OBSERVER Vol. 20 No. 1 September 27, 1978

Front Page Richard Griffiths: Open Letter Michael Simpson Then and Now Jeanne Stanford Observer Tilts Page 2 Editorial Page A Letter From W.A.N.K. Tom McMahan [“ . . . Allocations sent (given? Thrown?) out by the Planning Committee have . . .”] Michael Heller The Bard Audio Co-op Political Prisoners In The U.S.A. Arthur Carlson Page 3 An Interview With Dr. E. P. Skinner Adios Espanol Mary O’Connor Tanya Fayan Unity And Democracy Chris $7200 & Expenses Evan Hall Scott Porter Page 4 A Creative Contamination Marin Presents The Joys Of . . . Juggling Two Hundred Years Ago Today, Blues Roderick D. Michael Untitled Poem Annette Mahon Drawing D. Milne Untitled Poem Becky Heydemann Page 5 Foiled Again! John Rolfe Page 6 Music & Theater Review The Who Robin Trower UFO John Rolfe Upcoming Plays Adam Marre Photography News Briefs Moonies Return George Smith The Political Action Group Security At Fishkill? George Smith Page 7 De Mysteria Dan Eddy [“ . . . The reappearance of a word . . . That word is apathy, . . .”] Asparagus Barks John Large Dr. Bish Page 8 Bard Rallies, Beats S. Vermont Soccer News Soccer Schedule Women’s Sports Sarah Robins The Gargoyle’s Voice Cross-Country News Cross-Country Schedule Winning Isn’t Everything Rod Michaels -.-- - -' ' Jj "Were it !lift for me to deeide whether we should have a . ''tn my youth t.hought 4 governmcnt without newspapcrs, of writlng a s.atirc on ·' or newspapers without a mankind, but now in my 4 govcrnmcnt, I should not age I think I should write hesitate a moment to prefcr an apology for them" the latter." ~ Walpole OBSERVER j Thomas J effcrso!l. _ ) ~~ - -·11 - The Official Publication of the Bard College Community -

·vaL. 20, NO. I ANNANDALE..QN·HUDSON. N.Y. SEPTEMBER 27, 1978

-· RICHARD GRI FFITHS: open letter

u/t is ihperitive (sie} ... to win them over before they becotn:: contaminated by some of the returninq students. " Editor's~ote: . and a directive for all employees to put During the first week of classes, xeroxcd forward their best in helping the new copies of a controversial interoffice memo, students as they arrived on campus, and dated August 17, 1978 and signed by Ri­ to provide as much service as possible chard. Griffiths, were anonymously placed to aid themin their new environment. in the post office and the library. Other The memo used the word ''contaminat­ duplicates were also sent to the Q~~t:_y~, ed" in the phrase "to prevent contamin­ President Botstein, Dean Sugatt, Peter ation by some of the re turning students.' Amato, Vice-President Papadimitriou, Ri­ (This i\tcident is a typical e.xamp1e of chard Starkie and the Student Central just what that phrase meant ). " Committee. It was later discovered that "Physical Plant personriel fiave alway~ the memo was stolen from the Physical had a policy ofproviding service to the collegecommunity Plant Office. A dispute has centered a­ and particularly the round the choice of words of the first studcnt body, and wc are attempting to add paragraph: vitality to imprave that function, and especially by impravemerit of the August 17, 1978 dormitory living conditions, the overaH "To All Physical Plant Employees: physical facilities, and the campus in its Michael enitety, which is difficult with our lim­ Simpson College is opening on Saturday, Sep­ ited mcans. We are attempting to elim­ tember 2, 1978 with the 200 or so fresh­ inatc as much as possible a.reas that caus( men arriving on that day; It is inperative concern through improved maintenance, Then and now (sie) that we handie our responsibilities concern for annoyance, elimination of Allen had resigned and would he con­ to these incomirig students, and take ad­ unsightly areas, and most important, Most B:udians are aware of the tran­ sider taking her position?Wcll, Dean vantage of having the first day or two to preservation of college properties and sitory nature of the Bard population. Simpson thought about this m'?mcn~ous . help them around campus and roayhe the educational processes." . The community changes alrnost as easi· question all of tbirty seconds albums, news programs, and special use mimeographed paper for productlon dw Stat10n. lt ' been direet victims of state violence. if both could exist. creative programming.. Lt wiH ~lso serve purposes. We rejectcd this idea. Last year, the Association Those who have been know that there the as a medium for Bard mformat10n, the most blatant complaint against are tryany kinds and degrccs of political I would like to thank the sta.ff for. broadcasting vital information such ~s Obseryer was that it did not l.Q_Q..k like a . P.S. prisoncrs. We have peopYe like J oh n ny this issue; thcy l_ost much slccp puttl~g th1s n otiees of student/club/faculty meeHngs, ~e-wspaper. The editori.al board, _kee~ing Imani Hacris, framed and railroaded for i especrally thank_Bob, De.mse, rides to various places, free s tudent ads, this and risingproducuon costs m mmd, one out. sheer political reasons, or the Wilmington Mark, Mary ,and Shcha for dmng the and servkes and entertainment provided prepared a budget that w~s directed towar~ Josh: 10. There are many morc like thern, aH-ntghter. ColJege, etc. No student with a improvement and expans10n. by the most of them we never hear about be­ . . good idca, and the ambition to see. it Over the past w<:ek, many studcnts have. cause of the very fact that they were im­ a \etter from will be turned away, ever. Drop viewed the granting of additional funds to through, prisoned to silenee them. There are peo­ A. N. K. Tom l\1cMahan WANK .a. note, '-,:ia campus mail box 870, , the Q~~~~ as a blow to the radio station. W. ple in jail on variaus drug and sex laws comrades hope is no.t see th~ program director (this author ), This is simfcly not the case. The newspaper H op e 1s· no.t lost • . ' that are very political. There are people al . d. . or attend a radio dub meeting (always whol.ly we comes an t~rnattve me la on · lost. When apathy and general disinterest ,who became political itt jail and subse­ behold, atmounced). campus. There are cettam ar:as of commu- is as common as the Bard cru d, quently were denied parole and bruta­ example that So, comrades, it docs seem as if the nication that t~e new~paper lS unable to there stands an illustrious pcople who are dream has materialized. W ANK is so lized. There are many the and the cooperativc students with an idea, e~ergy, pcrmeating fulfl!l. If ar:-ythmg, Q.b~~~t:: we can alrnost hear it now. The time not evcn aware of the politics mare reasons to and patiencc can act~ally do ~ome~hwg close the Radto Statlon h:a.ve frustrations have ended, their imprisonment. These are ofcen .other to improve student hfe. Case 111 pomt: has come. Our work together th.an ~ooppos:,one an be be­ sort of people who would not be in pri­ the radio station, officially dubbcd WANR anda warm and relieved smile will But the quesuon rs ~sked,_ Why dtd the son were they white and wealthy. · of those who think stowed upon those' fortunate enough to Q2_s~~~ take funds that were allocatcd .for (for the inforrnation Throughout the early 70's Nixon con­ Not . tune in to AM 620KHZ. Wt:! trust it will the Station?" Th7 simpl.e an_s;wcr ~~ . otherwise) translates to "We Are people in jail for ~ad~o itl An oft-over- be a most euphonic ycar of radio, and let centrated on putting . that 1t drd not. The Radw Statron ts recet- K'ddi 1" i m atl . f S . 'al F d p . 1 ng. anc we e . the realization of the "impossible" radio politic~, and the failure ~f his presidency aI pecl I un sd dOJec.t heard cry arnidst the student body is prosecutions on­ vhrng ~onbe~d~~m insanity station serveas living proof to all that, and ot the more famous t at ts su s1 1zmg t 1e was ters an ryers. th t th s h fi e !ine between started al1 alas, one definatcly can help to make the. ly meant that the prosecutors is estimated that therestillbe a $2000 an~lev:n ofur~erninsanity has becorne and It bl richer and more integrated going aftcr lcss prominent figures sen-iesterly revenue collccted from the al d th 1 k fl' t t Bard campus a 0 • 1 o-a e started using more· effective strategies, laundry. The pinball money (another Spe- toda. re S ude to eh ac . ~ enf- place. WANK on! dl , ra 10. tu e11ts w o ongmaLe rom !ike the gt:andjurysystern. . , · radio sta- cial Pdroject :nd ~?urcf Jbs ~supb?se Y 'pro· metropolitan areas with good LETTER TO THE EDITORS TIH~re are many prisoncrs not cven severe A mise " to t e Ra 10 C ~ or t Is. semeSter tions are reportedly suffering in prison. With our love of cuphemism withdrawl symptoms. Howevcr, the ra- by last scmester'~ Planntn~ Corn~uttec. ~ot Weil, and deceftion the state has helped many (th year s Planntng di I b b ldl d 1 "D th t th only was Rod Mtchael ts e u o y ee ares, ea o e. It se~ms as though this ycar has got­ groups o peoplc become largely depcn­ · · 1 f · r d o Frce: . Com~mttee cha~rperson) et unn~ror.rnc ca italist commercial stations! ten off to a raring start. Allocatioils dent on it, and creatcd the illusion that it the prormsc Itself f; ~~radio is rcjuvenatcd! Viva WANK!" ofthrs transactton, but 0 · · d sent (given? thrown?) out by the P[~I1- is helping them. Pcople in halfway houses, was highly improper. Last semester's Plan- B d . . 0 110 n.ing Comm'itte_e havc always been drsap­ drug rehab''clinics, pcople on welfare all ning Committee was not authorized to al- tdu· .