OBSERVER Vol. 14 No. 6 May 18, 1971 Cover Page Photograph Back Page The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers Gilbert Shelton Page 1 Plans May Day Frank Montafia Page 2 Letters [“ . Anything against the law about having a flag on a hat and wearing . .”] Shirley Jewett [“ . Encourage you to wear your hat . Might be old local ordinances . .”] The Editor [“All faculty . Should return their books to the library . .”] Jeffrey R. Ray Rubble Lydia Ayers Page 4 Another Letter To Father Janet Auster Page 5 The Shooting Of An Element Part II Josh Moroz Photograph Candy Freeland/LNS Page 6 A Threatened Species Sharon Murphy Photograph Nick Elias Page 7 Bard Lands Erik Kiviat Photograph Nick Elias Photograph Laine Abbott Photograph Natural History Magazine Page 8 Heroine: Harriet Tubman Shirley Cassara Drawing Julie Gelfand Page 9 Photograph J. Richard Bartelstone Photograph Nick Elias Page 10 Photograph Nick Elias Page 11 Photograph Zach Bregman Photograph Nick Elias Content Summary Continued on Next Page Page 12 Films A Man Escaped Psycho Sierra Madre Larry Gross Page 13 Panthers, Bleeding Or Leeched Gene Elk Political Cartoon R. Cobb Page 14 Everywhere A Nation Underground Eric Arnould Page 15 Porno Dr. Bowdler’s Legacy Lingha Mandyoni Piet Hein William M. Lipton Page 16 Jeremy Steig Lydia Ayers Jazz Black Experience In Sound Dave Phillips Neglect John Reiner Incredible String Band Richard Grabel Page 17 Road To Saigon Richard Edson Political Cartoon R. Cobb ··AaD ~OLL··· .....,..t OrgriPIIal ~ u. s. PeSIIil NIWYOUIDN fAID !.o••.Wa •Hultas. N. V. ln'UIN IEQUISTED hmitND.I continued on page 1B ---:_---~~ -' ·"'-:;---.; . ~ ~~-~-~:-·-·.-· -- )'-:.' ' dent use of the Great Hall and the Coh­ • ent attitude that offended many of the ference Room remains. As the plan in­ freaks. The only political area in which di"cates, the Psych. Oept. gets use of the they were not progressive was sexism. lesser Hall, dividing it into two large Most of them were conscious of male offices, a calculator room, and two psy­ may chauvinism as a concept, but enjoyed the chology labs. In addition to this, they reality of it too much to be receptive to get the use of the offiees and laboratories even discussing the subject. c,.•'_:pla~ .~ in what is now the second selVing line1 In the original artkle ~egarding the ~re and the use of the present bake shop as a Thursday was spent in the camp, spending use of Prestol} f-:lall {the present DlQjng starage area; also, the use of the present time at the öifferent campsites. The Bos­ ay ton people were in one area, the New store room as a workshop. d -..... Commöns) itvygs~'tntioned thC!t~e · York people in another, etc, It was nice - ~, plan that wa~s___- presen-te__ d.hadyet to Tuesday evening, I deeideel to go to D.C. Several other minor changes were made to see how the regionals were organizing ", g~ before th- ~ g Range .f!~a~~lng Com- the next day for the May Day festivities. m•ttee. As weeks ago it aid and at the LRPC's suggestion. These inci"ude and functioning. This would turn out to Wednesday morning I received in the be the politics of the week; the regional .;\_the p_lan you_-~e-pn t_his pa,e1epresents the expansion of Classrõõm 1 so that it mail my Bronze Star, which the Army now occupies the rear section of the being the level where command decisions t,;,'--___eon frn~J- b -lil!I-TIO~-e-LR- ;;cston_ :an, as agreed had awarded me three years ag_o. Wednes­ were resolved. Thursday evening, the 1963 addition to Dining Commons, and day afternoon I headed tor U:C. to begin t :_ -_~_+->.r'·: -~~:J the remaval of the interior walls in the camp is starting to increase in population a week of political and cultural protestre­ and spreading out. By Friday morning ~_e -~QJ'fica~ipns tqj;~e original plan present faculty dining room, which bellionfreak-out aimed at the government, lit · ~~ed ''\ la~~pe, and the would now become Classroom 2. there are five or six thousand people establishment, F.B.I., C.l.A., and the U.S. within this incredible campsite of teepees, :<r: r. ;~~ ~.eh ~nd lfse changes is as The addition of an outside entrance 'to Army, which had just sent me that token parachutes, tents, buses, rented trucks the Lesser Hall will allow the Psychology of appreciation for my proficiency and and freaks; assorted in group~ I ike Gay }'it'~~-- fJit~it_:8L.Rrc, that the two Dept. to isolate itself from activities oc­ heroics in their program of imperialism lib, Vets, May Day Tribe, Women's - plans~at haQ"jfeen submitted to the curring in the adjacent rooms, but will for S. E. Asia: TheVietNam War .. Group, D.C., lllinois, Afabana. Dig it, _ Co~~-itt~ :!