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9-1972
Volume 1, Number 8
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HO_TJ:.LASH--(Mvthic.al Ne.wa_Se.rvice )--PAT AND TRICIA NIXON TWO DAU GHT~RS OF TRE"CURRENT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TODAY TOOK PART IN A DEMONSTRATION PROTESTING U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN S.E.ASIA •••••••• FREAKED OUT AT THE DISPLAY OF PLASTICITY AT THE REPUBLIC AN CONVENTION THE TWO ISSUED FORMAL CHARGES OF WAR CRIMINALITY A T THEIR FATHER ...... THE PRESIDENT WAS UNAVAILABLE FOR COMMEN ~e'f\':f\o f<'o; • v~,
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~UPPLEM£NT * *(I. S.U.) II The Commission on the University purpose-defeatins or purposeless, or sta:ted happening sometime last otherwise ob,iectionable, Why was COMMISSION spring, The basic idea of the it like that? ~ouldn't it be fun to Commission's actions is that students see it all in print and really show can study the classrooms of the how ridiculous it is and maybe make on University better than anyone else, a lot of trouble about it with the since after all the classroom is our help of your fellow disgusted, bored, THE environment, We know what goes on in or whatever, students? ·The commission each of our classes, and we know that doesn't believe in administrative or lots of timesJit's scandalous, and bureaucratic "solutions" to students' we ~et together with our friends and problems, These "solutions" are UNIVERSITY tell each other how scandalous it is, stuff like low pay or firinei: the but so far it's pretty private and we teacher altoaether, which leaves him haven't got the w: .role crew of scanda to go to another university and inflict lized ISU students to come up with the same stupid classroom routine on a single loud whopping University different st~dents, who will hate it wide public scandal, How many of .iust like we do, What we can do is your teachers do you think would be to put our power as students to work embarrassed if other students knew, to chan~e our teachers right here in if other teachers knew, if the commu our classrooms, That way, we get the nity knew, if EVERYBODY '<-:. :w, some benefit of our work, and we don't of the stuff they pull in that secure push anybody off on students else little classroom with the door where, .and we don't get a replacement shut? That little classroom isn't that's just as bad or worse. And so secure, and we can prove it. there's a small suspicion in my mind All we have to do is tell everybody that some teachers would be glad to about the stuff we tell our friends, know how thev could interact.with and the Commission on the University their students a little more comfort is the place to go to get the word ably. It must be pretty cold up out to everybody! there facing the stubborn, silent, un fathomable hostility of 30 students, What you should do now is really So if you've had any particularly think about some teacher you had or inspiring or exemplary classroom some class you went through that experiences, we want to hear those was disgustin¥, irritating, boring, too, How we're still goint; to be ~ useless, intimidating, lifeless, stubborn, but we're not going to ~
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<;) I 1 I 1 'I t I . • • I ~ tl ~ a r ~(!:------~~~-~-~~~~ The stalwart hearing board is comprised of :.111' '~i:1m'·• r. ~~··(~.r CU)~J,,'1 .•"~'.1@t~·i~·· r studentsiously, itand being faculty. probably They the take only it ego very found- ser- ation they have. Imagine being in court charged 11 with a traffic offense, but with no laws that say what the sentence for such an offense would by Perry Noyes Mason be. You could get, imagine, anything from a five dollar fine to the guilotine. That's the same judicial principal SCERB works on. Nobody really knows what SCERB is. ISU's the hall? Usually their testimony is down on Student Code Enforcement Review Board is a transcript, also, with no chance for further Your panel of judges gets to deliberate on mess of unwritten rules, and the student caught questionning or cross-examination. The only what your sentence will be -- anything from in it always has difficulty fUguring out one who gets questionned further is you. dismissal to a letter to your parents (if where he is. At its best, the maze of bur they haven't gotten one yet) to various forms eaucratic complications and ambiguities allow Now this may not so1D1d fair, because it isn't. of disciplinary probation, all with various a student to successfUlly get himself lost. But here the law presumes everbody innocent lengths. At its worse, it is a kangarood court. until caught. Your job is to basically hit upon extrenuating circumstances. Disciplinary probation is a sort of limbo Let us suppose that you have been caught state where the student is told to watch it for some insiduous act of illlDlorality like It's no use trying to argue them out of for several months. What it means is if you're drinking in the dorms or wanting to live charging you by mentioning trivialities such caught doing something wrong during a period where you want to (and you're not 21.) Chances as human rights. ("Wait a minute, I've got of disciplinary pro and have to go before SCERB are unknowable whether the board will call you the right to live where I damn well please!" again, the sentence is heavier. down. Suppose they do. You get a letter in or "I'm 211 Why shouldn't I be allowed to the mail informing you that --surprisel--you•ve drink in the dorm. Berlo drinks in his office!") Heavier sentence means suspension or violated a university regulation according to Their argument is the law is the law. expulsion: kicked out of the IDliversity for Student Life, ISU, and you have to appear be a short period of time or for good, Most fore some SCERB administrator. _Usually some What you have to argue is some form of students get pretty paranoid during their time is given for an appointment with him. innocence and naivete, ("Shucks, I didn't period of disciplinary pro. know I was doing anything wrong. I won't do Stories vary as to what will happen, usually it again.") You're allowed to bring one charac SCERB is used for everything from a drink depending on the administrator. He may approach ter witness to verify on your good nature. ing violation to damage to property (say, during the interview as if he wen merely asking you Bring, if you can, a department head or some a riot--if one ever happened on ISU.) That, why you committed your act (say drinking) one high up enough to impress them. This works presumably, is where expulsion on the first and what were the circumstances. He may out wonders. appearance would come in. Dope busts enjoy a and out tell you that you're to appear before peculiar status where the Normal police might a SCERB hearing and conduct an interogation. One nice thing SCERB does before it even come barging in your dorm door or Security He may slap your wrists. sees you on the hearing is send a letter to might. If Normal does, you get the town's jus your parents. If your parents freak out easily tice. Be carefUl. Anything you say will be held by terrifying sounding officialese (and it SCERB's arm of justice is, at times, rather against you. All the way. If you do (and does sound scary) better talk to them first. arthritic, if steady. There have been instances you usually do) appear before the hearing board, Keep telling them the whole thing is blown out where people have been charged for crimes several what you've said will be written down in tr&J. of proportion (which it is) and that the letter years after the fact, when even they don't re script and used as the basic testimony against they'll receive is merely form (which it often member them. One woman student, 22 years old, you. In effect, you're accusing yourself. isn't.) found herself appearing before the board for housing violation -- when she was 20, She was No wait a minute, you say, what about the By the way, SCERB can expell you from the able to talk them out of it with a lot of people who saw me do it? What about the R.A. university. faculty letters. It almost kept her from grad who caught me with that bottle walking down uating. ~ be silent! Teachers of ISU, bewarel Your students are watching you, and WE WILL TELL! We're interested in all kinds 3 of stories you can tell, Maybe one incident seems petty, but pu~ting it next to hundreds of other incidents like it makes it a lot bigger, How about all those Professional Sequence stories that have been floating around? Everyone in Education has a few of thosel Come tell the commi ssion about it, and we'll publicize it, Another thing you can do is ask your teachers a few questions, Like, what is the purpose of this course? How did you decide what textbook to use? What's your philosophy Of teaching? Then come tell us what they answered--or if they refuse to answer--or if they get pissed off at you--or if they tell you it's none of your business, Or if they give a good rap and then contradict it in their teaching practices, Everyone will know! Your name will not be used, but theirs will, The Commission is interested in ALL CLASSES AND ALL by Claude Meteskey PROFESSORS, Contact us at, 829-3701 or For ISU students with cars, P.O. Box 132, Bloomington parking is a drag, NOWI Student cars are automatically subject to some ISU parking regula tions, You have to register your car, If your unregistered car is ever on the campus, you'll get a ticket for non-registration, even if your parking is otherwise legal, INSPIRATIONAL WORDS DEPT, There are lots for student park "This is a time of tension and anxiety. You ing, if you buy a parking permit. are probably tense and anxious to begin your But there are far too few spaces for career at ISU, and at ISU there is tension the number of cars, Unless you try and conflict. But conflict is good. • it's to park at ?AM or in the late after indifference ~ !!!!!!.t ~ avoided." -- noon, you may as well give up trying to find a space. THE VIDETTE, August, 1972 An entire student parking lot was destroyed last spring, and there has been no replacement, So parking spaces are even fewer.