· ar r?t proJeCt ~as con~etve 5 tehr pointing to just about everybody; they have their Hves clasely monitared by the locate orguarantee this semester's funds. onha rheary wtnter. eve, as tsedmes w en t ete was 1Itt1 e e 1se o o o er must run under the assurnption that if state· and havc last a good many of their than let minds wander into the depths ' no one is happy then everybody's equal, thearetieal rights. Like the Soviets, we The Observer is an independe;lt student of fantasy. An cnsuing discussion went which is just as good as everybody being too have prisoners in mcntal hospitais. publication of the Bard.College the secd was plantcd, happy. Jt would bc useless for m·e to The re is a whole dass of fugitives who Community. Lettcrs to the Editor:s on all night long, the club was formed. bitch here at or about somebody since gone underground to avoid the author and other inquiries should be addressed and soon thereafter have future was indeed blcak, wc're all familiar with everyone else's ities and the list goes on and on. to Box 85, Bard Collegc, Annandale­ Admittedly, its radio had becn sob stories, so instead rll just 1ay it on We co1,1ld quibble about h.ow many on-Hudson, NY 12504. The contents as several attempts at Bar:d or so, All had the line: I'm not happy about what was how blatant the .confine­ of the Observer are copyright 1978 made in the past decade the re are and. stiil, in the true Bard spirit allocated to me, •instead of raising before oneisa prisoner, l:iy Observer Inc. uniess otherwise failed. But ment must be of pcrseverence in the face of ridicule, a goddamn fuss over a few extra doliars but it is obvious enough that there are stated. · or less uselcss to the founding farhers plugged onward and which would be mare quite a few. Thcrefore, it is the height much Editor-\n-Chief: Edward Colon promised we'd have a radio station~ .. me anyway since I needed much, of hyprocrisy and absurdity for Carter Robert Leder decided that sincc l'm Ass,ociate Editors: soon. Th~Iillures of the past stemmed more. I've to go halfway ac ross the world for a . Joshua Ostrovsky semester basically the same from the fact that transmitting apparatus starting this couple of unfortlmateR ussiarlswhen West ' Copy Editor: Denise 1 way I left off last semester therc's 1 was outrag~ously expensive, and that all there are many more cases h·ere that he Business Editor: Mary ke Goossens I can do but do as l did before, · disc joe keys and engineers would have nothing could deal with much more realistically News Editor: George Smith . be FCC licensed. Since the radio which is t~ do the best I can with what and effeccively. · Managing Editor: J anathan Soroko had to wisely to establish a carrier­ I do. The sound at concerts may end Realisticall y, however:, if Carter took Consulting Editor: Sheüa Spe.nccr dub opted which transmits its up being shitty this year, but I beseech himself to free all political prison- Editdr: Adam Marre current type system, it on Reviews you to ha.ve some understanding and/ a·hell of a task. Thomas Simon signai th-rough phone lines, the expenses ers herc he would have Photography Editor: matter. lf it's not too were drastically reduced, and the need or insight to the Ultirnately he would have to radically pretentious of me to say so I really feel system that produced these Douglas Milne, Mark Ebner, for licensing was elimina te d. W ANK does change the Layout: the equipmcnt isa fault and not the is not his Marilyn O'Connetr not fall under FCC domain. Arrangements prisoners, and that of course John Funke, if the Bard public would · were made to P,Urchase broadcasting and opcrators; job. But meanwhüe Americans cannot take time to consider this wc could the conditions that sup- studia e_guii:m~nt for an extremely gene­ be naiveabout all have a better time of it despite these must be prepared Writers: Dan Eddy,IÖ.h~Large, Rod rous price· from V assar College and WKK Y, pare t~ei~ s?ciety and 1 drawbacks. Michaels, .Art Carlson, Tom 1 Kingston station. · ·· to defend the system and all its brutality a game, ex­ McMahon,Jollr>Rolfe, Dr. At the start of the semester, the club this whole thing is like against the ever increasing groups of peo- of playing Bish, Evan Hall, ·Tanya Fayep.. ,)egan negotiating with the planning com- cept that when you're sick ple who rightly have its destruction as long as Steve: Collatr~lla, Sara.h. Robbins, · mittee and the administration for fun- · you can't stop. I figure that as their goal. Those who cling to idealistic the AmyTaylor ding. A poli was conducted last semester · this is the case 1 may as well make nations of freedom and equ~ty will be It proved the statiort. had overwhehning ' best ofit and be happy. those· most cruelly hurt wh'n the crunch support. Therefore, the station comes. Typists - Leigh Edrington, Dawn Kris­ student eight hundred dollars from Michael Heller tiansen, Shelia Spencer, Jill, was promised ·ArthlU' Carlson Projccts fund, and was to re­ The Bard Audio Lid Adolph the Special two thousand dolla~;:s from Bard's Co-op -~~-----+ ceive SEPTEMBER 27 1978 P.3 AN INTERVI'~Ew UNITY AND DEMOCRACY "The true security is to be found in of us present as whether Ill fact demo­ social solidacity rather than isolated in­ cracy could really work for the s tudent dividual effort." Dostoyevsky in the forum. Chaos and adimany palluted WITH Broth~rs Karamazo~?.-1880 the ait like a dense sm og, isolating each faction and obscuring our common need forbotha newpaperand a radio. The price of democracy is responsi­ DR. E~ P. SKINNER When we act in this manner wc are blacks attending (white) colleges were bility to thC:.P~ncipals tha_t l!Jorally de­ following the jungle values the . Dr. Elliott P. Skinner is a visiting mand d . JUstlfy lts ·existence · The law of white. It is nowjossibie for blacks to al! ' Professor at Bard for two semesters. Dr. proof 01 this 1s that when these princi­ power structure and reactionary, instead become educate and stiil retain their Skinncr is the only black professor · pals and truths are ignored or violated, of the enlightened value system of reasan black lifestyles." · teaching here at the moment. He is an democracy simply doesn't exist. and democracy. As we were only tp pain­ eminent man, and the diversity of his A basic principal of democracy is fully aware democracy does not work on What problems does the black college career iltustrates this. Asidc from being Q - the unity born ot mutual respeet and ·the ptincipals and values of power but ot graduate meet entering the educa­ responsibility. - a re.nowncd Africanist, and anthropol" common need. Witho!-lt mutual respeet ogist, he is also a former Ambassador to tional field? there can be no unity, and without un­ It is the tisesof the power structures value system in the democratic pracess Upper Volta. Dr. Skinner was graduated ity there can be no democracy and that caused many to claim demo­ from Colubia University, where he receiv­ A- "Education is not the most lucrative without d.emocracy we willnever re­ has cracy is naive and won't w~Jrk, as James ed the M.A. and P.H.D. degrees in 1952 field in the U.S.A. At one point, the solve out common needs. and 1955 respectively. He became the black teacher held one of the few "Man is a Sor;:ial Animal," Spinoza ~adison statcd in the Federalist ~_apers first black tenured professor at Columbia white collar positions among blacks. observed in part 4 of his ethics, and ~ ~u~ber 10 ). "T~~ i~stability a!ld LnjustJ.te and confustonmtroduced in 1963. Dr. Skinner has also written Now, more opportunities are opening "Men will fmd that theycan prepare into the public councils, have in truth ~any articles and books on Africa. Hc up for blacks in other fields. So ed- ' with mutual a.id, fat: more easily what been the mortal diseases mi.der V.·hich ucation is given problems like: in­ they need. and avoid far more easily is te~cl~ing two courses at Bard; 'African popular governments have everywhere tcnsive study,_and the fight for ten~ the perils beset them on all sides Peoples in the Historieal and Cross-Cul- .v.:-hic~ perished as they cani:inue to be the ure, is not that popular anymore. by uniring their forces." In other words . tural Perspe_ctives I and II', and. 'Patterns Also, for black people the employ­ favorite and fruitfull topics fro'ni W'hich of Accommodation and Rebellion among United we stand.divided~we fall. ment opportunitiesjn education have the adversarics. to liherty derive their · African Peoples'. It is hoped, that the What is the imrP.ose of society and most specious declamations." . dcclined, because blacks are no long- its institutions if it i~ not to assist each following conversation with the disting­ er in style." · This proves that for the rdernocmcic uished Professor, will provide a compre­ other individually and collectively. But pracess to work we must exercise it hensive picture of him as a teacher, and as instead of working together, we diviäc Q - Have you encountered any racism responsibly and morally, united in our an individual. · and work against each other, igriorantly . commbn need by bcing respectful of among your colleagues a.k.a. the obeying the power structures jungle law faculty? our individual need. Q- Was tokenism a majorfactorin your value system that elairus ignoring our It seems to us in this case that the employment at Bard? social responsibility tawards each other cause of our corruption w:as money, as A- "I just got here !: ... You must un der­ is lJking; out for number one. stand how blacks live in America. it is so often in power structure politics. A ~ "I think that as far ;ts the faculty is As the first rule of tyranny is divide ln this case, however, it wasn't a matter · concerned, I was hired to achieve a There is no guarantee that I would't and conquer.)thcdivisions causcd by this have met hostility on my way to of too much of it turning our heads, but black presence on campus, and among competitive ego trip enslaves us and in­ rather too little of it threatcning the the train. Li ving in Americaisa the faculty. Not i!