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The Post Amerikan (1972-2004) The Post Amerikan Project
3-1973
Volume 1, Number 16
Post Amerikan
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IRAN (Plus other berlo's I 181 ' S typos��·���\�;:� and 1n I d• c onlexl sani ties. . • ) Dlanse Women's ••ti ,,,,.,. Place at 1-SU 'l'he ?ost-Amerikan is a newspaper of un Post-Amerikan workers at almost weekly certain oriFin and unidentifiable man meetin�s which will be scheduled in the �ge�ent catering to t�e radical or hip paper every issue. Like this: community. At least that's what the n h ;:)aturday r.:arch 24, at 4P'..'. i'a tai::ra o says, Wednesday April 4, at 8?� The Fast serves as a medium of expres t'riday April 13, at 8PI1; s ion for a segment of society known as 3a turday April 21 , at 4P!1'. the counterculture and the movement. Hithin this broad spettrum exist widely 'Ihese meetings are at the Post-Amerikan differins opinions and world views. We office, 114! North St., in Normal. 452- intend to print all of them, with only 9221. Everybody interested in working two exceptions: we will not print any on the paper in any way should come to thinE racist or sexist. The ?ost is a meeting. �e need people. not published in accordance with a Bloomin1ton well-developed political theory with Send all news articles, book and record the aim of propagandizing its readers reviews, how-to-do-it articles, infor into stricter adherence to that theory. mation, commentary, ANYTHING, to the 605i 1-4 2 The Joint, N. �ain office. Our hours are1 IV:onday, 'I'r.e Fost does not limit its coverage to to 8 Tuesday, 9-4:30 Wed, 11-3 Thurs, DA's Liquors, Oakland and Kain radicals and counter bulture freaks. and 9-12 Priday. Or slip it under the �edusa's book Store, lOQ H, Front �e consistently support the powerless door. against the powerful. In this light, ;v;aple Grove Trading Co,, 310-lt l•�ain N. we support the right of powerless Post Subscriptions costs $2 for ten is 402i �ews Nook, N, �ain workers and writers to remain anonymous sues, $4 for twenty issues, etc, so they will not be victimized by the Book H ive, 103 W, ¥ront Classified ads are free; send them powerful. to the office. Re ular advertising 1201 g bottle Shop, E, Oakland costs $36 a page, $18 for a half, 202* �ecisions are made collectively by etc, Call 828-7026. Gastbn's Barber Shop, N. Center #orm•I Personals Lobby Shop, ISU Union 117 Apple Tree, E. Beaufort FOOT HENDERSON--can you contact someone To �!;om_:__t InfL.Y.....£9.!'.\S:fLl:;_: The Caboose, 101 North St. at the Post? The xerox fucked up , so Everytody parks there without getting we're missing part of your article , and a Fritz Pretzels, 115 North St. that's why it hasn't been printed yet. ticket. Mother �urphy's, llli North St. WHOEVER PHONED ABOUT THE MONKEY--we've would Kathy, T., Barb, Caboose Records, 101 �orth St. I ljke to tha�h: got the picture; have you got the s , Laurie, Cathy Allison, 'Ii h Chris, J,, 311 article? K Dennis, �instrel Record Parlor, s. �ain athy C,, Sue J,, Sue B,, Meg, Brigette, E vira, Pat, Dala, Dave, Lou, Room 249, Stevenson Pall, ISU l HAWKERS--bright, energetic, vivacious, Char, and all these who helped with the Fartridge !amily, 106 Beaufort pert , or efficient. Sell th is very s e Th�nks to everyone wh bake a l , also o paper you!re holding in your nands supported it, Your urranitarian effort2 Ram, 101 Broadway Mall r right now! Call 452-9221 or 828-7026. are· ap11reciated. Al's Pipe Shop, 101 Broadway !.\all Call it d frect, and call it today! IV:a.rty,
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The Domino People are Pizza People,Period. 3 Union suooortcrs Leaf let t e lar;est supermarket chain in "A&P, r_ . ollowin� the phone conversation, dur the country with over 4,000 stores, is LEAFLETING i g w hic� the leafle�ers agreed to leave buyinr le-ctuce from growers who deny n . _ i;l-,ac day--until the 1-aw1er could farm wor�ers a union of their choice •v:·:1 , So people began -co leaflet che store, contact Eastland's--several people spo�e and ref'lSe to negotiate with them for a both inside and outside the mall on with the president of Eastland's �er decent wace and better workin[ condi �arch 1, Attempts to [e-C media cover chant Associacion to find out what he tions. age met with only partial success, -choJ��t of the affair, The Vidette was there, lhe ?antagranh "Without a ur-ion, !arm workers have was invisible most of the time, "All am," he said, "is president of little power to defend themselves I -che �erchant's Association, anci you got agains-c dangerous pesticides, abusive The period leafleting began--late af the same messaGe I got, You're on pri foremen, unsafe and unsanitary workin� ternoon--wasn' a ver; crowded time for vate propertj. de had some trouble conditions," t the store, :_ostly elderly couples. here, previously, you know," �hen told --from the leaflet entitled Some went in, saying they weren't going that the two cases were different leg "Please Do No t Shop at A&P," to buy lettuce, Several turned away, ally, he replied, "Could tave been, distributed ty People for It went quietly for about fifteen min could have been," Social Justice and Community utes, for Social Action, With the way shopping centers are de feople leafletted two entrances, A&? veloping now, one person pointed out, In an attempt to lend support to strik One inside the center, the other with it makes it impossible to do any inc farm workers, members of the Bloom outside access to the parking lot, leafleting or picketing because all the in ton-i,ormal community ciistributed The previous leafletters had been ar access areas are on private property- leaflets� at the Eastland A&F. rested inside the center, but man different from the old sort of downtovm a�ement had issued discouragin� areas, "Again'; the merchant said, "I PA ST HISTORY s�atements about parking lot leaf don't make-any of the bylaws or any let�ing, also, Outside, by the thing," ihose who think that wasn't a particu Eastland ramp, several protesters larly interesting occurence don't know held signs. One driver, afcer enter Asked what he thought personally of the much recent �loominston history, East inP- the narldn'! lot, saw their sign, boycott, the president of Eastland �er land, one of a growing system of shop raised the fis t, turneci the car chant's Association replied, "I never pin[ centers, has in the past had leaf around, and left, even think about it, I haven't thought leters arrested for trespassin[. Sev During the leafleting, a middle-aged about it, I didn't pay any attention eral years previous, local members of man in a suit apnroached the leaflet to it," what was then SDS were arrested for ers to give them a circular. The cir distributing leaflets condemning the cular with pictures of two women on it Asked if he'd heard of the farmworkers' Daily Fantac-raph's racist non-handling (home pun looking), announced a revival plight, he replied, "Oh yes, I've heard of events in Cairo. As expected, said meetin�; of the Eastview Christian of it. I just don't read the papers, members had the book thrown at them, Church� "You sr.ould come," the man I don't snend more than three minutes One doesn't get by criticizing the po said to several with a wink, "You might a day reading the papers," wer structure that easily, enjoy the girls," One of the protest ers noted after the man left that the "Yo� 6an't have opinions," he said, "if PRESEN T Church had a his-Cory of sexism, you manage a store, You have people coming in believing one thing and t0en THE _ The lettuce boycott leaflet wasn't MANAGEMENT the other. And you can't have opinions couched in rhetoric hali as hard as Because some people are for it and some that S�S leaflet, but it was equally As exnected, however, time for reflect people are against it," risky, Sticks and stones and all that, ing o� how �astview Christian Church but when you try hittin[ me in the money was allowed such free access to East ..-:,lhen you' re dealing with the public, area it boycotts--that's a different you can't have opinions, Everybody's w h land's interior was brief, A gentleman story, in maintenance uniform, sayinc he was got a right. To sell what they want Leafleters felt they had a legal prece representing management, approached the to, you-know," nrotestors to tell them they had to dent for leafleting on Eas tland proper ty with a Supreme Court rulint in favor leave, of un ion supporters workin,o: on such quasi-public property as shopping cen Representatives of the group said they ters, � he problem was store mana[ers ha� a ri�ht to be there showinE � urt de probably don't know all the relevant xeroxed �opies of the.Supreme_� ; Supreme Court decisions they need to, cision. Bob Jones, representing man i\ei ther do tr_e :Dloomin!""ton Police. 1<0- agement, said it was against the shop body, particularly, wa�ted to get ping center's colicy to have such �a arrested. terial dis-cributed inside and outside, i rhe 7roup said they d be w i lling to ar TODA Y To prevent possible mistreatment, ob �ue It w ith the mana�er·· or have -Che servers from ACLr were asked to view ' lawyer arz:ue it After getting legal opinion from the Cnited .r arm J orkers procedin�:s and any possible shenanigans, Jones said the City Attorney and Faul Welch, the -c with 3astland's lawyer, mana2er was out, but he would try and leafletters decided they could distri people followed bute outside A by the parking lot PREVIOUSLY contict him. Several & ? him back i:no the Eascland back. of3-'ice, That meant only one entrance was being Overtures had been made previously to ® b�� inoludin o covered--not the entrance inside . A&lc, by t'." e two groups s'...lpportin[ the Eastland, Leafletters were certain farr:'.workers, in an atte�:pt to get the of reaching a sizable number of people s-core to supvort the let-cuce boycott, anjway, �he manager refused to listen, �e said - it was a reEional decision, not one -co Leafletting re-began Saturday, �arch be made by iny sincle stores, So the 17, for two hours, two groups decided to take the message IN THE OFFICE 'l'he leaflet_ti:1c· werit uneventfullv ex to the store's shoppers. cept for the early appearance of Mar In the office, Jones attempted to con ian fate, Ea�tland's manager, He "�e hope you, t�e people of the commun gave them 10 minutes to leave, Tate ity, will help improve this deplorable tact �arian Tate, Eastland manager, who asserted he had the 3upreme Court on condition of farm worker families," the was on his way to dinner at the 801 tis side, that there was little dif leaflet stated, Club in Bartonville, and R. Blitt, own er, "lho lived in Kansas City, "� inally, ference between lettuce boycotters LEAFLET Elitt was reached on the phone, One and SDS, ("same group of �eople just of the renresentatives talked to him, different buttons") and--in fact, he In the mi reco�nized some of the leafletters T�e statistics cited were pretty frim1 ddle of the conversation, president of the Eastland Yerchants from the previous bust, This was Association patently untrue. B00,000 children work in the fields; busher walked in, He went and listened in on an exte0sion phone, so; never reach high school. Tate then left to call the police, 3litt told the representatives that �arm workers have 125• higher infant I:obody came back, One person overhear there had been "trouble"·at Eastland and maternal mortality rate, Tate in Eastland quoting Paul Welch, once before, that the lettuce leaflet saying that it looked like the leaf 95� of farm workers' tousing, with an ers had no riEht bein� there, and that letters would legally "win this one- average of 1.9 rooms per house, has no if they didn'i leave he premises they � and we sure donjt want to give them plumbing, would be arrested, �acts behind the any victories," recent courc decision were repeated to �arm workers must support families on wages of less than $50 per week, .Slitt, "l�y opinion here is that the As becomes increasingly obvious, the Suureme Court doesn't a2ree," �ave only way to reach certain segments A farm worker gets about half a penny �i� ck, lettuce leaflete� representa. of society--the ones controlling-- for each head of lettuce picked, So if tive, said, is through the people's conscious use workers' wa[eS doubled, and the full of their power as the buying victims. increa8e were passed to the consumer, "'l'he court started with the premise," Exploited groups like chicane farm lettuce would cost only lt more a head, .'lieck told Blitt, "that picketing car workers rely on this power, along wit ried on in a location open to the pub - their real, courageous struggles It a peculiar sort of mind to re 1 ic is, absent of other factors involv takes afainst physical brutality--the phy main distant from that sort of reality, .ing the purpose and manner of the pick- sical brutality of a management eting, protected by the First Amend : P, by its national policy, is doing using scab labor, ment," �-3 damndest to perpetuate that sort of horror, Thus the call for a national Otherwise, the merchants and growers boycott lhe Eastland owner didn't care about of the entire chain. I�ot buy will continue to rely upon Nixonian the l''irst Amendment, He was [':Oing to ing a head of lettuce does less damaze pleas for private property protection to a store than have the leafleters arrested if they not buying anything. and the buying status quo: the same And obviously isn't didn't stop handi � out leaflets, A&F goinE to be n victi�s as usual, convinced throuzh humanis-cic a 'eals, They le arn to put down the older woman customer's plate first, then the older man's , and s o on; als o how to pour a goo� cup of coffee. These things are important to the custome r's comfort . I asked him ab out other practices. 4SHOWDOWN�ell , after re ading theat VidettGoldene Nowestw for the histcorralory of the ad it He said that ch ippe d fingern ail poli sh and seeing "that" Golden <'lest Steak self; it seem s the saying in the ad and long dangly earrings are a he al th i-1 ouse ad ab out USDA Choice Wai tresses, was thought up originally two ye ars ago hazard an d that unkep t fingernails are I wondered just what sort of pe ople and plac�d on a marquee outside the thought that little pie ce of adver . unattractive . That I have to agree re staurant , 'liell , UPI photographed it with be cause a waitress putting down ti sing up . Als o what spark of gen ius and put it on the wires. Some new s had prevailed in·�rinting it up . So a plate of food in front of me with papers pi cked it up and printed it as dirty fingern ai ls wouldn 't espe cially one afternoon one of my friends an d I sort of a humorous-type pie ce . Pape rs went to Golden '.le st Steak House and in crease my appre ciation of in stitu as far as San Diego printed it , and ti onal cleanliness. The cooks an d sought out one of its owners. ':le at that time no negative feedback re were sl ightly hassled by one of the ir busboys have similar he al th re quire sulted. He emphasized that the ad men ts also. waitresses when we came in . She was basi cally an atten tion getting wanted to know What we had come for device, and meant their waitres ses I as ked him ab out future adver and finally I looked he r straight in were tops in service to the customer. the eye and demanded to see the ti sing and he told me ab out plans to After all, a re staurant is a busine ss put in an ad ab out their cooks and owner • and thi s sort of thing "on the street" f.1ark Sp itz. Some thing ab out nark Spi tz . would be misplaced. OK, we were greeted by a rather can win so many medal s for swimming , well their cc-:. ok could win as many for happy, gentle -looking man who was The owner then placed the ad quite will ing to talk to us although cooking. Als o ab out a 197 year old man without thinking of offending any coming in and how their steaks remind we had to explain what the Post was. one . I mentione d that if he was try We promi sed to bring him one . Upon ed him of the good ole days out hes t ing to stress good service or "ser and he liked the hos tess too. Vie que stioning him, we foun d he himself vice with a smile" he should have di dn't fin d any thing wrong with the had put the ad in the Vi dette . He clarified the ad. said he had thought it up and wanted hostess portion of the statemen t. The owner wondered what the resp onse to reve al the quality of the waitre sses, The owner then looked at my not just the idea that they were would be . "The ads are basically friend and as ke d him wh at he thought . nonsen si cal ," he said. young and at tractive . They di d prefer friend, who I hadn't really talked to have young, sl im, attractive �Y to ab out the ad, rep lied that the ad The owner al so said that he had women wh o had good personalitie s an d was offen ding to women an d made wait received two phone calls and heard could give custome rs good service . re sses look like a USDA choice niece the Vidette got some fl ak ab out t. he I told him tw o of the waitresses I of meat! Another interesting thing, ad . So the ad , which was supp osed to had talked to didn 't like the ad. my mother , wh o is rel atively conser run this We ds. and Thurs. , r,� arch 14 He said he was sorry they found it vative , but cool, thought the ad was and 15, was cancelled because he n stifling o II di sgusting. didn 't want to offend any one. He said the reacti on to the ad was un He di d th ink that pe ople had re acted "And what kind of pe ople are you intended and un fortunate . out of proportion. Also some of catering to or what are your cust omers the ir waitre sses were average, he 70% mainly? " businessmen an d their Overall the owne r was kind to us told me when I asked if he would families at lunch, an d all type s of an d willing to talk to us. We had only hire personif icat ions of beauty families pl us students on weekends. explained where we were from (the Post) queens. , and what we were doing , an d he rem ained The owner al so emphasi zed that open to our opini ons and said he would When inte rviewed for the job, he said, the ad wanted to put the idea forth the women are asked different ques app re ci ate any sugges ti ons we had for that Golden We st doe s have waitres se s future adverti sing . tions and are hired for their per and is not a cafeteri a style li ke, sonality in de aling with pe ople . He say, the Ponderosa. said women with younger brothers Finally my friend as ked him what and sister s and special education he thought of Women 's Liberation and By the way, everyone in the res the feminis t movement . The owner said majors se eme d to be, on the average, taurant goes through some sort of he didn' t want to give a personal espe cially fitte d to t, his criterion. job training, including the waitresses . opini on which mig ht be mis con strued as a business opini on,
Then we left, thin king ab out our .side and the owner' s si de and an eye for an eye an d all that , an d came up with some re ally fine feminist sayings for Golden Wes t Steak House' s adverti The music induthestry has FAMILYdeliberate ly FoDIllowing WOMAN is an open le tte r written sing campaign. left the woman beh olden an d depen by The Fam ily of Woman 1 by Razorback dent on the sex ist greed and "gen erosity" of men . Sisters, pt"ed . . "m-!001" �... .,. ..,, n:';:..J:llatlnnc., '7 ���[:_'-.;.:� Even the woman superstar is "cre ate d, " 1,'[e are Le sbians, femin ists, an d pro - surrounded by, and allowed to ex ist by fe ssional musician s. \'le are writing " men, by winning their ap proval or to you in hope s that we can share some making them rich. of what that means, an d with the eventual hope that we can share our The contemporary exceptions are few . music with you. Most female entertainers pe rpetuate th is condition by going into agreement s Many women involved in the movement '"�-·
