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CHARLIE'S High, STIL Music RUSH Jr. ers) CAN tion, FRIDAY, TREASU MwADitRhE 9&(7,*art INME 4) iMichigan State News, Last Lansing, Michigan 3 Mantovani mixes modern, classic knowledge or interest to appreciate and enjoy purely classical Talking before his Tuesday night concert, Mantovani said that music," he continued. "So we take the good contemporary music it was all rieht to use his first name in writing up the interview. and improve it with good, classical-style orchestrations and "I'm not trying to hide it," the maestro said. "But it's Italian scoring. And the result has become known as our particular and so few people can pronounce it properly. Besides, Mantovani is long enough of a name for billboards as it is. And it does look style of music." rather nice up there all by itself, doesn't it?" What does he think of today's popular music? It does look rather nice at that, and for this reason, this article "Well, in our day, we had the Black Bottom and all sorts of dreadful things. And today, it's not much better," he smiled. isn't going to mention it. "It's all right in its place, and if you're young, and want to have Mantovani's annual schedule consists of four to five months fun and dance to it. But, let's face it, you really can't sit down and touring either American or Europe, then .another four months listen to ii. Most of the time it's played so loud that you can't making appearances and records in England, and the rest of understand it anyway." the time planning programs, orchestrating them, and "doing a bit He said there are many other recording artists that he enjoyed of composing on the side." listening to—Peter Nero, Andy Williams, and Tony Bennett. And "Setting up the programs takes a lot of time and thought," that to relax on the road, he plays bridge (he spent all Tuesday he said. "We have to consider who we are and what's expected of us. If we came and played Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, people afternoon playing bridge at the Jack Tar) and dabbles in photo¬ would be disappointed. On the other hand, if we played just music graphy. "If you ask any musician, chances are he's interested in photo¬ that has become known through our recordings, people would get tired of that just as well. graphy," he said. "It's another form of expression or release. And you can do so much with It artistically. It's a wonderful out¬ "So we have variety as the keynote. We have the popular music, let." but then we also have the light classics. Change of pace is impor¬ And before the interview was over, he was proudly showing a tant," he said. "We go from fast music to slow, then we'll do a photo he had taken of his new granddaughter. novelty number, then fast and slow again. This way we keep the "Her name is Cathryn," he said, spelling it. "Her parents de¬ program interesting and moving along. cided to do like the Americans do and change the spelling a bit." "What we try to keep in mind is that most peop^ don't have the Mantovani Mantovani and his 01— chestra appeared at the Auditorium last night as part of the Lecture-Con¬ cert Series. Photo by Meade Perl man Cover note This week's cover photograph was taken in the weaving studio of the College of Home Econom- ics. It depicts Susan Tay¬ lor, Detroit sophomore, designing a pattern on one of the department's 15 It is interesting to note that although the loom yas invented thousands of years ago (pre-ceramic age), it remains essen¬ tially the same today. So make it a point to meet Alcoa's Because the guy we're talking Rodier, in "The Ro¬ Why should you about is a college recruiter from recruiter. He's a confidence man mance of French Weav¬ confide in a guy Alcoa. And the only way to play it you can really trust. ing" wrote: is honestly. you've never met He'll be on campus in a couple of Interview date: "Through a?l the ages, the path of the weaver before? days. And here's what we recom¬ mend you do at the interview. Tuesday, Oct. 24 has been the path of true civilization . . . and First, lay your cards on the table. where a loom is wait¬ Tell him what kind of work would ing, the night of really turn you on. An Equal Opportunity Employer savagery is over." Then, sit back and listen while he A Plans for Progress Company explains how your plans figure into Alcoa's plans. (You'll be surprised how versatile Aluminum Company of America COLLAGE can be.) Executive Director... E ric Pianin Feature Editor . . . Roberta Yafie Contributors . . . Linda Bednar, David Gilbert, Jeffrey Justin, Stuart Rosenthal, Jim Yous- ling, Pat Smith, Bob Zeschin, Roy Bryan, Change for the with Alcoa better □ALCOA