_n..Y kind of black sures the concinuence of the-PS domi- survival of our respective groups. · presence, but a brüHant black presence trip. Racism is so pervasive in this 1.ance. society. 1t happens all the time." When we act in accordance with Therefore, it seem~ reasonable to us When I have.been anywhere as a vi~it­ that by i-!J.creasing the funds available ing professor, the major eriteda has the power structures value system of· Q - It you s~nscd any hostility among the ga for yourself, screw your buddy and to student gr:oups we will go a long way always. been my eminence as a faculty, would you inform the stu­ towards 'eliminating the squabbling and scholar." nice guys finish last, then unity and dents ofit? democracy are impossibie. Looking power grabs for as· much of the budget Q - What problerus do you feel have faced out for number one at the expense of as we can ge t. the black student at predominandy A- "Definitely." others is the basic corruption and-fal­ To dei this, we {the collective groups) white coUeges? lacy of the power structure's value sy­ are going to hold 5 or mare fund raisers Q- Are you planning to aid the admin­ stem. starring with a dance and coffee shop A- "In the sixties, white colleges were not istration in hiring future black pro­ This truth became self evident at night, on Friday, September 29th at designed to meet the needs of black fessors?. a recent student forum meeting. Due 9 :OO in Kline Commons. The variaus students. For examplc, there were no to th~ economic exegencies imposcd student groups who are fund.edhy the black associations, ptofessors, or A - "ln as f~ as -I am asked, and I can, by insufficient fundsin the student students budget are aH contributing courses. Black students had to trans~ I sh_all. Bard has it's own specific budget, many groups were unable to their efforts, time, and talents as are form the college system to meet. their system and needs. Recommenda­ receive the money they need to function the v~ous groups of·musiciansf!tC. who own needs, white students as well. tions must be seen against the total and carry out their goals. Aresult of will perform for us. But, to bring blacks into the sys,tcm offerings of the college." this was a stlident forum mceting that We ask the student body to contri- · was considerably mare traumatic. at times resembled a power structure bute by attending and supporting these Black students almost had to create Q- Do you feel that you are a roodel for "putsch" much more than it did the fund raisers By so doing, we not only anarchy, in order to makc the kind of the black students here;;? dernaeratk process. increase the money avaiJab1e to the neutralizing changes which enabled Both the raqio pcople and the news­ students groups, but begin to unitein them to bring their institutions on A- "I hope I am. I think 1 have a spe-' J:a~er people were under funded and our common need as well. campus. However, we are just about cialmessage for the.m. Not, I have their .respectlve exponents and supportets ?"he fust money raised will go to­ a generation removed from that. To­ done it, so you can do it. That's scrambled and. fought for survival over wards making the radio and newspaper day, there isa greater variety among too simple. But, that it is possible th'e meager scraps of the insufficient bud­ economically viable as they are essen-. black students. Before the sixties, to bc done." · get. There isn't enough money for bath, tial to us all. From there wc will add to yet both are essential to the intellectual the revenue of the other campus groups Mary O'Connor an9. cultural environment of Bard. The · in a manner democraticly determined newspaper faction was the majority by the chairmen of their groups who Tanya Fayan ADIOS ESPANOL. and as Lord Acton sadly observed in · will comprise the steering committee -As last semester drew to a close, Naomi that it would be possible to obtain a B.A. "The History of Freedom and Other for the fund raisers. Knapp announced to her Spanish student. s degree in Spanish. Needless to say, they Essays" t~e oneprevailing evil of demo­ Wi~hout the full democratic support that she was being reduced to half-time . _ were surprised to discover that it isn't pos­ cracy is the tyranny of the majority, or we will all suffer the inevitablc conse­ status for this semester. And· in i:he spring sible. that party, not always the majority, that quences to end this, and to underiine of '79 she will be reduced to quarter-time Spanish majars clairn that the. number succeeds by force or fraud in carrying e· our point, may we quote Robert May­ status. This means that the only Spanish and type of courscs that are offered with lections." · nard Hutchins in his "Great Books" courses offered this semester are· one inter­ Ms. Knapp on half~time status are not suf­ Mutual respeet and common need 19'54. "The Death of democracy is not rnediate (sophomore level) and one Spanish ficient to meet the needs of native Spanish were ignored by many of those involved likelyto be anassassinationfrom ambush. - Literature (senior level) course. In the speakers desiring to study Latin American and there was little unity. A result of It Will. be a slow extinction from apathy, spring, the only course offered will be at or Spanish as a second language. this was a serious questioning by many indiff•mcc and under nourishment." the intcrmediate level. On September 18, 1978, these students Chris ·Last semester there were approximately held a meeting. They decided to adopt the fi.ve Spanish majors. Upon discovering that following steps to save the Sp,..nish program Evan. Ha.ll $7200 & EXPENSE~ their program was be1ng drastica1ly curtailed, from being curtailed: 1) they would ga Scott Porter they attempted to communicate with the_ . his beleaguered crews will ever bc able through normal administrative channels as We would likc to applaud the perfor­ to complete "ali the repatr work collec- administration. they h.ad before, and if -- as before -- they mance of Ludlow's two newcomers, ted for is unknown at present. But when lnitially. several students were given ap Peter Amato and Dimitri Papadimitriou, pointments with President Botstein, with received no results, then they would circu- asked about a thirty dollar repainting in systematiz.ing their damage fining no results. As thesemestcrdrew toa close, 1ate a petition in the college community; charge for a suite in Stone Row,(sche­ they were refused meetings with President 2) they would write letters to the Board of system. Peter Amato turned in an all-time duled to be gutted in I anuary) which Botstein and directed to Ben LaFarge -­ Trustees and; 3) finally, ifthese aetions high damage estimate of $5991 to be has stlll not been done, Peter assurcd who was taking over as chairman of the had no effect, thcy would ask their parents assessed against the students for the us that all work will be finished "some­ Language and Litcrature Department from to write letters t!_) the administration pro­ spring of 1978. time" this semester. We questioned the Frederic Grab. When Mr. LaFarge was con­ testing thecurtailment of the Spanish Campare this with the estimated total judgement of assessing or att~mpting tacted over the summer, he replied that li.e program. simllar costs, ohtained from Mr. Papadi­ work to be undone by Bard's master would not be acting as chairman of the di­ At this time, after the exertions already mitriou, of $740 for the spring of 1977 building olan but were told that such vision until the fall, and that they should made and those in the planning, the ques­ and $676 for the spring of 1976. ·· damage charges must stand as "the prin- talk to him at that time. tion of any effort at all being necessary We ca n only hope th at Peter will con­ ciple" of Dimitri's office. . tinue to show the same husde in the Sokid$, if you want to kn.ow what · UpÕn seeing him in this semester, Mr. La comes up. Should these students have to future so that Bard can stay, as Dimitri specific damages were assessed against Fargc suggested that students owning cars spend their time fi.ghting for a department your raam of last year, see .Susan Barich commute three times weekly to Vassar­ that should be an in tegra1 part of th e said: "In the black, ... breaking even." for an itemized list and for a reflection , College for their Spanish requirements. Stu­ college? Spanish is an important spoken When asked for a possible expiana­ of Peter Amato's professional estimates· dents without cars would bc out of luck. language in the United States-- so wh y don for such a large gain, the Vice~Presi­ for B&G work. This raises the question of wh y Spanish is therea curtailment instead of an addition . dent replied, And just remember that undcr the students should pay Bard College $7000 to this department? . . - "l don't know how to expiain the new rules, you are responsible for mes­ a year to comruute to Vassar thrce timesa And, more important, why did the admi­ difference [between 1977 and 1978.~ .... sages written on your doors {$7.50). week for classes. nistration lead students to helieve all their requirc.mcnts could be mct in an almost ' maybe they (the previous administration] Several students transferred to Bard this .l.:...l __ ,.._ ----- _L ___ ..._ .._L J _____ L_t:' __ " :~~~tt:r~~a~"~-~~~~~li~~~~:_e~~~e~~~. P.4 ,OBSERVER SEPTEMBER 27. 1978

·A Cl,. IATIVI. I

MARt N t>RESENTS TI-IE JOYS OF ... jUGGLING .

