9 pm Wednesday Maroh 1 West Akers

've got this gigantic front-page collage and these week when Allen Ginsberg and the US Kiss-In share the two pages of copy on United Students, and we'd like to be SAME FRONT PAGEI able to say it was all planned way in advance by the editors Putting our quivers of anticipation aside for a moment and iheir ouija board and crystal ball who told us that the and talking about the Issue at hand, let us take a line or two kiss-in and the boycott and the coffeehouse would an happen to apologize to all the non-MSU students to whom the US this week (plus, needless to say, Allen Ginsberg, who started pages may seem perfectly unintelligible; let us furthermore it all), but we can't say thai, cause that's not really what feel sorry for all the MSU students who may share the out- happened. It was pure coincidence, and so will it be next of-towners' feelings. Hurry up, please, there's still lime.

for a one week study of the Report ly suspect that only God knows exact­ prior to US making Its own report. ly what's going on with the parking Progress Report I personally feel that US could have situation on campus, and even ihen made such a report about eight weeks I'm not so sure. I can report only ago, but failed to do so through a that it looks like student parking combination of bad leadership and lots are slowly being moved off- that particular brand of hesitancy campus in the genral direction of which plagues so many groups whose Sidney, Austrailia, and that US is Where US is At most Important virtue should be de­ uptight about ii. 1 he fact that park­ cisiveness. That's all in the past, ing spaces are admittedly restricted By BRADFORD A. LANG own decisions. No picket lines or however, and lei's just say that I on campus is overshadowed in their molotov cocktails are being planned think Mr. Brown knows what he's minds by the absurd spectacle of or predicted. The people who have doing. Like the Williams Committee, students being denied parking places' "Are you going to write some more the Brown Committee has called upon nasty stories?" asked the sweet young been conducting the price study — in favor of such functions as Farm­ particularly Dave Crawford — have all members of the academic com­ ers' Week and the Last Lansinj thing sitting next to me at the United munity to present their views. But, Students meeting last Tuesday night. done a competent and seemingly Chamber of Commerce luncheon. thorough job; their goal is quite rea­ unlike the Williams Committee, US Anyway, the group voted to establish She looked at me tentatively. I'm not will probably be more inclined to pay sure whay my reply was—something sonable at the present time, although a committee whose function would be I suspect that some kind of stronger attention to the views of students. roughly to push for more student to the effect that 1 would wait and (4) The Open House Project: Annie see what happened. And (to make a action will be necessary in a few parking or at least to hold on to what cases when the effects of the study DeChant, chairman of the open house now exists. I, for one, refuse to long story short) I did and I won't committee, seems to have made an not necessarily in that order. become evident. think seriously about trying to cor­ abrupt about-face from a formerly rect the parking situation. When It I mean, God knows I try not to go The booklet, by the time this goes weak position, and the committee is comes to problems having to do with Out of my way to say "nasty things" to press, will be nearlng completion, now calling for permanent open - traffic control, I am usually reduced about my frlneds. And I certainly and portions of it will be published houses all weekends and for several to suggestion s that bubble gum be haven't been responsible for some by THE PAPER this term. The en­ hours each week night, with no re­ nlaixri in the coin elo*«- of al! -the of the violent attacks that I've been tire booklet should be ready for dis­ parking meters. accused of making. A lot of people tribution In the dorms and on the have been running around lately say­ streets of E.L. at the beginning of (7) .The Akers Kiss-In Project. I ing that United Students Is either Spring term. Anybody who doesn't am honestly not quite sure how seri­ dead or dying, and I'm not sure take advantage of the information ous the majority of US members are whether I'm supposed to have pre­ which will be available to him de­ about this one. The initial discussion dicted it or caused it or what. But serves to get screwed. of the project was mostly on the level just for the record, let me say that of hysterical laughter in response to US is neither dead nor dying, and (2) The Coffeehouse Project. Here, also, a lot of work has evidently such faux-pas as J.J. Friel's : "If that anybody who thinks it is must the people are gettin' screwed on this be crazy. been done by Dave Macomber's com­ mittee. They've been contacting . . . ." And so on. The heart of the You see, I never really meant to clergymen, professors, and student matter rests on a report that Akers convince anybody that there were groups, raising money, investigating Hall now has a new rule which, in basic flaws in the structure or lead­ various possible locations, etc. They effect, boils down to a ban on all ership of U.S. that would prevent it seem to have settled on the concept forms of public sex acts save hand- from being effective. The structure of turning the coffeehouse into a holding. CI here are those, by the is great, and the leadership is at quasi-commercial project, although way, who believe that hand-holding least as enthusiastic (if not quite no final decisions have been made. Is a sex act.) 1 don't know how new this rule is, and I'm not sure that as experienced) as any student •When they are made, the committee rights leadership we've ever had it's restricted only to Akers, but I will not be operating without either guess that now is as good a time as around here. The problem, as I see financial backing or information. A it, is that their analysis of the whole any to protest the ridiculous restric­ very thorough job, to be sure, al­ tions on civil liberties represented university and world situation is sad­ though I sitll have reservations about ly lacking; my purpose was to warn by such rules. 'I he idea of a kiss- the purpose of the whole project. I In (scores of people kissing, hugging, them of the possible consequences of suppose if it makes money and pro­ this. However, I'm tired of bitching strictions whatsoever. I hat's a far' etc. in the general vicinity of the vides the "community of scholars" cry from the MHA-WIC proposal, Akers womens' lounge) is, as some­ about it: they're just going to have to with another needed night spot - muddle through for a while without which involved a permanent open one pointed out at the meeting, "a gathering place, the thing will have house one night a week, probably real groovy Idea." The demonstra­ a cohesive view of things until they been worth the effort. It just won't begin to see the connections between with the usual restrictions. The US tion will be held Wednesday, March be what we all originally expected. 'proposal is now being considered 1, at 9 p.m. at West Akers Hall. what they now classify as individual, Ah, well isolated issues. by somebody along the hierarchy, Be prepared, perhaps, for the Revo­ but I'm afraid that lis success or lution. (3) 1 he Academic Freedom Pro­ failure will depend on how much So much for the nasty part. I have ject. A committee was established support can be gathered from the been accused (quite rightfully, I sup­ last term—chaired by a now inactive mass of students. It seems to me thai Those are the major projects now pose) of neglecting to mention all the member—to investigate the Williams the controversy • over open houses underway. Others—such as the com­ good things that US has been doing Report and to come up with recom­ is as close to the heart of general mittee on grading policy—seem to lately. An attempt to rectify this mendations. It never did that little student unrest as one can get; If have disappeared in the ubiquitous fog 'gross error therefore follows (rec- thing (although the Williams Com­ US doesn't push this issue as hard of red tape and committee meet­ commended reading for all those who mittee was provided with all kinds as possible, it will be making a very ings. It's just as well, since 1 doubt claim they don't know what US is of recommendations, most of which grave error. if United Students' limited man - trying to accomplish): it unfortunately rejected), and so power can handle any more projects, lost its chance to have any effect (5) Off-Campus Housing. I he Off- committees, or demonstrations. (1) The East Lansing Price Study on the Report, which is now as good Project. A lot of E.L. prices are Campus Council has adopted a reso­ On the whole, I think it can be as adopted. The reigns of the com­ lution calling for changes In the much 100 high. Some are lower than mittee have since been passed to said that U.S. is doing a bit more others. And a few are even lower housing regulations lo permit sopho­ than the minimum amount of work Marc Crown, and they are now work­ mores to live in unsupervised hous­ than those in New York City. United ing on a "Student Bill of Rights" necessary to bring on the revolu­ Students' purpose, however, is not ing. The resolution also asks that tion. They would be a hell of a lot which Marc says will deal with those parental permission be all that is to praise or to condemn anyone, nor areas in which students are "running more successful if more MSU stu­ have they gotten around to comparing required for a student to commute dents would show an interest in im­ into the Man, so to speak." The idea more than fifiy miles. Petitions are E.L. prices with those anyplaceelse, seems to be to let the Report get proving their own situations. Even 'Iheir purpose is simply to present now being passed, and US is giving though US has a broader base of adopted, then attempt to change it its full support to the campaign, MSU students with information con­ to conform with the Student Bill of general membership than any other cerning where they can get the lowest which looks as though it has a very student rights group In the last few F.. /hts.At their last meeting, US strong chance of succeeding. prices in our fair city. The students passed a unanimous motion calling years, more members would not hurt will then be allowed to make their (6) On-Campus Parking. I strong­ them one bit. Chairman Coon on the Orange Guard By W. C. BLANTON changes in the total structure. Al­ use moderate methods and correct Change and reform is not a direct though US recognizes how PDA rules channels before employing radical result of desiring it; there's a hell United Students is not a revived and women's hours and housing regu­ tactics such as demonstrations and of a lot of hard work involved. And Committee for Student Rights, nor lations and University College and in also that correct channels are not if it is not done, US will die the in­ is it a substitute for ASMSU, nor is loco parentis and the land-grant philo­ necessarily the ultimate answer in glorious death of CSR—and few will it a duplicate for SDS. It Is not sophy and everything el6e ties to­ any particular case. weep. the scuzzies, the beats, the hippies, gether, US Is attempting to Improve A much more Important question I feel that US has accomplished nor the protestors. On the other the situation tather than theorize is activism versus apathy. There is a great deal—relative to the unique hand, it obviously is not the typical about It. sort of an idealistic tendency among conditions at MSU to be sure. US student interest group. There has been a great deal of a great number of US members to has shown that there is a growing US was conceived, born and duly debate both within and outside US assume that undertaking a project minority of responsible students who registered with the almighty Unver- about the methods to be used in US automatically insures that it will be will not tolerate being continually sity as an organization attempting to Projects, and much has been said successfully completed. US Is spread­ herded into blind acceptance of the Improve the status of the student at about radical tactics and conserva­ ing itself dangerously thin as long as Gospel according to Land Grant Men. Michigan State University. The stu­ tive tactics. Nearly everyone forgets each member is not actively working US is the first activist group which dent Is truly a second-class citizen that there is no Inherent virtue in on a project. Especially in the areas is being seriously discussed by those at State, ranking somewhere below either radicalism or conservatism; of communication-publicity and main­ in control of our education and our administrator, faculty member and there are times at which means from taining sufficient funds for necessary lives. US has proven that the student janitor. He is allowed no meaningful both extremes and all shadings In items such as paper and paying debts, can organize and work successfully voice in the shaping of his education; between are necessary. I find nothing US is in trouble. Why? People simply for his self-interest. US seems to be and he is denied a number of those quite so disgusting as someone pre­ are not willing to take on an un­ in some way responsible for ASMSU's rights and freedoms regarding his facing his remarks by "Well, we spectacular job. moving away from a bread-and-cir- personal and social life which are haven't screamed about anythlngfora cuses puppet government position. enjoyed by those citizens of the United while..." unless It is someone else There is great difficulty in accept­ And hopefully, US has given Impetus States who are not a form of lower insisting that we can't upset anyone. ing the idea that being an activist to a movement In Michigan State life called student. It is absolutely essential to under­ entails some activity other than at­ University which will some day eli­ stand both that US must attempt to tending meetings called on the whim minate the need for US. Furthermore, the student has In of our grand and glorious leader. the past been severely limited in the availability and responsiveness of channels for Improving his relative position In what is usually referred to as the "academic community." By STEVE CROCKER The administration is forced by the The Orange Myth size of MSU to be more concerned with an efficient operation than with One 01 the most prevalent mytns at Times" by Char Jolles In which a the rights and the needs of individual MSU today is that United Students critical • analysis of the firings was students; and the faculty demon - mobilized the Bessey Revolution and begun. These processes continued, strated by its reaction to the Bessey is, therefore, a force to be reckoned culminated in THE PAPER by Mike Hall vigil and its emasculation of the with. US is widely assumed to be Kindman's four-page analysis "ATL; Academic Freedom report that it will capable of mobilizing further mass The Blown Mind," published on No­ jealously defend its own self-esteem action so that those looking for "rad­ vember 10. The State News con­ and privileges at the expense of the icals" to appease, utilize, relate to, tinued to report the developments in students' rights. Therefore it is up or whatever, generally come to US. the case fairly prominently, as well to the student to do for himself what Imagine (or remember) the effect as printing a host of angry letters, on a person's sense of efficacy to no. one else will or can do--fight fox. I think this stems from a funda­ many from students on the three In­ Ms rights. ment fLmisconception of the mobiliza­ suddenly discover a large, hitherto structors and most of (hem NOT unknown group of people who share tion process leading to Bessey. One from "radicals." tends to think of an organization (US) his own orientation (at least In a ^WHW '5UAMRB Is a-group of stu­ general way) toward an Issue. This dents who are convinced that it is which mobilized its members to re­ The November 10 Issue of THE spond to an Issue (the ATL firings). PAPER also carried a small ad which was the political effect of the Or­ possible for the student to help him­ ange Buttons. self, and will utilize all means avail­ A more correct but equally mislead­ in my opinion was the turning point able to exercise student power — ing version of this is that the people on the road to Be6sey. It read, "Be At this time the Orange Button Orange Power. But It is also a group who were at Bessey took upon them­ an ORANGE HORSE for academic was still a very general sort of which recognizes the need for re­ selves the name "United Students" freedom!!! Wear an orange button, symbol. As nearly as can be re­ sponsible action, rather than con­ and that this group now owes loyalty symbol of the fight against ACA­ constructed. It symbolized a gut- tinually taking to the streets scream­ to US and is available for mobiliza­ DEMIC DEGENERACY. Avallablenow level sympathy with the alienation ing about the bitch of the day. It is tion by the US leadership. from the Questing Beast, The Paper, expressed InKenLawless' poem"The and Zeitgeist." a group which 1 feel Is cognizant of A careful look at the events lead­ Orange Horse" (published in THE the socio-political context in which ing up to Bessey should prove in­ At this point I want to Interrupt PAPER October 20, before the fir­ it operates. structive. The story first broke in this necessary but somewhat boring ings). It was given a more specific the State News on October 26 in a chronology of events for a few re­ meaning by the orange flier which That is. Brad, those with LITTLE started out, "Okay, so what's with all actual power do not tell those with story by Andy Molllson headlined marks on the role of THE PAPER "ATL Dept. In Uproar Over Call for In creating the necessary context these Orange Buttons?" and pro­ MUCH actual power how the world ceeded to answer In terms of aca­ will be run. And it is also a group Firing." The next day saw a story in which the Orange Buttons could headlined "AAUP May Investigate serve as an effective agent of mo­ demic degeneracy with specific re­ which is working for real, substan­ ference to the ATL three. This, com­ tial progress on relatively minor Firing of ATL Instructors" and a bilization. THE PAPER is essentially letter from Ken Lawless billed as a medium of radical, innovative ing at the appropriate time to meet issues, rather than attacking that the current of controversy generated fearful, monolithic, terrible, nasty "Academic Freedom at State." That thought. As such it is read by a large same day THE PAPER printed a number of people of diverse interests, by the State News and THE PAPER, system in toto because small vic­ mobilized the Bessey Rally of No­ tories and small gains accelerate the story entitled "The Spirit of the affiliations and beliefs, who value Innovative thought. The group in­ vember 15. cludes, as well as radicals and scuzzies, many "straight" people At the Bessey Rally the 1100 people with independent minds. Those of us attending provided each other with an who would otherwise be relatively additional sense of efficacy. A large isolated and scattered among the number of them were moved, by the various parts of the multiversity have speakers and their own personal con­ one thing In common: THE PAPER. victions, to confront Dean Carlin in his office. That evening, a group of Thus, at the time the Orange But­ concerned people met in the Union tons were Introduced we were a non- and voted to hold a vigil at Bessey. community, all related to THE PAPER The room had been reserved in the but having relatively little relation­ name of United Students, who con­ ship with one another. Then came the sequently provided the chairman for Orange Buttons. One thousand of them the meeting and later leadership dur­ were distributed — almost entirely ing the vigil. For most of the people among the group mentioned above. at the vigil this was their first con­ Suddenly we were no longer separate. nection with (and indeed their first You could walk down the street and knowledge of) United Students. From see friends all around you that you there It was Inevitable that many of never knew you had. the people at Bessey should come to consider themselves a part of United This discussion becomes politically Students and re-elect many of the pre- relevant due to its effect on a vari­ Bessey leaders of US to the new able called "sense of efficacy," which steering committee. in English means the feeling that your action can have some effecton things. This then, is the reality behind the This is well known by political sci­ orange myth. What implication does entists to be a key factor (I would this have for future directions of Un­ almost say THE key factor) In de­ ited Students? The direct implications termining the probability of an in­ may besummarizedbythisstatement dividual engaging in political action. continued on pogo 15 In Media: Wrecks DOUGLAS LACKEY THE PAPER MUM The Kindman - late battle which ever its nature, the vision of the drug surfaced in Issue 15 of THE PAPER is of immense value, while the realist at first sight seems quite odd; this still feels quite a bit otherwise. Here syndrome in general. 1 confess that such thing; there are simpler rea- tension and conflict about the writing all one can do is choose sides; for on these levels, that I am "with him," sons...people running out of ideas style of articles looks like much ado myself, when 1 am confronted with but as a comment on THE PAPER (it happens), Dick Ogar leaving town, about nothing. But in fact the issues people telling me how when they are much of it is beside the point. Here etc. raised are quite serious and many- high everything is OK with them and the issues are a bit more mundane, 3. Kindman complains that Tate leveled; the problem is to keep them right with the world, my usual re- hopefully no cause for war. has either ignored, or doesn't like, from tearing THE PAPER apart, i ponse is SO WHAT—that is not very 1. Tate argues that THE PAPER the "evolution of the paper." This believe reconciliation can be reached, interesting; what is more interesting should be directed at MSU and Its refers, obviously, to the media-mix. so far as THE PAPER is concerned. is that actually everything is NOT students, not at acid heads in San The total design of the paper is OK with me and NOT all right with Francisco and the East Village. True, surely a question of art, and Kind- It is most important in conflicts of the world. this kind to disentangle the various but in fact THE PAPER is directed ma n has the right to be sensitive threads and levels of the argument, Seoond, there is the conflict of the at MSU, perhaps too much already. about it. There is a real problem, so that it can be clearly seen what "intellectual" versus the "hipster," (Living in New Haven, I am in a however, in the conflict between the parts of it touch on actual editorial with the intellectual pleading for the good position to comment on this). Art Nouveau .layout and the actual policy decisions. The following are use of reason and the reading of books, 2. late argues that the style of text: the large amount of visual ma­ some general polarities behind the knowledge of what's going on in the articles in the paper is getting so terial can be worked through without discussion, which go far beyond any­ world and what has gone on, while poor that the articles fail to com­ strain; the reader gets adjusted to thing either Tate or Kindman wrote— the hipster is decidedly anti-intellec­ municate. But THE PAPER can only this level of effort, and never gets they, certainly, should not be tagged tual, or at least intellectually dis­ print the best it gets; I have not been up the energy to plunge into the with the things I say. interested. Nowadays this conflict aware of any well-written articles articles. Obession with THE PAPER is especially serious, since intellec­ that have been KEPT OUT by poor­ as a total work of art, i.e. a visual First, there isihe"religtous" con­ tuals and hipsters always find them­ work, reduces the text to a mere flict between the "psychedelic" and ly written ones. The promising - selves working side by side in move­ mediocre should run if there's room; component of the design consisting the "realist"—the realistfeelingthat ments for radical social change. Here of numerous small squiggles. Some it is a duty to see the world as it is, the putrid should be kept out. Every I find myself aligned with the in­ editor, 1 think, accepts this; there is way must be found to cool off THE and to get others to see it likewise, tellectual—It has always puzzled me PAPER so that the articles become the psychedelic concerned with paint­ no reason to have a war about it. how hipsters can declare that every­ Some of the writing has not been as relatively more palatable. This is a. ing the world in the colors of his thing in civilization is rotten and question of design and calculation, vision, demanding that others see it good as last year's, but it would be needs to be overthrown without first silly to blame this on LSD or some and can best be done OUT of the similarly painted, since that Is the looking to see if there Is anything heat of battle. way, supposedly, the world REALLY of value in it. The real revolutionary is. Here, I feel, the errors lie main­ thinkers, Marx for example, never ly on the side of the psychedelic, lost sight of history, and the im­ who mistakenly Infers the state of mense benefits that recent "bour­ the universe from the state of the geois" society has provided mankind. drug. The truth is that any drug Further conflict develops here be­ can tell you one thing only—what it cause the intellectual, thrown in with is like to take that drug. Since taking the hipster, feels the need to educate the drug is a part of the world, the hipster into the things his in­ no deduction can be made from it to tellectual values, while the hipster the state of the whole world, or even steadfastly refuses to be educated. from it to any other part of the world. Considerable frustration can be built The philosophical, mystical, medical up this way—many times 1 have sat pronouncements of the pyschedelics and listened to people disgusted with are all pure rubbish, doubly unfor­ the world, wondering if they could tunate since they have through their stay so miserable after reading Ra­ notoriety prevented controlled ex - belais, Cervantes, or Sterne. But ploration of the drug's scientific back­ these are my values, not theirs. ground, through which its curious effects can be explained. Much of rate's letter, I think, Even if the psychedelic eschews really operated at these levels. It his usual pronouncements, the value was a frustrated explosion, not at conflict can still go on, with the Kindman and THE PAPER so much Extending Media psychedelic now claiming that, what­ as at the whole psychedelic hipster AN OUTLINE THEORY THE PAPER THE PAPER is published weekly during regular school terms by By DAVID FREEDMAN students of Michigan State University and many of their off-campus OF FICTION friends. It is intended as 2 channel for expression 3nd communica­ tion of those ideas, events and creative impulseswhich make of the The underground newspaper is a new form of communications medium, university community a fertile ground for the growth of human and it is capable of publishing subjective news reporting as well as collage, learning. THE PAPER hopes to help the university strive toward cut-up, and experimental modes of fiction. This article is an attempt to fulfillment of the highest Ideals of learning and free Inquiry by re­ explain why such communications media as THE PAPER should be en­ porting and commenting on the university experience and by en­ couraged to explore new boundaries of human experience and creativity. couraging others to do so. If you find the long quotations a complete rehash—because you're already familiar with McLuhan, the death of the novel. Burroughs, etc.,—feel Correspondence should be addressed to: free to skip them and jump directly to the end of the outline for the con­ I HE PAPER clusions. Box 367 East Lansing, Mich. 48823 There is a certain very special kind of fiction being written today which Offices are located at 601 Abbott Road, East Lansing, Michigan. is only beginning to receive recognition as the next step in the evolutionary IcL: (517) 351-7373 process of creative writing. I HE PAPER is a member of the Underground Press Syndicate. The last great work of the monolithic figureof twentieth century letters, Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, still hovers darkly In the ominous un­ EDITORIAL BOARD explored depths of the mainstream of man's efforts to understand and ex­ Editor Michael Kindman plain himself. Very few twentieth century readers have been able to pene­ Assistant Editor Lawrence Tate trate this twilight work (alternately comic, mythic, allegoric, cosmic, News Editor Bradford Lang and prophetic in Its explorations of man's soul and his very human condi­ Contributing Editors Ronald Diehl, David tion), and any attempt to come to terms with It may have to wait until it is Freedman, David Heal, Carol llurlbuu. over 100 years old and is then open to evaluation through contrast with all Char Jolles, Eric Peterson, Dale Walker the writing which has and will follow It. STAFF The exiled American author William S. Burroughs is one of the writers Correspondents Stephen lladrich, to follow In the wake of the new possibilities, of the new waves created by Douglas Lackey, Richard Ogar, Carol Schneider the river undertow of the passing of Finnegan. His stylistic innovation Art Director Barb Brown is cut-out/fold-in and his means of reaching new depths of man's nature is Photography Director Denis 1 rover "artificial": narcotic drugs that affect the perceptions of the writer's mind.. Business Manager Candy Schoenherr Burroughs' main concern seems to be with power and the way in which Bookkeeper '. Lynda McLaurln men gain and hold power over other men. Burroughs is able to talk about Circulation non-Manager Ronald Diehl the sterility of modem complex societydn part, the "games" and "games­ Office Manager Judie Goldbaum manship" that Leary talks about when he describes the revelatory nature Subscriptions Steve Crocker of psychedelic chemicals), about the corruptions of sex when it is misused Advertising Mario Vano by persons searching for power over others, about the control which ma- Chairman, Friends of THE PAPER Russell Lawrence The Masked Bureaucrat Rides Again-Partll "What the hell is a university?' By MICHAEL KINDMAN ure is intended for punishment, but only for correction? Sun ry of Pari One: This week Some of the wording on records, the Faculty Senate will vote whether just for fun, goes as follows: "re­ or not to accept a proposed set of sponsible persons" — "responsible No one need be reminded that univer­ guidelines for student regulations, as policies and practices" — "demon­ offered in a report of the Faculty sity bureaucracy produces more ver­ strable need" — "reasonably re­ biage on students' lives than anyone Committee on Student Affairs. 'I he lated" — "basic purposes" —"due report, if passed, then goes to the can observe; will we be expected to regard" — "persons who are quali­ adhere to it all? Board of Trustees, wh06e passage fied" — "kept at a minimum." Real will make it law. precise. 2. Why are there so many duly ciaries share original jurisdiction constituted judicial bodies in thefirst over certain kinds of things (curfew Last week, I talked about the in­ The section on judicial structure place? There are living unit judi­ violations and things of like seri­ consistencies and inadequacies of the is too much for me to think about. ciaries (as many as one per living ousness, and violations in a living first parts of the report—which in­ unit), there are governing group judi­ unit other than one's own); the way cludes statements of the theory of ciaries in every "major governing in which the warning penalties of the regulating students and discussions body" (men's halls, sororities, that lower judiciaries are in essence of student and faculty "academic kind of thing), there is an All-Uni­ meaningless and just provide an ex­ rights and responsibilities." 