there is an In- Jacques Cartier, who adapted, arm with some Motown-style chor- Steve Horensteln's New Col- begin dian raid complete with flashing "directed, and produced the affair. eography. legiate Jazz Band provided the Soon It becomes apparent lights, cracking guns, screams, cultural zenith of the evening. that Cartier has written a farce and one dead Indian; there is even Renditions of "Jericho" and "Sun- of a farce. He has taken Mollere an old-fashioned hoe-down com- day Morning" were followed by out of a European sitting room, plete with Spanish ballet. There Image Playhouse Shows a smoothly beautiful theme from having vaguely changed the names are more slide tricks, more music, "A Man and a Woman." A new to protect the innocent, and he and more puns than one can fully dimension in entertainment at the has somehow been very successful. assimilate. Even Freud rears his Theatre of The Absurd College was introduced as the band In -writing a "farcefarce", one runs ugly head. Suffice it to say that provided background music for an all's well that ends well. the risk of creating archetypal by David W. Green the part of Flora. Edward, the embarrasvsed, conscript stripper. characters on the level of Cru- frightened egomaniac, is slightly The cast is filled with Due to technical difficulties, the sader Babbit and Batman. At 'The Theatre of the Absurd overplayed by Mr. Robert Stelzer, appearance of Peter Alsop's "The times during the production this brilliant caricatures. Red Arrow, is a contemporary dramatic move- played cleverly by Macon McCal- who nevertheless manages to Scourge" was delayed. Meanwhile, risk Is realized, but often enough ment which is concerned with the arouse some sympathy for a the audience amused Itself l>y mak- the danger Is transcended to man, is an Indian who has never unorganized, unpredictable, but needed the elevating effects of fire- thoroughly contemporary char- ing raucous birdcalls. achieve a new creation using Mo- humorous irrelevancies of life that acter. Roger Patnode's Barnabas water. This pot-smoking redman are ultimately tragic. The move- In sharp contrast to the preced- liere's situation, characters, and Is mutely enigmatic. ing artists, tlie electronic ap- lines, but significantly altering his is distinctly different from any- ment's great playwrights, Samuel thing found in the pages of James The audience mingled with paratus of "The Scourge" hurled mood and meaning, •Beckett, Eugene lonesco, Harold the cast immediately after the play Fenimore Cooper. Val, a myster- Pinter and others have reflected decibels through the ether. After SKINFLINT OUT WEST begins ious Spaniard distilled from the es- for an interesting discussion of a gradual expansion of the mind, on the absurd pathos of the human Harold Pinter, while Image owner With a pantomime that might sence of every romantic drama condition in twentieth century one could recognize the strains of have come from the pen of Samuel ever written, is subtely portrayed Robert "Lewis served a well- society: the emptiness of its in- brewed coffee. (Continued on Page 5) Beckett. Skinflint, the miser, by Don Barshay. habitants who search for their lost hobbles, stumbles, slobbers, spits, Rue McClanahan's Froislne is identities in a senseless world and gives everyone a very real the original painted woman. Kent while dreading the truths they may delineation of character. When Broadhurst plays the sincerely discover. his pantomime Is complete the prissy Clint as though he had a stage dims, Beckett scampers for- sexual hang-up comparable to that It has been ten years since ever into the shadows, and twin of the boy in D. H. Lawrence's Harold Pinter began writing plays. screens on either side of the stage "Rocking Horse Winner." Liz, In the past year he has suddenly are lit with slides that leave the portrayed by Elizabeth Farley, is emerged to the forefront of the impression of a silent movie, while a cross between Liz Taylor be- dramatic world. THE HOME- the theme of "The Magnificent fore and after she discovered that COMING was one of last year's great successes, and THE BIRTH- DAY PARTY, which Pinter wrote in 1958, opened last week on Broad- Kunitz Confronts Reader; way before an admiring but con- fused public. Walter Kerr, drama Tour of Individual Hells critic of , recently wrote that "we have just by Jay Bernstein are the images and ideas of the now arrived at the Moment of Pin- (Editor's Note: This analy- external world that are mixed ter." sis is the first in a series with feelings and emotions of the Pinter wrote A SLIGHT poet in his imagination and then ACHE in 1959. The play concerns of articles by Mr. Bernstein poured into the "cracked cups" of an elderly, upper-middle class on contemporary American form, which are of course the couple who find themselves con- poets and their work.) peoms themselves. However, the fronted with an old mysterious After the release of his SELECT- poem cannot entirely contain or matchseller who stands outside FACES of Flora (Faye Roberts) and Edward (Robert Stelzer) ED POETRY in 1958, Stanley Kunitz subdue the feelings of the poet their