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Students Behind Bars A look at higher education behind the walls Campus Police Cover-up? Hogan Commission Report Uncovered Tenure on Trial The procedure and problems of granting teachers tenure

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< v * m A Celebration of Racial Harmony

for a Better Boston

April 30 May 1 & 2

Three days of music, dance, crafts, workshops and brotherhood with a special benefit concert to be held at 8 pm on Monday in the 010 cafeteria; $2.00 donation at the door. Sponsored by the Student Activities committee, the Division of Student Affairs, and Info.

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Volume 1 Issue 4 Wavelength \\ April 23, 1980

The Wavelength Staff

President Rick Bowers Table of Contents Vice President Janet Diamond

Managing Editor

Police Donna Neal Cover-up . . . : Dan Sardo 2

The Tenure Game Stephen Cain, Janet Diamond 4 Photo Editor Stephanie Romanos Occupation Editorial < — R. Bowers, J. Diamond, D. Sardo 6 Editors Students Behind Bars Rick Bowers, Al McNeill 8 Al McNeill Bryant Interview R. Bowers 11 Donna Neal Maris Nichols Out AD Night Donna Neal, Becca Powers 14

The Bookstore Karen MacDonald 20 Literary Editors Donna Handy The Artistic Vision Maris Nichols 22 Rebecca Powers

The Pub D. Neal, R. Powers 30 Staff Stephen Cain, Brigid Coffey, Gary Evans, Monica Hileman, Karen Fiction Mac- Donald, Joe McLellan, Laura Newbold, Steven Petrie, Octavio Ramirez, Sherry Pension Plan Stephen Moniak 13 Ramsey, Suzanne Reed, Tony Rubino, Searching the Sky for Hawks Steven Petrie 32 Dan Sardo

Fishin8 Paul Wright 34 Special Thanks The English Department, Carol Jesso, The Boston Herald American, The Pub, Paul Indelicato, The Point Press, The Poetry SAC, and Sherry Thomas.

Life Cycle Phyllis Reppuci 18 Naive • Gary Evans 18

Written Introspection D. Scott Robinson • 19

Give deta galloway 29

Stone Wall Catherine Moylan 29

An Ancient flask Suzzane Reed 41

Jazz Solo John Zieman '. 47

We dedicate this issue to Nicki Letters to ihe Editor Nickerson 48 of the English Department in gratitude for the tremendous amount of Campus Controversy j. help she Alberto vs. George Abruzeese 1 has given us throughout our first year.

1 University Police Coverup

Why Won't They Release the Hogan Report?

by Dan Sardo

Members of a special commission taken by Corrigan regarding the com- point ... for the good of the univer- which investigated a confrontation bet- missions recommendations. sity, the matter should be dropped." ween members of the university com- "I know that the administration does According to a memorandum from the munity and campus police say that the not want this report to come out," said Chancellor's Office, Baxter was put in UMass administration may be "covering Veronica Ziegler, one of two students on charge of handling the situation in up" commission findings. Professor Guy the commission. "There can be no other December. Hogan, Professor Ruth Bennet and reason why the report has not come out." Campus Police Director James Lovett student Veronica Ziegler, all members of "The campus police seem to be in- characterizes the report as "a sensitive the five person commission, have ex- volved in a cover-up," says Professor Jim issue" and was equally reluctant to com- pressed concern about Chancellor Robert Brady, an individual involved in the in- ment on the matter. "The matter was Corrigan's refusal to release the report cident, "and I'm distressed by the way the blown out of proportion," Lovett said. "It which has been completed since Decem- chancellor has been sitting on the has been beaten to death." ber?. report." But while administrative sources were tight-lipped on the matter, Chairman of the Investigatory Commission Professor Ct The whole thing was blown out of Guy Hogan belieyes the report should be made public. proportion. I think it's best not to discuss "Did he [Baxter] say that? Oh god, I think that is totally ridiculous.... It does

it... for the good of the university, the mat- us no good to drop it. It does more harm, perhaps, that the incident itself to just

ter should be dropped." drop it." Vice Chancellor Despite the administration's failure to release the report, Wavelength has ob- Thomas Baxter tained the findings of the Hogan Com- mission. The eighty-six page document substantiates most of the allegations "I took this thing (chairman of com- According to Chancellor Robert against the campus police. The Com- mission) for exactly the opposite reason; Corrigan, the report cannot be released mission found that "there is evidence to to make it clear that this is not the kind of because it conflicts with provisions of the suggest misconduct on the part of the thing I will tolerate, any kind of cover-up Patrolman's Association's contract with police. There was overreaction and the with the police. But it seems just the op- the university. Corrigan says the contract use of force was excessive." posite thing happened." prohibits fact-finding commissions from On September 26, campus police of- The commission was appointed by making recommendations concerning in- ficers Sergeant Dennis Ahern, Patrolman Corrigan in November to look into dividual officers. University lawyers John Dawling, Officer Bernard Tivnen allegations that campus police "overreac- claim such recommendations can only be and Officer James Sullivan intervened in ted" during an altercation between a made by the campus police organization an altercation between John Hall, a black Sherman, a white black student and a white instructor. At itself. The administration feels that student, and Douglas that time, Corrigan said he "would take because the Hogan Commission names instructor. The incident took place at the appropriate actions" on the Hogan com- individuals and cites particular instances bus stop outside the administration mission's findings. Deputy Chancellor of police abuse, it violates the police of- - building. The report states that after the

James Broderick added that "the univer- ficer's contract. two men were separated, certain officers sity would follow and act upon the panels Vice Chancellor Thomas Baxter, the used "excessive and abusive force" again- recommendations and con- immediate superior of the campus police st John Hall and others in the assembled clusions ... the results of its thorough director was reluctant to discuss the "Sep- crowd. investigation will be accepted by the tember 26 incident" or the Hogan Com- The report substantiates the allegations Chancellor and the whole academic com- mission Report. "That thing has been of James Brady, sociology professor, who munity." beaten to death so much I think it's out of stated that he was "physically and ver- However, four months after the com- context with what we're talking about. bally abused during the confrontation. mission completed its investigation, the There was a testimony taken. The whole "I was grabbed by the shirt, slammed administration still has not released the thing was blown out of proportion. I against the wall and told 'get the fuck report. In addition, no action has been think it's best not to discuss it at this back on the bus", Brady says. This coin- cides with the conclusion of the report which says that a faculty member was An interview with Professor Gu> this. I don't know how they can work this physically and verbally abused. Hogan. into the contract, but it should be done. The report also substantiates the claim Wavelength: What were the general There are clear problems with only that Lieutenant Julius Ceasar Hayes or- conclusions of the Hogan Commission? allowing investigations from within the dered the four officers to remove their; Hogan: What we found essentially was department. The present case makes that identification badges after the incident, | that the police action in the John Hall clear. an apparent violation of police procedure. case left a lot of questions open con- Wavelength: Do you feel this incident University lawyers, who were in con- cerning their general attitude toward reflects serious probiems for the univer- tact with the Commission during the students, towards faculty, towards sity community? drafting of the report, informed the everyone in the university community at Hogan: This is an extremely serious

Hogan Commission that specific con- large. It also raised some questions about problem, extremely serious. The whole clusions and recommendations would their attitudes about blacks and this notion of the police being a separate, in a violate the campus police contract. Con- came out in the manner in which they sense immune, body on campus is in- sequently, eighty-four pages of the report intervened. There were two people in- tolerable. The police seem to have the at- are filled with testimony while only four volved, one white and one black, and the titude that they don't have to be respon- pages contain general conclusions. While attention of the police was entirely direc- sible to the community at large. Only to the report states that the police overreac- ted toward the black student. their superiors. Their actions, in this case, ted to the situation and used excessive Wavelength: Chancellor Corrigan has were clearly irresponsible when they force, it shies away from allegations that cited the fact that the commission found refused to listen to the assembled students the police conduct was racially no evidence of racial slurs as proof that on the patio. Then they man-handled a motivated. this was not a racial incident. Do you feel faculty member, getting completely out Chancellor Corrigan states: "I think it this was a racial incident? of hand, out of control. The idea that "we is important to note that the committee Hogan: The police claim that they were are the cops and everyone else is out of found no evidence of any racial slurs on the scene early enough to have seen line" just cannot be tolerated. despite the heated circumstances of the what was going on. If that was true then Wavelength: Did the police in- incident." there is no other way to explain, at least vestigation come to the conclusion that "However," according to Hogan, as far as we can see, why they attended the police acted improperly in this "there is a distinction between racial only to the black student and not the situation? slurs and racial motivation. We did in- white student. There is a distinction bet- Hogan: Chief Lovett and others looked clude in the report a statement to the ef- ween racial slurs and racial motivation. at the same evidence and came to an en- fect that we found no evidence of racial We did include in the report that we tirely different conclusion than our com- slurs but that was not to be taken as the found no evidence of racial slurs but, that mittee. There seems to be two possible extent of the racial quality of the in- was not to be taken as the extent of the ways to interpret that. One is that actions cident." racial quality of the incident. We in- the police consider proper and common

"I never said that racial remarks were cluded the thing about racial slurs as an would be considered by us as improper. made by thepolice,"adds Brady. "The fact attempt to give the policemen the benefit They seem to feel that we are overly con- that racial slurs were not used does not of some doubt. But, this is not to suggest cerned about what we would consider ex- mean that this was not a racial incident. that racial slurs are the only activities cessive force but, what they do not con- The use of the word'nigger' by the police motivated by race. sider excessive force. One thing that oc- would have been much less worse than Wavelength: Why were no recom- curs to me is that brutality is considered what they actually did to John Hall." mendations concerning the police made run of the mill, ordinary, nothing to get "It was a straight racist reaction," con- • by the commission? excited over. So while we may be in- cludes Brady. "When I went up to them Hogan: The committee was advised not censed over this kind of thing, their view [the police] and asked them why Doug to do that. We were admonished against may be that one ought not to be too ex- Sherman was not grabbed, one of them making any recommendations. The at- cited over it, this is the way we do things said to me 'we know Doug Sherman'." torney for the university informed us that normally. Another possible explanation is "They [the police] did everything the patrolmens' contract specifically ruled perhaps even faced with the fact that this wrong," concludes Ruth Bennett. "They out any committee such as ours making sort of thing occurs, and that they are just don't have the proper training to han- any recommendations that could perhaps more concerned with not letting it come dle situations like this. The way they reac- lead to disciplinary, actions against them. to light than admitting that it did happen ted, I don't know if they were scared or The attorney for the patrolmens' union and taking steps to correct the situation. what, maybe they should^ be retrained. was overly concerned, we thought, about Both possibilities are equally disturbing. 'Right now they have this Boston cop this possibility. In fact they were so con- Wavelength: Do you think that the Ad- mentality, it is us against them, that just cerned that they refused to allow the ministration and the Campus Police are isn't proper on this campus. It's just not patrolmen to testify before the com- involved in a cover-up concerning this in- necessary." mittee. We tried all kinds of ways to get cident?

"I definitely don't think they should them to testify. We tried to get in touch Hogan: In the beginning, I felt that have the guns," concludes Veronica with their attorneys, we tried to have the they were really concerned with finding Ziegler. "They just don't have the chancellor intervene, we tried everything out what happened. I would not have training." but, in the end, they refused to show up. taken on the responsibility to chair the

There should be some provision in the committee if I had thought that they

contract that allows for a group outside were trying to cover it up. In (he begin-

the department to monitor charges like ? to 47 tenured full-time faculty is a university- The Tenure wide average; there are some depart- Game ments that are already percent 90 to 100 tenured. The junior faculty, often young, fresh from graduate school, and filled with the latest /ideas and a high en- Who You Know or thusiasm for teaching, find themselves victims of the "revolving door syn- drome." Essentially, they find themselves

embarking on a career which is only Know? years long. What You seven Even the most dedicated and brilliant teachers are now facing a possible, and probable, dead-end. by Janet Diamond and Stephen G. Cain When UMass/Boston was formed fif- students, this their teen years ago, the majority of the faculty For means favorite professors may disappear never to be seen A professor known for histrionics once hired were untenured and there was am- again. stood in front of a class on a table and ple room and money for the granting of the promotion. bet- Generally, the scenario, especially at declared, "I am immortal. I have tenure." During the period UMass/Boston, is one of junior faculty Tenure is one of the icons of academia. It ween 1965 and 1972, 94.5 percent of the members up for tenure toeing the depart- has existed for years as an unquestioned tenure candidates received tenure. The ment line, burning the midnight oil chur- premise, but the system is fraught with years after 1973 brought rising oil costs ning out articles, trying to light up the problems, from the evaluation process to and economic recession into the pic- classroom with their teaching abilities, the actual teaching done by professors. ture; the university suffered the freezing and breathlessly waiting for the decision. and thawing of its budget by a capricious Ostensibly, they are trial. state legislature and watched the on The process The Ideal and the Real can drag on and on, their enrollment figures decline. From 1973 to concentration 1975, 74.8 percent of the candidates were suffers, the tension mounts, often in- somnia sets in, for this is it, is granted tenure. Recent figures continue this The wide gap between ideal probably their only shot. If the and the to reflect the worsening economic one and they real of tenure the miss the tenure target, they stems more from situation and the fact that 60 percent of probably passage of failure vision won't get a time than a of at the full-time faculty are now tenured; in chance anywhere else and the beginning. ideal is there they are, in their thirties, often The to protect the the past two years, only 57 percent of the with professor whose views or philosophies a home and family, without a job and candidates for tenure received it. outside were the mainstream, politically For the untenured UMass/Boston radical, or Tenure Facts somehow unconventional by professors, the junior faculty, the outlook granting tenure. The professor is then is bleak. Many of the people granted free to explore A professor on a tenure track is and express new and dif- tenure in the early years were in thirties ferent, perhaps unaccepted, ideas without evaluated for tenure during the sixth and are not going to retire for another fif- fear of reprisal year of employment at the university. or condemnation from teen to twenty years. The opportunities their The evaluation covers three areas: department or the administration. to move from one institution to another Thus, the system optimally produces a SERVICE: Committee work* etc. Also have all but disappeared and once a faculty comprised of diverse and lively includes service outside university. professor is granted tenure someplace professors engaging in scholastic discour- they tend to stay for the duration of their PROFESSIONAL AC- se together, exchanging ideas and per- career. And UMass is a state TIVITY: Scholarship or creative work spectives, and somehow cultivating their school; private institutions have more in one's field of study. respective disciplines while contributing money and control over their budget, TEACHING: Classroom and related to the growth of their field as whole a and while UMass continues to function on a wqrk. imparting the knowledge gained from shoestring. The full-time faculty positon In order to receive tenure the can- their training and individual work to the at UMass is often broken up into a group didate must demonstrate excellence in at students. If a professor did not receive of part-time positions. A full-time least two of the three areas and strength tenure for some reason, they were let go, professor is expected to teach 3 courses in the third. after a grace year, and were expected to per semester; one full-time position can There are five levels of evaluation in try, and usually succeed, elsewhere. be broken up into as many as 6 part-time the tenure review process: However, present day economics has slots and each part-time professor can DEPARTMENTAL: This level is the changed these idealistic notions. There teach 2 courses a semester. Thus, the primary evaluation step. According to are lines of people standing around, doc- fragmenting of full-time positions the FSU contract, if a favorable decision torates in hand, eager to their prove wor- produces more work for the same, or less, is made at this level clear and compelling th in the academic world, but the market amount of money, and decreases the reasons must be stated in writing if that for openings on faculties has tenurable faculty positions. This policy decision is overturned at a higher level. diminished; supply has exceeded ratio between maintains the present COLLEGE PERSONNEL COM- demand. It seems the greater concern of tenured and untenured faculty and gives MITTEE: At this level, tenured professors now is the security of paying the administration an amount of control the rent teachers from the university community next month and filling the oil over a large portion of the faculty, the tank rather judge the case. than security for the ex- part-timers who are hired from semester pression of unorthodox ideas. Facts.- to page 41 to semester. Also the 60 percent figure for usually without a skill that can be sold on the system fails to protect the students assess: judgement may be based on per- the marketplace outside academia. The who must deal with these teachers. sonal taste and current fashion rather years and money spent on graduate About those teachers who settle into an than on the quality of the work. school have come to nothing. easy life of irresponsibility, little can be After setting up a gallery show at Needless to say, the tenure experience done. UMass on a week's notice, additional is oppressive and debilitating. The The Question of Standards evaluators were brought in to review anxiety and pressure no doubt takes away Lloyd's work. One evaluator gave a from the professor's teaching, not to men- Many faculty feel the criteria for glowing response. The other, whom tion the effect outside of the classroom. judging teaching, scholarship, and service Lloyd claims was biased against her kind And there are unpleasant results even for are too vague and that they differ from of art, was less enthusiastic. The dean the professors who receive tenure. The af- department to department and from year dropped her evaluation grade down one

tershock sometimes produces the to year. step in all three areas, a move completely "walking wounded effect" and many of As the job market for teachers becomes reversed later at the chancellor's level.

the newly tenured professors take sab- tighter, tenure becomes more difficult to She was still denied tenure at the chan- baticals immediately, not necessarily to get. Each year, therefore, candidates cellor's level. Lloyd's case illustrates the pursue scholarship but just to recover must provide more and more evidence to arbitrary nature of judging scholarly and from the arduous process. The lobbying be accepted into the ranks. A few years creative endeavors. Letters of recom- and voting for and against a candidate ago, several articles published in mendation in the academic world are within a department often results in bitter academic journals would have qualified a written in a particular style. Jack Spense, and alienated feelings for some time af- scholar for the grade of excellent. Today, politics professor and union represen- terwards and certainly does not foster an a scholar must have a book published to tative, says, "The kinds of people you get atmosphere of scholarly camaraderie. achieve the same grade. recommendations from tend to have a close association with universities. When you're dealing with an area such as art, those people are less likely to be familiar "It is a corrupt system that with university "buzz words" like ex- has to destroy the person who cellence. It becomes a prose problem." There is a serious question, he feels, in doesn't make it through it." whether "an administration is competent to judge a recommendation by an artist about another artist." Lloyd adds, "What

you have to ask is what standards you are Marcia Lloyd going to apply to an artist's work. One's

popularity is not necessarily a criteria for the quality of one's work."

But the life of a professor changes The scholarship problem is further Although creative work has special drastically when tenure is granted. complicated when the work being judged problems, the standards for judging

Tenure is virtually a guaranteed is of a creative nature, such as might be traditional scholarship are also considered paycheck for life. There are very few found in art, music, or theater depart- vague and arbitrary by many. reprimands for a tenured professor, and ments. This problem has come to light Professor Larry Blum, who received they are almost never used. with the cases of Marcia Lloyd and Jef- tenure this year, feels the standards are Besides a substantial salary increase, ferson Cleveland. too open-ended. The terms excellence and

the professor receives nearly complete job Marcia Lloyd was denied tenure last strength, for instance, are not adequately originally freedom. That freedom was year, a decision she is now appealing Tenure - to page 36 designed to protect the teacher's right to through the Faculty Staff Union and express and explore ideas without fear of Massachusetts Commission Against

outside influence. This principle is valid Discrimination. Lloyd received tenure ap- and must be protected. If that protection proval from her department but received were to disappear, freedom of ideas a unanimous negative vote from the v would be in great jeopardy. Collegiate Personnel Committee. The Unfortunately, the tenure system does CPC were "uncertain as to how artistic not always work. While protecting those work was to be evaluated," according to who express new and creative ideas, it Lloyd. When the case reached CAS Dean

also shelters those who are lazy or Michael Riccards, he demanded more let- irresponsible. Most students are familiar ters from outside evaluators of Lloyd's with at least one tenured teacher who creative work. regularly comes to his classes un- Scholarship and creative work are not derprepared, who is arbitrary and evaluated directly by the univer- capricious in her or his judgements, who sity: they are judged on the basis of

fails to show up at all for classes, or who recommendations by people in that field. is insulting to students. In the case of scholarship, the prestige of Most tenured faculty are not like this. the journals or press that publishes the

Most are dedicated scholars who truly en- work is also taken into account. Artistic joy teaching, but for those who are not, endeavors are more difficult to Protessor Marcia Lloyd An Editorial View Seven Days That Shook UMass

by Rick Bowers, Janet Diamond

and Dan Sardo

The hallways outside the office of Chancellor Robert Corrigan were lined with sheets and sleeping bags, blankets and bodies last week after about a hun- dred students decided that "direct action was the only way to change things at the University of Massachusetts at Boston.