~ lf ABlll& TIE /lllT ITAll EXPERIENCES * Effectiveness not guaranteed or your tuition back,
~here are plenty of parking Som SCERB seem to get lost forever. Last spaces in downtown Normal. But the year 811 students were busted for living off limit is usually one or two hours, campus "illegally," which is to say they were so you will get a ticket if you are living in "unapproved" houses and si1111ltanously parking for a full morning or after being guilty of being under 21. Nobody yet noon of classes. knows what happened to these students. Some seem to have disappeared, Faculty have plenty of parking lots, A parking map of ISU could Supposing you don't appear before the be laid out in concentric circles, board, and all that happens is that letter with faculty parking occupying the sent to the folks, will it appear on your inner circles and student parking, Tecord? if the map is large enough, in the outer circles, SCERB says no. After sentence of dis ciplinary pro is served, they assert, it is It's just another aspect of fa taken out of any records. Th.ey point as culty elitist privilege at ISU, proof of this practice the fact that the in Despite the fact that students out dividual is never referred during the hearing number faculty 15-1, despite the as an individual but as a number. ("Sit down, RAKE SOME university supposedly serving stu 587. ") and also that the hearings are closed. MUCK TODAY dents, despite the students' greater However, it obvious to anybody that somebody need for promptness (like cross must know your name, or else they couldn't country class changes in 10 minutes), have sent you the letter, and it always seems ,and despite the sedentary faculty's that you appear before someone you know. greater need for exercise, the fa culty get to park in the closest It •akes it all a risky business for the spots, student who tries to apply for admission to Parking tickets for violations another university, for the application is of ISU rules are handed out by the sure to contain so• sort of question as to ISU Security Police, The tickets are whether you'd been victim to any disciplinary tricky, Many students have thought action at your previous 'School and some they could get away without paying, schools can get pretty touchy about lying on The tickets do seem unenforceable, their application fo'flllS, You know that SCERB but if you plan to register for a says they won't put your offense on your tran nother semester, you'd better pay, script, but you don't know whether they will One of the first steps at registra respond to direct inquiries fro11 another cam tions is "delinquincies." If you pus. It's a risk. Let your conscience or have any library fines or parking judgment be your guide. tickets on your record, you can't register until these "delinquincies" ISU's application for adllission, inciden are paid. tally, contains such a question. It's up to you and how well you feel you've psyched out l1tt I But if this is your last semes the system you're trying to get into to kn°"' ter at ISU, you have a chance of whether they'll relate better to honesty or running up all the free parking dishonesty, and whether they're uptight enough :!t1'71"1NU..~' tickets you want. Of course, if you about it to try and pin you down on it, want that diploma, yot.'d better pay up--no diplomas are issued to delin quents. If you want to get in a class after the be ginning of school, you will probably have to wait in a long line. Figure the course is by Claude Meteskey closed and have the notes in advance--then you have to wait in the line only once. They may It's hard to find classes you like at !SU- Betting In try to make you pay $5 for adding a course. there aten't that many good ones. But there are Just say you had to change your schedule so it some ideas you should keep in mind, not only for If you are lucky and an earlybird, you didn't conflict with your new job, and you won't might get all the classes you want at pre-regis selecting a course, but also for getting into it have to pay. and getting what you want out of it. tration. If this happens, you're set and don't have to worry until the next semester. But usu ally people don't get all their classes, espe It's easier just to sign up for every class cially freshmen and sophomores. The classes are you could possibly want, then drop down to 15 Selecting a Course "closed" after a certain number of people sign hours later. The catalog says you can't sign up up. for more than 17 hours, but a note from your ad visor will fix that. First, don't believe the description in the But a "closed" course should not stop some catalog. These summaries were written years ago one determined to get in. and seldom describe accurately the course's con tent. In addition, the.course descriptions are Go to the instructor for that class and get Manipulating Liberals deliberately vague, as the catalog must please a note requesting an extra place be added for administrators and higher-ups like the Board of you. If the instructor doesn't want to write Regents. Often students are stuck in a course, dis the note, be persistant. Tell him what a valu appointed, and it's too late to change to anoth Browsing through the textbook stores can able contribution you can make to the class. er. But even these situations can be ~meliorated. help. Often books are arranged by course, so Tell him how interested you are. You can almost you can find some interesting-looking books and always get the note. If you don't dig what's going on in the then see what class they will be used in. course, tell the teacher you'd rather do some After you get the note from you teacher, thing else on your own. If he resists, tell him Class size is an important criterion. Some you have to !!O to the department office. Most that the educational system is stifling your ISU classes have 350 students packed in a lecture departments simply rubber-stamp the professor's creativity and individuality. A lot of liberal auditorium. These classes usually teach little note. In some departments, the secretaries teachers know this and feel a little guilty about more than endurance. By !!Oing to each Department can sign, eliminating the hassle of hunting down their teaching practices. Don't let them make you the department head. do extra work if you don't want to--that's cre Office, a student can find out the maximum en ating disincentives to a meaningful education, rollment permitted in each section. Another way is to get a .class schedule book and look up the With a. note from the teacher and the depart ment head, the course is automatically open to If you have a liberal professor, you can do room number of each class you might take. A most anything you want, and still get credit for quick tour through the classroom buildings will you. The best idea is to get the notes before let you know if the classes will be large or you even go to register--it saves a lot of the course you're in. It's easy to think up a waiting in lines. legitimate-sounding justification for anything, small. even if it's disguised fucking-off. Be original If you want to take 15 hours, sign up for When getting notes, just act like everybody and work on their liberal consciences--they real 18 or 21 hours. Then, after classes start, you knows the regulations are stupid, which they are. ize they're part of an oppressive system. can decide which ones to drop. It just takes a If they try to refuse a note, raise a stink. couple minutes to drop a class, but it takes They're trying to deprive you of "educational If there's an assignment you don't dig, tell hours in lines to add one. challenge • " the professor. Explain how the assignment is irrelevant, oppressive, meaningless, arbitrary, If you are a freshman or sophomore, you sup or whatever. Make him justify what you don't posedly can't take a 200 or 300-level course. like. The professors are there to serve the This is bullshit! Just have the notes from the students. instructor, the department head, and possibly from your advisor. Tests are really good to attack. They are completely arbitrary and subjective. If you do Some courses have an H by them in the sche well on a test, keep your mouth shut, It's mean dule book. These are Honors courses, and you ingless anyway, but a good grade can't hurt you. must be in the Honors Program or have a note from If you do poorly, scream like hell. The only the Honors Office in Hovey Hall. Get the note. way a professor can answer your attacks on a Make them realize they are being intellectual test is by copping out and admitting it's tot elitist academics if they don't let you in. ally arbitrary. Then at least you're in honest dialog. If courses in the schedule book have an M by them, they are restricted to majors in that If you're really good, you can get anything Some students survive ISU by taking certain department. Supposedly you learn more in these you want at ISU. If you're really lucky, you instructors rather than certain courses, By courses, and those are the grounds you can argue might even get an education. talking to people who want the same things from on when getting a note. a course as you do, you can get a list of "good" professors. You won't go wron!! too often if you just sign up for their courses no matter what the by BSherrnan content is supposed to be. (The medium is the message.) Over the summer, a special 64-page edition of the VIDETTE was distributed to incoming Often you can't find out who the instruc students by mail, the work of editor-in-chief tor is from the class schedule book--they leave ORIENTATION Carole Halicki. Such material was usually lSSUE: that space blank,. The department offices will sent out to parent's homes by News and Publi usually know. cations' Parental Propaganda Bureau, and spe was necessitated by the enormity of the culations were rife among members of the task. That important issues about campus Some students draw up a list of possible POST as to why and what this work would be. were omitted simply because they weren't dis courses and then interview each instructor. They Well, for one thing, lots of ads. cussed is the prime limitation of most of the actually ask the teachers to explain what the Worse fears weren't realized, of course; establishment press (with its emphasis on course will be about. This also gives you the they seldom ever are. The paper wasn't pure recording the words of the societal elite.) opportunity to decide whether you like the prof publicity release, despite the disquieting Much of the material remained patently essor. opening article, entitled "ISU is a 'People' inoffensive--no pictures of dead rats were University," (if not, apparently a lucid one?) p,oing to be shown this time around in the Required courses are often the most un Written in classic Madison Avenue, the un• article on student housing--but that's under bearable in the university. If there are so~e credited work contained marvelous assertions, stood in the context of the paper being sent that you dread takin~. just put them off. Grad among the best being: during the sununer to student's parent's homes. uation requirements, especially r.eneral Education "Illinois State has made a vital A couple of articles must have had appeal to requirements, are beco~ing more liberal and al: contribution to the nation and the lovers of Camp: the article on Jesse w. Fell, lowing more choice as time goes on. If you wait world because it is a 'people' uni founder of ISU, hater of Catholics, Jews, a couple years, those required courses may be versity, It is provided and fi Blacks, drinkers, and everything else not come optional. (This strategy was successful nanced by the people, for the peo Baptist, and "lovers of trees" and an amazing with P.E. requirements, which have recently been ple, poor or wealthy, black or flight on Jesus Freaks ~Kids have found a · abolished.) white, religious or non-religious father-image in Christ. He adds direction Each schedule book contains courses that are ••• " and to their formerly unstructured lives. • • 11 ) not listed in the catalog. These are usually "Illinois State University ex But the paper did contain material on the one-time "special" classes or "experimental" ists for only one purpose: to 18-year old vote and registration and a short courses. Look under "General Studies," usually prepare the leaders of tomorrow. list of marijuana penalties, And a full page toward the end of the schedule book. Also, each Each of its resources is direc collage of articles on basketball guard Doug department has courses whose numbers end in 89- ted to that end. • • 11 Collins (to place on your wall?) these are often taught just once by an instructor No wonder t:1c. .