1 rec­ versity Student Judiciary, operated cuse for channel - clogging, since ommended that the report not be as part of student government, the anything meaningful enough to bother accepted or, at least, that liberal- lowest level judiciary with any real penalizing will normally be appealed minded students and faculty begin function at all; there is a new uni­ to a higher level anyway and nothing planning now for a fight to free versity-wide Student-Faculty Judi­ else really SHOULD be tried by a themselves of its adverse effects ciary; there is an appeal procedure judiciary; the way in which at every after passage, as provided for in the above that in the office of the Vice level (amazingly, this includes the report itself. President for Student Affairs—and highest level, the Vice President for In this article, I will go through all of these have interchangeable Student Affairs) no judiciary is RE­ tne latter parts of the report, dis­ functions, with decisions at any level QUIRED to allow an appeal—in every cussing specific areas of student susceptible of appeal to virtually case It must first hear the evidence -regulation. It's a real drag. any other level. The maximum penal­ and then consent to an appeal, which ties possible in any judiciary divide means there could be an instance • Article 3 of the Faculty Commit­ into only two groups—those with NO deserving of an appeal which - tee on Student Affairs' report is, power (living unit, governing group does not receive one; the way in remarkably, a short section on stu­ judiciaries) which can only warn or which (as before) all the meaningful dent records, which clears up at declare short-term probation, and penalties at the higher judicial levels least some of the points that have those WITH power (the higher levels, are interchangeable—there is nothing been debated about this touchy sub­ with authority to go as far as sus­ except habit to prevent a judiciary ject. pension). Why there are so many from giving a low - level warning Records are to be limited to those escapes me. penalty one day for the same offense for which there is a "demonstrable which the next day rates suspension, need. . . reasonably related to the and any high-level penalties at the basic purpose and necessities of the I cannot see how someone intending 3. What, anyway, is "due process highest judicial levels can also in­ University." This should mean no to simplify and make more logical as statedbelow?" The report provides clude "other action that may seem secret records, such as the ones the current set of regulations could a procedure a6 follows: A student is appropriate for any given case," Campus Police have been suspected possibly leave as much Intact as the notified he i6 accused of violating a In short, there is nothing resemb­ of having, but who will know, any­ committee has—in some cases even regulation; he is given an opportunity ling ordinary due process INSURED way? There is no check provided. complicating the hierarchy of judici­ to plead guilty and accept an admini­ by the judicial system (although it There are to be limitations on poli­ aries that lack function and overlap strative decision on a penalty or to is ALLOWED at least, — something tical and religious records, on per­ in their authority. The judicial sec­ •request a hearing to determine his of an improvement. What IS insured, sonal evaluations (none by unquali­ tion takes up more than a third of penalty, or he can plead innocent I am quite sure, will be a lot of con­ fied personnel, such as RA'S, and all the whole report, describing rounda­ and have a judicial hearing; he is fusion and arbitrariness, just like entries signed and dated), on dupli­ bout jurisdictional legalisms, mostly notified in writing 72 hours in ad­ there is now. I think of personal cation of copies, on personnel hand- backed up by very little power. vance of the time of his hearing; he experiences I have had and the ex­ •llng records. receives written charges and written periences THEPAPERandPaulSchiff First, it says: "Any student accused notice of witnesses or Information for example, had with university But—nothing is said about possible of violating a regulation shall have the against him; he is allowed to appear quasl-judiciaries, all of which dis­ cooperation with outside agencies right to appear before one or more in person with counsel (but—only claimed any professional competence (government, business), which a more members of a duly constituted judl- students or faculty can serve as counsel) and witnesses; he is allowed to refuse to answer; he is heard, and may even ask his own questions continued on pooo 12 of the judiciary; he is told why the resulting decision is made; he is in­ formed of his rights to appeal and is left unpenalized until any appeal is decided. That sounds kind of like normal due process and therefore, according to Article 1 (an outline of general procedures of student reg­ ulations), shouldn't even HAVE to be defined, since civil liberties are to cynical committee might have investi­ cial body. All such bodies shall ad­ be considered automatic—except that gated, . and there are some strange here to the basic fundamentals of due a lot of this procedure violates what provisions about a student's rights process as stated below." we usually call due process. Even concerning his own record—he may Three things to think" about if you though some of the provisions, ordi­ not see recommendations "and simi­ please: nary as they are, are vast improve­ lar evaluations" although he may see 1. What is a regulation? That is, ments over the current judicial prac­ the rest of his record. His discip­ is everything in the Faculty Com­ tices, they include verylittleNECES- linary record is open to faculty and mittee's document a regulation, pun­ SITY of fair treatment of the indivld- administration while he is a student, ishable by judicial action—including ual, and are thus in violation of the but to no one else without his per­ the reminders to students to take stated spirit of the report, not to mission. Does this mean his record full advantage of their academic op­ mention constitution law. can be used against him by a faculty portunities and of their professor's member? if so, why, since according office hours? If not, then what IS to the report no disciplinary meas- a regulation, and how will we know? Some things that go wrong are: the way in which the low-level judi­ Movies Georgy Girl: Mixed Up Kid

By LAURENCE TATE Meredith's baby. Jos tries to get Georgy Girl," they sing, "you got rection by Michael Anderson. Better through to her, but she has made up what you wanted all along" (or some­ than usual for espionage pictures, her mind, and apparently without hes­ thing close to that). Perceptive — GEORGY GIRL even so. Coherent writing can dc itation or much regret In effect forces very perceptive. wonders sometimes. Movies are particularly vulnerable him to leave her. That baby, if you There are reasons for the film's to a sort of artistic schizophrenia care to speculate, is sure to be the Immense popularity. individual victim of a possessive mother love - "Funeral in Berlin" had a better for two basic reasons. One is that, scenes tend to be quite well done, director (Guy Hamilton) and a better by their very nature, they tend even that will leave her psychologically as long as you don't ask that they warped for life. star (Michael Calne) but a script that in the best of circumstances to be connect. A lot of people don't ap­ ran out about two-thirds of the way committee projects; the other is that There are motivational Inconsis­ parently. through, leaving everybody working they are, in the worst of circum­ tencies even in the way the film desperately to manufacture some kind stances (which usually prevail), sub­ presents this much of the story, but OTHERS of climax. No go. ject to commercial pressures which that's nothing compared to Incredible dictate that any basically serious "A Funny Thing Happened on the framework It's set in, which Is that Way to the Forum" is based on the "Tobruk" was as bad as they come, (hence uncommerical) story be made of a pleasant little fairy tale. The palatable to a large audience. Some­ funniest show l ever saw on Broad­ the sort of picture you have to see formula Is roughly: Georgy seemingly way and directed by Richard Lester times this can be accomplished by has nothing; Meredith seemingly has now and then to make you appreciate tacking on a happy ending; more often (of the Beatles movies and "The stylish botches like "Georgy Girl." ' everything. But Georgy's heart is Knack"). Lester's dizzying camera a serious film is provided with a warm and Meredith's is cold and be­ conventional framework that dis­ work does everything it can to dis­ "The Liquidator" I walkedouton-- fore you know it Georgy has won Jos tract us from the genuinely funny guises its purpose and neutralizes over from Meredith, then rejected I'd had enough reminding for one its effect. material he has to work with, but the day.. even him for the baby and a million­ material is too good to let him get aire, while Meredith goes off (having away with It. I'm not sure what exactly happen­ lost Jo6) to her round of pointless, ed to "Georgy Girl." The fact that loveless conquests. Moral: nice guys The Oscar nominations were as aw­ it has two writers, one of whom finish first. "The Qulller Memorandum" had wrote the novel on which it is based, a good script by Harold Pinter but ful as ever, some very very strange. may explain something. The fUrn's fairy-tale side shows awful performances by George Segal 1 may talk about them before the It isn't a very serious film even in most clearly in the character of the and Senta Berger and indifferent di- things are actually given out. its serious moments, but it has a millionaire — a fairy godmother ill. promising character In Georgy, the disguised, who under a cover of shy overweight misfit who says she supposed lecherousness steps in again "feels like a brontosaurus" around and again to 6ave Georgy from prob­ Meredith, her chic and popular room­ ability and pain. She makes a fool of SEER Summer Program mate, and dreams of gamboling with herself in belting an impromptu song children in a magical world. at a party; he diverts her (and us) from the awful embarrassment she CANDY SCHOENHERR The film at first doesn't spare taries were pretty awful. The city ought to feel by offering her a silly, Richmond, Virginia, August, 1966: public library helped, by making a us Georgy's loneliness, and doesn't legalistic proposal to become his disguise her bitterness and despera- Ten Negro and white high school room available one day a week. All mistress->To get her to accept, he students are in a hot discussion about Sue needed was students. She found tlon. When Meredith breaks a dinner buys a fortune in things for the baby. date with her to go to a party, love, its barriers and James Bald­ them and they alt got together each His wife ultimately dies (even that is win's "Another Country." Sounds week at the library which required Georgy nearly gets hysterical; Mere­ played as sheer whimsy), leaving him dith says disgustedly, "Well, if you're simple, even commonplace. But — bus trips 30 to 45 minutes. The rest free to marry Georgy (allowing her to these kids are friends, they know and of the story repeats Itself In every going to be suicidal again, I'll stay"; settle down with her true love, the. and a whole history opens up to us. like one another; two months earlier seminar In every city where SEER baby) and send the audience out cheer­ they had never been in a classroom operates. Students and teacher read We can see Georgy clinging, demand­ fully humming the title song. ing, crying, and Meredith giving in with someone of another color, let and learn and grow. finally, but not without making Georgy alone formed a friendship. In himself he Is an appealing char­ "The goal of every SEER leader," suffer for it. It Isn't pretty — at all. One afternoon a week all sum'mer, an information booklet states, "should (And you really wonder how two such acter, and James Mason plays him with a beautiful, inept slyness; the these kids met and talked and learned be to establish among his group improbable, people wound up together together. They were bright, but some members the sense that the reading in the first place.) to care what happened to HIM) (the rat), as long as Georgy turns out were underprivileged, and all were of literature has relevance of their all right. going to segregated high schools. own lives and aspirations." Presum­ Early in the film Meredith's boy- ably, exploring this aspect of litera­ but Georgy by that time has turned The deep bonds they formed did At the end The Seekers sing their not happen accidentally. A very de­ ture is a new thing to be partici­ elsewhere, to someone safer, ab­ hearts out, radiating sunshine all pants: hopefully, this exploring will solutely dependent on her: Jos's and termined young lady, also from Rich­ over Georgy's wedding. "Hey there. mond, was area leader there last be exciting and will carryon through­ summer for the Student Educational out their lives. Exchange Roundtable. The SEER discussion leader 18 SEHR began in 1963 because of the completely autonomous. He is pro­ dissatisfaction of a Columbia Univer­ vided with some guidelines and a sity undergraduate. He and some suggested reading list, bur is under friends left their summer jobs to be­ no obligation but his own commit­ gin a summer reading program for ment to learning, and to opening the underprivileged Negroes In their way of learning to others. home town. Little Rock, Arkansas, SEER people are not stuffed shirts and from there talked the Columbia or pompous Intellectuals; the program Citizenship Counsel, a voluntary or­ Is driven by love—that very special ganization board. Into sponsoring a love which means giving of yourself similar national project. to others, for their sake, as well In 1964, Columbia and Barnard as for the rewards of attracting undergraduates worked In their home others to share In things of the mind. towns and led seminar discussions Columbia and SEER have invited of various books, stories, poems the undergraduates of MSU to par­ and plays for bright underprivileged ticipate as seminar leaders in the students. The Intent Is to Introduce program this summer. They may the students to the best, most rele­ work :a their home towns or In a friend Jos takes Georgy out when problem Is that there's another mo­ vant and most enjoyable new books Meredith stands him up. Back at her newly developed program with Lan­ vie going on at the same time, in (though classics are ignored), and sing area high schools. The seminars flat he starts to make love to her, which probability and pain ARE at thus to help the student understand but stops, although she begs him not are usually one evening a week, and work and which won't fit into the his world a little better. so need not Interfere with other Jobs. to, realizing (he says) that she would neat structure of a fairy-tale. If the inevitably turn it into a messy emo­ movie were a simple fairy tale, Jos In 1965 Harvard and Yale students Students Interested in JoiningSEER tional hangup. would discover that It Is Georgy, not joined to work with SEER, and this are Invited to attend a roundtable And Jos is right: though the title Meredith, whom he really loves (be­ year Michigan State has been asked meeting Sunday, March 5, at 3 p.m. song urges Georgy to "bring out all cause her heart is pure), and they to participate. Which, among other in Room 21 of the Union. Jay Dobkin, the love you hide, andoh what a change would live happily ever after. But things, brings me back to my story. now a senior at Columbia and nation­ there'd be," It isn't quite that simple. Georgy and Jos can't live together, In Richmond, Sue Flax, a junior at al chairman of SEER, will speak. Georgy is desperately lonely, and and something has to be done quickly MSU, had gone to the superintendent He and Sue Flax will be available desperately lonely ^people are poor or things will get depressing; thus of schools asking for a list of honor to answer any questions. emotional risks. For one thing, they the mllllonarle. Jos is made to take students. She was refused when he If you've got the answer to find­ CLING, Everyone who happens by all the blame for the split, made to found she had no Intention of segre­ ing happiness, or think objectivism looks to them like their last chance, seem irresponsible and callous when gating the program. SEER was not is the greatest thing that ever was, and In their terrible Insecurity they he's seemed fairly reasonable and only refused the student list and use or have any other great ideas you search for someone to whom they will sympathetic for most of the picture; of a classroom (otherwise vacant In want to spread, you can do it through be Indispensable. and Georgy is absolved because she the summer) by the school system, SEER. You'll not only help others allegedly wants to "save people" — but the churches were no help either find It out but you'll open pathways Ultimately Jos se es Meredith's like the baby. We aren't supposed —at least the clergymen's In lots of other directions, too. shallowness and turns to Georgy; Some Fallacies of Humanism