Monday, April 7, was the day more than one hundred students marched on the

* red-carpeted offices of the administration building to deliver a clear and un- mistakable message: "We've been ignored Heinz Bondy, Marcia Lloyd, and Jefferson Cleveland will have to leave UMass this year unless the chancellor takes immediate action. long enough. We're not going to leave un-

til you listen to us." Six days later, tired,

hungry, but still determined the students nected to the real events in students' lives. press the late-night meetings became ten- were still camped out in the office of The importance of the issues, and the se. Frayed tempers and tender egos would Chancellor Robert Corrigan - and the ad- need to remain focused on winning the sometimes show themselves, but the ministration was still treating them with demands evoked a willing spirit of self students soon realized that one of the group discipline. the strain of the same callous disregard which promp- and As greatest threats to the movement was ted the occupation. working twelve to eighteen hours per day tension within the group. While the students worked diligently on only four or five hours of sleep began Meanwiule, a trosty status quo towards gaining their goals, top ad- to wear the students down, the need for remained between the administration and ministrators scurried behind locked doors group support and self-discipline became the students. A schizophenic pretense of under armed guard. So concerned were even more crucial. business as usual" maintained the inner they about the fact of student presence in But while tempers wore thin, resolve sanctum. Suited bureaucrats stepped over

their sacrosanct halls that they neither did not. On day five, the students were moist towels, eyes straight ahead as if dealt seriously with issues nor understood even more committed to their purpose nothing unusual was taking place. The the remarkable process taking place a few than when they started. New supporters desire and ability of some to ignore the feet from them. helped shore up the veterans. Each day conspicuous student presence bordered By Friday, the occupation has evolved more students joined the group. The on absurd denial. Ironically, the ad-

from a spontaneous sit-in to a well- ceaseless outreach campaign and regular ministration's stubborn lack of interest in

orchestrated, if strained, student revolt. media coverage worked to extend the the students was a microcosm of the In the process, casual observers became base of support. Many who did not join larger situation. The same blindness that drawn into the snowballing movement. the group contributed in other ways; led to the recent student actions has

Many found a voice for the first money and food contributions flowed in become visibly apparent to the students. time: they had something to say and continuously. But more importantly, Students could neither comprehend people willing to listen. In a democratic issues were being discussed and debated nor tolerate the painful contradiction bet- forum, students communicated on in the Harbor Campus hallways. ween the administration's decision to serious issues with other students. Life on the third floor, however, was refuse tenure to two qualified black New skills were gained and violent, un- not all rosy moments of personal growth. professors, and the university's promise channeled anger was transformed into As time passed, so did the euphoria the to correct their abysmal affirmative ac-

positive, meaningful action. Students occupiers originally felt when they tion record. It is equally difficult for who, out of alienated frustration, could discovered their efforts were being taken students to understand the Chancellor's only express themselves by kicking walls seriously by many of their less vocal statement that he has the power to rever- and banging doors became articulate counterparts. After the first day, the se the tenure decisions but refuses to do

spokepersons. Perhaps more writing skills elation of being recognized by the local so in the face of overwhelming student were learned in one week than in a year of media gave way to the pressures of living and faculty support for Lloyd and Freshman English because suddenly the in a different environment. After hours of Cleveland. They could not tolerate a need to communicate ideas was con- work drafting leaflets and contacting the Chancellor who places his pride against the good of the university. The tation on all university policy-making ministration building may have ended

hollow symbolism of the Chancellor's committees. Critics are quick to scoff at this occupation, but it will not end the racial harmony button grated against such a proposal, and they point to the students' efforts to achieve their goals.

concerned students who were watching apathy that is still widespread in the Students will continue to work against qualified minority men and women be student body as a reason why this the Corrigan policies for one clear driven away from the university. dismissed. But the insistence on a greater reason: the denial of tenure to Jef- Another force the ferson Cleveland and Marcia 'Lloyd is behind recent surge voice in university policy is a step of student anger was the abrupt dismissal toward diminishing that apathy. Such a wrong; the firing of student advocate of Heinz Bondy. While on the surface the thought may weigh heavy on the minds Heinz Bondy is wrong; the alienation of firing of an administrator may seem to of some members of the administration students from the decision-making have little in common with the tenure whose "students should be seen and not process is wrong. issue, in reality they both reflect the ad- students feel so disenfranchized heard" attitude is now being questioned. When ministration's neglect of the students. The Chancellor's decision to end the that they subject themselves to sleeping Those students who have worked closely building occupation through the use of at least of hard floors in a hostile under with the governance bodies at this univer- seventy-five armed police and a unit of the watchful eyes of armed police, sity know Bondy as one of the few, attack dogs again exemplifies the ad- depriving themselves of decent food, the perhaps the only administrator who ministration's unwillingness to deal with company of friends and family with the really believes that we are what this in- students in a reasonable manner. Sealing constant threat of arrest always in their stitution is all about. year, as oc- Last off access to buildings is symbolic of minds, then important changes must UMass students faced the prospect of a sealing off access to power. The forced cur. Opposition to these changes cannot prohibitive tuition increase, Bondy was removal of the UMass 29 from the ad- be tolerated. the only administrator to show up at the State House to participate in a student demonstration. Of the dozens of highly- paid professional staff members at this university, he was the only one who would stand with us and say "no" to yet another obstacle in the path of education. ignited tne students' actions but, more im-

portantly, it cast a light on the meager

role that students play in the governance of this institution. After a demonstration of 300 students failed to convince Chan- cellor Corrigan to rethink his position on the Bondy affair, the die was cast for fur- ther student actions. The Chancellor's hard line only made more concrete the

sense that students have minimal in- fluence in the body politic of UMass/Boston. This realization led to the creation of the third demand of the student oc- cupiers: fifty-one per cent represen- STUDENTS BEHIND BARS

to leave the prison and attend classes at population that has not graduated from UMass/Boston. high school, HEPP's work on the primary

by A I McNeill and Rick Bowers "I think the program works very well level can be invaluable. HEPP employs

at UMass/Boston," says Kit Bryant, the no high school staff but it does have

U Mass/Boston's Higher Education in director of HEPP. "The university is an tutors and counselors, often Prison Program (HEPP) has been urban campus and the men on UMass/Boston work-study students, who

providing educational opportunities to in- educational release are exposed to people assist inmates trying to earn a high school mates of the state prison system since from the city, people who are a little diploma. For many men on the inside, 1972. HEPP offers inmates of the Nor- older, who may have known someone on this basic education, combined with some folk and Bay State Correctional In- the block who did not make it. I think it's type -of vocational training, is the prac- stitutions a chance to break away from a good environment for the program." tical knowledge they feel they need. For the life styles that led to their in- Each aspect of the four-part program others, the successful completion of the carceration through a wide range of cour- provides prisoners with an opportunity to high school equivalency exam is only the ses and programs which begin at the high develop their human resources. This first step toward an education on the school level and which eventually can rarely happens elsewhere in the college level. lead to a college degree. ' Massachusetts Correctional System. In "I never thought I could do it until I

Inside the prison, HEPP offers tutoring Walpole, most of an inmate's day is spent got involved in the program," recalls a and counseling services which help in- manufacturing license plates. In Norfolk former inmate now on educational mates earn the equivalency of a high prisoners work stuffing mattresses, and release. "For most of the guys, college school diploma. For inmates who have in Framingham, women inmates weave had an aura around it. it was something completed high school, the program of- the American flags that hang in public we didn't think we could do." fers college-prep classes which focus on buildings across the state. HEPP offers Another important aspect of the the basic skills of reading, writing and inmates a chance to supplement the program is the college prep courses, math. In addition, each semester, bet- mundane routine of prison life with an which operate on a three month, pass-fail ween four and eight U Mass/Boston educational program that has two pur- basis. The courses focus on the basic skills professors teach college-level courses in- poses; to help the prisoner cope with the or reading, writing and math and provide side the prisons themselves. The final stifling isolation of life behind bars, and interested inmates with the background phase of the Higher Education in Prison to help him develop the skills they will they will need to participate in the next Program consists of an "educational need to survive on the outside. phase of the program college level courses release" program which enables inmates For the 82 per cent of the prison inside the prison. .

small quantity of marijuana that may books and papers he needed to teach a Students Behind Bars mysteriously appear in an inmate's cell, class. He" puts his feelings on the op- Each year a number of college level pockets, or even in a visiting professor's pressive atmosphere of the correctional courses are taught inside Norfolk and pockets. institution this way: Bay State. The courses, which are usually Despite the difficult conditions under "The fact that you could be made to introductory and mid-level courses, are which inmates learn, the students at Nor- strip and have a finger shoved up your taught by U Mass/Boston professors and folk and the professors who teach in the anus, that not even your body was your are run on a UMass/Boston schedule. barred classrooms of the prison agree that own, only made concrete the sense of

This aspect of the Higher Education in HEPP is a step in the right direction. your own powerlessness. You were in a

Prison Program is important for two Barry Phillips, a professor of English at place where you had no control over reasons: it provides inmates nearing UMass/Boston, has been participating in what happened to you; where many who eligibility for parole an opportunity to the HEPP program for a number of had control were openly hostile, in love develop skills and knowledge about the years. For Phillips, the learning process with their own cheap authority." they will soon be re-entering, and has been a two-way street. In the three society Educational Release it offers long-term prisoners and lifers a correctional institutions he has taught in chance to avoid the personal stagnation he has succeeded in reaching the An inmate who has completed two and degradation caused by years of prison prisoners and they have succeeded in college-level courses and is within life. reaching him. According to Phillips, eighteen months of eligibility for parole,

Matthew P. Harvy is the coordinator prisoners, on average, appear to be more may apply for the final phase of the of the HEPP program at the Norfolk alert, more energetic, and more HEPP program, educational release. An Correctional Institution. Within the passionate than many of the students he inmate applying for educational release cement walls and barbed-wire fences of has instructed at other institutions. He must also be favorably reviewed by the the prison,- he organized classes ranging believes that years of "cell-time reading" Department of Corrections Review from the college-prep level to the senior and reflective thinking account for the Board and accepted at one of the eight undergraduate level. Harvy is also a difference. pre-release centers in Massachusetts. For prisoner serving out the final five years of "I'm not sure what the men might have a prisoner to be accepted into a pre- a long stretch for armed robbery. learned from me," he recalls. "Maybe it release center, he must not be judged a Harvy looks at HEPP with no was no more than a different language for sexually dangerous person, he must not illusions. He says that while the courses some of what they already knew, but have had any type of altercation for the do provide inmates with a chance to fur- sometimes exciting things happened in thirty days prior to his review, and he ther their education, "classes inside the those classes. I could feel important ideas must not be addicted to drugs or alcohol. wall" are basically a form of en- accumulating new mass, their echo boun- When an inmate meets the criteria and tertainment, a diversion from prison life. cing off the high stone wall of the leaves the prison on educational release, "It is a way of killing time," explains Har- classroom." he takes up residence at a pre-release cen- vy, "and that's the name of the game in Like the inmates, Phillips is also critical ter. prison. You kill time, time kills you." of the authoritarian nature of the prison, A convict who attends UMass is

The classroom atmosphere within the especially as it applies to the educational enrolled as a regular student and receives prison accomplishes other things besides programs. He says that guards often the benefits that an ordinary university education and diversion. In Norfolk, for disrupted classes by coming in and student does. An inmate has his tuition instance, it brings whites, blacks and removing inmates; the blare of the loud- waived as an incentive for his becoming hispanics together in a classroom to ex- speakers would interrupt lectures, and involved in the educational-release change ideas and opinions. "In prison, prison officials would sometimes seize the program. When he attends UMass, he blacks stay with blacks, whites stay with • ... / i • whites," says Harvy. "But in. the classroom setting, they settle on higher goals and put their differences aside." There have been many instances of racial conflicts in prison. "Just last week there was a stabbing here," Harvy said.

"Nothing will be done about it because a Puerto Rican stabbed a Puerto Rican. They take care of their own, we take care of our own." One of the real problems that Harvy sees with the program revolves around the attitudes of the guards. Harvy, and a number of other prisoners interviewed by Wavelength feel that the guards are jealous of inmates who have the op- portunity to take college courses. "Security has the upper hand here, they are the gestapo," states Harvy. He says

that one deception practiced by guards is that of the "mythological joint," that is, a must also work a part-time job in order to satisfy his program requirements. He must also keep in continuous contact with the director of the program, Kit

Bryant. She is available for such things as academic, job placement and personal counseling. Kit also helps the inmates with such "routine" things as buying books and selecting courses. When an inmate finishes his day at the university, he must return to his pre- release center. While an inmate is in the center, there are three basic rules he must follow: no drugs, no booze and no violence. Failure to comply with these standards means that he is "shipped back" to prison. David Bryant, director of the Boston State Pre-Release Centers, sees the center's objective as giving the convict "the opportunity to test the waters."

There is also a work-release program based in the centers. The convict is sent out into the community to work and to adjust to the social environment which is absent in prison. All inmates are required to pay board - usually $15 or $20 per week to the center. This money is sent back to the state in order to supplement the cost of prisons. The goal of the pre-release centers is to help prisoners in adjusting from prison life, where they have very little responsibility, to com- system, he was not "scared straight." For Dennis, the classes he attended as an munity life, where responsibilities are In 1974 he was convicted again of ar- inmate at Norfolk eventually led to a pre- numerous. med robbery and was sentenced to five release program and an opportunity to

When Mujabid Bahar is not laboring years of hard time at Walpole. It was become a student at UMass/Boston. over his books or attending classes at there that he got involved in the Higher The program supplied motivation and UMass/Boston, he devotes his time to Education in Prison Program (HEPP) direction for Dennis and a number of counseling mentally handicapped people taking college courses from other former inmates Who have par- who are making the transition from an in- UMass/Boston professors who teach ticipated in it. "I'd say the program is stitution into society. He has a clear un- classes there. For Mujabid Bahar, this good," he states. "I think it's a step in the derstanding of the problems they face and was a turning point. right direction. It takes guys, finds out if he aids them with advice and teaching "I'm having a hard time handling my they have direction and then offers them when their lives are disrupted. He has a freedom," says Dennis Sheehan, an ex- a chance to work on it; to do something deep understanding because he too, is convict who has spent eight years out of with themselves. Then they won't have making a transition from a correctional the last fifteen behind the walls of various the excuse that they belong in prison, institution. Bahar is a convict. He is Massachusetts Correctional Institutions. they can do other things than be in presently enrolled in the Higher The transition from prison life to society prison."

Education Prison Program at has not been as traumatic as it might After serving time in Concord,

UMass/Boston, and is a resident of the have been for Dennis, largely because of Walpole, and Norfolk, Dennis is now on Boston Pre-Release Center in Dorchester. U Mass/Boston's Higher Education in parole. He looks back on the Higher Like those many men enrolled in the Prison Program. As a graduate of the Education in Prison Program program, Mujabid Bahar's story goes program, he currently works in the realistically, saying that for some it was back a long way. In 1965, shortly after he HEPP office while earning a degree in just an alternative to stagnation in prison, was graduated from high school, he was Sociology here at the university. and for others it was a chance, a slim arrested and convicted of armed robbery. Dennis became interested in HEPP in chance, to get out on educational release.

The final blow of the judge's gavel 1974, while serving time at Norfolk state But, most importantly, for some it brought with it a five-year prison sen- prison. "I used to say to myself, why am I provided the means to improve their lives tence. "It sounds ridiculous but the only sitting in here and that guy, the guard, sit- and their own self images. "For most thing I can say about prison is that it's ting out there," he says. The classes he guys, college was something that was hell," says Bahar when looking back on began at Norfolk were taught by a small unattainable," says Dennis. "They had that time of his life. But even after ser- group of UMass/Boston professors at the sort of a Neanderthal self-image. HEPP ving a five-year stretch in the state prison 700-man prison two or three days a week. helped me overcome that."

10 Wavelength: What is .the response to think they've got the system beat. Just An people in the neighborhood to pre-release look at those two young men from centers, here and in general? Charlestown who where convicted of Interview Bryant: Here, it's very good but in shooting Daryl Williams. They got ten general nobody wants it. Let's say they're year sentences, right, the judge said ten going to open a pre-release center in your years. Then they're sent to Concord..You with neighborhood. The residents say "Fuck know when they're eligible for parole -

no, it's a good idea to get these guys out eighteen months. You know when David Bryant of prison and they should go through a they're eligible for pre-release - im- pre-release u;nter before they get out on mediately. Daryl Williams is paralyzed

the streets." Most people want it but not from the neck down and the guys who in my backyard. Most people say "good, shot are eligible to be out in the com- David Bryant is the Director of the him Boston Pre-Release Center in Dor- have it but not in my neighborhood." munity before the ink dries on their Here, it's good, we're state property, People chester. The center gives inmates of the on fucking processing papers. who state prison system an opportunity to but there's a pre-release center over on come here from Concord often fuck up. - "test the waters" before being released Park Drive they don't like it. Whether Then you get guys like Willie White on parole. Several of the men at the cen- you want to talk about here, Meridian who spent 27 years at Walpole. He came ter are on educational release and attend House, Park Drive, there are people who here and all he owned was a cigar box it's about 27 pens in it, courses at UMass/Boston. In a recent in- say "yeah, a good idea but keep those with a Bible and and terview Bryant discussed the program. convicts over there, keep them away he couldn't even read. In 27 years no Excerpts follow. from me, I don't want them near me." one even taught him to read. They just Here, we're community oriented. We send him here with his Bible, his pen and have volunteered our residents to the his prison issued clothes and tell us to in-

community - not to be liked - but we've tegrate him into the community, the Wavelength: What kind of rules and done this. We've swept streets. We've man's going to fuck up. regulations do you lay down for the men painted apartment buildings. We feel we Wavelength: How many men do you on educational release here at the pre- owe something to the community. We're have here who are taking courses at release center? not just here to take. Just like our residen- UMass/Boston? Bryant: The regulations for men on ts pay room and board, which goes back Bryant: Right now we have at least educational release aren't much different to the state. When you think of it in these four or five guys who attend than anyone on work release. There are terms you see that when a guy is behind UMass/Boston. In fact we had our first

- basically three rules to the center. No the walls he's a tax burden. It costs 1 1 graduate. He was the first guy who ever drugs, no violence, and no alcohol while 16 thousand dollars a year to support a graduated from college while in- you're inside. fellow in jail. You take a woman with carcerated in an institution. After UMass Wavelength: What does work and four or five babies who goes to jail for he got accepted to the Boston University educational release do for the inmates four or five years for prostitution or School of Journalism, but he was a drug that go through the programs? What selling drugs. You've got to keep her in addict, now he's back in jail. He was the problems do you have? jail and pay someone to take care of her first one that actually graduated. In an- Bryant: Well, being at a pre-release cen- kids. It could cost up to 18 grand a year. swer to your question, we have at least ter is not like being on parole. Every Here, the residents are paying money four or five guys out at UMass/Boston. If resident that's here has to come back at back to the state. That's one of the good the guy is serious about it, it's a dynamite the end of the day. It gives you the op- things about a pre-release center. program. They like it, they like it very portunity to test the waters. While Wavelength: What kind of men do you much. you're here you can quit that job, come get in the program? Wavelength: Are there stringent rules back to the center and re-establish em- Bryant: We've got the whole gambit of governing the inmates' lives outside the ployment. You can't do that on parole. inmates here, other than first-degree mur- pre-release center? If you're on parole and you go out and derers. We've got all the way from Bryant: We're not into this. In a short quit your job, you can be violated and second-degree murderers all the way period of time you're going to be on the sent back to prison. down to nickle and dime handbag snat- street. You're here to attempt to adjust. If The biggest problem for men on chers. We had a guy here who did 27 you can't adjust here you're goddamn educational or work release is that they years at Walpole for a six dollar murder. sure not going to adjust on the street. have to go out into the community every He was one of these guys you read about Sometimes we use this terminology. We day and come back. Whether it be the in the paper from time to time. Whether give you enough rope to hang yourself. If most honored resident, the most com- it's here, whether it's at Walpole, or you're going to fuck up - you're going to fortable resident, there's always one thing whether it's at Bridgewater State fuck up. There's checks and balances in the back of his mind - "I have to go Hospital, people forget that he's here. We're not here to call you up. I'm back to the prison." There's no wall there . . . people forgot that Willie saying that if you're on pre-release status around this center and you wouldn't White was in prison. He did 27 years. and you're going to be on the street in six realize this is a prison but, it's a prison. At Wavelength: Do you have any problem or nine or twelve months, you don't need the end of the day whether he's at work, with the prison system? us to check on you every five minutes. at school, visiting his woman, whatever Bryant: One problem we have is with We have enough checks and balances so the case may be, he has to come back the guys who come here from Concord. that if you're going to fuck up - we're here and that's the toughest thing. They don't serve enough time and they going to find out about it.

11 12 would just set Edna right off. I come around here dancing naked and you'll lose your wife." Hank flushed and glared at him.

"What kind of shit are you talking? I ought to bust you one."

Pension I just kidding." "C'mon, Hank, was

"All you do is kid. Wish I could kid

around all day instead of working." Johnny stood up and rubbed his beer

belly through his soiled t-shirt. "Now listen to who's talking shit. After tomorrow you won't be bitching about

work no more. You'll be taking it easy, just like me. But who wants to argue? Plan Not me. Not in this heat. I'm gonna go home and watch a little TV and then

tomorrow I'll come over and we'll have a few beers and celebrate your retirement."

He winked at Hank. "After tomorrow its just you and me, kid, just you and me." Hank watched him cross the street and

disappear around the corner. It was dark now. The ususal crowd of kids was gathering under the corner street light. Hank watched them pass a cigarette and work. Sitting there sweating in the shook his head. Must be one of them join- by Stephen Moniak evening heat, Hank felt resentful. ts. Kids nowadays. When he'd been their Clouds stretched across the darkening "Feels like its never gonna cool down," age he'd already been working in the sky until they were only wisps of grey he grumbled. "Hey, cut that out, will mills, throwing scrap metal into a blast above the horizon. Hank and Johnny sip- you?" furnace. He'd hurt his back there and ped their beers and watched the sun set Johnny quit tapping his teeth and when the war came he couldn't fight. He behind the mills of Belchton. A mosquito drained the bottle. "No sense in worrying married Edna instead. A couple of years buzzed in the darkness of the unscreened about the heat, Hank. Only makes you after the war the mill closed down and he porch. hotter. Look at those two sweet things had to find a new job. He worked at the

Hank slapped his ear, then looked at walking this way. Don't look like the asbestos factory for fifteen years, till one his hand. Nothing. He bit the stem of the heat's bothering them, do it." morning he woke up and couldn't stop empty pipe which rested in his sun- Two teen-age girls, their Dr. Scholl's coughing. The doctor told him he had to blistered lips and shook his head. Three clattering, walked slowly up the crum- quit smoking and the company told him doors up the street to his right, he could bling sidewalk. They were very pretty. he had to leave. The compensation they see two teen-age boys struggling to put an The two kids working on the car whistled gave him hardly paid the bills, and Edna engine in an old car. Upstairs on the third as the girls walked by. The girls raised couldn't do nothing, so he had to get floor he could hear a couple yelling at their chins and wiggled a little more as another job as soon as he felt better. Af- each other. Hank had to listen to them they went up the hill. ter being out of work for three years he every night. Sometimes he felt like he'd Harik shook his head. They'd never got a job at the pipe factory and started been sitting there his whole life, all of his looked like that when he'd been a kid. all over again. He was forty-six years old sixty years, swatting mosquitoes, "I could handle them," he told Johnny. then. It seemed like yesterday. listening to the shrieks of the neigh- Johnny laughed. "You're full of shit, One day at work a pipe tumbled off the borhood children, watching their mothers Hank. Just trying to get it up would ruin blades of a fork-lift and landed on his drink beer on the porch of the row house that back of yours." back. He was in the hospital for two mon- next door, waiting for the sun set. "What do you know?" ths and out of work for a year. Quaker

Beads of sweat rose on his sinewy "I know plenty. I know the only way Pipe Company didn't want to hire him shoulders. Hank wiped his forehead and you'll get any action is to go down to back, but then they'd had the union ran his hand through his stiff white hair. South Street and wave around that fat problem. They took Hank back and made

He turned to Johnny, who sat rocking in bonus you'll,be getting tomorrow." him a janitor and told him to take it easy. his chair while he tapped his teeth with "You ought to talk. Way you dress no They also told him to vote against the his beer bottle. Johnny was smiling to woman's gonna look at you." union. Mr. Sokum, the owner, told Hank himself. He was wearing one of Hank's "Hey, you think I'd wear these rags if if the ulnion won he'd have to shut the old work uniforms with the shirt un- you hadn't of given them to me for plant down or lose money. When the buttoned. Hank thought about the hassle nothing?" union was defeated Sal, the plant superin- he'd gone through stealing that uniform "If I hadn't you'd be walking around tendent, told Hank to either take a cut in for Johnny, who had been out of work town in your skivvies." pay or work less hours. Hank took the for awhile. Johnny never went back to "Might not be a bad idea. Bet that pay cut. Because the cleaning up was

Pension - to page 37 13 Out All Night by R. Powers and D. Neal

Listen my children and you shall hear of our night adventures, quaint and queer.

