RED TIDE Vol. 1 No. 3 October 14, 1971 Cover Page [Photograph] Back Page Freak Brothers [Cartoon] Page 1 Mini Norths and South: The 3 Powers Meet Page 2 Letters La Verdad Page 3 A Talk With Little Queenie Women’s Liberation NEWS Page 4 Repressing Page 5 Bring The War Home, Ltd The Bill Will Page 8 Bard Mania: It’s Not Your Fault Robbie Goldwitz Page 9 Grateful Dead Dan Henklein The Band Cahoots Rich Tedesco Page 10 Judith S.L. Siegel Nazi Death Book The Devils RED OcToBER IY; /911 FREEPOM ro'lt. YACO~ II£F,FENBERG · !!!. · Ill! a If nothing else, the torrid.Senate and budget commi_ttee meetings, e~posed _ the well-concealed feel irigs and attitudes . of the Bard community towards Latin and Black people. The attitudes have been mainly that of resentment, but infrequently outright racism. Poor and lower middle. clas$ students deeply resent the fact that Latins and Blacks get ·full or partial scholarships. In the Senate hudget hearings, one senator questioned why so much money should be going to students who don't even pay convocation fees. This in­ ference, of course, was precisely aimed in a subtle way, at the .Latin and Black students who are on HEOP scholarships and don!t pay convocation fees but belong to organizations. I would like to respond to this senator and other Anglo-American students and faculty by stating that we are not taking anything from them. What little we . have is due to. us, l9ng ago. Anglo-Americans have. exploited our land, our people and our "ser" (sense of one's integrity and human rights) long enough. · White members of the Bard community JUSt neeo a 11nle more ne1p man tr)e My intentions are not to accuse . or are not responsible for the oppression Bard student." While it cannot be ._Joint my finger at you saying, "Be inflicted upon our people. But to denied that some teachers. were and guilty or conscious white Yankie, say that because you personally have are genuinely interested in helping look what you have done." not oppresse·d me, nor taken away my minority students, there were some human inherited rights, nor have de­ that did not even attempt to give To sum ~ up, Bard has not done its graded me is to elude the main issue. Latin or Black students a "little more share in alleviating social injustice and You have not oppressed me as an in­ help." oppression. The prevailing attitude dividual but in a group sense you have. towards Latin and Black students has That we have bee.n oppressed, dlscrim· I don't think that the faculty, the been- ( 1} mild interest (2) cold un­ inated against, humiliated, and degraded students, and the administration have concern and (3) resentment. I am by the group collectively, that is, knowingly discriminated against us. sincere when I say that I am not Anglo-Americans, rules out your conten­ However, they have been for the most taking anything away from you. There tion that you, as an individual, have part blantantly indifferent and insen­ are too many things that have been not oppressed me. Ghettos still exist. sitive. There is no question that when denied to our people. Do not de- El Barrio is still in Spanish Harlem. we come to Bard we are on an un­ lude yourselves, that because we hold Williamsburg is the same sad misery equal footing with most Anglo stu­ silent, our opression has ended, No, of yesterday. dents. The academic differences or _~the kindling wood is there, and all it disadvantages (disadvantage because a needs is someone to light the fire. Two years ago Bard instituted a "min· good education, like yours, was de­ The fire next time, as James Baldwin ority program" (known as the Bard nied to us) were and are not resolved. says. One day there will be a united Economic Opportunity Program, .shift­ Latin America ("towards the Left" in ing the central focus from one of In the deeply polarized Senate budget Anglo-Amer\can terminologvL a united social inequity to one of economic meeting, I heard the word alienation Africa, and a united Asia. deprivation or class). The planning repeated many times. But who is· the program was and inauguration of alienated from ~horn? Anglo-Ameri­ Because we are ethnically different, the met with a great deal of reluctance can students and faculty have {1) Anglo world has inflicted pain and concern on the part of and lack of been hesistant to reach out to minori­ oppression on us. The reaction .Will I 'm not going to discuss the faculty. ty students because they fear "not oe an equal and reciprocal