OBSERVER Vol. 12 No. 14 September 24, 1969 Front Page Deserted Village Suit Marion Swerdlow Page 2 America In The 60s Geoff Cahoon Article Joan Tollifson and Bruce Warshavsky Mr. Black Page 3 Bombs Quote From Pablo Picasso Chicks Kidnapped Seale Budget Page 4 Photograph LNS/MVN Tunes Mark Barnett Page 5 Cat Of Nine Tails Welcome To The Zoo John Katzenbach Quote From Woodrow Wilson Page 6 Editorial Quote From Louis Blanc Cartoon Feiffer Letters [Questions regarding Bruce Warshavsky's and Joan Tollifson's article . .] Anita Schnee Page 7 Skiff SDS Marion Swerdlow DESERTED VILLAGESUIT jail. The legal limit for punishment for brutally harassed by a ·matron .. At I three Bard students and their Last May such an offence is actually 15 days. They least one was placed in a solitary at the college were convicted visitor were told they might make phone calls confinement cell. In the early hours of on the Central Hudson Gas of trespass only after they had entered a plea. the morning, they were taken to the and Electric Corporation property Martin allegedly advised them to plead prison's cellar and subjected to which lies directly behind Ward Manor. fingerprinting and mugshots. It is known to Bard students as the guilty, telling them that if they pleaded not guilty and were found guilty, it 'Deserted Village.' told that a copy of his face and would result in a $500 fine. On the Each was would be sent to the FBI. They basis of this, all four pleaded guilty and prints Each of these four have filed a released at seven o'clock in were given $100 fines. They attempted to were finally $250,000suit against Sheriff Lawrence hours after they pay by check and were toi d that only the morning, twelve Quinlan, the county itself, and the city were initially picked up. of Poughkeepsie. They are Dawn Shiireen, cash was acceptable, and that they could not leave until this was paid. Wendy Golub, Donna LaGreca, and According to their lawyer, none of the Donald Ochiuzzo. had any intention of committing to four The students were never allowed any illegal act--not even trespass. The eventually 'It was the most infuriating experience of phone, but prison authorities property, Shafter alleges, is not separated my life,' said Miss Shifreen. According to made two or three calls for them. Legal­ from the college property by 'proper had the right to make the lawyer for the four, Alfred Shafter ly, each of the four means,' there is no fence, only a solitary of New York City, the incident began two calls personally. gate which at the time had no notice with 'an innocent bicycle ride' on May that one was leaving college property. 17. The four were picked up and taken In the Poughkeepsie jail, they suffered Shafter charges that the police, the to court in Red Hook, where they were what Shafter calls 'Gestapo stuff:' company, and the authorities involved charged with a violation, the category they were denied water, food and the use acted in concert to 'harass defame into which a parking ticket fits. of johns. Forced to strip, they were intimidate and deprive the~e stude~ts searched for dope, which was not found, of their constitutional rights.' 'We charge, There, according to Shafter, Red Hook and then forced to don prison clothes. says Shafter, 'that a conspiracy exists Town Justice Frank Martin told them that One student was physically manhandled, among these people. Now we must back each faced a $100 fine of .100 days in while another was constantly and this charge with facts.' to page 3 KIDNAPPED.•. W' :~· · . ~::,~~)•.:_.· . • IDNAPPED see story on P.3 2 AMERICAt~~ by Geoff Cahoon course (something few teachers here In designing the course last semester, it could claim for their courses}. Because became obvious that after spending two Sitting in 'America in the 60's'... it's of this, a student in this course is or three years majoring in a particular in Albee Social, so we're all sitting around, indulging in learning tor learning's sake division, one's whole approach can be slouched down low in the cheezy motel and not participating in an authoritarian molded by that discipline. furniture the school provides. So far process that holds a club over his head we've spent most of our time discussing in the form of the teacher'assessment of The student risks seeing the world through how we're going to do papers for the class. his performance. the assumptions and methods of his own We start getting involved with other topics field, and becomes a stranger to other e.g. the discussion turns into a sort of Back in Albee Social. .l look around the views. At the same time, he is digesting room while another person is rambling show and tell--almost all of us wait for for him in advance by that my eye is not constant materials prepared a moment when it seems somewhat on and realize of becoming checking the position of the professor a professor, and is in danger appropriate and injects their favorite interests and because ther is none .. .it sounds like a alienated from his own fact or theory, whether it is really relevent unique thought processes. 