1'wo~hundred years ago today, blues

by Roderick D. Michael

I butterflies turn Am~rica helped invent these blues These blues h~ve gro~vn but the · to violet str;mgers and we the peopleare paying the country has not : · and my sharp white paper 'dues · . : thes~ plues remember what Nixon · holds no sympathy. America is the home of these blues forgot : ,· · · ~~iling my t~oughts but· foreign to its emotional views. At the White House tpey were ~ to some fore1gn land resident, .· . where colours are lost America's blues brought the world .Cursed by a spiraling V ice­ in va~t desert plains, · · its beat. ' President ' and one-horned. dragons don't exist. and _it snappcd its fingers and tapped the dimensions touch · its feet · .. . i in firc, Now let· me make one thing per- These blues are American --- that and somewhere between · fectly they boast clcir, , · here and there seventy=three was a v but Unele Samisa terrible host ,ery go~d rn:y castlcs are washed away. year . . These blues are American as apple Gerald Ford ttied to ~wing some pic good deals . · . Annette Mahon but like the King murder -- the but Oatmeal Man cou:ntn't put 1 question is Why? them on whecls In seventy-six, we still had these Why should these blues have it so b~~ . lucky herc? but along came Cartci· with down- Weil, this country provides the

FOILED AGAIN! by john Rolfe With aw ezc a grimacc, Damicn Matchbox tosscd oft Ius bla~k hood "Would I lic to you?" Sa tan as ..:c.::t, and sucked in scveral deep gas.ps of the cool night breeze flowing briskly Snuffing Damien's rcply, Sa tan said with a sly smile: "Good! Then wc through the opencd window. He sat severil! minutcs gazing out the window may as well begin." .- · until the bedroom do9r opencd and his wizzencd wifc, also wearing a hood­ 'He stood up and rubbed his hands together. . ed rohe, entcred. "Now, Mr. Matchbox, if you have.a good hook in the study you've been "P~ticularly nusty ceremony ~onight woulrln't you say?" she cacklcd. tneaning to read... " Darnien respanded with a w~eeze and a dry cough and she condnued. "Wha... ?Hey! Wait a second here! You didn't say anything about...Oh, no "I think He's going to be quite pleascd with us.H not with my En id you don't! [ thought this thing was just supposed to Disinterestedly Damien picked up a copy of an old magazine and idly ',happen'." · · thumbed through tpe pages. . ' "My dear Mr. Matchbox," Satan said dryly, remaving his cape, "God may "I confess, my poor tubcs can't stand much mare of that lwrrid incense," work in strange ways, but I don't." . he gasped, "I'vc got to find something else ~i th my spare time." . "Likc what?" she asked. The months passed and Enid began totake on the appearance of an ex- "I don't quite know. Ah, it says here 'Make rnoney! Repair old toasters pectant mothet. Masses were being held elscwhere and the couple devoted in your spare time.' Perhaps that's what 1 should do." all their time to preparing for the cursed event. During the time Enid never "Nonsense!" Enid croaked, "You k now h ow mucn1 you i ove weeId y mass, ventured from the house out of fear bf the looks she would receive from pcdestrians who had never seen a pregnaht old lady before. and hcsides, itjust wouldn't bc the same without you." One night when Enid was in her six.th month, the. couple were lying in . "That incensc is going to be the death of me" bed read.ing. Suddenly she looked up, thought a moment,,and then spoke. Their big~ mansion ~as q~iet n ow, the congregation having de parte d. The "Damien?" · . old couple hved alone tn a Sl.Xty-roo~ cast~y which had oncc been owned by "Huh? "came the reply from behind the copt of 'Fryars Weekly'. a.formcr congressman. Attractcd by 1ts ev1l atmosphere and equally sordid "What dowedo if it's a girl?:: . h~story, they boug.h~ the house and moved in with their dog Beelzebub. "Huh?What?Ohl. don't be silly. HE wouldn't foul up like that! Bcsides, ' Ea~h week traditwnal black mass was held at the house,. and it was atten- d b HE's not supposed to have a daughterl Thaes ridiculousP' . ed y a group of people from all walks of life. There were bankers and in- His is? '~he asked. surance agents, teachers and politicians' oil company executt'ves. and' ·borcd H er tone o f vo1cc· t o ld J11m • s h e was senous.· housewives_, all willing to drive dee~ into the .eerie ~cw York c?untryside to "Aw creepies Enid! Who put all those crazy Uleas into your head?You~ve attend sen'lces ~m Wednesday evemngs. Damien, as1de frombemg the master been talking to your mother again haven't you?Confound that woman! She of,ceremony, , was also a revered elder among satanists world-wide as he had al d · 1" authored a best-selling ., t b' h "I'll B ~D d I" •.vays wante a gtr · . . . . au 0 1 ~grap y, e . amn7 · · . . . He glowered at her and said: "Come on. Lees catch somc wmks.'' Chmbmg lnto be? next to hts already_. slumbenng, wrfe, Dam1en snuffed ow The candlc was extinguished but her curiosity wasn't, and she lay for the c:mdle. He :vas JUSt. about t~ close h1s eyes when he ~as starded by a nearl an hour pondering the strange notian that had occurred to her. dazzlmg exploston of hght. Upnght abruptly, he stared m awe as a figure_ ~ k l . . f k' · h' h L d · · . - . , . . "" A rew wee. s ater Darmen came m rom war mg m ts erv ~ar en to dressed m ~ed .saun emerged from the doud of smok~ wh1ch hung before find the house empty. He searched for his wife high and low, büt there was th~,bed. " • • • • • . · · " , • , no sign of her, not of any indication of where she had gone. He sat down on Look.Look.1 1 Dam1en screamed JOsthng h1s wtfev1olently, It s Hun!It s the sofa intheliving room and pondercd liis' next movc. tlle B oss.'f" · An hour later he still hadn't a,ny idea of' where she had gone. A few phone "At ease! At ease! As you were!"_ Satan began, his voice barely masking calls to close friends and relatives came up en'lpty and Damien retired to his his excitement. "I realize this is an ungodly hour and that's why I dropped study genuinely worricd. · in! l have sam~ wonderful news for you."_ _ All at once Enid came bustlying in, out ofbreath. There was a weird smUe . , "New.s?" Damien asked, one eyebrow uplifted. · on her face. "Ah my good man! News!"Satan replied, lifting his cape as he sat down it ''Enid!n he yelped, "Where ~n hell have you been?" achair by the bed. "Of the most pleasant and joyous nature." "To Doctor Slaw!" she rephed. · Carefully he laid his gold pitchfork on the foot at the bed,and gazed at . "But he wasn't supposed to come here until ne.xt: week," he said, truly the wide-eyed, unblinking couple. 1 vexed, HTell mel why Slaw on the side?" . two have given me. I might also add that services tonight were especially "Well, remember whcn I ,ask ed you ab out the baby's sex? "she said, "And lovely!" : . . if th ere could be a foul up? " . . "Why thank you,"Damien squeaked as he fought with a cough. "Yeah,, weil r. remen;ber," h~ replied dryly, "Aw, ~nid, come off Jt! J , "After tonight.you'll never have to brcathe that infernal incense again.'' told you 1t was rmposstble. Thmgs have to go accordmg to the plan.I t can t HYou mean?... I can retire?" Damien askedgle~fully. foui up!'' · "Well ... not exactly," the Devil said, tugging Hghtly on his well-manicured "Well th:y c,an! And th~y h~ve!" ~he squealed1 "Today I wen~ for, one of goatee. "Now here is' the plan. I'm weil aware ofvyour wife's advanced age, those pre-b1rth sex determmatzon tests and my good man, the san of . ' s . . }111" 1 but I also know thatthereis no.greater honor for a devoted couple than for a~~n lS a g1: · · · . . , , ' • ' • . . . th~m to be the parents of my only son." · Holy slnt! T~1s am t ~unny! .r d b~tter get.on the h?t ~me.r%ht away .and The coup~e stared, eyes wide, jaws hanging.slack. I;)amien was the first to teil th~ bo~s. He s not. g~~g to lik.e th1s one btt. Look s hke 1t s_ back to summon words. . bt:eathmg mcense agatn. "But ... but why Enid :iurely a guy in your positian could .find some foxy . Withi~ a fcw minut es he was, o": the phon: to the big furnace downs~airs. chick to ... " · After betng put on 'hold' several times, he fmally got through. · "Well,.. because Enid kind of reminds me of the 0:al who married dear old ' "Helle, Boss? l" he said frantically, "This is Damien Matchbox." , dad," Satan said quietly, blushing slightly. ~ "Why, Hella, Damien!" the Devil said in a pleasant voice, "How is every- After anuneasy moment of silenee the Devil continued. "Don't worry thing?How is Enid?n apout her being old and frail; I'll take care of everything." "Terrible!" Damien said abruptly, "Listen, Boss, we've·got troubles. "Weil, what do you sayEnid?'' Damien asked, ''You feel up to it?" Enid had some tests ,done. today and that son of yours isa girl!" "1. .. 