By DOUGLAS LACKEY night of the premiere of the Ninth Paul Goodman apparently repeated Symphony— appropriate because the ai MSU an informal comment he made symphony itself is flawed, in the several months ago at Yale—"there fourth movement, by its concession are students here (in astronomy) who to the breast-beating humanism it is are whizzes at calculation, but they'll my purpose to oppose. Certainly the never be astronomers, because they curious contrast between Beethoven's don't love the stars." Everyone at petty, mean, obnoxious conduct Uiat both universities seemed to accept evening (he felt he had been cheated this; "love" is one of those disarm­ of his fair share of the receipts) ing words, and no one wants to go and the overwhelming majesty even on record against it. The comment of his flawed creation presents a brings to mind a charming image puzzle to those who attempt to pa6s of some greybearded scientist on a judgments only on the "whole per­ towertop, peering into the illimitable son." The distinctl y unpleasant vault of the heavens, his heart thump­ character of Wallace Stevensexposed ing with devotion. The realities of in his recently published letters pro­ contemporary astronomy, in its em­ vides another example, and there are pirical moments, are perhaps less hosts of others. charming, with the scientist squint­ ing at a photographic plate (black "But," the humanist might respond, dots on white background—veryugly), "even if there may be inconsisten­ or some graphed data from a radio cies between some aspects of a per­ telescope, but still, everything is son's life, there can be no incon­ thought legitimate, just so long as sistencies between the humanist prin­ his heart is thumping. ciple in that part of the person's life tied up directly with his work. We have here illustrated £ wide­ In Beethoven's case, when it came to spread fallacy in liberal and radical music, he must have been motivated ' thought about education and intellec­ by a strong sense of artistic integ­ tual activity—that it Is not the work rity, just as the scientist, if he is a good one, must be motivated by person has at his disposal. Such con­ person is not "truly happy"--but I that counts, but rather the person's centration, says the humanist, can personal attitude towards the work, scientific integrity, and so on. This do not see how personal satisfaction integrity is self-imposed, and with­ spring only from a passionate love derived from money can be disting­ his motivation towards it and the of the activity being engaged in. personal meaning he discovers in it. out it, no labor can have either per­ uished by the humanist, short of Appendixed to this error is the hu­ sonal or public value." But again the facts belie the case. arbitrary definition, from sheer de­ manist's Act of Faith—that only if a The creator need not devote his light in creativity or any of the nicer The integrity of the work of art, whole being to his craft; Leonardo kinds of satisfaction. person has the "right" attitude to- however, lies in the WORK, not In _.»ards his work (where "right" is considered painting a sideshow, while It does Indeed seem preferable, the soul of the artist, and the work e.e. cummings sometimes said that tied up with love or some such thing) is something separate from him. It other things being equal, to go about painting was his main calling. Nor one's work with a sense of love,, is sheer Puritanism to think that must the creator be prodded on by : must develop with some meaningfulness, and personal dedica­ feelings of love; he may be goaded tion. Without this, deep personal hap­ by desire for fame (Byron), need for piness is difficult to obtain, and per­ money (Blazac), conceit (Wilde), neu­ sonal happiness in ourselves and in rosis (Proust) — similar examples others, certainly, is a goal worth could be produced from science — working for in the world. Bui it is will his work be valuable, not only all of which can provide the necessary not the only goal, not the source of from his point of view, but also in persistence needed for fine work. all value. It is a task of education a more objective sense. There is no mystic superiority in to cultivate attitudes towards one's the psychic thrust provided by love. The humanist's argument, I think, integral struggle for "honesty"; many work, but not the sole task, 'lo cul­ Perhaps that source is preferable, tivate them exclusively can only dis­ on behalf of these views is this.- artists—Mozart, Rubens, etc.—have but it is surely not necessary. all value lies in the individual, viewed worked with no sense of "struggle" tract from other sources of value, as a complete person. A person's at all. It is sheer romantlscism, fur­ and leave us, as so often happens in What has been said about the Cre­ radical organization, with all of the labors are a part of that whole, and ther, to claim that artistic standards ator's attitude and intention in his therefore the value of these labors must be self-imposed — there are proper attitudes and no work being work also applies to what the person done. can only be estimated by reference many instances of great art produced "gets out of it." There have been to what that person gets out of them. in response to a specific set of public creative men who have regarded their But this is too bluntly stated: the standards—the Chinese painting of the work as a complete failure (Kafka), humanist would probably add that Southern Sung .'. v. " -; or at least as profoundly dissatis­ what the person "gets out of" his This brings us to the humanist's factory (Wittgenstein). These sub­ work must be some proper human­ jective reactions, obviously, are no istic value — a sense of personal act of faith—that a good heart is necessary for good work, while a bad measure of their work's true worth. "satisfaction" or "meaningfulness" On the other hand, there have been say, as opposed to power or money. heart cannot bear fruit. Aside from its esthetic ring and the lingering individuals who have been completely hope that justice will prevail, the satisfied by the fame or financial Against this I argue that standards success resulting from their work, are always more objective, and that ground for this view is the perfectly valid observation that creative work but surely these things are no mea­ the products of labor, if they are to sure of their work's true value either. have their full value, must be con­ almost always requires a measure of persistence, and a bringing to bear Of sidered apart from anyone individual. hu~ in this latter case, tr I he beauty of a work of art is not all at once of the full resources a night argue that such for its maker, but for all men; the measure of the excellence of a scien­ tific hypothesis is its objective con­ firmation and eventual acceptance by the whole scientific communfty, not STRATTON Heat Fred Neil sing ihe kind of the degree of devotion some one sci­ songs that hove made him a legend entist lavishes upon it. Tothinkother- SPORTS CENTER in his own lime: The Dolphins; Badi- wise is to cheapen the real value Do; I've Got A Secret; That's The of a creative achievement—the con­ EXPERT FOREIGN GAR REPAIR Bog I'm In; Cynicrvsfpefefred/ohn tribution it makes (to wax Hegelian) Rago ... IS)T 2665 to the history of spirit. To create ALL MAJOR 8, MINOR WORK TRANSMISSIONS something is to let something BE— to loose it from dependence on one­ CLUTCHES TUNE-UPS Album self, to let it stand forth in the sight of all men. Thecircumstancesofcre- ENGINE OVERHAUL ation fall away from the work: the Available creator gives it up out of his hands. "RECOMMENDED IN EAST LANSING NOTES" at We have in history any numbers of cases of dissociation of men's 191SE. Michigan Ave personal lives from their creative 4844411 Disc Shop endeavors. An especially appropri­ ate one is Beethoven's conduct the the case for relegalization of marijuana Reprinted from a pamphlet published by Detroit LEMAR (Legalize Marijuana) — MSU and East Lansing LEMAR chapter naw forming. Write MSU LEMAR, PO Box 140, East Lansing to. information. lhe history of marijuana or hemp in the United States goes back to the Kevolutionary days. George Washington grew hemp anditwas an important cash-crop of the Southern states, second only to cotton. In Wisconsin, Indiana, and other corn-belt states it was also a major crop. I he poorer economic classes have long used marijuana as a euphoriant as it re­ quired no special care to cultivate or produce and it was considerably cheaper than alcohol. In spite of the increasing popularity of marijuana during the thirties, most middle class Americans still had no contact with the herb and hadlittle If any knowledge of it. But the anxiety-producing stresses of the Depression had made the country panic-prone. Deprived of the facts and primed on hysteria-provoking horror stories given to the press by the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, Americans were sold a mytho­ logical bill of goods. When the Marijuana 1 ax Act was passed in 193", despite the conclusions of hundreds of investigations that marijuana was nothing more than a harm­ less herb, there was only one dissenter—Dr. William C. Woodward of the A.M.A. Dr. Woodward suggested that the measures were being enacted too hastily, that the menace was exaggerated and more study was needed. He was badgered, browbeaten, given a very bad time, and his testimony was discredited and finally ignored, (it is interesting to note that the rein­ statement of alcohol to a legal substance in 1930 closely approximates the time in which the government began their public scare tactics against marijuana. It Is thought by some that the liquor lobbies have played a major role in the repressive legislation against marijuana). LEMAR takes the position that marijuana should be relegalized. Science Proceedings, White House Conference on Narcotic and Drug Abuse, has shown that the plant has a variety of medical uses, and investigation Sept. 27-28, 1962, State Dept. Auditorium, Wash. D.C., p. 266: "It is the has PROVED that is popular use is harmless to the individual and to so­ opinion of the Panel that the hazards of marijuana per se have been ciety. Legalization should be two-fold. First, marijuana should be accorded exaggerated and that long criminal sentences imposed on an occasional the medical status it once held in this country as a legitimate prescription user or possessor of the drug are in poor social perspective. Although item. Second, since it is in no demonstrable way poisonous or harmful, as marijuana has long held the reputation of Inciting individuals to commit are nicotine and alcohol, marijuana should be granted at least the same sexual offenses and other antisocial acts, the evidence is inadequate to public availability and legal status as tobacco and liquor. substantiate this. Tolerance does not produce an abstinence syndrome." LEMAR along with other responsible citizens further declares that marijuana 18 entirely misclassified as a narcotic and the laws dealing Bulletin of the World Health Organization, vol. 32, Nov. 1965: Drug with marijuana are unconstitutional and In violation of the eighth ammend- Dependence: Us Significance and Characteristics, by Nathan B, Eddy . ment's provision against cruel and unusual punishment, in many states M.D., H. Halbach M.D., Harris Isbell M.D., Maurice H. Seevere M.D., the penalties for use, possession or sale of marijuana are more severe Cannabis (Marihuana) type. p. 729: "....There is in consequence no than those for first and second degree murder, e.g. Timothy Leary was characteristic abstinence syndrome when use of the drug Is discontinued. convicted of possession of less than one-half ounce of marijuana, he was "Whereas cannabis often attracts the mentally unstable and may pre­ sentenced to thirty years in prision and a fine of S30,000. This sentence cipitate temporary psychoses in predisposed individuals, no unequivocal is currently being appealed to the Supreme Court,,,. evidence is available that lasting mental changes arc produced. "Drug dependence of the cannabis type is a state arising from chronic The following is a summation of conclusions that reputable invesitgators or periodic administration of cannabis substances (natural or synthetic). have found to be true concerning marijuana and its uses. Its characteristics are: (a) Moderate to strong psychic dependence on New York County Medical Society Narcotics Sub-Committee Report, account of the desired subjective effects, (b) Absence of physical depen­ May 5, 1966: "There is no evidence that marijuana use is associated with dence so that there is no characteristic abstinence syndrome when the crimes of violence in the United States...marijuana is not a narcotic nor drug is discontinued, (c) Little tendency to increase the dose and no Is it addicting..New YorkState should take thelead in attempting to mitigate evidence of tolerance." the stringent Federal laws in regard to marijuana possession." Joel Fort M.D., Director, Center for T reatment and Education on House Marljuan a Hearings, Ways and Means Committee 1937, p. 24, Alcoholism, San Francisco; Lecturer L'.C. School of Criminology; Con­ Rep. John Dingall; Anslinger: "Dingall: 'I'm just wondering whether the sultant on Drug Addiction, World Health Organization: "Cannabis is a marijuana addict graduates into a heroin, opium or a cocaine user? ' valuable pleasure giving drug, probably much safer than alcohol but Anslinger: 'No, sir. 1 have not heard of a case of that kind. 1 think its an condemned by the power structure of our society." entirely different class. The marijuana addict does not go in that direction." James H. Fox, Ph.D., Bureau of Drug Abuse Control, Food and Drug Report of the Indian Hemp Drug Commission, 1893-94, Ch. XIII, pp. Administration, Statement August 24, 1966, before the National Student 263-64, par. 552: "In respect to the alleged mental effects of the drugs, Association Subcommittee on Drugs on Campus, Urbana, Illinois: "I the Commission have come to the conclusion that the moderate use of think we can now say that marijuana does not lead to degeneration, does hemp drugs produces no injurious effects on the mind. not lead to heroin addiction. "In regard to the moral effects of the drugs, the Commission are of "The evidence available then—the absence of any compelling urge to the opinion that their moderate use produces no moral injury whatever. use the drug, the absence of any distressing abstinence symptoms, the There is no adequate ground for believing that it injuriously affects the statements that no Increase in dosage is required to repeat the desired character of the consumer...for all practical purposes it may be laid effects in users—Justifies the conclusion that neither true addiction nor down that there is little or no connection between the use of hemp drugs tolerance is found in marijuana as In the case of many other habit forming and crime. substances, depend on the easily controlled desires for its pleasurable "Viewing the subject generally, it may be added that the moderate use effects." of these drugs is the rule, and that the excessive use is comparatively The Mayor's Committee on Marihiana, Mayor La Guardla, City of New exceptional." York; George B. Wallace M.D., Chairman: "From the study as a whole. Panama Canal Zone Governor's Committee, Apr. - Dec. 1925 (The It is concluded that marihuana is not a drug of addiction, comparable to Military Surgeon, Journal of the Assoc, of Military Surgeons of the United morphine, and that if tolerance is acquired, this Is of very limited degree. States, Nov. 1933, p. 274): "Delinquencies due to marijuana smoking which Furthermore those who have been smoking marihuana for a period of result in trial by military court are negligible in number when compared years showed no mental or physical deterioration which may be attributed with delinquencies resulting from the use of alcoholic drinks which also to the drug." may be classified as stimulants and intoxicants." "No evidence was found of an acquired tolerance for the drug. The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, Goodman and Gillman, "The drug sensations desired are pleasurable ones—a feeling of con- • 1956 ed„ pp. 170-71: "There is no lasting ill effects from the acute tentment, inner satisfaction, free play of imagination. Once this stage is use of marijuana, and fatalities have not been known to occur...Careful reached, the experienced user realizes that with further smoking the and complete medical and neuropsychiatry examinations of habitues pleasurable sensations will be changed to unpleasant ones, and so takes reveal no pathological conditions or disorders of cerebral functions care to avoid this." attributable to the drug...Although habituations occur, psychic depen­ Conclusions—The La Guardia Report."