with sex ist dem ands, or shouting the have asked why we in sist on call ing Family of "tl oman • s goals and in tenti ons lyrics of sex ism. ourse lve s "lesbian fem inist performers." are compleX:--We coul d not possibly The fear of many women is that the re ve al all of them to you, as our Family of Woman are Le sb ian/femin ist ''le sb ian" part of that label wi ll goals are altere d constantly and change musicians who accept none of the sex alienate too many pe ople and make the often. However some of the se goals ist agreements the music business re opportunity for communi cation lim ited. �hat are most predomiD ate in our minds quire s of "its" women . Nor do they are1 pe rpetuate sex ism in their music. To us, that sounds like a new cop-out The ir songs are written by women , for an old prob lem. For too many To play material by women song writers , sung to women . centurie s, lesbian women have been more spe cifically , le sbian songwriters , creating around their life style s who need to have the ir material perform It 's not th at Family of Woman music inste ad of ackn owle dging their life ed. This can also motivate other cannot be heard and enjoye d by men- sty le s. The fear of discove ry has been women to keep writing , or to start it' s simp ly that they are unm i stakably energy draining . So- -the oppre ssion writing. Le sb ians on stage and th is for most of le sbi ans goes on . For years, Le s men is a problem . bian arti st s have taken false refuge Se c ondly , we nee d to re ach the part in in heterosexual guise be cause of those all wome n that love s women; some times Family of Woman' s music is �rimarily fears. The oppre ssion of Lesbians goes through angry songs and sometime s concert entert ainment. It is the larger on . For too many ye ars our Le sbian through love songs. We need to know audience th at comes to listen . The ir siste rs have been engulfe d in self that there is room in our women' s sty le is folk and rock and a little hatred making a proud de claration of movement for all women to create and comedy . The four musicians that com life style and sexuality alm ost im sh are that creati on. prise Fami ly of Woman area Linda poss ib le , Our own re alization that Shear, guitar7P iano/vocals; Joan "lesbians are beautiful " is embry oni c. Still another goal of Family of i'loman Capra, viol in; Sherry Jenkins, bass; And our oppre ssion continue s. is to re ceive support from other Ella Szekely, percussion. Fam ily of women which we need, We are doing Woman are professional, polished '.'le are invo lved in the le sb ian move this be cause we love women . iiiUSTC ian s wh� come to the con cert men t in Chicago through Chicago Le sb ian Liberation which is an impetus stage openly Le sbian to play songs We are the Family of Woman •••.we want for women . for coming out as le sbian perf ormers. to share our mu si c and our ideas with The Fam ily of Woman has laid aside all women all over the country . They are a.unique offering as ente r of the macho expectations that are put tainers and are strongly inv olved in upon other female perf ormers . We are In Si sterhood an d Struggle , of the fem ini st movement . As Le sbians tired be ing controlled by the op Joan Capra , Linda She ar, they hope to contribute to the finan pre ssor, an d cannot allow our music to Sherry Jenkin s, Ella Szek�ly 'C ia1 ·strength of Le sb ians wh ile fur be censored, edited , or misused in thering the ir own eff ort to succeed heterosexual fantasie s. Dividing our as perf ormers by creating the ir own mu sic from our political and em otional The Family of �oman will pl ay here at way around the sex ists.who would life was invalidating to us and to our ISU's Uni on Annex on �arch Jl , at own and exploit them if they could. si sters. 8:00. The ir career depends upon a dire ct and pe rsonal appeal to women' s groups who want hone st ente rtainment . J!!J ,· r- · · f--:-I Mor•" 11h n_'' . cap1 1 a 1 ism Subscribe I OMEGA IMPOSES
If you've read this issue of the Post, you probably want to read another, and another •••Yo u probably won't want to miss a single issue, "Fair trade" policies are of the same genre of language which makes it pos " " That could be a prob lem, sib le for Nixon to claim with a straight face that he's striving for Fair Trade You'll bump into a street hawker only peace by bomb ing the shit out of a Those are old laws. f1:octern laws call by chance, a chance you probably won't nation of peasants. it "fair trade ," want to take ,
The"trend toward euphemism in the lan , "You can buy the Post in some stores, guage of officials and bureaucrats ' OMEGA FORCE S FAI R TRADE but most of them are clustered in ("convict" to "inmate" to "resident"; certain areas in town , If you don't "prison" to "correctional institution" get to those areas, you're out of luck. to "training facility" ) climb s to its Recent months have seen Groucho Marx $1.75 highest pinnacle of achievement when T-shirts selling for at Student And relying on.a store is risky, too, it can turn a phrase into its oppo stores. Neil LeGare, who made the A free press can lose friends easily, site. shirts, gave them to Student Stores as is documented in the adjoining $1.50. the old for article , T st- the-Words trick Not long ago, in an effort to expand A free pre ss's only real friends are wi his market, LeGare offered the T- its readers. Students of the art will want to emu shirts to Omega, still at $1.50. Omega late the coiner of "fair trade ," who was eager to sell the shirts, but not So don't let a middleman come between has twisted the words' original mean at a puny 16% mark-up. Ome�a wanted us, Fill out the form below and send ing s a full 180 degrees, to sell LeGare's shirts at $3.00, Not it to us, and we'll send you the Post . wanting to have Student Stores' compe Or perhaps the words' meaning have sim tition, Omega gave LeGare the "fair ply undergone the logical change nec trade" ultimatum : unle ss LeGare got essary to correspond with the market's all his retailers to agree to sell the transition from fre e competition to shirts at $3, Omega would not purchase (you can cut out on this dotted line ) oligopolistic collusion, any . ------, I So what are "fair trade" policies? LeGare agreed, and passed the word on �ii' 114;t North St . , Normal l fta 61761 to Student Stores, which, unfortunate � Illinois, : Retail stores purchase item� that are ly, also agreed (since it was a ques I "fair traded" only by agreeing to sell tion of selling then for $3 or not at all,) I the product above a certain price . By God, I understand you're 1 All stores selling the "fair traded" chargin' 2 bucks for 10 issues I item must bind themselves to the �ame So people wanting to buy a Groucho Marx (each unique ) and I'm full willin' � contract. Thus the retail stor� � s T-shirt must now pay $1 .25 extra, to sub scribe by mail! protected from any price com�etit�on thanks to "fair trade ." without having to actually fix prices with other retail stores. All stores T-shirts are no big deal, but they are name selling the "fair traded" item present not an isolated commodity . A lot of a united front against the consumer, clothing is sold under "fair trade" contracts, and stereos, too. Probab ly street The anti-trust laws call price fixing more . --G,G , "conspiracy in re straint of trade ." city state zip
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Recent sales pitches for Post-Amerikan from $3.99 to $3.19. �hile the com grounds of accuracy, sub scriptions have explained the dif petition suffered, :udget planned to ficulty in getting the Post sold in ab sorb its losses from its entire in The Omega manager objected to the most stores around town . The fatter ternational chain, The prices would Post's placing a bad connotation on the cat, the less likely he is to have remain at $3.19 until the competition monopoly power and money screwi�g the anything to do with the paper. That's was gone--then they would go up to public. She said she would do the same the general pattern. $3.99 again, with no one to undersell as Budget if she had the resources. them, She did admit that Budget's practice would force consumers to pay higher Especially chain stores and franchises. prices, but said it was necessary for They are always accountable to a be Only few days that issue was the business's survival, hind-the-scene s national office which a after released, �mega was no longer display always says "no ." ing the ?ost. The manager objected to The Omega manager would not deal with selling a paper with so many "inaccur discussing the implications of a sys acies." The "inaccuracies" were, nat tem forcing businesses to screw con sumers for survival. Except hippie stores. Chain stores urally, in the 3udget article, the in ng to a forn,ation for which came directly fr or:l located clos� to ISU and cateri The discussion was ended, the Post �udget's local and significant segment of the freak pop man��er. was banned from Omega, ulation have been friendly to the Post . - Discussion (b etween the Omega manager, the ·oudget manae;er, a Post person ) Budget, at this time, was still selling "::ey wow! Dig it, man ! Free press! :ct:ici the Post . The Budget article was con Yeah, right on! Alternative new spap ensued, and minor �naccuracie s were pointed out , rrnt not the ones the sidered a free ad at best, and harmless er! We really ne ed papers like this," at its worst . they say, Omega manager objected to. The minor mistake s: c.ne '.cudget repre Budget's national office, however , has Until the press.become s too free. since overruled the local manager. On sentative who called on Student Stores orders from above, Normal's Budget was not a regional manac;er; the Normal Several months ago, Omega and Budget store will no longer carry the Post store is not the only Budget store Tape s and Records opened on Beaufort Amerikan , St ., sharing storefront rented from losing money ; the Normal store did not the once-coffeehouse� once-friendly stick out "like a sore thumb" at the nat ional office , The Post could have stayed in these to-freaks Galery . store s for a long time. The Post could have attacked The facts, as reconfirmed by Budget Standard Oil and General Initial reaction to the Post was high Motors and manager Chris Antonio: Budget is at exposed the ir conflict with ly favorable . ,:,oth stores offered to the pu blic inter tempting to drive competition out of e st, and Om ega and Bud sell the paper at no profit, returning get would have the record business; Budget's prices sold copies all day the full retail price to the Post, long . Budget' s Peoria manager began taking will go back up to $3.99 after the competition is gone; consumers will napers to Peoria, because he thought But when the fight came close to home, the Post was so good. have to buy records at higher prices than presently if 3udget's plan is "hip" corporate capitalism had to choose side s. Then Gudget began its attack on other successful, stores, and the Post reported the And it did, story , After discussion, Omega's manager still ob j ected to the Fast in general and the --G.G, :' d et had lowered it s record. prices Dudget article specifically, but not on 6
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tion, and Roger went out of business. �ince the BIA has control over every cheated out of their lands," 'Ihe BIA, aspect of the reservation Indian's life, even as corrupt, dominating and de the nIA can control Indian politics in structive as it is to Indians is seen such insidious ways. That is why the as a.vital part of their survival, �o Indians at Aounded Knee have asked for demands are for change and investiga
new tribal elections and an investi=a-,_ tion of the LIA rather than its aboli tion of the BIA. tion,
Another i�portant aspect that helps in �hy have Indians not asked for aboli understanding the. struggle at Wounded Wounded Knee is the height of a wave·of tion of the BIA? The answer is rooted Knee is knowing a little about AI�. Indian protests that began with the in the dependency Indians have on the �he American I�dian �ovement is urimar fish-ins, continued with Alcatraz and Bureau, During the 1950's,·the termi ily an urban-Indian organization: the recent raids on the Bureau of Indian nation policy was enacted by the Eisen Indians in the cities are faced with a Affairs (BIA) office in Washington. hower administration, 'I'ribes could be tremendous cultural conflict, Tribal It is not that Indian rage is on the dissolved and removed from BIA juris values extol sharing and interdepen rise; the Indian movement has merely diction. Several tribes did undergo dence. whereas the city demands compe adopted the methods .of the black and termination only to have their economic tition, individ11alism, and slavery to white radical movements. �hat is par base ruined Jin the case of the ·l'liscon the clock, Indians coming to the city ticularly significant about vfounded Knee sin Venominees), lose their land, and are faced with two choices: to become is that the older people on the �ioux have their people scattered in urban like white ueople and change their reservation in South Dakota asked AIM Indian ghettos, Vine Deloria said in tribal ways-or to join the�Indian (American Indian i'!iovement) to come in Custer Died for Your Sins "?ew people drinking sub-culture that will allow to help them oust their repressive and consider what would happen to the an Indian to remain Indian but at the reactionary tribal chairman, which led cost of health and productivitJ. Yet to the demand for an investigation of a third group of Indians has be�un to the BIA, develop, a grou�: tr,at has managed to retain its Indian identity, while ad Since the. government allowed Indian justing to the citJ and adopting those tribes to act as tribes and have tri aspects of the white culture which they bal constitutions (the Indian Reorgan can use to their benefit, It is from ization Act of 1934) the BIA has managed this [roup that AI� people come. Thus to manipulate tribal elections. I read it is not surprisinc that they have of an incident where a Crow Indian Indian people if the bureau were sudden adopted the methods of other radical named Roger Stops opposed the BIA can ly removed. Indians would oe cast movements in the country. didate for tribal chief. Roger owned adrift in society at the mercy of sharp a laundromat. The BIA bought washing operators, Eventually they would be The real thrust of the Indian movement machines for the people on the reserva- dispersed into the cities havins been is for Indians to maintain their iden tity and survive in this society. That is what people are willine to die for at Wounded Knee. Our role is to support their struggle and do what we can to see that this government does not continue to commit genocide--cultural and physi cal--on Indian people, If you are wil ling to join us in this struggle, come to our meetings on Wednesday nights in ' the second floor lounce in the I�U Union, or call 829-3751 for information,
--Barb ··iilson
Indian woman Raped
Quesnel , British Columb ia (LNS)--A jury of eleven white men and one wh ite t woman deliberated for four hours last Dec. ·19, before finding three white men not guilty of raping a young Ind ian woman. The law in British Colum bia states that a woman must fight to f Of 1Brodbura}!Jllall the death in order to avoid the assault. The prosecution introduced several wit nesses , including an Indian man who was hitchhiking with the woman on the night she was raped. He told the court that he was beaten at the side of the road,· and she was forced into Tiormal1 1!11# the car by the men and driven away. He and several constables spent the rest of the night looking for the car without success. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police also submitted labor Illinois· only atory evidence which supported the shap prosecution. Cenfra? The defense offered no witnesses , pre {o6acco. ferring to laugh , tell jokes, and chew gum throughout the proceedings. fcalur1n9 piJ!.es7 The jury was selected from a panel of I accessories. fifty people, One Indian on the panel was disqualified at the request c"o/ar.57 sm0ki71_9 of the defense lawyer. . /or the connoisseur 7 INDIANS BATTLE CUSTER COPS
For the next few days, Custer was lit erally an armed camp. All roads lead �hile most of the 200 Indians stood ou� i0g to the town were blockaded by po side th.e co1fftroorr., A!II� leaders entered lice and telephone communication cut. (Jue to the Fost's press schedule, any c;he buildin� to nepotiate with offi story on �ounded Knee events would be �wo companies of National Guardsmen were cials, One�o�� tr'.e,,leaders, ::i,ussell sent to the area, helicopters droned dated, as new develonments continue as �eans, demanded to know "why second de the paper goes to th� printer. Also, overhead, and the six-man sheriff's gree manslaughter char[es have been force was supplemented with denutized the Jounded Knee confrontation has re brought against a white rr.an when it citizens and 81 of the state's-141 ceived wide coverape in the establish should have been rr.urder," !"'.enc; press, a�,d a :?ost story would be r.ic::r.way patrolmen. ;.-en with rifles redundant. �e have chosen, therefore, were stationed on every rooftop in the "','fe v1ant some kind of insurance tL town. to print the followin� story, which this man won't kill another Indian, has not received r�ch attention.) continued �eans, who was also activ� Custer's white citizens were reportedly in the Indian take-over of the burea� buyinc a good deal more ammunition than C�JT�R, 30UTH DA�O�A--Custer Fets its of Indian Affairs in �ashington, DC name fro:r. tl?e in::amous defeat.,of the usual: and fear of the militant Indians l.:S la�'t lrnvember. s Cavalry at the Little Big ¥orn in 187 6. �read throughout the area. On Friday night, February 9, an incident in a In its day the Cavalry h�d quite a re After the ne2otiations had gone on for putation for brutally wipin7 out �ative Rapid City bar developed into the some time, t�e police, who numbered arrest of 42 more Indians. A�ericans throuEhout the we�t, but in about JO at the time, suddenly attacked this battle, led by General George the small croup of Indians, "knockin2' "It started out as a bar room brawl Armstrong Custer, not one white man the hell out of "i.ussell ;.:eans and the survived: between--for real--'cowboys and Indi others," said another Indian who was ans,'" explained Russell �eans, "The present. Although they fought back, Today, Custer residents number little cops arbitrarily busted 42 Indians and the cops managed to force the Indians not one white, �any of those arrested rare than 2000 and owe their living to out of the buildinE, and then tried to weren't even involved, They were just lumber and the �lack Hills tourist push back the crowd out front, trade, On �ebruary 6, the town was the swept off the streets," scene of another battle--this time. bet Jespite the American Indian Kovement's ween Indians and the town and coun�y sheriff's departments, Al�houzh the previous announcement of a self-imposed curfe0 from pm to 6 am, city au confrontation was not on as Fr�nd a O:JO scale as the Little Bi[ �orn t e im thorities blamed the whole incident on � They threatened to refuse to set plications were far-reaching.� AH.'., bail for those arrested until the AIM chapter got out of Rapid City, Eow the process, they roughed up Wesley 7he issue at hand was not a new one to In ever, pressured by several lawyers �ad Eeart Bull's mother, and it was r;ative Americans, A 20-year-old Sioux working with the Indians, the city fi named �esley Ead Heart Eull was then, as a Pentle snow fell to the nal y releas�d the h s e on � 42 " o. tag_ s" stabbed death by a white man in pround, tha� the fi�htinp·· - be£an� for to their recognizance on Feb, 12, · nearb; Luffalo Gap on January 21. �he �eal, white man, David Schmitz, was charaed Six days after the Custer battle, 250 Some 150 Indians battled with cops for with second degree manslaughter ana Indians refusin? to curtail their ac three hours, wrenchinp clubs away soon freed on 35 000 bond. End of about tivities because of threats from the from the cops to retaliate In kind, story? white community, traveled to Sturgis, swingins wooden flag poles, and fist another small town near Rapid City. said local India:1s and the local ii[htin�. Utterly panicked, the police ";10," '�here, ironically enough, a young began shootin� tear gas and shotgun er.apter of the American Indian \\�ove Sioux had been in jail for 29 days rent (AI�) in Rapid City, South Dakota, shells in tlce air. r;,·wo or three times without bail on the circumstantial evi Acutely aware of the fact that had an they tried to charge the crowd but dence that he had murdered a white man , Indian killed a white man he would not overwhel�ed, the; retreated in fear, '.-'ighway patrolmen and more sheriffs be charged with anything short of first The Indians had announced in advance joined the melee, but there was little degree murder, nor free on bond, they that they were coming to Sturgis to decided to do something about the in they could do to stop the Indians, equality, �hen the gas and smoke cleared hours later, the full extent of the con frontation was apparent--the Chamber of Commerce was burned to the ground, two police cars and the courthouse were s o badly damaged by m ke and fire, and several cops and Indians were injured,
JB Indians, many of them bystanders, demand that bail be �r anted . A bail were eventually arrested and charged So they aQnounced a demonstration for hearing was hastily ;cheduled for that �ebruary and on that day a JO-car with arson, felonious riot, and assault 6 afternoon, �he town was armed to the caravan travele� the 60 miles from against -police officers. Held in Rapid City jails, come were later released in teeth with snipers on every rooftop, �apid City to the small Custer court but there was no physical confronta r.ouse. their own recognizance. Others w�re released on �J500 bail. tion. �he court put bond at $15,00D.