Dolores Colangelo, Ed Brill, Richard Hass. 4 Thursday, October 12, 1967 Photo by Bob Arnold Fervor of South still exists chance to be with somebody, that was important." By ED BRILL "My poorest student left class the last ctay," "My roommate said he would never again be recollects Alan Lltzke, a graduate student In It's been about three years, now, since the able to look at white men as a group," says physics and math instructor at Rust, "he came focus of our race-conscious nation was on the Dick Aubrey, a graduate student in social back Just to speak to me and he South, i Three years since the so-called science. "The unstereotyping of white people said/Thanks for your help.' I felt quite rewarded, meeting "northern white liberal" marched—rode—sat— in their eyes was part of the gain." and talking to students, even swam to combat what seemed to be an Paul Herron, a sophomore at Rust anda former they were very receptive to me." ugly sore on the other side of our society. student at the STEP Institute views the program "One of the large problems that we have is In the heat of last summer, the sore festered from the other side of the classroom. and exploded In the Northerner's own cities. "I didn't know that the volunteers from Michi¬ a^"andgreat range of students," Klein comments, you have to catch a large number of stu¬ The concerns of "another country", that once gan State would be all white," Paul says in a soft, dents in tutorials because seemed slow voice. "I was rather you'll miss them In so overwhelmingly Important, must pale surprised to see class. You'll either bore them or go against a smoldering ghetto only blocks from his that." way over their heads." own split level home. "But the getting together, the movies, the For most, the South Is an all but trips, their willingness to help me—it was the forgotten "It's rather difficult to make a successful part of the daily newscasts, telling of misery first time a group of whites that I had been in class without getting to most of your students and violence in an unending stream of contact with had said, 'Look, we want to strange help individually and working with them in this way." and familiar places, across our own nation and you.' The program gave us a If there Is a larger lesson to be learned from start—many of around the globe. the students didn't get." the STEP project, could it be the application For a small group, the South still exists. "There's a whole new adjustment process you of the small, concentrated, personal teaching It calls with all the have immediacy and fervor that to go through, in order to find some technique to help students coming out of the brought the white man to the cause of "Civil relationship with these people," comments ghettos of the North? Oristherean irrevocable Rights", before the emergence of Black Power. Klein. "They're not just teachers at college, difference between northern inner-city schools, The MSU Student Education Project but also whites." (STEP), and the South. begun three years ago during the apex of Nor¬ Despite the time limitations on the program, thern involvement In southern civil there Larry Klein for one, thinks there Is. rights, has was some real progress made in the continued essentiaUy unchanged In spite of recent actual classroom programs. "In the South there has Rust students traditionally been outside enthusiasm. This past summer took courses In communications skills and communication between the black people and the again STEP sent 27 students, (all white and mathematics. In the opinion of almost everyone, white people," Klein says. "It's been an in¬ mostly from MSU) down to Holly equitable structure in which the role of the black Springs, Miss. They they worked consistently hard and seriously. participated in a five-week program for incoming "Some of them were very bright," says man and the role of the white man have been freshmen at Rust College, an all-Negro, non- Aubrey. "They knew enough that they wanted pretty well defined, and in order to maintain accredited school. to get every advantage one's safety, one's position, one's life, you they could. Others, The first question you want to ask anyone who though, were very poorly prepared. behave in this manner. It's disfavorable to the They comes back from the STEP black man but the communication has program is what thought that this was their only chance." always the hell can you really accomplish in five short been there. weeks that's going to change anything these kids "In the North, there Is not this communication. have known for a lifetime? The people who grew iq? in the ghetto have little "If we were to say In one or two sentences or no opportunity to communicate with white what our purpose was down there," people. begins Larry Klein, 23-year-old student who temporarily left "I think the lack of communication has pro¬ school last year to organize and head the 1967 duced a barrier which would be more difficult STEP program, "it was to to These people in the ghettos have help these entering overcome. freshmen become better students in college.