It was wet, it was squishy, and ever so dark,

as we travelled across town from Central to Park.

Most townsmen were sleeping, all a-snoring,

while we searched for the nightlife, a task oh so boring.

Now Boston you know is historic and quaint,

but a city of nightlife believe us it aint.

So listen my children and you shall know,

the tale of a nigh full of weirdos and woe . . .

We started the night, expectations high. Where should we go] Wed decide bye and bye. We crossed the Charles into Central Square, P&P Pub we entered there.

The fare was hearty, delicious and cheap,

and the prices there also not to be beat.

The lights of the Cantab we saw in a flash,

so darting through traffic we made a mad dash.

Inside there was Little Joe and his Thrillers,

the music was old, but the songs they were killers.

We sat there a set from beginning to end,

then moved on to Ryles just round the bend.

The bar was all shiny with lights and a mirror,

but because of the decor the prices were dearer.

Amid all this flash, our fund went too fast,

so we went back to Kens that we'd previously passed.

We peeked in the window, it was crowded at Kens,

so the hell with waiting, we're off to the Fens.

We stopped off at Brigham upon the Green line,

the night was still young, there was plenty of time.

We went to a pub - Winnie's by name,

an Irishman sang but his words were too tame.

On again we felt we must roam,

it wasn't that late, no need to go home.

Back to the Green line to Quincy market,

since we had no car, no need to park it!

In Bette's Rolls Royce we set ourselves down,

but the songstress was off key so we stayed just one round.

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Along the water to the Wharf we strolled, it's known for its view, or so we were told.

All in a line they stood at the bar, the place was too crowded, you couldn't move far.

A bearded young man a lone woman spied,

"aren't you my cousin ' the young man lied.

Of standard lines, this woman was leery, but this one was new, she'd answer his query.

And off in a corner, far to the right, a gent pinched a gent and started a fight.

The action was moving, the place was quite fun, we decided to stay, and did until one.

Our stomachs were grumbling, for food we were greedy, so off to Chinatown, yes indeedy!

To Ying Ying's we went for egg roll and fried rice, the decor was Big Mac but the food was quite nice.

The zone was nearby, a thought we did ponder, at this hour of night was it safe there to wander]

The ladies were standing 'neath lights of red, while visions of dollars danced in their heads.

The red turned to purple with a cop's blue light, and the ladies scurried into the night.

Now the hour was late, what else was in store, we're afraid to tell you the rest was a bore.

Bus stations. Star Market and 7/11, to those with insomnia must seem quite like heaven.

But by this time of night we were tired and sick, so back to our beds we went very quick.

Boston's a city of which we can brag, but late at night folks, it's kind of a drag.

15 Campus Controversy

Which of the

current presidential

candidates should

be elected?

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Jay Alberto George Abruzzese Kennedy Carter

Carter should not be re-elected because of his inability and The major difference between Carter and the other negligence in areas of domestic and foreign affairs. Kennedy presidential candidates is that their success depends on his should be our next president because of his recorded success failure to: a) fix an ailing economy and reduce in- in both the above. flation; b) resolve the crisis in Iran, and c) effectively deal Carter made the deep inflationary step of decontrolling the with the Russians. price of crude domestic oil, which Kennedy was critical of. If he succeeds in these things his nomination is almost

Carter failed to insist that an effective windfall tax be im- inevitable. Some political pundits would still argue and call for plemented before proceeding; however, he did insist that fuel his demise but few will admit it is a possibility. In spite of the assistance for low-income families should not begin until the media campaign to make him look inept he has shown power windfall tax was passed. Senator Kennedy successfully fought where it counts; in the ballot boxes of the April 1 primaries he in Congress to provide fuel assistance funds immediately for has more than 50 percent of the delegates required for the the elderly and low-income citizens without making them nomination. Opposition hopefuls are hoping that with Brown wait. The first windfall tax Carter tried to pass was a sham, and Anderson out of the race that Ted Kennedy will pick up which Kennedy successfully opposed. the liberal vote because neither Carter nor Reagan appeal. Gasoline has gone up from $.50 per gallon in 1976 to $1.30 Actually liberal republicans may prefer Carter to Anderson today. Now reports mirage that: the Energy Department and but there is little doubt that Kennedy could draw some of the oil industry knew a year before that they were embarked those votes if Anderson should fall by the wayside. on a course that would reduce oil supplies while demand was Carter has had some major policy successes including the increasing, and would send prices soaring. Also, that contrary signing of the Windfall Profits Tax, the initial treaty between to the repeated assertions of James Schlesinger, and oil com- Egypt and Israel, and hopefully he will receive a balanced pany executives, that the fuel emergency was triggered by the budget from the Congress. If he can get the hostages released closing of Iran's oil fields, events leading to the shortage were without too much more delay it would be a big plus for his set in motion by the oil industry and by the government before candidacy. The government in Iran has proved itself to be the revolution in Iran. Thus, Carter and industry take blame totally unreliable up to this point although there remains a for weekend closings and spiraling prices. chance that the hostages will be released soon.

When Carter took office, inflation was 4.8 percent, now it is The Windfall Profits Tax, just passed last week, had a dif- clinjbing to 20. We are heading for a recession which could put ficult struggle in Congress. Energy interests have worked hard up to 15 million people out of work. Carter's enormous budget towards its defeat but were unsuccessful. The tax will add cuts can reduce inflation by only one-tenth of one percent over hundreds of millions of dollars to the Federai treasury. It will two years. Kennedy calls thejbudget cuts cruel and unjust to fund programs and give back to the people some of the poor, elderly and working people, and he is absolutely right! money extorted from them by the energy industry. The economic controls that Kennedy demanded, in these Carter lost the primaries in New York and Connecticut at "unholidays" of the Freidman gangsters, are important the time of the UN vote regarding settlements in the occupied because a president must be in a position of power to deal territory in Israel. In a country that boasts it's committment to directly with domestic crises like inflation. Being a "high human rights and territorial sovereignty people should not be priest of patriotism" just won't do. surprised that the US should seek to support the PLO.

16 Kennedy Carter

Kennedy is well-known for his stand against the in- As the world moves into a decreased growth period industry tercontinental tidal wave of nuclear arms, he is one of the key will be forced to gear down and people will have to be less ex- senate leaders in Salt II talks. Carter has shown a complete travagant with their money. We are all aware of the dif- inability and negligence in halting world-wide proliferation of ficulties that arise from borrowing money and being in debt. In

nuclear technology and weaponry. Kennedy states: "In the that the general population has found it impossible to

past four years we have moved far in the wrong direction. discipline itself the President has helped us by making money

Today there are more nuclear plants in the world, not less, available only at exorbitant rates. Money is hard to come by producing plutonium and highly enriched uranium. This because the government recognizes that money spent fast plutonium and uranium can provide the fuel for nuclear bom- which has to be paid back slow adds to the inflation rate, in-

bs." Carter and the "rose garden" boys fail to even make this creases the national debt, and makes it more impossible to an issue. As Argentina and Brazil receive nuclear technology, make ends meet. As industrial growth around the world slows

ignored are threats of Pakistan's rush to a nuclear bomb, it will be harder to meet the consumer demands of the people. which risk a nuclear arms race on the Indian subcontinent. The people of the US will have to learn to live without the ^Kennedy echoes these issues across the country while Carter benefits we have derived from exploitation of the neo-

tells strange tales of patriotism. industrial and non-industrial states. In spite of these restric-

Mondale has the audacity to make such claims that Car- tions people in this country still stand above most of the world

ter's response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan showed in wages. earned, products available and live at a level of decen-

he had more backbone than his challengers. Yet he can't find cy that is still far above the rest of the world's people. It has his way out of the rose garden to debate "the new Carter doc- been a long standing policy that US exploitation of developing trine" that could send us on a paid vacation to the Persian nations has been justified in the past. The fact that Carter

gulf. Perhaps he is waiting for more "backbone." seeks to change this is another indicator that he seeks to alter Carter was told by top sources the dangers of letting the long standing US policies and alter the disparity between the $20 billion dictator in the country; he did anyway. Now he is US and nations around the world. using the hostage negotiations to gain votes, only reaching Carter has been severely criticized for'his response to the "positive developments" around poll opening. Carter accepted Russian escapade in Afghanistan. Almost any other President a debate in Iowa after the hostages were already seized in Iran. would have forced a military showdown. Instead Carter tried He refused after they had been held for two months. The level to hurt Russia economically by boycotting the Olympics and of patriotism Carter is trying to trigger in Americans is an in- halting the export of grain and of high technology to the sult to their intelligence. Past administrations destroyed Soviet Union. People should realize that the money poured in- democratic nationalism in Iran and supported a monstrous to the Russian Treasury from the Olympics adds up to perhaps military apparatus for 25 years, and now we are paying the a half a billion dollars which will undoubtedly finance more of price: military isolation. This is what Kennedy means by the Russia's interventions into the affairs of other nations. Stop- "failure of the old in foreign policy." He does not think ping that flow of money now will help to preserve peace in the another generation of youth should be sent to their graves for future or at least put off a war. it. Carter has also shown great restraint in Iran which many Not a single additional state legislature has ratified ERA people find unpalatable. Many people feel the US image is since Carter took office. Not one sex discrimination in being washed in the mud. For the US to have returned the education suit been brought by the Department Justice sin- of shah would have made it unlikely that anyone would ever ce he took office. Not one institution has been subjected to seek asylum here ever again. A US version of the raid on En- HEW sanctions for violating the rights of women under Title tebbe would have undoubtedly cost the lives of some of the

IX. Carter's budget drastically cuts the women's under-funded hostages. Still Carter has been criticized for seeking a peaceful Educational Equity Act. Kennedy was one of the key Senate solution. Unknown to many people it was Carter that stopped leaders in the drive to extend the ratification date. He has the flow of blackmail money being paid to the religious leaders pledged ratification of the ERA as "one of the highest of Iran in 1977. This alone may have helped start the Iranian priority's of a Kennedy Administration." Kennedy's Revolution which had been delayed for twenty years because legislative record is without peer on concerns of the reproduc- the four previous presidents continuously paid the religious tive 1 rights of women. To name just a few: legislation leaders for their silence and financed the shah with a con- prohibiting discrimination on the basis of pregnancy; hearings tinuous flow of military goods and money and technology. on DES; authorized federal help to local rape crisis centers; It is more than difficult to get the people of a nation to go hearings on obstetrical practices, on fetal monitoring devices; along with a president when he is popular and has the support reform to abolish requirements of corroboration for victim's of the other governance bodies, but in Carter's case he has testimony in rape cases; aid to victims of domistic violence or found opposition at almost every turn. In spite of this he has spouse abuse, etc. slowed the economy, recognized the PLO and continues to It is clear that the major theme to Kennedy's campaign is support Israel, and has avoided a major confrontation with

humane economics, while Carter's is abstractions like Russia. All of these moves will have long term beneficial ef- patriotism and the sado-masochism of sacrifice. fects. If people take the time to look at his action and read bet-

ween the lines his defeat in November is very unlikely. The other choices seem short on action and long on empty rhetoric.

17 .u. Life Cycle

The oaks, slender and alive With their fresh spring greens

Reaching for life, extending / Gracefully bending, submitting To gentle winds. A The crumbling wall of stone That knows the softness Of squirrels fur As they playfully chase and dart Bringing warmth to inertness.

The morning doves Seemingly out of place in their Drab brown Contrast the blanket of new grass

As they reach for its newborn

Thrive you natural wonders Grow strong!

It is your right to reach Before you are reborn another To nourish others to follow s y Phyllis Reppuci

VI

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Like most people that I know I never let anything r" Be the thing that finally determines

The way I go.

Taste and the original fate and the aboriginal take me away from the theoretical^ Continginal.

Gary Evans

18 Written Introspection

Well, Robinson You understand You confess It's M.S. You're depressed You're hoping Someone saves you Though you know that No-one can You're thinking About before

It came on And how You'd wasted So much useful time And now things take So much more time More time eating — That's more healthy — More time sleeping on That's more nec's'ry But you're also noticing n So much good O You'd not seen before The type of good So subtle and serene You ignored — you needed Action — you thought you were needing Novelty — rarely being satisfied rarely really relaxing. O Real relaxation

Really being relaxed is in itself beauty

So long as it's balanced In a sense of Creative Tension

I? Aye. O I want my body back But not in trade P For my newer sense.

Yes. Yes DSR You understand You confess

It's M.S. You're depressed You're hoping Someone saves you Though you know that no-one can.

Summer, 1976

19 Campus Bookstore To Buy or Not to Buy by Karen McDonald

Standing in the check-out line patiently UMass/Boston owed UMass/Amherst a owned management company. "Then we waiting, I'm now person number thirty. debt of $108,500. "A Boston-based trust decided to go to a company better able to

My expertise in counting heads is operated if until the spring of 1 974,' says handle this load. And they are better able

growing - as I've been doing so for the last Speck," It ran for three or four years. It to handle it because they are bigger and

fifteen minutes. Looking around, I see was not meeting its operating expenses. It stronger." Later he added, "Many univer- students frantically searching for books, was a deficit operation and was getting sity bookstores run bad businesses: our a particularly difficult task since the worse. Many book companies would not bookstore went from being a great drain headings English, Sociology, Economics - ship textbooks without cash in advance. to being a source of revenue." The Ad

- are hidden behind students. Some areas In the spring of '74 the bookstore was not Hoc Committee to Boycott the

are five students deep. The mad rush is sure if it could produce books for studen- Bookstore, formed by students in respon-

on. Check book in hand, I wonder if the ts." se to the controversy, saw the situation sixty-four dollar balance will cover the An article entitled The UMB differently. "This incompetent expense. I also wonder if graduation Bookstore: The Facts of the Case management of the bookstore by the exercises will be over before I reach the published in The Mass Media on UMB administration has been used as an cashier. Tuesday, June 11, 1974, gives conflicting argument for the sale of the bookstore to

Does this sound familiar? The evidence. It states, "In the first year of a private - oriented corporation." The

bookstore experience stirs up strong operation of the bookstore ((1968-1969) a boycotting students raised the question emotions. Students shuffling around loss of $22,910 was incurred. However of whether a private profit-making com- desperately looking for books, become in the following year (under the pany has the right to run a bookstore

outraged at the prices of the books they management of David Cannamella) a for a publicly-supported institution manage to find. Faculty rush to place or- profit of $5,206 was made and the year like UMass/Boston. ders by a particular deadline - some after a profit of $5,206 was made and having been notified that, yes, they are the year after a profit of $8,935." These The decision to go from a university indeed going to teach English 102, after figures do not include the debt owed to managed bookstore to a contracted the deadline is passed. Administrators UMass/Amherst. During the school year management bookstore was reviewed by want the arrival of books to coordinate 1971-72 the university hired an ad- the College Deans, the Vice-Chancellors, with the arrival of students as closely as ditional manager at a salary of $15,000, the Chancellor, and the Board of possible. And finally, bookstore em- and the bookstore suffered a $2,299 loss. Trustees. Forest Speck explained the ployees wonder if they can endure The following year that loss increased to selection process from that point on. another day of questions. $3,789. These figures were supplied by "Public bidding then began. We con- "Do you have this book?" Vice-Chancellor Hamilton's office. tracted a great number of college "When will the books for English 385 Forest Speck went on to explain why management companies. We told them be in?" the university went from a student-run we were interested in going concession

"The Communist Manifesto is already bookstore to one run by a privately and we developed specifications that we sold out?"

Although a traditional' rite each semester, dealing with the book buying process requires a certain type of stamina to endure the frustrations of each of these positions; whether one is a student, a faculty member or administrator. The bookstore at U Mass/Boston most of us have had some experience with is run by a private company called Brennan College Service. They have been selling books at UMass/Boston for over four and a half years now, but it was not always this way.

When the university first opened, the bookstore was run by the university. Ac- cording to Forest Speck, head of auxilary services, UMass/Boston went to Amherst for assistance. The UMass/Amherst cam- pus initially stocked and operated the bookstore. Because of this, ; 1

would require in a contract." These contract. It states, "An advisory com- books, the list prices are set by the

specifications included 1. hours of mittee consisting of student and faculty publisher. My price is determined by a

operation, 2. employment practices, and will be established to advise the con- discount of that price. Here is an exam-

3. the stipulation that textbooks would be cession concerning the needs of the ple; I buy a $5.00 book from a available to students on time. There was University. The concession shall agree to publisher. He gives me a 20 percent

also another element involved - a finan- meet with this committee on all matters discount on it. So it costs me $4.00. On cial one. Each company was to bid how pertaining to major decisions." major textbooks the discount from the much of a commission the company was Forest Speck elaborated, "When we publisher is generally 20 percent. I make willing to pay the university. tried to organize the bookstore advisory $1.00 on a $5.00 book. That is my gross According to Forest Speck, Barnes and committee the mechanism of the time profit. I have to pay freight charges from

Noble bid the lowest at three and a half \said that the Vice-Chancellor would this. I have my own costs, too. I have percent. A seven and a half percent bid solicit recommendations from the Deans people to pay for stamping books. I have was the highest, with the Brennan for both students and faculty. When that several people who check to make sure College Service coming in at five percent. happened a number of people objected to that the books are in the proper condition The Brennan College Service was that mechanism. We met four or five and have the correct prices stamped on chosen because of their reputation as a times. They were poorly attended. Some them." He went on to explain how most strong company. They manage twenty- people objected to the mechanism of the textbooks can be returned to the nine other college bookstores, including Vice-Chancellor. It became very noisy." publisher for credit on their next order if

the bookstores at Wellesley College, When asked if he would reinstitute the they do not sell. Wheaton College, Amherst College, Mt. commettee if students and faculty ex- Laliberte discussed how he prices used Holyoke, Smith College, and Cape Cod pressed interest he replied, "I would be books: "The used book dealer sells me

Community College. used textbooks at the current list price (of

Unfortunately when the Brennan the book) minus 50 percent. My cost is

College Service came to the University, half and then I mark them up 25 percent.

the Administration did not protect the in- For example if a new book costs $10.00 terests of University Bookstore em- then the same book used would cost me

ployees. Vice-Chancellor Hamilton $5.00. I would sell it for $7.50. I make

stated, "We have talked to each and $2.50 and the student saves $2.50. So I every employee currently in the pass the savings on." The availability of

bookstore in an effort to ascertain what used books is a problem. "I can't get one

committments have been made to them hundred used books from one source. I and what their expectations were. As a may get six books from one wholesaler,

result of these efforts I am satisfied that three from another, and so on." no individual will suffer because of the What happens when a student comes

management transition.. However, the into the bookstore to sell his/her books?

Mass Media interviewed the nine former "When a student sells a textbook", Rick employees and "all expressed surprise and explained, "We pay half of the new price

anger at this revelation since none were for the upcoming semester." This is

contacted by Hamilton before the taking for granted that the book is going

decision to sell the bookstore had already to be used then. "I would rather buy from been made." students than from Barnes and Noble. In addition, the Brennan College Ser- Hopefully you'll take the money you

vice did not recognize the seniority of the very interested." When asked if the receive from selling books and buy a T- employees, his/her employee rating, or mechanism used previously would be im- shirt, here." their accumulated vacation time, since plemented now, he answered, "I don't Rick feels textbooks are a hard item to

the employees were not working for Bren- know." sell. "I think a comparison between text-

nan College Service during these time The Brennan College Service Contract books and automobile insurance is ac-

periods. The' administration had argued was renewed last June for a period of curate - you don't want them, you need

that the contractor's labor practices three years if both parties agree. So at them, and they are expensive. It is very would be an important consideration in least for the present, Brennan College difficult to be popular selling textbooks,"

selection a successful bidder. However if Service is here to stay. he says. this was the case, why was Barnes and Rick Laliberte, manager of the "I don't know who makes the money in Noble not awarded the contract.? bookstore answered many of the question the textbook industry." He illustrated his Barnes and Noble had proposed hiring students have pondered over: How are problems with another example: "Let's

"many more students than had been the the prices arrived at? Who makes the say I order ten books at $10.00 a piece. It

practice." While the bidding process was money on them? How come there aren't cost me $80.00 plus freight. This price in- going on they also proposed "preferential more used books? and How come we cluse the general 20 percent publisher's

hiring of present employees" as well as can't return books after the first three discount. I have the potential of earning

"accumulation of years of service for the weeks of the semester? He later went on 20 percent. Now let's say that out of the

purpose of accumulating this (vacation) to tell about the trials and tribulations of ten books I sell seven. I've made $70.00. benefit." being the bookstore manager. haven't even met the cost of the books.

Another point of contention during PRICING . Bookstore - to page 42 this time was a clause in the bookstore Explains Laliberte, "For new text-

21 The Artistic Vision:

Seeing Through the Eyes of Three Student Artists

by Maris Nichols

Steven Eric Emmons, Robert Fata, and Laura Montgomery are three visual artists currently studying in the UMass/Boston art department. Wavelength recently interviewed these artists about their work, their art philosophies, and theirfuture plans.

Robert Fata is a twentyfive year old senior at UMass. Raised in New York City, he claims he "used to find it really

frightening being outdoors, but now I love it. " Robert's main

interest is film, although he works in printing and photography as well. After his studies, he plans to go on making personal documentaries or "diarist home movies" as an independentfilmmaker.

Steven Eric Emmons is an exchange studentfrom the State

University College at Buffalo. His primary focus is painting and graphics. At twenty-three, he is a working artist currently showing at Wenninger Graphics on Newbury Street, and in Laura Montgomery is twenty-one and a junior. Her work New York City. Steven is unsure whether he will stay at currently spans film, photography, and video. After her UMass to earn a degree, but plans to pursue a career as a studies she plans to work as a photo-journalist, but claims her visual artist after his studies. His work wasfeatured in the last real interest is in exhibiting and selling her pictoral photos. She issue of Wavelength and includes paintings, drawings, and is working in now semi-documentary photography. prints.