1 don't really know," she said, her face going pale, "I..I'm ata loss "Christ on a crutch!"came the reply, "That blows it for another sixty for words. This is quite an honor!' years.'' . "And I'll personally see to it that you're around 1ong enough to nurture "It wha'?" the little brat through his childhood/' Satan added. "That's it old boy. You see, I can'only have a kid when the plauets are "Whaddaya say Enid? Be a sport!" Damien said as he elbowed his spouse,, aligned right. Tried on(:e before but some lousy christians foi~ed me. Th~s "Ialways kind o~ .wanted to be a father, and be.sides, n~w I can make use of time the setup js perfect and this hap.pens! You ~~ow, it's · thing;; like th1s that old box of ctgars your mother gave me for our artmversary." . thae make a guy want to find a new line of work. . . . "Well... well, alrigh·t/' she said, her face brightening a bit, "But you're ab- '"Say, Chief,"Damien said earnestly,. ccnid you know thatthereis good solutely sure I'll be alright?" money to be maclein repairing old toasters?" P.6 OBSERVER -SEPTEM8ER 2i 1978 HJHClle -et TllfliTER REVlEW

O~er th~ past ~igbt years the sporadic new lincs/and everybody "wants to elleer ROBIN TROWER quality of The Who's album releases has it is one of Townshend's lyrics to "New "Burning Love", more satisfying, com­ testified to how tumultuous and tortuous plete synthescs Song", the album's opener. For ~h: most Rebin Trower's abandoument of his of his st yles old and new. a pcriod the s eve n des. have been for the . part he is right. Most of the must~ is much ballyhooed Hendrix style, a pro­ Whik Trower mar be a bit ansettk·d in hand. Looking back It would appear that• his distinctly 'Quaciropheni~' vint~gc ~ha. cess which began to take shape two new territory; hc has defmitcl r s true k . thev sustained themselves wholly on a Nevertheless, the album ts carned tmpres- a vein that will ~llow him to continuc to years ago with 'Long Misty Days' has kind of kinship to one anothcr that ran. sivcly by the combined forcc of its . producc good musi~ whic~ is morc dis- amountcd to a gradual slidc towarJs deeper than most ceuld. percciv_c. Tri­ frankncss and the new found dcxtcnty tinctively and gcnumely h1s. · funk. Perhaps umphing ever constant m-figho.ng, re­ and skill in their playing. this was partially induced and facilitated by the acquisitions of peatedly forgoing potentially l;Ucccssful There is much to cõnfirm the long UFO drummer Bill Lordan and bassist Rustcc solo careers to do that one more Who he1d belief that The Who are about to Allcn. two Sly anJ tl1e Family Stone This album is hard rcick's much album, they _continucd to re place raw _ . "pass the torch" (an expressian of alumni. While 'frower's dense, churning, , needed shot in the arm. UFO have power and youthful belligerence with in­ Townshcnd's) to younger bands. Tow.n ­ octave based riffs bccame increasingly managed to take a tircJ genrc and in­ telligent introspection al!d panache. shcnd's persistent slcdgehammcr chor~s brittle an~ ethereal, he began to place fuse it with ,,_~citement . Their trump 'Who Are Yeu' mere than reflects are either missing or totally subducd, m­ more emphasis on his vocalist and card ovcr othcr bands !ike Acrosmi. th the tall cxacted by fifteen y ~ ars together. dicating that he is surely shying away rhythm section. What it amountcJ to -and Forcigner is Michael Shenker, a Even the cover photo showshow start­ ... from a stylc hc pioncered. "Guitar and was an abHity to turn out lithc, swingy German born lingly they have aged, especially Pete Pen" is an encouragcmcnt .to ncwcomc:s, guitarist who is one. of the • funk, something which just tinged last most consistently dynamic rock Townshcnd, who appears genuindy cspecially thos"e in. Engl~nd, to find thc!r musi­ year's 'In City Dreams', his most refr~sh­ eians t~) appcar in a long weary. It teems with their bittern~ss and angcr an~{ express, 1t m ustca~l y. But eer· . long time. His ing and fully realiz.ed album. 'Caravan the fruits of th~ir wounds, standing as tain cuts, such as the beauttful, power­ solos are screaming flurrics of notes that to Midnight' is the next lagieal step in the most biting reflection on rock super­ ful "Music Must Change" and oh n En­ absolutely demand your attention. J the progression. However it suffcrs from stardom since Pink Floyd's 'Wish You twistlc's "905" fed strangely eivotal Thcre is very little buH. on 'Ob­ its hunger for a widcr audicnce, lapsing Were Here'. But while the Floyd viewed hardly masking the glimmer at new hor" sc:ssion'. lt's only flaws are "Looking into a tcndency to latch on to contcm­ the "machine" from t~e pcrspective of izons that the othcr songs so vehemcntly Out for Number One" and ''Born to porar_y societal and commercial themes. rcluctant newcomers, The Who's vision deny. One cannot hclp but feel that Lose". Both are d.o.a. from an overdose "King of the Dancc" soundslike a rcjcc.t is strictly from the top, lvherc they have drummer Keith Moon's death will bc the of melodrama. The other sevcn songs cd thcme for "Saturday Night Fevcr" been since 1969. Their tone is of bmtal last blow The Who can sustain, and it is are all gerns of powerhouse, rollicking and "l'm Out To Get You" is just self condemnation, a willing admission ~-.is p;ssing whi.ch roakes those ~tlimmers energy. While it's obvi.ous they owe alot screaming to get on toa dance palace of their stagnation under the pressurcs intcnsdy haunting while enJowing this to Led Zeppelin, they havc certain\y . jukebox. The album 's real strengths li e of immense-success. sadly ~arvellous album with an even established themselves as a most prom- in the grinding rockcrs Hke "Fo ol'' and ''I write the same old song with a fcw grcater poignancy. · i.sing young hand. John Rolfe UPCOMING PLAYS The first produettons of the Drama Department this scmester will be two pl~ys prcsentcd in repcrtory: "No Exit" and "The Human Voice". Both plays wcre originally written in NEWS Frcnch at about BRIEFS. the same time: the late thirties-early f0r­ ties. MOON I ES RETU RN THE POLITJCAL ACTION GROUP "No Exit", written by jean-Paul Sartr(',. is an exi&tential play, the action of which Pall elasses began at the Unification The Political Action Group, a new stu­ takes place in existential hell, whcrc one Church Seminary in Barrytown, al­ dent organization, bas deemed its prima­ of Sartre 's theori es is dcmonstrated: "hell though a court case contesting their ry goal for the scmestcr to be the climi­ is othcr people". The play is set in a dc11ial of an educational charter has nation of apathy on the Barcl Collegc drawing room that contains thrcc peoplc, becn dismissed. campus. The organization is beginning whose intcraction spells out the basis of The serninary is starting its fourth \1 voter registsation drive on Wedncsday, Sartre's philosophy. year uf elasses with an enrollment of Septernbc:r 27, for the first step in active "The Human Voice", by Cocteau, is S8 students. The stuclents are working politics in America is to cxercise the vote. a manalogue in which a woman aban­ in a 2-ycar program toward a mastt:r of The Political Action Group also has dqned by her lover sccks to rcstorc their religious cducation degrec. conceived and .organized a serics of fund­ relationship over the telephonc. Two The scminary has graduated approx­ raising eve n ts for the purpose of subsi­ senior students have been east in the role imately 100 students; 25 of these have dizing variaus clubs on campus, events and will perform it on alternating nights. gone on to furthcr srudy, many having aimcd at