- an inbred negative feeling toward white people, "What's a better student? Is it someone who toward the system, toward college really,which has had more work when he comes Into is a part of that college, system—something which is or had more class hours or better grades? mostly white and very certainly middle class. I don't think so. It's the result of more than I think it would be more difficult to enter this Just classroom experience, the result of a total situation than it would be to go down to the experience which I think can be found as much South, or to go to a smaller northern city to outside the classroom as It can Inside." work with college bound Negro youth." "I think there was "Those who are thinking about college or something to be accom¬ plished," adds Tom Peterson, a junior in hu¬ who prepare for college in Detroit understand manities at MSU and an instructor at Rust. what is going to happen to them, understand that "But I don't know If it was something we could Wayne State is a tough place, that they really set out to do and then do. You could do it in have to crack to do it," adds Tom Peterson. spite of yourself or in spite of your planned "But as long as he finds out that there is a objectives." group that is interested in him sincerely, that The real key to what happened in the five Is such a clash with what he knows from his weeks down at Rust, In the minds of both the period of Isolation and no communication that MSU Instructors and the Rust students, was jttm, If it sinks in in five weeks, to be found outside the formal and, I think it can, learning ex¬ Larry Klein: "These people then the student is primed. perience, In the reactions that occur with a "He is ready to believe in himself, when he direct confrontation of race, and culture. in the ghettos have an inbred sees somebody else has. In this sense, the "Some of these kids have never had a friend negative feeling toward white fact that you can motivate a student, or allow who was white." Peterson recalls. "Most of him to motivate himself, to find out them had never Deen abie to talk people, toward the system, to¬ enough closely with about himself so that he believes he can make a white. It was the contact we gave them, the ward college really." It, then it would work." » Michigan State News, Last Lansing, Michigan ART Kresge By RICHARD HASS shows pop whose styles and choice of subject matter Still life painting grew in importance can easily be related to an earlier 19th from the 17th to the 19th Centuries. The and 20th Century painting tradition. nature morte of the 17th Century allowed Two minor works of Richard Dieben¬ the Dutch and Spanish painters a chance korn, a California artist who was impor¬ to portray' the beauty of things formerly tant in the 1950's for reviving an interest considered too insignificant to be the main in the figurative subject, are displayed concern of a painting. By the late 19th along with a major work of one of his Century, still life painting was well es¬ followers, James Weeks. Thus, Weeks tablished; it became the private laboratory appears to come off stronger than his of the painter. mentor. A more representative body of The objects painted were so mundane the two artists' work would nut bear this that they usually offered the artist a out. greater freedom of interpretation than a Fairfield Porter is also a more inter subject like the human figure, with its esting painter than the small "White more sentimental overtones. Still life Lilacs" indicates. Paintings by Red materials also allowed the painter more Grooms, Felix Pasilias and George Ward- freedom in selection and arrangement law are of such inferior quality that there Richard Diebenkorn: Stll? Life with than did the landscape. No one in that is no excuse for including them. period organized his private still life Orange Peel. 1955 The other category, that of the popular vocabulary better than Cezanne. In the imagists, is most clearly represented early 20th Century the Cubists and by Warhol. Lichtenstein, Wesselmann and personal selectivity in this work that gives Matisse, in a less complicated way, Rosenquist. Others, like Jasper Johns the objects assembled a special signifi¬ achieved great breakthroughs into con¬ and