22 Interview/Steven Eric Emmons Interview/Laura Montgomery & Robert Fata

Wavelength: What techniques are your currently concerned Wavelength: What do you think is the toughest thing about with in your art? being a "young struggling artist"? Steven: Right now I'm doing a lot of work with continuous, Laura: The uncertainty: Are you going to be able to undulating lines. I've been working with lines in unique form, produce art and have it shown and sold so you don't have to

trying to incorporate this technique into a process. What I do drain yourself working at menial jobs? It's a hard cycle trying

is to work with out-of-the-ordinary patterns created through to work and produce art.

smooth execution. This is derived from my studies of the old Robert: I think it's knowing that your art is worthwhile to

masters, particularly Leonardo Da Vinci. The head of the you, but not knowing whether you can make it worthwhile to

woman I'm now working on is an elaboration on a Da Vinci others.

study. Through studying these works, I've realized what it Wavelength: Do you expect to make a professional career of takes to get that feeling: that masterful touch. The secret your art?

behind it, why it works, it that each line is a perfect un- Robert: Well, I feel artists really litter the streets ... I

dulation.To use this technique successfully, all I have to do is mean, unless you're really unique, it's hard to be a marketable

remain loose but at the same time, be in control. item. I just do it because I have to . . . and as long as I have Wavelength: Who are some of the other artists you feel have the money to buy art supplies, even if it means having to influenced your work? wash toilets, I'll be happy.

Steven: For prints I look to the old masters. Albert Durer, Wavelength: Do you think the UMass environment, and the

for example. The standard of excellence is what I look for - his art department in particular, is supportive of the experience of superb execution and draftsmanship, combined with an ex- creating art as a valid pursuit? cellent sense of design. Laura: Yes, I would say so. The teachers are always en-

Wavelength: So you feel craft is very important for an artist? couraging students who wish to pursue careers in art. The

Steven: Yes, I do. It kills me when I hear modern artists say curriculum at UMass is restrictive. For example, you can't

"I can't draw, but I'm an artist." It's like a writer saying "I'm take a course for four levels; most of the courses only go up to

illiterate." No matter what mode or style the artist works in, three levels.

the very basic thing is an excellent sense of design, and the Robert: You can take independent study if your really want

ability to control the work. One needs a complete mastery of to pursue something that interests you. People forget UMass is

the medium. a liberal arts college, not a fine arts college. But I think the art

Wavelength: In visual art* then, you would stress the im- department here is better than a lot of so-called professional

portance of drawing? art schools. It's a nice balance to be able to take academic

Steven: Yes. It's absolutely the most important thing. I'm along with art courses . . . it's all the same. Art is an ex- now working on a triptych which is a series of landscapes - tension of yourself. very impressionistic. From a distance, the drawing is* ap- Laura: I've sought refuge in the art department this semester parent in them, they appear to be totally clear and realistic. from the pressures of student government. It's a comforting On closer examination, they're quite erratic-looking. department. Wavelength: You see drawing as fundamental to any kind of Wavelength: Do you think students graduating from UMass successful visual art, and you seem to be working in different will be as qualified as students graduating from art schools?

modes and using different techniques. Do you feel an artist Robert: It depends on how serious you are. You can get a needs to acquire a "style" of his or her own? good art education at UMass, but don't get the BFA, which

Steven: No, I think one mistake a lot of artists make is is necessary for teaching. You can get a BA with an art feeling they have to find a niche too early in their careers. I major.

hope I never find a "style," and keep doing the same sort of hard. I have a problem with people saying "oh, you have it so

thing. If I drew a different way every single day of my life, I easy. All you artists do is dabble, play, it's all fun." It's not any

couldn't begin to explore even 1 per cent of one of the easier than any other field of study. Just as much history is possibilities there are. The study of drawing is a lifetime pur- necessary, only you see the scope of world development suit. Once an artist finds something they can do successfully - through art. English majors feel as artists they're the cream

- like Leroy Neiman, Peter Max they keep doing the same of the crop but this isn't true. Art is not as accessible as thing over and over again. It's unfortunate also that where writing. If you are untrained, you can look at a painting and

they stopped is a very mundane and commercial point. This is not understand the language it is speaking. People will say the fault of the galleries as well; marketing sometimes forces "oh, I could've done that" but they couldn't have. A lot of

artists to do that. The artist has to beware not to allow the people don't understand what goes into it.

market to dictate their work to them. Robert: Writing can also be very abstract. I had to do resear-

Wavelength: In attempting to do the most, often one risks ch on Sylvia Plath's poem "Ariel" in order to understand it.

the most. Do you think it's important to experiment and to Wavelength: Laura, you seem to be saying words are a com-

take risks in your art? mon language we all agree on, but forms and colors don't have

Steven: Yes, when you experiment, you do risk the most. set meanings and it's up to the artist to create those But you have, to maintain your standards and not stay in the meanings.

same mode just to make money. I mean, we're in the real Laura: Forms and colors do mean things, but you have to

world; artists have to eat too, but once you start basing your learn those things through art. It's out of ignorance that people

work on what is going to sell, you lose the most important part say "oh, I could've done that" because they don't really know

of it. what the art means.

Wavelength: Art then, you feel, should not be utilitarian. Wavelength: So you feel frustrated that visual artists aren't continued continued

23 .

Steven Eric Emmons

Due to printer's error the names on the two pages have been transposed. Our apologies to these two artists Robert Fata

----- J , - - w ii w««htiniiwi .i»i ^•^^llii^w^>Hl aMrt>t«vrt^m^'^^ Steven: No, because then the essence of what fine art is is

lost. Wavelength: Do you feel you sometimes use your work as a means of making social commentary?

Steven: In our environment, we're all affected by things

which cause us all concern. Things enter in, but my work is

basically a highly personal thing. I revert to the Greek ideal of

art as beauty. You can make art out of one line, if it's a

beautiful line. To center your art around one thing is to limit it

extremely. Art should embrace all, good and bad, that you

come in contact with in your life. Wavelength: Was there any particular point in your training when you felt you made an important breakthrough? When you surpassed some limitation in your art?

Steven: The only limitation is skill. You must be constantly developing, defining, redefining, and defining again. There will

always be things I'll dream about doing but won't have the

skills to execute. Right now I have ideas I couldn't possibly

execute. I'm laboring now on getting the skills to execute these

ideas. People think it's so easy to be an artist, that you

basically just sit down and play. But it's about 1 per cent talent and 99 per cent work. Every so often someone comes

along with 2 per cent talent, but if they don't do the 98 per

cent work, they're not going to make it. Wavelength: Would you like to talk about your development as an artistf

Steven: Well, I'm only twenty-three. I did my first drawing at eighteen. But I attacked art with a fervor. I was basically flip- ped out. All those hundreds of hours are really paying off now.

I have enough hand-to-eye coordination to let things happen

now. Even when I do abstract works, I always include some representational factor. Always there's one recognizable thing, even in an unrecognizable context. This makes the work more

accessible to people who don't have a broad background in art,

they can still appreciate it. Even if the work is really abstract,

if you have deliberately achieved that level of excellence, if it's

done in a masterful way, people will see it, it will be evident. If given the credit they deserve?

it's not done in a masterful way, if it's off-handish, people will Robert: Oh no, they aren't at all. Artists aren't taken

see that. Work done that way is basically worthless. seriously at all. Just in terms of health hazards - when scien-

Wavelength: So you feel a very high degree of skill is tists are working with dangerous substances like acid, there's necessary, even to execute something extremely abstract. all sorts of protection for them, but for artists, who work with Steven: Absolutely. All the years of work which led up to many dangerous substances including acid, there's no protec- that piece, however abstract it is, will be evident. tion at all.

Wavelength: Would you favor a classical approach to art? Wavelength: Do you think this is indicative of attitudes

Steven: Well, you can't fool the viewer. I studied art history. towards art in general: that it's something unecessary and

The first semester at college, before I took any studio art, I unproductive and unimportant? took an independent study and travelled to South America. Laura: Yes I do but I think at UMass there's a strong feeling

This was a great inspiration for my organ print, in the Andes of support between students and faculty. I think the gallery is mountains. It was certainly an eye-opening experience. Being pretty safe - it's protected by the SAC and there will always be on that trip put the world in perspective for me. I don't have a students each semester to run it. The women's center also very narrow view. The U.S. is a very safe, protected world. But recognizes women artists and displays art regularly. the third world isn't safe or protected at all, (and that's most of Robert: And every semester there's a student show at the the world). After this trip, I returned to the State University Harbor Campus that's open to all students, not just art majors.

College of Buffalo and there I studied studio and art history Also, each class has a show in the art department, in the lobby. for two years. Then I took a leave of absence and travelled to And the library, on the 5th floor, just recently hosted the

Europe in order to view the works of art I'd been studying for National Scholastic Art Awards. This is a nationwide contest two years first-hand. This had a tremendous effect on my which is usually hosted by the Boston Globe. work. It put my work in perspective against the greatest efforts Wavelength: How did you become interested in pursuing of the greatest artists. And I still hold them up as standards. art?

After that, I returned to Buffalo, took another year, and Robert: Well, I would say it just kind of evolved. I've always realized it wasn't the place for me. I had gone as far as I could been a very visual person. When I would read a book I would go, I'd reached my full potential as an artist in that city. always look at the images first and then read the text. I like art,

Wavelength: Why did you choose Boston instead of New it's a way of performing. My art is very musical - it's York? therapeutic too. continued continued 26 Laura: My interest came from very early studies. I've always Steven: Well, I'd visited artists in New York. It's a real rat- been at ease in art and it's something I always seemed to excel race; incredibly backstabbing, hectic, just not that conducive in. My family was very supportive of it and encouraged me to at this point in my life. In Boston, I've got the proximity to pursue it, bought me supplies, and placed a value on creativity. New York, and actually, right now I've got fifty prints in a I've always had instructors who have recognized more in my gallery in New York which will be going to Tokyo and Lon- work than I've recognized myself. I still don't really know don. I like the atmosphere in Boston and it's close enough to But it's starting to together now. I'm exploit both markets. In the coming years, most of my ties will what I'm doing. come starting to feel the direction I want to go in with my art. I be in New York, and I might end up living there, but right really love photography and I'll probably stick with that now, for me, this is the place to be. longest and a career in photography. I'd like to do photo- Wavelength: So you feel the Boston art world meets your make purposes right now? journalism to make money, but my real interest is in pictorial photos. I'd like to exhibit to sell work. Steven: Yes, it's a culturally aware city, probably due to its them and my favorites. historic aspects. After all, art is history. There are several Robert: Film-making and printmaking are my But lately I've really obsessed with film-making. I start things Boston has going for it. The Museum of Fine Arts has become the most fabulous of collection pf Monets in the country. This shooting film and then all of sudden the roll's gone. Wavelength: What kind of films are you making? is an invaluable source both to students and to artists. Plus Well, I'd classify as movies, but not in there are the commercial Newbury Street galleries, basically a Robert: them home counterpart of Madison Avenue, which has a commercially the traditional sense of babies, dogs, etc. They're a documen- geared attitude, but requires excellence. tation of my perception of things. They're very visceral and ex- Wavelength: Who are you currently studying with in perimental. Wavelength: Are there any special themes you find yourself Boston? Steven: I'm involved working in the studio of a master pain- concentrating on? ter, William Georgenes, twelve hours per week. He's my Laura: I like creating worlds of my own within the film. I do mailn critic and a very close friend. Through him, I've been animation, taking things out of their usual context and putting introduced to Herbert Fox, master printer, with whom I'm them in another context. That's part of my vision. I take now working regularly on graphic work. 1 Coming to Boston things that mean a lot to me, and I isolate them. exposed me to these people. I've also met young artists whom Wavelength: Both you and Robert have spoken about your I've benefitted from exchanging information with. art being very subjective. Do you think this subjectivity means

Wavelength: Some artists feel the interaction between a work the viewer gets something different from your work than what of art and the viewer is more important than the beauty of the you mean? work. Would you care to comment on this? Laura: No. Because images of how I perceive things, when I Steven: Work must be beautiful, but beauty needs to be isolate them, that's how I want other people to see them. defined. Something can be really powerful, yet have a beauty Robert: Yes, my art's very personal. All art is very personal.

People at it their responses. It's very of its own. Rodin's Age of Brass is an incredibly pitiful scene can look and have own of beggars on the verge of death, really destitute and yet in- rare that anyone obtains exactly what the artist means. But I figure whatever anyone can get from a of art is fine. credibly beautiful, whereas Monet - a Monet is serene and work That's art history is important. get visions beautiful almost for the sake of its own beauty. Both are Laura: why You of other artists, in their historical context, and it helps you to masterful and wonderful to see. My approach to my work is understand. very joyful. It's a manner of escape. It comes out as a personal Robert: It's a way of educating. I mean, how many people statement of what I think are the positive aspects of the mind really to fantasize that which isn't really real, but real enough so look at, examine, feel, everyday objects in their en- vironment? other people can appreciate the beauty of the work. I don't sell much work to matter-of-fact business-like people who say Wavelength: And you feel this is important? Yes. It's really loss to really see part "what's that supposed to mean?" I call that kind of art K-Mart Robert: a ... not of art. your world.

Wavelength: This mixture of fantasy and reality is very im- Laura: The things you surround yourself with are very im- portant if your work is to be accessible to laypeople. portant. Steven: Yes. You've got to get them into the work with Wavelength: Who are your favorite artists, or artists you feel something they can recognize. They're looking at a picture have influenced your own work? which has no relationship visually to anything they un- Robert: Stan Brakhage. His work is really quite beautiful. derstand. I don't believe art is for artists. And Laurie Anderson, who's not really a film-maker, but a Wavelength: Artists are sometimes accused of creating musician. She deals a lot with voice, and has an incredible

work for each other. Do you think this is valid? range of sound. She incorporates technology into her work,

let it Steven: If a work of art is good, it will be appreciated by but doesn't overpower.

everyone. The idea of artists being an elite group is a fallacy Laura: Lilo Raymond, a contemporary photographer. I'm

because everyone is an elite group. Lawyers, politicains, very intrigued with these images: images dealing with the

businessmen, intellectuals, they all serve you. Two geniuses isolation of commonplace objects. I really didn't think about who work in two different fields could get into a conversation how much I liked those images until I unconsciously started

together and neither would know what the other is talking doing the same things.

about. But this doesn't mean either is smarter than the other. Robert: Sometimes in order to transcend an artist's work or

Wavelength: Are you against work that is deliberately ob- mode, one has to really consume what that artist is doing.

scure? Laura: Diane Arbus is one of my favorites. I very rarely

Steven: No, I'm not against work that's deliberately obscure. photograph people but if I do, I isolate them or I photograph continued continued

27 No matter what an artist is doing, it has to be deliberate and it them in an environment that is their own. I like to be able to

has to show that deliberate attitude. But it seems to me there's get to know the people I photograph, but if I can't converse a whole generation of artists emerging today who are much with them I try to take something of them, to take something more adept at the rhetoric of art than at the actual execution. of them and to feel I came to know them.

Wavelength: I think art has become more intellectual. To the Robert: Well, I've become a compulsive collector.

point, in fact, where some artists feel that execution is unim- Laura: . . . found objects. You need to have reser- , Mmmm

portant. These artists feel if they dream up the ideas, execution ves.

of them is secondary. Do you agree with this? Robert: Artists need to have reserves, visual and tangible.

Steven: This is a visual enterprise artists are involved in. You Laura: One man's trash is another man's treasure. Actually, can't be standing there to give a speech to every person who my father wants to buy me a station wagon because he comes in to view your work. The work should stand by itself. knows how much I love to go around collecting junk.

Verbal philosophy is quite separate from art. Robert: Yeah, my roomates threatened to throw me out, I

Wavelength: Do you feel artists sometimes substitute this mean I just fill rooms with this stuff. I did an environmental

verbal philosophizing for the actual creation of work? piece which was a bunch oi, very nocous looking articles one

Steven: Yes. I've sat through so many critiques where I've would have around the home - an iron, kitchen utensils, etc.,

heard people speak for thirty minutes about a work of art that but I put them together in a way that was very frightening. It

took thirty seconds to create. I mean, there's a question of was almost like a torture chamber. I made them into

proportion here, there's an imbalance as far as the viewer is something they weren't before.

concerned which, in my opinion, is intolerable. Laura: I'm fascinated whith Eugene Aget's method of Wavelength: You seem to object to the excessive in- photographing Paris at the turn of the century. His whole teliectualization of visual art. notion was that he systematically photographed Paris as he

Steven: Too often it turns out to be the pseudo-intellectual knew it because he knew sometime it would be gone. He wan-

artists doing this. If you can bandy about the right adjectives, ted to document it as he knew it and he picked the older they seem to think, you're an artist. buildings and sections to photograph. I'm currently doing

Wavelength: Creating good art, you seem to be saying, is some documentary work of the dying and near-dead mer- more than a lifestyle. cantile and professional businesses on Washington Street

Steven: Yes. Many people dress up as artists. But it takes slated to be torn down: fur dealers, jewellers, optometrists, more than a uniform to make the person an artist. You see, small merchants. They had small cbentele and knew their

everybody wants to be an artist because it's instant social customers well. It's a way of doing business I really prefer.

status, automatic association with the upper echelon of When I go in those buildings, I think about the 1920's and the

society. Those who look the most like artists, their work is of- 1930's. It's all dying now, and this massiveness - like Jordan's ten the worst. This stems from the image of the artist as a with it's hundred and two department stores -- is taking over. bohemian. The best and most prolific artists are incredibly I can't stand it. I photograph the emptiness, the near- normal people who spend their time on their art and not on emptiness of these buildings... it's really sad. I know someday their image. it's all going to be gone.

Wavelength: What we're talking about, it seems to me, is the Wavelength: So you feel you use your art as a means of level of seriousness and the committment, as opposed to the social commentary as well as artistic expression?

trappings. Laura: Yes, I do. I'm aware of the different modes of

Steven: That's exactly what I mean. photography and I use them for different purposes. Wavelength: What are your work habits? Robert: Yes, 1 do deal in social issues. I deal in

Steven: I like to listen to music and relax to get in the right emotions: loneliness, feeling closed-in, sexuality. These are

frame of mind before beginning. social issues . . . they're not as blatant as a Goya, but I think Wavelength: Each artist has to find their own way of being they're there.,

most productive. If you know you need a certain state of mind Laura: I don't think all my obligations as an artist are in to create your art, then you try to set up that state as well as making social statements. you can. Robert: It's hard to deal with things on such a large scale. If

Steven: Yes. It all has to do with concentration. You can't one can deal with oneself . . .

be paying attention to your art if you're thinking about Laura: Then you're doing all right.

something else, if your personal life is really wild. I'm Wvelength: You mentioned before, Robert, that your art

sporadic. I have periods where I do nothing but work. Then I was "musical". How is it musical?

have periods where I do nothing because other personal con- Robert: My prints are very musical. I've always been in-

cerns don't allow me the kind of concentration I need. If I'm terested in music, but I've always been impatient ... I still

preoccupied with something else, I deal with the more mun- play a little - it's the certain type of flow music has. I find it in dane aspects of my work, stretching canvases, getting my prints. Some are like jazz, or classical. In my film too. I

materials ready for when I'm ready. listen to music when I work. Beethoven's Concerto No. 5 and Wavelength: You feel, then, that an artist should be con- The Pastoral are among my favorites. My work is like music

stantly working, whether the work is actually creative, or because it's very internal. Certain music can really make you

simply mundane. cry... like having someone tell you a really sad story without

Steven: Absolutely. You should be constantly working, but any words at all. of course, your attitude dictates the kind of work you're

doing. In executing a work of art, the key thing is work.

End End

28 Give

Inside the depth of the still night the quiet forest the quiet forest the pampered silence wall light sings

give still the night of the dripping blood of hands, souls feet Stone Wall the burning heat of the death It's no mortar light sings that binds me; layer upon layer watch of stone with eyes the cold finality of time. like the witness Moss is lush in my shadows shivering Velvet with truculence obscures mica truncheon, whipped sad dance shining for no sun. the trunk cried out light sings A deed, a streak in the ground clap hands I'm merely symbolic, yet the melancholy you look behind the trombone moan conscious of boundaries gave movements Beware laid on the table exile or prisoner like a trot privy to the attic wind is made or speculation, slyph — symetry With feet planted on either side clap hands again you straddle stone swinging uncertain swinging I offer no explanation, light sings you know my history.

Discover The Great Rain the obscure castle on a hill bled to deepest crevices

exploded imaginations :: lives reach : and beyond :' --¥ '-*:: of the dungeon bed of a summer sun, weep for fear snow thrives from the lepers curse a winter long drowning the innocence of their own children's flesh my length. trace the shadow It's no mortar trace the shadow that binds me, 'gainst the oblong hallow wall but the truth of stone. that streamed it's sound Some call like the longest drop of rain logical crags fitting that rose like the voices of constant men an art. Shouting!! I'm merely functional. Shouting!! Night Sings!! Catherine Moylan Night Sings!!

(dedicated to Fay Honey Knopp and to the voices of the horizon children -- souls from the prisons we gave) deta galloway

29 The Pub Comes of Age

by Donna Neal and Rebecca Powers

In 1977 a group of students joined together and formed the Pub Club. Their intention was to provide a place on cam- pus where students could socialize over a glass of wine or a pitcher of beer and un- wind. From the time the Student Ac- tivities Committee received the proposal obstacles developed. First a location had to be found. The site finally selected was the old Building 010, third floor, faculty lounge. The next problem was the question of funding. The SAC secured a loan totaling $50,000 to have the pub Students relaxing at the Pub.

built. The money went to furnish the pub with tables and chairs, the bar, and the Melissa MacDonald, also a student side obligations which prevent them from walk-in cooler. The SAC and the Pub are and employee of the pub, expresses the enjoying the pub. Nonetheless, the pub still in the process of repaying the loan. same feelings. "I think those people were has become the gathering point for many

Pub manager James Parnell says, "I feel it overreacting. They failed to see that there students. James Parnell had said that he

will be another two or three years before isn't any other place on campus for even notices groups holding meetings in

the debt is finally paid." But the biggest students to socialize. The pub fills that the pub. "I like to see that going on. One obstacle the pub proposal had to hurdle need." thing we have worked hard to accomplish

was the Ad Hoc committee formed to The students who go to the pub view it is to make the pub a place to come, even

prevent a pub on campus. The members as a positive side of their campus life. if you don't want to drink, to be a place of the Ad Hoc committee felt that a pub Although the UMass student population you can study sometimes or just mix with

on campus would detract from the is large, there is a small percentage of people," states Parnell.

serious pursuit of education. This students who utilize the pub. Student Paul Bronk feels, "The pub is a

semester the pub is a year old, and many "I'd say that there is about 1 50 studen- good alternative to socializing in the

of the fears expressed about having the ts who come to the pub regularly," hallways." Rick Joyce has similar pub on campus have not materialized. estimates James Parnell. One reason for opinions. "I think the pub is a nice thing

"Some people really expected this the low figures might be the size of the to have. I wish I could come here more,

place to be a hazard to campus life. >pub. "The pub isn't very big, and when it but because of my job I'm unable to." Sin-

There is still a low-key negative attitude gets crowded, it's crowded. In my end of ce the pub does seem to have a regular about the pub in some circles, but I have the year report, which I'm in the process crowd other students might hesitate

tried to disprove those fears and I think I of preparing, I've included a suggestion going there, but the pub staff is always have," states James Parnell. that the pub be moved to the first floor quick to welcome new faces.