house. Pinter believes that reflect their fear of the unknown in A SLIGHT ACHE. The Har- was proclaimed by fiobert Lowell and this "overplus" is what leaps this Is the ideal dramatic situa- old Pinter ploy is being presented every Friday and Saturday to be "the poet of the hour." SE- out of its form to immerse the tion: people Inside a house look- evening until November 11 at the Image Theatre. LECTED POETRY, Kunitz's third reader. The poem itself is the ing out. Edward, the husband, • volume of verse was awarded the result of the confrontation of the is terribly agitated by the presence Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1959. poet's mind with the world around of the old man, but refuses to SELECTED POETRY represents him and his personal life; if the admit his fear to his lonely wife Fall Suggestions over thirty years of writing for poem succeeds then there will be Flora, Edward invites the match- Kunitz, yet its scant 116 pages an excess of tension and emotion seller in so that he may satisfy Chosen by Henry Miller and Reflecting Distinctive , bespeaks a talent that has con- that will reach out from the poem his morbid preoccupation with this Correct Taste Usually Unavailable Elsewhere. tinally been submitted to harsh and seize the reader. man. The old man stands stooped self-criticism and high standards Kunitz's poetry is laced with and silent in the house while Ed- of perfection. what has been called "Imaglstic ward speaks to him. No matter * SCOTCH TWEED SLACKS Kunitz is a man oi the times surrealism." Many of his poems what he says, Edward receives no whose sensitive intellect is highly have a nightmarish quality about response from the old man. Be- * SCOTCH TARTAN SLACKS attuned to the chaotic world in them that is usually used In scenes coming terrified, he leaves the * SCOTCH SHETLAND SWEATERS which we live. He says in one poem where the poet wishes to reflect room. Flora enters the room. that, "I suffer the twentieth cen- his horror concerning the contem- She also fails to elicit any sound * SCOTCH TURTLENECK SHIRTS tury, The nerves of commerce porary world or his realization of from the old man. But she be- wither in my arm." Kunitz faces death. Like , Kun- comes aware of her own sexuality, * SCOTCH COUNTRY VEST SPORT the realities of his world with itz has built up certain patterns of and tells the old man, "I'm going relentless honesty, and If anyone irrational imagery to communicate to keep you, you dreadful chap, and COATS wants to read hs works then they his view of the "public world." call you Barnabas." Flora goes must be willing to suffer the hor- In "My Surgeons," as In Berry- upstairs to prepare a bath and bed * BRITISH CORDUROY SLACKS ror of his vision, with him. In man's eighth "Dream Song," the for Barnabas. Edward returns "Hermetic Poem" Kunitz dis- scene is an operating room where and in this final confrontation with * BRITISH FIELD COATS cusses his art and Its relation- the patient is picked apart by the the unknown being in his living ship to the reader; surgeons who take away his dreams room he reveals the absolute emp- The secret my heart keeps and his powers of emotion, leaving tiness of his soul and character. Trinity's Closest Complete Flows into cracked cups. him alive in the end but without any This revelation causes his utter of the noriphysical capabilities that disintegration. Edward. assumes Clothing Store No saucer can contain give life its dynamic quality. the stooped posture of the old man This overplus of mine: The theme of spiritual death with- while Barnabas, suddenly animated It glisters to the floor. in the realm of the living is one and virile, walks out of the house Lashing like lizard fire that Kunitz repeatedly returns to. with an exuberant Flora. Open Monday Through Saturday To emphasize the point that the And ramps upon the walls patient is all of us, Kunitz con- Crazy with ruby ills. tinually shifts the character of the The company of the Image Play- house gives A SLIGHT ACHE an CLOTHIER Who enters by my door patient, fusing and separating the F« Is drowned, burned, stung, and different personalities of the poem, admirable treatment. Miss Faye starred. thus also making the poem resem- Roberts is appropriately harassed ble the irrational nature of the and neurotic (with a twitch which IMPORT fK The secrets of the poet's heart (Continued on Page 3) reminds one of Peter O'Toole In 24 TRUMBULL STREET . HARTFOKD . 