Wayne Thiebaud could also be in¬ cance. Rosenquist's "Dishes" also goes temporary abstraction through still life cluded but with reservations. The pop bieyond the superficial character of its painting. imagist, or as they .are sometimes called, pop like subject. It is a handsomely It is not surprising, then, that William new realists, tend.to deal with the common painted kitchen detail. Gerdts, the organizer of the current ex¬ stock of our commercial and advertising In his "Sandwiches and Confections," hibition at Kresge Art Center and the world. They often tend to use impersonal Wayne Thiebaud uses luscious paint and a Museum of Modern Art inNew York, which manufactured material presented in a traditional rendering style not unlike Die- circulates it, should xhoose the theme of blatant ad-man manner. Lichtenstein's benkorn's. The subject, however, seems the Contemporary American Still Life for "Electric Cord" or Warhol's "Four more updated. Jasper John's painted a traveling exhibition. It is not quite clear bronze ale cans and aluminum covered Campbell Soup Cans" are examples of what this exhibition is trying to prove, this. Warhol has said he wants to be like "Light Bulb" also could not simply be however. The lack of clarity or continuity labeled as pop images. The Ballantine a machine. The viewer can decide whether in the selection of the show may be one he succeeds. Wesselmann, the only artist Ale cans are like antique precursors of reason why it seems to fall flat. Another who is well represented in this exhibition, Warhol's soup cans. The delicate bronze reason is the artists chosen: there are work and carefully painted labels give them has a different outlook. He tends to dis¬ inexcusable absences and inclusions. I a quality of ambiqulty and refinement. miss the importance of the pop image. am also puzzled by many of the works The exhibition has some noteworthy "I use a billboard picture because it is chosen to represent certain artists. a real, special representation of some¬ examples of recent directions in American The painters represented in this show thing, not because .it is from a billboard. painting not previously seen on this . can be roughly divided into two categories: Advertising images excite me mainly be¬ campus. For this reason it is worth a visit. the traditionalists and the popular However, it is disappointing that an ex¬ cause of what I can make from them," he imagist--. The traditionalists include such explained. His best work in the fliow is hibition organized around such a promising painters as Diebenkorn, Weeks, Georges, "Still Life #20." There is a sense of theme was not more carefully chosen. Porter and Murch. These are artists Roy Lichtenstein: E I e c t r i c Cord. (1961) Directors' festival WHAT IS ITS SIGNIFICANCE? coming to the State Beverly Basick, Dept. of Anthropology -J Archetypical. I Francina Factor, Dept. ol History Of tremendous historical significance. Antonioni? Bergman? Truffaut? Eisenstein? Kurosawa? Hitch¬ - Had Shake A Pudd'n been discovered in the The ritual of the Midnight Pudding Snack is cock? Welles? All of them at the State Theater In the space 18th Century, the French Revolution would well established in primitive societies. Since of two weeks? Shake-A Pudd'n does not require refrigeration, probably never have taken place when it did. Yes. collected in repertory for the first time by Janus Films Marie Antoinette's famous remark, "Let 'em eat it lends itself to use in dormitories (surely one cake," would no doubt have been transformed as part of a Directors' Festival to run here Oct. 20 through Nov. of the most primitive societies), thereby to "Let 'em eat pudd'n," thereby appeasing 2. The presentation is meant to allow audiences to compare fulfilling this basic, instinctual human drive the masses for at least another century. at the precise moment it arises. and analyze philosophies and techniques of various directors. Bergman's "Wild Strawberries," the story of a doctor's jour¬ Harry Holesome, ney through a day's worth of memories and dreams, will be Dept. ol Health Education shown Oct. 20 and 21. The American Dream come true. Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" Is a multi-sided view of the Shake-A Pudd'n combines healthful nutrition, publishing giant Charles Foster Kane. It will run Oct. 22 and bracing exercise and, above all, Good Clean Fun. 23. An essential part of the Physical Fitness Program. Part One of Sergei Eisenstein's "Ivan the Terrible" will be shown Oct. 24 and 25, with Pan Two to appear in a later Di¬ RftraNu Sylvia Cimbill, rectors* Festival. This segment follows the 16th-century Tsar Dept. ol Psychology Ivan IV from his coronation to his abdication and popular recall. B Va Truly Freudian. Aklra Kurosawa's "Rashomon" explores the nature of truth Powder and water are mixed in a cup, an obviously mammalian formation, seen on a and subjective reality through the story of the murder of a man deeper level as Mother. One shakes the cup, in a and the rape of his wife by a bandit. The film will be shown deoperate but futile attempt to shake off the Oct. 26 and 27. inhibiting Superego and free the primitive Id. Francois Truffaut's "Jules and Jim, starring Jeanne Moreau and Oskar Werner, concerns a beautiful and amoral woman who Pw@n Michael Media. Shake-A Pudd'n loves two fraternal friends and for whom no commitment Is Dept. of Sociology the new instant final. It will play Oct. 28 and 29. El vm fa A true product of the Electric Age. dessert mix from Royal. Shake-A Pudd'n has transformed a fragmented, Just put water and powder in the cup, snap "The Lady Vanishes" on Oct. 30 and 31 is a Hitchcock thriller— time-consuming, mechanical task into the lid, shake for 30 seconcjs and let it set. a young woman awakens from a nap on a train to discover that an almost instantaneous, totally involving In Chocolate, Vanilla, Butterscotch or Banana. the woman sharing her compartment has vanished. experience. Definitely "cool." Although Each package complete with four puddings, Another woman mysteriously vanishes on a yacht in Antonioni s equally good at room temperature. spoons, lids, and throwaway shakers. •*L' Awentura," and her lover and her best friend start an affair. The film will run Nov. 1 and 2. Short films—new cinema and old masterpieces—will be shown with every movie. Michigan State News, l ast Lansing, Michigan 7 L GM 8REMS IN ON THE. , | 7 ER&R* 'UNDERGROUND PRESS \ k-— ( 00T OF ACTION V//TH M1 REV (PQULTWj1. Legend of Land Grant Man: the "It's not a malicious type people we satirize to make them look thing. I draw as good in character sketches as they do Do mine eyes deceive me? in life." By the soil-covered hands of Justin Morrill, tliat time, all 1 could draw was super-heroes. what have we here? Why it's Land Grant Man, Stu wrote the scripts and I illustrated them. who, disguised as John Palindrome, mild- "Sometimes the better strips help in a mannered president of a great midwestem satirical vein, it's not a malicious type thing," multiversity, fights a never ending hattleagninst Friel continued. "1 draw the people we satir¬ hippies, student activists and the Influence of the 20th century. Land Grant Man, a ize to make them look as good in character sketches as they do in life. President Hannah, for example, is quite distinguished looking, and Friday, October 13, comic strip that appeared last year with some regularity MSU's underground press, Is ths In The Paper, embellishment Palindrome Land Grant Man. comes off looking distinguished in explore an of all the absurdity that dwells in the minds of two lampoonists, cleverly disguised- as MSU "Hopefully, someone will get a chuckle out of it," added Jones. "That's about all we hopefor. engineering career students. Jim Friel, Glen Ellyn, 111. senior and presi¬ We may poke a little fun at him, but I respect President Hannah for what he's done for the on earth's dent of Off Campus Council, and his friend University." Stu Jones, Mendon senior, are the creators of The Paper gave the two authors little, if any, last frontier. Land Grant Man. direction in the writing of L.G.M., according to L.G.M.. the fearless defender of Victorian Priel and Jones. "'!"he only time The Paper got up-tight was morality, was the product of a late-night beet- when Land Grant Man visited The Paper's drinking session according to Friel and Jones. How did they hit upon Land Grant Man1 office," l'rlel explained. "People were floating two feet off the ground." "The name just popped up," said Friel. "At PETER, PAUL AND MARY Talk with Newport News On-Campus Career Con Fresh air ployin sultant about engineering openings at world's largest shipbuilding company—where your future is .is big as today's brand new ocean. " An an.',el and two devils took up performing as a career. Our half a-billion dollar backlog of orders means Inch start play in;' guitars," better known As a child, Peter Yarrow m s.ilarv. career security, with vout way up wide open to folksong lovers as Peter, Paul Showed great talent in the It also mean's si opt' toi all your abilities We're involved and Mary, will appear at the fields of art nu-Ic. lie with 11hi If.it -.hip propulsion and icfueliii: . nuclear aircraft Lansing Civic Center lit ~:Wp.ni. later majored yetiology .it i .tmei and submarine building, marine automation. We ve Sunday. Cornell I'niver ity nd produced ii-enth. < oinpleted .1 vast oceanograplin oie survev We te The folk group hit its audiences the University* first series of .1 m.iior buildei "I giant water power and heavy industrial like .i breath of fresh air. Tid¬ folk concerts. equipment. Vw re starting to apply our nautical nuclear bits of humor are a little some¬ raised in know Imw 'to the last expanding field of nuclear electric Mary Ira vers was \ thing extra when you sei the downtown New Yorrk, where Pete power : iiiei.it mi V\r re ro'iip'otirii' competitive, systems 3 ,!