David Lowney, a student at UMass lounge of the Building 010. It has more "I think the beauty of the pub is that it and also the assitant manager of the pub, space and a better view. But I'm not sure brings people together. One thing that the

feels those opposed to the pub were if it is possible." says Parnell. pub does is that it allows people from overly concerned. "I can understand "In the beginning the pub was really South Boston and Roxbury to merely sit some people being concerned with having packed. Now that the novelty has worn down, have a few beers together, and get

a place on campus selling alcohol during off, many of the students don't make it to know each other. I think this type of

the time many classes are held. It might part of their routine. The time it's really atmosphere has definitely changed some

sway some not to attend classes, to stay crowded is the end of the week and when attitudes, and that is important since

and socialize. However, I think the ad- we have special events," comments UMass/Boston has a reputation for ministration deserves a slap on the back, Melissa MacDonald. racism," says David Lowney. With all because of those reasons, for allowing a Another reason given by students for the different groups that use the pub,

pub on campus." not using the pub is time. Many have out- one might suspect that things would tend

30 get out of hand, but they do not. "Almost to student life. The relaxing atmosphere

and congenial staff at the it all of the students who come in here pub make a

know how to conduct themselves. It's pleasant oasis from the tensions of

very rarely that I have to speak to academic study. someone," says Parnell. The management is always trying out The calm, relaxed atmosphere of the new ideas to improve the pub. Several in- pub results in good relations with the novations have been the SAC film series campus police. "I get along well with the (which runs Thursday- night), a happy police. They're here to keep the peace and hour, and on special occasions, live

so am I," states Parnell. Melissa Mac- music. Donald comments, "The police don't Several times during the year the beer

bother us. I can only remember one time companies have come into the pub and we had to close early, and that was due to conducted promotions where they give fighting on the fourth floor. But that's away pub mirrors, pub signs, and tickets

not to say those people had all been in the to sports events. "It's things like these pub. There were parties going on upstairs, that bring people into the pub, special and the police were afraid some of the events. We are constantly looking around people involved might come down to the and seeing things that could be improved pub." or added and we welcome suggestions

Both James Parnell and David Pub manager James Parnell from students," says Parnell. Lowney state that the only problem they One suggestion voiced by many

have is at the pub door, checking ID's. students is that the pub be opened later.

This problem is directly related to the titude, expressed by an extremely small According to Parnell, "It is not possible at this time to remain open later. It would change in the drinking law. The change percentage of pub patrons, is a point of in the law also necessitated a change in concern for the pub staff. require the hiring of new people for the the pub ID system. "One of the reasons for being here," later hours, and I don't know how many

"Campus police this past summer in- says Parnell, "is so students can stop in of the night students would have the time formed me that the green pub stickers during the day, between classes or after to to stop in." Melissa MacDonald holds were invalid because had sold them to another opinion. "I think that if the pub we socialize and have a drink. But I don't students were was open later there real tur- who now underage. We know if that is good or bad. I guess I'm would be a couldn't really go to them anymore. The just old fashioned. Some people might nover in the crowd." A suggestion from police suggested try last semester has resulted in a plan for we another way of drink to excess, but all I can do is shut checking age, so I RSO's to rent the after hours for thought of the picture them off. I see a lot of the same faces pub ID, and they accepted that," says Parnell. their own club functions. coming in here, but its only a few I worry "As for the price of the ID, it has gone about and I've spoken to them. I'm a The pub has come a long way from just from one dollar up to two dollars. is an idea to a reality, and with this reality it This people person, and I like and know many to pay for the printing of the is continually changing and improving ID and to of the students as. individuals. I worried give the pub some profit. for the comfort and enjoyment of the Students have for some. I didn't want the pub to add to expressed feelings about the price, but as their problems, personal or whatever, but students it serves. As Parnell says, "Each James Parnell says, "It's the same as semester the pub has gotten better and I can't take the blame . . . they're joining any other club better, I feel that in future, it will on campus, all grownups. But as I said its only a very and clubs have dues fee." The dues fee is a few individuals." continue to do so." small price to pay when ydu consider that Melissa MacDonald, who regularly .the cost of drinks at the pub are inex- works the bar, shared her feelings about pensive. alcohol abuse at the pub. "The people prices at The the pub, compared with with drinking problems are just that, outside commercial bars, are very low. people with drinking problems. It's only a The pub committee wanted to keep prices handful of individuals. Most of the people at an affordable rate for students. When who drink here know how to drink and questioned on the prices Parnell said, "I handle themselves. That's the only thing feel the prices are too low, but at the same that bothers me, it's not the pub, it's a time we are making a profit, we're not personal thing. It's hard to see people I losing money. For the past three know have problems, I wonder where my semester, I've had to raise the prices a responsibility lies. I have, on occasion, nickel or a dime to deal with inflation. taken people aside and talked to them. The prices had to change." Even with the I'm not sure if that's right or wrong. I price increase the pub is a value with in- can't refuse to serve people unless they're dividual drinks ranging from fifty cents to really drunk but some of the people I've one dollar. Since the prices are low, a per- talked to have turned themselves son's money goes further, and this in turn around." As with any place that serves allows some students to stay longer. To alcohol there are always going to be put it bluntly, for some, the pub is a good people that abuse it but the overall view place for a cheap drunk. This type of at- of the pub is that it is a positive addition

31 "

"Tension is the source of progress and the forcing ground of art, and it is when individuals, or the society which they con-

stitute, timorously and weakly abandon their duty to make this ten- sion constructive that disaster ensures.

-Edward A. Armstrong Bird Display and Behaviour

Searching the Sky for Hawks by Steven Petrie The firewood was a chore that especially stood around their cars and looked the

The graduate students arrived in the allowed for meditation; the rhythm was place over uneasily, as if reliable reports late afternoon. Out of the corner of her easy to get lost in and, more important, it held that it was occasionally radioactive. eye, Sarah caught sight of their two old was one of those things she did for her- One of them said something and they all sedans as, far below, they turned the road self, for her own survival, not for the chuckled. Their were four of them, as up the hill. They trailed fans of dust that benefit of the crowd coming up the hill. It promised, three unfamiliar men and the refracted the low rays of the sun. The was an equinoctial task affording as woman whom Sarah recognized from En- faint sussurus of engines and tires floated much calm thought and introspection as tomology 425 three years ago. Through up to her seconds later. Sarah stopped she cared for. the dusty window of the shed Sarah saw, working. She listened and the furrow bet- In the shed behind her, pinned out on as the woman pushed back her hair, that ween her eyes deepened as she squinted pine boards or labeled and packed neatly she wore a wedding band now, a down the hill. She watched until the cars in wooden boxes or floating in Formalin highlight like a fish breaking water. None disappeared beneath the October color of were the remains of the various animals of the men seemed to go with the woman, the hillside, until the last of the lurid dust Sarah trapped, cleaned and took oc- although Sarah couldn't see their hands. settled. She sniffled in the chilly air and casional descriptive notes on for the Two of them were bearded and wore flan- turned back to the firewood. University. It had not been an easy thing nel shirts. The third leaned against a car

Sarah did not use only her arms and at first. Now it was uninteresting and and lit a cigarette. When the latter saw shoulders to split the wood, as a man nearly mechanical, like any other paying Sarah come out of the shed he came for- might, but her whole body. Each blow of job. She kept the overlap between her and ward and made introductions. His name the axe glided up from her ankles as well the Biology Department's meat minimal. was Bob. His hair and skin were very fair as slammed down through her forear- Her own hunting she did at different and he seemed taller than he was because ms: wave motion, power that passed times, with different weapons, and as he was very thin. He was a little too frien- through her, whip-snapped her ponytail much as possible, in different places. She dly. Sarah remembered from their letter but did not fundamentally alter the par- even disposed of the intestines and other that he was the technician, the ticles of which she was made. As her waste in different ways. photographer. The two bearded ones muscles re-warmed, the strokes became By the time her visitor's cars had made were Paul and Eric. Paul's hair was dark better-timed and more deliberate. Sweat it up the hill and edged onto the patch of and over-long; it ruffled out a bit at the ran down under her collar. She grinned grass in front of the house, Sarah had back and sides. When he looked at her -- unconsciously with effort and her front finished the day's cutting ~ she rationed his eyes were a deep blue - he did not teeth held her lower lip. A distant grey, the task - and had retired to this, the skin seem to really look at her and his smile as an overcast, moved into her blue eyes. shed. She watched for awhile as they he shook her hand was inscrutable. He

32 had a quick, yet smooth way of moving have better luck with the Buteos, I think. pectantly, anxious to begin work, she that implied regular athletic activity; a They don't migrate altogether until the pretended to consider, inwardly shaking wrestler perhaps, or a basketball player. middle of November, and most of the off the conviction that what she was Eric's name was appropriate: he was a lineatus, as I see you're hoping," she about to do was irrevocable. She thought Viking, reddish blonde and almost a head waved the abstract, "don't, at all. I've of what she was rendering to whom.

taller than Sarah, which made him 6-5 or seen one very small flock of borealis, Red- "Here, and here," she said, pointing, "are 6. He was unable to hide the fact that he tailed." your two best bets. You might try

felt ill at ease. He smiled overconfidently Paul nodded preemptorily. He seemed checking further west, along this little and too much and returned to unload a to consider this. "If you read that, you'll ridge, if you want to be spread out more.

car. "And this," Bob began to say, tur- see that our study involves protein con- But I think you'll find that these first two ning to the woman, "but you two already sumption and hunting behaviour as provide the best features. By the way, this

know each other." variables of migration." map is old: the field is not this big "I'm sorry," said Sarah, extending her "You'll also see that your metabolism anymore. It extends to about here." She

hand, overly, nervously, gracious, "I studies of three years ago laid most of the penciled in a faint line. "But it's still quite

don't remember your name." She had theoretical groundwork, Sarah," Sharon large - two miles anyway - and quite liked her, though they had not been more interjected. popular with the hawks." She looked up than friendly acquaintances. "Yes," Paul continued, and paused. from the table. Eric was looking at her, "Sharon. Sharon Estes." Her voice was "We'll need to band as many of each this time unsmiling. He had absolutely

soft. Sharon was trying to lull her. Her species as possible." While still watching green eyes. He was watching her voice evoked memories as directly, and as the wall behind Sarah, he fished in his bemusedly, waiting for something fur-

vaguely, as a scent sometimes will. Sarah shirt pocket, produced a thin yellow ther. It disconcerted her and she stared

thought: I remember now, how plastic tag with some words on it and flip- back at the map. "There's a trail that star-

remarkable this woman is. A genius who ped that onto the table as well. "There's ts behind the house," she said, "and a memorized polypeptide chains and not much we can hope to accomplish in a branch runs off to the west, about here,"

studied in three languages. weekend; if we can observe and band tracing a line, "you'll see it. It'll take you

"Of course," Sarah replied, "I'm sorry." two of each species this time, I'll feel near where you want to be, as you can Sarah took them to the kitchen and we've done quite a lot." There was mur- see. Take you about twenty minutes to

they sat and stood around while she ex- mured assent. Bob lifted an eyebrow. "I'll get there." plained how the outpost was run. be looking at protein intake," Paul con- Paul nodded again. They hurried to "Everything's fairly straightforward - tinued, "Sharon and Eric at behaviour. gather knapsacks and other equipment,

firewood, stove, outhouse, well." She Bob is here to take pictures." borrowed Sarah's axe and left. Sarah

motioned about the house. "You'll pick it "Actually, I just came along for the fun returned to the skin shed and labeled the

up, I imagine you've all been in similar of it," Bob interrupted. "My idea of a bones of a squirrel, finally soaked of their

situations." She looked from face to face. vacation is freezing my ass off in a photo shreds of flesh by a noxious solution. She They all looked attentive and bored and blind at five a.m." looked out the back window from time to

still uncomfortable. Although it wasn't "Speaking of blinds," Paul said, pulling time, inspecting the hillside quarter from

her place to do much more than provide a a topographic map from its protective which she expected their return.^ An hour

place for them to sleep, and she could tube and spreading it on the table, or so before sunset she stood outside and without scruple have pitched a tent "perhaps you could point out some likely listened, the crease between her eyebrows somewhere for the duration or asked locations for us. We'd like to get started deep in concentration. There was no them to do so, she felt a need to reach on this before the light fades." Eric came sound. She shrugged unpersuasively and them, if only out of recluse's protec- to the table and helped weigh the corners went for her evening walk. tiveness. Things would be so much safer against the map's roll. He smiled uneasily if they trusted her. Sarah fidgeted men- at Sarah and she realized there was a Some three hours later, Sarah returned. tally. potential in him she didn't trust; in- The moon was near full and its light on After what seemed a long silence, Paul dependent of liking the man, for the the browned fields looked like frost. At pulled a thin sheaf of typewritten paper distrust was the same she might feel for a the back of her nostrils Sarah smelled the

from his briefcase and dropped it on the lightening-looserted tree limb or an un- imminence of snow in the unmoving air.

table. "Here is the abstract of the familiar and complicated device found on Since early along her walk, when she had project," he said to Sarah. "We're here to the sidewalk. His hand brushed against heard the voices of her visitors heading

study a specific group of raptors, hers and she jerked hers back in- back toward the house, there had been no hopefully, the Buteos: the Red-tailed stinctively. sound or motion save the occasional flut- and the Red-shouldered. If they're not The map chanced to cover mostly ter of a surprised rabbit or a cruising bat,

abundant enough we'll have to come "her" territory. She asked, "Do you have but Sarah knew that these were as it were

back during the colder weather when the the next quadrant west?" and it was representative, that all around her were Goshawks, return. We'd like to stay produced. There was really no need for eyes and huntings and matings and within one genus, however, as much as them; the maps merely confirmed what burrowings and all sorts of smells she was

possible." she already knew; the best spots in the insensitive to. Birds similar to the ones He was wall-eyed, Sarah realized. He "University's" territory were near the her guests came to study were only now seemed to be looking at a point behind contour lines that represented the broad waking and stretching their silent wings. and above her as he talked. She leafed rise she used as an imaginary boundary The Wisconsin autumn night was as alive

through the typescript. "The Goshawk is and they commanded views of "her" as a Central American jungle. The peace rare here, even later in the year. You'll land. While her visitors watched her ex- Hawk - to page 43

33 fishing

by Paul Wright

It was as though they had entered a tunnel. The air was cool and scented with pine. The path they had been following through the open field became fainter and studded with roots as it en- tered the woods. The ground they walked on had been made spongy by years of decayed leaves. The boy walked close to the older man, a little in- timidated by the darkness the trees caused. In his haste to keep up with the man, he stumbled over a protruding root and went sprawling to the ground.

"Watch your step," said the man as he reached down to help the boy to his feet. "There's a good many ankle-breaking roots along this way. I'd hate to take you back to your mama with a broken ankle." "I'm alright," answered the boy as he somewhat sheepishly brushed himself off. The boy was quick to obey. He had it. It's a nuisance bird because at times it

"How far is it to the pond?" been waiting all winter to go fishing with seems as though it kills merely for the "Oh I'd say it's about a mile, maybe a the man. Now that they were on their sake of killing. Last time I was at the mile and a half. It's not far. We've plenty way, he didn't want anything to spoil the pond, there must have been at least six or of time to get there before the fish start to trip. The man had given him the rod to seven fish floating belly up with holes in rise and look for their evening gorge." carry when they started out, telling him their sides. The damn birds can clean out

They started off again and the boy to be very careful with it because it had an entire pond if you give then half a tried to keep pace with the man's long, been given to him when he was a boy. chance." confident strides. As they walked, the boy The boy felt a good deal of pride to be en- The boy asked no more questions grew more and more relaxed with the trusted with it. The man carried a wicker about the kingfisher because he could tell strangeness of the woods and began to creel slung over his shoulder and a rifle. from the man's tone of voice that it made ask the man questions about what he The boy was not sure why they had him angry to talk about the bird. saw. He wanted to know what an old brought a rifle, but he had guessed to They walked on in companionable stone wall was doing in the forest, and himself that it was to keep away animals. silence for a .time. The boy thought found it hard to believe that the woods he Now that they were in the woods and had about what the man had said, and was walking through had at one time not met any animals, at least any that decided that it was right for them to try been an open field. He asked about a run- looked threatening, the boy could not see and kill the kingfisher. After all he down shack that they passed. Everything any reason for the gun and asked the man reasoned, the trout were there to be that he asked was patiently answered by about it. caught by people and not birds. the man. As they continued on, the man "Hopefully I'll get at a kingfisher The path they had been following pointed out a variety of things that the that's been killing a bunch of fish at that opened into a clearing. The man stopped, boy had not noticed; a rotten log that pond," responded the man. cocked his head to one side and listened. had been overturned by a bear in search "What's a kingfisher?" the boy wan- "Hear that?" he asked after a minute. of grubs; a spot in the path where a par- ted to know. "Hear what?" tridge had dusted itself; the droppings of "It's a fair sized, blue colored bird. It's "That whistling sound." a deer. The boy absorbed it all with a about the size of a jay. It's got a long The boy listened intently and sud- growing fascination. They walked on, pointed bill and it spears fish with it." denly he heard it. It sounded to him as if aware of unseen animals moving through "Spears fish?" the boy persisted. someone was calling a dog. "What is it? the leaves on either side of the path. "Well, it sits in a tree beside the water. he asked. "Keep that rod tip up or you'll break And when a fish comes near the surface, "That's a hawk. You don't hear their it off," admonished the man. it swoops down from its perch and spears call very often these days. Too many

34 across the water. With a final flick of his the line floated out across the water in a wrist, he laid the line gently on the water lazy arc.

people around. They go after chickens so and began retrieving it slowly by hand. "Not too bad for the first try," com- that farmers shoot them whenever they When he had gathered in several feet of mented the man. "Do it again." get a chance." line, he flicked his wrist again and the The boy repeated the cast and this

The boy felt confused listening to the line lifted off the water, arched back time the line landed in a coil about five man. Not by what the man said, but in over his head, and just as suddenly shot feet from shore.

the way that he said it. He sounded sad back out over the pond and came to rest "Keep at it. It takes awhile to get the

about the hawks being killed. Yet they a few feet from where a trout had hang of it. I'm going up the stream to

were going to try and kill another kind of broken the surface. With a sudden jerk have a look at the spawning pools. Maybe

bird that was doing pretty much what the of the pole, the line grew taut and a fish I'll find a kingfisher up there. I'll be back

hawk was doing. It made no sense to the jumped twisting out of the water. in a little while to check on your progress.

boy. But after thinking about it for a "You got one!" cried the boy coming I expect to find lots of trout in the grass minute, he figured that the man knew to his feet. "Look at him fight." here. Just remember to keep that arm what was right. There were probably a lot There was a smile on the man's face straight and the rod tip up." more kingfishers around than hawks as he played the fish. "Now make sure to The boy watched the man until he anyway, he reasoned. keep the line tight if you hook one. That disappeared in the underbrush beside the The man abruptly left the path they way he can't snap the leader if he jumps. stream. He turned back to the pond in had been following and started off Keep the tip of the pole up. That keeps time to see a large fish jump not more through the woods. The boy followed pressure on him and tires him out." than twenty feet away from where he behind him, noticing axe marks on a few Slowly the man reeled in the fish. When was standing. He tried casting in that

of the trees. he had it near the shore, the boy looked direction and the fly landed a few feet

"What are those mark?" he asked. into the water and could see it swimming from the widening circle of ripples. He "They're called blazes. They mark the back and forth just below the surface. As slowly brought the line back as he had

trail to the pond. A person can't see them he watched, it gave a last furious leap and seen the man do it. He felt a tug on the from the other path unless they know broke from the water. The sunlight line and pulled hard. For a moment

what to look for. I don't want everyone to caused the dazzling red and green colors nothing happened and he thought that

know where the pond is. We have to be of its body to sparkle. The man reeled the the line was caught on a submerged limb. quiet now. We're almost there. If that fish to shore and knelt at the water's edge Then with a tremendous leap that star-

kingfisher's there I don't want to scare to hold it as he unhooked the fly. tled him, the fish that he had hooked bur- him off." "About fourteen inches," he said st from the water. They came to the top of a small rise holding the fish up. "Not bad. Not bad The reel screamed as line was stripped

and below them was the pond. The at all." He laid the fish on the ground from it. He held his breath wondering if

woods that surrounded them sloped gen- where it flopped around, its gills gasping the fish would take all the line and he

tly to the water's edge. On the other side as he straightened out his tackle. The would lose it. As suddenly as the line had

of the pond was an open field that was man picked up the quivering body again started going out, it stopped. He tried

bounded by more woods on its far side. A and as the boy watched, he snapped its retrieving some of the lost line. Nothing.

small stream flowed into the pond at one backbone with a pop. "Always put a fish It was as though there was a weight at-

end, and at the other, an old stone or arj animal out of its misery if you catch tached to the end of the line. He was spillway formed a small waterfall. The or shoot them." barely able to turn the reel crank. He surface of the water was a mirror smooth, The boy turned with a mixture of waited. The fish jumped again farther out and as they watched, a trout jumped, fascination and horror. The fish had been in the pond. He tried reeling and was able

sending ripples to the water's edge. both beautiful and exciting to watch as it to bring in a few feet. He waited. He won-

"Well it looks like he isn't around,"said fought the hook. But now that it lay dead dered what the fish was feeling. Was it the man,breaking the silence and starting in the grass beside him, it was only a cold, scared, as the boy now realized he was

down toward the water. The boy slid slimey lump. When he turned to look at it scared? He suddenly did not want to cat-

down the embankment after the man and again, even the colors of its body, which ch the fish. There was another heavy pull almost tumbled into the water before he had been so brilliant in the sun, were on the line, and the fish soared clear of

stopped himself. They walked along the fading in intensity. the water twisting and shaking its head in

water's edge until they came to a field "Now it's your turn," said the man as an attempt to throw the hook. The boy where the man laid the gun in the grass. he handed the rod to the boy. did not try reeling again. He waited and

