It's Not the Only Song He Knows

News Digest the new IF HOUSE RESOLUTION 12628 PAS SES, campus veterans may soon expect a $30 a month increase in benefits. This would raise the veteran’s payments from $220 to $250 a month. Steven Smith of the Office for Veteran’s Affairs said the February 15, 1974 Volume 64 Number 25 bill faces opposition from the Nixon Ad ministration which proposes a minimal in crease of eight percent to cover the cost of living increase. The bill calls for a 13.6 percent' increase in benefits. (See s to ry page 3) It’s not the only A HALF DOZEN CARS were towed away from the Shop and Save parking lot for being left for an extended period of time. song he knows Shop and Save Assistant Manager Morris Ruel said the cars were towed to insure By Mary Ellen D’Antonio adequate parking facilities for their He steps on to the cold ice of Snively customers. Overnight parking is prohibited Arena and awaits silence from the crowd. in the parking.lot and violators will have to The announcement is made over, the pay between $15 and $25 for the towing loudspeaker. The restless, excited fans are charge. asked to rise for the singing of the National (see story page 3) Anthem. All eyes glance at the short, grey-haired WILLIAM MAJORS, an associate pro man dressed in a light blue sports coat and fessor in the Art Department, has resigned . wearing a colorful bow-tie, as he stands in a move labeled “highly unethical.” motionless on the centerline. Art Department Chairman Dr. Melvin J. For two minutes the only voice amongst Zabarsky said last spring Majors’ contract thousands heard in the huge arena is that of would not be renewed, which means he John Conroy as he sings the Star Spangled would have been required to leave at the Banner. With confidence he hits the high end of this scholastic year. But Zabarsky difficult notes of our National Anthem. received Majors’ letter of resignation Feb Amidst the loud applause from the audi ruary 1. Majors’ terminated contract and ence, the song end. The crowd roars as the subsequent resignation mainly resulted puck is dropped and the hockey game be from an inability to get along with stu gins. John’s job is completed. dents. Conroy said he has been singing at the (See story page 4) Hockey games for two and a half years now. TEN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT PRO “Before I began singing at the games FESSORS shrugged off the effects of the they were using a scratchy old record,” calendar change last semester and devised said Conroy. “Many people in town had mini-courses for students to meet grad been complaining about the record. John uation requirements. Grimes, a local merchant, one day dared Under the direction of Dr. William B. me to sing at the arena. I called Andy Who Is Guru Maharaj Ji? Hunter, 10 courses were offered at 2 cred Here is Charles Cameron, editor of the book, An Oxford Mooradian, director of athletics, the next graduate and published p o e t a Cameron numbered among the first premiesyoi the its a piece during semester break through day and set everything up.” Perfect Master and Lord of the Universe. English 796, the English department in Conroy laughs and remarks on his status dependent study. Each studencould take a as a “bonafide town character.” He stresses maximum four credits which can be used the point that he is a character. to fulfill a general literature requirement T’m nntsprikpn T lpt popplp know what T Sleaziness and Blight for majors or a college distribution re feel about what’s going on. I take an inter quirement for non-majors. est in politics, just go downtown, ask any (See story page 4) one, they 71 tell you I’m a character.” You get rolled; Guru gets a Rolls Rumors have it that the color of John’s A UNH STUDENT has taken it upon jacket when he is performing at the games Commentary by himself to initiate a program to raise is usually the color of the visiting team. V. R. Ackermann $10,000 for the UNH Care Fund to be used The truth is that the color has nothing to The Knowledge came to Durham on freaks, DCE dowagers, mere onlookers, in Viet Nam. do with either of the teams. He was told to Tuesday and it was called Divine. Yes, it professorial couples, and a few assorted John Lynch has started the program for wear a bright colored coat by the T.V. sta was New Hampshire’s chance to tune in on zoo-goers. Among this motley assemblage, which anyone can donate any amount they tion that covers the games. the latest rage religion wave - the Word of a few gawking campus Fundamentalists, want to Care on Mother’s Day. He will then “If the color jacket I wear happens