-. IV. <1,1 tin- Navy's $1 billion plus IMA fleet 1 (incept some composed of Paul Seeger and other folk singers Stookey, Peter Yarrow and Mary rehearsed in her h isemeot. She interested 1 1 advanced degree t research? We lext I'raver- in person, Center with ■ of , recalls singing, in ,i picket iim 1 Associated Keseal Paul Stookey, a jaguar-driver, [ flvi est sv iieluocyclotK . offering id golf nut and alumnus of MSI lei, v physn ■ re close to Old Ivi l iie initial meeting of tile trio i I xtension Division, where gained a reputation here as a was followed by seven months ft redits tor .1 niastei's do ree, or take courses quick man with a joke, emcee tag of preparing for their opening ,.11 oar : ( in Miciow.sve I boor v. Sol id State f lectromcs. Nuclear I n everything from Water Carnival at "The Hitter laid." Succe-s eineeriii and other advanced sub|e< ts. Ask about scholar to a sorority slave auction. came almost instantaneously as tuition : rant-., -.tiidv ami research leaves to itnple "Somewlu re around my sopho¬ the trio played to packed housi s more year," he recalls, "I got at the "Gate of I lorn" in Chicago elected third ugliest ni in on cam¬ Ask. too. about the pleasant'living and lower living costs, and the "hungry i" in -San Fran¬ pus." heie in the lieait of Vurinia's historic seaside vacation land, cisco. eib beaches, golf, fishing, boating. hunting In New York, Stookey took a with sni Their first album, "Peter, job as production manager for Paul and Mary" was at the top a chemical supply house. But of charts three months after its IMMI DIATE ENGINEERING CAREER OPENINGS after a chance visit to a Village release. Their singles "11 I had Naval Architects coffee house he quit his job and Meeb.uiu al I ngi a Hammer" and "Lemon 1'ree" I lectric.il I neinc Nuclear I 1 were equally successful. Civil I ng» The trio was highly sought Industrial I npineer Metallurgical I ngineers for television appearances, and Systems 'Analysts ment, although it has cost them made many tours including sev¬ sales and bookings in the South. eral through Europe. See our representative They have been jeered for this Jerry Vaughn The group sticks firmly to its activity and on occasion stink- Friday. October 13 principles, refusing to do tele¬ bombed in a hall In which they vision anil radio commercials were appearing. He'll be at the Placement Office to answer questions, dis and even walking out on "The Nonetheless, the trio has re¬ cuss qualifications, take applications for fast action Bell Telephone Hour" when the fused to compromise It beliefs sponsor demanded a change in for monetary gain. lyrics of a century-old Nova Tickets for Sunday's per¬ Scotian ballad. formance are on sale at the The group has been extremely Civic Center box office and at ( AS active in the civil rights move¬ the Disc Shop. Thursday, October 12, 1967 COMMENTARY Profit in black and white distributed extensively. The exact opposite Everything is influenced and therefore, ul¬ By PAT SMITH treatment was accorded the Indian. He was timately controlled by one motive—profit. In the end, American society means nothing unless corralled Into reservations and prohibited from Six little Detroit-area children were playing there is pront. Ideally, in a democracy like moving about. Nonetheless, this was done for the United State1, the people would prevent essentially the same rea-son—to protect the white "cops and robbers" in their front yard, using their fingers as guns. Bang, bang they said, and this profit take-over if they could be heard at man's profit. now they are all dead. They were shot down by individuals. The primary pur pose of a democ¬ The riots this summer (both race and poor- the National Guard. racy is protecting the rights of the individual. peopled) were a symptom of the sickening However, this was during a riot, the Guardsmen were doing their duties and If the profit motive is analyzed realistically, epidemic of economic exploitation which has the children it is discovered that profit as an end is also run rampant in this country. During the were Negro. Now that we've