>iece was uncredited. One can note the short articles on Aca with a special interest in the subject. After this (and two pages of editorial demic Senate and the Health Service--and the wisdo~, i>y the editor and President Berlo- uncertainty that covers both of these insti Once you know what courses you want, you dealt with in a different article here by tutions on campus. There's an article on should try to get them at convenient times during Perry Noyes) the paper settled down into the Board of Higher Ed, giving Berlo full the day. Some courses have several separate traditional VIDETTE, which is to say about power over the campus and one on the 811 sections, all meeting at different times. After half the articles were reprints from earlier housing violators caught for living off-cam pre-registration begins, a lot of departments issues, pus illegally, describing conditions in ap add extra sections of certain courses, and you Within the limitations of its style, proved off-campus housing in a less flambo can't find them in the schedule book. Check with most of the material was pretty good. Care yant s·tyle than the original rat articles, the department offices--you might find a class ful reading of the issue would show a new As far as it goes, the issue serves as a offered at a more convenient time, and only a student most of the facets of every dis decent introduction to the campus. Living few will know about. it. cussed issue that hit the campus in the here now, and seeing the issues breathe, past year. That coverage would be specious will reveal their tension. was able to use the device symbollically $' (in t..'1e story "Swamped") where the [ffi T I vengeance wreaked takes on cosmic ©®[ill~ tr~ ~ 'i!'P evolutionary proportions, · '.fostalgia does conic reprints as a ;:;G jQfCW:~ COJ:CS O'.:" ~E 1950'3, (Nostalgia One typical EC story Method was to e I Press) take a commonplace event, reverse it, and~ reGUlar thing, and if there's any fault books make bot..h appear horrifying, :'hus a with t.he series (reoroductions are :;;,.. •Crumb's ZA? i' zero, nrobably the fisherman, after catching, scaling, and excellent,) it's with t..he rather cloying first underground co"lic written, contained cooking a fish, bites into a candy bar he style of sane of their introductions, two allusions to the old £C co"lics. First finds discovering too late it has a hook written by old fans waxing enthusiastic, was a picture of the artist's stu•lio, with in it, is dragged into the lake, skinned fnis volm1e a'l!erges relatively clean, an issue of "LW co1rrl.cs ( 123) on the floor, and eaten by U."Jderwater creatures. 'l'his despite the fact that each story has a Second was the back cover: a picture of a device was particularly in "Let the s'llall explanatory introduction about the mother tearin;:;; up a young boy's comic .?unish"lent ?it the Crime," where a group artist (t.he collection of reorints of the before his eyes, with the legend, "I'll of c':tildren, following their elder' s words co:ri:i.c strip "l{razy Kat" is a· mess,) but bet t..his happened to you wha"l you were a on capital punishment, electrocute anot.'1er non-nostalgic youngsters can skip over kid!" child for "kidnappini;(' a doll, (The them quickly, and get to the gist--the Aost of t..he U."lderground cartoonists story is presented after-the-fact, with beautifully reproduced works (in this case announce their indebtedness to the ECs- t..he children holding a funeral and the twice t.he size of a normal comic--nearer to t.he size the artist drew t..hem--and in from t.he humor anarchy that was ~arvey curious adults, piecing the information Kurtzman' s :!AD to the sharper storyiines accidentally, ) color,) After all, that's what you buy 0 the book for, and to comics connoisseurs, of AL ?eldstein and the hor~or and science :i.'he ':terror stories were usually based fiction comics--artists such as Crumb, it's really all there is to it, Fuck in contemporar~f A'llerica, which meant the what ot.'1er people think, I like reading ·::rreg Irons (and Sirl.iLL comics,~ arni ;;., Clay author had plenty of material, Recognizable ,/ilson developed the artistic· concepts - comics. facets of the ;\rterican Good Life--base 3Sher'llan opened by the ECs, before the line was ball, diners clubs, urban cornforts--often censored out of existence in 1955. were the tools of ghastly retribution, ci000~· J;~. , Junior ·.Jalker and the 1Ul Stars ~Cs were olotted with consistent Feldstein's vision of evil covered a wide intelligence (givi."lg them, at the ti.me, ra.".lge from the sentimentally melodra.matic records a."l edge over about 90.; of the comics to the ~ore subtle social evils--all Ihe first album I have been able to orinted to date) and consistent creativity subordin2t.e to t..he ti~ht story line, get into in ;"!any moons is Ju."lior Walker and (giving them an edge over at least 93, '!'he !!.'CS violated rules, not merely in the ,Ul Star's AOODY JRr You may remember of t..he ot.hers--isolated exceptions being their grisly artwork, but in their Junior best from his now classic "Shotgun," :4ill i!:isner' s "l'he Soiri t" and t..'1e C.ti''l'AIN intelligent treatment of subjects like :iever a big name in honky music circles, iL\RV .JI. series.) They were U."lique in con drugs, rape, institutional racism, mob Junior caught !>JY attention by being a cept as the first line of co:irl.cs to not violence, and the power of fascisn, . Ai.l regular at ~'illmore ";iest a couple of years rely upon the security of a conti."luing of this was being done in t.'1e 1950' s, ill ago. super-protaganist, Instead, t..he story a time when paranoid Senators were sen line counted, (A comic like S'J.t'il:Et-fA!', sitive about such stuff being discussed '.lis latest LP features his usual however, could slide through months of anywhere, let alone in a comic book, wailing sax along with a very innovative uncreative bla."ldness simply on the (.'!arvey fi:urtz"lall' s :·Jw was one of t.he upto date soul and jazz sound, AOODY JR. appeal of the character--years even, ) first national magazines to criticize departs from his usual Zotownish sound The ~C horror books (there were Senator >icCarthy,) at times and mellows into some real fine war, crb1e, and science fiction, also,) :fostalgia Press' first collection southel'!! 3lack folk music of a sort, So :i.uch for atte'1lpti.>:1g to classify a man's did, by having each story i."ltroduced by of SC reprints is a bit '.'lisleading in a trio of ghoulish types, create a it's title, since stories from the crime and =sic, which is as much pure music for steady flow. Each story would be listeni."l.g to a."ld flyi."lg wit.Ii as I've heard scie".lce fiction comes are included. The in a long ti:>ie, introduced as an attempt to top the crime stories for me are less interesting, previous one in iz~d ~i~ol rivalry. if well-written example of _?Ulp-style It provided some of the satirical crime stories (the type done so well.,on In variety, cuts on the record range from :·lay 5ack Home, a song of southern USA, dista."lce for the stories, with t.he the old "Al..fred Ilitchcock Show,") lAl.e particular host beginning, ending, and deals wi t.'1 rape and is interesting on a to dalk in the :light; which floats you away sometimes interrupting the stories with number of levels. ·.forking for some sort to South A"!erica, The album is really a mocking pun-filled monologue, emphasizing of balance of artists and techniques, refreshin'.'; and creative, Very good for the outrageous nature of the horror pre sor.1e less successful stories are selected initial entry of the untrai."led ear into sented without diminishing their cathartic jazz, Get it, dig it, turn your friends on the basis of artwork or technique, on a."'!d turn t!J.em on to it by sli ppi.".lg it eff~ctiveness. I prefer the horror tales, even those The artwork was unsurpassed, different on your box wit..hout telling t..he:i. what it less satiric, Feldstein took the ~avenge stories by Feldstein being geared to is. Play, modernized it, and did continuous Seed different artists1 the rural and light Jack variations on it. 3Cs cou."ltryside was Davis, the more urban Johnny Craig or strewn wi t..h walki!lg corpses, out for their SO_·:.:!:.!:'I~·:.S I~J :~~.: YO?Ji CITY, John and Yoko, George Evans, and the supremely grotesqu~ just deserts, ?hey usually gave it to (Apple) Graham Ingles, whose settings and characters whoever deserved.it, too, i'ity and fear seemed to have walked out of Ten."lessee Williams. have never been as successfully evoked in L11side the new John and Yoko record the medium, By SG's last year, Feldstein is a petition for the buyer to sign, asking that the couple be allowed to r~main in our co1htry, due to their "sin~ar cultural contribution." I bout;ht and listened to the record a."ld for a long ti~e considered PLOT SUMMARY: Joe Vanist (the guy rtluttering to himself in the first panel) is ego not si".flin~ t.he petition, hurt and jealous at 11;he sir)lt of Libby with another man (doppleganger Hugh Manist) :i.>herl'lan eTen though he probably intended to ditch her soon originally. After a11. one has one•e pride. People's Food, as a food buying cooperative, offer a different way and our main interest has been kicking about t~e chow since January lies in getting fresh, high quality food at 14, 1972. We deal real fresh produce, fresh fair prices. This means there are times when fruits, Gridley cheese, local eggs - all for an item which appears on the order form will pretty cheap. By doing all the work coopera not be purchased by our buyers. This happens tively, costs are cut to a minimum. And since only when quality ~s not available. our we are a non-profit organization, people that buyers use the same discrimination you would eat our food. are not getting ripped off. on your own shopping ~rips. In addition to high quality, we have found Each week, a current price sheet of that low prices azi, another advantage in buying available food items is printed up. These cooperatively. All the work is done voluntarily, order forms can be obtained at the People's remember. The space for our distribution points Food office, 114 1/2 North St., Normal is generously donated by conununity organization. from 11-6 weekdays, or at Newman Center, So we are able to keep our prices low. The 501 s. Main, Normal. People place their small increase over the wholesaler's price, orders by phone (452~9221 or 452-9111) on covers only such expenses as paper items, gas Tuesday between the hours of 5 and 8 p.m. and oil for the truck and our phone service • or in person at the People's Food office; Maintanence on the truck is covered by dona Volunteers are needed to be at the office to tions to the Truck Fund, record each order. As a relatively new organization, People's From 9-11 a.m. on Wednesday, orders are Food is open to changes and suggestions. again being taken. Volunteers then total We have changed considerably from our begin• up the orders. At approximately 11:30 p.m. nings when we had no phone service and the on Thursday, two volunteer buyers and one food had to be paid for on ordering day. ••• volunteer driver, leave for Chicago in the As we grow, (which is good in helping to keep People's Food truck (obtained through ~ener quality high and prices low) new situations ous- donations from the community). Arrival can be dealt with if everyone works together. time at the Water Street Produce Market is about 2:30 a.m. At 3:30 a.m., buying commences, People's Food has come up with a very with our buyers searching out high quality interesting way for people to deal directly items. with the rising cost of food. We know of a man and woman with three children who say At Newman Center Friday, volunteers meet they spend at least $20,00 less a month on at one o'clock to prepare for the arrival food than they did before People's Food got of the truck from the market. After arrival, started. part of the food is then taken to our dis tribution point in Bloomington (to be found We are a not for profit organization that on each weeks order form) where people are has no bosses, just a whole lot of leaders. waiting., as at Newman Center, to bag the Maybe you want to be one. All you need do, is individual orders. Then from 4-6 p.m. we start eating this delectable food and think pick up, pay for our food, and receive next of ways to get it more together - then use week's order form. initiative to put your ideas into action. This is how we got started and how we will • Some people may think this is a compli continue to develop. Tuesday nights at 7:00 cated and difficult way to obtain food as we have our meetings to discuss past mistakes compared to super-market shopping. People's and future changes. Perhaps we' 11 see you Food is not a grocery store. We do not want there. to compete with grocery stores. We want to