(l) 'lhe practice of smoking dence is not as prominent or compelling as in the case of morphine marihuana does not lead to addiction In the medical sense of the word. alcohol, or perhaps even tobacco habituation." (2) The use of marihuana does not lead to morphine or cocaine or heroin addiction and no effort is made to create a market for these narcotics. by stimulating the practice of marihuana smoking. (3) Marihuana is not the determining factor in the commission of major crimes. (4) Juvenile delinquency is not associated with the smoking of marihuana. (5) The publicity concerning the catastrophic effects of marihuana smoking in New York City is unfounded." BROOKLYN BRIDGE I once started out to walk around the world but I ended up in Brooklyn. That Bridge was too much for me. Lawrence Ferlinghetti AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Photographs by Richard Trilling chines can exercise over men (the computerized brainwashing done by his be created. The underground press is one new possibility, with Its sub­ character Dr. Benway), etc. The basic pattern for the misuses of power is jective reporting of "objective" events. characterized by the "Algebra of Need" in narcotic drug addiction, in As with Freud, it is beyond question that Joyce meant to extend which the 6COpe of realism and its correlative disciplines of reason . . . The Pusher always gets it all back. The addict needs more and . It may indeed be the case that Joyce inadvertently prepared the more junk to maintain human form . . .buyoff the Monkey. Junk "assaults on the last bastion of the realistic novel." is the mold of monopoly and possession . . .The more Junk you use If the novel truly succumbs to these assaults, perhaps the funeral the less you have and the more you have the more you use.. . games will be enhanced with the ultimate slogan: "Reality is dead"... Junk yields abaslcformulaof "evil" virus: "The Algebra of Need."' "if there were no reality, we would certainly have to invent it..." The face of "evil" is always the face of total need. A dope fiend One should be careful not to suggest by such slogan play that reality is a man in total need of dope. Beyond a certain frequency need was, in the beginning, a human invention. It is enough to observe knows absolutely no limit or control. In the words of total need: there is no evidence that it was anything else. Believing in reality "Wouldn't you?" Yes you would. You would lie, cheat, inform on is an act of faith, like believing in God or Man. your friends, steal, do ANYTHING to satisfy total need. Because you would be in a state of total sickeness, total possession, and not . . .The decline and demise of one ritual observance—the novel, in any position to act in any other way. (from Naked Lunch) say—would not by any means prove that reality had shrunk or This vicious cycle is representative of the structure of all power bases, died, only that faith in it had lost one of its noblest props.. . according to Burroughs; the aggressive instincts of man are viewed as As to nothing else In modern times, the race has entrusted to characteristics which man should have shed during his upward evolution fiction its sense of RELEVANCE, of the interprenetration of quan­ to civilization: passivity is preferred to power. tity and quality without which all notions of reality become unin­ telligible. Of all the arts, fiction is the one which most broadly Yet, contemporary literary critics seem to have reached a consensus connects the homely, private, errant, ridiculous and immature that, in spite of the exciting experimentation of recent creative writing. phases of our lives with the ripened abstractions of philosophy. The type of consciousness invested in and replenished by fiction is simply the realistic orientation of the race to being and nothing­ Fiction ness. I think that behind the fascinating "death" slogansof the moment lies the unarticulated fear that new, emergent and, strictly speak­ ing, non-human entitles are usurping for themselves that realistic orientation without which we cannot know or be ourselves. .".It seems that to name this usurpation and its relevance to what remains human was the destined task of the novel. And here Is the brutal point of the paradox that confronts us: Fiction can hardly be expected to report the general inanition which has made its own existence problematic. . .All around us proliferates the argument that fiction has been "relieved" of its reportorial function alto­ gether. . . If the novel disappears, then, it will have disappeared for two quite different reasons: First because the artistic faith that sus­ tained its writers is dead, and second because the audience-need it was Invented to satisfy is being better satisfied otherwise. . . So perhaps whatever optimism one feels about the novel can only be expressed in the conditional: only fiction could describe what has coerced mankind into letting it die. (from "WhoseNovel Is Dead?", R.V. Cassill, N.Y. Times Book Review, Jan. 1, 1967) Fiction is capable of processing reality in ways other than "normal" perception of the five senses. Leary speaks of the psychedelic expansion of consciousness In its revelatory characteristics, but rarely has any chemical seer claimed that he could see the future with his expanded consciousness; prophesy is for most men acquired primarily through the very special ordering and processing of "reality" by fiction. Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano (which is presently enjoying great vogue as an "underground" novel though Lowry began writing the first draft during the 30's) is an excellent example of the kind of prophetic fiction I am talking about. This book, a highly personal statement of the writer's hellish existence, as almost all great novels ultimately are, predicts the political absurdities of, and in fact the actual individual holocaust of. World War II. toglfim It described, in ways that all the journalistic reporting during and since the war have been unable to do, the terrible sufferings and absurdities Bmmigh'sJonm.il of a whole race of people hurtling toward annihilation. It says frightening sunflowers of the condition of man that are still unfolding their petals. As E.M. Forster defines it in Aspects of the Novel: especially with forms and styles, [he novel is dying out as an art form. Prophesy—in our sense—is a tone of voice. . .It demands humil­ Leslie Fiedler comments upon this: ity and the absence of the sense of humour. It reaches back.. .It Is spasmodically realistic. And it gives us the sensation of a song From any traditional point of view, then, from the standpoint, or of sound. It is unlike fantasy because its face is towards unity, say, of those still pledged in the eighteenth century to writing epics whereas fantasy glances about. Its confusion is incidental, whereas in verse, the novel seemed already anti-literature, even post- fantasy's Is fundamental. . .Also the prophet—one imagines— literature; fhat is, it appeared then precisely what we take tele­ has gone "off" more completely than the fantasist, he is in a vision or comic books to be now. in the jargon of our own day, the remoter emotional state while he composes. novel represents the beginning of popular culture, of that machine- It is in the necessity of finding or creating a mythology, "reaching made, mass-produced, mass-distributed ERSATZ which, unlike back" in other words, that the prophetic writer is said to have a double either traditional high art or folk art, DOBS NOT KNOW ITS vision: first, the vision that the book has of the world, and second, the PLACE; since, while pretending to meet the formal standards of worlds suggested or demanded beyond the book's first world-view. William literature, it is actually engaged In smuggling into the republic Burroughs would come under Forster's definition of fantasist but for two of letters extra-literary satisfactions. It not merely instructs important facts: the effect of an opium-derivative drug is removal from and delights and moves, but also embodies the myths of a society, the world of desire and action (Burroughs recounts how he spent several serves as the scripture of an underground religion; and these months staring only at the one of his big toes except for excursions outside latter functions, unlike the former ones, depend not at all on any his room for more drugs), and the attempt of his nearly-automatic prose particular forms, but can be indifferently discharged by stained- cut-out and folded-in, collage fashion, to extend its message beyond (he glass windows, comic strips, ballads and movies. rigid page of print. Yet it is precisely this cultural AMBIGUITY of the novel which Why is it that certain kinds of novelistic fiction can be prophetic? "The made it for so long so popular on so many levels, at the same medium is the message," says Marshall McLuhan. time creating those tensions and contradictions by virtue of which it is presently dying, (from Waiting for the End) There is a basic principle that distinguishes a hot medium like Fiedler wrote this in 1964, and he seems unfamiliar with Marshall radio from a cool one like the telephone, or a hot medium like the McLuhan's theories of communications media. McLuhan would identify movie from a cool one like TV. A hot medium is one that extends another reason for the demise of the novel: it has become an inadequate one single sense in "high definition." High definition is the state medium of expressions for the citizens of a computerized, electric- of being well filled with data. A photograph is, visually, "high instantaneous world, who have accustomed themselves to partaking more definition." A cartoon is "low definition," simply because very directly in the processing of Information: little visual information is provided.. . Hot media are, therefore, low in participation, and cool media Western man acquired from the technology of literacy the power are high in participation or completion by the audience. Naturally, to act without reacting. The advantages of fragmenting himself in therefore, a hot medium like radio has very different effects on the this way are seen In the case of the surgeon who would be quite user from a cool medium like the telephone . .. helpless if he were to become humanly involved in his operation. Any hot medium allows of less participation than a cool one, as We acquired the art of carrying out the most dangerous social a lecture makes for less participation than a seminar, and a book operations with complete detachment. But our detachment was a for less than dialogue. With print many earlier forms were ex­ posture of nonlnvolvement. In the electric age, when our central cluded from life and art, and many were given strange new intensity. nervous system is technologically extended to involve us in the Francis Bacon never tired of contrasting hot and cool prose. Writing whole of mankind and to Incorporate the whole of mankind in us, in "methods" or complete packages, he contrasted with writing we necessarily participate. In depth. In the consequences of our in aphorisms, or single observations such as "Revenge is a kind every action. It is no longer possible to adopt the aloof and dissoci­ of wild justice." The passive consumer wants packages, but ated role of the literate Westerner, (from Understanding Media) those, he suggested, who are concerned in pursuing knowledge Perhaps the novel Is no longer a viable form of communication to de­ scribe the processes of the present age, and new media must necessarily and in seeking causes will resort to aphorisms, just because they time travel, in taking coordinates, such as what I photographed are incomplete and require participation in depth. on the train, what 1 was thinking about at the time, what I was 'I he point here is that STYLE is itself a medium of communication that reading and what I wrote; all of this to see how completely I can carries the "content" or message of the novel, which is itself a medium project myself back to that one point in time. of communication. The exciting possibility in some recent fiction is that ... .In one sense a special use of words and pictures can con­ certain kinds of stylistic innovation may cool off the medium of the novel, duce silence. The scrapbooks and time travel are exercises to ex­ make it necessary for the reader to participate more fully in the literary pand consciousness, to teach me to think In association blocks experience, We see that the novel MAY open out, move off the page, to rather than words. I've recently spent a little time studying more directly involve the reader in the processing of reality toward hieroglyph systems, both th e Egyptian and the Mayan. A whole prophesy. block of assoclations~boonf!~like thatl Words, at least the way One way to cool off the hot medium of print is "automatic writing." we use them, can stand in the way of what 1 call non-body experi­ Mike Kindtnan writes this way; his reporting and commentaries are more ence. It's time we thought about leaving the body behind. spontaneous; his style is loose enough to encourage the reader to partici­ . . .Any narrative passage or any passage, say, of poetic Images pate in the transmutation from his words on the page to thoughts in the is subject to any number of variations, all of which may be interest­ mind. My "people fiction" was written the same way, at a single sitting, ing and valid in their own right. A page of Rimbaud cut up and re­ without revision. No doubt this may compromise the artistic sensitivity arranged will give you quite new images, Rimbaud images—real and expression, but since that particular fiction was intended expressly Rimbaud images—but new ones. for. In fact is about, THE PAPER, that issue of THE PAPER is itself both . . .Yes, it's part of the paradox of anyone who is working with the medium and the message. word and image, and after all, that is what a writer is still doing. Burroughs' cut-out/fold-in stylistic innovation has been extended even Painter too. Cut-ups establish new connections between images, further in his Journals, on which he has been working for the last twenty and one's range of vision consequently expands. years. Naked Lunch was written in part while under the influence of various . . .Cut-ups make explicit a psycho-sensory process that is going morphine blue-highs over a period of years. Eventually, fragments were on all the time anyway. Somebody Is reading a newspaper, and his collated into larger segments of the whole book, for publication form. eye follows the column in the proper Aristotelian manner, one idea Thus, the early part of the book (sections of which were written years and sentence at a time. But subliminally he is reading the columns before others) sometimes predicts what follows perhaps a hundred on either side and Is aware of the person sitting next to him. That's pages later; the work is capable of being prophetic about its own unfold­ a cut-up. . .a juxtaposition of what's happening outside and what ing nature (Malcolm Lowry does this also in Volcano). The Journals you're doing inside and what you're thinking of. - are a long journey into a non-Aristotelian universe; verbal and visual . , .Yes, It is unfortunately one of the great errors of Western collage are mixed on a single page to achieve a non-linear effect; 1 be­ thought, the whole either-or proposition. You remember Korzybsky lieve this book to be the next step in the evolution of man's universal and his idea of non- Aristotelian logic. Either-or thinking just is not consciousness (incidentally echoing Leary and the genetic history of man accurate thinking. That's not the way things occur, and I feel the to be unlocked by psychedellcs). Aristotelian construct is one of the great shackles of Western Burroughs' voluminous collages move off the page, expanding outward, civilization. Cut-ups are a movement toward breaking this down. trying to freeze up the hot and closed medium of print, involving the reader I should imagine it would be much easier to find acceptance of the in a totallv foreign universe, understandably not even fully under the cut-ups from, possibly, the Chinese, because you see already there are many ways that they can read any given Ideograph. It's already cut up. . . .When you start thinking in images, without words, you're ' well on the way . . .1 think it's the evolutionary trend. I think that words are an around-the-world, ox-cart way of doing things, awk­ ward instruments, and they will be laid aside eventually, probably sooner than we think. Fiedler discusses the new directions of recent fiction in "The New Mutants," an article in Partisan Review. This generation I believe he would call "the nothing generation," a phrase which ran through my mind while I was rereading the article. Another phrase which came to mind was "the death of everything": More fruitful artistically is the prospect.of the radical trans­ formation (under the Impact of advanced technology and the transfer of traditional human functions to machines) of homo sapiens into something else: the emergence—to use the language of Science Fiction itself—of "mutants" among us . . . the "mutants" in our midst are non-participants in the past (though our wisdom assures us this is Impossible), drop-outs from history. The withdrawal from school, so typical of their generation and so inscrutable to •»urs, is best understood as a lived symbol of their rejection of the ..otion of cultural continuity and progress, which our graded edu­ cational system represents in institutional form. It Is not merely a matter of their rejecting what happens to have happened, just before them, as the young do, after all, in every age; but of their attempting to disavow the very Idea of the past, of their seeking to avoid recapitulating it step by step—up to the point of graduation into the