explained six killings, what of a form of tyranny. In the United States, as in riots, an effort was made to return to "law and order". the four little girls sitting in an Alabama church many countries, money is synonymous with who were blasted into oblivion In 1963. Why was power (a statement most citizens take for Order Is the result of design; law should be it that the men who did it were arrested for pos¬ granted). None of us can truthfully say that part of order, and therefore,designedalso. Jus¬ session of explosives and not murder? More¬ we have escaped the influence of that profit tice, however, is that which is right and is not over, It Is clearly evident that more Negroes motive. That motive is the basis for the ex¬ necessarily a part of order. Order should be have been killed by whites than whites by clusion and Inclusion of certain masses into subjected to Justice, and not vice-versa. Force Negroes. We all-know of Negroes who re¬ particular groups. alone (like tyranny) can establish order. Law ceived capital punishment, but do you know of The plight of the Negro and the Indian demon¬ enforcement should preserve and protect a white who received capital punishment for strates the effect of exclusion of a race from Justice, not law and order. killing a Negro? No I That's a fact. No white the economic system. These two alienated However, economy has no need of Justice; man has ever received capital punishment for groups have made great sacrifices of them¬ Indeed, economy doesn't really want to consider selves on many occasions, only to see their killing a Negro In this country under any It. And the two should not be spoken of In the circumstances. dream of an equal share of the wealth in this same context. Democracy and Justice are in Yet, ironically, the National Guard and all country go up in smoke. the same realm, while capitalism is not neces¬ The irony Is that the very people who claim military services offer a Negro a better chance sary to either. However, order is necessary to for personal success than civilian life. to be giving so much, as if they had something But allow the corruption In the hierarchy of capital¬ the Negro must be willing to risk his life in to give, are the very same people who are ism; e.g., read any report on "white-collar" Vietnam while Federal troops may kill his keeping the Negro and Indian from his equal crime or read your daily newspaper. children in Detroit. share in the profit. The means by which the white majority Is It for capitalism to mend democracy or for Why does the word "Integration" mean "as¬ democracy to maid capitalism? Capitalism is similation" to white people and not the bringing accomplishes this are effective, yet so subtle that many times the majority doesn't realize synonymous with money, and democracy with together of equal cultures? it is doing so. Subtle even to the point that the people. Surely, It is not desirable that money Why is it that Indians and Negroes can be rule men. This is most clearly Illustrated in accepted as Individuals, but not as respected Negro and the Indian are unaware of what has the Negroes' situation in America today. members of their own ethnic groups? been done to them until It is too late. The Negro mass is a group of people who are Why do people starve In the "land of plenty" Raw materials are those things Imperative while surplus food rots In storage? to the establishment of profit. Land and Labor being used like money. It is clear that the Is it government is supposed to be democratically because it will ruin the economy? Why does are the most Important raw materials. Economic based on the respect of individuals and that an apartment In the slums, complete with rats progress started In the United States in the South capitalism is the economic system built on the and roaches, cost as much and often more than with the production of cotton. At first, most of the processing was done in England so that profit-motive. It is also clear that Negroes one In the nearby suburbs, complete with are people with very human feelings, not an dishwasher and carpeting? semi-skilled factory labor wasn't very Important economic commodity. Nevertheless, It is also Sen. Robert Kennedy stated in a recent here. However, a great deal of land and farm labor crucial. The Indians had what was clear that Negroes are not being treated as "Meet the Press" interview that a man (un¬ was Individuals in everyday life. What the white named, of course) in this country with a bil¬ justly their own land taken from them, and the Africans were brought here and whipped into man does with the Negro In America will lion in assets paid only $635 In taxes last