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;y.,. Clll find - about - to do those ind. other things yomielf, wmm they am being dale almady, md ..tio .,, gat odvice =a:e=.f"~ ~; liCB'.w &£ fuiiCEicna • a natimal 1nfaro -iatiaio~for ..,,:i.;nq full-tiJm poqple for rlldicsl llld - ..,. ~ ~q.,J:.~":t'r,,;C:: gmia, c:mate yar am. jc:b or project, and a IB90Uftle aectim of. over 250 CJrtqJB tllill :in; to .....a:c" questiaia met giva adlrica m haf to "°"' in their fie1'!s, A ~S _.., iJI ukad for a aix-mcnt:h aub. , ainm wa am a ~it oozporati Oiairmls !l'.ll 5caAL CelllllB llllK l3 OlftQrf, CA 94516 (415) J76-7743 In February, 1972, student government Student Stores began with a limited text founded an organization called' Student Stores. book store in the spring of 1972. This text A charter was drawn up with the state of book store began by dealing completely through Illinois, as a non-profit corporation. The a publishing agency -- sell books at a 5\ to corporation is run completely by I.S.U. 10\ discount. For a beginning organization students. In March, during the student the bookstore did a fantastic volume -- almost government elections, a referandum was passed $27,000. In March, Student Stores opened a by a 25/l margin, which asked for a voluntary record store, selling records at a discount $1 per student. This fee was to be used for price. Most single albums sell for $3.57, A PF.IC;!; C01!P .. \EISO': supplying capital for Student Stores, the 42~ cheaper than any other store in the Bloom bail fund, and the legal aid program. With ington-Normal area. The record store also Co-op s. s. its share of the referandum money Student provides the service of ordering any record 1, subject notebooks 1.99 l,'-J.0 Stores has begt.D'l expansion of its operations. not in stock. On August 28, this store moved 2, . le3al pads ,30 ,19 to a larger location. in the heart of the 3, 50 lg, envelopes .49 .)0 In starting Student Stores programs were • Normal business district, 115 North Street • 4. 100 sm, envelopes .'.J.9 ,30 developed to fit five goals: 1) To provide On October 2, a commodities stores, selling 5, Flair p9".ls ,!J.9 ,32 services and merchandise to student at a school supplies, cigarettes, deodorant, 6, Sic pens .19 .12 cheaper cost with out ripping them off, shampoo, soap, deterl',ent, fil"l, etc., will 7, 125 sm. index cards ,29 ,20 2) To provide services and merchandise that open at the ol BOOK ON MAnJRITY "The first obligation of any student is to learn. The cost of education is high-- to you, to your parents, and to the taxpayers who have every right to expect you not to squander the public monies for your education." (DB) (This, of course, brings up the budget thing, by Perry Noyes again, which I've dealt with. Despite the 18- emphasis on growth experiences for you rather year old vote, we don't consider you students (Excerpts and translations from the special than disciplinary experiences, it is committed taxpayers, of course, since it would mean we'd 64-page New Student Edition of the VIDETTE, to more emphasis on performance criteria." (DB) have to listen to you. If government considered August, 1972,) those people it most affected as responsible (Performance criteria are an ideal method citizens with legitimate interests when it made for maintaining discipline; grades are a rather decisions about them, we wouldn't have drafted The thoughts of Berlo, like those of most effective bludgeon. We see this utilized in anyone for Vietnam, or be in Vietnam, or have influential thinkers, appear a trifle obscure the Professional Sequence Program, which is the the draft, and marijuana would be legalized, our to the uninitiated. Certainly those not overly process by which we prepare teachers and effec environment wouldn't be threatened, women familiar with Illinois State u., the campus tively weed out malcontents, sociopaths, and wouldn't have to fight for equal recognition, over which the president presides, might be a creative people who probably weren't meant to and perhaps we'd ave genuine welfare programs.) bit confused as to the concrete reasons for be teachers, anyway. Growth is emphasized, but some of his statements. it's uni-directional. As to who judges these "Love it; criticize it; discuss within it performances and what his criteria will be, the changes needed to improve it. But also For such people, some footnotes are pre let me tell you that the Board of Higher Ed protect it from those who would destroy it." sented, much in the form of paraphrases that has given me complete control over all facets (DB) refer to specifics. This may detract from of campus life. If I wanted to, I could grade the statements' larger, more metaphysical your paper, whether I knew anything or not.) (No, I don't mean me. No, I don't mean appeal, but they are essential to those wish you should think you can do anyting.) ing to understand the man. ON THE SITUATION OF EDUCATION AND THE IMPORTANCE The material referred to comprises the OF PROGRESS ON MATURITY AND MATURE DIALOG thoughts of Berlo as written by the man and as interpreted by VIDE'il'E editor Halicki. "A new era for higher education is upon us "And remember the essential idea that They appeared on pages three and four of the now. The days of practically unlimi tted spend educated people attack propositions and con special summer VIDETl'E and identified accord ing are over for colleges and universities, as cepts; but not people.and personalities." (DB) ing to initials, since otherwise it might be are the days when the concept of shared gov confusing. ernance was becoming more than just a concept." (Even though a person and his actions and (CH) thoughts and personal quirks all intertwine, it is not legitimate to acknowledge this. If ON nIB SITUATION OF EDUCATION (Quality is measured in terms of colt. we did we'd have to acknowledge the entire Look at my salary. Let's not have any bleeding educational process as subjective, personality "We at Illinois State are cononitted to hearts out there asking for any freedom to con laden, and arbitrary. Which it is. And quit restoring faith in higher education through trol their education direction, because the making those "fat David" jokes. I'm human, committing our energies to the basic intent budget isn't going to allow it. Anybody knows too.) of the university -- quality education for experimentation always costs too much money, and undergraduate students. Tliere have been alternative studies aren't just feasible. And changes in our thinking on this and there will as my previous translation asserted, I'm ON THE IMPORTANCE OF MEANINGFUL AMBIGUITY be more • • • " (DB) supposed to be entirely in control--experi mentation implies a lack of control. The Uni (The following quote evaded translation) (We are currently in the process of try versity--and the society--of the fUture cannot ing to wipe out our graduate school through support that.) "On the ather hand, we assume responsibi. budgetary assasination. This is a reversal lity for you, even though we are not your par of pat plans, which accomodated the building "Progress does deal in strife." (CH) ents. We wi 11 pay attention to your personal of a graduate school which allowed us to re live. But we also think you, as a student, cruit new instructors. Many of them are (As long as resistance is controlled and have two rights--the right to make a mistake gone now, also. Those instructors who were ineffective, it can be allowed. However, as and the right to pay for it. You will have a little odd in persisting with such quaint the University Catalog puts it, any actions many opportunities to test yourself and see notions as the right for classroom experi or proposals which violate "the provisions of if you measure up. It is our responsibility mentation, self-grading, or the words of our student code which prohibit the intentional to see that you are not crucified for you mis Jerry Farber, were largely eliminated in disruption of the regular and essential op,era takes, but the development of self-identity the end-of-the-year contract coup. Most tions of the University, the University will demands the accountability for one's own didn't/couldn't have tenure.) take steps appropriate to the maintenance of behavior." its integrity and orderly operation," So don't "The university is committed to more try any strikes or boycotts or anything violent.) Think about it. ITIJIJENT He calls. I come in midi brown And meet him at his house in town We talk of hemlines up or down. He likes them up I like them down and so STORES we 've nothing more to say and the rest of the day to say it. I suggest a pot of tea. But he would like a kiss from me. CONT1J "Let's make love," say I "Let's make· sex," says he. This fall the middleman has been eliminated Womerrs Whatever it was we made I wish and discounts will range from 10\ to 35\ on I'd made that pot of tea. textbooks and 35\ to SO\ on supplies. This fall the book exchange will be operated at -- Caroljean Kier, reprinted 310 University Union. If students do not Ceil.ter from Black Maria, a book of women's stories, need to buy new books, they may purchase a poems, interviews and graphics done by a used book directly through another student. Chicago area women. In the near future Student Stores hopes to expand to a gas station, clothing store, etc. The possibilities are limitless. Student Stores cannot operate without the The Bloomington-Normal Women's Group has ladylike) that have kept us from our inde support of all I.s.u. students. If you have been meeting fairly regularly this SU111111er. pendence. In the next few weeks an auto not yet paid your $1 referendum fee -- please We've been doing some reading, rapping and mechanics course for women taught by a woman do so. Complete the white I.B.M. card found a whole lot of growing. We've been talking mechanic will begin. Far out! For more in the registration packet, and enclose your about the possibilities of a house for women information on that call Ann or Mari at dollar. If you are not a student at 1.s.u. who need a rest from their husband, children, 452-8281, Linda or Jeanette at 829-3576. a donation can be made through Student Gov boyfriends or whatever. They could come ernment -- anyone can use these stores. If and stay awhile and there they'd find other Many of our ideas are just forming and you have any extra time to volunteer between women to talk to, a library, legal aid, not even in the planning stages yet. But now and October 15, Student Stores can use birth control and abortion information, or we see the need for some definate services your help, pricing merchandise, shelving just peace and quiet, if that's what they for women provided by women that must become merchandise, working at the record store, etc. preferred. available. Out meetings have been at 8 P.M. Last but not least support Student Stores - on Thursdays. Call the above numbers for why spend senseless extra dollars at other We've also been talking about all those the meeting place. Come and help us meet our stores. skills we don't have (because they weren't needs. --Chris Janecke a ~he Red Flag The human future depends on the revolu- supremacy. Three (affi<,ng, many) examples of among "radical" whites--which suggests that tionary unity of the international working that price are 1) the collapse of the anti- the greater verbal attention of 1968-69 was classes, for workers and workers alone pos- war movement, 2) the stagnation of the wo- indeed merely verbal. As soon as direct and sess even the potential power to break the men's liberation movement, and 3) the ina- heavy pressure from organized and militant destructive might both of monopoly capital- bility since 1969 of college students to or- non-whites let up, whites with a sigh of re- imperialism (centered in the U.S. ruling ganize effectively even for their own nar- lief let the topic drop even as a topic of class) and of social imperialism or bureau- row interests as students, ·discussion. Working for McGovern, organizing crat-capitalism (centered in Moscow), There The irrepressibly white-supremacist na- food co-ops, smashing an occasional bank win- is no guarantee that that unity will be ture of the anti-war movement in th's coun- dow, developing conmunal spirit, harassing achieved, that that potential power will be- try is shown, above all, by the failure of the County Medical Association over bureau- come effective, but those who place their that movement to identify the war as, above cratic points of order, sputtering righteous- hopes elsewhere are deceiving themselves and all, a racist war. For those who have too ly over the most recent nonsense from Hovey putting up real barriers to the achievement much of a white blindspot to see this point, Hall are only a few of the ways to avoid even of the unity necessary to destroy capitalisra. try to imagine the U.S. waging this type of thinking about, let alone confronting, the In our first two columns we named white genocidal war against another white popula- single issue which is basic to all other is- supremacy and male supremacy as the two chief tion like the French, British, or Italians. sues of the day. barriers to working-class unity in this coun- The fact that ~cGovern has not, will not, Once the elections are over (regardless try, and we explored tentatively some of the and as a bourgeois politician cannot label of the winner) it will sonn become necessary manifestations of male supremacy. White su- the war for what it is reduces his whole to begin rebuilding the anti-war movement to premacy is, at present at least, central, anti-war position to empty electioneering end the genocidal assault on the Vietnamese especially since until victory over white rhetoric, Only the racist nature of the people, It is crucial that more "activists" supremacy is won there can be no unity in the war--and the still deep racism of