to be the Perfect Master, the veritable Lord of clutching Bibles and mumbling prayer, send a personalized card to their mother the colors of the visiting team, it’s just an the Universe, Infinity shaped lovingly into could be seen. The Guru and his minions, saying they have donated money to needy accident. I just wear what I damn please,” a round and blubbery figure - the flaccid remember, are, to the Bible-belters, noth families in Viet Nam in her name. A Walk- exclaims Conroy. fat of the Gum Maharaj Ji, 16 year old ing less than Antichrist. A-Thon has also been tentatively The 53 year old dairyman leaves the whiz-kinder and booster of blah. After a hot-shot opener by Cameron, en scheduled for April 27 at UNH for Care. arena after his chore is completed. He goes Functioning as the Gum’s kept-Saint livened by spasmodic giggles from certain (See s to ry page 4) to his small room above the UNH dairy John—Baptist came one Charles Cameron of his agents in the throng, the film rolled. bams. He is employed by the University in of England, Oxford grad, escapee of high- The question of the night, spanning THE PRESIDENTS OF the six New Eng the barns. toned Anglicanism, so-called poet, writer whole universes with its metaphysics, was land state universities object to recent He said it is easier to watch the hockey of science-fiction (with emphasis “fic “Who is Guru Maharaj Ji?” Well, what I games on T.V. because of his “eyesight de tion”), and, since 1969, Grand Press-Agent saw was far from the glorious spectacle recommendations that tuition at public ficiency.” colleges and universities be raised to relieve Extraordinaire for Divine Light. promised by Cameron. It was, rather, a CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 The big event of the visitation mani pathetic spectacle of man’s herd-instinct the situation of private schools. fested itself in Tuesday night’s film and lec gone on a spree. There was the Guru, look At a conference in the New England Cen ture on “Who is Guru Maharaj Ji?” but be ing sleek and well-fed,his hulking and bug ter Monday, the chairman and spokesman fore this got under way, Cameron talked eyed brother, Bhole Ji, conducting the Di for the group, UNH President Thomas with j The New Hampshire. vine Light Blue Aquarius Band, the Holy Bonner, said increasing tuition at the pub “I have found,” he said, “Guru Maharaj Mother, the stooping eldest brother, Bhag- lic institutions will “only reduce access to Ji (pronounced “Grrumahrrajji”) to be the wan Ji, and the endless masses of followers education and to opportunity generally.” most perceptive and loving person I’ve ever pressing and longing for peace. Higher tuition, he said, simply would shift met. He is very remarkable.” the burden of support from public re He first got a job on the Divine band A testimonial sequence assured the audi sources to the private resources of the mid wagon five years ago “after majoring in Re ence that Divine Light through the Guru’s dle American family. If tuitions were ligion at Oxford.” A series of depressing Knowledge allows for better tennis games, raised at the state institutions, Bonner pre events left him dissatisfied with life as it enables house-painters to spray latex with dicted, “public colleges would have to turn stands. Priesthood, a once-held dream, was more dash and aplomb, sends up-and-at’em away thousands of qualified students.” out; the business world, too, was impossi computer technicians off on poetic fant ble; writing for its own sake did not appeal, asies about their jobs, and lets garage mech WINTER CARNIVAL ’74 started with a so , he “set out in search of the lost King anics fondle your cars’ bowels with insight bonfire that fizzled ^within a few minutes dom of Heaven.” and Light. of being lit yesterday and an annual relay One of the original non- which was shortened due to the energy cri Indian premies (Indian, for “one who loves sis. God”), Cameron now belongs to a group DEPARTMENTS The theme of this year’s Winter Carnival numbering over 60,000 in the U.S. alone. Letters Page 6 is a revival of the twenties. The Highlights And more and more show up with willing of the weekend will be the “Anything goes ness to join. Notices Page 8 on Snow” race, Saturday morning, a The Film Dionysus Page 10 “Night of Sin” at the Memorial Union On Tuesday night, people of every con Roundabout Saturday night, and a concert by the Gary ceivable sort thronged to the Hillsborough Page 11 Burton Quartet Sunday night, also in the -Sullivan Room at the Memorial Union - Sports Page 16 Union.

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