>f~the Psychology Dept. and stiil have the affect of bringing a new Alabama sent 50 people to D.C. for May ' Ge- Ca ö -· and Nelson Bennett, were centralization of academic activities to Wednesday night in D.C., I found where Day! nq · m~ _atible .. In leng~hy d iseussian the Bard campus. Aspinwall, which rests the Viet Nam V ets Against the War were 'b_ _ Corilmlttee, a fmal comprom~ on top of the present kitchen area, will e camped in West Potomac Park and Friday afternoon we drift over to the ,. Tsi orked out. The Psychology be linked to this new facility by the ad­ crashed with them. A lot of dope and Justice Department with intantions to ' Oi"P'-f. ets' to move its facilities from . dition of a new staircase, and it will cer­ Boone's Farm Apple Wine. The Vets block off all the entrances. About 200 '.wrsb~<V basement, where they a" tainly become a major center of the were an interesting group, mostly working people sit in at each exit and effectively : . ·_ _ga I according to the te. rms of Bard's campus, contributing to the linear form class backgrounds; I was one of the few sealed off the building. The rest of the vrtgage to T~ksbury. However, stu- of campus that we al ready possess. college students. They are very together people, about 2,000, started marehing pol itically but have an arrogant, independ- / around the building, led by one of the r' I'"=.=:J;;;;;::r.......,__ _ SCLC people. There, at the Justice De­ 1: bdb3" partment, I saw the most impressive ~.; sight of the week. About 1 OO people sat ·'j; ,,_ .. ' down and blocked the steps at the entram .. , ! -:li"'<! !...! I :'"' ,- :- on Pennsylvania Avenue. They (somebody I sent out 25 cops who lined the top of the f; l iT steps facing us, then all these mousy bu­ I. _______ 1- I I J--- ... - -4 reaucrats would sneak down to the ent­ •I I ranee and peek out at us over the should· I ers of the cops. So, for about an hour, :II I :I we're sitting there looking at this show -~ when suddenly I realize that every one of ~=--~.F~--= -={~-~;I the cops was black and that every one of the bureaucrats was white (pale white). It really impressed me. Here society had put this bureaucracy in this building and these protesters, wanting mare than any­ thing else to destroy this bureaucracy and everything it epitomizes, and right in the middle of these two forees history has placed the black man in a uniform. I wanted more than anything for those black cops to turn around and take a look at what they were defending, to make them aware of the role th ey were being put into and the nature of that role. More cops come, the tactical pol ice, and we get busted. l'm sent with a group of E 50 (mostly V ets) toa district headquar­ e0 ters for processing. On the bus ride, ra during processing, in the eeli block, the "(J whole time, we, as a group, maintained control. Collectively we were so together 'I in a positive, dynamic; overt manner that ! I felt that no matter how deeply they locked us away, we would stiil maintain control of the situation and of them. We had rnarched off the bus, hands · clasped on the tops of our heads, wh istling "Bridge Over River Kwai". A good mood, a nice feeling. Later that night I thought back to the scene at the'Justice Depart­ men( The 2,000 people marehing aföuni:l and around the building, singing J and chanting, made me think of Mailer's l description of the '67 Pentagon march, where he talks about Abbie Hoffman and I the Yippies circling the building, trying, "I through cosmic force, to lift the Pentagon off the ground. I felt that if the people prestonhal had kept marehing circles around tha Justice Department it would inevitably renovation have to rise or at the very least crumble to the ground. _...... They (them again) took us downtown and programmed us through the judicial il old .. process; one of the most effective produc­ ....... tions of a farce I have ever witnessed. 1 Everything was set between the judge and I ,)'j '/J~~ the lawyers before we ent~red the court­ § ! room. We were operating collectively but the system operates upon individuals, ......0 c:o (1J . i Q.) therefore, each one of us had to go 3 . :::= ; ~ .Sl through the same little skit with the law­ c.J ;it- ~~ 0 yer, the judge and the el erk. Clerk, "How 13 I i - ·I .J ~J .- do you plead?" Defendant, "Not guilty." '"(! lawyer, "Defendant requests trial by ~ t~~ ~-= jury." 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