many self- begin to see that only on an anti-white su- fight against male supremacy. proclaimed leaders of the anti-war movement premacist basis, clearly naming and confron- The white supremacist structure of Ameri- --can explain why even among "radicals" the ting the racial basis of the war, can that kan society (and of ISU) is obvious, but what killing of 11 white athletes in Munich has movement be effectively built, In a future we wish to stress is the failure of white provoked more real horror than the systematic column we will detail some of the history of "radicals" to initiate any real struggle a- slaughter of over two-million Vietnamese by the anti-war movement in the fall of 1969 and gainst white supremacy in either their theory the Amerikan invader of their country. relate the collapse of the movement during or their practice. The white movement has Black liberation has ceased in the last that fall and the following spring to its _in the past few years paid heavily for this two years to receive even verbal attention failure to confront the issues of white inability to throw off_the ------poisons of white supremacy. ALTERNATE FLAG Dogmatism is potentially the most destrue fold between 1916 and the end of the civil tive opponent of revolutionary thought, Dog war, The fact is that a large percentage of matism played a crucially important.role in. the early Bolsheviks were killed in the ci the transformation of Leninism into Stalinism vil war and there simply were not enough and the consequent negation of the Russian imaginative leaders to run the country. Men Revolution. like Trotsky found it necessary to impose How? Ideological dogmatism is one of, if old hierarchical and bureaucratic systems on not THE, most powerful method of creating and the areas of government under their control maintaining the static tendencies and hierar in order to maintain Bolshevik power and win chical nature inherent in a modern state bu the civil war. Clearly the Bolsheviks were reaucracy. Many months before his death seduced by their belief in the theory of the Lenin began examining (and criticizing), the vangard to think that they could establish a negative effects that the growing Soviet bu government of free individuals based on state reaucracy was having on the spirit of the systems which undermined, destroyed indivi Revolution. It may be said (charitably) that dualism, Perhaps the Bolsheviks did not illness prevented Lenin from acting to curb even understand the basic psychological the destructive nature of his bureaucracy, changes that must come about in order to but there is no way that any present-day re improve modern society, volutionary can be excused from examining Since the founders of the U.S. nation were the Russian phenomena in order to combat the operating from a similar elitist state of existing U.S. bureaucracy and--more important mind--and probably with less concern for the --to prevent a similar subversion of any new ordinary man--it is of little wonder that revolution. the U.S. state is hardly better than the The importance of dogmatism and the bu Soviet. The same bureaucratic spirit is sti reaucratic mind lies in the very fact that fling the people of both nations, but it must it is so all-pervasive, Lenin noted that the ~ot be assumed that this spirit is a modern rise of the bureaucracy seemed to coincide development. It is only that the bureaucracy with a decline in individual initiative of the state is now the most easily discern among the rank and file of the Communist able bearer of this spirit. It is everywhere. Party. In Russia's peculiar instance, the As I have said, ancimportant aspect of the Bolshevik Party expanded perhaps a hundred- bureaucratic spirit is that it is hierarchi cal but it is also contains a normal aspect which is just as important. Worship of the What the hell is a proletariat anyway? 'f magical norm and the pressure towards con ., forming to the norm is the essence of the And what is a class? t) static element of the bureaucratic spirit In Europe and Asia, classes developed from and the chief destructive force against in the division of free men and slaves. To some ' dividualism. large extent that division was based on money ~') Consider, for instance, the sO-called wo and the type of labor that an individual did ~~ men 1s liberation movement. One of the battle With the end of slavery in a pure ownership ~ cries is that women are oppressed by men, by sense, classes and slavery were increasingly ,./·. male standards. Frequently this is interpre based on degrees of wealth and in terms of ted to mean that women are more oppressed labor. In the Old World these divisions were t not based on rac~ but in the U.S. black sla ::;.· than men--that they are "slaves of the slaves" Obviously, there are laws, such as the anti very (which existed long after the end of " abortion laws, various property laws and di serfdom in most of Europe) added a dimension called racism to class divisions • ~ .:... vorce laws which discriminate against women • But the crux of the struggle is that women And the whole system is based on the hier cannot act as free individuals and that is archical and normative principles so apparent not solely a struggle for women's rights. in modern bureaucracy, And what is the main Men may have a few legal advantages but those prop? It is dogmatism--dogmatism in the form are rightfully being reduced. The important of religion, in the form of U.S. democracy, question, however, is whether or not people in the form of Soviet communism. It is dog ,ay act as individuals without suffering so matism in the form of a societal dictat that cietal pressure for departing form societal one must wear a tie to an office job, or that norms. And that is a human struggle not a one must not smoke marijuana, or that one struggle based on sex, must not have sexual relations with a member The so-called class struggle problem may of one's own sex. The main prop is anti be approached from the exact same viewpoint. individualism, What is this "bourgeois mentality"? .In the A revolutionary's main duty is therefore U.S. it is the mentality of the masses and to oppose dogmatism in all its aspects and the mentality of conformism. It is the men to promote individualism. What must be done tality of bureaucracy, both state and indus is to find a way to make "the masses" indi trial, and that, I think, was what Marx was viduals again (or for the first time), What really struggling against. The ideal soci must be done is to find a way of governing ety would seem to be a society of individu~ a state or an industry that is compatible als tolerant of other individuals. Conse with individual freedom. quently, what can be gained from a glorifi cation of the "proletariat•? Ilyin Starik apple 9- ®trea · stereo center anothea- hard absolutely t::c>l'e episode from. ~ke seedy side DEKALB 1022 W. LINCOLN show st.age no hassle 815-758 2442 of life. -im T.M. NORMAL 117 E. BEAUFORT 309-452 4215 605 Y2. N• .MQin Streie..t •'Bio o"'in9t on, :I\Uno ts {,1701 30~/82.q-So\2.. We. ~,.N N.ce.s~i+ie.s .f ot" 'ie'll.'J' M;-nd.. ~ Bocly WLter bEcls o.nd Wo..~atb&~ Acca.ssor !es C\o\hl~. Lich*s \. fo~+t-rS _. He.a.cl. ~ems Rrcl m~Qh f'lore. /() ~ ~~LIBERATION '<. Pamphlets analyzin~ the ~merican pri s?n system and Attica Prison in par tic~lar are now available from the U.S. military, already with 3 major e A~tica Defense Committee, c/o the Na lectronic complexes in Thailand, are tional Lawyers Guild, 23 Cornelia st building'a fourth, Radar surveillance, New York, N.Y. •' facilities for automated bombers, and communication systems interlocking the CIA, the Thai Army, and the paramili * * * tary Thai Border Patrol are being con Boston homosexuals are fighting police structed in the rebel-plagued northern harassment in court, in response to po area of the country, lice practice of periodically "cleaning up" a popular gay cruising area. Until * * * now, merely walkinp.: on "The Block" at night was grounds for conviction on dis Althou~h the official U.S. policy to orderly conduct charges, NEWS ward the racist Union of South Africa has been to neither encourage or dis * courage investment, official U.S. gov * * Taxpayers will be paying the diet ernment agencies have begun mapping John D. Lavelle, the general demoted food industry $100 to $500 million South Africa's buried mineral wealth, for illegally ordering bombing in North as reimbursement for the money the The Nation4l Aeronautic Space Admini Vietnam, has now retired with-an excel companies lost after the banning of stration and the Unlted States Geologi lent pension. Lavelle, who supposedly cyclamates, according to a bill cal Survey began th1 mapping with a retired "for health reasons," can now passed by the House, Cyclamates, used as sugar substitutes in diet drinks, were banned in 1969 due to evidence that they caused cancer. * * * Officials at the Olympic Games have been destroying petitions circu lated by a woman athlete. The peti tions call for Nixon to halt bombing of North Vietnam. * * * The Southeastern Hemp Dealers As sociation donated $500 to the Miami bail fund, The group called on other dealers to "support our communities, politics and culture with the money we make there." In Atlanta, the group supports clinics, crisis cen ters, and political organizations. * * * The Air Force is now helping young men with "social adjustment," through programs of classes and recreation sponsered by the Youth Service U,S.A, corporation. satellite in July, :The executive ed deduct 70~ of his $18,900 yearly pen * * * itor of the Enginee!ing and Mining sion from income taxes--a "disability" Journ~l of New York:said "Mining cor deduction, He can deduct a further Melvin Laird, the FBI director, and porations must now :ate South Africa $5000 under a "sick pay" proviso. the Attor.ney General have all been high on their list If countries in served with lawsuits by several ac which to invest, be,ause of its pol tivist groups who used an electronic itical stability aswell as its wealth * * * device to detect wiretaps in their of minerals," One hundred thousand Japanese gathered offices, The suits call for $100 a in Hiroshima August 6 to mark the 27th day while the illegal wiretaps are * * anniversary of the u.s. killing of operating, Authorities at New :ork' s medium-se 125,000 Hiroshima residents. 25 U.S. allJi curi ty Wallkill St~e Prison are try marines attended expressed their * * * ing to block the pr.soners from form fear that Vietnam may be the next tar get of U.S. nuclear weapons, Reflecting on America's glories at ing a union. Pris~ers working to form the Republican Convention, Senator the union, which will atempt to raise Goldwater said, "About 6'~ of the the average ~5¢ dai.jy wage, are being * * * world's people are Americans and threatened with shijment to a maximum they live on about 6% of the world's security prison, Ricardo Chavez, who last April held a plane hostage while demanding a press real estate. They own over 52% of . conference, has been found guilty of everything of material worth the hijacking, Chavez wanted a press con world has to offer." ference in order to broadcast the plight of the Chicano Community, He * * * claims he had no intention of taking the plane- anwhere, and his gun was not Police Chief magazine is advertising loaded, He has been sentenced to life the "Spit Fire Electric Riot Baton," imprisonment. an electric cattle prod, for crowd control, * * * * * * North American Rockwell has developed a bomb even "better" than the "smart" Thieu has annulled draft exemptions bomb, The "condor," which has its for Buddhist monks, and the Buddhists' own engine, can be fired JO miles from usually quiet opposition to Saigon its target, When approaching the tar governments has erupted into violent get, the condor flashes a light in the skirmishes between Buddhists and aircraft, The pilot watches a TV pic Saigon Police, who have even invaded pagodas. ture broadcast from the flyin~ bomb and guides it exactly where needed. * * * * * * II Bomb shipments from American Machine Large corporate agribusiness is moving I "ThosEMlohavehad : into Iowa, squeezing out the indepen and Foundry Company in York, Pa. were a chance brbur~ stopped August 12 by fifty people ga dent small farmer. The National Farm andmuld oot p:odqCe ~ thered on the railroad tracks. The ers Organization has formed as an at should oot be . company, realizing that the demonstra tempt to organize small farmers to hold tors were determined to stop war ship out againt agribusiness. another~ ments, quickly backed down and can celled trains for the day. (Last * * * spring, the company was hit by a sabo tage raid damaging several bomb casings The Braziliam government and U.S. cor ready for shipment.) porations are undertaking a gigantic "development project" in the resource rich Amazon River area. Millions of * * acres of land have been sold to private Prisoners rounded up in South Vietnam's companies, without regard to who lives latest series of mass civillian arrests on the land, Indians-and squatters are are being severely tortured, according being killed and forced into near-slave to letters arriving recently. The let labor for the corporations. ters were written by prisoners and smuggled to the u.s. via France. Some * * * were published in the French newspaper L'Humanite. Press reports indicate New police weapons will soon be on the that about 14,000 civillians have been market, A "sound curdler," will fire arrested each month since the April painful sound waves from a shotgun-like offensive, device, A "taser" will fire electriOal barbs enabling police to paralyze some one at five ~undred feet. Flourescent * * * powder guns, barbed wire guns, foam The Nixon administration, through as sprays, and high intensit~ lights to sistant Attorney General Peterson, is disorient crowds are also being devel launching an attack on the Supreme oped. Court ruies against illegally seized evidence. Peterson said that persons * * * SERVICE accused of serious crimes should have fewer rights than those accused of 200 Japanese demonstrators blocked a Ford Motor Company is directly re less serious crimes. shipment of 5 U.S. tanks bound for sponsible for the deaths of three Vietnam in Yokohama August 5. workers killed on the job this year, according to the U.S. Occupation * * * Gay prisoners in Florida have filed Safety and Health Administration. 