present. Specifically, the traditional form which they strive to disengage Is the tradition of the human. . . To be sure, there have long been anti-rational forces at work in the West. . . .Only with Dada was the notion of an ami-rational anti- literature born: and Dada became Surrealism, i.e., submitted to the influence of those last neo-Humanists, those desperateSocratlc Cabalists, Freud and Marx—dedicated respectively to contriving a rationale of violence andarationaleof Impulse. The new irration- alists, however, deny all the apostles of reason. . . Not only do they reject the Socratlc adage that the unexamined life is not worth living, since for them precisely the unexamined life is the only one worth enduring at all. . . The new Irratlonalists, however, are preparing to advocate Page from Burroughs' Si. Lonispmti.il. prolonging adolescence to the grave, and are ready to dispense with school as an outlived excuse for leisure. To them work is as obsolete as reason, a vestige (already dispensible for large num­ author's control; perhaps the ultimate in automatic writing which creates bers) of an economically marginal, pre-automated world. . . itself as it develops on (and off) the page. The structure of those fictional vaudevilles between hard covers that currently please the young (Catch-22, V„ A Mother's Kisses) Yet, Burroughs' process of writing in the Journals is more conscious suggest In their brutalityanddiscontinulty.thelrpollticsof mockery than automatic writing. He "cuts out" newspaper and magazine clippings something of the spirit of the student demonstrations; but only and then arranges them on the page, "folds" the clippings Into the total Jeremy Larner, as far as I know, has dealt explicitly with the arrangement along with his own writings and photographs. Burroughs' abandonment of the classroom In favor of the dionysiac pack, the main concern at this point seems to be to control as much as possible the turning from polls to thlasos, from forms of social organization effect of his hybrid associations. He explains this and other aspects of traditionally thought of as male to the sort of passionate com­ his writing in a Paris Review interview (Number 35, Fall, 1965): munity attributed by the ancients to females out of control. . . I don't know about where fiction ordinarily directs itself, but I am quite deliberately addressing myself to the whole area of Writers of fiction and verse registered the technological obsoles­ what we call dreams. Precisely what is a dream? A certain cence of masculinity (prophecy — D.F.) long before It was felt juxtaposition of word and image. I've recently done a lot of ex­ even by the representative minority who give to the present younger periments with scrapbooks. I'll read in the newspaper something generation its character and significance. And literary critics have that reminds me of or has relation to something I've written. I'll talked a good deal during the past couple of decades about the con­ cut out the picture or article and paste It In a scrapebook beside version of the literary hero Into the non-hero or the anti-hero. .. the words from my book. Or, I'll be walking down the street and Burroughs Is the chief prophet of the post-male post-heroic I'll suddenly see a scene from my book and I'll photograph It and put world. . . it in a scrapbook. . . I've found that when preparing a page, I'll The second social movement is the drug cult. . .In which "pot" almost invariably dream that night something relating to this is associated with earlier forms of rebellion, a commitment to Juxtaposition of word and image. In other words, I've been interest­ catatonia, and a relection of conventional male potency. . .Here, ed in precisely how word and image get around on very, very at any rate, is where the young lose us In literature as well as In complex association lines. I do a lot of exercises in what 1 call life, since here they pass over into real revolt, i.e. what we really continues on pog* 15 rest of the university what goes on make-up and authority are outlined in any one dormitory? Why does the in a way the old Pub Board's never Vice President for Student Affairs were. That is, again, a very big even have to KNOW about it? Legal gain—I'm glad to have participated questions can be handled at the local in the destruction of the old Pub level as well as at the university Board (if you dont' remember or continued from page 5 e and less intrusive, not more level. If the policies were just writ­ never knew about the fight THE and used that as an excuse not to topheavy; 1 honestly can't see that the ten clearly to provide for that — a. PAPER had with it for seven months follow such provisions of due process committee thought of this when it disgruntled parent can simply sue last year, you're probably a better as admitting witnesses and profes­ designed its Judicial recommen­ the dorm instead of the university man for it, but at least be aware that sional counsel or keeping of trans­ dations. (something 1 am firmly convinced that fight had a lot to do with dis­ criptions, although they- were quite never happens the way they say it crediting the board, its procedures protective of their right to determine The next section describes a gen, does when they defend their rules). and its claim to be in control of all rather important personal and social uinely unbelievable procedure for The final paragraph of this section student publications—a claim that was matters. It would be very stupid to proposing and passing new regula­ says that proposals originating at repeatedly refuted by its own gross perpetuate this system blindly, as I tions, supposedly providing for "con­ higher levels are (sometimes?) sim- errors: Zeitgeist helped a lot, too). fear the committee has done In its siderable self-government at living report. unit levels, and increased partici­ There is little said in the report pation in University government at critical of the present judicial sys­ higher levels." This seems to me an tem—and what there is mainly con­ outright lie in terms of the steps cerns duplication of functions con­ outlined, but'l guess the committee cerning women's social regulations. just thought it was protecting the No attempt is made that 1 can see university from anarchy or some­ to straighten the thing out and re­ thing. quire that real penalties will only Anyway, what it says is that at be given for real offenses tried In a any level from a living unit on up, real court setting and that everything a new regulation can be proposed else will be eliminated as unneces­ that will affect everyone under the sary complications. Anything else is jurisdiction of the group proposing superfluous, and the report's pro­ it. That is, a living unit can propose posals seem to encourage superfluity. its own rules; the governing group over It can propose rules, too, if it likes, and those rules will affect all The only significant improvements the living units under its authority; made are the clarification of All- ASMSU can do the same, etc. BUT-- University Student Judiciary's auth­ at every level, whoever proposes the ority and the institution of a Student- rule does only that, and has to send Faculty Judiciary, which falls into the proposal, after local approval, up the hierarchy of Jurisdiction mid­ to the next level. (Or down to the way between the AL'SJ and the Vice lower levels—it seems to vary or- President for Student Affairs. It lakes something), which discusses it and the place of several faculty discip­ sends it back for amendment if it linary committees and administra­ wants to, or passes it on to the next tive hearings that have had Juris­ level if it approves; the next level ply passed down to the lowest level The new Advisory Board will have diction over certain kinds of cases. up does the same. Passage doesn't affected by them, there to begin two ASMSU - nominated, Hannah- But it is, of course, just another come until the proposal is eventually the approval procedure as though selected student members, two judiciary and, like all the other ap­ accepted by the Vice President for they had originated there. More chan­ Hannah-selected students from among pointive groups outlined In the re­ Student Affairs, who, as ever, has nels and red tape Instead of less, petitioners, and four Hannah - port, appointed Jointly by ASMSU veto power over anything. less self-government Instead of more. appointed - from - faculty-nomination and the president of the university; Either the university is Interested faculty members, all serving rotating why not election at large? The levels include: the local liv­ In letting students run themselves or terms (students for one year, subject- ing units; the governing groups over It Is not. This proposed procedure, to reappointment, faculty three A minor improvement: students them; ASMSU and the Faculty Com­ it is clear to me, indicates it is not years). The Advisory Board will also on probation will now get off auto- mittee on Student Affairs, operating thus interested; maybe it just doesn't include non-voting professional ad­ vlrtually instantly. We should be try­ simultaneously but independently of realize—and If that Is possible then visors with publishing and business ing to make the bureaucracy more each other onanyparticular proposal; students should begin fighting for experience, fro"m among the faculty more real self - government right and the university Business office, away, because It is needed. I don't respectively. This sounds to me like see why there has to be lip service it perpetuates the participation of paid to freedom and self-govern - administrators like Jim Denison and mem when nothing in the system Phillip May, two of my less favorite provides for it; this serves simply members of the old Pub Board, but to deceive people and, in this case, at least they won't vote now. to create a needless bureaucracy. I'd be happier if they were more The Advisory Board is empowered honestly totalitarian. to nominate an Advisor to the State News, whose powers are outlined as roughly similar to those of the cur­ Okay, ready? Article 6 concerns rent "General Manager"—and who student publications, university- will most likely be the same man, sponsored and otherwise. The part his position defined for the first about the State News is perhaps the time since he was hired five years best thing In the whole report. The ago. It is not specified whether he matically at the expiration of a spe­ the Vice President for Student Affairs part about the Wolverine Is probably must be renominated each year or cified time; they used to have to who, when necessary to mediate cer­ meaningless. The part about "other whether appointment means auto­ request removal from probation— tain kinds of disagreements, names: student publications" (tra-la) used matic tenure; for some reason, his I've never understood why. Conference Committees from among to be real good—that is. In earlier appointment (which, of course, comes ASMSU and the Faculty Committee versions—but in the version we're with acceptance by the president of The Student-Faculty Judiciary Is the board's nomination ) carries with given jurisdiction over anycomplalnts on Student Affairs; and varying com­ considering here has been made re­ binations of these. strictive again, especially concerning it academic appointment In the Col­ that may be brought by an individual lege of Communication Arts. Anyway, or a group against any regulations distribution. Maybe YOU can figure Each of these groups, needless to out what they think they're doing. the Adviser "shall be responsible or administrative decisions—includ­ say, has veto power over every group for the financial affairs of the State ing the report Itself. It is quite a under it, and of course everything State News. The report wants to News and shall serve as professional departure for this kind of channel has to be defended adequately all "make it clear that the State News consultant to the Editor-in -Chief to be instituted. However, as with along the way. This goes for some­ is a student newspaper whose tone' of the State News and his staff." individuals appealing cases, no hear­ thing as trivial, it turns out later In and content are determined by the Both the Advisory Board and the ing Is held until the judiciary con­ the report, as placing a literature student editorial staff," especially Adviser "shall provide advice, coun­ sents to hold one, which means the distribution rack In a single dormi­ forbidding all other faculty, admini­ sel, and criticism to the staff of the letter required to bring the complaint tory, and for affairs of this nature strators and students from exercis­ State News, but neither shall exer­ has to be convincing enough in itself it is simply insulting to students that ing "any powers of veto or censor­ cise any veto or censorship over the to halfway win its case; if it isn't, their choices have to be so care­ ship over news or editorial content." content of the newspaper." well, the judiciary just is not com­ fully watched when they should be You can't Imagine what a victory pelled to accept the case. merely mechanical administrative that is, especially If it will really be matters. On important issues, there followed. The structure then out - This, limitation of power is a very I do-not understand this, any more should be a procedure set up, of lined for State News organization significant concession to the twen­ than I understand the provision which course, but It need never under any makes this seem rather more pos­ tieth century: I am quite seriously, follows—for special attention to judi­ circumstances be this circuitous. sible than it has been. proud of the committee for including cial case which require quick hand­ It. ling. It is not a metropolitan traffic If this is the committee's Idea of The Board of Student Publications I'm also proud of them for making court we are dealing with—there's no "considerable self - government," which has formerly been the admin­ the editor-in-chief of the State News reason why all cases can't be heard then they have seriously violated istrative authority over the State solely responsible for defining and and settled promptly, and there's no any concept of human dignity which News as well as over the Wolverine appointing his editorial board; for reason why any case which is appealed may remain in the multiversity. Any­ and, supposedly, all other student providing recourse for staff "mem­ or, especially, any complaint which is way, I cannot see why there is this publications. Is specifically replaced bers who disagree with the edltor(s); brought against a regulation or a de­ passion to control, control, control. by a new "Advisory Board for the for providing procedures by which cision shouldn't be heard and decided What the hell does It matter to the State News and the Wolverine," whose the editor's authority may be ques- continued i.om page 12 tioned by a majority of his editorial ed right in the document. shall be permitted in any organized ly pass it, making it operative. (Dif­ board and by which he may be fired But, let's pretend that we're not living unit for any publication what­ ference: the whole document, this after a rather good procedure requir­ exempt from the rest of the section, ever." Doesn't "whatever" mean no week , Is going through the Faculty ing specified charges, hearings, etc., as they surely couldn't have intended exceptions?; the exceptions are de­ Senate as an intermediary body. 1 is followed; for protecting the rights us to be. tailed in the next paragraph, then guess that's because it's "IMPOR­ of staff members fired by the editor; There follows a statement of re­ chained to that idiotic approval pro­ TANT" or something.) If anyone for providing authority to the editor­ sponsibility placing (at last) full re­ cedure. rejects the amendment anywhere ial board to screen petitioners and sponsibility for a publication on its along the line, an explanation is sent nominate a choice for the editor's publishers, who merely have to iden­ Then, graciously, they provide the back to the initiators and, 1 guess, successor, who is formally appointed tify themselves in their publication. privilege of distribution of any free they try again. by the Advisory Board. These are That it took a year to fight for the or sold publication outside campus DO NOT FORGET THIS PROCED­ all things that have been learned right to be solely liable for our mis­ buildings, "subject only to those li URE!! YOU WILL NEED ITI! about on the State News through takes amazes me; anyway, there it mitations as are necessary to pre­ several difficult years of bad rela­ is. vent interference with the use of tions between various editors and The document ends, mercifully, streets, sidewalks and building en­ with a few general proposals for staffs and the adviser, including num­ This means, as it says, that "the trances." They mean this to pro­ bers of resignations and near-fir­ University shall not authorize student making the university livable. They vide for political leafleting and such are good. ings and many, many badly defined publications," or worry about adver­ things, but it has been seriously policies. The future is bright, or tising or subscriptions. I wonder from suggested in the past as a weekly 1. New students and transfers will something. (For the record; I kind what depths of Freudian politics the distribution method for THE PAPER be oriented to the university's regu­ of like the State News this year.) committee felt the compulsion thus and we have used it from time to lations. Would you believe they've The section on the Wolverine says to point out explicitly that the out­ time. But, first off, what happens never bothered to do this before? nothing to me. Any yearbook operates dated authorization procedure used in the winter, and, second, why must 2. A handbook shall be made avail­ kind of like a book-publishing firm by the old Pub Board to harass us we be subjected to this indignity just able outlining all the current regula­ anyway, mostly behind the scenes no longer exist. Government by dis­ to sell our rather accepted weekly tions and structures on student and with more attention to profes­ claimer? newspaper? rights. sional than personal or principled Now we get into distribution, and 3. 