respon~ to their reasons at length {lower standards, doing the right thing" and (2) are the stimulii. You~ have denied us long f~r ghetto Bard is not the right school plainly unconcerned about social in­ enough. kids, etc.). I believe their rationaliza­ equity. tions are also superficial and complete­ There have been times when we have ly avoid the social implication of hav- Tc those who are fearful of making been anxious and· eager _to ge~ a prcr . ing Latin and B)ack students in a p:e­ a mistake, whether it be on . an aca­ gram moving or. stabelized and have white middle class Amen· dominantly demic basis (e.g. between a minority encountered from the administration, Some faculty and stu­ cana campus. student and his teacher), or on a per­ .:he faculty and the students a ·half­ learn, had dents, I was surprised to sonal ·basis _{e.g. between a Latin or hearted response at best. This reaction Blac~ per· never spoken to a Latin or Black person and an Anglo-American) would be explanable in a large uni­ son. because of their cultural ignorance, versity such as Columbia, but not at I say to you, do not use this as a Bard. Bard's faculty made a commitment to pretext for avoiding interaction. lt the state when they initiated a min­ fs not important whether you make a Bard's size demands that there can be in recognition of ority program; they, mistake but that you try to interact. no excuse for the lack of rapport or the inequitable and totally worthl~ss Do not ~;Jiienate yourselve~ from us! interaction between us all. education of minority students, would To those who are uninterested, not counsel) Latin help (e.g. tutor and concerned, and nochalant about social We are all living together. Let us got and Black students until they injustice, I tell you, that time is on not create a mini North and South. rolling. In their words "these kids our side. · Manuel Auli Tre.hub ', . cover photo by Marty THAT'S ALL A RUMOR, 2 v:~· ISN'T IT? [about the Chinese .c. s. eating the baby girls during ~::::;::. yl' the famine] ~~ · .... ~\~~~ when i was a child ~c;:. ~. playing Tarzan on the hillside Id~ .. nobody told me ~~ JoY M~~RILL • when i grew up J OE PALUMB9 ~ i would be subordinate to you. let.s be equals what do you say? i.ll be enmeshed in commerce you wear my tampax this week J9~t1 i.ll get an ulcer pacifying the boss you do that load of sunday dishes LA VERDAD and clean the oven [a bleeding '' The Foolishness of Petitioners" I ulcer if you.ll scrub the commode] I I which would you rather This article is directed at the petition clean out the diaper that was ~rought up at the last bud­ or wipe away the snot? get meeting. lt is also to be read, by all the misguided fools who signed 1t, let.s be equals and all those who came up with the fool ish idea in the first place. r:-'lAR.iY TReHU8 /?'-< what do you say you take the pill today the Red..Tide· is-~" lr:Kfependent student publication of Bard College and i.ll take it tomorrow First of all , let. me begin by saying that ~munity. Publication is weekly during the Bard College academic 1 have made the mistake of calling it year. -letters and other inquiries should be addressed to tsox 76, i.IJ fight half the wars a petition. When what it really is, is B•rd College~ Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 12504. The contents if you.ll have half the babies a sheet of toilet paper. The only dif- and i.ll visit the whores from of Red Tide are .copyright 1971 by The Observer Press, Inc., unte5s . ference between your toilet paper,· and july to january .otherwise. Jtated. Red Tide is a Member of the U.S. Student Press the one sold in stores is that yours Association, an Astociate Member of the Underground Press Syndi­ has already been used and it has the cate; and subscribes to Liberation News Service,' and College Press autograph of those who used it. Service~· National advertising representative for Red Tide is UPS Ad. vi~ginia kidd Rep. Co., Box 26, Vil. Station, New York, N'Y. 10014. The In short, it was unorganized, written by opinions expre!'sed herein are not necessarily those of .Bard College a person with his ass instead of his or the Staff. · brain, but most of all it was done with bad intentions. The whole peti· tion was directed at the Latin Ameri­ .can Organization and the Stack Student Organization. · What most of you fools didn't realize was, that if you would read things, before you put your X on them, I wouldn't be here calling you fools.