85 black workers began a strike at complaints against official harassment Ford was fined $200 as penalty for Atlanta's Nabisco plant Aug. 11 to of homosexuals. Another complaint de the latest worker fatality, protest racist attitudes in the com manded that authorities cease refusing pany's hiring and firing. They have to allow gay-oriented periodicals and * * * now been joined by some white workers. books into the prisons. The union, Bakery Confectioners Local Conditions at Ford are "lethal," ac #42, is supporting the management. * * cording to the Wayne County Depart * ment of Health. A suit charges Perjury charges have been dropped a Ford with violating County pollution * * * gainst Leslie Bacon, who was indicted regulations 143 times since 1970. The World Council of Churches voted after a Seattle Grand Jury investiga Aug. 22 to dispose of all its stock tion into the 1971 bombing of the in all corporations doing business Capitol Building. The government with white-ruled African countries. dropped the charges rather than reveal the contents of their illegal wiretaps. * * * * * * Several American cities are becoming increasingly worried by the prolifer Arrested for participating in the ation of graffitti spray-painted on commando group whose bomb almost buildings. Once confined to the ghet spoiled San Juan's Miss USA festival, toes, graffitti are spreading to the Wilfredo Lopez claims innocence, suburbs and corporate business dis though he does admit to the indepen tricts. New York mayor Lindsay pro dentista feelings which apparently posed a $100 fine or 6 months in jail motivated the attack. for anyone caught with an open paint can in a public building. * * * * * * An insurance company is now offering cops insurance against suits of po 14 GI's have filed court-martial char lice brutality and false arrest. ges against General John D. Lavelle-, The company's motto is "Protection who admitted ordering bombing of North for those who protect others." Vietnam over Nixon's orders. (Nixon had ordered a bombing halt during the ~E WON'T !>WALLOW ITI period in question.) * * * A White House Report recently presented * * * to Congress has admitted that the U.S. funneled $78 million, supposedly ear A recent- New York Times article re These news briefs are all summaries of marked for the Food for Peace Program, vealed that the U.S. attempted to fire longer articles which could not be into the South Vietnamese war budget storm heavily VC areas of Viet Nam, printed entirely. Anyone interested in 1971. The forests were too wet to burn, so the projects were failures. But now, in reading the complete articles is welcome to come to the Post-Amerikan * * the forests are gone--the successful * projects involved heavy B-52 bombing, office, 114~ North St. in Normal. Marijuana smoking may prevent glaucoma, defoliation, and then complete clear according to scientists at the Univer ing with bulldozers. The former for sity of California Medical School and ests are now "pacified." the National Institute of Health, * * * * * The U.S. Air Force has spent 28 mil lion developing instant air bases, which can be dropped and assembled in 72 hours, providing facilities for six thousand men, Air Force officials, listing 1400 possible sites throughout the world for the bases, say they could "revolutionize U.S. diplomacy," * * Continental Oil Company, McDonnell Douglas, Gulf and Western, and Sig nal Companies had a total 1971 in~ come of $332 million, yet not a penny was paid in federal tax, ac cording to Rep. Charles Vanik in a report to a Congressional committee, The report also listed corporations paying taxes at rates of only 1 to 10%. The combined income for all these companies in 1971 was almost 3 billion dollars. WOMEN'S LIBERATION AND HOW IT MAY BECOME ANTI-WOMEN which blind up and prevent us from perceiving how flimsy are those gains, how money status and lpproval have nothing to do with our inner worth, and blind us too from the full view of how little control we have over our own lives. by Mary Porter The goal of women's liberation at this stage cannot be inner security,, It's im possible at this stage. The goal is not to fact we are intensely unfree having interna ~eel more comfortable and accepted and loved- lized probably more deeply than we have dreamed all of which tend to make us satisfied with It is my feeling that there is a great the dehumanizing barbaric values of our society. the status quo. The goal is going deeply danger of women's liberation groups becoming We are in no position to patronizingly help enough into the analysis of what oppression anti-woman, that they may too easily get to others, and only by honestly examining our means, and how deeply it affects us so that the stage of allowing the members to feel per selves can we develop the humility to accept we can direct our lives towards struggling sonally liberated, while ignoring and cutting the extent to which this is true. against that kind of oppression which kills themselves off from the rest of their sisters. us all. They are in some ways relatively more free than The beauty of women's liberation if it their sisters, but essentially they remain could be pushed to its logical conclusions Middle class women's liberation groups oppressed, and in some senses even become is that in fact because we are women we can will have the tendency of stopping too soon. oppressors. We develop on the women's issue, never be free (yes, we can go beyond that and We will 1.D1cover certain aspects of our own in other words, the very destructive bourgeois say that because we are participants in a oppression, and begin to accept and admire frame of mind, which allows us, because we capitalistic framework we are not free.) Some ourselves a bit more. We will begin to make feel relatively more secure, to avoid con are more free than others. But if we push some important first step toward our own frontation with the serious problems of the women's liberation to truly uncover our non liberation. society, to avoid facing the serious extent freedom, to truly expose the bitterness of the of unfreedom within that society. By libera dehumanization process that has occurred in In short, I don't feel that we are ting ourselves enough to feel comfortable, by our lives, we would be able, because we under facing squarely enough the deeply radical the very dangerous sense of superiority, we stand oppression on the gut level, to relate implications of women's liberation. We seem loqse any committment we might have developed to oppressed peoples as equals. Yes we are to be satisfied, indeed to be assuming that to an intense and serious attack on oppression more free. But fundamentally we are all we are liberated, and because we are ·satisfied, in our society. We are failing to open our oppressed together. Fundamentally our lives we will never have a deep rooted conmdttment selves up to our own "artifical security" for are a mess. If we could face that, if we to work out in a total way a life style as all its basic. ugliness, and are unable therefore could get a true sense of what oppression means well as a political program that will be to identify with other oppressed peoples out and the bitterness that grows from the aware consistent with our real values or needs. of our own intensity of awareness of what op ness, we might begin to struggle meaningfully, pression really means. Women's liberation to be radical in the best sense, to live We must push women's liberation a stage provides a beautiful opportunity for opening radically, arid to act more thoroughly con- farther -- so that we can no longer regard our minds and hearts to what's going on all sistent with our values. We have a long way ourselves as exceptions. We must push it to around us. But we are in danger of stopping to go before we would have honestly faced some the stage of feeling in the gut what it means short of that potential. We must, I believe, of the problems in that way. To stop now to be treated like shit. Only then will we push women's liberation not to the stage of with women's liberations, we are in danger of have a chance for begining to liberate ourselves feeling greater personal freedom, but in fact being satisfied with the most superficial reforms. and eliminating the artificial props which the opposite, the intensity of our lack of give us false confidence. Only then will we freedom, a growing awareness of .what it means The main political goal at this stage, begin to be able to relate to others as when people say that none are free until we as I see it, is all of us expanding our con allies and not as inferiors. Examples are are all free together. We must live this idea sciousness of ourselves as having worth, but everywhere--teacher student relationships, and probe it for all its worth. We must also as having been deeply oppressed, As more mother child relationships, male female re deeply admit to ourselves the ways we are not and more people do that, they can express lationships. All suffer from inherent elit free in order to truly understand what non themseI.ves in political ways against the forces sim, authoritarianism, all rely on power which freedom really means, and thus ever to develop that oppress them. No one can liberate any destroys love and ultimately destroys people. the kind of committment that is necessary to one else out of a spirit of nonequality. No work against it. We can never successfully one can liberate another at all, in fact. All We can't afford to retain a sense of continue the ·struggle if we allow ourselves we can do, I should think, is work for the superiority, authority, dominance because the luxury of feeling marginally satisfied. context in which we all as equal participants these are oppressive characteristics which it can work in the struggle together. We need is only too easy for oppressed and insecure There is a danger for middle class women, to believe, I should think, in the real mean people to use against those who are slightly as middle class everywhere, to assume that ing of participatory democracy. In the same less oppressed than they. They work against we are more secure than other women, that we way we assume that we·are capable of liberating the 1novement, and against the goal of estab have fewer problems. We begin to feel sorey ourselves, that no one can do it for us, we lishing an environment where all people's for the other women that are more oppressed. humanity and equality are respected. With this kind of attitude, we are going to 11USt have the same attitude towards others, be no more helpful to our sisters or to our possible if we are sensing ourselves as unfree selves than white can be to blacks. We will together. We have to distrust false senses of security that might prompt us to act in pat begin to think ourselves to be the elite. We ronizing ways and thus become intimidators will begin to think of ourselves as superiors, ourselves. denying what I though we believed in -- the equality of human beings. We set ourselves up The danger with bourgeois mentality, ours, as being relatively secure, now ready to pat is that we remain satisfied with the sup~rficial ronhingly help others. We are relatively props to our egos. We become satisfied with . more secure. But we are by iiO"means free, in artificial gains like money, status, approval, about working women MYTH: A woman's place is in the home. MYTll: It doesn't pay to train· or pro A woman's workplace has become both 'her mote women because they will marry and leave recently signed into effect a new welfare law home and her job. In many working and poor and the investment will be wasted. which requires all those "able-boclied"wel fare families, the woman must work outside the recipients to work -- without provisions for home just to make ends meet. In 1969, Sixty percent of all women in the labor day care facilities.) 