'America in class .. .looks like a class .. .! know I read or not, but, no matter, we're getting used Sixties' will be a chance for students a book for it last night, so it must be a the to each other at least and beginning to to study what interests them, and to do class ... but still no professor ... without him trust each other a bit. A lot of us have so from a variety of perspectives. been brainwashed, or so it seems, into I suspect that it's not a class but rather experience. and we need many expecting to have a 'leader' or a 'teacher' a learning will operate on a pass/fail more of them. The course in a classroom situation so that when basis. Each student will present a project we do away with such a personage, we still of his own choosing to the seminar. react as if he were there. The project will accompany an oral by Joan T ollifson and Bruce Warshavsky presentation, and may take the form of As a consequence we all find ourselves a paper, a film, or any other means the striving for a graded position each time Last semester a group of students got student designs. Some projects already we want to make a statement.. we ask together in the hope of starting a cross­ being planned include ~The Self in the ourselves: Does this agree with such individual, student-run seminar on topics literature of the Sixties,' 'The .Kennedy and such,' or 'How will I look if I say that the students themselves considered Myth,' 'The Merry Pranksters.' 'An this?' Soon, I suspect such questions interesting and important. What motivated Inter-Arts Experience,', and so on. These will either cease or be paid less attention these students was the belief that college presentations correspond to a general to. must fkst of all be enjoyable and relevant, course plan that provides an analysis of even if it becomes necessary to -work out· America in the past decade·-an analysis Still, it is. difficult for a group of people side of traditional education forms. It which does not restrict itself to the who have been brainwashed into expecting was .felt that if the ouroose of education views and methods of any one discipline. an authority figure to lead them by the is to teach one to educate himself, then hand to seek after specifics of knowledge a student-run experiment was long over· Bard is reputed to have been an innovat\ve· in a field of study as unspecific as due at Bard College. and experimental school in the past. 'America in the 60's.' The course of action Such an expenment IS now under way. Although it appears that we have long we've chosen for this semester is to 'America in the Sixties' is a fully since left experimentation to other have individuals present papers or accredited, student-run course, meeting schools, there have been some new topics of their own choice and have weekly in a seminar to discuss the past stirrings on this campus. If 'America' discussion of them afterwards. We~ll see ten years in America. The course is becomes a precedent (and it is intended how that works. being planned and conducted by the stu­ to be just that), a Bard education night The class may succeed, if only because. dents themselves, and the topics, once again mean something more exciting the members of it seem to have a feeling readings, and discussions are determined than four years of mid-term papers and of responsibility for its success as a by the interests of those in the class. final exams. m Mr. Black, who teaches in the Language York in the late 1950's. Her work begins and Literature Division at Bard, is with a full range of cosmic forms such as mounting a comparative retrospective the series 'Orbs,' 'Astron,' 'Cornona,' and exhibition of the works of two artists, 'Chromosphere,' develops these forms . Herbert Bayer and lngeborg ten Haeff, into a human interiority illustrated by for the new Yonkers Hudson River such paintings as 'Man's Voyage,' Museum. The show will be called 'Two 'Vision of the Inner Self,' and 'Man's Visions of Space: Herbert Bayer, lngebor~ Crucifixion' and evolves into the recent ten Haeff.' · metaphysical portraits, among them 'Martin Luther King: Portrait of the It will include well over a hundred paint­ Assassination and Gospel.' ings, drawings and photomontages.