"It's time for you to learn the fine art The boy took the rod and slowly tried hoped that the fish would break the line.

of fly fishing," said the man as he took to imitate what he had seen the man do. Still the fish fought and the boy did

the rod from the boy. "You watch what I He whipped the line back over his head, nothing. After a minute or two, he

do for awhile and then I'll let you try it." but when he tried to bring it forward decided to try and land the fish, if he was

The boy sat back in the grass and wat- again it caught on the grass behind him. able to, and let it go. ched as the man began to unwind line The man chuckled and untangled the For ten minutes the boy and the fish from the reel. When he had gathered a line. fought. Tears began to run down his line length in his hand, he began to wave "Don't use so much line. Start with a cheeks. He talked aloud to the fish trying

the rod back and forth over his head let- little and build it up. Keep the pole high. to communicate the fact that he would

ting out the line a little at a time. It Extend your arm as much as you can and let it go if only he could get it to shore.

looked to the boy as if the man was keep it straight." His arms ached as he reeled in line only to

whipping the air as the line snakeo out The boy did as he was instructed and see it stripped away by the fish as it

to 41 35 Tenure -- from page 5 defined.Thus inadequacies occur even in U the same year from case to case. He feels Those who are in judgement of today's candidates should be informed three or

four years in advance exactly what is candidates are often turning away going to be expected from them, and that scholars whose academic credentials far those expectations remain valid. Besides quantity of scholarship, exceed their own." "quality" is also judged. Quality,

however, is usually determined by the journal or publishing house which publishes the work. This leads to a con- increased so much in the last five years, In addition to teaching evaluation for- ms, letters from servative approach to the field. Work those who are in a position to be sitting in students are a standard part published in "mainstream journals," the judgement of today's candidates are often of the candidates file. Blum feels, most traditional organs of the discipline, turning away scholars and teachers however, "The dean doesn't take letters are given more weight than articles whose academic credentials far exceed and evaluations very seriously. The dean published in lesser known journals. Thus, their own. feels students are too generous." a scholar who publishes in Radical This disparity was graphically Since a professor's main job is to teach, illustrated in a recent especially at UMass/Boston, this attitude Teacher is handicapped. Because a incident before the scholar may have a non-traditional ap- Collegiate Personnel Committee. The is damaging to the students. Whether the reason is proach or a non-mainstream political CPC was evaluating a tenure case when a lack of respect for students or confusion over philosophy, her or his work may be given group of faculty from the candidate's how to judge the can- department burst into the meeti ng didate's teaching, the result is the same. less weight at a tenure review. and A declared the good scholar is necessarily This problem also applies to third candidate unfit because he not a good teacher. world and minority scholars. Journals had not published in a certain main- If teaching skill is the poor stream journal. cousin of scholarship, which specialize in black studies or A member of the CPC you run the risk of then asked if irate lowering the effectiveness women's issues, because they are not any of the faculty, of the of education offered to students. "mainstream", carry less prestige. Several most whom are tenured, had published in this journal. None of had. years ago, Janet Cohen who is no longer them But scholarship is only part of the at UMass, was denied tenure at the Conclusion dean's level because her field of research review process. Teaching is another was "too narrow." She studies sex roles, major factor. And it is commonly agreed One of the concerns in curent tenure something everyone has. This kind of in- among faculty that teaching is not given decisions is the way standards are ap- stitutional racism and sexism is enough importance in the tenure process. plied to the candidate's work. something black and women candidates One professor commented that teaching, Many faculty feel the criteria for judging have to suffer through tenure procedures. and preparing for teaching, is what she teaching, scholarship and service are too As a black woman, Marcia Lloyd feels does 90 percent of the time. Scholarship is vague and that they differ from depart- her case involves these elements. done during vacationsand, if the professor is exceptional at budgeting ment to department and from year to

time, on weekends. UMass/Boston is a year.

teaching university; it is not a Harvard u that can afford the luxury of hiring a The problems with tenure are not scholar to teach one graduate course per going to go away, but there are not semester while doing research the rest of really any concrete alternatives. It is ob- the time. vious the evaluation of standards must History Professor Frank Broderick, a be reassessed and somehow rendered former chancellor of UMass/Boston, feels more valid. Most importantly, the lack

the reason that teaching is neglected in of emphasis placed on teaching must be

the evaulation process is because changed. The system should be able to

"teaching is hard to evaluate on allow new blood into the faculty instead

qualitative grounds, but publishing is a of the formation of a stagnant body of clear, unequivocal measure of strength or tenured professors and a constantly excellence." changing pool of part-timers. And there Evidence for teaching comes mainly should be some way to keep those who from student evaluation forms which are have tenure responsible to the students compiled at the end of each semester. Sin- and their colleagues. Many of the faculty ce the forms are not standardized and feel there are problems with the system because there are such large quantities, but the attitude is one of "Sure change it, There is irony stemming from they can be misused. Larry Blum of the but after I've got it." But the underlying UMass/Boston's youthfulness. When we Philosophy department sees this as a question is still: Are the tenured faculty opened fifteen years ago and up until the serious problem. "The dean (Riccards) taking advantage of the principles it early 70's, tenure was relatively easy to has challenged evidence of teaching more defends or the luxury it provides? get. It was little more than a rubber stamp strongly. The teaching standards are very

procedure . Because the standards have elastic."

36 Pension - from page 13 always finished in the morning, now alone." veyed the street again. Another street they made him do odd jobs too. Hank shifted in his chair. He reached light had burnt out.

Now, after eight years of cleaning for his pipe, but remembered it was emp- He went back into the house. Edna floors and counting nuts and bolts and ty. He swatted the air. "I'm out of tobac- was still reading. He walked down the

taping pipe, it was all over tomorrow. co. When you gonna buy some more?" hall to the bathroom, and washed up and

Hank leaned back and closed his eyes. It Edna had opened her Bible again, but brushed his teeth. A cockroach skittered was so nice this way. No one yelling at now she slammed it shut. "Now you across the wall. Hank didn't even try to him. No noise. Tomorrow night he'd be listen to me, Hank, and you listen good, kill it. They were always too fast for him. sitting there rocking, relaxing, knowing cause I ain't gonna tell you this again. When he went to bed he grabbed Ed- that he didn't have to get up for work in You wanna smoke all the time, you go na's pillow and put it atop his own. She'd the morning. One more day . . . Hank's find yourself another job so we can afford probably be sleeping in the living room head nodded. it. Cause there's no way we're gonna be again. Her and her damn Bible. Let her Loud voices awoke him. Three doors able to just on your social security check. use that for a pillow. down, at the bottom of the hill, one of the Now quit belly aching. The Lord's asked The room was hot. He got up and tied kids was screaming at the car. He punc- for bigger sacrifices than giving up tobac- back the curtains, but it didn't help. He tuated his curses with running kicks at co, you know." lay there sweating. It had been hot all day the fenders and doors. His friend stood Hank slouched in his chair. "It ain't and Hank had been hoping for a break. off at a safe distance. fair. A man works and works and works He could take the heat if it weren't for the

"You wasted your money, Bobby," he all his life and then when it comes time to aggravation. He couldn't figure out what yelled to his friend. "I could of told you. take it easy his wife tells him he can't had happened to Edna. They were happy

Thing's too old to run." even have a smoke now and then." when they got married. But it had all Bobby shook his fist at the car. Edna's eyes widened. She stood up and been downhill from there. Maybe they "Sonuvabitch!" he screamed. "Worthless crossed her arms. "Don't you talk to me should of had kids. He didn't know. She piece of shit!" about fair, Hank Johnson. Don't you was never nice to him anymore. She

Bobby ran around to the open trunk dare. I won't hear it. Not from you." blamed him for everything. Like it had and pulled out a tire iron. He kicked in Hank had heard it before. He stopped been his fault he'd gotten sick and then the tail lights and smashed the windows. listening and watched a beautiful girl hurt and was always out of work. Acting Then he threw the tire iron through the shake her ass across the TV screen. Edna like he'd wanted to move to this part of windshield. Glass rained on to the street. scurried across the room and clicked the town. He didn't like it anymore than she Hank went up when he heard the set off. did. And now this religion stuff. Maybe sirens coming. He went into the house "And don't think you're gonna sit all that church talk made it easier for her, and turned into the first room. Edna was around all day and watch that filthy gar- but sure as hell didn't help him much, not sitting on the old sofa reading the Bible. bage. Bad enough you'll probably be with all her praying and church-going

The room was dark except for her doing nothing but lying around drinking leaving no time for him. It was all a pain reading lamp. Hank crossed the room beer with Johnny. Don't know what you in the ass. and turned on the TV. The blue-green see in that bum." He might as well be at work. Hank light illuminated the bare walls. Hank covered his eyes and wished it could see the pipe yard in his mind: the

Hank sat on a hard-backed chair which, would all go away. He stood up. "I'm rows of gleaming pipe, the forklifts rum- faced the side windows. Through the going to bed." bling through the yard; he could taste frayed gauze curtains he could see the "Take out the trash first. And don't the dust in the air and smell the stench of blue light of the patrol car reflecting on forget to brush your teeth." hot tar. He heard Sal yelling at him

the rowhouse across the alley. Hank carried the trash bag out the again . . . memories moved like Edna looked up and followed his eyes. front door and across the street, where he shadows along the walls.

"What's going on out there, Hank?" dropped it against an overflowing dum- It was all over tomorrow. Nine hours, "Some fool kid busted up his car. Thing pster in a vacant lot. Many of the bags punch the clock, and its over. Forty-five looked like a shitbox anyways." had busted or been torn open, exposing years. Where did they all go? Hank had

"You watch your mouth. I want none beer bottles and tonic cans, milk cartons, always dreamed of retiring. "Ain't gonna of your foul talk in my home." She raised vegetable peelings, cat litter, slime, gar- do nothing but eat and sleep and drink her eyes to the crucifix on the wall behind bage. A skinny mutt which had fled at and take it easy," he used to say. Only the TV. Hank's approach slinked back to inspect now it was here and Edna was telling Hank rubbed his face. "Cars are the latest offerings. he had to smoke less and drink less and nothing but trouble anyways. Can't see Hank stopped halfway back up the they couldn't afford to buy steak or get why kids are so hot for them nowadays. steps and looked down the street. All was him that little dog he'd always wanted.

Just a waste of money, the way they're quiet now. A cop leaned on his patrol car She said they couldn't afford none of it. always breaking down. When I was their and ignored the static coming over his No, no, no! It wasn't gonna be that way. age I had to work to help out at home. radio. Bare chested men sat on a cement Not if he could help it. The company Couldn't afford no cars back then." wall and drank beer. The battered car was owed him. They did. He'd voted against

Edna shut her book and closed her still there. Beads of glass which were the union and now it was their turn to eyes. "When you gonna- learn com- strewn across the street sparkled in the help him. They'd better. plaining don't get you nowhere?" night. He tried to figure out the new budget Hank shook his head. "Nothing but Hank looked up at the moon hovering Edna had showed him the other night. trouble." above the dead tree atop the hill. Stars "You're tired. Go to bed and let me twinkled in the cloudless sky. Hank sur-

37 Jack chuckled. "If I were you, Hank, told Hank. I'd be singing like a bird." "It's Friday," sang Jack.

But the numbers all added up to nothing. Hank grunted and crossed his arms. They were all laughing when they tur- They just made him tired. Just before he "Just another day." ned into the industrial park. Most of the fell asleep he said a small prayer. They stopped at Marge's Coffee Shop. buildings were old, weather-beaten brick "Please," he whispered, "please ..." Hank went in and filled three large cof- structures. Quaker Pipe Company sat bet-

He wondered if anybody heard him. fees at the self-serve counter. While ween the railroad yard and the only stret- waiting in line he eyed the blond cashier. ch of trees in the industrial park. A chain-

Hank had never spoken to her before. He link fence divided it from its neighbors. smiled as he paid for the coffee with The blue and white aluminum shop and The alarm. money Jack had given him. smokehouse shone in the early sunlight. The alarm was ringing. "It's my last day today. I'm retiring." Hank punched his time card and went Hank rolled over and turned the bed- "That's nice." She smiled back. Here's into the lunchroom, where he slumped side lamp on and off, on and off. The your change." onto the picnic table bench. He leaned alarm kept ringing. He knocked over an Hank hurried back to the car. He sip- over and put his lunch in the refrigerator.

ashtray. Then he realized it was the clock ped his coffee and watched the road while Putting his head against the wall, he

and shut it off. Jack sang along with the radio. They closed his eyes. He sat on the side of the bed and rub- passed the brick projects and the row- He heard the compressor whine into

bed his eyes. Sunlight filled the room. houses and the three-deckers. Belchton motion. It was time to work. He got up Hank shook his head. He'd been was waking up. Men in green uniforms, and walked across the machine shop. Sal,

dreaming that he was trying to run. He men in blue uniforms, young guys in t- the superintendent, was already walking

couldn't remember getting anywhere. He shirts and jeans, all going to work. out into the yard. Hank chased after him. felt tired. Women in white uniforms and factory "Hey, there, Sal!" He put on his work pants and went in- girls in tank tops waited for the buses. Sal was short and fat. A golf-cap to the kitchen. While the coffee brewed Sharp-dressed beauties in another new covered his crew-cut head. He rubbed his he made a lunch of two bologna and dress clattered down the sidewalks in belly while waiting for Hank to catch up. cheese sandwiches and two oranges. their heels and started their Camaros. "What's the problem, what's the When the coffee was ready he drank the Engines started. Brakes squealed. Horns problem?" first cup black. Hank looked at the clock. beeped. Radios filled the air with music "Whattaya want me to do?"

He had fifteen more minutes. Plenty of and news and the Sox score. The roads "Look, Hank, I don't got time for this

time. He didn't even have to go in. Last filled and the coffee shops filled. The lines shit. My boys are waiting for me. Go day, what the hell, who cared? No one. at the traffic lights grew longer and the clean the fucking place like you always He might as well stay home. He'd show sun rose higher and Belchton went to do." Sal crossed his thick arms and stared them. work. at Hank. "Don't think you're gonna fuck

Hank drank a second cup of coffee, "I'm gonna miss this." off just cause its your last day, pal." this time with milk and sugar, and then "Whattaya mean, Hank? You ain't "Oh, no, Sal, wasn't even thinking of washed up. He went back to the bedroom gonna miss this a bit. You'll be sleeping it." and finished dressing. Looking in the later than a cat and having sweet dreams Hank went back into the lunchroom mirror, Hank fixed his collar. He looked while us miserable bastards are fighting and sat down. He hated this. He'd as good as ever. He smoothed the creases the traffic." Jack laughed and resumed cleaned the shop and all yesterday and in his uniform and tried to straighten up, his singing. the day before. The place didn't need it but his back hurt too much. They stopped in front of a peeling three days in a row. Sal always had to Hank went into the kitchen and grab- yellow apartment building. Jack beeped bust his balls. Hank listened to the steady bed his lunch. On his way out he peeked the horn twice. pounding of the machines. The time into the living room, Edna was asleep in "Let's go, Moose!" he yelled. passed slowly. He closed his eyes, but that the chair. Her mouth was open and her On the third beep a bald, muscled giant didn't stop the noise. He got up and went gnarled hair hung in tangles below her of a boy vaulted over the porch railing. into the locker room. ears. Her old clothes were wrinkled from He sprawled into the backseat, then Hank opened his locker, took out his being slept in. Hank wished he could af- leaned over and rubbed Hank's hair. five clean uniforms, and folded them ford to buy her some new ones. When she "Sorry I'm late, Jack. Had to feed the neatly. He took a trash bag out of his was young she'd liked to buy clothes. cat. Whattaya say there, Hank kid? Last janitor's locker and put the uniforms in-

Maybe it would make her happy again. day, huh? I bet your heart's breaking. Let side the bag. He put the bag on a chair He went out the door. me see that coffee. That's my man." and sat down. He planned on taking the

He walked towards the hill. The wreck Moose tore the lid off and drank the uniforms home to keep. He had them so was still there. Hank listened to the tires coffee in three gulps. "Whew, that's long they felt like his own. He hoped the crunch over glass as cars zipped back and terrible shit, Hank. What you do, shave company would let him. They could af- forth. with it?" ford to. They had plenty of money. It

The hill seemed harder to climb every Han chuckled. "You wise bastard." would save him from having to buy new morning. Jack, the shop foreman, was "Hey, I'm serious. I'd rather eat this clothes. already waiting at the top in his station cup than drink that shit." Moose cram- Hank sat there and cleaned his finger- wagon. Hank got in. med the styro-foam cup into his mouth, nails with his teeth until coffee break. He "Good morning there, Hank." chewed, and swallowed. bought two donuts and a coffee from the "What's so good about it?" "I'm wild, alive, and ready to go," he canteen truck, and ate alone in the lun-

38 chroom. problems and the latest Sal story. The They emptied the basket and were After coffee Sal came in and told him young guys came back from their cars filling again when Sal drove up in his golf to go count nuts and bolts. Hank walked and lined up to punch in. They were all cart. He parked the cart and walked over. out into the yard, past the smelly smoke- laughing loudly. Sal came marching out "What's going on here. You don't got house where they dipped pipe into hot of the office. that done yet, Hank?"

tar, and over to an old trailer which had "Let's go!" he bellowed. Hank rubbed the back of his neck. "I been converted into a storage shed. He The crew scattered to their machines put the wrong ones in, Sal. Sorry." sat inside on a wooden barrel and coun- or hustled out after Sal. Machines "You did what?" Sal's face reddened. ted nuts and bolts, fifty of each, into cranked up and resumed their "You put in the wrong size?" white bags with draw strings. He tied the monotonous pounding. Hank took his Moose paused in his work. "It's no bags and tossed them into an empty time going back to the shed. The sun was problem, Sal. We're all set." barrel. Hank didn't mind this job. His high in the cloudless sky. A butterfly flut- "You stupid sonuvabitch!" Sal back got sore, but counting kept his mind tered across the expanse of tar between screamed. He picked up a band and slam-

occupied. The time passed quickly. He the shop and the smokehouse. Forklifts med it on the ground. It bounced off the hardly noticed the fork-lifts rumbling by roared far back in the yard, out of Hank's dirt and hit Hank on the knee.

outside. sight behind the tall stacks of pipe. "What's wrong with you, you wor-

Moose stuck his head in the door. It was very hot in the shed. Hank coun- thless piece of shit!" Sal eyes were "Hey, Hank, lunch time!" ted a couple of bags full and then dozed bulging. "You been here fourteen fucking

They walked up to the shop together. off. The canteen truck's horn woke him years and you still can't do nothing right.

Moose was covered with dirt and his up for the afternoon break. Hank was Jesus, am I glad I don't got to put up with shaved head glistened with sweat. Hank surprised he'd slept so long and relieved your shit anymore." envied him. He wished he were young that Sal hadn't caught him asleep. Hank Moose straightened up. "Calm down, again and could work with the guys in the had brought his other orange with him, Sal." yard and shave his head as a joke and not so he sat on a pipe outside the shed and "You shut the fuck up, sonny. I give worry about anything. let the sun burn through his shirt. the orders around here." "You counting down the hours, Sal came over to see him after break. Moose took one stride and grabbed Sal Hank?" "Look, Hank, we're going to have a little by his shirt. Sal had to stand on his toes.

Nah. Funny, now that it's time I going away party for you around three, Moose's arm shook. "You don't talk to don't want to retire. Wish I had a choice. but if we're going to knock off early we me like that, Sal. And you don't talk to

Makes me feel old to be told they don't got a lot to do. Do me a favor and fill the Hank like that. What the fuck you think need me no more." basket with twelve inch bands so we can we are, animals or something?"

"C'mon, Hank, who you shitting?" coat them first thing in the morning, Sal's eyes blinked rapidly. "Alright,

Moose put his arm around Hank's okay?" Moose, alright. I didn't mean no harm. shoulders. "Come Monday you'll be sit- "Sure, Sal, whatever you say." Put me down, huh." ting on the porch drinking a beer and Sal patted him on the back. "You're a Hank put his arm on Moose's bulging smiling when you think of us busting our good man, Hank. I'm gonna miss having bicep. "C'mon, Moose. Let him go." asses in this dump. You ain't gonna miss you around." Moose let go. Sal backed up. "You sur- nothing." Hank walked out into the yard. Maybe prised me there, Moose. I thought I knew

"Sure, sure. Whatever you say, Sal wasn't so bad after all. The sun reflec- you better than that." Sal sat in his golf

Moose." ted off the stacks of pipe and blinded him. cart. "But if you wanna fuck around and

Hank ate alone in the lunchroom. All He covered his eyes and looked over the mess with me, then watch it." the young guys went out and drank beers pallets of bands. He picked up two of the Moose spit into the dirt. "You better and smoked their dope every day during u-shaped pieces of steel and put them watch it." lunch. The rest of the crew ate over by together so they made a circle. Looked Sal tugged at his cap. "Oh, yeah. We'll Jack's desk and cut farts at each other like twelve inch to him. The bands were see about that. Don't either of you and bad-mouthed anyone who wasn't stacked in piles of twenty or so. Hank fuckers come in until that basket's filled, there. Hank was happy in the lunchroom, separated them and threw them into the you hear?" alone with his sandwiches and orange wire mesh basket. Hank rubbed his knee while Sal drove and the deep blue walls. Lunch was the When he was finished he sat on the off. "You shouldn't of done that, Moose." most peaceful time of his day. basket's rim and shaded his eyes from "Ah, fuck him, Hank, sometimes I get He punched in for work five minutes the sun. His shirt stuck to his back. He so tired of his shit. Don't know how you early and walked across the shop to Jack's saw Moose approaching from the back took it for so long." desk. end of the yard. They went back to their work. The "There he is!" "What's happening, Hank? Sal got you forklifts bounced by on their way to the "Where you been hiding, party boy?" going right up to the last minute, huh?" shop. The yard crew was hanging on to

"Hey, Hank, Sal's looking for you. He "Its nothing. Just have to fill the basket the sides of the lifts. They all waved and wants to give you a kiss good-bye." with twelve inch bands. I'm all set." yelled at Hank and Moose. Hank stuck his hands in his pockets Moose picked a band out of the basket. Hank put his hand on his hip and and smiled. "Fuck Sal. He can kiss my "I hate to tell you, Hank, but these are fif- straightened up. The yard was quiet now. ass." teen inch. C'mon, I'll help you change Birds chirped in the trees beyond the fen-

That was always good for a laugh. them before Sal finds out. Don't want ce. Seagulls circled overhead as they Hank sat beside the rolling machine and him screaming at you on your last day, do strayed from dump to dump. The su n listened to the guys talk about their car you?" hovered over the towers of a distant fac-

39 tory. Moose threw in the last band. to have you die on us." Mr. Sokum That's a real fucking gift, Hank. A real -" They walked up to the shop. Through leaned back and laughed. "At least they fucking the front fence, Hank could see the guys couldn't say the job killed you." "Shut up, Moose," said Jack.

going to their cars and dr iving away. The phone rang. Mr. Sokum answered Hank drank his beer. His stomach tur-

They all had beers. Some of the younger it. "What? Who? Oh, all right, tell him to ned over. Moose was quiet till they

guys raised their bottle to Hank and hold for a minute. I'll be right with him." reached his apartment and he'd gotten Moose and beeped their horns. He stood up and brushed the lint off out of the car. He shook Hank's hand

Hank couldn't understand it. What his three piece suit. "Well, Hank, I hate to through the open window. "Fuck'em,

about the party? It would be just like cut our little party short, but you know Hank, who needs them anyways, right?

those guys to take their beer and leave. how it is. Business is business, right?" You don't want nothing from those

Maybe he'd kept to himself all these He took Hank by the elbow and led bums. The only firend you got is yourself.

years, but at least they could of hung him to the door. "Sorry to see you leave, Well, you take it easy now. Don't go get- around long enough for a handshake. Hank, you've been an asset to the com- ting all worked up about the pretty girls

Bunch of bums, that's all they were. pany. We'll miss you." walking down the street. Ill call you in a Hank and Moose walked into the shop. Mr. Sokum pulled a white envelope out week, Jack."