30,5 million or 43% of women 16 years and force are married, 20% are widowed, separated ~IYTI!: Woll'en are not interested in joining older were working in the U.S. or divorced, and the remaininP, 20% are single unions because they see their prina11r role as in women -- mostly young. the home. Women comprised 38% of all workers. Forty percent of married women living with their Married women with husbands and children There are twenty-five million, unorJ:anized husbands were workers. And in 5.4 million have an average worklife expectation (out womer. workers fr. the llnited States and yet, the families, women were the sole support. side the home) at age 35 of 24 years. lar~e:r, male-dominated unions have not sought to bring these women the protection of organi MYTH: Women work for pin money, to 1·1YTl-I: Women on welfare don't want to zation. supplement their husband's income. work. They just want to live off the tax payer's money. Many unorganized wo!'len are farm-workers Forty percent of working women are (500,000), domestic workers (1. 7 million) and single, widowed, separated or divorced and Noman on welfare who want to work, as service workers ( 4. 7 mi Ilion) • These occupations must work to support themselves. well as non-welfare women, have the diffi have a predominance of black, Puerto Rican, culty of finding adequate, inexpensive day chicana, and oriental women. Racism couplect Of the 16 million women who work out care. One woman we know took home $90 a with the small and sometimes isolated nature side the home, one-sixth have husbands who · week and paid $32 a week for day care for of their work makes organizing more difficult, earn less than $3000 a year, and one-fifth one child. but all the more essential. have husbands who earn between $3000 and $5000 a year. Since a welfare mother is rarely paid Other unorganized women workers, like even the minimum wage, the added cost of clerical workers, are persuaded by their Three-fifths of all families in which child care would just about eat up her bosses that their jobs are "better" than wives work would have incomes of less than paycheck, leavin.11: her riqht back where she manual jobs in a shop and therefore unions $7000 a year without the wife's earnings. started -- Jependt'nt on we 1 fare. (Nixon are beneath their status. LO by Phoebe and Holden Caulfield impressed by his friendliness and profession. One doctor, when com thought he was "professionally OK." menting on Rudnicki's leaving his He was treating her for a persistent practice in Pontiac, said, "Rudnicki condition, and she assumed he was likes his patients too much. He The name of Dr. Rudnicki has doing so competently. She mentioned doesn't look at them with profes been in the air for quite a while, that he was very flattering and al sional eyes." When we first heard of him, he was ways made comments about her being a right-on gynecologist who gave good-looking. A gynecologist, when informed examinations and prescribed birth of Rudnicki's propositioning Carol, control pills without regard to Carol said that a couple of said "We know there's something marital status, Until about a year times Rudnicki would be in a bad ago, Rudnicki was the only local gyn mood and she described his actions wrong with him, but you women must ecologist giving pills to single wo as "bizarre outbursts." Rudnicki report it before something can be men. - (With other doctors, a woman had made remarks that were personally done," to claim she was getting married,) derogatory and once made a sharp crack about "whoever you're shack But Carol hasn't reported her Then some funny rumors started ing up with," But Carol was willing experiences to any official author floating around1 that a woman's to overlook these things because ities. Like many people, Carol bill from Rudnicki varied according they seemed to be only occasional feels powerless to fight these sorts to how good-looking she was, that moods. of abuses o~ position and power. he could get pretty sharp-tempered, Carol did not believe the medical that he committed numerous breaches By the Winter of 1971, Carol's association would act on any com of medical ethics, and that he was attitude began to change, She de plaint she filed, so she did not a very poor doctor. tected sexual overtones in Dr. Rud even bother complaining. nicki' s comments. He began standing These stories did deserve the a little too close, touching her too We encouraged Carol to let us status of mere rumors until we were long, and asking too much about her write up her experiences and send contacted by a young woman from sex life. Carol felt that the doc this article to the Post Amerikan. Wormal who told us of her own exper tor's questions probed far beyond We hoped that the public exposure iences with Dr, Rudnicki, of Carol's experiences would help what was medically important. Once put pressure on Rudnicki to change. Dr, Rudnicki asked Carol if she en Also, we know there are many other This summer Carol (not her real joved oral sex. Carol began to feel women who have personally experienced name) was sitting undressed on Rud that Rudnicki was scheduling unnec Rudnicki's unprofessional conduct, nicki 's examining table when he ap essary appointments. and we hoped this article could en proached her, wiggling his tongue in courage them to file official com simulation of cunnilingus and asked, Once Carol was supposed to drop plaints, "How about it, Carol?"- He proceeded into Rudnicki's office just to pick to stroke her thigh and try to kiss up some medicine, Howev~r, once she her. Carol pushed him away, saying arrived, he seemed to think her After the second examination he was being "unprofessional" and breasts needed examination, accord during which Rudnicki simulated was placing her in "an unfair posi ing to Carol, cunnilingus and propositioned her, tion." Carol said Rudnicki respond Carol finally switched doctors. She ed by "pouting like a child." Carol At one time Carol was sure an had hesitated for a long time, not said she then dressed and left the infection wasn't VD, because she only because Rudnicki gave her low office crying. hadn't been having sex for a long prices, but she had also hoped the time, Rudnicki replied, "Things doctor would respect her refusals. This incident was the culmina are rouch all over," and began So Rudnicki has lost Carol, tiou of a long procession of Carol's hinting about his desire for Carol. and from what we hear he has lost visits to Rudnicki. She first many other patients, but he is started seeing him on the recommen Rudnicki's reputation is known still allowed to maintain his dation of her mother's friend in among other members of the medical lucrative practice here in Blooming the Spring of 1970. Between this ton, time and the Summer of 1972, Carol had between 20 and 30 appointments with Dr. Rudnicki, At first she was 40 000 lettuce workers are trying to improve upon such ho~rid national figures as: 1) Yearly Income The average yearly income of a family of four working full time is only $2700. 2) Leth~l Pesticides 800 workers are killed per year as a 3sult of misuse of lethal pesticides. 3) Child Labor Over 400,000 children below the age of 13 work under the hot sun in stoop labor. 4) Life Expectancy The average life expectancy for farm workers is only 49 years. 5) Decent Housing -gs'% of farmworkers housing does not have a toilet, bath or sink. YOU AS A CONSUMER CAN HELP. PLEASE DO NOT EAT OR BUY ICEBERG (HEAD) LETTUCE. IN RESTAURANTS REQUEST THE LETTUCE BE REMOVED. (ONLY ICEBERG LETTUCE IS BEING BOYCOTTED. OTHER TYPES ARE NOT BEING BOYCOTTED.) volved with CIA operations in Laoe to a firm doing something relating and also with Southeast Asian opium to third-world population control. traffic, receives millions of dol There were grants to develop contra lars from AID each year, AID chan ceptives, grants for designing dis nels ~ood for Peace money into the tribution and marketing programs, military budgets of third world feasability studies, sterilization governments. studies, and even studies about how to get reluctant people to take con I sent awa~ for a booklet traceptives. called Current Technical Service Contracts, which anyone can get free Most of the booklet's contracts from AID by writing to the Depart were under a million dollars, and ment .of State in Washington. almost all were under 2 million. The booklet doesn't tell much, But International Planned Par but you can get some ideas about enthood Federation gets 27 million what AID is into by flipping through from AID to "support family plan it. ning organizations, programs and projects in less developed countries." A large number of contracts are very vague, saying simply "training A firm called the Pathfunder participants assigned by AID in Fund gets 7 million for third world various fields." Most of these con population control, and so does the tracts are with universities, and Population Council, Inc. there are a lot of universities dealing with the Agency. Even General Electric and Wes tinghouse, believe it or not, have There are a few scattered con AID contracts dealing with popula by rrax Spielman tracts dealing with medical matters, tion control. And so does the such as research into such tropical notorious Rand Corporation. diseases as malaria and achistoso The Agency for International miasis. Although these contracts And there were many, many smal- Development is one of those organi seem to be a laudable aspect of AID's . ler contracts with probably a hun zations that sounds good until you operations, they are few in number dred different firms, all dealing get to know it better. On the sur and account for only a small percen with how to get those people in face, AID works to correct the un tage of AID's total budget. South America and Africa and Asia balance between the wealthy healthy to stop having all those babies. industrialized nations and the im I found the fairly-famous grant poverished countries containing most to Southern Illinois University. It. You begin to wonder why the of the world's population. All the totalled a million dollars to "grant top AID officials and their advisors liberal arguments trying to morally assistance to strengthen competency are so concerned about population influence U,S, foreign policy call in studies related to the economic control. for programs to "help" "develop" and social development of Vietnam . the poor countries, What could in its post-war reconstruction." They know that unless the third sound better, then, than an Agency world very quickly starts getting for International Development? One interesting contract was a lot more food, there's not going with the International Executive to be enough to feed the growing But AID's image of service is Service Corps. The grant is for numbers of people. And the AID a fraud, The Agency for Interna more than 11 million, and is to people know that those starving tional Development's primary goal "sponsor and conduct a private, non people are going to get desperate. is not the helping of other nations. government program providing a means for private U.S. business to furnish AID's policies are subordinate Maybe a food riot in Calcutta. management counsel and technical as Maybe a starving mob breaking in~o to U.S. political and economic in s is tanc e to less developed coun the rich American hotels and taking terests. AID attempts to make a tries." all the good food. Maybe an angry country safe for u.s. investment. mob doing some trashing of all those It attempts to create the political I found 5 separate contracts fat cat hotels and businesses and "stability" necessary for that in with Air America, totalling more automobiles, vestment. than 80 million dollars. One of these is for "advice and assistance Or even worse, maybe those hun AID buys equipment so right in developing the in-country capa gry people would start moving toward wing governments can fight guer bility of the police aviation divi a social system which would provide rillas. It finances counter-insur sion" in Thailand. enough food. Maybe they'd move to gency training to back up elite ward the communists, whose top pri dictatorships, AID is building fa orities always include feeding the cilfities in South Vietnam for stor But what impressed me the most people. And that would be a disas ing the thousands of political pri was something I hadn't expected- ter for American business and their soners Thieu is arresting and tor AID buddies. (I can see it now1 AID is into fertilit~ control--real turing, ly heavy into fertility control. "The communists are exploiting the peoples' hunger and poverty, prom The Saigon Police are trained On most of the booklet's pages, ising them food and better living with AID funds, Air America, in- the largest grant or contract was conditions.") Yes TH1NCrS ARE" PRETTY CrRO~SoMG No~-1\-0J.YS' /Y./Hf\,,T Wl7ll NrxoN AND BERLO ANO PouT1c1ANs ANo Atw11N1sTR.A-roR5 ANO OTllfR V.4MP1Re5 F'l~TIN4 FOi? 11 PIECE oF you./ W11AT WtTH DA.11-y Wiii\ STl\T•ST1cs I ANt> Tiie '2oN\B THURS.J SE"Pl: ~l!L jJ.q~_ No11.n1 Sr-:r:i>o TWO (yes) TWO RUU!S FORTHOSEAMERICANSSO ANXIOUS TO EFFECT CHANGE IN nlE UNITED STATES (adopted by the Republican Party, August, 1972) '9~\VENTIONAL 1) You must work within the system. 