II HThe undersigned citizens of the . U.S. declare our solidarity with the .•• Native Americans engaged in struggle for their freedom at Wounded Knee, 1 ndians suooorled Locally I We declare in advance that we will More than 100 people crowded to hold the U.S. government solely respon gether at the ISU Amphitheater Thurs sible for any and all bloodshed there." day �arch r a rally in support of Especially important, speakers B fo the Indians at Wounded Knee, South Da at the rally pointed out, is our The petition also demanded fast kota. visible expression of solidarity with and reasonable bail for anyone ar the Native Americans while the town rested at Wounded Knee. Earlier in the day JOOO leaflets of Wounded Knee is surrounded by fed were distributed on campus. In a few eral agents. The less isolated the From the rally has come about the beginnings an organized group with short lines, they menti�ned the Indian Indians appear to the government, the of struggle and our need to visibly sup more likely they are to survive. plans to continue supportive actions port it. of Native American struggles. The A comparison was made to the mur group occupied a booth in ISU's Three women led the rally, speak ders at Attica prison. There the con Union the week after the rally, and the ing of the Wounded Knee incident and victs were isolated, and Rockefeller's around 250 people signed peti its historical context. All agreed men felt they could do what they tions, which will be sent to the wanted without i ca state Attorney General. that the oppression of American Indians pol t i l reprisal. must be kept in the foreground by dem onstrations, protests, and media cov Petitions were passed around, Call Barb at 452-4378 for more erage, so that thiR issue will not and a speaker reiterated the fact that information about when and where the :signing the petitions could save new group will meet. fade. lives. communique trom wounded Knee�
This communique , which was phoned at this time . U.S. l\'iarshalls have Wood entered Wounded Knee early this to Madison, Wis., late last we ek, been .held up in the ir return home , afternoon (March lJ) under tight was also received by the Post just presumably awaiting developments here . security precautions by the Indians . before press time . Wood was accompanied by a representa The situation at Wounded Knee tive of the National Counc il of Provisional Government tonight (March 13) is very much the Churches and walked the quarter-mile same as earlier in the weeK . U.S. from the AU.1 checkpoint to the Wounded The Provisional Government of Marshalls and FBI agents have Knee headquarters flanked by more Wounded Knee announced new policy re-established road-blocks outside than 50 Ail'I. riflemen. The me eting decisions this afternoon (rliarch 12) , the village, and have stationed lasted for almost two hours , and at affecting populat ion characteristics armored personnel carr iers approxi of the 40-acre sovereign nat ion , in mately three miles from the village . a statement made by Dennis Banks, Reportedly, no one , inc luding news provisional communications chief. media repres entatives, will be allowe d The sovereign nation is open to to enter. South Dakota Congressman Indian People throughout the United Jim Abourezk, a longtime opponent of States. Originally , Wounded Knee AIM, has asked South Dakotans to was to be open to all, but now with pressure the Federal government into what Banks called movement groups on a more forceful stand concerning the Wounded Knee takeover. Last night , the way has forced this change , Banks its completion, Wood refused comment , said. Non-Indians who are in support when the reporters here speculated about the likelihood of violence, After that meeting , Dennis Banks, of the sovereign nation can best help formerly AIM field director , and now the people here by :assisting Indians more than half of the 80 or so news people left Wounded Knee and did not chief of information under the in more areas to get to Wounded Knee. Provisional Government of t�e Inde Those non-Indians who arrived in return unt il this morning. Tonight most reporters continued on , including pendent Oglala Nation , he ld a news Wounded Knee prior' to yesterday0s conference reiterat ing AIM's orginal declaration of independence will be three television networks and the wire services, They are here . position, Those demands originated allowed to stay for an indefinite from the Pine Ridge Civil Rights period of time , but once they leave , Organization , and include the firing they will not be able to return. The Provisional Government has organized work teams today, cleaning of Wyman Babie (?) , BIA area director , the trading post after the damage done along with Stanley Lyman , Pine Ridge There has been an official U.S. superintendant , Air-h has also called government statement to the AIM during the initial takeover. Work teams are also repairing abandoned for the federal government to stop leaders in response to the position supporting tribal council pres ident of sovereignty . There are about buildings to be used for housing . urrently , the 400 people here sleep Dick Wilson. Banks said they will 400 people here, including JO to 40 9 cont inue to stick by those demands non-Indians , Security measures are in churches and in the trading post, The spirit of AIM members is still unt il otherwise directed by the new in strong forc e today, after what AIM independent ,Oglala nation, or the leaders described as attempts to very high and up unt il road-blocks ,w ere re-established, reinforc ements Pine Ridge Civil Rights Organization , infiltrate Wounded Knee by federal which originally reque sted AIM's agents. On entry into Wounded Knee, have continued to arrive . They are walking in . presence here , The possibility all non-Indians are arrested and exists that the negotiations will being interrogated, In the event continue here tonight , but the Justice security personnel here are not Leaders of the American Indian Department desires neutral grounds satisfied with credent ials, would-be M ?vement met today with a repres enta for negotiat ion. AIM has suggested residents are told to leave . tive of the Justice Department for that such neutral grounds acceptable Reportedly, U.S. Marshalls have the first time since official to them are s the United Nations, re-established road-blocks are and neg?tiations were suspended last week. Washington , D.C., Pierre , South not allowing people into ·1iounded Knee Assistant Attorney General Hollington Dakota, or Denver, Colorado, Banks said, Banks also said AIM is serious in its attempt to reach a settlement but is determined to stand by the ultimatum which was re-issued today.
Intimidat ion of Indians and non Indians supporters has reached a high in the local towns near Wounded Knee , Outside of Wounded Knee, Indian leader "Barefoot" was arrested while coordinat ing for AIM in nearby Porcupine , South Dakota. His bail has been set at $40 ,000 ,
AIM Communications in Rapid City reports that large numbers of Federal agents are arriving from around the country . Federal Marshalls are main taining six road-blocks in the vicinity of Wounded Knee and are not allowing any one to enter , There about JOO U.S. Marshalls in the 'area and 15 armored personnel carriers . KIYE within tw? miles of Wounded Knee . All traffic has been halted and no (.J. Fron toh supplies are being allowed in , c:9 103 ty· 13/ooming Last night , government spokesmen I said they will force Wounded Knee (people) out by cutting off power, € water and food supplies, There is " Newspapers I a limited supply of food here that may last us through the week, and we do s� i � l have water and light , The COIN �� provisional government continued working to improve living conditions STAM? � Magazines at W?unded Knee and today completed repairs on two buildings in order to acc omodate the 200 or so people who SUPPLIES have been crowded together in Wounded Knee 's three churche s.
Network . news films are being sent ou� on an irregular basis, and each trip made by the courier must be approved by the Department of Justice , In other words , the television seems to be being censored . - c OM I . Money is desparately needed, There is now a new address for checks. Checks should be made payable to : cs:· Wounded Knee Trust Fund , Box 147 /lclult 11/ovelties-.J National Bank of South Dakota R pid City , S.D. I �
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/SU presentations will be in Allen Theater tebruary lJ , noon 1 a group of about Woman's Place at for free, Women are doing the direc 12 women students took over the main ting , costumes , and set design , as well sw itchboard at Boston State College There are seventy-nine women and nine as ac ting. to dramatize their demands that the ty-six men in ISU 's drama department , school 's sexist policies be changed, Until rec ently , even the most dedicat The going for women in the department ed play2oer would assume that there is still not easy, Debbie is the pu Tw o days later they walked out tri were maybe nine or ten women in drama blicity agent for the department, and umphantly to greet their supporters, there and that their main function was she told me that the PantaEraph refuses "We proved that women are a reality to fill up the empty plac es on the to use the title "!Vls ," If she writes stage while the men ac ted . This is a "l\fs," in her article s, the Pantagraph here ," said one woman , "We set a rather frustrating situation for the calls her an d asks whether the woman precedent of women taking over and many women in the department who have is married or not. If she says she demanding change and getting support energy , training , talent , and no parts. doesn't know , they call ISU News and from all over the city," Publications and find out, She has The invisibility of women on ISU's received a memo from Godfrey, head of Their demands were 1 space on campus stage really came home to Nancy Lalun News and Pub , asking her "please do for a women 's center ; the elimination tas and Debbie Barylski last summer, not use Ms ." She still uses it , and of salary discrepanc ies ; provisions The official bill included "My tair the Pantagraph still changes it. Even for a day care center to be started; Lady," which has only one ma jor women 's though the UPI and AP releases in the a women 's studies program be enacted ; role ; VDeath and Life of Sneaky Fitch ," paper use Ms , , stories originating lo and that 50fo of all athletic fees be which has tw o good female parts; and cally are printed with the archaic used for women (although half of Bos what Debbie called "Guys and Dolls- titles , "because the style-books have ten State 's students are women , and
Mostly Guys, " The problem of choosing not changed ," ac c ording to a ��-Panta- men and women pay the same athletic plays with parts for women has come up � writer, fees, the women 's athletic depart before , but has somehow always been ment was awarded only 12/o of the "put off, " Nancy and Debbie sum up the reaction total athletic budget .) -- 1 ns of the men in the drama department Nancy realized that if women were go with the word "paranoid, " Debbie said ing to appear often on ISU's stage , that when one of her acting classes they were going to have to do it was preparing to do a read ing of Ham through irregular means . She says , let , the male professor cracked , "Ob "It's not just here at ISU that we do viously we can't have the men doing men's theater ; plays are written for the women 's parts , or they 'll revolt men. " She started talking to women against it and start a movement or students and faculty about getting to some thing." Jokes and cracks about gether to discuss the problem , and in "Women 's Lib" are rampant . In spite response forty women appeared at the of the grumbling and teasing , the wo first meeting of the Assoc iation for men feel that "just our very existence Equal Opportunity in Theater (AEOT ) has put pressure on the faculty to get in l<' ebruary , a more even bill. " Next summer the official bill will be pretty much Sinc e that first meeting , women in 50-50. theater have been mov ing , They have already developed their own indepen Nancy hopes that the women 's group will dent bill , which includes "And Miss eventually expand to fill a role in the Rearden Drinks a Little" (4 women, l liberation movement in general , She is man ) on May J; "Miss Brill," reader's now compliing a multi-media show whose theater; a presentation of the women purpose is consciousness raising. in Shakespeare 's history plays ; and an Hop efully , it will go on tour, She evening of poetry by Nikki Giovanni says , "We aren 't just into doing con and Sylvia Plath which will investigate sciousness raising about theater--it's the differences between blac k woman 'B the whole thing. " --M.e 1 o d y S c h war t z world and white woman 's world, These
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As Eli are either forgotten or not used, And , evidence against DES was strong enough Lilly Pharmeceuticals , the largest sin if women are not informed of the risk to warrant the head of the National gle producer of DES , pointed out , in a involved, many may come to rely on the Cancer Institute to call for the ban statement on the FDA ruling, it is now MAP , imagining it to be better than ning of DES in cattle feed and through up to the medical profession to deter the alternatives--taking a birth con skin implants (which gradually release mine how DES is used and that it will trol pill every day or having a foreign the hormone from a capsule placed un continue to supply the drug. "We don't ob ject in their uterus (IUD ) or using der the cattle 's skin, ) expect this (the FDA announc ement) will the less effectiv e. diaphragm , make a significant change in Lilly 's Since that time , the battle 's focus sales or profits ," a Lilly spokesman Women who think they may have to use has shifted to DES's use as a morning said, the MAP should 1 find a reputable doc after contraceptive, Although the FDA tor or clinic to prescribe it and make had not yet approved it for such use , It is understandable that , given the sure that all the risks are explained the J.V'.orning After Pill was becoming in FDA's green light , doctors are not go in detail, They should also make sure creasingly popular in the past year , ing to be tightfisted in their pre that a complete medical history is especially in university health clin taken to discover any circumstances 2 scriptions of the MAP , especially when ics , It is estimated that more than each visit can bring a high fee for which might preclude her using MAP million women have been exposed to DES very little effort, safely, . in the MAP during the past few y ears. --l"i b erat" ion news service 9 Wang Chin-tsai began working in Peking 's a day , come s to 6n ly yuan--roughly 8 ;.umber One Transister Equipment ?' actory per cent of a family 's income , in 1964 , soon after the birth of her Wang Chin-tsai 's two you second child , Today , reports Peking 's nger children both attended the nu WOMEN'S China Features, she heads a workshop rsery starting when they were � weeks that tests and ad justs diffusion fur old , at the end of her paid.)llaternity nac es made in the- neighborhood factory , leave, furnaces which she helped design and "The nursery has taken a good produce eight years ago. part of PLAC E the burden of childcare off my should ers , giv The factory itself was started by house ing me time to be able to con centrate on my wives in 1958. The women set up a work and study ," she said, ',f ang workshop in a shed and began by build Chin-tsai , now JJ and the mother of ing and repairing unsophisticated ma three children , attends tech nical cl IN CHINA chinery , As production expanded , the asses half a day each week and studies with her factory grew and is now housed in sev husband at ho me too. eral buildings , It now produces glass covered work tables and electro-cardio graph machines as well as the diffusion Wang Chin-tsai 's situatiori is not un furnaces that Wang Chin-tsai works on , usual in China , China Features ·reports 1 "In some ma jor cities the ma jority of Workers ' children, includ ing Wang Chin women under'45 work in government of- fices , modern state-owned factories , tsai 's youngest , are cared for in the serv ice trades , or neighborhood fac factory 's nursery, 70� of the factory 's tories like the one in which Wang J60 workers are women (as are 6 of the Chin-tsai works , This puts them on an 9 members the fac tory 's revolut ionary of equal footing economically with their committee) so day-care facilities are vitally important , Half of the day- husbands and enables them to contri- ·care costs are paid by the factory ; the. bute to building socialism in China," �emainder , including the cost of J meals -lns sau�a.ls � - mo�s -�oals -pavses bells PliC 12 Vis its communitY women "il ' lookin� for an CW feL arU to the final conclusion that support, since a raped woman is you re answer, women must unite to chanpe the struc usually treated as a criminal herself . She 's standin� there by your side, tur e that smashes their hopes for And you'll never really know how far you 'll zo themsel�es and the ir children, Schmid and 3arnett feel that women fill you 've joined to�ether and tried" must form their own organizations CWLU Programs separate from men, In a separate �ost of the women who are active in On �arch 11 , almost 100 women and a group, women are forced to learn to the Chicago �omen 's Liberation Union few men came together for a program make our own important decisions, are politically r�dical--that is, they something which we are not used to ," " iven by /.'.ar8"aret ..3chmid and Lois Bar cannot see a non-rac ist and non-sexist � � ett, active members of the Chicago society existing within the capitalist doin� because of our socialization. Ne l�arn to listen to and accent -, /arr.en's Libera"Cior: Jnion, I think economic system, since rac ism and that this or�anization is rightly sexism function so usefully to perpet other women as whole thinking �u�an called a "union, " for it is dedic uate the cap italist system . However, beings. ated to making the environment women the services and pro jects of the CWLU must work in (whether th ey are paid are designed to benefit all women in Local Women's Group· or unpaid) more "Colerable and fair . many area� . The Women 's Liberation Group in Bloom Kar�aret Schm id be�an the evenin� with ington-lwrmal is, of course, not as a short overview oI how women ar� �he CW LU is an extremely high-energy weil-developed and organized as the oppressed in almost every aspect of group. They have a Graphics Collect CWLU . I th ink that talking with the life--educati on, religion, economics, ive whi ch prints posters and art for Chicago women was inspiring for us . family, social relationships, etc, women ; the Womens Liberation Rock Band, but our main energy and power in the etc, etc , She pointed out that we a.n all-woman group which provides future must come from the women in are not dealing with "a case of indi anti-sexist tunes with consc iousness this community . Any woman is welcome vidual evil men, " but with basic in raising and fun combined ; and a month to come to the Nomen 's Center at J 04 stitutions which, by their very ly women 's newspap,.er, domankind. horth St, in ;-:ormal to rap and read, structure, systematically oppress The Center is open on Tuesdays from One of their pro jects is the Liber 1-4 and Wednesdays �rom �-9. There ation School for Women, Volunteer wi:l �e :n�QplP ti-- s-�_e -t o talk to and i=0fI' herM films shown that evening is simply teachers give classes on any sub- a small library of women 's books that called "�omen 's Film" and is basic ject that a group of women show in you can check out , There are also ally a collage of personal stories terest in, Sometimes the school two rap groups: One meets on Thurs . from women of many classes and races offers a course for men, taught by nights at 71JO and has its emphasis who have found that, as Emma Gold- a man, on liberation and sex roles, on political matters, and the other man said, "the lot of woman is dis In the legal area, CW LU offers a meets at 8100 on Tuesdays and has a appointment, " We saw a middle-aged, Legal Clinic staffed with woman more general emphasis. You can worn out poor woman with kids crawl lawyers, consultants, and law students, call Susie at 828-7026 to find out ing all over her, who had envisioned and DARE, Direct Action for Rights where the general rap group will be marriage as "�ying on my couch in my of Employment, which takes leeal held and to get a ride if you need clean living room, eating candy bars action on discrimination cases. it, and you can call �ary at 828- and drinkine: Pepsis, " We saw a young 7944 to find out about the political white middle-class woman who said that For women 's bodies, CWLU provides rap group. she should feel lucky for her past pregnancy testing and abortion coun education and her "decent" job, but seling. For women 's heads, they have still found herself crying after a Rape Cr isis Line, where a woman typing someone else 's letters all may call in for sympathetic talk and , .... day. 't! e saw we;t.fare mothers, work support. They will also accompany ers, housewives, and secretaries-- a victim of rape to the police, the all movin� from disappointment and hospital, and to court for emotional '"'",, o� o ...... , ,�o'-l ". ...'