OBSERVER Vol. 9 No. May 9, 1967 Front Page Council Hears 2nd Draft Amid Revealing Debate Eugene M. Kahn Tri-County College Group Launches New Peace Drive Ilene Hearn “Utopian Youth”, 4 Middle-Agers Meet On Panel Margaret Aulisio Evaluations Carnegie Grant Given To Fleetwood For Research Dean Takes Leave Next Year; Post May Be Freeman’s Peter Minichiello Bleucher Helps EPC And Faculty Map Com. Course Peter Minichiello Avant-Garde Film Festival This Weekend Page 2 Our Founding Fathers Cartoon Feiffer Conversations with Myself William Sherman Campus Notes Page 3 Bard College Calendar Page 4 Fiedler Remains At Buffalo After Drug Arrest Non-Profit Ora-~ U.S. POSTAGE PAID Annandale-on­ Bard Hudson, N.Y. 0 BS ·E.RVER- PERMIT NO.1 The Official Publication of the Bard Student Body Five cents per copy Vol. 9, No. 21 ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N. Y. MAY 9, 1967 1 Council Hears 2nd Draft EVALUATIONS· Dean Takes Leave Bleueher H e Ip s Amld Revealing Debate Faculty evaluation sheets should be out in two weeks, Next Year; Pos~ EPC And Faculty By Eugene M. Kahn according to Bruce Lieber~an, Chairman Constitutional Committ~e set be~r@ . Coun£il last night of E.P.C. and speak­ May Be Freeman s Map Com. Course ing . for that committee. Stu~ another draft of a constitutio~ this time scrapping completely dents will receive them in ,.. .· ' By Peter Minicbtello the idea of community by Peter Minichiello government and calling for a Student campus mail. Dean Hodgkinson will be on Association run by a nine~member all-student Senate. "The proposal as it now sab'batical leave next spring se­ stands," says Bruce Lieberman, Unlike the present Assembly, -------------~~~~~~~~~===== mester 1968. During those chairman of E.P.C., referring the Association would include months, he will be at Berkley. to the committee's work on only registered students. The Profe_ssor Kenneth Freeman, Common Course, "has become Senate, replacing the existing Tri-County College Group a philosophy teacher at Cornell a joint effort of representative Council, would be the student College in Iowa, is presently groups from the students, fac­ legislative body, headed by a being considered to replace the ulty and administration and has president and vice-president, Launches New Peace Drive Dean during this semester. If received the support of Dr. chosen separately in a general By Ilene Hearn he were to take the position, Heinrich Bleucher, creator of election. " . Professor Freeman would also the original Common Course." The three points of the pro­ Several colleges in the mid­ teach a philosophy course that The Common Course cannot posed constitution which drew Hudson valley, including Vas­ semester. in· the future continue as it has the most heated debate were the sar, Marist, Bard, New Paltz and been, due both to the coming need for a vice-president to the three community colleges On a visit to the campus on retirement this year of Dr. Bleu­ chair the in the three local counties, have Monday, Prof. Freeman spoke Senate meetings~ a cher and the faculty's reluctance Judicial Board of established contact with resi­ informally to several students five students to concentrate on an interdisci­ to replace House Presidents dents in nearby areas beset with in Al,bee Social. plinary course when time could Committee and "serve economic or racial problems to Seeks "Conversation'' as a be devoted to their own fields. court," to By Margaret Aulisio form a committee focusing upon "A 'College i,s primarily a con­ judge student viola­ This is the twofold way in which tions of regulations; the concern of valley residents versation," he said, "between and a Stu­ A panel discussion sponsored Dean Hodgkinson summarized dent Services for the disastrous effects of the the teaching Committee which by the American Studies Pro­ and learning ele­ the problem at E.P.C. on April would absorb war in Vietnam. ments of the community." all of the present gram attracted a large · throng He 19. committees The nucleus of the group is of Council. of Bardians to Albee Social said that his general "bias" or Changes Go To Executive Kip Eggert Elected the New Paltz Committee to End last Thursday. The suibject was working method as Dean would The committee was unanimous Council the War, which has established also elected Kip E.g­ "A Middle-Ag-ed Look at Uto­ be that of not allowing the "con­ in its decision that the Common gert to fill the seat vacated a Dralft Resisters Union which . by pian Youth," with Professors versation" to 'be interrupted. Course should not lose its place Collette Barry. The six Coun­ is presently calling for a ·com­ Pierce, Walters and Koblitz as "The