525-21 » NIGHT OF THE GENERALS) in OCTOBER 24, 1967 THE TRINITY TRIPOD PAGE 3 Nightlife with Boxtops Albee and Terror The WORD; Asylum at Last ' Performed at UConn by Hugh Eider CAN DREAM, simply stated, was 's AMERICAN interesting. This is perhaps Al- by Michael Plummer He'll push a polite reviewer to and then that Perennial favorite, DREAM was performed Saturday bee's worst play, certainly his admit that the Boxtops are ter- "Shake a Tail Feather" (as it were) Here, finally, a week late, Is evening at the UConn Law School most boring. However, Mill! rible. (Really, now, what do you Boxtop number one deadpanned Auditorium for the benefit of Sllvestri, who played the role of The Word, Go to the Asylum. think of them?) again, "Thank you for that spon- But stay away from the place on the Faculty Wives' Scholarship Mommy and directed this play, taneous round of deafening Fund. On the same bill was a did both tasks with a high degree rainy Wednesday nights when The The crowd last Wednesday was applause." Boxtops, who are definitely all reading of Edgar Allen Poe's"The of sensitivity. Rather than con- dead and the group was poor. But McCormick would like to see Tell-Tale Heart." Strange pro- centrating on the " symbolism" of wet, are performing. We'll get these conditions are easily altered, more Trinity people come to the back to them. gram. Albee, which at best is tiring, and when they are, the Asylum is Asylum. It is usually packed on Joseph LaPlante opened with his she chose to focus on the humor a winner. The entire lighting weekends. The $1.50 half-price Steve McCormick and Joey Rey- reading of Poe. Although this of the play. The many puns which system can be flickered in time deal offered in last week's Tripod reading was acted well, one wish- Albee permits himself, and which nolds (yes, THE Joey Reynolds, with the music so that everything was only given to Trinity students, kiddies) run the Asylum. It is a ed at times that Mr. LaPlante are so often overlooked, came you see looks like a silent movie. not all Hartford area colleges. A possessed a finer voice to match bursting forth in a wholly new nightclub-discotheque with elec- You can really get involved. You week has passed, and Steve says tronic tendencies. There is some his acting abilities. He read from sub-level. Mrs. Silvestri's por- can also get Involved looking at that only a few have taken advantage a black-draped rostrum illuminat- trayal of Mommy certainly dif- evidence of Rorschachian fixations about half of the waitresses, or or- of it. If we don't use it, we'll lose on the walls. One is led to be- ed only by two candles. He him- fered widely from the normal Al- derlies, as they like to be called. it. And three dollars a head cover, self was dressed in black, the bee bitch. lieve that a certain preoccupation Its not that the top halves are so Irving, is really socking it to you. with light is a factor of no mean effect being one of a desembodled Daddy, played by Hal Dorsey, bad, but the miniskirts they wear So don't lose a good thing. Go to face and hands retelling a tale was very nearly perfect. The significance. Of course, this is a are touching bottom. If you are on the Asylum. That's The Word. If relatively speculative observation. of horror. scene in which he debates whether the wagon, you can order the Top- you don't, you're crazy. The performance of the AMERI- or not to answer the doorbell was Belief in the cathartic powers of less Twiggy or the Mini-Pause, the ecstatic experience are clearly absolutely hysterical. Olive Cor- very tasty non-alcoholic drinks, bin as Grandma was also excell- basic to the motivational pattern for a not-so-tasty bill. of A. Response to Free Store: ent although she did not have a sufficiently strong voice to carry Now let's cut the Boxtops to the part to the audience. Relationships with the outside I was quite disappointed by Pat world seem to be developing at shreds. Their two million sell- Surprise, Enthusiasm ing record, THE LETTER, which Powers and Neil Osbqjirn as Mrs. a fair rate, but the possibility of A nun's I-D card, a nudie One student came to the Barker and The American Dream, wasted potential threatens when is GREAT, indicates the extent of the technological revolution. I peep-hole telescope, crab apples, store with an item to give, Lom- respectively. Mrs. Barkerseemed internal fulfillment does not ar- and a copy of the "CalcuttaStates- berg said, and saw two things that to be some sort of parody ot Ger- rive. In hopeful view of the pos- mean, if technology can do THAT... To continue (scalpel) it was the man" are among the many items he wanted. But he felt so guilty, trude Berg, and generally over- sibility that those on the outside, that may be picked up in the Free- LomberR observed, about taking done. The American Dream Is realizing what A has to offer, will usual poor electronic rock group thing: leader of the pack screams, Store in the Old Cave Cafe. two items and contributing only one perhaps the hardest of all parts enter into greater communion The store was created on the that he went back to his room to in this play, for it requires both with it, this investigator would like mumbles, slurs into the mi- crophone, accomplices try to draw principle that people would be will- find something else to contribute. a physical and vocal presence to suggest that the prognosis is ing to leave their possessions with- to carry it strongly. If the Amer- good to excellent. attention away from his voice. Beat The "proprietor" reported emerges for an occasional how-d' out payment so that others may use that a money basket has also ican Dream cannot be a powerful you-do and immediately gets lost them. been started. About $10 was given character, he might at least be McCormick is a tall, boyish again in the decibels. Smashing. The "proprietor" of the attractive to watch. Mr. Osbourne, Amherst man from West Hart- on the first day, he explained, but unfortunately, was neither. On a lighter note, the group was store, James Lomberg '69, no one has yet dared to take any ford. He did all the decorating fairly well rehearsed and coordin- Nevertheless, the evening was claims that it has been a rousing of the money. 