It was still and empty, and smelled of of his pocket and gave it to Hank. "Here's Hank shielded his eyes from the sun as

grease and sweat. Jack alone at his desk. a little something, Hank. A token of our Jack maneuvered through the narrow

He stuck a cigarette in to his mouth and esteem. No, no, don't open it here. Save it streets. Hank rubbed his fingers together. shook his head as they approached. for when you get home with the wife. What did he expect? He~should of known "You fucked up good this time, Moose. There you go. Keep in touch. Bye-bye." better. He felt old and used. Well, he

What you do, stick a pipe up his ass?" Hank heard the "door close behind him knew one thing, he sure wasn't gonna tell

Moose shook his head slowly. "Nah. I as he crossed the front office. He felt diz- Edna about the five hundred. Let her just grabbed him for a minute. Sometimes zy. He remembered the envelope in his yell. It was his money. Maybe he'd buy

he just pisses me off. Where 'd everybody hand. As he walked out to the car he held some tobacco with it, or buy a little dog

go?" it in the air and peered at it. How much to keep him company.

"Sal came tear-assing in here and told was it? Jack let Hank off at the top of the hill. me to give everyone a beer and sent them He got into the front seat. Jack handed They shook hands. Then Hank remem-

home early. Then he took off himself. He him a beer. bered his uniforms. "Hey, Jack, I left my said for you to take a week off. Next time Moose leaned over from the back. uniforms back in the locker room."

you screw up though, he says he's giving "Whattaya got there, Hank? A little gift "No problem, Hank. I already turned

you the pension plan. You're lucky, pal. from the man? Open it up." thern in for you. Sal said you can keep the If you weren't such a goddamn bull out in Hank opened the envelope and took pair you got on. He said don't say he

the yard he'd of canned you today." out three checks. There was a little note never gave you nothing." Moose laughed. "Hey, he's breaking clipped to each one. Hank shook his head Jack raised his beer to Hank. "You

my heart, you know? I can take a week at at the words. "Here, Moose, read them to take care of yourself. Don't go wasting all the beach." me." that money on beer. Make sure you save

Jack turned to Hank. "Mr. Sokum "Okay, hold my beer for me." Moose some. I'll stop by sometime and say wants to see you in his office." took the checks. "Stop the car. Jack, I'm hello."

"What I do?" going to Mexico. Okay, here we go. The He drove away.

Jack chuckled. "Nothing, Hank, relax. first one says 'weekly paycheck for the Hank was alone.

He probably wants to say good-bye. Give week of seven-twenty-seventy-nine.' He walked down the hill. The asphalt

the cheap bastard a kiss for me, will you. He handed it to Hank. was' hot on his feet. The street below lay We'll wait out in the car for you." "Second one says 'two weeks vacation dead in the heat. The decaying houses Moose slapped Hank on the back. pay for the year nineteen seventy nine." looked blistered in the sun. Young "Don't bend over in there, Hank, or he He handed that check to Hank. mothers with bloated faces and red eyes might try to pork you." "You had that coming," said Jack. stared at him as he walked by. Little kids Hank walked into the front office. He Hank beamed. "What's the last one in torn pants or diapers sat on the curb

wiped his feet before stepping on the wall say?" and watched him with empty eyes. A lit- " to wall carpet. A secretary he didn't know 'For years of . . . uhh, what's this tle blond boy, his face smeared with dirt, told him that Mr. Sokum was waiting for word? Covetous? Yeah, 'for years of beat on a row of metal trash barrels with Hank in his office. covetous service.' " Moose wrinkled his a broken baseball bat. "Come in, Hank, come in. Close the forehead and shook his head. He gave the "Where you going, pal?" he taunted door behind you. Have a seat, have a check to Hank. Hank. "Where you going?" seat." Mr. Sokum walked around from Hank read the numbers. Five hundred The smashed up car was still sitting at behind his desk and shook Hank's hand. dollars. Something caught in his throat. the bottom of the hill. Hank plodded up "What are you having?" How about Fourteen fucking years and they give him the front steps to his apartment. The some Scotch? There you go." five hundred dollars. He felt like he was front door was open. The hallway was He raised his glass to Hank. "Here's to choking. That wouldn't last a year. That dark, darker than the shaded porch. Edna all the good times, old buddy." wouldn't last two months. Jesus Christ dozed in the living room. Hank went into Mr. Sokum sat down behind his desk. Almighty. the kitchen and opened the refrigerator. The Scotch burned Hank's throat. He lost "They sure gave you the pension plan, He took out the last beer and went out to his breath and coughed. huh Hank?" Moose punched the back of the porch. He sat on the top step and

"Take it easy there, Hank. We'd hate the seat. "The last of the big spenders. opened the bottle.

40 "Hey, Hank old boy, there you are." Fishing belly up. The boy reached for it and knew Johnny crossed the street and looked it was dead. He laid it gently in the grass, up at Hank from the bottom of the steps. sat down beside it, and waited for the charged off across the pond. At last, the "Hey, hey, whattaya say there, Hank. man to return. boy was able to reel in more line than the Ready to start the new life? Get out a fish took away. He sensed that the fish beer and I'll help you break in." was tiring and increased his efforts. The Hank squinted at him. "How come you fish gave a last desultory leap near the never wash that uniform?" shore and the boy brought it in. Johnny pulled at the baggy pants. The fish lay on its side in the shallow "This thing? What the hell for? It's all water as the boy reached for it. It did not worn out. Matter of fact, I was thinking struggle when he grasped it gently. The Facts -from page 4 of cutting them into shorts. Hey, let's sit fly was hooked through the lip, and the down and drink a cold one and we can DEANS: This seems to be the level barb protruded from the fish's eye. Its fan ourselves with your bonus check." where most negative decisions are made. gills opened and shut feebly as the boy "There ain't no check. And I don't got CHANCELLOR: The chancellor worked to free the hook. His eyes were no more beer. Why don't you buy your reviews the case and sends it to the own?" blurred and his hands were slippery as he president's office. feverishly. fish slipped from "Johnny's smile wavered. "Ah, come worked The his hands and landed in the mud. He THE PRESIDENT AND Board of on, Hank you know how it is." He rubbed picked it up and worked with the hook Trustees: Tenure is not officially gran- his balding head and swung his foot at the some more. Blood began to ooze from the ted until the case is accepted at this level. steps. "You know I can't afford it." gills just as he worked the hook loose. He A finding of excellence or strength can "Well, I can't either, so you'll have to laid the fish back in the water and waited be changed in either direction at find someone else to bum off of." any for it to swim off. level. Johnny blinked rapidly. "Ah, come off "Please swim," he cried. "I didn't it, Hank. I wasn't bumming nothing. I really want to catch you. I never wanted thought we were friends." to hurt you." He nudged the fish gently "Only friend I got is myself." with his hand but got no response. "Go "Yeah, well, if that's how you feel, on. Swim!" then fuck you. Just cause the company The fish lay on its side in the shallows, stuck it to you don't mean I got to eat its gills barely moving. Sowly it turned your shit. I ain't the one who screwed you." Johnny started to walk away. He stop- ped and turned to look at Hank. "You're

just feeling pissed off. You'll feel dif- ferently tomorrow." THE UMASS PUB "Maybe," Hank said. After a long day of school, between classes Looking up at the brill- or for a quick lunch, why not stop in at the UMB iant sunlight, he sipped his Pub. Movies every Thursday night, games and beer and waited for the sun low low prices. to set.

An Ancient Flask

Uncork an ancient flask

And find the ocean at your back

Sailing away from Brendiziport to Athenaport

The warm breezes caressing face and hair.

Sniff the salty night air

And gaze the crystal sky

As it melts into a sultry day on the Plaka Urns — Shawls — Leatherbags

Feet fly to the sands of ocean charcoal blue

Onto a pedal boat spinning

Fast splashes by legs of muscular bronze.

Radiant sun fading into lamp light

Shining shadows swaying the Crape Vine Between plates of watermelon and Retsina wine — Into the dawn Monday Friday 12-7

Eyes resting upon Beer, Wine, An ancient flask. Sandwiches, Snacks

Suzanne Reed

41 Bookstore -- from page 20 feelings about the is Book Bazaar. "This a I spoke with other students who good alternative for students to sell books boycott the UMass/Boston Bookstore. left let's say that Out of the three books on consignment and also to buy used They listed other bookstores in the one is shoplifted. I get nothing for that. books. Our major problem is that we Boston area where they purchase books. let's books left don't don't get advertising. Basically Now say the two enough Here is the list: sell, and I send them back. I receive a juniors, and seniors utilize the Book The Harvard Bookstore $16.00 credit, not cash, from the Bazaar. It would be better if freshmen Grolier Bookstore (poetry) publisher. I haven't even broken even." were aware of it." The Coop

Laliberte claims he makes his money Here's how it works. The books are Wordsworth on greeting cards, candy, and cigarettes. sold on consignment, meaning the Book Paperback Book Smith "We try to keep the price of cigarettes a Bazaar supplies the location for business (for general books)

nickel below the machine price. Also for the student to sell his/her books. Barnes and Nobles

clothing, pens, the items up to the front When the book is sold, the student It's up to the student to decide. If you

of the store, are where I make money." receives 90 percent and the other 10 per- decide that the UMass/Boston Bookstore THE POLICIES cent goes to the Book Bazaar for is a ripoff for you then you do have a choice: there are alternatives. The Book How come we can't return books after overhead costs. If the book does not sell Bazaar is one and if you have the time the first three weeks of the semester? Mr. within one year and the student does not and the energy there are also local Laliberte elaborated," Our policy is the claim the book, then the book becomes bookstores to choose from. same throughout all our stores. The the property of SAC. The SAC then

return policy is posted everywhere, along reduces the price of the book further. the cash registers, in the front of the Lorraine gave an example. "If a book was

store and outside the bookstore, so there selling within the year for $6.00, it would

is no question." He continued, "For the be further reduced to $3.00." Below is a

first three weeks of the semester new chart of the conditions of the books and books can be returned. They must have their corresponding percentages: not markings in them because I may Excellent 60 percent, no underlining have to return these books to the and clean publisher and they will not accept them Good 55 percent, underlined and clean

if they have markings." Fair 50 percent, underlined and clean "You have ten working days after the Are there any other alternatives? date of purchase (during these three weeks) to return new books. You must

have the sales slip since I have to know if it is my book or not." Because of the RECEPTION FOR great demand for used books, students must return them within two days, ac- GRADUATING SENIORS! companied by the sales receipt.

After the first three weeks of the semester, all book sales are final. "There Sponsored by is a lot of confusion among students during this time," Rick commented. "Af- ter the first three weeks of classes we UMASS/BOSTON ALUMNI have someone help students pick out books. The purpose of this is 1 . to insure ASSOCIATION that students actually know what books they need; so there is no question whether this is the right book or not, 2. to curtail shoplifting, and 3. because we Wednesday, April 30 have to start the process of returning books." Laliberte is aware that this policy prohibits students from browsing through 2:30 — 6:30 books after buying required texts thereby eliminating additional purchases. Faculty Club, 11th Floor, ALTERNATIVES

Some students choose not to buy their Library. books from the bookstore at UMass/Boston. One place they buy their books is at the Book Bazaar. There is life after graduation. Lorraine Roche, one of the two managers there, shared some of her Join us and celebrate.

42 Hawk • from page 33 Sarah grimaced, then looked up at the He's tall and handsome and quiet. He

of nighttime, she thought. If I had noc- other woman. "It's very hard for me to writes for a newspaper. We go back a

turnal eyes that could see it all, I'd go believe that I was all that important." long ways - almost childhood sweethear-

mad. That's why most creatures sleep at "I know. Well, it's not that I'm blaming ts. I'm a little bit pregnant."

night, to avoid contradictions. you, but it seemed to me at the time that "Really! Congratulations. Good luck."

She came home out of the abandoned there was a sort of contract between us "Hmmm. I was a little unsure - no,

farmland that stretched for some miles all, an agreement, a committment to frightened, at first."

behind the house. A kitchen garden work." She looked from the window to "This was planned, wasn't it?" It was nestled against the back of the house and Sarah and back again. "A romantic impossible to imagine Sharon making

behind the ramshackle angles of its fence notion, I guess . . . anyone could have that sort of mistake. was a semicircular swoop of field up to left and the result probably would have "Oh yes. We both wanted it ... A the treeline where she stood. From there, been the same. But still that feeling was strange feeling, some sort of meaningless looking straight back beyond the house lost. It was as if you were shitting on us apprehension. You'd think natural selec- was an expanse of almost a mile to the op- all, saying we weren't enough." tion would have weeded out second posite ridge: a deep, short valley, now "I gave my reasons. I thought then that thoughts by now." filled with the details of moonlight. In it was a failure, my failure, and I still do. "Probably just nature's way of making green seasons a tractor tended the valley. But it just wasn't for me, Sharon, there sure your're paying attention. Youll

Beyond the silhouetted trees on the other was just not anything I could enjoy about make a great mother, Sharon. What side was south: Madison, Chicago, it anymore." about your work?"

Mazatlan, Antartica. The house, perched "You enjoyed it for four years." "Denis is very open-minded about that. as it was in a sort of bowl on the hillside, "Yes, parts of it." We've made a deal to try to minimize the seemed to throw a certain heat up in her "But Sarah, we had such plans, all of damage family life will do to our careers, direction, especially in this season when us, and we could have done it, all of us and vice-versa." the wood flowed and there were visitors. working together." Again, they were silent for awhile.

Kerosene light hung in the house; the "Yes. I let you down, I agree. I just Sarah fed the fire. Sharon brought in an mullions of the kitchen were reflected on couldn't stand the structure anymore." armload of wood and pensively an- the hill. Sharon thought for a moment, nounced that a light snow was falling. Sharon was sitting up beside the stove plucking the ends of torn-out pages from Sarah nodded. "You know," she said, "I when Sarah came in. She looked up from her notebook and tossing them at the fire. think someday I'll have a child, too." her notebook and smiled hello. Sarah She looked up at Sarah. "But what else is "You?" Sharon asked suspiciously. "I nodded and hung her jacket on a chair. there? Your life here must be - life in the can't picture it, Sarah."

She checked the stove and held her hands country is made of routine. It's external ' "Uh-huh. I'm not ready yet. Before I'm before the open firedoor a moment. structure you disrespect, imposed struc- thirty, though." "Everyone else asleep?" she asked. ture." "I never would have imagined the Sharon nodded. "Awful early, isn't it?" "I suppose ..." Sarah began. thought would cross your mind."

"About 10:30. We're planning to be in "Well, look, Sarah, look at it. Here," Sarah escorted Sharon to the empty the field before dawn." Sharon motioned about, "you feel that bedroom beside her own. Sharon took her

"Oh." They were silent awhile. Sharon the particulars of your life and you, your- hand at the door and whispered, "It's sipped from a wineglass as she perused self, spring from a common source. Am I good to see you again, Sarah, I've missed her notebook. After awhile she asked, "Is right? It seems an organic thing to you, as you, everyone has, I'm sure. I didn't it snowing yet?" if life made sense, as if you weren't mean to bitch at you before."

"No. It'll start soon, I think. Finish alienated, but free. Actually, of course, "No. Goodnight." your blinds?" you're still dependent on external struc- > A bit later Sarah awoke. There had

"Uh-huh. Finished them by flashlight." ture. You think you choose this, and that been an anomalous noise. It was

Sharon's brow was furrowed. She drum- therefore you're free. Nobody's free." late: the moon was almost set, and its med her fingers on the arm of her chair There was irritation and a trace of good- low, reflected light filled the room. The and stared at the stove. She was tired and natured triumph in Sharon's voice. snow had stopped falling. She waited, her disheveled; she hadn't waited up merely "I don't ..." objected Sarah, and eyes open to the ceiling, with a steadily to chit-chat. After more silence she said, paused. "I didn't say all structure, I said advancing realization of what had - as if to herself, studying the reflections in the structure, that particular structure. awakened her. Then she heard it again the window, "You know, Sarah, Of course you're right. I'm still not the sounds of lovemaking next door. She everyone looked to for inspiration. you coming back though. , I'll pick my own rolled over and fell back asleep.

You were a model, you were what we all form of slavery." They were right on it in the morning. wanted to' be when we grew up. When "I wasn't trying to talk you into The sounds of their breakfasting and you decided against grad school, the heart anything. I just wanted you to know how stove-lighting woke Sarah a half hour went out of our little circle. Everything I felt." before dawn. She stared at her frozen went to hell for awhile." She looked up. "OK." Sarah motioned toward breath and considered lying in bed until

Sarah was staring at the fire. "You know Sharon's finger. "Speaking of freedom, I they had left, then frowned: an

Jim and Angela never went on. Michael's see you're married now. Anybody I adolescent attitude, she told herself. She off somewhere in Kansas, for Christ's know?" got up into the morning cold that wrap " sake." She paused. "I'm not even sure you "No* Sharon smiled down at the wed- ped itself around her and snapped her remember these names." ding band. "He's from my hometown. awake. 43 They were at the kitchen stove, Much as she tried to deny it, as she coat before she dipped back into the drinking coffee and warming their hands went through that Saturday morning's woods. The dilapidated fences around the around the cups. They all looked half- chores Sarah felt an attraction up the hill, fields sheltered rabbits. She was tempted asleep. Bob might have been completely an anxiousness to be in the field herself. to lie for one for dinner as she was temp- asleep, leaned back in a chafr with his To fight it off, she worked harder. She ac- ted by the pheasants that flew up in front eyes closed and his shoeless feet on the complished a thorough cleaning of the of her in a great rush of color and noise, table. They greeted her with nods and equipment, walls, and floors of the skin still provoking her heart to leap. Red- mumbles. shed - a job she would never have even winged blackbirds perched on moldering "How much snow did we get?" Sarah considered before. She put in order for strands of barbed wire. She saw a half- asked, heading for the window. winter use a long abandoned root cellar. mile long flock of migrating geese. Above "Inch, inch and a half," Eric replied Scurrying across the roof to fix a leak the fields she saw a large bird floating in abruptly. His reticence of the evening located by the melting snow, and sliding the thermals and whether it was hunting before seemed to have vanished. He by accident almost to the eaves and over, or just floating she couldn't tell but she looked up from the stove to Sarah and she replied to Sharon's comment that knew that its eyesight was such that if around to the rest of the group. He country life may well be routine, but it hawks could read, this one would know smoothed back his beard and mustache. does have its little adventures. And, that her .22 was made in Springfield, MA "Nothing that'll hinder us. Should be a around noon, after splitting that day's by the Smith and Wesson Company. good clear day for observation." He went ration of wood, she succumbed, By the time she started back, Sarah had to the table, tapped Bob's feet and spread shouldered her rifle, and hiked off into decided what sort of meat to have for din- his maps again. Eric was much more the woods. ner. When she came to a field she trustworthy, if not more likeable, now Sarah had never confirmed the existen- doubled back to get the sun behind her. that he was taking an active part. Bob got ce of her legal right to hunt for herself on She swished the grass, both bird dog and up and disappeared for a moment. He the University's reservation. The land hunter. She stared into the middle distan- returned with a still and movie camera was off-limits to other, lay, hunters. She ce, framing the moving zone where her and a collapsible tripod on a strap. He felt no need to justify her hunting to her- one shot would be. When it happened, yawned thoughtfully and began self, and in her two-year tenure at the though she still gasped, she used the checking the contents of a calfskin photo station she had never been questioned frozen inhale (what is the reason for that? supply bag. about or reprimanded for it. If anyone part of her mind wanted to know) par-

"Hmmm. I guess," murmured Sharon, noticed, they assumed she was pursuing tially releasing her breath as she squeezed responding to the activity. She and Paul her duty to the school. Besides, she en- the trigger, a tang of powder, and the abandoned their opposite sides of the joyed it, both because it was another of bird, an afterthought, tipped to one side stove. He rummaged through a knapsack those things that seemed directly con- and dropped. The bullet had hit where filled with books, notebooks, binoculars nected with her own survival and the wing joined the body. A few little and other paraphenalia, and she filled because, so she amused herself, there feathers floated down above. She ran to one with sandwiches and thermos bottles. was a bit of the mystic in her: it was finish it, some loose rounds clinking She offered Sarah a cup. Sarah declined. satisfying to be a lonely Angel of Death, together in the box in her pocket. She