John Birchers can't be in the Bard curriculum. Andy cil members munity meeting on May 13, 1967 present chose be­ tolerated because they would Bernstein and Bruce Liberman tween Eggert, p~nel members and. De-an Ho~g- to launch a summer anti-war who was not prohibit speech, and neither can presented at the April 26 meet­ there, and ki~son .as moderator. Followmg organizing project, called DUO, Ward Feurt, nom­ the ultra-le<ft be allo,wed to pre­ ing a prospectus for re-struc­ inated by bnef discourses by members of <the initials of the three com­ Mac McCune. Bruce vent a free dialogue." In the turing the course. It was adop­ Lieberman had been nominated the pan~l, the floor was open Imunities, Dutchess, Ulster, and same. context, he remarked to questwns and comment. Orange). that ted by E.P.C. and was set to by Harvey Fleetwood, but Lie­ heroin and its use would always tContiQued on Page Four) berman said he would rather The dis· cussio~ was limite? The group will concentrate prove a disruptive element. LSD be nominated by a community as much as p~ssrble to. Amen- its efforts in Kingston, Pough­ was "on the borderline" in that member, rather than someone can youth, with pa?ehst and keepsie, Be a c 0 n, Newburgh, "we don't know a lot about it on Council. studen~ ~ebate centerJ.ng aro~nd Middletown, and Ellenville. Var­ yet." l\vant-Garde Although the proposed consti­ self-ongmated questwns hke: ious local civil rights and peace Professor Freeman favors a tution is subject to change and What makes today's youth dif- organizations are . also partici­ course at Bard on the dra,ft pro­ Film Festival rev1s1on, the Constitutional ferent from the young people of pating. cedures in this country, and the other eras; how does youth re- Committee hopes to hold an specifi•cs of deferment and ser­ volt against society, and, what Aims of DUO Assembly meeting within two At the present time, 20 col­ v~ce ,in the armed forces. T~ his Weekend weeks to let the community de­ can youth do within the society lege students have volunteered Twenty short films, including cide on a new constitution be­ to improve it? to work with six full-time com- Stan Brakage's "Desistfilm" and fore the coming student elec­ "What Is Youth?'' munity organizers in develop- affected from the War and the John Hubley's "Harlem Wednes­ tions. Prof. Ko'blitz attempted a de­ ing a sense of consciousness Administration and to bring day" will be shown in a festi­ According to Bob Edmonds, finition of youth, sawing, "The and committment identical with them in contact with one an­ val of avant-garde and experi­ who presented the tentative question that occurs to one is: the aims of the "Vietnam Sum- other. mental films this weekend. draft, the philosophy what of the new is youth?-not as a purely mer", as proposed by various 2. To undertake a program of document was to "work out chronological condition .. Youth The films will be shown over civil rights and peace groups at education to deepen their knowl­ three nights, Friday, Saturday something to 1 guarantee certain is something after adolescence the marches in New York and edge and concerns. about the rights and Sunday evenings in Sottery to students . and a .. ..and many of us continue for San Francisco, April 15, 1967. War and to increase their abil- fairly stable organization and a long time in various stages of at 8:3(} p.m. Most films are less These aims aFe: ity to speak out in opposition than twenty minutes long. The eliminate superfluous things." it." 1. To identify thqse persons to the War. While the constitution at­ Friday and Saturday programs Continued on Page 3 in the community who are dis- <Continued On Page Four' are each 9(} minutes in total tempts to "secure rights and I privileges," Harvey Fleetwood, length, and Sunday's will be two hours. along with other speakers, felt Judiciary Bound that much of these guarantees The most heated debate was Carne,uz·e c,IFIJnt Gz·ven ,..,.,0 ' The Bard Film Committee is l::J ._., 4 J presenting the had already been spelled out in over the five-member Judiciary .1. movies as exam- the Due Process Report, issued Board, elected at large to decide VI d V R h ples of an area of American last year, but as yet not acted violations and interpret the _r teetwoo _r or esearc and European movie-making upon by the Faculty Committee. that is generally ignored. Some Vice-Pres. Challenged constitution. Some people were Harvey Fleetwood, a govern- 1 in the Washington, D.C. area, of the films were made by art­ opposed to a student court on f · h d t d Bruce Lieberman, the most ment maJ· or, has been named to con er w1t e uca ors an ists now producing important general principles.