1 in the Asylum. You might say he ated. Much better than the voice of success although people are often generally interesting . Not great, padded the wans, n you really Boxtop number one was his sense apprehensive about taking some- Lomberg expects the store but interesting. I only hope the wanted to push your luck. As he of humor. When the crowd remain- thing for nothing. In order to to be open on Friday and Saturday faculty wives did as well as these sits and talks, it comes across ed rather silent after the first song, take an item from the store, no nights. performances. very clearly that he put a lot of he said rather sarcastically, money or exchangeable item is himself into the place. That has "Thank you for all the applause." needed. Most people find this to be respected. And he is honest. \V)ien they ran though three others hard to believe. Kunitz: Horrors of A Living-Dying Mind jBwcxiz Ufa

the thumb; that has not yet received the (Continued from Page 2) The rest whirl in the torment recognition it deserves. His CLASSIC of time. poetry is a polished product for mind's dream-world. Kunitz's What have we done to them that a formal, scholarly mind, and world is one of' total personal what they are the reader must often labor to MOCC/\N\ independence where no God or any Shrinks from the touch of what follow Kunitz; but. as John Ciardi remnant of the past, includingpar- they hoped to be? lias pointed out, "The point is ents, can lend the individual any that the labor will not be in vain." sustaining support. In "Father and Not only does the individual suffer Kunitz is a poet of power and Son," the poet pursues his long in this world but Kunitz makes It integrity who through the years dead father over a dream land- quite clear that he believes each in- has shown an amazing dedication scape; when Kunitz finally catches dividual responsible for what has to his art, perhaps the con- him, his father simply turns "the happened. Kunitz continually re- cluding words should be from white ignorant hollow of his face" emphasizes the point that the grot- Kunitz himself, who said, speak- to the poet. esqueness of the external world ing of the poet's voice and job: Women are often seen in Kun- is of our own creation and that "What do I really know except itz's poems as a power that can our own hatred, greed and sense that I am living and dying at help to "sustain from without," of guilt are what have made the once? The taste of that know- but, as he makes clear in his mag- horror possible. ledge on my tongue is the last nificent poem "The Science of the Stanley Kunitz's is a talent secret I have to tell." Night," any two persons, no mat- ter how close their relationship, have vast "systems" of dream worlds that are uniquely their own "... there is no career that can match business in diver- and can never be completely com- municated thus leaving each in- sity of intellectual interest ... A vigorous, free society dividual isolated and alone. calk for the highest type of business leadership ..," Kunitz in his later work has shown SEVEN WAYS BETTER: a growing tendency to move his THE STANFORD UNIVERSITY poetry from the world of the mind to the external world Itself and GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Premium quality veol upper leather Genuine hqnd-sewn deal directly with contemporary moccasin construction. Completely glove-leather lined. life. As Ralph Mills has pointed invites you to meet its Admissions Representative, Long wearing double stitched seams. Reinforced steel out, Kunitz has become acutely shank supports arch. Water-resistant double leather aware of his vocation as poet Assistant Dean William C. Hannemann soles Hand-antiqued and polished...$19.95 within a particular historical set- ting. For example, at one point on November 7, 1967 in the poem "Night Letter," Kunitz presents the reader with devast- to discuss the Stanford M.B.A. and Ph.D. Programs in ing groups of images that repre- Business Administration. Appointments to meet with sent the grotesque horrors of the Dean Hannemann may be made through the industrial state: Of those that stood in my door- Placement Bureau way, self-accused, Besmeared with falure in the swamps of trade, The M.B.A. Program is a two-year general management One put a gun in his examiner's course "particularly designed for students who have hand, majored in liberal arts, humanities, science, and engi- Making the judgment loud; an- 22 TRUMBULL STREET other squats neering. The purpose of the Doctoral Program is to Upon the asylum floor and plays train scholars for the stimulating challenge open to • HlKIi CUSTOMER PARKIN.G • with toys, business educators, researchers, and innovators. Like the spiral of a soul balanc- OPEN DAILY 9:00 to. 5:30 ed on a stone, Or a new gadget for slicing off OCTOBER 24, 1967 PAGE 4 THE TRINITY TRIPOD LETTERS to the chairman