uniting the student body. Both productions are directed by to repeat courses in order to gain creclit. The Action Croup also.plans to lead William Driver and will take place in · The Moonics the clairn that s tudent the' Bard Student Drivc Against the Nu­ Prestan th eatrc from numbers October 6-11. have r~maincd constant, al­ clear Reactors proposed by Con-Edison. though Admissiqn is free. Adam Marre the church has no charter. Th~ Politkal Action Group's greatest, PHOTOGRAPHY Prior to bcing l!Sed as a seminary, asset is the support of the students; its the Moonies uscd the Barrytown proper­ The darkroom of the Photo Club is membcrship numbcrs over fifty stuclents ty to indoctrinate younger co~verts .. located in the Hcgeman bascment of and is expected to grow -- hopcfully to Local cornplaints of odd chantmg no1ses 700 by the end of the semestcr. Stone Row, on main campus. A $10.00 and unwan te d visitors disappeared with introductory fce isa prcrequisite for using the changc in status. the equipment, and is asked of every mcm­ . __ · · George Smith bcr. The darkroom is open twenty-four hours a day and cxists to be u tilized by The Rev. S un Myung Moon 's Uni­ intercstcd students. . all fication Church Seminary, located in This Weclnesday evening at seven O'dock Barrytown, pledged to continue its SECURITY AT FISHKILL? a meeting will take place in the darkroom fight to ob~ain~n educatidnal charter. of\Voods Studia on Woods Road. Anyonc Robert Garrow was only one of many He sawed thrmigh the bars of a first After this decision was made State Su­ interested in making postcards is invited who have escaped from the Fishkill Cor­ story,window and scal.e{i 2 chain fe1_1ces preme Court ustice Edward Conway to attend. J rcctional Facility. All tolleJ, 32 men havc topped with barbed w1re to makc hts rcfused to overturn the State Board of There will bc as tudent photography escaped from the me~ium security prison escapc. An abandoncd wheelchai_r was Regents decision not to ~ant one. show held in the library this in the last five years. ·'fhis averages out to found aftcr his flight from the pnson. week. If any­ Attorney for the UntHeadon Ch~rch, one would an escape approximatdy every 2 inonths. Apparencly, like to exhibit his work, he or Peter Danziger, charged that the semi­ Garrow _had be~n faking the she should contact Sheva Fruitman All the escapecs have been recaptured. paralysis of his left s1de, wh1ch he suf­ or nary was arbitrarily denied a charter ~e­ Many inrnates made their escapc at- fcred when hc was wounded Madelinc Wilson. They wül be willing to cause of religious and political prcjudtces during his tempts while the correctional facility was look at ali work submittcd by seven O'clock justice Conway expiained that the capture. . the Mattewan State Hospital for the this Tuesday evening. Everyone is invited seminary was not acting in ·accordance Crim- Garrow is not the first inmate to cs- to come and inally Jnsane. At that time, the facility cape from the elderly vicw the work of the Bard with an academic plan filed with its ap­ and handicapped photographers on Wcdncsday. was used to house inmates aGcused of ward. In 1975, .a man prison officials plicat_ion for the clt-arter, dirt no~ mect I am speaking serious crimes, but incapable of standing characterizcd as bcing almost cntirely on behalf of the entire minimal standards for a clegree program, student body in expressing my desire trial. dependent on crutehes escaped by to ~nd lacked adequatc financial _resources. :.. see the Photo Club Garrow, according to the Poughkcep- pushing through the bars of in full-swing. i hope An appeal is planned. a window thcre will be enough active members sie journal, is the fifth inmate to atte!mpt 'and climbing a 20 foot fcnce: He was to In a seperate, and currently pending keep it an escape from Fishkill this year. A sup- recaptured 2 days later walking on a alive. Non-majars interested in suit, the seminary is seekinga transcript pesed paralysis allowed him to be assigned road near the prison. photow.aphy are urgcd to apply their of notes taken by the Regcnts' secretary cnergies, since darkroom h to the eldcrly and handicapped_ ward, a~" ours are s till during their deliberations on the S~mi­ . available for anyonc who is intcrested mittedly the !east secure wan{ m the pn- n~ry's chartcr re_quest. -Gt..'Orgc Smith in taking advantagc of these facilities. s on. SEPTEMBER 27 I 1978 OBSERVER ·P. 7. • \..J darker <.:orners of my lair, taking iny pro­ 0 DEMYSTERIA If this is indeed the ease, I shal! be,pa­ .Dan Eddy tient. Assured of eventual ini.tiation jcets and personal interests with me­ appearances, lshll not be saddened by present frus­ bccoming, to all outward I was standin_g in front of Stone Row tration, but live in the hope of intellee­ . totally obscured and. withdraw~ ~r?m any the other day, talking toa friend, when taal blcssedness in the world beyond. visiblc particip;ttion 1n ~uch actnattes and a strange sight was visited upon my eyes. intcrests ... which invadably creates the A crowd appeared from somewhere be------image most of y.ou might de fine as apathy: yond Preston-there must have been' Note from ;;omcone vadously designated ' I 'more than thirty people. I soon dis- as Consulting Editor, Typist, and Easi- covered that th ere was indeed consider- cally nosy ,outspoken person: ASPARAGUS BARKS jon L..arge ably mo re than that and that this was the throng: of a rccently Jet out Fresh­ In typing the artide re. the Political .... was the name of a "bottom40" man Sef\linar. "0 tell us, ye who are 1 Action 'Group, I was dismayed and dis­ show which a friend and Ilaunched fresh," l entreated, "the nature of couraged by the reappearance of a word these mysteries, for we are neophytes back in high schoo1: An? because which should havc been buried three this column was ch1efly mtended to and wish to be enlightcned !" The re­ years ago, when I was a freshman. That spotlight_music that seld~m a~pca~s on plies were varied, but the gist of the word is apathy, and the condition it at­ store shelves and seldom lS reviewed • story was that some person of academic tempts to descrihe has been variously outside New Perspectives or the Tro­ persuasion, presumably a faculty mem­ warned agalnst, grumbled about, fought user Press, ... weil. People anywhere ber, had been there to introduce some and defended with vehemence. But all visiting academic who thereupan under­ the vocalizations havc served but one don't need critics to teil them about took to tell the multitude about Dante­ purpose: to accentuate, and even pro­ that which is already spinning around with a little Plato, St. Augustine, Vergil, vokc, the condition they are directed on their changers. And in a school and St. Paul thrown in for background against. where Stockhauscn, the Arkestra, the and color. No one seemed to know Sociologists are' already de'fining the Spontaneons Music Ensemle, and who this wise one was, except that he seventies as an apathctic era, and their , Egg seem to turn up in a goodly num­ hailed from mighty Yale and was a definition can in no way be isolated to ber of collections, even the need for Dante scholar of some note(I a.ssume bottom 40 criticism m;ty be nil. Dr. Bish sends grcetings to old friends, indude only the Bard community. What­ the administration, staff, B&G, Security, that the latter dcpcnded on the former). ever they see as apathy is a universal con- So .allow me to briefly focus on faculty, student body-- to new cam.Pu~ Upoq. further questioning, though, [ was · cön- . another aspect of, um, cultural revolu­ , dition.' Try fighting t_h.