>' SomeThine: DEFENSE LESS [ID/iJ[){]�9Cal� led PREJUDICE (This article was submitted by the Whereas Zarathustra revealed in Persia and for the sake of God resolve to root Bahi 'is of Normal. ) that out whatever is the source' o{ conten tion amongst you, Then will the ef I remember a man telling me last year "Anyone in the world here below fulgence of the world 's great Luminary that God had made people black in or can win purity for himself by clean envelop the whole earth, and its in der to make their spiritual inferiority sing himself with good thoughts, habitants become the citizens of the obvious. Now, he knew that he could words, and deeds, " (V endidad 10 ,19) one city, and the occupants of one and not effectively support racial super the same throne, This wronged One iority on physical or mental grounds And, about 5000 B. C. Drisha revealed hath, ever since the early days of His (both sc ience and psychology have ex that life, cherished none other desire but ploded those old myths). And, as it this wish. The re ca n be no doubt what� turns out, neither the Bible, or any "I'm equally present in all beings; ever that the peoples of the world, other writing from the world 's faiths, there is none hateful or dear to Me, of whatever race or religion, derive will support his claim of spir)..tua_l They, however, who devoutly worship their inspiration from one heavenly superiority, In fact, the Apostle Paul Me abide in M� , and I stand revealed source, and are the subje cts of one remarked about 58 A. D. that in Them, " (BG IX , 29) God, The differenc e between the or dinances under which they abide "All flesh is not the same flesh, And, finally, ancient Hopi (American should be attributed to the varying but there is one flesh of man, Indian) legend declares that requirements and exigenc ies of the age another flesh of beasts, another in which they were revealed, All of of fishes, and another of birds, " "The First People kept multiplying them, except a few which are the out (I Cor, 15.J9) and spreading over the face of the land come of human perversity, were ordained and were happy, Although they were of by God, and are a reflection of His And, tw o of t�e earli est, and finest, different colors and spoke different Will and Purpose, Arise and, armed of Christian teachers, contemporary languages, th ey felt as one and under with th e power of fa ith, shatter to with Faul and Peter, were black men, stood one another without talking. " pieces the gods of your vain imagin Luc ius and Barnabus (Acts lJ) . Not (Book of the Hopi, page 15) ings, the sow ers of dissension withstanding the fact that Jesus Him amongst you. Cleave unto that which self had declared: Clearly, then, there is a un iversal di draweth you together and uniteth you. rection within these statements. Pre- r This, verily, is the most exalted "Call no man your father upon the judice, therefore, can only be the Word which the �other Book hath sent earth, for one is your Father, which product of the minds of spiritual hypo down and revealed unto you, To this is in heaven. " (M atthew 2J.9) crites who cannot and never could sup beareth witness the Tongue of Grandeur port their absurd imaginings of ra from His habitation of glory, " And, please, none of that "separate cially spiritual superiority with but equal" love ! When Moses married scriptural excerpts not taken out of --Baha 'u'llah, (G leanings, pp217-8) a black woman from Ethiopia, his sis contextt ter Miriam rebuked him, but God prompt You are always welcome at the informal ly struck her with leprosy (Numbers Fol lowing is a brief tablet written by conversations, sponsored by the local 12 . 1-10 ) for her indiscretion . And, Baha 'u'llah, founder of the Baha 'i Baha 'is, held Friday nights at 71JO Faith, which onc e again declares God's at 707 N. Oak in Normal and on Tues q little later, the prophet Samuel re vealed to a growing mankind that (Jehovah 's, I AM THAT I AM 's, Allah 's, day �ights in Room 206 of th e Union the Great Spirit �ystery 's, Brahman 's, (ISU ) at 8115. Thank you! ••• " •••the Lord seeth not as man seeth 1 Ahura Mazda 's, Love 's ) timeless for man looketh on the outward ap decre e that all mankind is of one spir pearance, but the Lord looketh upon itual Sourc e -Father and that w e are, the heart, " (I Samuel 16,7) consequently, all of one spiritual family. About 400 years later, Buddha declared1 "O contending pe oples and kindreds of "Ask not of rac_e, but ask of conduct, the earth ! Set your faces towards un for from the stick is b·orn the sacred ity, and let the radiance of its light fire ." (Suttra Nipata �462 ) shine upon you . Gather ye together, PeiC1 3 DOPE: PCP and the "oroanie" riU·oll VIEWING THE REAL WORLD? (From A.P. ) "Tr.e Nj xcn c: drr:in=._str2- Phencyc lidine (PCP) is a veterinary Perhaps the worst news about i s fcod prices last ?C F tion , �i2clo2in[ that anesthetic which is available on the that almost all the street dope sold mcrth �ook the biggest jump in a gen s s street under a variety of names and as mescaline , ��C or psylocibin is i� eratior , a y con2u�ers m i ght c onsi d guises such as hog, peace pill , animal reality PC P or a mixt'.lre of LSD and er gclng meatless one day a week , er trank, horse trank , and angel dust, PC? , (see post-amer ikan #15.) J\ el maybe try sw itchin[ frcrr hamburger to PCP is legally marketed by Parke , Davis ther mescaline nor THC (marijuana 's cheese," and Co, under the name Sernyl , and is active inFrediant) can be synt�esized probably synthesized by many under f or the curren� street pr ice of two to We wonder when wa s the last time any ground labs, five dollars, Nixon acimi nistor considered fooc pri ces in +;he rn iddle-to-lDW er income PCP was tried out on humans in a medi 'l' he hard truth is that most of the level l ong eroL'gr: to r e a l i z e +, hat the pr esen+; cal setting , but the numerous and var street dope solj as "organic" is about � ay difference in cost for ied hallucinations which it produc ed a s organic as laundry detergent, l\'.ost h&rnturter and cheese is pr·acticalJ y has relegated it to use with animals s treet dealers who sell "organi�" mes ni 1. who are not so likely to complain about caline , psylocibin , and "TEC " probably a medically induc ed bummer , Three Can thin� they 're selling the real stuff , adian shrinks conduc ted a study of PCP b ut they don 't know , and you and I do and noted that people who took it ten not know , until someone ends up with a ded to refuse to take it again, And a protracted bummer from too much PC P, former Grady Emer�ency Room worker who LETTUC E is a good trustworthy sister says that the worst bummer she saw during her The "organic" pitch seems to be yet work there was due to PCP. another case of hip capitalism using Madison Avenue tactics in pushing every Confiscated Small doses of PCP tend to produce eu produc t from nutritionally worthless A lot of people who haven 't been boy phoria, numbness , and an increase in food to positively harmful cosmetics cotting iceberg lettuce in support of h eart rate and blood pressure . l\'. od in the name of a return to natural the United Farm Workers , AFL-C IO , may erate doses produce the above symptoms life, s oon be doing so. at the onset of the trip with increas ing numbness and finally anesthesia as If most of the mescaline , THC , and A couple weeks ago news leaked out that the drug takes effect, Eigh doses psylocibin is in reality bad acid and J50 samples of iceberg lettuce taken by range from one to five or six of the PCP, then what is the least harmful of ·state Health Authorities from the Im pills , although it should be emphasized the available street dope? "Blotter" perial Valley area of California proved that the higher dosages can and have o r "window pane "- acid, which is made to be contaminated with deadly organ been fatal . by dropping a solution of LSD on a phosphate pesticide, piece of paper or gelatin , probably A high-dosage PCP tr ip can last up to doesn 't contain large amounts of other of the iceberg, 24 hours and many users report extreme chemicals , You still get no guarantee paranoia and preoccupation with death of purity , but your chanc es are prob in the trip's later stages.- ably better than with a large cap fulr of unknown powder, This does not happen every time to ev bird/atlanta free ciinic ery person, or there would be no PCP market, OC any people report good exten ded trips from the drug , but the bes� evidence available indicates that the drug has a higher bummer potential than most psychedelics, 'N hile laying out this issue of the Post we received an anonymous phone call re garding the mass drug arrests in town r.'arch 15 and 16. Our unnamed tipster reported that a On the basis of furtter tests , a re Benjamin Haynes�. residing at 210 Isles ported 10 ,000 heads of iceberg lettuc e Park Place in Springfi�ld, was respon from both the Imperial Valley area and sible for the arrests, Apparently the Yuma Valley , Arizona area have been those busted represented the groups confiscated in St , Louis , San Francis Haynes was able to infiltrate himself, co, and Los Angeles by the Federal Food , and Drug Administration . Also , our caller named tw o I�I agents who are allegedly posin£: as st•idents on Greater care and safer use of pesti Illinois campuses, According to our cides like organ-phosphate is one point, migrant workers and the United Farm source , these agents are going bJ the names of Terry Hester and Pete Lewis, #orkers have been insisting on in con tracts with the lettuce grow ing corpor ations, That 's for the workers ' pro tection, , .and yours, Until the growers sign a contract with the farmworkers , a contract providing for a living wage and pesticide control, try eating bibb or romaine lettuce, COMMUNITY --from the great speckled bird. Ralston - Pu rina Po l lution �he ca se of 2nvi ron::ien ti l Protection •rency v�. Ra lston Purini Co. is still before the Pol lution FOR SOCIAL Contr ol Board. It concerns Purina 's soot, dust, UFW Disrupts Butz odor , and noi se nollution of the Sunny si d e neirhborhoo:i in oo n t on . Lccwyers for both Bl ::ii g On r.'.arch 8, UFW ber s disrupted Secretary of siJes were su o s d to file �d:iitionil briefs mem pp e \vricul tur e Earl Butz1 s press conference in AC TION by a r ch :� 1. Chicago. They contended that his department is allowinv farm workers to be p oi s oned by pe sti s say s the ev d e ce 1clearly est9.blishes r.PA 1 i n cides o� lettuc in Cali fornia 's Imperial Va lley. e·�issions of d st and odors from Re spondent' s e u l·'.a ry Ann Alonzo, s okeswo an , sa id th e gov Pur i ns 1 s plant of nui s·'- c level s, c'1 u s nr: UF'.i p n: ( ) n e i ernment ha s quietly recalled th ousand s of boxes A+P 1nd a::-,e-raV'l. ti n r illnesses, ind renera lly 'l. in Boycott m k r of lettuce contaminated with th e residue of l i fe ��pl a san t for a nu'.!lber o f very u ortu te Loca l su:c norters of the United Farm 'lorkers e nf mi. nesticides cind has ign or d requests for 'lc�ion, peop l e -- m9.ny wh o ere ne9.rly ca11tives, due to e w Sutz s3 id his department is •m on itoring the Union who picketed the A & P store in Ea stland h eir econoe".lic con i ti on , u na b l e to r1 ove out t d s tua tion. • ( Ch i . Da ily ;i-e ws, 3/9/77;; .) ma ll en March 1 were asked to leave snd threat t o s ss on ob i wi thou a d ctor ' ;oerni i - wh ich wa s ened with arrest by th e Ka nsas City ownership e e by t"l. i n ed only in ro.re c proble�, or even reco�n ize �ubl icly th� t it w9. s , p l a int '.3.vainst A. & P ch'l. r p-in g - it wi th false slightest th inr;. He i s c;;nsi dered very l ikely c sin ,, r ob e . Such '.l s r s -.u g a l rn e ie of even ts c:ust :n i sle'l d ing and de ce ptive ldvertisinr,. The FTC to seek the arrest of any future picketers. not be to ,,-o n � l z d , • allm;ed u :ien i e says A & P a dverti sed sa les prices on n r o du c t s dily a va ila bl e conspicuously '!la r e not re·1 or k d in UF1'/ SU?porter s in Chicago and e lsewh ere ha ve won By r e e t between EPA. :111d Purin Briefs LIBERATION BOSTO� --The Indochina Peace Campaign !net ;' eb. liS-18 with 50 representativ es from nine states . �he ir education pro �ram for the future will be : exposing �ontinuin� U.J. involvement , 7ettinp aid to Thleu cut off , legitimlzing ihe Americans , F�G in the eyes of ra ising Washington (L�S) --The National bceanic the issue of political pr isoners in and Atmosphere Administrat ion sent out �outh Vietnam , and pushinF for uncon research ships which discovered fist ditional amnesty. sized balls of tar and oil throughout Paris--Ly Sau· , of the Provisional Ian the Atlantic Ocean from �assachu�etts Revolutionary Gov't of Vie tnam , has * * S. to the Caribbean . Flastic bits are described repeated violat ions of the floating in the ouen sea and are peace ac cords by the U.S. and the Thieu PAR IS--the Vietnamese commun ity here found in the larvae of :ish there . gov't. 328 infantry attacks , 213 air has received an urgent 1ppeal for the l' he 1� 0AA ' s report w1s released in the �ttacks , and 281 shellinps of liberated . release of thousands of civilian polit second week of �eb. On Feb. 14 , areas have taken plac e in the first 10 ical prisoners held in the Saigon gov Lixon, said , "I can report that Amer days after the si�ning of the ac cor ds . crnrnent ' s j1ils. The appeal is from ica is well on the way to winning the The Saigon regime has refused to permit the "thi:".' d force ," which opposes the war against environmental degradation people in camps to return to the ir na Thieu gov't but is no� affi liated with --well on the way to making our peac e tive villages. The PRG and �anoi del the FnG , egates to the cease-fire commi ssion are with nature ." isolated from journalists . * * * * Rough Landing if SW YORK--YO'J can get the last issues of Afl: EX-CANADA with 400 pages on am QUEB3C --Draft evaders and deserters nesty and news of war resisters in Can who have been in Canada houin� to re ada for $3 from Ar�EX-CANA�A , PO Box ceive "landed immigrant" s�at�s will 187, Station D, Toronto 165 , Ontario now be illegal aliens subject to de Canada. portation. Trudeau 's new immigrat ion laws declare that no uerson can apply * * * for landed status fro� within Canada or at its border stations. COLUMBUS--On Feb . l21 people celebrated a court ruling to drop inc iting to * riot charges against the Columbus 4, movement activists arrested for their CAMDEN , N.J.--Jury selection is now role in a �ay 1972 anti-war ac tion . complete for the trial of the Camden Original bail for the four had totalled 28 , anti-war activists accused of the $451,500 , but was eventually reduced. destruction of selective serv ice re The four defendants will sue the state cords in 1971. This case ranks high and city for conspiring to violate in the gov't's eyes , as indicated by their civil rights . the tight security surrounding it. Patricia and Donald Grumbles , who have OS:A1,GE CITY , i' LORIDA--State Police in * * * been in jail for contempt of a grand vaded a controversial free school in jury for 14 months , have been released. this town for more than five hours in Come See Us They were granted immunity , but still the middle of the night ieb. 9. A refused to testify in the Camden 28 staff member who had been fired for drunkenne ss had gone to the State 's Come up to the Post-Amerikan office case. Attorney and accused the school of and read a far-out interview with the * illicit practices . The cops ran right San Franc isco Xime Troupe in LNS pack out there , broke into rooms , harrassed et #502. the children ("What did you shoot up * * * Remember baseball cards? Now there last?" "Do you have VD? " ), tore the will soon be "rock star trading cards" school apart , and confiscated whatever for the dedicated music freaks (or they pleased, without giv ing a receipt , WASHINGTON--in spite of the lip service ' maybe for the dedicated rock industry The school , Green Valley , is charging Nixon has been giv ing to his conc ern the State 's Attorney 's Office for un for the welfare of Vietnam vets , he fat cats) . Hitmakers of Eollyw ood lawful search and seizure and false proposed a $160 million cut in benefits will market 600 all genuine all dif arrest. for disabled veterans on !eb. 5. By ferent cards with lo�s of groovy info about our most loved fab stars , in the next week, he was so overwhelmed * * * with protests that the proposal was cluding the pertinent astrological sign . withdrawn from Congress. Budget cuts --bird/fifth estate have been coming down on most soc ial Normal Profits ? welfare programs . Over 100 programs have been slashed or eliminated while * * * DURBAN , SOUTH A:r' RICA--A week-long the defense budget was raised $4 .2 strike of 50 ,000 black African workers billion. virtually paralyzed this city , South " Africa 's largest port and industrial * * * city. The strike rs , totaling 1/3 of Durban 's work force , affected over 100 companies in the area, Black workers are prevented by law from belonging to SAK !RANCISCO--a J-judge federal Cir any trade union , and usually make $10 cuit Court recently struck down almost to $15 a week. So�e of the companies all censorship regulations on mail in that were struck av erage over $10,5 California prisons and outlawed re million a year in profits , and pay Af strictions on prisoners ' rights to rican workers an average of $46 per meet with representatives of their month , lawyers . Before the ruling , no mail could go in or out which could "tend * * * to :::; ·i cvert prison order," and poor in mates weren 't allowed to see the law PARIS--People from Canada , Germany , students and paraprofessionals wLo Swe den , and England arrived at Paris were willing to help them for free. for a meeting of American anti-war Because the ruling came from federa� exiles , only to find that it was judges , it may serve as a precedent banned by Jacques Lenoir , Paris Pre to help prisoners ' rights in all s�ates, fect of Police. He stated that "one of the countries coming to the 12- * * * nation conferenc e on vietnam !eb, 26 in Paris would be seriously embarrassed SA!i FRANCISC O--Activist lawyer Ter by a conferenc e conc erning amnesty for ence Hallinan just won $10 ,500 dam its citizens ." Some of the delegates ages from a cop who clobbered him c1r estimated that there are 60 , 000 to ing the 1968 strike at San Franc isco 100 , 000 anti-war exiles and 200 ,000 State , The damage award is probably war resisters living underground in the first of its kind in city history . the U.S. * * * * * * 15 NEWS SERVICE NEW YORK--All interested and eligible CO's should apply now for Veteran's Education Benefits , nased on a recent BUTZ BACK , GE�MANY--An organization class action , it has been declared un called the Committee for GI Rights will constitutional for the Veteran's Ad attempt to stop the drastic measures SYRACUSE--Y ou can g�t JO-minute cas ministration to refuse eligibility to taken under the new Army anti-drug cam sette tapes on things like the Women 's those who have completed alternative paign . These measures, taken against N:ovement , Northern Ireland , farmwork serv ice, For more info, contact Com "known or suspected drug users" and ers , the POW's, etc , from Ronnie Vita mittee for Legal Research on �he Draft even "associates of known or suspected colonne , 210 Haddon Rd, , Syracuse New and OCilitary , Room W-139 , Langdell drug users ," are oppressive and ille York , 13214 , They can be borrowed Hall , Harvard Law School , Cambridge , gal, They include removal of doors to free except for postage! r:. ass. , 02138. (617) 495-"•820. GI's rooms , removal of all personal items , and mandatory urinalysis . * * * * * * * * * CHICAGO--the new volunteer army is NEW YORK--'l'he Gulf Boycott Coalition , usint: r.'adison Ave, hard-sell gimmicks form ed to protest Gulf Oil's support Job Security in recruiting : flashy posters , bro of Portuguese colonialism in Angola , chures , movies , "telephone power ." has put together material to help Usually they emphas ize skills training h C ole, chair people start anti-Gulf campaigns in ;, 311 YOR.i\ (11;s) --Josep 3, for (non-existent) jobs when you get their own communities, lfrite to Gulf man and chief executive of the Cole out, The people they usually get are !.ational Cor�. in Cleveland is a lit Boycott Coalition , 3ox 1 23 , �.v. Sta between 18 and 22, with 11 years of tion , Dayton , Ohio , 45406. tle wor ried �bout the spiral i n� c ost school, and black, of livinp, the rising food prices , etc , � * * * So, acco�ding to the �all S�ree� Jour * * * nal , he just sL-cned a 25-ye;i.r "employ Pipe Dream WASHI�GTON--While all federal soc ial· !". ent a;c-ree!rent"-·wi th his company 'N hich programs from housing subsidies to milk will eipire in 1097 when �e 's BJ , Cnder th e is [Uaran for school children are beinc cut , agreement , Cole WASEfoGTQll--the U,S, has supplied - teed at leas� a �1J5 ,000 a year base still included in the budget are such $9 ,991 worth of bathroom fixtures to salary !or the ir s t 10 years (adjusted things as $1.37 million for gardening f wealthy Cambodians in 1972 as part of and upkeep for White House , San Cle for the consumer price index, of the foreign aid program . The Nixon course .) mente , Key Biscayne , and Camp David ; administration has refused to retease $9 .11 million for "official entertain federal funds for sewer and water pro ment expenses of the President" ; and jects in the U.S. $369 million for the FBI (an increase of $17 million) . * * * * * PHILADELPHIA--The National Action Re search on the Military Industrial Com INDIO, CALF .--An all-white middle-aged plex has two new studies out for $1 jury returned a 9-3 hung vote in favor each1 "Aid to Thieu" and "The Simple of acquittal in the Gary Lawton trial , Art of Murder : Antipersonnel Weapons Lawton , a black activist, was charged and Their Developers ," Write to NARMIC with murder six weeks after the kil 112 South 16th St. , Phila. , Pa . 19102 linc-s of tw o Riverside Policemen , 'I' he pro�ecution 's case was so trumped-up * * * and flimsy that even a white jury in a white community could not accept it. * * * New York (LNS )-- All eight inmates who were arrested in the Tombs rebellion tw o years ago have finally had their Heo-col011lallst aid to :AlricL cases dismissed, The rebellion , which lasted from Oct, 2-5 1970 , was one of five in New York jails due to overcr ow ding , high bails , long waiting per iods before trials , lack of legal re Lexington , Ky . (L0S)--Matrix, an presentation , and guard brutality, ex-addict run anti-drug program here , �anhattan D, A. Hogan is "very dis had 85 � complete success , in compari turbed" about the dismissals . Ee son with the nati onal averaEe of 20Z called them "a hideous miscarriage of success, It was closed dow� by the justice ," and blames it on jurors who gov't early last spring. Nhy? "We do not return the verdict that the realized ," said a resident , "that the court desires, only meaningful solution to drug addiction was to become involved in * * * the struggle to change the elements in society that caused and perpetuated York New (LNS)--You can get a copy of addiction--rac ism , poverty , exploita �ree Fire Zone , a collection of short tion of workers , alienation, sexism , stories by Vietnam veterans, for only 39 and injustice," 'L'he U. S, gov't didn't /'/AR SAW , N,Y. --Al though of the 4 J $2 .95 from 1 1st Casualty Press Fund , want addicts cured that bad after all , men who died at Attica were killed by Inc. , P. 0, Box 518 , Coventry , Conn, , the gunf ire of invading forces of i' our !Vfatrix- people are-rac ing charges 06238. State troopers , prison guards , sher varying from "immoral and indecent iff 's deputies , and National Guards acts" to possession of a "deadly de * * * men , all 60 people indicted at 'l/arsaw vice" --a smoke-bomb for one of the are prisoners or former prisoners , residents ' plays , 12 of the 23 people on the grand jury had relatives or close friends work * ing at Attica (some of whom were killed) yet Judge Ball didn't think that was sufficient reason to excuse them from jury duty. Never-convicted dope smokers may be in to checkine: out Houston , J:· exas , whose * * district attorney has declared he will - no longer send firs t t ime pot offenders to the rrand 1ury. Oistrict Attorney #ashington (L�S)--Admiral Horatio Vance c i ted th e 1r exas marijuana law , v a 2-90 t r , Rivero retired from the ;,avy this g i ing first offenders e m as h past fall with a fanfare. JO 0av1 his reason , This is the same DA w o ships with 21 , 000 men spent tw o four years ago prosecuted black activ ist days steaming around the Kediterranean Lee Otis Johnson for giving a sin gle joint to an agent . Johnson did 4 in formation. The taxpayers were of his 10-year sentenc e before beine: billed for approx. 