Jrintfy vice in running its affairs, it is Depart input I Ins with the English somehow the responsibility of majors. Studonls arc responsible "Curious Notion" every English major to respond. for becoming competent .scholars. Things are amiss in the English It Is hardlyju.stifiablo to imply that a relationship In which teacher- EDITORIAL SECTION TO THE CHAIRMAN: Department, and since students are perturbed about it, it is therefore adminlstratnrs and students are OCTOBER 24, 1967 the responsibility of the students fiilliUinij their respective re- The curious notion of student re- to "co-operate" in a "bl-partisan" sponsibilities is not a. "co-oper- sponsibility that has been (some- manner to rectify the situation. ative" oii(>, or to rail it "pat- times implicitly) evolving on your And since "direct and equal stu- ernalistic." To do so presupposes • editorial page since last spring dent-faculty co-operation remains a very weird notion of how learn- The War Monster puzzles me. It could seemingly in a probationary sphere," theirn- ing takes place. be summed up: Things -which are 'perative for English majors to To say that .students have a right It is getting harder and harder for even the most closed mind- amiss at Trinity, and which could show up at last Tuesday's meeting to have their Ideas (about admin- ed of the "over thirty generation" to dismiss the incalculable be rectified by action from the was especially strong. istrative policies or whatever) heard and fairly considered is an- number of anti-war protests, demonstrations, vigils, and rallies people in charge and therefore re- I'm afraid I must disagree. It sponsible, deserve to remain seems to me that it is a wholly other matter altotffHhnr. This is as the unattractive and misdirected voice of a radical minority. amiss until students get perturbed reasonable request for students to a part of the privileges that accrue The weekend Washington demonstration to "Confront the War- enough to correct or help correct ask that the affairs of this College to those who are competent scho- makers" provides evidence that resistance to the war effort them. A case in point Is the be administered by those respon- lars. To say that students who has become substantially adopted by both the nation's intelle- October 20 editorial "Colloquially. sible for them in a competent have ideas about administrative gentzia and moderates. Speaking." The gist of the thing manner, without the students them- policy are responsible for that (if I can see correctly through a selves having to share the re- policy is a complete turn se- Last year's vehicle for the outspoken, newspaper advertise- rather thick coating of adjectival sponsibility for administration. quitur. ments listing dissenters to the Administration policy, has this THESAURUS-sludge) seems that, And I find it far-fetched to claim year been outgrown both in practicality and in scope. A listing since the English Department was that the "onus of responsibility" of dissenters is no longer sufficient. kind enough to accept student ad- for administration of the English MICHAKI. 11. FLOYD '68 As our commitment, cost and destruction has increased in Southeast Asia in a disproportionate ratio to avowed purpose or credible logi?, divergent protest groups in a united consensus against the war now compose a formidable percentage of the populace. The headline makers remain the extremists, the vio- LOOKING FOR MOTHERBALL lent and the ill-behaved; but the ranks of the discontented bulge 1 with an intelligent and sincerely directed, if motley, number who by Michael P. Seitchik But college, instead of being a never mentions tin, rolo of the rega'd the Vietnam involvement as detrimental to the welfare unique experience, was now a way student. For the student does "The scope of the College as a station between high school and not seem to participate In the of the nation and of questionable ethics on a world scale. To place for intellectual explor- graduate school -- a victim of ef- blanketly repudiate protest and dissent movements and de- ation,. . .for testing one's inter- learning: process. Knowledge is ficiency. By giving in to societal transmitted to him. Learning, nounce them as "unpatriotic" is neither reasonable nor ac- ests or finding oneself, hasshrunk, pressures, colleges seemed to be This loss becomes expressed in according to Perkins, is a one- curate. . saying that the individual (whose way affair. Why the protest and unpopularity of the Vietnam commitment? the voiced and unvoiced dissatis- ' education was being affected) was faction of the students, as a pro- made for society, and not that While few of the protestors are comprehensively competent And why does one learn? Not test against the impersonality of society was for, of and by (remem- for self-identification purposes, to weigh the Vietnam involvement politically, economically and a university, its rushed and dis- ber Gettysburg) the individual. but for public service. One