"Sarah, will you look at this a even if her domain was only seven hun- reminded herself to do something about moment?" Eric asked her, pointing to his dred acres and even though she liberated that, stuff some grass in the box or map. "Here is where we'll be, near where only the souls of rabbit and pheasant. In something. She killed the bird outright, you suggested." He indicated two circled more rational moments she reminded which was something of a shame, it had and numbered sites where they had built herself that more likely and more often been rare, at least until recently, that she their blinds, about two miles apart and her appreciation was the scientist in her even winged a pheasant; they were so somewhat off to the west of Sarah's getting the upper hand. Hunters are the fast and it was impossible to stalk them. evening walk route. She knew the areas original, and best, students of animal One was not enough. She moved on to well, she had offered them because they behaviour. the next field. were both in what she called the "Univer- sity's" territory, though, regrettably, on She walked off toward the east for a About ten miles west Sharon and Bob the of "her's" they edge and because long ways, the full six miles to the enor- were crouched uncomfortably in one of would be frequented by the raptors her mous cornfields that marked the boun- the blinds made the night before. Except visitors sought. Both commanded views dary of the University lands, and then for the early morning activity of applying of open field and moderately dense back. Numerous opportunities presented some finishing touches to the blind - it woods. Sarah Eric smiled for- nodded. themselves on the hike out, but Sarah had to afford perfect concealment - and a mally, looked around and seeing was content to observe. Early in the mor- few short walks to relieve themselves and everyone else ready, pulled on a baggy ning, about the time her visitors had left work out the cramps, they had been fatigue jacket. and many-pocketed the house, a deer had left droppings along waiting in the same positions all day. Not "See you tonight, Sarah," Sharon said the edge of a field as it headed for its without some luck, however; they had as they traipsed off into the squeeking daytime bivouac and Sarah could tell, ap- seen two cruising lineatus, Sharon's notes snow. proximately, where it was renting and recorded, and. one of them had dropped "Right. hunting." Happy which way it would run if flushed. She on a field mouse, a drama that still sur- until couldn't see Sarah watched she saw a bitch fox trotting along on some prised Sharon in its violence. The limp them in the dawn light, then shrugged on- diurnal errand, the sunlight predicted by body clutched in the talons was often not ce, shaking off something. Eric smoldering in the dull rust of her yet dead when the hawk flew off, she

44 realized, but the tiny intelligence that of the scaly talons and their freedom of around her while she finished. inhabited it had given up entirely. She motion. While the hawk tried to squirm "Have any luck?" Sarah asked, stab- knew that birds of prey had been ob- out her hands, Sharon remarked to her- bing into the plucked carcass. served playing, like cats, with disabled self how strong it was. She'd done this "It's more skill than luck, Sarah," but still living animals. Her notes did not many times before, but the amount of ef- Sharon joked.; record these thoughts, however, but such fort required to subdue the frightened "Yes. We were quite successful," Paul data as estimated wind speed, cloud animal still surprised her. She carried a said, staring at Sarah's work, or so it cover, number and altitude of passes, and deep scar where a Snowy Owl, a much seemed, allowing for his skewed vision. whether these were, or seemed to be, with larger bird than this, had lunged and "Bob and Sharon had three sightings and specific prey in view or just searching caught her above the elbow as she ap- Eric and I had five. They banded a passes. Bob had clicked off two rolls of proached. Between giving Bob directions, lineatus and Eric and I a lineatus and a film. They both were satisfied that the she talked and clucked to the bird. borealis." He looked away as Sarah discomfort had been worth it, though "There, there, it's all right," she scooped out a handful of intestine. She neither of the birds they'd seen had whispered, "just a minute and we'll be separated the crop and stomach from the fallen for their trap, a device that was a done with you and you'll have a nice rest of the slimy mass and sliced them legacy of the art of falconry. yellow bracelet. The envy of the forest." open on the block. She pushed the con- Except now a third bird seemed in- The hawk twisted and tried to dig its beak tents around with the point of her knife. terested. It was a Buteo, so if it took the through the hard leather. "Life just "Ah," she said, "they're getting down bait the day would be fruitful indeed. It doesn't make sense when the mouse cat- to berries now that the green is gone.'" circled high above, the center of its circle ches the hawk, does it?" She looked up at them. "I saw a Falcon the cage staked to the ground at the far "OK, Sharon, how tight?" Bob asked. today." end of the field. Bob coaxed in a whisper. "Just enough so it doesn't move. Don't "Oh?" said Sharon.

Sharon turned her binoculars from the cinch it up tight, she may have to wear it "A Sparrow Hawk." sky to the trap. The bait, a white the rest of her life. Then cut away the "SparveriusV Paul asked. laboratory rat, was oblivious, sniffing out fishline, all of it. Don't leave any that'll "Ummmm. I think that's it. Did you through the mesh of the camouflaged get caught in brush." After he did this discover any patterns or anything?" wire. Sharon was about to release the bird. "No," answered Sharon, "but Eric and

The hawk took its time. Bob asked if "Hold on a second. I want to get a pic- Paul here saw the one we banded, and perhaps " it wasn't just playing. "No," ture of this." While he was getting set up, then we saw it again afterwards, so there Sharon answered, "She's definitely flying Sharon remembered to check the wing appears there may be some overlapping a hunting pass." She was writing rapidly, and discovered that it was the third circular boundaries to their territories, at noting that the bird was missing a primary that was missing. "OK." She let least in that particular case ... By the primary, one of the big feathers at the it go and jumped back. With long slow way, Paul, how close were you to that outside edge of the wing, when Bob grun- deliberate wing beats the hawk flew off bird?" ted in excitement. His camera started over the forest. Bob relaxed visibly once it "He perched nearby for a while. Twen- clicking like mad. Looking up, she saw was out of sight. ty meters, maybe a little closer." the hawk about twenty feet above the "Inspiring, no?" she asked. Bob nod- "Did you notice anything distinctive ground, then jouncing the trap, ded. about it?" screeching, in surprise, and through the "Magnificent. They're much more "No, what?" He looked at her. binoculars she saw that it was caught. At colorful up close." He shook his head. "Missing primary on the left wing." least two of the fishline nooses on the "Christ, though, ferocious little bastards, "Oh." He turned back toward Sarah's cage had looped onto the hawk's leg and aren't they?" Sharon laughed. work. "Eric may have seen it." He kicked talons. She dropped her paraphenalia and "First time I banded one it scared the at a stray feather. sprinted into the field. shit out of me. It's really surprising how "OK," Sarah said, "That does it." She

The hawk was a large lineatus. It had strong and fast they are. Wait till you run picked up the two cleaned carcasses and stopped beating its great wings by the into one of the really big ones. Or a headed for the house. She left them time she got to it. It was in a towering Goshawk. They're only a little bigger soaking in the kitchen, then went back rage, following her motions with its eyes than these, but their^. reputation for outside, retrieved the plastic bag and and making dark noises, warning her. She viciousness is, as they say, well deserved. disappeared into the woods. She returned waited for Bob who soon came panting They'll come after you." in the dark an hour later with the empty up behind her. "Now what?" he asked, bag. She stood and surveyed the house. It looking uncertainly from the bird to her. A little before sunset, Bob and Sharon did not seem as peaceful as it had the She was flushed and smiling in ap- rejoined Eric and Paul at the other blind previous evening, a sign that she was not, preciation of the animal. and the two teams hiked back to the as she had hoped she would be, getting "I'm going to band it," she replied, house. They arrived to find Sarah used to her visitors' presence. Twenty- taking a pair of heavy gloves from her dressing the second of the two pheasants four more hours, she told herself. pocket. "You can help, if you want." she had shot. A few feathers had escaped Her irritation lingered through dinner, "Sure." the plastic bag into which she was butting into the discussion she and Bob and Sharon held down the bird's head and the waste and lay around her, in- Sharon had afterwards over a gallon of wings and tilted its body to one side. Bob distinguishable from the fallen maple wine. "Bob," she asked when the bottle listened to Sharon's instructions, then leaves which also lay around her except was half empty, "did you get some good fumbled with the tag and pliers, unsure of for their tendency -to blow about in the photographs today?" Bob thought about how to work them and even more unsure slightest breeze. Paul and Sharon stood this a moment with his fingers to his lips.

45 "Yes," he said slowly, "I think I did. "Hmmmm," Sharon agreed, "And the anything done, work together at all." He Should be some excellent shots there." He same fascination, too." slapped his knees and stood up. "But me," appeared preoccupied. "I think I may "Well, it only makes sense," Bob con- he pointed to his chest, "I just take pic- have captured something there, with tinued, "We - humans, that is - have tures." Sarah smiled politely. your," he turned to Sharon, "releasing both; I mean in my vague understanding "Good night, Bob," she said. that one we banded - jumping back from of evolution, we have characteristics of She sat .with the wine until she was the wings." both reptiles and birds in our makeup, in drunk enough to sleep. She woke at seven

"Cowardice, probably," Sharon said, our, what is the word. Ontogeny. We the next morning when the sun rose high

"Those wings can break your arm." would feel an affinity for both." enough to bring her headache to full

"Yes, but I think I may have caught "Ah," Sharon, "but the birds are ac- bloom. Her mouth was very dry and she the look in your eyes, and what you were tually just warm-blooded reptiles, hot rep- was angry. She had allowed them to doing and what the hawk was doing, a tiles as we used to say in Zoology 10k So bother her, she had allowed herself to sort of symmetry. Both seemed such they're the ones that most graphically temporarily drink the irritation away, she

. . . involuntary actions: you were mix both characteristics, the warm- had allowed the whole thing to happen. both acting on instinct." blooded fear, and the cold-hearted There was a mindless little accusatory "What's a nice artist like you doing out rapacity." She winked at Sarah. "Such singsong going around and around in her in the woods with a bunch of flinty scien- eloquence," she said. head. tist types like us?" Sharon interposed. "Right," Eric said loudly, standing up. She tried working off her anger as she

From the table where Paul and Eric were "So to compensate for being the interface had done the day before, but it did not working came a short laugh. of two classes, God gave them the gift of work, this was different. She needed to " "And then, Bob continued, "the next flight." He was facetious, disgusted. "But kill something. Or at least go for a long few shots are of you looking up at the this doesn't fry any fish." walk with her gun, go through the act, hawk as it flies off, not too much further "Right," Sharon mocked, "don't you anyway, of hunting. After three or four away. Should make a good series. Big people know there's a war on?" hours of rapid blind fuming marching, color blowups to hang on your wall." In "You're drunk," Eric sneered. "I'm she felt a little calmer and her headache the pause that followed they could hear going to bed." He shuffled papers into or- and uncoordination subsided somewhat. Eric and Paul's deliberate voices ex- der and clapped a book cover down shar- Now she could concentrate on finding changing calculations and the pages of ply. game. She doubled back to keep the sun books turning. They were having an ear- "Yup," Sharon responded, "drunk, out of her eyes, as she had done yesterday nest, quiet disagreement about the blind, shitfaced." She poured more wine, afternoon. mathematics of territoriality. It was a wavering stream that splashed half out distracting, like a television on in an ad- of her glass. She smiled but her eyes were That morning, according to their plan jacent room just loud enough to hear. focused sharply and her fingers clenched to spread Bob's talents among the three Sarah and Sharon could understand most tight on the bottleneck. Eric fixed that researchers, he worked with Eric. As she of the substance of the argument and stare on her, the same one he had used on sat in the other blind with Paul, the cram-

Sarah could tell that they wanted Sharon Sarah the day before when she was poin- ped quarters and her slight hangover left to come and help settle the question and ting out sites on the map, then he left the Sharon claustrophobic and dazed, but she also that Sharon wasn't about to. Sarah room. Paul worked awhile longer, then wasn't about to give Paul the satisfaction didn't like the tension in the room, it he left, dropping a prim 'good night' into of knowing this. She screwed all her con- made her skin tight and uncomfortable, the silence. centration into the work and once correc- like a sunburn. The wine was getting to "Serious guys," said Bob after Paul was ted one of his identifications, in- her. She caught Sharon's eye. Sharon out of earshot. tentionally breathing into his face with shrugged. "Yeah. Serious." Sharon snorted. her post-debauch breath, which was for- toothpaste, "You know," Sarah blurted, a little too "They think this project is going to make midable, even under the loudly, "I wonder about this them famous. Probably will. Sometimes I knowing he wouldn't say anything. She sometimes: Almost everybody, at least think they're such neurotic dodos, was having sort of a good time, she ad- everybody who's studied them, has all though," she giggled at the prospect, mitted to herself, and they had had bet- kinds of admiration for the hawk. At least "that they won't know enough to enjoy it ter luck than she and Bob had yesterday. it seems like admiration. And maybe a when it happens. Either that or they're Paul and she worked well together, and touch of envy, too, for their gifts - their wound so tight that the adoration will though there was much in him that she his power and grace and their eyesight and drive them over the edge. Sometimes I found distasteful, still she admired silent flight." Paul and Eric had looked think - oh, the hell with it. I'm going to skill. After two hours of hunting, Sarah's over from their work. But I wonder if bed, too." She stood up. Sarah didn't say irritation returned. She had fired only one maybe there isn't also some fear. Some anything. She retrieved her glass and --" round and that had splashed up the dust sort of genetic mam - mammal drained it, filled it again. Sharon watched a motionless rabbit. She couldn't "Mammalian," Paul prompted. her, then she left. beside potshots. She cursed at "Right, Mammalian." She put down Bob shrugged. "I don't know. even make the brain was clouded. "White her glass. "That's about enough for me," Sometimes they just don't get along. herself. Her firewater," she muttered to herself. she said. "A touch of genetic mammaliam They'll be buddy-buddy and back to work man's She felt enfeebled and lost and as if all terror at the shadow above. A need to tomorrow. I think they're too smart. instincts she had sedulously keep an eye on it." Either that or they think they're too the the last three years had "It would be the same revulsion people smart. They come and cry on my cultivated over ripped out by one weekend with have for reptiles, maybe," Bob added. shoulder. It's amazing that they can get been

46 from these clowns. And now it was late af- waving his arms, gaining her attention. 3

ternoon. She was puzzled by this and Sarah spun in surprise with her eye still to ning*. However, I am now becoming con-

then remembered that she had woke late. the sjghts, concentrating, saw who it was cerned that the facts the commission un-

The edge of yet another instinct dulled. - both figures freezing in mid-step in sur- covered have not been made public. The She tramped along noisily, trying to prise and fear, like cartoon images, the memo that the Chancellor released sort of remember to keep her head up and her upper halves of their bodies leaning back suggests that they are doing something,

eyes scanning. She came out of the trees involuntarily - and laughed. that there is some motion; but, there still

on top of a low, broad hill which sloped Paul and Sharon ran up to her after she is no public disclosure of exactly what we down to a perpendicular-running strip of had lowered the gun barrel. Sarah was found. / am convinced that unless they

field. There, twenty-five or so yards away still chuckling, then grinning. They do that, it is going to give the appearance a rabbit grazed, not far from the opposite smiled politely along with her, but they that there is some kind of cover-up. In treeline. The contours of the rabbit were were frightened. fact, I'm about to send a memo to the outlined vividly by the low angle of the "Christ," Sharon panted, eyes wide, "I Chancellor to the affect that I'm not --" sun. She froze. The rabbit was oblivious thought for a second there exactly pleased that I'm in a position nibbling at its dinner. Between the sights "Yeah," Sarah replied, "I know you where it seems I'm being made part of a Sarah saw that its brown fur was tinged did. I guess you were supposed to." She cover-up. I took this thing for exactly the

with white, the beginning of winter turned. "See you later on," she said, and opposite reason, to make it clear that this

coloration. She fired and the rabbit trotted along after the rabbit, figuring is not the kind of thing that I'm going to jerked, a bad sign. It should have slum ; whose land it would run across next, or if tolerate, any kind of cover-up. But it

ped. The rabbit took off, running for the it was dead, and then it didn't matter. seemsjust the opposite thing happened.

trees. One hind leg bounced along Wavelength: What is your reaction to uselessly. vice chancellor Baxter's statement that "Shit!" Sarah yelled. Then she began "For the good of the university the mat- running after it, feeling both excitement ter should be dropped."?

in the chase and the weight of respon- Hogan: Did he say that? O God! I think sibility for the quick end of the animal's that is totally ridiculous. For the good of pain. the university it ought to be cleared up. It

They ran a long way. She lost the rab- does more harm perhaps than the in- bit for awhile when it ran to brushy cident itself to just drop it. We need to cover. She spooked it when jogging along know what happened. We need people to its spotty trail of blood. It dashed out into know that we know what happened. We open fields again. After twenty minutes found sufficient evidence to indicate that of chase, she began to try to gauge the they (the campus police) were at grievous rabbit's resourcefulness instead of just fault and to say that for the good of the running blindly after it. She tried to head university it ought to be dropped is a it off, tried to scare it in the direction of a statement that does nobody any good. clear shot by throwing rocks and sticks to Wavelength: If changes are not made one side of where it was hiding. It always concerning the police do you believe that ran in the wrong direction or flashed in there is a strong possibility that a similar the open for too short a time. She con- Jazz Solo or more serious incident could occur? tinued after it. Her throat felt scalded and Hogan: I certainly do! I certainly do! the imbalance of the rifle's weight slowed Two birds dead on the bricks, right here. her down. Someone should investigate, could be a trend Finally, it ran again into a large field. Sarah had a clear shot, but a long one: the wounded rabbit had gained on her. It ran across stubbled ground fifty- Two birds dead on the bricks, right here. sixty yards in front of her as she stumbled Someone should investigate, could be a trend; out of the woods and she drew quick aim, though one is crisp with rock salt. leading the lobsided loping shape and (Keepin' up with the changes, the bass player then another shape appeared at the top sets a foundation over shifting earth) edge of her vision, distracting her, then a scientist, working ahead of the rate of change. realizing it was a hawk, specifically a Goshawk which had been about to steal her- game, she fired without aiming, in- An uncle told me the ocean never changes tending to miss, a warning shot to scare it though it's always different; I believed him then, off. It worked. The hawk flew off and now he's crisp too, and doubting. Find a test perched on a nearby limb, waiting we can administrate the elders, chart the trends. another chance. She followed its flight (There's a drummer in back, his pulse must be mine. with the gun barrel. When we're swinging, a spot check is fine; Thirty yards away at the other end of when rhythms stack up toppling, I must clutch the beast, the field Paul and Sharon broke cover at react from the spine, speak with the voice of the other.) the same time. "No!" Paul shouted. John Zieman

47 Letters to the Editors

The only way we can end this nuclear madness workshops, films, art n' crafts, and is to do it ourselves." Coppola, Ann UMass exhibits will begin on Wednesday the Kennedy campaign coordinator and member 30th of April and continue through of the SAC has a firm, but more moderate Friday the view. "Actions such as those at Seabrook are 2nd of May. Highlighting this important because people are taking control celebration will be a concert on Thursday over their lives by sending the government a evening at 8 o'clock in the 010 cafe strong message," says Coppola. "Actions such featuring the reggae music of the Zion In- as these empower people and let them realize tonations. Donation at the door is $2.00. that they can participate directly in important decisions that affect the future of our coun- As campus unrest continues over issues try." related to us all, we encourage every one Melissa Sansome a has philosophical view of to celebrate Spring and the semester's end direct action. "Laws are made to protect the by joining us in constructive endeavors people," says Sansome, "and when the laws do towards increasing not serve this purpose, then we must appeal to communication and Seabrook the higher authority of our own conscience." cooperation among the many cultural In the areas around the Three Mile Island and ethnic populations who together nuclear plant, the laws are not protecting the As the sun rose above the marshes in form our University. 1 4 children who have been born with a thyroid Seabrook, New Hampshire last October 6, condition that has been directly related to over sixty U Mass/Boston students waded radioactive iodine that has been released from Yours sincerely, through knee-deep water as they made their the reactor core." way toward the fences that surround the Sherry Thomas, Director of INFO Student Trustee Chris Alberto plans to par- nuclear power plant construction site. The Christopher Clifford, Director of ticipate in the spring IN- UMass students, along with approximately action at Seabrook, and he feels the timing of the action will FOFEST 3,500 other demonstrators were met at the fen- May 24th insure the permanent shut-down the ces by scores of state police and National of site. Christopher Alberto, Student Trustee Alberto states that the several anti-nuclear Guardsmen. Tear gas, mace, clubs, and water ac- Carmen Dillon, Assistant Vice Chan- tions this spring, including the April 26th mar- hoses were violently used by police to push cellor for Academice Affairs ch on Washington, will bring the issue back the wave of human beings who were at- of Sarah Small, Minister nuclear power to the forefront, will Campus tempting to occupy the site with the intention and in- tensify Seabrook of permanently stopping construction. action. Alberto also feels that the growing discontent of the Many members of the UMass group were residents of The Last Word Harrisburg, Pennsylvania victims of police brutality. While some found will justify the claims of anti-nuclear activists across the coun- the rain and cold temperatures merely un- As Wavelength ends its first year we try. comfortable, others suffered serious health bid good-bye to Janet Diamond and Rick How will UMass/Boston problems such as pneumonia and hypother- students par- ticipate in the overall plan of the Bowers, our two founders. We wish mia. Drawing worldwide attention for their May 24th ac- tion? Perhaps student Seth Kolseth will them the best luck and the greatest suc- direct action efforts, the demonstrators UMB .be proved correct managed to stop construction for three days in saying that "When cess as their careers at UMass come to thousands of people go towards the Seabrook before leaving the site. an end. Everyone on the staff will miss fences on May 24th with fence cutters and In spite of all the police brutality and dif- their endless energy and creativity. ropes, you can be sure that there will be ficulties of October 6, it appears that over one UMass students holding key positions in the Next year we will continue to publish hundred UMass/Boston students will .par- front lines." objective ticipate in an occupation/blockade attempt at news analysis, quality fiction, Seabrook on May 24th. A large collective com- poetry, and art, as well as informative Kristan Bagely mittment exists at UMass/Boston to stop and Ken Tangvik and entertaining articles on a variety of Seabrook construction.sStudents from several topics. We need new talent of all kinds campus groups are uniting for the purpose of to replace our graduating staff. If you're shutting down Seabrook permanently. interested in doing advertising, Although most of the UMass participants INFOFEST share a common committment to shutting copyediting, proofreading, typesetting, down Seabrook, other reasons motivate them news coverage, typing, photography, To the Editor of Wavelength: to use nonviolent direct action at a nuclear layout, or in contributing fiction, site. Joe Allen, a member of the UMass anti- graphics or poetry, stop by our office in war committee shares a view with many anti- We would like to take this opportunity the English department (010/6/065) or nuclear activists across the country. "Seabrook to invite members of the greater Univer- is now the focal point of anti-nuclear activity call us at x2636. Thanks for reading us sity community to join with us in efforts in the U.S.," Allen states. "It is on the verge of and thanks to all our contributors - we'll financial collapse." By stopping Seabrook, a towards acheiving Racial Harmony for a be back with issue #5 in the fall. chain reaction could happen and all of the Better Boston as part of the seventh an- nukes across the country could be forced to Wavelength would like to thank The nual Spring INFOFEST here at shut down." Allen went on to add, "The Real Paper for its help with the cover UMass/Boston. nuclear industry and government have lied to photo. Cary Wolinsky, please contact us. us time and time again about nuclear power. Three days of special events,

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