500 , 000 man hours : - freed by a federal court , 1 of sailor-time for the [OOd-bye per- --bird f orrr:anc e , THE LIGHT AT TH[ [ND OF TH£ TUNNEL � 16 Following the David K, Berlo in terview in Post #14, members of the paper's research ·staff were confronted with people who had contributions to the ever-growing list of contradictory statements made by the ISU president . THE HOUSE "The un iversity res idence," the Vidette editor-in-chief Jim BaumannT�. One of these involved the pre sident 's house. article said , "serves as an area for She gave Baumann permission for the re public func tions connected with the porter to look at the figures. The In a se ction of· the interview university as we ll as a residence for figures, acc ording to the student at originally excerpted by the Post the president and his family ," torney, are pub lic record . They are staff, the president stated this supposed to be open books . There are house was part of the Board of Higher supposed to be no hassles. Ed 's machinations--that they had set Foundation murk originally a much higher ceiling on J. Appointments with the pre sident the place . This led several Post people and are difficult for some people to get . the Vidette reporter in several direc We now exhume a section of that tions . First , was to the University Example--A reporter tried to get interviews Foundation (see story elsewhere ) which, an appointment with Berlo to clarify according to Johnson , handled the funds information before printing it . The Berlo. " ••,n ot a penny of the for construction costs according to the secretary always answered that , "The money that was spent on that residence board1s ceiling , How the FouJJldation Chief is busy right now," Several times came out of th e University Operations handled the money wasn 't too clear. she told the reporter that she would Fund , It came from the General Assem John son said the Foundat ion itself was have Berlo call, but the call never came . bly, It was a special appropriation paying the cost of construction, Berlo However, when Baumann called Berlo and for the residence ," had said the General Assembly , Where read the first line of the final compiled the other costs were being handled was story written b Vidette reporter Geor Interviewer, "Including the fur y still a mystery . gene Curry , (the story Bauman was to nishings?" remove from the front page--see point The Foundation itself didn't make Berlo , "And we haven 't bought any four) , Baumann had an appointment im things any clearer. They refused to mediately, furnishings to speak of. Those are all even release elementary informat ion such my own furniture . But yes, my furn�sh CiliS a list of th e Board of Directors . ings come in there the same way--you set 4. Censorship is not illegal in Small wonder, we soon discovered, for campus newspapers, up a separate budget for furnishings. both Berlo and Johnson were on the board A separate budget for maintenance, In of directors. (It makes it convenient .) effect , the ·same way you put in a new Example--Baumann refused to print a final story by Curry about Berle 's program , And you have to put in a bud The Vidette reporter , meanwhile , get of what it 's gonna cost, and they house in the Vidette . Five out of seven was going her own way in an attempt to editorial board members insisted that either give it to you or not give it to do a story for her paper , In order to you. " the story be printed ; if not as news clarify the equipment/furnishings prob story , it could run as an editorial, lem and an swer a further question--what since it had majority approval of �he But ... would happen to the university-supplied paper 's editorial board , materials once the president left to be replaced by another--she started asking Other people , throughout the un i Baumann said that Vidette general questions to see if such equip versity, were telling different stories- ment/fur manager James Sedgewick would never let or at least more complicated versions , nishings were being inventorized, Here it be printed. When reminded that prior the plot thickens , Stories of department s being coerced censorship is unconstitutional , Baumann into supplying sauna baths , television replied, "That 's his job." The un iversity an d stereo eqi ipment , and other expen More murk hires people to keep the Vidette cleanr sive "necessities" kept reaching the the law has nothing to do with it. ears of Post people . In an attempt to clarify the situation, BSherman contacted Many difficulties ar ise when dealing a Vidette reporter, who was also doing with bureaucracy for information�· cer A Visit to Berlo a feature on the house. tainly the university bureaucracy. They are generalized as follows 1 The two went to see Eric Johnson , Georgene Curry , the Vidette re university vice-president and admin 1. People te nd to forget things . porter whose story had been censored, istrator in charge of construction spoke to the Post . A short interview on campus , in an attempt to clarify the Example--In the Vidette, September followed1 situat ion. They should have know better. 14, 1972, page 8, vice-pres ident Johnson The two asked Johnson for a copy of the is reported as saying that the "cost of Post . You've told me that Pre sident' budget for the house , and he told them the res idence, including construction , Berlo expressed di spleasure over your it hadn 't been compiled, but was in the site development , and utilities, is story , When was this displeasure made hands of Rob ert Lenz , attorne·y , $131,Jll . The $160,146 construction is known to you? Johnson did oblige the two by giving well within the $150, 000 limit set••• " Exactly five months later, Johnson told Curry , Almost immediately after an explanation of house costs , It went the tw o reporters that there was "No re I0d handed the story in . Baumann read like this 1 the $150 1000 ceiling on the port material available." He had no the story I'd ha nded in , called up Berlo house was for pure construction, Both idea what the figures were ; he said no before me , and read him the first line furnishings and land development , Johnson one knew even an estimate . of my st ory over the phone , Then we said , were the responsibilty of the went over to his office , Mike Butler un iversity as the house was a university came along . building . Did this explain stories of Example--Harold Burns , university departments, then , purchasing furnishings? comptroller, told the Vidette reporter As soon as I wa lked in , he (Berlo) that the new university landscaper is started telling me I was a lousy jour The story appeared a trifle at odds not from Michigan State, When questioned nalist , that the story was all lies, with the president 's story of submitting later (after the reporter had been told and that the Vidette was just becoming budgets to the board for equipment and by the Mic higan s tat e employment office a good paper--and that it would be a furnishings , since it was merely in John that landscaper Milton Baron is currently son's part of the everyday maintenance shame to ruin it . He hadn 't even employed by them, ) Burns didn't �ec�ll of university buildings . At the time , saying that Baron was not from Michigan , read the story yet , Johnson said th ey didn't know what con struction costs were coming to. Assess 2. People ignore laws , rights, and He wanted to read the story , and ment was being handled by Lenz. He was such things . I told him there was a question of sure , however , that cost was going to be prior censorship. Berlo replied that below ceiling, Example--When asked by two reporters there was a "difference between prior whether he had any figures on the construc censorship and printing the truth. " Co st of Flowers tion costs of the residence , Johnson said He implied that I was making up the he knew nothing about it . He said the figures in my art icle and that even figures were yet unknown by anyone . The he didn't know what the budget amounted "The man ," says BSherman , "was same da y, a man from Property Control ·to. Yet I'd give him a figure from the typically administratively friendly . He said he had seen the figures, and John- list Burns had given me , and he 'd say, hadn 't, he said , heard of any rumors sur son had access to the figures, He said "No , that 's wrong ," When he 'd already rounding the house , not of the Post that he could not even talk about the said he didn 't know the right figures. Amerikan interview, Further, he was figure s without Johnson 's permission. amazed at all the hubbub over what he The reporter had to submit a written re Post , Why do you think he 'd called thought was inexpensive construction , que st to Johnson , telling him exactly you a---;;yousy journalist" on the basis of what information was requested, a story he hadn 't read? "He was used to construction costs in thernillion, he said . Like Watterson Later, when no answer was re Curry , I don 't know, He said he and DeGarmo . And yet he admitted th at ceived from Johnson, the reporter phoned was talking to me not as a pre sident , when it came down to it , ten dollars was him. Johnson said he had spoken to Bill but as an instructor in communications . a lot of money , 'I just bought 10 dollars Dorethy, director of purchases, and that He said I wasn 't practising good journ worth of azalias ,' he told us , 'and that he had instructed Dorethy to get in touch alism. seemed extravagant .'" with the reporter. The reporter finally called Dorethy , Dorethy s:aid , "I 'm Terrorized Ad ministrators However, a week later, another really not giving you the run-around , official explanation of the budget was but you have to get that information soon to appear . It appeared in the Pan from Johnson'! tagraph , quoting Johnson with a con He started saying I'd been terror struction figure of $95,64J, site dev Open Bo oks izing his administrators , accusing them of lying to me when couldn 't get any elopment figure at $31,165 , and· "equip I ment costs" at $J2,0JJ. Eq uipment costs thing out of them. He said three people evidently differed from furnishings and had talked to him in the past couple of The reporter then called John son 's were included in the total project cost 1 days about it. That simply couldn't $159' 391. office and repeated the request , John have been true . But it was hard to tell son's secretary asked to talk to the Berlo that . He was yelling too much. PeK 17 dents surveyed by Athletic depart ment . (However , Athletic department said that a sauna is "equipment we normally would not have ordered.") BUILT The sauna was portable, and was in Berlo said if I wanted to attack him per Site Development �Utilitie s (5 acres) tended for use in the dormitories sonally , that there was a newspaper down Water & septic system $4,400.00 in connection with campus �ecreation. the street that did it all the time . The sauna , wh en delivered, was picked Baumann never said very much. Town of Normal Tap-on fee $4, 800,00 up by someone not associated with Post . What did Berlo suggest be grounds (Irrigation, athletics. Later, it was returned by grading , sod) $13,550.JO the president 's office. Berlo, when done about this "bad journalism" if & anything? Parking lot, drives, questioned by the Vidette reporter, lot $8,414 .90 said that he makes it a hab it to & $31,165 .20 Curry . I don 't know. I left when "test" all equipment to be used by students. Baumann asked the president , "What do Equipment you think I should do about this?" I had Family Areas to go to a class. I was sick of it . The list of "equipment" gives rise to Draperies $1,352.25 numerous questions, the most important Post. What happened next? Carpeting $J,88J.10 of which is "What the hell is equip ment?" It seems highly doubtful Intercom $777. 35 whether such things as rowing machines, Curry . The next day at lay-out , Cabinetry , kitchenette $2,542, 78 worth of stereo equipment , Butler had laid out the article on the and baths $2, 824.60 and a sauna bath (not to mention the front page . We knew Baumann was going $404.oo Kitchenette appliances two hazily-defined "electric fixtures" to create trouble over it , so about Exercise area ( saUJla valued at $1 ,499 .00) can be termed Ba & rowing machine ) eleven people were there . uman came "equipment ." Dr . Donald Brown, as and said the art icle wasn 't going in . sociate director of capital planning That was when the editorial board voted. Public Areas for the Board of Higher Education, The article remained on page one , and said he thought it was "stretching Draperies $2,415.10 · later that night Baumann switched arti it quite a bit" to list such items Carpeting & floor cles at the printers. as equipment . covering Sound system Post . Who wrote the article that Brown said equipment for a presiden Kitchen, dining room appe�r ed on the front page about the tial home is "not comparable to mov powder room house , then? & ab le equipment for a building." He said the university is expected to Curry . Baumann wrote the article, e e ••• I I e I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I furnish the building , as it is re The following figures show what actually quired to furnish all university has been spent on "equipment" for the buildings. However , he said fixed He 'd accused me of making up fig president 's house--whoever spent it. equipment , landscaping , purchase of ur es in my art icle and of adding wrong . land (if land has not already been went back to Burns to get a copy of REPORT OF PHYSICAL INVENTORY/MONTHLY RE I acquired prior to construction) , util figure s, since he didn't believe mine- CONCILIATION/PRESIDENT 'S HOUSE/ AUGUST ities, roads , and site improvements they were just numbers in a notebook, Jl, 1972 should be included in the construc he said . Burns didn't want to give me Ice maker $299 .00 tion budget . a copy, at first, but I told them I'd Refrigerator $415 ,00 wait outside the office unt il they Refrigerator-freezer $196 .oo A ceiling of $150,000 was placed on could get me one . I finally got one and Insinkerator $85 .00 construction of presidential homes by took it to Baumann to substantiate the the Board of Hi her Education. Con figures. OCTOBER Jl , 1972 struction of ISgO's presidential home , including all the things Brown said it $995 .00 I Balance forward was to include , was estimated at After brought in the figures, $302,00 aumann had accused me of not substan Automatic washer $16J,J44 ,72 in September of 1972, when B $218.00 tiating my sour�es. Automatic dryer the summary report was released to the He referred to my 202.00 quoting Brown o.f the Board of Higher Compactor press. Since that time , the university Built-in dishwasher J6 0.90 Education. I then called two other 224.95 has negotiated with the construction members of the board and they verified Indoor-outdoor grill 1 company to lower construction costs to (2) 224.95 Brown's statements. When Baumann wr ote Amplifier, walnut cabinet $95,643, due to faulty construction, each his article , he didri't refer to any of That brings the total estimate to 2-way speaker (five ) $55.00 these three, but a fourth. He 'd only $158,842 , 15--which is still $8 , 842 .15 each called one person . over the ceiling set by BHE , Refrigerator $635,00 NOVEMBER JO, 1972 My editor, right or wrong $3 647,60 Goes on all the time Balance forward 1 Walnut food server ;i>J2J.'JO $425.00 Walnut buffet In addition to the items listed on the Post. After the art icle , did any Walnut china cabinet $588. J6 thing further happen? budget, an unknown and virtually un Phone cartridge receiver $462.95� limited am ount of items have been 4-track deck tape 780,08 Curry . Next day after the art icle scattered throughout various depart 8-track deck tape !119 .95 mental budgets. "All specialized had appeared, I went in and asked Bau Cassette tape deck 234,95 m-ann why , All he could do is shru� . equipment in the residence will �e Turner stereo $219 .95 maintained by the appropriate univer Sedgewick , (Vidette general manager ) Ca.Ille Electric range $872,89 sity department ," (Vice-President Eric out and said he wanted to talk to me Wall-to-wall carpeting $5,127.16. Johnson , Vidette , Septemb er 14, 1972, then . In a private conference. Both 2 electric fixture s $1,499 .00 page 8), Johnson told the Vidette and Mike Butler and I had one . Butler 's JANUARY Jl, 1973 Post-Amerikan that "That sort of thing lasted forty-five minutes. Sedgewick goes on at universities all the time." and Baumann told us that if ' they Balance forward couldn 't have 100% cooperation, that Room Sauna we could look for· a job elsewhere . Kitchen cabinets The same Vidette mentioned above says, Right or wrong , Sedgewick said, Baumann "At less than $17 per square foot , the is the editor . WEST CAMPUS AREA construction cost is lower than any building in recent years on the ISU $9 ,650.00 During my session with the pre sident , Water Main campus ." The article neglect s to ex $7 ,460.00 Berlo had told me that any time I need Roadways plain the construction costs fully $17,110.00 ed information, to give a list of ques (see summary report under "cost per ...... tions to Richard Godfrey (head of News & square foot" ). The "less than $17 per Publications ), When I told him that was . . .. square foot" figure, apparently , is Only reports for August, October , No not· a very ob jective source, he answered the cost for the basement of the resi · vemb er, and January were given to the "You don't have to print what he says ." dence. The first and second floors reporter. Berlo said the house is are listed at $21,65 per square foot. not ,Yet completely furnished, and that • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • his wife is a memb er of a committee * * * whose function is to furnish the house. Budget numbers This article was finished March 15 . This box is written by a Post-Amerikan That's the day the Board of R gents 5. e Which brings us up to Univer layout person who was reading what he approved a set of "final cost figures" sity Presidents can be intimidating as should have been pasting . for the president 's residence. hell with their positions . An employee of a drapery store reports Final cost : $122 ,028.71 for construc , Following the int erview, the Post that Mrs. Berlo, while examining some tion, $192,267,07 total . was given a.., copy of the much-controver expensive drape material , declined the sial facts and figures, They follow& purchase. Reason s they were not Wait a minute. That 's not the cost "expensive enough ," released to the Pantagraph . Or noted in the Vidette (in either article .) SUMMARY REPORT ON UNIVERSITY RESIDENCE & SITE DEVELOPMENT OF WEST CAMPUS Sauna Report has it the Regents deliberated all of ten seconds over the budget be University Residence fore approving it , House Construction $95 ,643, 00 The room sauna listed on the January report is now at Horton Field House , Somebody better recheck their arithme Cost per square foot Athletic department ordered th e sauna 1st and 2nd floor $21.65 at Berle's request . The sauna was tic, The public sure isn't given a chance to , 1st and 2nd floor ordered because , Berlo said, saunas & basement $16 .98 were listed as #1 priority am ong stu- --Phillip Bosinney Foundation and Empire? Administrators Clam Up While reports of an "information ex Several days later, student found in plosion" flow from the mouths of ISU the Foundation Directory a paragraph professors, their students, hard at explaining that private foundations work on. research pro jects, find no were obligated, by the Tax Reform Act The Foundation's directors (stude�t explosion and little information. of 1969, to prepare an annual report finally procured a somewhat dated list open to public inspection at the foun t�rough other sources) are a strange Reports of an ISU administration clam dation's office, mixture : a couple administrators up since the Post's publication of the bankers , and businessmen. The di ec Berlo interview are rampant. Whether Student then went again to the Foun tors' motive s are as unclear as Mit-� · the timing is coincidental or not, dation off ice and asked the secretary chell's desire ·to keep their names the information scarcity is real. if he could see a copy of that annual secret. report. Pinball Berlo's Bankers Secretary immediately entered Mit Vidette and Post reporters investigat President Berlo is a director, and chell's inner office ; student waited past University presidents have been ing tre fundrfigof Berlo' s house for ten minutes. played a tough game of "bureaucratic 'too. pinball" in recent -weeks as they No Comment bounced from office to office with Eric Johnson is also a director . (Re either conflicting , amb iguous, or Then Dr . Mitchell came out. member the reporter? He had left no information. Johnson' s office after inquiring ab out "What are you doing here? Why are you Berlo's house and was on his way to The Illinois State University Founda staying here? I have nothing to say the Foundation, When he got there tion is one off ice which in recent to you," he said. the next day , no one was talking, ) weeks refused to cooperate with a Edward Rust, President of the bil student 's research and reporters' Student explained that he wanted to B, stories. see the annual report that private lion-dollar State Farm Insurance Com foundations were required to prepare . pany , is a dire ctor and memb er of the executive committee . Finding that the ISU Foundation was involved in the construction of the "I have no comment . I'm busy . I'm controversial University residence, tied up. There's no reason to stay Paul G. Anderson , a director of State a reporter asked at the Foun dation here . There is no such report. I Farm Insurance and the Corn 3elt B ank , for help in understanding the confus have no c001.ment . I'm busy . Why are is a director and memb er of the exec utive committee. ing complexities of high-finance bud you staying here? �y secretary will geting . The buck was passed back to be busy with me all afternoon , Thomas M. Barger Jr . , Chairman of the Eric Johnson , from whose office the There's no use staying here , I have Board of Citizens Savings and Loan and reporter had just come. nothing to say to you. ·I 'm tied up , that 's all," �itchell said. stockholder in the rr: cLean County Bank, is another director . Before bounc ing on to the next bumper, the reporter asked for a list of the * * * Foundation' s board of directors. He Ignatius J. Koegh , VP and Trust Officer did this as a favor to a friend, a During the next several days, student of the American State Bank , is another student working on a research project visited the ISU Foundation office director . which involved collecting director several times. Neither Mi tchell nor lists of several local organization_s . his secretaries would give any infor John '1/roan, President of a large con tracting firm and director of the Dean Mitchell (he is Dean of College mation , Student was successful in obtaining from the-8°e cretary the ad First National Dank of Normal , is of Business), acting executive direc another. tor of the Foundation, refused to turn dress of the former exe cutive direc tor, but .could not obtain his name ! over a list. Mitchell said the student Boyce Huson , President , Trust Officer , should come in so he could give the Student got to s�e Mitchell again, and managed to ask, in between exclamations and director of the First National Bank student exactly what he needed for the of Normal, is an other director. pro ject . The reporter replied that a of "I'm busy," if Mitchell was still .simple list of the directors would g?ing to ask the directors for permis sion to break their secrecy . Mitchell So is William McKnight Jr. , who was suffice , but Mitchell was adamant & no lso one of the Foundation 's original seemed to have forgotten, but said yes. � list until the student comes in him incorporators. If the Foundation's self. * * * purpose is to raise money for ISU, then YcKnight would be most interested : in Enter the student . 