1 he office of Ombudsman is to considerations. I recognize that the you really wish you didn't have to This is the only sales method be created. (Ombudsman: Scandina­ Wolverine should be provided for as read this. I dare you to overlook it, provided in dormitory areas that vian term, meaning a wlthin-the - is the State News, and this section though; it could be the previews of can be initiated by the publication bureaucracy critic of it, whose job gives its editors, staff members and the next big scandal, If they have the and that doesn't require bureau - is to help the little guy survive.) He adviser about the same rights as nerve. cratic approval, so it's not unim­ is to be a high-level faculty member those of the State News. This is portant: why can't the same siipula- appointed by you-know-who, to assist good. "These guidelines shall apply to all student publications, whether dis­ tributed free or offered for sale." This sounds like they're breaking Given all this, 1 am absolutely down the distinction between free and stunned at the idiocy of the section sale distribution, right? Like they're on other student publications. Not about to admit that it doesn't matter in the least whether, say, THE PAPER that it's all bad—God help them if tlon _ concerning flow of traffic and students in solving problems—by in­ it was; they'd have half of Michigan is sold or given away for "contribu­ tions" as It was last year. Try again. use of buildings simply be applied vestigating for them, by advising jumping on them by now if they tried INSIDE buildings, anywhere on cam­ them when to lay off, by telling them to reinstitute the ban on unofficial All they mean here is that they will speak about both kinds of distribution pus? What difference would it make? to lay off, by telling them where to publications. It's just that so many (For those who care: we go in the bureaucracy for a solu­ questions that we had thought were —which they proceed to do, playing on just that silly distinction. have salesmen hawking THE PAPER tion. He is empowered to look behind settled are raised all over again, so in several buildings every week, and the scenes of things, more or less, many stupid privileges of the ad­ Any free distribution point (I.e., always have: they have never been and to point out ways In which the ministration are reasserted when they State News distribution point) will be stopped, even when THE PAPER tech­ system is inadequate to the prob­ should have been buried, that it LOOKS available to all free publications. nically didn't exist on campus. That lems. This is- great, in fact, however, the is, 1 am engaging in legalisms here Obviously, his value lies signifi­ Ulltl) tllLj'lU U)lll» HI ull.ll II •Wfc.tH.-lates~ t administrative decision on which have no real substance and have cantly in his personality, and, as was ffie're ready if they are, but'Jesus which THE PAPER'S current sales ' never had any; somehow, though, the pointed out by Bob Itepas in a letter Christ. policies are based Is that rules ought to make SOME sense to the committee reprinted recently Once again, it starts out witn a THE PAPER, even offered for sale, and have SOME bearing on reality.) in THE PAPER, he really shouldn't statement of maximum freedom vs. may distribute anywhere the State Question detached from the pro­ be appointed by the president if he necessary order, or whatever that News does, except In dorms. visions of the report: what possible is to have credibility, although there phrase of theirs is: "Students should purpose can be served by making it are lots of good people the president have maximum freedom to express so difficult to distribute literature, could name as easily as not. opinions and communicate ideas by free or for sale, in dormitories: writing, publishing, and distributing Surely, the committee is not ignorant 4. I he academic freedom report materials." Just remember: "max­ of the thousands of students who live, is to be passed by a procedure out­ imum freedom." go to class, are entertained and do lined in the last section, whichbynow Then, in one of the most ridicu­ everything else in their dormitory means merely that the Faculty Senate lous turnabouts I've ever seen, the complexes and for all purposes never has a go at it and then the Trustees committee defines student publica­ The Union and International Center leave them. These people's lives pass it. A 120-day period of adjust­ tions in two contradictory ways, nei­ are set aside as the only two build­ are shaped by those asinine dormi­ ment is provided, during which speci­ ther of which is as adequate as the ings on campus where the privilege tory regulations, and when the regu­ fic changes in rules, appointments one used in las: year's version of of setting up self-service stands or lations make it more difficult to and other kinds of implementation their report. booths for sale of advertising, sub­ distribute a pamphlet or a news­ and adjustment to the report are to LAST YEAR, they said a student scriptions, etc.. Is automatically paper in a dormitory than to do be handled. publication was one published by a granted, except that classroom and almost anything else on campus, then living unit, a college or a depart­ office buildings may have self-ser­ these people just don't get exposed to ideas. What the hell is a univer­ Whooeee. It really is a mess, you ment, or by any individual student, vice stands by agreement between know. There Is really no excuse' registered student organization or the Vice President for Student Af­ sity? This is not a moot point; it has been and continues to be THE why an outline of student regulations (unregistered) student group. That fairs (how did he get into this?: it should be the complex, confused, about covers it. Last year, they also used to be the secretary of the uni­ PAPER'S biggest single circulation problem. (Ah-hah—an answer?) contradictory conglomeration this re­ planned to provide more freedom versity) and the administrative offi­ port is. It really could be done very than they do this year, which wouldn't cers of the building. I think only we simply if all they wanted was guide­ make it a curse to be labeled "stu­ know this, but THE PAPER has al­ lines and philosophies. It reallycould dent publication," but that's another ready been granted the privileges Amendments can be proposed by be done much better if all they wanted matter. of setting up such stands, WITHOUT the Student Board of ASMSU, by the was a minimum set of functioning specific approval required. Why are Faculty Committee on Student Af­ THIS YEAR, they define student rules. It really could have been done they backtracking like this? fairs, OR by a petition of not less much more easily than it was — publications as: 1) "publications in than 100 students. Amendments will which Michigan State University stu­ through more than a year of investi­ The provisions for living unit dis­ be approved by roughly the same gation, discussion, red tape and re­ dents have been involved. AT LEAST tribution are one of the least believ­ procedure that has been approving IN PART, in writing, publishing, and vision, resulting in this particular able things in the report. First, the whole documents: things run abortion. istributing" (emphasis mine), and as remind yourself of the procedure for around in committees for a while 2) publications of living units, govern­ passing living unit regulations as until everyone at the initiating level ing groups, colleges, departments or It really all should be rejected described in Article 5—the business agrees, and the proposal then goes and done better, but I don't guess (catch this) MSU student organiza­ with six or seven levels of admini­ to the Academic. Council, through tions and MSU Student groups. anyone will listen to me now. To stration and government all vetoing the chairman of the Committee on ME, NOW. So, lots of luck, every­ Student Affairs; if the Academic Coun­ You didn't gel the distinction, did each other before any decision can body, in getting along with it and in be final. Then, picture that proced­ cil passes it, it goes to the Board of changing it. THEY provided the you? Not only are the two mutually who more or less routine- exclusive, but they left out publica­ ure required in every instance where amendment structure. tions by individual students and there­ a dormitory wants to set up either fore, by implication, by unregistered a free distribution literature rack or organizations. All the distribution a self-service distribution stand for troubles of the last two and a half a publication which is sold, like may­ years have been with just such pub­ be THE PAPER. What possible pur­ lications: the Committee for Student pose can this serve, you wonder. Rights' Logos, Zeitgeist, THE Well, friend, so do I, especially PAPER, SDS' anti-war literature.So, since there is a paragraph inex­ for anyone planning to rabble-rouse plicably stuck in the middle of this in writing, there is a built-in, com­ section which says "No solicitations pletely unnecessary loophole provid- for advertising, subscription or sale No one can completely stop Lew primarily for his ability to follow a The Wafer Closet Alcindor, but Wesley UnseJ dean match 25-point performance with a score­ his effect on a game, Unsetf is 6-8, less night. At times Holden looks like 240 and certainly won't be pushed off an all-American and at others, he the court by Alcindor. Big Wes is couldn't play in the Big Ten. For Who's No. 1? averaging nearly five more rebounds UCLA, he'll be ready ("I feel sorry or Who needs Lew and Co., when he's got Wesley and Butch? than Lew and Is scoring nearly as for them if they play us"). The game well, and his competition has certainly will be on Louisville's home court, where Holden usually shines. That against Louisville. And Louisville been much tougher In the Missouri night of March 24 he'll outshine will win. Man for man, the Cardinals Valley than Alcindor's out West. Un- The pairings for the NCAA basket­ UCLA's Warren and be the main rea­ are at least equal to the Bruins, and seld's strength is a match for Al­ ball tournament have been announced, son for putting Louisville into the UL coach Peck Hickman has an un­ cindor's height. but the Free Press, News, and State finals against Western Kentucky (that canny ability to get a team "up" Journal have maintained the quality Butch Beard, who decided not to is, if Clem Haskins is back in West­ for a game. of their sports sections and refused integrate SEC basketball, has the ern's lineup). to print them, so what follows is Louisville has a tradition as a smoothness of a panther and is vir­ dependent upon whether Houston plays "tournament team," even when en­ tually impossible to stop, for his Tulsa scoffed at Louisville's abil­ in the Far West Regional as last tering with a mediocre record, and ability to score from long range is ity and blamed an early-season loss year, or is placed in the Mid-West UCLA has only Houston (which can't matched by his moves against a lone on a pair of local high school refer­ Regional to protect UCLA. really be dismissed all that easily) defender, Dave Gilbert can handle ees. I'll ignore the obvious chance to Barring major upsets, the semi­ to contend with in the West, so the Lucius Allen, Beard's counterpart, comment on what Big Ten officiating final round of the NCAA will pit UCLA two should meet. better than anyone can control Butch. resembles, and merely mention that in Offensively, Gilbert and sophomore the rematch at Tulsa, UL hit 63 per­ Jerry King are about evenly matched cent of its shots in an 18-point win, PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS, with the UCLA forwards. They are and the Tulsa coach gave credit for WKAR FN! ^C 5 mc capable of scoring when needed, which the win to Louisville's defense. February 28 - March 6 isn't often, but usually they concen­ trate on defense and boardwork. Remember that when you're con­ ceding the championship to UCLA. FRIDAY, Morch 3 TUESDAY, February 28 Which leaves Fred ilolden, noted 1:00 p.m.—Musical, "Urlgadoon." AocA- i Morning Program," clas- 3:00 p.m.—Mahler's Symphony No. 8, rec­ s and weather with Mike orded in performance In Rotterdam in «•?.!}Wise. (Monda :y through Friday). 1954. 1:00 p.m.—The French Chef—"A 8:00 a.m.—News, with Lowell Newton.(Mon­ 7:25 p.m.—Hockey, MSU vs. Wisconsin. from Top to Bottom"—Julia Child shows day through Friday). two methods for cooking the artichoke, 8:15 a.m.—"Scrapbook," with Steve beginning first with the whole vegetable Meuche. (Monday through Friday), SATURDAY, March 4 and then going on to prepare artichoke 1:00 p.m.—Musical, "Allegro" by Rodgcrs 11:45 p.m.—"Recent Acquisitions" with Ken bottoms. and Hammerstein. Beachler and Gil Hansen. 7:00 p.m.—Great Decisions 1967—"Yugo­ 3:00 p.m.—Carl Orff's "Carmlna Burana," 2:00 p.m.—The Metropolitan Opera, live slavia and Rumania"—A consideration conducted by Rafael Fruhbcck de Burges. from New York. Today's performance . of the principle factors responsible for 5:00 p.m.—"News 60," a full hour report Of Mozart's "The Magic Flute" stars the development of national communism prepared by the WKAR news and public Judith Raskin, Roberta Peters, George in Eastern Europe. affairs departments. Shirley, Theodor Uppman and John Ma- ' FRIDAY, March 3 8:30 p.m.—lhe Chicago Symphony Orche­ curdy. The director is Josef Krlps, mak­ PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS, stra in Concert, the opening concert of ing his Metropolitan Opera debut. 12:00 p.m.—Great Decisions 1967 — See the 1966-67 season from newly reno­ 7:25 p.m.—Hockey, MSU and Wisconsin. F«bruory 28 - Morch 6 Thursday, 7 p.m. vated Orchestra Hall. JeanMartlnonleads After the game, til I a.m., classics by 12:30 p.m.—Choice: Challenge for Modern the orchestra In performance of Beetho­ request on "Listener's Choice." ven's "Consecretion of the House" Over- Woman—"Wages of Work"—see Tues­ TUESDAY, February 28 day, 1 p.m. Sre and Symphony No. 4 as well as Carl SUNDAY, March 5 cilaon's Symphony No. 4. SATURDAY, March 4 10:30 p.m.—An MSU Music Department re­ 2:00 p.m.—The Cleveland Orchestra in cital by pianist Henry Ross, recorded in Concert, conducted by George Szell and Una isreaUtc" and author of "For 2C NO LISTING the Music Auditorium Friday evening, featuring violin soloist Edith pelnemann. Plain" and "Only In America" tells of March 27. Mr. Ross performs music by his career, his literary achievements SUNDAY, March 5 Bach, Beethoven, James Nlblock,..Oe- and his philosophies on life. l:30.p.m.-Young American Musicians — Buasy and Rachmaninoff. "Violin Concerto"; and Debussy's "U 12:00 p.m.—Under standing Our World— Violinist Sanford Allen, member of the Mer" are the musical selections to be "U.S.S.R. Today" — Professors Allen New York Philharmonic, and pianoltt performed. Shields and Nicholas Kazarlnoff of the Lawrence Smith, 1964 winner in the WEDNESDAY, March 1 6:00 p.m.—"Netherlands Concert," with University of Michigan discuss the hopes, Dimltrl Metropoulos Competition, per­ 1:00 p.m.—Musical, "First impression." the Amsterdam ConcengebouwOrchcstra fears and attitudes of the Russian people form Sonata In C Major, K. 301 by Mo­ 4:00 p.m.—"Musicians Off Stage," an Inter­ led by Karel Ancerl and featuring piano as they observed them during their recent zart; the third movement of WiUlam view with Eugene Ormandy. soloist Andre Watts. Program includes stay in Russia. Sydeman'6 Duo for Violin and Piano and 8:00 p.m.