2) You must not be successfUl If in violation of Rule One you will be either/or: a) beat up, b) arrested, POLITICS -- c) called nasty names and Comnnmist by Spiro Agnew. If in violation of Rule Two, you will be either/or: Apple 'l'ree, 117 ·:. Beaufort, Normal a) not (yet) beat up or arrested, The Joint, 605t N. r,~ain St,, Bloomington b) t:alled 1. impractical, McLean County Pant Co,, 601 N, Main., Bl, 2. subversive, Fritz Pretzels, 115 North St., Normal 3. and Un-Amerlcar. in your ideals DA's Liquors, Oakland and Main, Bl, For illustration to Rule Caboose Records, 101 North St,, Normal One: Student Stores, 115 North St., Normal (See activities outside the Miami Convention--if you can Mother Murphy's, 111-t North St., Normal find any media presentation of it.) Minstrel Record Parlor, 311 S, Main, Nml. For illustration to Rule Al's Book World, 111 W, Front St,, Bl, TWo: W:r, Goodbar, 111-t North St., Normal (See activities inside the Miami Convention--particularly the Ronald Reagen speech, with the memorable "smoke-filled room" comment, the Nixon acceptance, and, <>f course, the words of Agnew.) 0~ GEl.V And don't forget to register ~ -:I1'EL to vote. ~ by ~ Citizens' Committee Against Monopoly And don't forget to vote. If you call Directory Assis OOD THINGS ·ro tance (13) lately, you-.will be asked to give your own phone number. The made, "1J/tl> 11a tur•'t OIAJJ? operators are instructed to find out your number before they give out the information you are seeking, General Telephone wants to find out what patterns exist in Direc tory Assistance use, If they find out that there are regular users of the service, they are planning to establish a charge for calling the operator, This has been done in other cities, We urge non-cooperation with General Telephone Company, Whenever they ask your phone number, make up a number that could not possibly exist in Bloomington Normal. When the operator says that number doesn't exist, insist it is written on your telephone. Even better, but not as much fun, is to give real phone numbers, but different ones each time, This will screw up their survey, The more random use of the service ap pears, the less likely the phone company is to levy that extra charge, Call Directory Assistance even when you don't need to. If you want to do just a one time thing, give a 15-digit number. General ~elephone will register that as a protest. Take a lot of the operator's time. Make her search for non-existent numbers. Last Summer Gen Tel was the victim of a sabotage raid, The company's trucks had sugar put in the gas tanks while "HALT WAR PRO DUCTION" was painted on the build ing. (General Telephone Company makes transceivers for army planes.) But sabotage isn't the only way to fight Gen Tel. Screwing up this survey will ~elp, and it's le gal, too. WAR TAX RESISTANCE DO YOU KNOW What COULD Your Tax Dollars Buy? WHAT WAR 17 Army Machine Guns ($9,025) l Elementary school or teacher's annual COSTS YOU? salary. 1 Main Battle Tank ($600,000) Full-time psychotherapy or for 171 drug addicts You work hard for your money. But most of your federal tax dol for one year (as prac lar goes to pay for wars-past, present and future. Sixty-one per ticed at Odyssey House, cent in the next fiscal year. Phoenix), New York City costs. In fact, the U.S. has spent over $1 trillion--ene thousand bil lion dollars--on the military since 1946. 1 B-1 Bomer ($25 million) Fifteen SO-bed public or hospitals of the type The ~~xon Administration is asking Congress for $176.9 billion in Gonzales, Louisiana for Fi~~al Year 1972. Of this amount, ·44\ is earmarked for cur rent military expenditures. 6\ for veterans benefits, and 105 Helicopters, the ($52.S million) 17 1/2 health centers 11\ for interest on the national debt (most of it war-incurred). number totally destroyed or treating 40,000 people This comes to 61\ of the proposed federal budget. in 1971 campaign in Laos each year, for a total of 700,000 people, based Here's what is left over: on a model in Cleveland HUMAN RESOURCES (education, manpower, health, income security): 17\ 1 Destroyer ($90 million) 5.6 typical high schools PHYSICAL RESOURCES (agriculture, rural development, natural re in the Midwest •. sources, commerce, transportation, community development, and or housing): ll\ 1 Aircraft Carrier ($1 billion) 67,000 low-cost housing or units with two bedrooms ALL 01HER (international affairs and finance, space, general each government, revenue-sharing, non-military pay increases, con tingencies): 11\ Cost overrun of the ($2 billion) 6.25 billion passenger-· miles of mass transit These figures have been compiled by the Library of Congress Leg C-SA transport, as or of 1970 in a typical Americ8Jl islative Reference Service. The budget does not include the city. trust funds such as Social Security, over which Congress has no direct control. W@Jl:f If you are one of the thousands After several months you will of students who will be paying start receiving notices from the a monthly phone bill to General IRS indicating you owe a certain Telephone you need not pay your amount. Don't pay any attention 1) Decrease your federal income tax liability. Figure your own Federal Excise Tax which was to them -- it's just a form. taxes. Talke all possible deductions -- itemize them. Increase levied specifically for the Each form will sound more de your contributions to religious, education, or charitable ~roups. Indochina War. manding and the final step will be an attempt to collect the 2) Reduce your income below the level of liability. A sin~le How will you go about not paying money, usually through garnish person earning less than $1700 need not pay income taxes. this tax? Simply write a letter ment of wages. The only penalty to General Telephone, Bloomington, you will receive will be a slight 3) Keep control of your own income by preventing withholding. Illinois indiciating your inten interest charge of usually around Be self-employed or contract your work. Explore partnership or tions of not contributing to the lo,. If you don't earn a wage, incorporation models. Receive less cash but more tax-free war by refusing to pay the 10\ they probably will never get your fringe benefits. Work as a consultant. excise tax. They in turn will money. And don't worry about your send you a form to fill out which parent's money because an 18 year 4) Refuse to pay the 10\ tax on your telephone, all of which will then be sent to the Internal old is legally responsible for goes for the war in Indochina. Revenue Service. The phone himself. company no longer is involved 5) Refuse to pay that portion of your income tax (61\)which goes in the matter. Each month sub This year the students living in for war, and instead put this money into an alternative fund. tract the 10\ tax from your bill the dorms will be able to use a This is an act of civil disobedience which may subject you to and pay the remaining balance. credit card for long distance penalities. Your next month's phone bill will calls made from the dorm. They show the adjustment. will also receive a monthly phone bill which will have the 10\ tax. SO STOP PAYING FOR TiiE WAR! 11 Since that meeting, the professionals /·~ have resorted to rather hidden, secretive ~ measures to resist change. They changed the board meetings to a closed meeting, public not allowed, which was in violation Your Health as seen by General Motors and 4 half ago, by his task force to re of the federal guidelines. The people found planned by MIAHPCo elect Olgivie. So, his .aids got the word to out where the meetings w~ to be held from the public health and human resources and friendly board members and the janitors of by Bob Chapmen comprehensive health people to get busy on the buildings. They were in their seats be- the county level to get the ball rolling. fore the professionals arrived. If the plan worked well, then by election time, Olgivie and Nixon, could take the The professionals decided not to an The need for these peoples of the earth the credit for ~everal new health facil nounce the time ahd place of the monthly to decentralize the decision process while ities build around the state. meeting until the day of the meetinp,. While centralizing the implementation process, has it does show the solidarity of the people, born us comprehensive health planning. Such On the Bloomington-Normal level, the in that they manage to muster more audience a nation-wide health system would change the plan meant that the doctors, hospital admin than board members, it is incredible and existing health care systems from present istrators, and medical i.nsurance executives without precedence that any body of health high-cost, treat-as-one-can-pay, Darwinistic should get together and form the necessary professionals show up at any meeting on such health business. The. program came out of corporation and plan the area's new health short notice. compromise between people believing the con facilities, since they were the people with cept that health care is not a privilege but :the me>st experience with such matters. The The pros found a way to slow down and a right, and the free-enterprise, health professionals came up with MIAHPCo--Mid-111- screen prospective members of the corpora profession/business AMA people. inois Areawide Health Planning Corporation. tion. They adopted a form application, which often seems to get lost in a poor of The change agent in the plan would end MIAHPCo will be two years old in Novem fice system, and set up a membership cononit the tight control by county medical socie ber, but for being such a yourtg organizatio11 tee controlled by fellow professionals, with ties, which are 100% physicians, over heal th it is full of quite a few "old" people. One a 2/3 vote of the Board necessary to ap care systems and plans for health facili would find it natural to see that the prof prove any new member of the corporation. ties and programs. Since these county sys essional interest group has stacked the tems now have to rely on some state and fed board by using a liberal interpretation of MIAHPCo shuffled their by-laws a few eral tax monies to build and rennovate, and the federal consumer definition, so that the months ago, added Livingston County to the since the AMA has been under fairly success wife of a physician or an executive of State region, and is currently applying to the ful attack for the past 12 years, or so, the Farm (health insurance) would be a consumer. state for recognition as the region's of plan calls for each geographical/population It is apparent to anyone who needs health ficial health planning agency. The Concerned region to be represented by a hea.lth plan care and earns a paycheck that any individual Citizens for Responsible Health Planning, ning corporation, with a board of directors or role that comes under the direct economic formed out of a coalition of people attendr to be made up of 51% consumers, 49% provid influence of a health care provider can be ing last November's meeting, has compiled a ers. controlled by same provider. The case with voiume of carefully documented violations, MIAHPCo is blatant. poor intentions, manipulative and devious On paper, the plan looks great and practices of the MIAHPCo Board and its of would set up some long range changes to the When this practice was questioned by 30· ficers. From this volume has emerged a present inequities by changing the decision or sb basically consumer, conununity people documented challenge to the validity and process and allowing problem groups to re at MIAHPCo's annual meeting, at Wesleyan Un spirit of MIAHPCo and the many good pee>ple present themselves and learn. But reality, iversity last November, the value lines were who are friendly to its position, will take being what we are, has the Nixon administra drawn and MIAHPCo officers began to see the their concern to the state and federal level tion pushing a fine public works/health bill, seriousness of the situation. The co11D11unity to see that the guidelines are followed, the Olgivie people using the plan to re people did their home work, quietly entered that plain people have a voice in critical elect the governor, and their combined phil the banquet room after the annual meal, and areas of their lives. osophies all~wing the private practice/en asked for recognition of membership. (The terprise professionals to dominate, as usual. federal guidelines state that a citizen need Otherwise, General Motors may start only come to such a meeting and apply for building hospitals and selling two-tone On the national level it's a little membership.) The people's knowledge of the powersteering air-conditioned medical care. hard to see what HEW and Nixon are doing guidelines and parlimentary procedure bested with comprehensive health. In Illinois, the professionals, and made some thinning For further information, read the next Governor Olgivie found the little gem of a heads quite red. 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