~ within the tcsidents, and the Observer staff. W1shmg unable to discover anvthing else about toin: Personally, I am not (yet) a full­ flncs of our 550 acres. · you weU in this schoolycar to comc, ho­ the session. All of th~ freshm.en feigned But people of No. Impossible. And equally impossi­ fledged Marxist. !ike all ping the paper migh t survive and. be a tru­ a confused ignorance of the rest of the a "radical" or "dissident" stripe, ;T'f11 ble to accumulate 700 members of ANY ly useful organ for the community. proceedings, but I camc to the conclu- . population. impelled to use the language and cohesive group from the Bard often Since the Dr. is not aresident this ycar sion .that they had been swotn to secrecy In many discussions in the past and analytic aP{~roach of dia_Iec~al materi­ he cannot pass al~ng his usual rele\rant ad­ regarding the nature of these myster.ies. during the past mon th, othets have de­ alism. Really, the Synd1c~hsts,. the yic'e to you.but it is good to say h·eHa a­ I then and there resolved to begin an scribed the activities and academic pro­ Catholic Workers, and rad1cal hberta­ untiring crusade to disc<.wer the true jects initiated by the administration and rians are all incUned to hold a Marxian gal.n~ Vou may recall certain sugge.stions . years past r~garding diet, meaning of these things called "Fresh­ student ~ou ps to achieve coh csiveness view of whom and what eomprise the from columns in (from Dining Com­ men Seminars," for what else is educa­ among tl\e student body. This goal is dominant forees in world politics tod- manner o( movement tion for but to flnd out what one does taken for gninted to be a virtuous and ay (and of how these forees roaintain mons to P.O.), energy conservadon -- ex­ not know? worthy one. Yet I am notalonein my their dominance via the military, and the ternally and internally, etc. Essentially, paid to... Self, since I first tu~ned to that incredible com­ questioning of its value. schools, and anything running from the one hopes for attention pendium of truth and darit~. the. Bard One of Bard's most unique and v.alua­ mass media to zoning laws tp psycho­ it is oneself from which springs a.ll activity, College course list for the fall scmester ble features is its small population as logicaJ "norms".) Meanwhile, more and 1carning, reladng, etc.... for a sense of ex~ (1978 course, but not that it makes cellence, and a sense of quiet, well-being. of compared to its gcographic area, faculty more Marxist are forced to see that any a great deal of difference. The course list population, and cul tural/ recreational centrally organized state which super~ Take good c~re of yourselves; we depend is a document remarkable for its consis­ _opportunities. To properly take advan­ upon each other. · tancv). To begin v.r-ith, we have "Beet- . vizes or re~lates the commonweal-- tage of these ot.~dets, students are neccs­ that effectlvely controis and·owns the P.S. The squirrels are gathering f~od for hoven and His Era: The Image of Hu-. sarily divided and re-divided into smaJler commonwcal- does not wither away winter and are out on the _roads. They don't manity in 1800" The readet is told that and smaller singulatly-orientcd groups, but instead fulfills every function of know about cars, so please watch for them this seminar will deal with a critical until one rcaches the isolation preferred the "capitalist ruling dass," The Ntw and slow down. l period in Western culture, and this is un­ (and evcn requin:d) to ·do such things as for such a period · . Left, accordingly, raised the black flag doubtedly, the case if sculp.t, e~plore the finer aspects of a sci­ did not exist, our cntire ealeoder would alongside the red and launched its own entific theory, choreograph a dance, read COMMUNITY ~VENTS be in a shambles. Could you imagme school of "anti-authoritarian" or "de­ ali of the PlatOJlic dialogues or write a jumping from the middle of the eigh~, ccntralist" polemics. It's not suprising Sept. 27 : "'fhe Örcat Estates of'the Hud­ novel. And in this seclusion occur most teent_h .century right,into the middle of to find us all-usiltg a common tongue son River and their Prescrva­ of the thought proeesses which allow any (even while party after party spLinter tion", by J.Winthrop Aldrich 1830 without the years in between? more about individual to learn himself, into wardng "anti~ revisionist" sects.) of "Rokeby", the Red Hook Think of the problems such an irrespori­ function within his others, and how to But what is suprising is to see the Estatc of the Livingston and sible action wo.uld have ca.used. [Of constaialy-revised concept of t-he world. most bourgeois minds imaginable think­ Astor families. Senatc House course, any eighty year period would Yes, the acadcmic and social facets of have equaled importanee in .the history ing in Marxist terms. Some time ago Museum, 31 2 Fair Street, the Bard Experience are vita! and serve Scott towels published an ad which Kingston. 8:00pm · of the world, but this era bears spcdal as essential components of one's life had a glowering,. dark-featured file clerk Sept. 27-0ct. 1 : f . note .... (I guess)J here. But they cannot supersede the jarnming his fist into a flimsy towlette. "Black and White in Color" Moving right along, one comes to· the concept of the student as individual. The iogo read: IS YOUR BATHROOM (film), Upstate .Films,·z6 Mont~ next seminar e all ed "Persons", (It is to Thus, my claim is that the te~m apathy BREEDING BOLSHEVIKS?It went on gomery St., Rhinebcck. 7:30 be surmised that this is a sequel to last but incorrect, is not only unnecessary, to suggest to employ~t:s that high qual­ and9:30pm . year's "Things".) After this there are With the arrival of the compulsory fresh­ ity papcr towels are a "small but im­ Sept. 28 : "Scotland on Paradc", Mid­ each tclling its own man seminars, the conversion of the . seven more sem,inars, portant" means of supressing revolu­ Budson Civic Center (call Truth, but l willleave it to the reader to student government intoas tudent forum 8 pm tionary ardour, that one might as well 454-5800) look up the course discriptions (or him­ (which Ill:Ust, inevitably, remaina farce Sept. 29: The Poughkcepsic Ballct, Wood· start right at the very core of the pro­ self-they are all remarkable for their le­ if fewet than half the student body appear stock Playhouse. 8:00 pm vel oflucidity. Unfortunately;' I was stUl at eve n one of its meetings ), and the re­ ductive process in molllfying the work­ ingclass. W~ll, not exactly in those wor­ Sept. 30: The River Repertory Company, unable to discover what the real seeret of curring pleas by one group or another Playhouse. 8:30pm ds, but..... Mobil Oi1 has 'used a verbatim Woodstock the Freshmen Seminars was, so I made for u~ to ''Stop Sitting There; Get In­ Sept . .JO~ Oct. : 1 quotc from Das Kapüal in defending so~e further inquiries. The freshmen I volved; Unify!", the individual is not Octoberfest, National Guard capitalism a.s the most revolutionary spoke with seemed to be confused aqout only berated for attempting to maintain Kingston · · force in its day. The point, ofeourse, Ar~ory, the situation, but this l deduced was his individuality, but is variously cajoled, Oct. 3 : Dr. John Knowlcs lecture, was to show that even Karl Marx had _char_ade to .i' revent me from dis­ threatened and ordered to give up irtcrea­ "J oh n Bard",· Bard Hall ~u~.a toadmit that private enterprise has covering the truth. l questioned them sing partions of that individuality in or­ Oct. 3-5 : "The Mystery ofKaspar Hauser': der to create some unifunctional body. its good points. ~nd as Prof. Koblitz relentlessly, but it became apparent they retorted, '-':hat shows through is. the Upstate Films, Rhinebeck , had been warned that the upper elasses (Little energy or concern is spent in 7:30 and9:45pm viabili~y of o.as ~apital and the lenghts would be jealous of the privilege be­ determining the value.o~ the unified. Oct. 4 : · Dan HiH & Phoebe Snow, Mid- essenual to whtch capitalists must now go in or­ stowed upon the dass of 'B2. The only entity; like The Law, 1t 1s f:lrst Hudson Civic C~p_ter _ 8:00pm that the thing exist; whether it is right or der to defend their crecd. All of which thing I was able to learn from them was Oct. 5: Pete Seegcr and Odctta benefit at is getting silly. I'll cite a mare inter­ that they w17re reading that well-know wrong is of secondary importance, concert for the sloõp Clear- esting case before closing and that is ..a P1atonic: dialogue The Last Days of SocraJ. hest.) water. Bardavon Opera House, tes. (I left feeling a little hit frustrated, The valu e of variaus ind1vidual or . ~peech given by Mr. J arvis (of Pr op. 35 Market St., Poughkecpsie. wondering why my teachers never told group activites outside the academic, 13 farne) to the major networks this $6.00 and $4.00. call473-2073 me about such a Socratic dialogue.) political or organized extra-curriculat . summer. He proelaimed that the 7:30pm . My investigation conti.nues at the realm is likewise brought under scrutiny Con.sti~ution was designed to proteet Oct. 6: "Hamlet" perforrned by the time of this writing, but l must cortfess by publie-minded individuals. Th~yaie · ..life, liberty, and propcrty; not life, Natf~;;-al Shakespeare Company that I am beginning to lose heart. Wüi not hesitant to dedare a club meeting liberty,and illegal alle ns;. not life,liberty, Bardavon Opcra House, 8:00pn , we never discover the seeret o'f the Fresh­ :S f~r surpassing. a casual. night at Adolph'& and welfare tecipients"..... but property. Oct. 6-8 : "Fox and his Friends",Upstate man Seminars? My mind goes back to . m vtrtue and ulttmate spuitual value. Ah,. Here was a right-wing me at head doing Films. 