1964 he was the largest stockholder of Spurred by Mitchell's tremb ling para the First National Bank of Normal--the noia, student went on to investigate Student went to the Foundation office bank where ISU keeps its money. the foundat ion through other sources. and requested a list of the board of (::; cKnight is a VP and director of that dire ctors. The secretary , who has ac Questions bank , as well as VP of Bloomington Fed cess to such a list, entered Mitchell's eral Savings and Loan, ) inner office and relayed the reque st . The results bring up more questions Mitchell came out and spent five min than they answer. utes discussing how he was too busy to This latest available list of ISU give a director list . The student had If the University Foundation is a pri Foundation directors lists 3 men who to make an appointment . vate business, why does ISU give it are also directors of Normal 's First office space? And why does ISU pay National B ank. Next day, the appointment1 a half hour the Foundation's secretaries? What of classic bureaucrat doubletalk, buck criteria must a private business meet Past Foundation directors have 'includ passing, run-around. and lies. Mit to receive such a University subsidy? ed Richard T. Dunn , stockholder and chell would not give the student a list director of the People 's Bank ; Loring of the Foundation's board of directors. Five days after the registering of the Merwin, who owned the Pantagraph and Why? 1) He wanted to "help" the stu deed transfering the Ewing Castle to ':l J3 C; Richard Kuhfuss, then President ·dent (by not giving what may be an in- the Foundation, the Pantagraph an of Illinois Agricultural Association accurate list. 2) There was no such nounced that Ralph N, Ewing , living and now National Farm Bureau President ; list. J) It was not ethical to di clear over in Kansas, had been elected Eugene Funk Jr. , of Funk's Seed, who vulge the Foundation's directors with a Foundation director , Ralph is the has also been a director of Blooming ton Federal Savings and Loan and the out their consent , 4) He did not son of the late Hazel Buck Ewing, who Gulf, M obile , and Ohio Railroad, have access to such a list. 5) Any owned the castle. Is this a coinci list he would'gi ve would be obsolete dence? If not, what do these trans Conspiracy? in a few weeks as vacancies would soon actions mean? be filled with new directors. If these men , who occupy some of Pa ranoia Strikes Deep F. Russell Glasener, a' director of Bloomington-Normal 's most important Citizens Saving s and Loan, was one of economic positions, feel they must Mitchell kept asking the student why the Foundation's orig inal incorpora hide their association with the ISU he wanted the list. He kept inquiring tors and its initial registered agent . Foundation , then our suspicions must ab out the exact nature of the research When the Foundation purchased Glasen expand past the Foundation itself and project. Student , angry over the run er' s house in 1969, how did the board begin to question the activities of around (he had procured such lists decide how much to pay? this entire huge interlocking direc� ·from several local organizations with torate . no hassle ) would not talk ab out his * * * research. Student felt that Mitchell If, on the other hand , the Foundation 's was very paranoid and was trying to It's difficult to find out what the directors have nothing to hide , why is hide something . Mitchell expounded on Foundation does with it s money . Dur the Foundation office so scared? And his thirty years experience in helping ing the late sixties, it was buying what is it scared of? Does �itchell students, claiming all the while that a lot of land , but not much lately. have something to hide? Is he being secretive on his own initiative , or he was only trying to help this stu $22,000 dent too, Last summer Berlo got from the did someone tell him to clam up? Did Foundation to send someone over to Af Eric Johnson , knowing a reporter in rica to purchase "art ob jects," This ve stigating the University residence Student said he thought the Foundation was in addition to the money the Foun was going to the Foundation, phone was a public corporation and therefore dat ion sets aside as the President 's Mitchell and tell him to say nothing? had a (legal ) responsibility to reveal personal fund , at the very least its board of direc No one knows, except those who aren't tors. * * * talking . 3ut we do know that Berlo . chas-t;ised a reporter for "terroriz-, But student was informed that the Foun ing administrators." dation was a private foundation. --as told to G.G. by S.D. 18 � 19 BEHIND THE NEWS by Denny Colt With the regularity of world wars, STAT E cries of manipulation streak across ISU's campus. Parties involved are u•u "'asrrv usually the same, with certain bulkier part ies involved carefully under cover, while the smaller parties pick each other off . Any more, the only editorials or stories in ISU's "student paper" on any sort of interesting keel are di rected towards Student Government , Cne can go for days reading the Vidette and forget that the univer sity even has an administration, much less one that �ight occasionally act out of harmful interests. At least, the Vidette consistently has covered Student Govt ,, however confused and vindictive some of that coverage ap• pears. lication Board, Calling a meeting with decision ) general climate indicates a clear faculty-administrator ma jority staff won't be allowed on the board Within the past year, the (with Baumann on the faculty side, next semester. It's too bad, �inus paper has moved into a low-key hos also) the Board ruled that Vidette staff members, a clear reactionary tility towards most student intere sts. staff be refused admission on the media control exists on the board 1 It began with the paper's previous 3oard , A week earlier, Gene Watson, both editor and general manager hold editor, who resented criticism of chairman of Publication 3oard, had po sitions, not to mention several her pro -3erlo stance. It carried 1sent letters to various Student Govern representatives of News and Publica through, in part, to the paper's staff ment officials and administrators tel tions , Staff members who thought the --who largely resented the paper's ling of the decision to eliminate board could be used, say, as a hear saccharine editorial posturings--but staff from the Board . When confronted ing board for the airing of injustices who were often individually indis about the letter, Watson said he'd --as in last semester's firing of a criminately attacked for their con written it as an individual--with a staff member who disagreed with the nection with the paper. signature signifying his position -on Vidette editor--are in for a disap the board--and he'd been using the pointment . The antagonism has been main editorial "we ," Sure, tained by the present editor, Jim Not much of a disappointment, Baum ann, who has proved himself equal Despite complaints from certain mind you. The air of administrative in terms of pro-B erlo bigotry . staff (who inaccurately levelled much control of the press has hung over it Groomed for the position by the of their criticism at Student Govern long enough to keep anyone from being paper's Previous editor, elected to ment, the group enf9rcing the Board's deluded too long , the position in a qu�stionable ser- · ies of Publication Board meetings (see Post #12), 3aumann di splays the suc- cessful attitude of a Chicago news- paper editor 1 "Don't annoy the boss too much," N_obody expects the Chicago ;. Daily News, for instance, to write ,,�� ··�,> anything negative abou.t n.: arshall Field, either. ·�j;<· : '•t ··,·;· ���If In between weekly meetings with the president, the Vidette editor work� on his paper with the advantage of mucr \NHEN YOU '\JE advice. First, there's James Sedge wick, general manager, and employee of administration mouth News and Publica-H1-J-;jJ����� 1 GOT THE B�HS...... tion, that branch of ISU under the much-conflicted hands of Normal coun cilman Richard Godfrey. Sedgewick �SPEND SO works as a full-time administration ME presence around the Vidette office . . Second, there's the much more in TIME \NllF+ US \!\\ teresting George Colburn, half-time presidential assistant and instructor who has been seen much with the editor Part of a line of Michigan State col leagues imported by President 3erlo, Colburn did much of the layout for a large two-page spread in the paper on the selection of new administrators. One of the pictures selected for the spread showed Baumann and Berlo at the CD�N\ same table , In terms of the articles, "f01 the unique the picture served little purpose, ex cept as an indication of allegiances. in contemporary What small voice staff members have on the paper is through editorial board, which approves those editorials crafts" in the paper. The board, however, has . no power over the news stories allowed \J\J 1 m1 in the paper; it is difficult to write * ea v ng*cero cs any sort of scathing editorials with- u.���;..r::J'r....:lUll out a story behind it. *rnacrame *glass Staff members' only other outlet for free expression is on the Publica-· tion Board, one of those c crrimittees *Jewelry, etc. under Academic Senate . Traditionally, the board has done little; it ostensi bly holds sway over university and *beads * buckles student publications . In practice, the board has done nothin� to affect c the affairs of university publications * ord & ya rn (Ri chard Godfrey's hand is firm ) and little for student publications--ex cept select their editors. Other than that, the Board has done little, but some staff members saw in it possibilities. 101 broadway Perhaps a vision of those possi m , bilities scared �he pote�tates on Pub- nor al illinois 20 6<1 per cent water, Goat meat, pigs ears, salt. sprees. FRO M corn syrup, cereal pa1cES ,•' SA FOOD C attend town meeting head for The City of Blooming ton Town ship meets at 7 1.JO PM , Tuesday , April ), at City Hall. All residents of Bloomington may attend and have a voice . stratosphere And this is what you get! Que stions will be raised ab out Town ship Supervi sor Fred Winterroth 's oper- �e even told his wife to start one at ation of the Town ship Relief Office . by Feter :O eidrnan their home on Long Island , �e didn't have �ny advice for apartmen t dw ellers , Those who have had difficulty stretch Last year he packed the meeting with ing their paychecks to meet the soar patronage workers and local politicians . ip cost of food !mow ;'iixon ' s wage They beat down all efforts to reform price controls are a sw indle . 'Let them eat beans' the often-criticized Relief Office . i.J espi te ·.'iashin[ton ' s pre i:: ense at price-control efforts , the Eovernment , with the willing help of the employers , -'.:: he most "radical" proposal came from Normal Town ship will also meet on April J, earlier in the day . has in reality controlled only waEes, '{arva.rd nutrition professor and dhi te A spot check of a �ew Jersey super House consultant Dr . Jean ;.:ayer. Ee market , for example , revealed that ad�ocates a crash course on nutrition shoppers have to paJ 20 percent more so that the country can develop ne-N for groceries than at the time con eatin,": habits , "'l'he administration is trols were instituted in 1971. beEinning to sugge st a shift in food .•• habits but no one is ready yet to sug�est we keep our meat supplies for �ow the �ixon administration is not those who really need it--ure �nant wo • • only asking us to believe its baloney men and �rowin� ch ildren--ietiin3G t�e but to eat it to o! At lease this an eat,,beans':-· ' rest pe ars to be the meanin� of recent WESLEYAN statements by government officials . dith �reat compassion �or �overnment planners , he w�rned it was-�" false eco nomy" to deprive the ooor of the means Arthur Burns , head of the ?ederal Re to a nutritio�s diet , because malnutri serve System , suggested that consumers tion leads to illnesses many times more expensive to treat , ride out the food crisis by opting for STAlmostUD JOENTO of �esleS yanMOV's 1700 Estu meatless days . People should "spend dents met at the Duuouto. at 10 PM March less on meat ," he said , "and more on 8, cheese ," �hat 's wrong with all these schemes is that people don't like to be forced to eat baloney , even if they hav e to lis The Curriculum Council , a body ten to it . A.r·L-C IO ?resident George consisting of ten faculty members and Fresident �ixon himself entered into �eany made one of his rare statements tw o (2) student representat ives, had the spirit of the campaign when he corresponding to the interests of work presented Wesleyan students with a sur suggested it would be "patriotic" for ing people when he responded to �urns ' prise the week before--they now only Americans to buy fish and lower the proposal for a meatless day by explain have tw o weeks from the beginning of a demand for meat . lHxon-.-who doesn't semester to drop a course, Of course ing , "I like meat, " get to do the shopping himself very the students rebelled at such an ob often--appar ently hasn 't noticed that Perhaps because �eany already eats so viously outrageous rule . However , the fish is going up faster than almost well , working people will not be able g� oup that met at the Dugout Thursday anything else at the supermarkets. to depend on him to lead the kind of night were met by Darryl Deets , Pr esi fieht- for cost-of-livinu clauses in dent of Student Senate , with the words , Jiot wishin� to be left out of the un! on co ntrac ts and pen� ions and so "If you 're coming here looking for a patriotic parade , 1, ixon ' s eager new cial security benefits , and an end to revolt , you 're gonna be disappointed. " secretary of labor , Peter Brennan , has the government wage controls that suggested "victory gardens" like the would enable everyone to eat an ade I was , one� promoted to ease food shortages quate amount of nutritious food. durin,; the ;3 econd if orld 1ii ar might be --from the Militant the answer to the workers ' dilemma. Deets informed the gather ing that Dr. Hungerford , who proposed the tw o *** *** *** w** *** *** *** *** *** week drop period , was willing to take a four-week drop period proposal from the students "if it was well thought out." No one was very excited about that , but then neither did anyone ac tively oppose the management/labor , master/slave relat ionship between fa MEDUSA' S BOOK culty and students that was tac itly ac cepted throughout the meeting . One wo man did mention that this spec ific is sue was indicative of the lack of stu dent input into most University poli cies. Her point was recognized and STORE pretty much dropped , There was a lot of talk about the "privilege " of drop ping a cla ss , and how Wesleyan students. must be careful not to present them Formerly Al's Book World selves to the faculty as "irresponsible students" when they protest the shit on their heads . Heaven forbid that the faculty should think that the students NOW AT 109 W. FRONT ST. were angry or indignant or irate ! No , they are concerned , deeply concerned, And the faculty will be the ones who decide whether the students ' pro posal is "well thought out, " One tactic that the Wesleyan students have us ed against the drop/add decision ADULT BOOKS is far out . They hav e attempted to keep class meetings from proceeding as usual by starting discussions of the new rule at every turn , Perhaps the teachers will be so harrassed at the disruption of the ir classes that they will be forced to support the students ' MA6AZINES demands--and when both students and faculty are against the new rule , maybe we will find out who 's really pushing NEW MOVIE ROOM it. As Deets pointed out , sometimes there is a very thin line between ad ministrative "suggestions" and admin istrative "orders" to un iversity com- women must be 18. - men must be 21 r::ittees. --Kate The winner of this month's big crossword puz zle contest bliner. 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The Boston Globe , which has hospital landlord , attempted in January ignored the 1199 strike at Massachu BOSTON--Now in its 15th week, a strike to bring criminal charges against five setts Rehabilitation Hospital , gave called by Local llG9 , Hospital and Nur strikers who leafletted a class taught considerable space to the SW IU drive sing Eome Employees against the Massa by Mort Zuckerman , a real estate devel in its January J issue . chusetts Rehabilitation Hospital (MRH) oper and MRH stockholder, is stalemated 1 The hospital owners In the face of this pressure , support refuse to rehire 11 union activists Recently arrived in Boston , organizers for 1199 among community and movement fired during the strike, for the Service Workers International groups is mounting. More than 600 Union (SWIU) are seen as part of the people have joined the mass pickets , Until the strike 's beginning last Oct. drive to stop Local 1199. SWIU has a and aid is now coming from local Jlst , the MRH employees were not union no-strike policy , and received only 2 unions . represented, However, Local 1199 has --lns/ guardian now won the right to represent MRH workers. The only issue still block ing settlement is that of rehiring the eleven fired union members . "No one will go back until all can go back ," said organizer Elliot Small. Pointing out that the six men and five Proorietary (oroliHnaking) Hos1na1s women fired comprise half the union negotiating committee, union activist Vinnie Griesi said , "the hospital 's Massachusetts Rehabilitation Hospital Those who are investing in these in- refusal is an attempt to chop the head is an example of an increasingly prom s ti tu tions defend them by saying that off our negotiating committee," inent phenomenon in the US health in they provide hospital care where there dustry--the profit making, investor might not be any at all, Yet because The eleven are among 55 strikers and owned, proprietary hospital , These they are profit-making , their care is supporters arrested on misdemeanors hospitals are run as businesses and primarily directed to those who can since the strike 's beginning. Repre differ from private , non-profit in pay . sentatives of the private , profit stitutions in that they are owned by making hospital claim that such "crim� stockholders who are paid dividends "It is very convenient and profitable inal records" prove the workers in just as stockholders of GM or AT&T . for the stockholder-doctor (many doc question are too irresponsible to tors who staff these private hospitals work in the institution. Proprietary hospitals now account for own stock in them) to have staff pri about 10% of US hospital beds. Ma� vileges •..in a nearby non-profit hos Most of these arrests occurred in No jar corporations like Sheraton Hotels pital where he can dump the financ ial vember when Boston police used attack (ITT ) , the Ramada and Holiday Inn ly undesireable patients ," said John dogs and clubs to break up a union chains , and also groups of private Gadd , director of a proprietary hos picket line of over 400 workers and speculators see these hospitals as the pital in ?ort Meyers , Florida , supporters. Police moved in after up and coming field to invest in. With workers sat down to block departing a 15� annual growth in earnings (90 Besides being selective , proprietaries scabs , Police dogs injured 4 persons. million dollars last year ) the attrac usually charge more s a survey of 200 tions are obvious, Southern California hospitals showed At that time the hospital was spend an average per-day cost of $20 more The President and Chairman of Holiday ing ov er $5000 a week to maintain a than comparable non-profit institutions . 24-hour detail of off-duty police at Inns have recently opened a hospital chain called Medicenters of America the picket line , while claiming it The proprietaries like to enc ourage which will sel� you your own hospital was unable to give a pay hike which certain profitable treatment s. One franchise equipped with everythlng hospital director in California put it would have amounted to $800 a week. from "signs to pills." this way s "Thanks to all the smog our Heavy fines and sentences of up to J Another chain magnate , Jack Massey, inhalation therapy is picking up beau months were levied on the arrested rec ently resigned from the chairman tifully. Inhalation therapy , now there 's a money-maker." strikers and supporters . A registered ship of Kentucky Fried Chic ken to be nurse supporting the union was given come cha irman of the Hospital Corpor So it is easy to understand why MRH is J years probation. ation of America (HCA) , HCA has op ened 40 hospitals in 12 states sinc e fighting so hard to keep 1199 away from Part of an 1199 organizing campaign in 1968, "The growth potential in hos its employees, Any thing those workers Boston (University Hospital is success pitals ," says Massey, "is unlimited; gain would come out of the dividends of MRH investors . fully organized) , the MRH strike threat it's even better than Kentuc ky Fried --information complied 'ens to organize all of Boston's J0 , 000 Chicken. " by lns hospital workers . ' The Illinois State University Entertainment Committee presents I ll Fix Yo ur Car I Amerikan clunker or .