—"FM Theater," a BBC pro­ Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1; Chopin's 12:30 p.m.—Assignment 10— "Gas Games" Praeludium and Allegro by Fritz Krels- duction of Sophocles' "Elektra." "Nocturne", op. 48, no. I; and Vonsek's --Service station operators, major oil ler. 10:30 p.m.—"Music Around the World" with Symphony in l>. company representatives and customers 3:00 p.m.—The Creative person—The Mana Nicholas. Tonight: Work songs 8:00 p.m.--" lhe Toscanml Era" hosted by talk about games, sweepstakes and other musical heritage and career of the cele­ from different areas of the world. Gary Barton. Tonight's program, con­ buying incentives that supposedly make brated conductor Bruno Walter, who con­ 11:00 run.—"New Jazz in Review" win, ducted entirely by Arturo loscanini, in­ people select one brand of gasoline over ducted Vienna's imperial Opera, the Muni­ Ron English and Bud S parole r. Tonight, cludes rehearsal excerpts Irom Verdi's another. cipal Opera in Berlin and the Vienna •""•• " •-". album, "Miles "la Traviata" as well as Beethoven's 1:00 p.m.—Choice: Challenge for Modern State Opera. Overture to "The Creatures of Prome­ Woman—"Wages of Work"—A study of 4:00 p.m.—Your Right to Say It—"What theus"; Barber's Adagio (or Strings; the conditions under which women work about Labor Relations in 1967?" — News­ Mozart's "Divertimento No. 15 and Ros­ men question Jack T. Conway of the THURSDAY, Morch 2 and the effect of their work on their sini's "William Tell" Overture. families and communities. AFL-ClO concerning all aspects of com­ 11:00 p.m.--"Offbeat" with Steve Meuche. ing events In the labor movement. 1:00 p.m.—Musical, "Can-Can." 7;00 p.m.—Spectrum — "Games People 7:00 p.m.—The Detroit Symphony in Con- Play"—The first of a two part presen­ 4:30 p.m.—N.E.T. Journal—"Ninety Days" cerr, conducted by Slxten Ehrling. lhe MONDAY, Morch 6 tation in which author-psychiatrist Eric — South African Justice is portrayed program includes Brahms' Haydn Vari­ 1-00 p.m.— Musical, "Porgy and Be Berne explains and demonstrates his . through the real experiences of Ruth ations; Karl-Birger Blomdahl's Sym - 8:55 p.m.—Basketball. MSU and Mlnnc new psychoanalytic theory "transaction­ First, Imprisoned for an unstated crime phony No. 3 and Bartok's Concerto for 10:30 p.m.—"Music of Today" with Hans al analysis" with actual therapy ses­ and driven to the edge of madness under Orchestra. Nathan and Gary Barton. This evening a sions conducted by Dr. Berne and his the "90-day" law, by which police can associates. 9:00 p.m.—"Jazz Horizons," til midnight, program of works by Ltllgl Dallaplccola. incarcerate a person and hold him with­ with Bud Spangler. out benefit of attorney, right to trial or formal charge. WEDNESDAY, March 1 11:00 p.m.—N.E.T. Playhouse—"Uncle Van- 11.30 a.m.--spectrum — "Games people ya"—The Laurence Olivier production of Play"—The first of a two part presen­ Anton Chekov's tragic story of people tation. See Tuesday 7 p.m. thwarted by their sensitivity and the per­ NEOCLASSraCEP 12:00 p.m.—N.E.T. Journal — "After the ception of their own unrealized poten­ WANT ED: Person (male or female) to travel Miracle"—A probing look at the nature tialities. with thru Europe. Either by car or by of Israeli people concentrates on five hitting. Someone who doesn't need Itine­ aspects of life in tsreal: defense, re­ MONDAY, March 6 raries, etc. Preferably can speak a language ligion, integration, development and the 7:00 p.m.—Spartan Sporillie— Filmed high­ other than English and who at least is in­ Arab minority. lights of the Big Ten Swimming Cham­ different to horses. Call Susan, 351-7627 7:00 p.m.—Congress of Strings 1966 — pionship and an interview with Detroit Conductor William Steinberg, music di­ Tiger pitcher Mickey Lolich, who demon­ TO ALL HIPPY TRIPPERS: If you would rector of the Pittsburgh Symphony, leads strates techniques for throwing different be interested In Joining a coed group of PSYCHEDELIC MONGOLIAN CEKBILS: the 1966 Congress of Strings Orchestra types of pitches, travelers to the hippy centers westbound In their performance of the Concerto 7:30 p.m.—Profiles In Courage—The story (the Strip, Halght-Ashbury, Old Town) and/ From behind the Bamboo Curtain these af­ fectionate little animals were brought to this Grosso In D Minor, Opus 6, No. 10, of George Mason, political philosopher or eastbound (Greenwich, East Village, Yock- by Handel. and author of the Virginia Declaration vlllc), please send name, address, pre- • country to be used for experimental drug research. They're off druRS now -- calm. of Rights, who risked his political stand­ fered date of departure to TRIP, c/o THE THURSDAY, Morch 2 ing because of his opposition to the Con­ PAPER, Box 367, East Lansing, Michigan cuddly, 6edate, non-man-eating. Also very housebroken. Most charming companions (or stitution of the United States, whichomit- 48823 for i • infoi. ition. lonely, animal loving students. 55.00 each, 12:00 p.m.—Your Right to Say it—"Govern­ ted a bill of rights. write to Gary Rue (Lansing's only low- ment and Railroads"—Newsmen ques­ 8:30 p.m.—Assignment 10—"The Doctor priced Cerbil dealer) or visit ~ 211 S. tion William Tucker, Chairman of the of Lives"—Social workers describe the OPEN NUDfc PAR Mifflin, Lansing. Interstate Commerce Commission, con­ purpose of social work, the cases they Take a shower and < cerning the current railroad situation in work on and the need of comnnmlty re- your own . .Girls, don't be afraid—this the U.S. and the future of railroad mer­ help them- in their work. may be just what you need to break loose. EMPLOYMENT — IF YOU'RE AFRAID OF gers. Meet at Varsity Pizza back lot Friday, LIFE, DON't READ THIS AD1 Wanted — March 3, at 8 p.m. for further Instructions. adventuresome students to word U: usher, Sorry It must be arranged in this clande­ ticket salesgirl, asst. manager. Write Box stine manner. 367 DT, E. Lansing, Mich. tr)e guetfttngfjeastt si Nepal, Ckko Box 367 Eas< Lansing, Mich. 48823 I el.: (517) 351-7373 tfricia N«cklec. DEADLINE THURSDAY MIDNIGHT 50 words/%1 OUTLINE THEORY What? Gas 14i Cheaper? cannot abide, hard as we try . . .Just as certainly as liberalism NOTEI MEUER-THRIFY ACRES Is the LSD of the aging, LSD is the radicalism of the young . Dear PAPER reader: (5125 W. SAGINAW) NOW HAS A GAS - . . .In any case, poets and junkies have been suggesting to use • SERVICE STATION. REGULAR GAS- that the new world appropriate to the new men of the latter twen­ There was a rather fast response 24.W, PREMIUM - 26.9(5. THAT IS tieth century is to be discovered only by the conquest of inner to last week's E. L. Notes. It seems 14C CHEAPER THAN THE CURRENT, space: by an adventure of the spirit, an extension of psychic that we made a rather large-sized HIGH EAST LANSING PRICEIM possibility, of which the flights into outer space. . .are precisely error and with much chagrin and red- such unwitting metaphors and analogues as the voyages of ex­ faced embarrassment we humbly covered all stock, not just last year's ploration were of the earlier breakthrough into the Renaissance, apologize to the East Lansing State leftovers. Also good service. from whose consequences the young seek now so desperately to escape. The laureate of that new conquest is William Burroughs... Bank. I he dialogue in last week's Typing service suggestion is to try issue should have taken place at the Alan Walker (1900 Brentwood) Yet the nothing generationseemsiohavefoundsomeihing. "Happenings", First National Bank of East Lansing for good, professional service, low (435 E.C.R.) Many people agreed as they are called, are not new; they began before 1960 in Greenwich with the fact [hat First National has Village. But today, they have moved out into the streets, concocted by linle interest in providing service Bazley's Meats gets another okay groups like the Provos in L.A., N.Y., and Amsterdam, etc. Jean-Jacques to students. Our unqualified apolo­ as well as Leonard Wholesale (324 Lebel, the leader of Europe's underground, contends that "people are gies are submitted to the East Lan­ N. Wash.) for selected discounts on taught to think they can live art by collecting it, but they can have a Van sing State Bank. Their friendly atti­ appliances, cameras, etc. In addi­ Gogh in their living rooms and it won't change a thing in their lives. 1 tude toward students has been de­ tion, Musselman Realty (314 Abbott) think art is supposed to provoke a crisis that will change a person's whole fended by many of their obviously has been known not to discriminate idea of himself. But most people are put off by art. They avoid it, they satisfied customers. in its renting and real estate deal­ feel insulted by it. This is a result exactly contrary to the intentions of ings. modern artists, who are saying 'Don't worship art—let it happen to you.' We have also been advised that We also received a long descrip­ The truth is that art is just the experience. I he way you feel at a Happening, Bator Opticians (223 Abbott Rd., E.L.) tion of the excellent, homemade can­ the way you evade it or participate in it—these things make up your por­ has on several occasions provided dies at Caruso's Giftland (319 N. trait. And your portrait IS the work of art." (from Life magazine article, complimentary service and repairs Wash., Lansing). The candies sell at "The Other Culture," Feb. 17, 1967) on glasses. very fair prices and are very good, Not surprisingly, this is hardly the "death of everything"; it parallel s The low cost of drugs at the Drug backed by 60 years of family ex­ perience. Leary's contention that psychiatrists who administer LSD to their patients Shop (1322 E. Mich.) is exemplied should take the drug along with them ... by the following: 3 months birth- . Finally , have you ever browsed Let me now try to tie some of these ideas together. The concept of fiction control pills for about S4.65; nor­ at Paramount News? They have great­ mally about S6.25. \ have been talking about here is directly relevant to the kind of newspaper ly expanded at 545 E.G.R. and have a that THE PAPER is. As we have seen, the Underground is perhaps the A recent letter points out that very wide and Interesting variety of vanguard for our generation of the processing of reality (through fiction, Larry's Gulf (504 W. Mich.) did books, magazines, and newspapers. among other media) and the changing of our lives (through direc, revela­ some good tune-up work at very 1 hey were very stalwart in defend­ tory experience and participation). I he Underground Press, of which I HE reasonable cost. Also, the letter sug­ ing freedom of press last summer PAPER is a part, is by its very nature designed to help us make this gests that Lathrop's Pure Oil (210 when the East Lansing Ladles' Morals generational transition (more accurately, sudden break) to the new world, W. Mich.) previously did the same Squad was on the loose. by functioning as a medium of communication of new ideas. In other work for about S21.50. So, if you have a word of encourage­ words, the Los Angeles Free Press describes 3nd explains the meaning Another letter suggests that Van- ment for student - faculty - shoppers of the strange public events staged by the Provos, ad infinitum. In other Dervoort's u« N.\vasnington, Lan­ (i.e., wncrc not to get taken) write to words, as the "people fiction" and our ouija board experiments suggested: sing) is a good place to buy ski Box 68, East Lansing, 48823 or call Further understanding saves minds—in this case, our generation's. equipment. The other compliment was 351-7373. for Regal Shoes (Ann and M.A.C.) Since the novel is moribund and the so-called "objective" newspaper their Washington'8 Birthday sale CHHML is already dead ("Reality is dead"), some McLuhan hybrid medium ("We know from our own past the kind of energy that is released, as by fission, when literacy explodes the tribal or family unit. What we do know about the soical and psychic energies that develop by electric fusion or. ai from page 3 implosion when literature individuals are suddenly gripped by an electro­ magnetic field. . .The hybrid or meeting of two media is a moment of To the EditorLette: r Uniteusd Students should make no plans truth and revelation from which new form is born. For the parallel be­ I have read your publication a which assume that US can either mo­ tween two media holds us on the frontiers between forms that snap us number of times and find it to pres­ bilize or prevent mobilization of mass out of the Narcissus-narcosis. The moment of the meeting of media is ent the fair view of the young Ameri­ support on its own say-so. This does a moment of freedom and release from the ordinary trance and numb­ can. Though I have never been a not, of course, preclude the possi­ ness imposed by them or our senses") must take their place if the "nothing student at MSU, I am very familiar bility of United Students contributing generation" is to communicate any portion of its experiences. The hybrid with the campus and students. Why to the establishment of conditions is more virilejhan the old and outmoded communications media that make is not important. Most of the articles similar to those preceding Bessey, up the new synthesis. In its subjective reporting of "objective " events I have read have been well done which as I see it are both necessary THE PAPER has the potential of presenting a more comprehensive per­ with a mature touch; they show the and sufficient for the mobilization of spective of the processes which underlie the events reported. feelings of our generation better than mass action. US should realize how­ I've ever seen them presented. ever that any mass action mounted will THE PAPER, then, has been reporting subjectively, almost as if it require the same broad base of sup­ were reporting reality only one step removed from fiction. There is also Vietnam is the subiect of the times. port found at Bessey or It will prob­ no reason why THE PAPER cannot equally report fiction only one step It is truly important that students ably fall. removed from "reality." (I am saying this because it has been hotly are given an honest picture of what contended, at least around the PAPER office, that THE PAPER is not their G.I. contemporaries are doing capable of handling fiction. This is obviously absurd.) And since "fiction in Vietnam. AS you well know there HOT OF? THE P2KIS2 PR235I familiarizes truth," an imaginary event or sequence of events, seen from, is much turmoil with young people many different, necessarily subjective viewpoints, may predict the future today, and it is the duty of us all to JOHLD'3 323T 3SLLIM 300?: if the fiction "reaches back." Thus prophesy—and thus the potential quell as much of it as possible. for THE PAPER, the hybrid medium synthesis of the newspaper and the Question (1) Were those profes­ novel, of printing original fiction, creative writing. Fiction (especially, sors released after their contracts The Red Guard's Bible though not necessarily, fiction of a verbal-visual collage hybrid style) / expired? Of this I'm curious, I fol­ can place THE PAPER medium in the unknown context of the present: lowed their case very closely. laU0TATI0K3 F30E CKAIRXAK th e living subjective history of the underground and its press (as Mike (2) is it possible to have copies described it in the tenth issue of this year). of THE PAPER mailed? 'IA0 TSE-TUNG THE PAPER can handle, by its new-generation-wlthoui-a-past nature, 1 am sincerely yours, the subjective living history as it becomes the prophesized future. THE Robert C. Ohlson (English Translation) PAPER can handle, by its media-mix nature, literature that expands AF-12758068 off the page into the present world. This is the most virile kind of Under­ 632 Air Police Sqd. ground process; by involving the reader In its cooler medium of collage- $2.00 $2.00 J2.00 derivative style, THE PAPER is tormenting an exciting (subliminal) from kind of activism, and this is surely consistent with the goals of the Nothing Generationl SUIT ^ Jim Thomas 332-5353 This reintegration of beings into the mainstream of the living present, of the tribal world (as McLuhan speaks of the imploding tendencies of Or send check or T.oney electric media), is what is meant by the phrase "the calculus of sub­ dry clean jectivity" (see "people fiction"). THE PAPER is an invitation to recon­ o"rder to; students for sider your possibly unpleasant, possibly repellant future in the sick society (as Fiedler points out our generation sees his generation), to ?&» $1.25 reconsider your goals—and change if it doesn't suit you. Leary would Asian Understanding say drop out; the underground press says invoke the "calculus of sub­ jectivity" (not the "algebra of need") and reintegrate your goals with PEWARCLEMEIS 33^ Charles St. your changing life and the organic world. Further understanding saves minds. E. Lansing.' 122 SWDD1BJ) ED 23658