17:30 and 9:30 pro that day in front of Ston~ Row and I . well ... perhaps I should abandon my ori- the left's dirty work for it in terms of · Oct. 6: Roy Bookbinder, country and recall some of my remarks then. "This ginal stand. · demystifying a "universal" and cannonic blues. Town Crier Cafe, 438 passing parade", I said, "isa pracessian Should, if anyone can convince rne document, the very essenee of Ameri- · Beekman Road, HopeweH )et. of the Libeeal Arts". Perhaps l spoke tha.t theirs is the deflniti_ye standard by · canism. What Jarvis vaguely comprehend 9:30pm l I a:m be­ more1wisely that thought, for whrch :ve must alljudge the vali~ity of ed was that the constitution was created Oct. 7,8 : N artheastern U.S. Regional ginning to helieve that the. seeret of the our actwns. I am eagerly awaiting the ~y one special interest group-(a proper~ Hang Gliding competition, Freshman Seminar is to be found in the appeara~cc of such a paragon. tted dass)- to proteet its interests from Route 209, Ellenville mystery of the Liberai Arts. I e onsole In the ~;an time, however, I must. those of another group. And he hit Oct. 7,8: "AMid-Summer.Njghrs.IJream" myself in this thought, for it is my fond watch .the aetivites _of all vehemently . that nail on the head in front of the big National Shakespeare Company hope and belief that next J une; up on crusad1ng groups Wlth a degree of skepti­ 3's evening news audience. Bardavon Op era House, 8 :OOpn my admittancc to the "rights, honors, cism, yet reserving my'judg~ment of So the question is: how far is the Oct. 8: Poetry Reading, Mid-Hudson and privüeges'' of a "Baccalaureate in them until such time as they attempt w bourgeoise prepared to go in adopting Ai:is & 'science Center, 228 Arts'', some kindly administrator will judge me and my own actions. Such an the paelanee of the radic'alleft?Well Main St., Poughkeepsie, call take me aside· and reveal the seeret of attack upon the way oflife I have chasen · if you look around campus at some 'o( '471-1155. 2-4ptn Liberai Arts, thus opening my eyes to for myself, no matter how well-intention- . us affluent young leftists, you rn]ght Oct. 9: Martin Mull, Mid-Hudson Civi, the mysteries of the Freshman Seminars. ed, i!_lvariablv causes me to retteat to the conelude, "all-the-way". But the Marx- Center'. eall454-5800. 8:00pm ' P.8 .OBSERVER SEPTEMBER 27 1978' Bard Rallies, Beats S Vermont

WOMEN'S SPORTS: The first Women's Varsity Basket­ The Gargoy/e's Voice ball Practice will be held October 9th & 10th at 7:30. All intercsted women please e arne and join us. We are starting CROSS-COUNTRY NEWS the seasan early in orJcr to be weil pre­ pared this year and all new players are At press time, the Bard Cross-Country welco.me .. We will. be m_embers of the team has not yet made its seasan debut. Northwest Athle tic Conference along However, reliable sources (Dirque Xero's 1 with Berkshire Christiart College, Mt. bookie) have informed the Q~~vcr ~hat Saint Mary's College, Albany College of heavy ~oney ls hein~ bet on Bardilns Pharrnacy, St. Rose College, Berkshire year. We at the Q~e~~!· herald this sign Community College. · of Bard's aseent to the big time. This season's sebedule is as follows: *****~********~**************** Community College, and Columbia WINNlNG JSN'T EVERYTHJNG Greene Community College. The Bard Boy's ~lub (Dirque Xero, SOCCER NEWS This season's schedule is as follows: president) has challenged the Security De Basketball hcre at Bard can bc de­ A rainy, caol Vcrmont afternoon in Nov. 13 Mon. Berkshire Christian Home p~rtment (Dick Stark.ie, director) toa scribed in one word: small. Small gym, the sha.dows of the Green Mountains was 6:00pm. hard-boiled egg eating con test. The Gar­ smalllockcrs, small squads, small athle­ the scene for a stunning · ~Soccer victory Nov. 15 Wed. Mt. ~_!lint Mary's Home goyle will be kecping you informed. tic budget, etc. But Bard is a "small" by the Bard Halls over Southcrn Vermont 6:00pm sebool and is mostly academic. The Halls, after a hard foughtgame,stUI Nov. 20 Mon. Albany College of Pharm- ~*** * *******~****************** The students who play for the basket­ found themselvcs trailing 3-1 with only . acy Home 6:00pm ball tea.ms can bc described in one word: 10 min1.1-tcs remaining. The rnlls, rcalizing Nov. 30 Thurs. St. Rose College Home In the spirit of cooperation with la­ big. Big hopes, devotir1g "big': time and their desperate situation, battlcd back. 7:00pm · eal law enforcement, the Obse'rver here­ energy, working out on their own so Lcd by J oh n Callahan (2 goals) the te am ' Dee. 6 Wed. Albany College of Pharm­ by challenges State Trool)erBarrncks K they won't look "big", etc. The point ticd the score before time ran öut. The acy Away 6:30pm in Rhinebeck to a softball game. of this artide is to give frcshmen, soph­ Halls, maintaining this momentum, won Dee. 8 Fri. Berkshire Community Col- omore and uppcrclassmen alike a sense in ovcrtime. The fina! score: Bard 4, lege Aw ay 6: OOprri . *********************** ******** of·what athletics is like herc at Bard. Southcru Verrnont 3. . . Dee. 11 Mon. Columbia Greene C.C. Two ingredicnts are 1ecessary for one . · The Halls will bc opening their home Away 4:00pm · Finally, the Gargoyle would like to tp enjoy himself: seasan on September 27. Come out and Dee. 15 Fri. Columbia Greene C.C. express his condolences to the friends Participation --- do not worry about support the tcam. · Home 4:15pm and relations of the late Midget of An­ what you look !ike and do not say "I Feb. 17 Sat. Mt. Saint Mary's College nan dale. His legend will live at Bard for- SOCCfR SCHEDULE can't play" (espccially if you e an play !'J Away 6:00pm ever. A caring attitude - caring about September: Feb. 23 Fri. St ... Rose College Away your physical condition, your body, 22 (Fri.) S.Ver. A~;y ·4:00pm 6:00pm 'your tcammates and ca ring ab out your 25 (Mon.) Col.Gr. 3:-Jo·· CROSS-COUNTRY SCHEDULE school work (the rnain reasqn why you 27 (Wed.) Ber.Comm. March 2nd and 3rd N.A.C. Tournament September: are here!) at St. Rose Away 4:00p • 27 (Wed.) Bcr. Com. Hm. 4:00 25 Columb.Gr. Th~ reasan I mention these two attri­ Coach: Bob Krausz butcs ts because they were displayed by 29 (Fri.) S~evens 4:00 Assistant Coach: Charles Patrick the Girls' Basketball Team. Despite the All interested students please beat September: October: Away 4:OOpm fact they never won a ~arne, th ey con- pr~ctice on October 9th & 10th at 7:30. 25 Collumb.Gr. 3 (Tues.) B~r.Com. Away 4:00 Home 4:00 ti.nued to play, practice, and put out We need yoJr support. 29 Stevens be­ 5 (Thur.) Al.Col.Phar. " 4:00 October: cause they had and havc the aforemen­ 9 (Mon.) Stevens " 4:00 tioned virtues and they felt that Sarah Robins 3 Berkshire Aw ay 4:00 winning• 11 (Wed.) Vass.B tm Hm 3:30 5 Alb_Phar. " 4:00 isn't everything. · 14 (Sat.) Skidmr. Away 2:00 9 Steve.ns 4:00 The Girl's Basketball Team tryouts 19 (Thur.) · Col.Gr. 3:30 " Hm 11 Vassar Home 3:30 ~ will be held in _the gym on October 9th _ 27 (Fri.) Sthrn.V: 3:30 30 Collumb.Gr. " 3:30 and 10th at 7:30pm. Rod Michaels ------·------·-- ...------· .. ------

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