· . . Rare Earth, Tower of Power, and McKendree Spring Foreign load G Q • � l ... <::1 ' 0 Monday, April 9, 1973 8: 15 pm Horton Fieldhouse Admission : ISU students with General ticket release: activity card; $2, $3, $4 March 26, 1973 8:30 am - 4 pm General; $3, $4, $5 University E°v ents Office, 303 University Union 2 IRAN, ANOTH ER VIET NA M 3 . ID• the mak ing ? Is a new Vietnam beginning in the The impererialists domination of Br itain, Thus a great port ion of Middle East or Latin America? Iran is no t po ssible without the Iran 's oil revenue s are used to military dictatorship, The Shah purc ha se U.S. phantom jets and Chi ef ha s launched the usual terror tan tanks from Br ita in . The arm s Aft er the heroic victory of the pa cification program -- arrests, are not onJ y us ed against the people Vietnamese people over the aggre ssion torture by SAVAK (the secret po lice ), of Iran, but also , for the suppress of the u.s., this is an impo rtant assassinat ions and imprisonment , Of ing the revo lut ionary movement s of question. The Arabian Peninsula and the 2,400. political pr isoners in Iran, the whole area e.g. the armed struggle Pers ian Gulf area is of ma jor 80 were executed in the last 18 months . strat egic and economic int erest This is the large st number for any to the U.S, be cause of the extensive count ry in the wo rld during "peace Richard Helms , former head of Ame rican part icipat ion in the penin time", De spite these difficult ies , the CIA , played a key ro le in the sula 's va st petroleum industry. This the Iranian people have continued .1953 coup in Iran and wa a recently is the single most important mo t ivat their struggle against the Shah and appo int ed as the U.S. ambassador ing factor behind the applicat ion of We stern Imperialism, The guerilla to Iran . This transforming of a the Nixon Do ctrine -- the U.S. will movement start ed two years ago and masterspy into a dipl omat gives us part icipat e in . the defense and de is still developing . Workers ' demon some indication of the economfc velopment of allies and friends but strat ions and student prote&"ts nave importanc e of Iran to the U.S. Sect . Am erica cannot , and will not , con been crushed by the government , La st of State Rogers reported that "dur- ceive all the plans , de sign all the month, six university students were ing 1971 .returns on U.S foreign in the programs , execute al l the de killed during a ma ss demonstrat ion vestment -- almost all of it in the cisions and undertake all the de protesting military expenditures. oil industry -- in the Arabian Pen fense of the free nations of the insula and Persian Gulf states cont wo rld. Although Iran is a rich country inues to make a major contribut ion oil , copper and other minerals -- mo st to the U.S. ba lance of payment s. In the Middle East , Iran seems of the 32 million Iranians live in Repatriated earnings of U.S. private to be the subimperialist client stat e poverty, The percapita income is $250 corporations together with trade , per families live that will impliment the "Nixon Do c year . 40% of the in once aga in contribut ed nearly $1 trine ," This is why the react ionary one room houses , 70% of the people billion to our net balance of payment s� regime of the Shah (King ) of Iran is are illiterate , All of these condit ions be ing so handsomely outfitted mili exist in a count ry which is the fourth unite tarily in .h is new gendarme role, The largest oil produc ing country in the Shah was restored to power by the world. Where do the oil revenues go ? The U.S. is planting the seeds of an other Viet in the Middle CIA-engineered coup in 1953. The po p Nam ular Premier Mossadegh , who national East . Oil is the basis of Western ized the oil, wa s overthrown . Since Imperialist economies. Oil is black then the Shah has been the despotic $$ for weapons go ld, The rulers (U.S. and Iranian ) ruler of Iran and one of the least are willing to kill, murder and enlightened dictators of the "free torture in order to protect their wo rld" , int erests. The Capitalist blood Defense of the Empire does no t ba th cont inues day in and day out , come cheap , especially for the Iran Solidarity and unity is ne eded be prisoners exec u t·e d ian people . The U.S. has made Iran ween the progre ssive forces in the the strongest military power in the U.S . and Ir�n . The terror will region. This year Iran will spend . not end unt il the imperialist U,s . Under the Shah 's reign Iranian s 2.5 billion dollars , % of the Iranian government is destroyed, have been deprived of the most ele GNP , purcha s ing modern weapons from mentary demo cratic or civil rights. West�rn Imperialists i.e. U .._s . and Liberat ion News Service 24 Mr. Kelly's Fine Pizza 204 North St. in Normal Phone: 452 ·5112 or MR. KELLY 'S FINE PIZZA 452 ·1995 $1.00 Off On any sixteen-inch family-size pizza. March 24 Thr� Apri l 27 Open 4 to 1 Seven Nites a We ek Greek Communist Party. The Greek Na �ional Liberation Army had successfully fought the Nazis and was the only co hesive force in the post-war Greek so ciety able to govern with a popular base. But with massive American aid the U,S, National Security Counc il in l 1967 PENDEN �ebruary under the chairmanship AN INDE against it, the Greek left was finally defeated in 1949 . of Walt Ros tow , According to Andreas Papandreou--a Min Since 1946 the U.S. has poured out ister in the Greek government over� $1 .9 billion in military aid to Greece (With the recent waves of mass student thr &REECE'? own bj the mili ta::·:, c: o '.ip of April , and $198 million in economic assis protests against the right-wing Greek 1967--in the decade following the war , tance. In return the various Greek military junta, we decided to print "American services put together the governments from 1953 to the present the following article detailing the (Greek) state and infiltrated it to its have provided "rent-free" land for U.S. stake in this allegedly "free very cor e." over tw elve American military instal world" country. } lations , Greece became the training ground for America's counterinsurgency program , In 1972 alone President �ixon asked The military dictatorship which the In fact, Greece was where the Office Congress to prov ide Greece, in "the Greek students are protesting is an of Strategic Service (OSS) was trans overriding requirements of U.S. na especially formidable adversary when formed into the present day CIA. Ac tional security," with a program of you look at the role the U.S. has cording to Papandreou, the Greek in $20 million in military grants , $55 played in actually carrying out the telligence agency was "both admini million in military credit sales , and coup 09 1967 , and subsequently sup stered and financed directly , not via $38 million worth of excess military porting it to the hilt . In fact! t�e the Greek bud---get , but by the American weapons stock. U.S. has played a powerful and signif �IA." icant role in Greece 's internal polit Unpublished but official estimates in ical life since the end of �# II. The coup of April 21, 1967 was carried Athens show that the U.S. , according out by five junior officers , three of to the ·,vashington Post, contributed an On �arch 12 , 1947 , Truman presented to whom had been in the Greek intelli additional $150 million out of $450 Congress a message that has since come gence service. George Papadopoulos , million worth of �ATO pro jects in elec to be known as the 'I' ruman Doctrine . the present Prime Minister , was "the tronic security networks , liason man between the Greek CIA and It laid out the rationale for American the American CIA. In fact, he is the In the Greek �ilitary Aid lfission economic and military aid to Greece, a first CIA agent to our knowledge to �e there are 15 technical representatives rati onale which has remained essential Prime Minister of a European country ," of such firms as RCA , Lockh eed , Pratt ly the same up to the present . Papandreou said , and Whitney ind General Dynamics to service the complex military computers "The very existenc e of the Greek State Papandreou even asserts that during and radars that have been given or is today threatened by the terrorist the coup, leadership "was provided by sold to Greece. activities of several thousand armed a group of Am erican CIA officers in men, led by Communists •••Greec e must Greek un iforms ." According to the �lfash ington Post, have assistanc e if it is to become a through_ JoQpholes in :the official-- em self-supporting and self-respecting Since the coup Greece has become a bargo-6n- �flitary aid , the Greek jun democracy, The United States must sup training center for world counterinsur ta as of 1971 had received more mili ply this assistance." gency, According to Papandreou, the tary assistance from the U.S. than in Cambodian officers who overthrew Sih the previous four years before the The message went on to declare that an anouk , and the Ugandans who overthrew coup. "independ�nt" Greece was essential in their governm ent were trained by the . �aintaining order throughout the �id Greek colonels , And they are also now It was all sumrr.ed up neatly by former dle �ast, and to request $400 million guiding the nee-fascist paramilitary Secretary of Commerce and Financ e in emerEency aid to Greece and Turkey . iroups of the Italian riEht . Chairman of the Corr.mittee to Re-elect the President who told the Greek junta As a re sult , the U.S. landed troops in The coup's plan had been developed in in 1971 , "in no countrJ is American lq4� that Greece in to- : News of Mung first broke air with "'Mechanistic notation1 the following the unc overing of several scrolls in the is a linear regression, Repeat , The pre musty catac ombs of the Abbey of Rhodes, ceding is/was/will be may be a lineal 'T hat great English ant iquarian Charles progression and perhaps even not! • T Lanc hip unearthed those sacrosanct words (year: 1859) that tell of �ung and the "Take your Joyce. It 's sort of like great quest of Alestar, son of Gawan , Vice 's Thunderclap and other automotive Unfortunately, much of these scrolls diseases. My advice to you is to ques were destroyed in an evening bomb ing I 'I tion your motive , also. (time : ab out teatime ) of London 's 1 - Esoterica Museum during WWII, The rem nants of that scrolJ (translated, of "By the way , good luck on your quest course ) follow: c ang transferal , This message will self.- E destruct (ie, crash) after eight hours Prolog (Starttyng the queste ) ,, or so," (So what of the simian illusion? disway So what? It's recursor can be seen in us all , Here Alestar confronts a troll R & an inarticulate clown named Forgrom .) Dark fell oer thILe blue-eyed isle as Troll brydge (Forth on the queste ) Alestar lapsed and recalled the secrets he had unwittingly recanted the night • , ,penicillan green troll who before , rumbled before Alestar and spake , "Halt , Alestar of the sword Stormdung--this is Perhaps , he thought , she would the troll of the bridge . come and intercept him, "What will decreasing hinderance As if in answer to his pensive de rates, I am impelled to tell you that fensive musings, the hourglass struck, your persons cannot pass upon this or and a figure in sepia-tones appeared any artifice oer yon orifice, from behind the great Door that Had Never Been Openned , "You will have to make a leap of faith. " It wasn 't his love Ymirel, he re alized with a sigh, but Lerimey, the At this , young Forgom, tugging the strange denigrant half-brother/half bridge troll's slime , spoke up , "By wha sister to Ymirel, of the time lost in retreat , fleet mo ments, and six packs?" Lerimey spoke 1 Bashing him with an ascorbic ac id "You must vindicate your betrayals, bottle oer the head and shoulder, the Alestar, the more spectacular way pos scurvey troll glared at Pogrom, "Order sible, Doing so, you must travers� the till the All Stars simon simian?" he . mysteriously spake , "Shut up Forgom," di (For nobody knows why Frogom 's name is mispelled thrice . that las And line certainly � meaningless •• , land of Nullon and combat fierce ban Interlude occurs the Halls of alit�ies. There , you will find poten in tiality for many dangers and excitements , Chaos, where voices speak as they 've but you will ignore them all, Instead , been ordained and etcetera. ) you must travel straight to the temple of the once barbarous In Medias Race . Interlude fVoyces of the gods) There , amongst psychotically burgeoning "I see prior to me that to advancement you will find the unalterable we 've altar of Mung , be having an impromptu discussion now, " "You must violate it," "Right , George , it says we 're to ruiminate over the mythic impotence of Alestar's heart fell to the floor the quest moti f. " beside the shattered hourglass, How could, he t�ught , any soul hope to de "That 's a lot of rhume " feat such an omnipotent nebulousness � 111. 11111# Mung? "Quite right entirely , Fred, and it becomes even more significant in dis The Door that Had Never Been Openned cussions of the tale of Alestar. " ,, beckoned, "Is it a simian tale?" (Now trip with us as Alestar crawls "Sapi to t�e lee of the Winds of what Probably ent point . No. But the in /lllZZl. ll fluence upon the later letter day lit of the 22nd century is not to be ignored, Even on some small islands where day has donne . , ." ' "To be ABOUT THE COVER sure , however, Some of us can be too certain , tho , of the extent of . its � antral. A few vary , however, and claim to be totally confused," "I don't," This issue's cover vents its rage over Well that 's cause you 've been dead the spectre of monopoly big business . � sin e he 2Jrd and John 's Birth, This doing its damnedest to trash the little ? � strip is moving backwards ," people, Concretely, it refers to the piggish attempts of Budget Tapes and . . . Records, using money from large incor poration, to undersell and destroy its (With such frightening words and competition, and then raise its prices. further a splice in the ms ,, we lost our capitalism in the 20�th century hero U.S. totally somewhere in the Funl.ouse , works that way, folks. Will any of this be made clear? Yes, At (Copyright 1973, Spell· ittoons Enter- a later date in an other tempered prices) medium perhaps, Stay attuned,) Read Slowly .•••Paus ing .••••" Anywhere" Say , it is time to get in on what is happening with a little Songs for the Askinv, in linear linkage , a feat class buds aw aken in the spring CULnotTU attempted except RE it 's all a plot power is in the hand in "deepthroat" and communism is freedom to the fears of not the chair it grips. other cinema pornofeellia America freedoms communal a chair knows no motion and boundaries hazy fear's freedoms foe unless of course we chant on pickets we play a game when I's become the people Do you know anyone that plays of presidents and pupils. "Power to the workers unite."·N jazz piano? in the afternoon and then again and our 0nly hope c in the night its only a game is that the blue collar of play for power is not stiff or white . turn on your nose , it gets the real to see which pawn when chaired **** **** **** **** **** **** . . treatment awakening will bite the people one 's not two the right to en joy is yours that freed it. the thing's the says Paul Harvey * * * * * * * * * * * string were all water februarv the end. -that between us 0 says John Lennon and Yoko ono tre streets drip melting snow . sings. children of the future driveways mudtrack into houses. says Steve Miller the dirt of winters waste hangs. * *** cosmic say the Jefferson Airplane in a few houses music jangles **** **** **** **** **** u here says anyone who looks nerves trying to heal the soul , hums power . . doo doo hah-ah-ah hah the long december has nothing left across the prairie , STONED to say . silo's spires anyone who looks heh-eh-heh hehl heh a day for violins, dot the eyes. crumpled want ads, landscape wind . dah-da-da-da�da-da-dut dah dah dah and dreams of a summer sun on blurs the sight dah rock my soul yeh da-da-da- leaves that are green . of every turn da-da-da-dut- diddle doo dah dahdah where is the justice? we burn, dah dah dahdah halleluya if it ever existed, we burn. thuirderderdert de dert thuirderderdert planting bushes and punching presses N de dert while the statue-of-liberty and joe colleges ball . Andrew Krause oh oh hoooo F hooo R E T zeeeingomminginging inging E D E zirt zah 0 doot doh doot do JV: (These good thoughts were slipped under the door of the Post office with no· name. ) s You say it 's time for peace dick �hen the price of war and bombs nut know along with R we you're just a prick. kept ioing up . ·rv , But you'll never contaminate our minds with your contagious VD . �f you were on the level we This price you gladly paid wouldn 't have been d in trouble . ":'/i th lives you c oul hav e saved. �ou talked of peace-- Killing might be your bag But everyone knows you're a drag. but our troops you 'd only double. but who are we to question you? If we were men it would hav e been �e could. make it without you- Eow much did peace with honor cost us too. �hen so many lives were needlessly There 's no question about it-- lost? And if it was , we hope people would So why don't you leave have cared enough to give a fuck �hile we're still able to breathe , You asked for time but didn't really To let you know they 'd had 'enough . five a ::uck The Women of 606 N, School You censor out papers and magazines , REVIEW In tw o nights, interested parties were and reading after school. Whether pervading societal ideology of the treated to two distinct views of edu- either appears a pleasurable, profi. Rafferties. Deschooling involves cation : one of them so dated that .tab le activity to them . (The Raffer turning around the compulsory institu even its moths were brown flaky shells tyan educator raises his/her eyebrow s tionalizing of the 20th century, where of their former selves; the other so "pleasurable?" "profitable?") human activities have become products. progressive it is difficult to con- ceive . As a part of ISU's Forum ser- It 's a heavy task . How society can be ies, N'.ax Rafferty and John Holt ap- turned around is a question--perhaps peared to pre sent their ideas. beat the commies ! the central question--of people living in this dehumanizing sphere. Holt of fered suggestions, but so much of his Rafferty was one of the foremost edu an educat ion pig ideas seemed almost dependent on the cators crying after Sputnik for a good f�ith of the US government. Tra stepping up in schooling--so we could ditionally, the US government has shown get ahead of the commies, It follows much reason for good faith in situa It is difficult to be nice about Max that one of his favorite metaphors Rafferty . The man represents every tions involving monopoly industry. uses the radical . Any negat1ve thought education, Holt makes clear , is a reason the motion for educational re And � to Rafferty is followed by the adjec monopoly industry. form gained such impetus in the late tive "radical ." Bad teachers are ei sixties. Rafferty is an intellectual ther "tiresome , senile , or subversive ," anachronism, a wooly mammoth, and it It's hard to argue with Holt's assess Never brutal or unfeeling or irrele ment of education (unless one pulls a is inevitable that he represent and vant . wield so much power in our country 's Rafferty misquote argument s "You wait educational system. for the kid to spontaneously ask to Rafferty asserts the power of the ad learn the multiplication table , and ministrator in the school of the fu you'll be waiting for the next gla ng his lack of sympathy for cries Citi ture: "Even in 2000, the institutions cier.") Our success-driven society against educational inhumanity , �ax are not going to be turned over to the (which nowadays applies to � cul ISU audience of the effec tells the inmates." School is a prison , an ture) is not above pulling as many discipline . In Los Ange tiveness of asylum where sizable numbers of people brutalities as it can in its desire to low-reading rat exi ted, les, where a � � are put out of society's hair, and create/mold productive members. The were ordered to begin using teachers Rafferty is a warden. What makes it problem is changing it, working against phonics kits on the students. No ex frightening is the fact he likes his the Rafferties and other vested cuses were allowed, And damned if the job, readinJL.!'_9.te didn't increase . Damned ideologue s. if it didrl' t. A triumph for Rafferty deschooling -upgradi ng - Education has the power to teach people nal disciplinarians. � and the educatio to move mountains. That most of the mountains haven't yet moved proves on- I suppose no one has checked back Counter to this is the John Holt-Ivan since to see how these products of Ilyich thesis that society needs to be ly that the potential's been un Rafferty discipline came out . Whether deschooled. Neither Holt nor Ilyich realized, Somehow , eventually, it they like school or learning or read really likes the ·term "de schooled," has to be, ing . Whether they continue learning but it works best in contrast with the --T . Gradgrind NORTHERN THE CAV.1 BEFORE THE STORM un ited in poverty , unemployment , �nd Some talk of weariness of the "troub bad housing , but IRthey divide bitterEly LAles" grinding themND to a halt. i\1 ost by Richard Trench , LN S correspondent on whether they want Britain's Uni on people are just interested in staying Jack or Ireland 's Tricolor to fly over alive . And to stay alive they en (NOTE : Cn march 8, two bomb s exploded their welfare offices. trench them selve s in their own commun in downtown London , killing on e and ities, thus increasing the barriers of wounding more than 200 people . The fear and di strust . British government imme diately attrib ut ed the bomb ings to the Irish Repub Prisoners of their past histories and England Gives Up lican Army (IRA). their cultures they are each tangled up in knots of hatred . And like an i The cri sis point will come in �arch While it is clear in cases like this mals in a trap , the more they struggle , with the British government 's White that the word of the 3ritish cannot the more the trap tightens. And who Paper , outlining proposals for the be taken as gospel, there is some in has set the trap? Some blame the cap future government of Northern Ire dication from the IRA (Provisionals) italist s, who have divided tre poor land after Direct Rule ends . With themselves that there might be an es and prey on both groups. Other blame public opinion pol.ls in Britain indi calation of their military activity in their opposing group and accuse them cating the country is weary with the anticipati on of the British govern of seeking to impose their will on conflict, the Paper will probably ment's White Paper on Northern Ireland them . ann ounce a "Vietnamization" plan which will be issued within the next for Ulster, to allow for eventual few weeks. What is clear is that the forces at British troop withdrawals by est work here are bey ond the control of ab lishing a conservat ive home rule If the Provos are in fact responsible either group--Catholic or Protestant . governing body . for the explosions , this incident it Aware of this, the middle classes self is still less important than what continue the ir flight out of the city . The British-appointed head of Northern it symptomizes--that is, the political They speak sincerely and desperately Ireland William Whitel�w, is pinning situation in Northern Ireland. ab out reconciliation . But the poor his hop s on middle-class "re on 6il of both religions no longer listen � iation" �parties such as the liberal It has been just a year since th e in to them and increasingly go their Alliance Party , an.d the moderate famous Bloody Sunday massacre when own way . So the middle-classes leave , Labour Party to end the "troubles," British paratroopers shot and killed too tactful to speak of their exodus But these groups have little support 13 Catholics who were participating in as "flight . " in the ghettos where the "troubles" a mass demonstration against intern are . ment . The Poor are Winning The Unionist establishment (Protes Since then , the Protestant Stormont They talk instead of "getting away tant upper-class and bus ness inter government was ab olished and 3ritain from the troubles." "Troubles" is � ests ) can still hold a little more assu.