ac- morally, a generalized sense of frustration and outrage has been persive quality, and the lack of The giving in to these pressures quires knowledge by research, bred by the Administration's "policy." Administration "policy" 'encounter' between students and can best be exemplified by the atti- not through active involvement. has continually changed the avowed purpose of our presence in faculty -- not just personally, but tudes of college presidents. Clark Clark Kerr agreed with this in a moral and intellectual sense. Southeast Asia as our commitment has grown; the appalling mag- Kerr, in THE USES OF THE UNI- philosophy when, during the Berk- The student comes to college and' VERSITY, talks of college as a eley riots in September 1064 he nitude of our military and political presence lends an artificial expects to find a 'community.' In- "knowledge industry." said, "I don't think you have to : quality to the legitimacy of South Vietnam, as an entity..unto it- stead he find's a 'society." (Daniel Ksrr feels that the main tasks of have action to have intellectual self (and not merely a contingency of U.S. diplomacy); and the Bell, THE REFORMING OF GEN- 1 opportunity." ERAL EDUCATION, p. 276) ' a • college president are' to med- terrifying urgency. of our domestic problems (combined with dis- iate in order to keep peace and to content, over foreign policy) may lead to revolution in another Today's student, then, seems to make sure that there is progress. Perhaps the students were be in a curious "society." For agitating because they felt they searing summer. while college protects the student That is, he is to make sure that the To deny that the problems in our domestic and foreign pol- system runs smoothly, for" change didn't have any intellectual op- from many of the pressures of the portunity. icies are inter-related would be foolhardy. If they were not ini- bureaucratic societ.v(working for a is a traumatic experience for an living and fear of the law), the stu- academic community, as for tially, the politically astute—but morally questionable-Black others." (p.99) Power movement has graphically set their goals at cross pur- dent still suffers from the ration- ale behind the system -- efficiency After reading Kerr's book, Harold TRIPOD poses. • ':. • and security. That is, a bureau- Taylor, former president of Sarah Our government cannot politically or economically maintain cratic set-up makes sure that Lawrence, remarked: "ThePres- peace.domestically and simultaneously pursue its Vietnam pol- everyone has a rigidly defined ident is therefore not an education- (Continued from Page 1) icy. We feel that the present extent of our involvement in Viet- task. al leader, nor should he try to be." The Board rewarded eight (Wolin & Lipset, THE BERKE- nam is not the result of a purposive program pursued with the Thus, everyone knows exactly freshmen by promotion to report- what is expected of him and con- LEY STUDENT REVOLT, p.60) er status: Paul R. Burton, David knowledge of its contingencies; rather it is the result, of a pro- Kerr rarely mentions the pres- sequently, there are never any w. Green, J. Warren Kalbacker, gressive and blind determination to meet force with force untem- unnecessary slow-ups caused by ident's role in relation to such pered by the courage and wisdom to re-assess. things as courses and curricu- Alan L. Marchisotto, David Sar- someone not knowing his place. asohn, Michael E. Trigg, Mark As a result, things will not only lum. He is there to make sure run smoothly, but since everyone the students stay in their places. J^einti and Kenneth P. win- knows what is expected of him, he After all, they are most secure feels rather secure. It is just that way. these latter aspects of society that In response to its request for James A. Perkins, president subscription support of $r,. 50 from are working their way into the of Cornell, echos Kerr's be- college experince, and causing a administrators, faculty, and staff, resulting decay of the old-fash- liefs that the university has a the TRIPOD received 21 checks ioned college experience. duty to serve the interests of and a varied reaction. Many non- toffy society. Perkins seems to have students felt that they should re- During the past decade or so, a ready-made formula for run- ceive the student newspaper free as scientific advancements de- ning any college -- if it does f.s a gesture of courtesy, noting EDITORIAL B0AK1) manded more learning, there a- mot Chairman not add to research or public tha the newspaper has always been intet ' rose a cry to cut down on the service, it is a waste. Every- distributed gratis to the college Jeffrey E. Lucas '6S years wasted in college. It was is tl President thing must contribute to the community, others felt that the of R not very efficient to learn about college's MISSION. He says, Ames M. Nelson '68 Plato if it did not make one a bet- subscription request was spurred I ". . .the acquisition of knowledge ^ the publication expansion to Executive Editors ter physicist Thus, students be- an func A. Rand Gordon '69 is the mission of research; the sem -weekly