� ed direct control of Northern such a polite word to describe the so than a third of the Protestant comm Ireland , appoint ing William Whitelaw cial movements that have already re unity , but it has been the par - mili to head the Belfast government . sulted in seven hundred dead . The � tary organizations of the working working class are too poor to leave class , both Protestant and Catholic , the city , They must stay and face the that really have strength . Although And more and more Britain has found future and perh�ps find the cure . divided on the supreme issu& of part itself acting as a buffer betw een mi1- themse ves for the disease that has _ ition from Britain , they will pro itant armed Protestant and Catholic left thei ir "betters" baffled. groups. While at first Britain may bably be un ited in their re jection of the Westminister White Paper, wi_ th have hoped to maintain its �egemony Within the city, few people leave its proposals for middle-class orien over Northern Ireland by quickly re their own area. There is no pass ted reform in a society where there pressing the Catholic civil rights port that will guarantee s�f e tr�vel . movement , it is now caught in h t are few middle class remaining . � � ir: chis ter.se city. Sv en in the�r owr;. will most likely be a bloody civil neighborhoods , citizens walk warily , Official IRA--left wingers who through war. facing on- coming traffic, ready to their civil rights agitation can be dive for cover at the slightest sus said to have started the whole thing picion that the car slowing down in --are depressed, Their basic policy St. Pat Vietnamized front of them carries the gun of an has been to supp ort the civil rights assassin. movement unt il- the Catholic working Aware that the English people do not class had reached a level of equality Out of the chaos and poverty , dark have th e will to get involved in a with the Protestants and then to try element s have emerged, terrorists- "Vietnam-style" conflict, Britain will to un ite the two groups in a struggle their aim is quite literally to ter do its best to "Vietnamize" the con for socialist revolution. Their rorize . The groups on this fring e flict back ing the middle-of-the-road cease-fire last spring , which they are well-known . Among the Protest middl -class, Protestant-dominated decided upon because of their fear of � ants there are the Tara Gangs and groups against the poor--both Protes sectarian war , was in effect an ad the Red Hand Groups, and among the tant and Catholic. Most ob servers feel mission that it had all gone hope Catholics there is the Catholic De that the soon-to-be-released White lessly wrong . Today many of th�m are fense League . Paper will pre sent a plan for this resigned to an eventual bloody war . "Vietnarnization. " Others hope it can be averted. Too small in numb ers and arms to de stroy each other, they use terror and However, it is not clear that the "No good can come of civil war,"· one random assassinat ion to cow their op people on the streets of Belfast care young Official IRA officer said to ponent community into surrender. And very much who the British back . For me . "We should try to avoid it at tre result is the opposite. They just the poor, Catholic or Protestant the all costs. But if it does arrive ••• ! increase the stubbornness and hate on realities will be the same--b omb1ngs, then we should try to turn the civil each side . terror and death which have escalated war into the class war . That is all far beyond the political significance we can do." It' s not only civil war "There are no more lunatics here than of such acts. that he fears. He also fears the anywhere else . It's just that here new political strategy of the British the lunatics have got guns ," said one The following article by LN S correspon Army . dent Richard Trench was written just F alls Road man . as he returned to Belfast in early The British Army is using pseudo Fortunately not all gunmen are luna March after six months aw ay from Nor guerrilla tactics against Catholics tics,· Among the mainstream of the thern Ireland . Trench has observed and Prote stants. British soldiers City's armed groups--Official IRA , .treNorthern Ireland conflict for . have been accused of assassination Provisionals, Ulster Defense Associa several years. ) themselves, intending to provoke tion, and Ulster Volunteer Force- war between the various armed groups * * * there is a logic. and armies. The Official officer fears that such activities will push BELFAST--The city breathe s on , still The Official IRA want' a socialist work the Prote stant s, frightened of the lives, continues the monotony of what ing class state , busines� life there is, but the feel bomb s of the Provisionals, into the arm s of fascists. But he also feels ing of pain .is overwhelming . It is The nati onalist Provisionals want an there is still a chance that Protest sad to come back to this doomed city all-Ireland Republic , left-wing, but ant reaction could turn left rather after so many months away , living in not Marxi st , and they want revenge for than right . It is a faint chance peace , without fear and death , the past suffering of Catholics. though . The cynical and tre callous tell you The Ul ster Defense Associat ion see Provisionals, on the other hand , are that civil war in Northern Ireland themselves as defending the rights of optimistic , Some , mostly the young would end the suffering quickly , but the protestant ma jority , The Ul ster ones, are actually looking forward at what cost? For the rest of us who Volunt eer Force claim to be champions to the civil war , as one way to decide have not yet been totally brutalized , of the protestant poor. The who still have some little compassion the que stion once and for all . left , the thought of civil war is al Some people in N. Ireland hope that two leading Proves in the city are mus Tw omey , a man de scribed as com most too terrible to contemplate , a growing left-wing movement within Sea said the Ulster Defense Association will manding officer , and Gerry Adams , Hemmed in between the Black Mountain break the deadlo�k by making an alli to be his ad jutant and leading stra and the sea, the. city of Belfast is ance with the Official IRA . Others tegist . divided . Protestant and Catholic are say that is pie-in-the-sky optimism. � �9 NORTHERN IRELAND'S POLITICAL GROUPS Catholics Protestants Official IRA Ulster Defense Association Non-sectarian , they originated the civil right s struggle . The UDA , which is 50, 000 strong , is the main Protestant Socialist, they call for the unity of Catholic and Protes expression of opinion, At pr esent there is a split bet tant workers. Turned left in the sixties, the Officials ween the left and right elements within the group . Their are strong in the Falls Road area of Belfast , in the vast leader is Charle s Harding Sm ith. Billy Hull is the leader housing estate of Turf Lodge in West Belfast, and in the of the UDA's front organization , the Loyalist Association Markets area near the city center. of Workers (LAW) , Strongly critical of the Unionist mid dle class, they form ed NC-GO areas last summer. Their Outside [elfast , they defended trebarricades of Free Derry memb ers have shot at both IRA and British Army , and -have against the British Army for a year, and are strong in the recently merged with the militant Ulster Volunteer Force. border areas of Newry and Armagh , Their leader in f:elfast is Rill �cKnight , described as "first class socialist ." Ulster Volunteer Force The well-armed UVF aims at defeating IRA with terrorism Provisional IRA directed against the Catholic population. Their leader The Provos em erged out of the pogroms of 1969 as the "Ca is Rusty Spence . 2000 strong , they have been called fas tholic Defense Group ," They include both leftists and cist , but claim to be "for the people ." They are believed rightists who are united in the desire for militant activ to be responsible for many of the sectarian killings. The ity . Their Relfast leader , Seamus Tw omey , is a tradition UVF was even banned by the Zritish under their Special alist and nationalist . Powers Act. Attempts by their leading strategist , Gerry Adams, to turn Vanguard Provos leftward has been blocked by nationalists like This middle class re sponse to fears of a United Ireland Twomey . has strong· link s with the Un ionist Party . Conservative Vanguard aims at reestablishing the old Protestant asce Catholic Ex-Servicemen 's Association dancy . Recently it ha s sought a "deal" with tre Catholic� This is a "non-political" defense group , set up to count er �iddle class, based on demands for an independent capital 'Protestant violence , �oth Official IRA and Provi sional s ist Ulster (ne ither Gritish nor Irish, but with links to have accused it of sectariani sm , but the British Army re both) , out of fear of revolution from both Catholic and gards it as an IRA front group . The organi zation is be Protestant work ing classes. Their leader is William Craig. lieved to be financed by Southern Irish busine ssmen , to discourage �elfast 's Catholics from looking to the Official Red Hand Group IRA for protection. Their leader is Phil Curran , Strong in East Zelfast , they came to prominence last year as "bodyguards" for Vanguard leaders . Rabidly sectarian, u Catholic Defense 1�pg_ � the Red Hand resents the UDA for its attempts to channel The CDL's main strength lies in the tiny Catholic ghettoes all loyalist arms through them . Small in numb ers (200 } of East Belfast . Small in numbers, they are responsible the Red Hand has killed more Catholics than any other for most of the sectarian murders of Protestants. Their group. Its leader, John McKeague, was recently arre sted leader, who cannot be named , comes from the Short Strand after liberal clamor following Catholic deaths in East area of Belfast . As Catholic fanatics, they are hated by Belfast . Repub li cans (both IRA's) who fear their activities will provoke a backlash. Tara Ganp; In spite of its romantic name , the Tara Gang is the main Last December the Official shot two of their members for assa� ination group in West Belfast. Headquartered in the taking part in sectarian murders . In February Officials � Shank1ll Road , Tara started the present sectarian murders. rescued a deaf and dumb Protestant who the CDL was going It specializes in mutilating its victims before killing to shoot "to set an example ," them . Some of its members are known to include ex-B Spe cials, the notorious auxiliary police force banned in 169, Ireland story continues Provo violence he believed. When British troops declared a three day curfew on Lower Falls, and pre Twomey is in favor of a new offensive , Key , of course, to any hope for the before the White Paper, so that the vented residents from going to the future are the people themselves. shops to buy food, Frankie wen� aown Provisionals can bargain from a pos They are now being killed at a quick ition of strength . Adam s and the into the area when British troops left er rate than last year . And it goes and emptied his shop , distributing the '1 faction. rr: ore 18 ft-'.'' inf� µoliti201 ' without say ing , last year they were food free of charge to the hungry pop of the Provos are in favor of a dy ing at a quicker rate than the year ulation. cease-fire so that their political before , wing , the Provisional Sinn Fein (We Last summer as he drove to work along Ourselves) can take part in talks Springfield Road, British troops ab out the future of the province. As I waiked down Springfield Road , the dividing line between the Protestant opened fire , killing him . They claimed that Frankie had a Thompson. When I interviewed Twomey last year , and Catholic communities, overshadowed But as one of his customers said, he showed himself to be a hard -liner by the vast concrete fortre ss of "Frankie was so peaceful he wouldn't who comb ined fierce nationalism with Springf ield Road Barracks, I thought know one end o! a Thompson from the a strong belief in the power of the of Frankie , my old landlord, who kept other. " gun, "The civil rights movement had a shop close by , A kind man , he had been finished after 1970," and it was a wife , and--as the cliche goes- The air in the city is close, as if the Provisionals, he claimed, with three children. He was one of those the sky was preparing for an almighty their military activities who had characters that deprived communities storm. Already the city has lost so kept the struggle going . Any reforms alway s seem to pr oduce , a friend to much. It stands ready to lose more . won have come as a direct result of all around. STOP AT � AX-IN-HAND J FOR THE MOST IN MUSIC J;; � \ J GUITARS J - SONGBOOKS � MUSl':Al and .I) ACCEJSORIES 0 pJ i� J/4/7 3 FOST-AM:'.:R IKAl. I LETTERS! of "the truth" and merely resists it out of selfish , pig motives. Dear Post Amerikan 1 Your issue �15 contain3d letters of harangue and hat r e d by Mary and Chuck In our a�e there is no such thing I am a profe ssional person who for ill er , "Puddin ," Carrol Cox, a!'ld Jan 'i{ as "keeping o �t of politics ," All is obvious reasons must remain anon �ox. This letter is an attempt to an sues are political issues ; and politics ymous. I have followed your articles sw er those haranpues , It is not an itself is a mass of lies , evasions , on Dr . Rudnicki and know many atte�pt to answ e� Jay Waters ' letter , people folly , hatred, and schizophrenia. B�t who are critical of him. Ten tecause Haters see�s to have effec to write in plain , vigorous language thousand letters to the Post will tively pointed up the problem , even if do one has to think fearlessly , and if no good if no action is taken Haters avoids mentioninp that the POST , Women one thinks fearlessly one cannot be who question his competence ras consistently attempted , sinc e its should politically orthodox, report the ir experiences in a factual inception , to do exac tly what Waters manner to1 would have it do , �aters seems simply J\1 cLean County Medical Society to te angry at the FOST 's imperf ection Nhat the counter-culture needs is a 429 North OCain Street in carry ing out his directiv es, But further coming together , not a further to return to the letters of Wil le r , they bloomington , Illinois 61701 ripping apart , If '!!..!2. divide , con "Puddin ," Cox, and Cox, which represent quer , It is unwise to brand a person Phone 828-0651 a more serious challenge to our free as a "pig" or a "reactionary" because dom than the disenchanted ranting of the;/ refuse to follow your brilliant Please pass this information to your :ay .laters 1 leadership into the unthinking corner readers. of dogmatis!T'., --Geo. Orwell Here I am not trying to deal with Sincerely, the familiar claim that freedom is an Another reader illusion, or with the claim that there is more freedom in totalitarian coun Post ; tries than in democratic ones , but with ••••••••••••••••••••••• the much more tenable and dangerous Awright . I can be as metaphysical and crypt ic as the next stoned freak , PO ST 1 proposition that freedom is undesirable and that intellectual honesty i� a but what 's this "Mung" bullshit that It's time that the public be made aw are form of anti-social selfishness. keeps popp ing up in your paper? ! of how high school students are treat Strange drawings and even stranger cartoons. Indecipherab le classifieds. ed at the Pi zza Eut , It's bad enough The enemies of intellectual lib that we receive slow er service than erty always try to present their case I think that we readers deserve an older people . This in itself is dis as a plea for discipline versus indi explanation . And don't write it in criminat ion, vidualism , The issue truth-versus-un that crazy vocabulary , either. truth is as far as possible kept in :Eiut they go further. orr. e tim es vi e 3re Sincerely , S the background, Although th e point of called names as we walk in the door . emphasis may vary , the writer who re Tom Carlyle Ne are occasionally locked out of the fuses to sell his opinions is always building, We are often tolrt to leave branded as a mere egoist, He is ac the building . High school students cused , that is, either of wanting to Dear fll r. Carlyle , who enter without an older companion shut h imself up in an ivory towe� , or are inevitably hassled by Pizza Hut of making an exhibitionist display of I have asked several staff members comedians , his ow n personality , or of resisting how this so-called "mung bullshit" the inevitable current of history in keeps turning up in the paper. No The management is discreetly hinting an attempt to cli n g to un justified pri one seems to know where it comes from, that they don't want student patrc:M vileges . The Catholic , the Communist, or how it gets in . It just myster iously appears on the pages when we ag e , I appeal to all concerned stu and the frustrated revolutionary "lead d e n t s to leave t h e Pizza Hut off their er" are alike in assuming that an op get them back from the printer. We list of evening entertainm ent . You ponent cannot be both honest and in figure this "Mung" cult is building wouldn't like it there anyway , t_ell igent , Each of them tacitly claims up to :fomething , but we don't know what , that "the truth" has already been --Jarr.es Allen re vealed, Sincerely , CCHS student and that the heretic , if he is not simply a fool , is s�cretly aware A Post-Amerikan typist DOONESBURY :.:.ar_, 2 3--Spm--:-'ayden ; 3lack Fine Arts ; o J.E. ilendy Concert P erf rmanc e --B : l5--CE121 ; Fae , Woodwind 2,11 , lJ--dpm--Hayden ; Theatre Dep't � u i n tet '..)h, akespeare r' est. -2 ilms 23,24--7 ,lO :JO--Capen; movie , Othello J--4pm--aesthoff ; Shake sneare 24--midnight--Normal Theatre ; test, -Nallac� Bacon (spkr) 2�d esh 04--7 : 30--C apen ; Flash Gor d o n 25--4pm--Capen; Gospel Concert F ilr:i .rest , --8 : 15--�orton ; Stenhen Stills 5--4pm--Westhoff ; ycx/R.£ 26,27,28,29--8 :15--C apen ; Black Arts Shakespeare A PIG, ""'HllH1 rest.- Dr . Shattoch (spkr) /Jll OO'I' . 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Tennis & aomen 's Center-C onc ert B--Jpm--CE1 21 ; Guest Recital , --midnight--;;orrr:al '.i.'heatre ; Daniel :.. rros.= -urin A short story in the Post given to us Gimme :.>helter by word of mouth contained a few errors . 12--Jpm --EGE 219 In the story "Senate Applauds ," accord ; Br'A, Harold ing to a second source , it sn 't Gene --U:15--CE121 ; Pian o T rio C one , Alexander (spkr) wa Budig that was embarrassed, it was April 1--2 :30, 8:15 --Capen ; �odsnell --8:15--Capen; Symphony Orch. Dean Hermanowicz. Who says the Post isn't cre d ib le? 21-- - 4 - - c 2--b :15 --C :<:121 ; :·usic lJep't 8 :: c o r, & Tennis courts ; Shakespeare test, �omen 's Interc ol, Tennis Jenise Levertov , poet and an ti-war 31 THactiEvist , visitP�led Eanoi last[]TS fall as the guest of �orth Vietnam 's iriters ' Union , Jomen 's Union and ComMittee of �ol idar ity with the - American People , This poem was oriEinally published in American BOSTON POLICE Report , �ecause they are prisoners , because they were polite and friendly an d lone some and homesick, because they said Yes , they knew the names of the bombs they dropped but didn't say whether they under stood "I DIDN'T KNOW POLICE OPERATED LIKE THAT IN AMERICA" what these bombs are designed to do to human flesh , and because I didn't ask them , being unable to decide (LNS/CPS) At 10 a.m. on a Tuesday in cotics agents banded together to make whether to ask would serve January, fifteen men dressed in con a surprise drug bu st on a house whose any purpose other than cruelty , and servative business suits and carrying occupants had been under surveillance because since then I met Mrs , Brown , guns smashed through the front and for two months . The house they were the mother of one of their fellow back doors of the Pine family's house supposed to attack is next door to prisoners , in Winthrop, Mass. the Pine home . and loved her , for she has the same They shoved Mr s. Phyllis Pine on During the ent ire episode, these loving kindnes s in h er to a couch next to her 13-year-old police officers never identified ttat I saw in Vietnamese women ( and daughter Melody . Both cried out , themselves , never showed a warrant , men too) "Please don't kill us , please don't and in fact , according to the Pine and because the hostility left the room kill us ." "Just don't move," the fami ly' s story, behaved like crazed and wasn 't there when I thought I gunmen answered . murderers. needed it Bill Pine, who works nights , was If police had raided the "right" while was drinkin tea with the POW s awakened by a gun pressed to his tem house in this fashion, or the office I g ple. "Get up slowly and keep your of a radical political organization , because of these reasons I hope hands over your head," he was told. would their behavior have been any they were truly as ignorant Then, minutes after they had more justified? 15 as unawakened , come , the gunmen turned and rushed Mrs . Pine, whose grandparents as they seemed , out of the house. Mr . Pine followed were murdered by Nazi stormtroopers I hope the i� chanc es in life up to them asking over and over who they in a similar raid in Poland 30 years this point were and what they wanted . ago , said , "I didn't know police have been poor , "State pol ice," was · the reply he operated like that in America ." I hope they can truly be considered finally got. The fifteen men were lo cal and state police and federal nar- (Information from the New York Times) victims of the middle-America they came from , their Am erican Legionaire fathers , their mac ho high schools , their dull skimped Freshman English courses , for if they did understand precisely what they were doing , and did it anyway , and would do it again , then I must learn to distrust my own preference for trusting people , then I must learn to question my own pr eference for liking people� then I must learn to keep my hostility chained to me so it won't leave me when I need it. And if it is proved to me that these men understood their ac ts , how shall I ever again be able to meet the eyes of Mrs, Brown? MILLIONS THREATEN N.Y.C. (cps) The New York City Felice department recent- served for "public secur ly removed a number of . ity matters" had listed a names from its list of in total of 1,120 ,000 indiv div iduals and or£ani zations iduals and 125 , 000 organi who might constitute a zations , That means the DOONESBURY threat to "public security, " police kept at least a file V. HE/JN, Commi ssioner Patrick card on one out of every kiilll[!Pfl Yll MY Murphy announc ed the re seven New Yorkers , �GG5 /IREN 'r/ (c omplefe cerelogue) Bruno Walter's Wa gner CWI ""0:-r.· GeorgeSzel/ �'::,;;-r.:..., . 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