submission to provide labor profitable to the answer the question of man or money. year and that many men with Incomes of white man. In short, Indian land and Negro labor formed over $500,000 paid none at all! the economic crucible In which American was If this situation were corrected, would it Profit is the key word In understanding what melted. But how long will it be before they upset the economy? has happened from that time until the present. How is It that Stokeley Carmlchael is accused It Is safe to say that the seemingly trite become part of the system? of treason when all he advocated was destruction statement "The only good Indian is a dead This, essentially, is what Black Power is of Indian" was real to the white man,because dead all about: either black men and women share capitalism as It is today? He never advo¬ cated the overthrow of democracy. The govern¬ men can't claim their property rights. equally In the profit of this country, or we However, during this same period, the only will all bear the crucible's flame. ment gets upset—could it be that our govern¬ ment is really based on money and not people? , good African was a young, strong, healthy one. Pat Smith, Manistee senior, is a 1 The two systems are separate, or should Consequently, the white man viewed the African as a monetary value—a commodity to be bought history major and is the former be, but our government officials Halm that chairman of Friends of SNCC. anyone against capitalism, in its present form, or sold. The African became a tool to be must be against democracy. Michigan State News, I apt Lansing, Michigan 9 POETRY Andrew I am not writing you nor is this a poem and I cannot even tell What makes the letters How upward:- from the white hand that spreads before me And the page fills up with words 1 never would have told to the woman I never loved under the sunny fingers spreading through trees never touched my back - And like the light at night That quivers bright within the dark hoverinr fear I shine With an amazing intensity and a crazy spread-eagled span To where your eyes once . Could have met mine had we both been in our places But now flash on/off firefly cold light caught in the tangent worlds of you And my unspoken nothing. —David Gilbert Poeme a Mimi Photo by Bob Ivlns And I spoke to I know not where An H Or down withinside me after grass pressed down III And I tried to enter into her soul has been released. the tiny bird whose sweet She song had captured I laughed my own being Wrapping hands around herself, Until I felt shut up and It's a grass sprung hour away, unacknowledged ft's all here. Of sandaled girls, And could but wait striding It's all here. through all the narrow gates Catching the asphalt's flight. of her closeness IV For a silent secret Skirts contour on the thighs that strained at our tongues Light breezes bathing It's an urgent dream, caught to hear. Warm sweat of rubbing legs; In sun tangled hair, wrapped And like the deceptive, wonderful On muscle driven pulse- eggshell While sweat from wet bangs which cannot, whole, be crushed in the hand She sang in other trees to other Flavors iron rolled tar A thrust skies, With tastes of human flesh. pushing blood and I Down tight veins, and sending Flowed out in yellow-soft-white tears The tread of leathered feet on to the II burning sands of fleshy cheeks. Into sandaled motion: How, he asked, Marking imprints fading -"-David Gilbert Her song lilting over On heat softened streets. Splinter-glass walls, how Did you find your voice? --Roy Bryan Deuxieme Poeme a Mimi Winter, the end When I took your hand and held it in mine, Tight roping cracked curbs I did not know tar hums He follows her I let the sluice-gate go of nylon wheels And curls around his hand that held the wild engulfing waters hot running Hair sanded grainy smooth - of a tired, troubled vibrance. to beat And so, do not take it amiss the white line, On the first day seeing grass; that I stumbled at times, and cried in fear The green palate-brown. (solid, dotted, double And stood apart The snow concrete rolled your money instead of drawing near. Toward gutter doors, that the end I am but a man, and can only do The sewers flooded goes on). What the several powers of my spirit gate five Smelling iced force through my tiredness too Toledo express, And clean as faucet tap. And that Is leaving five minutes To hold your hand, which to start and stop I have never dropped Withered leaves, soggy And to seek silently Rush the drains, whispering (hidden stations the well-waters of your eyes with dangling dog signs); Dead thoughts Until the waters ride at peace. That couldn't have died. leaving five minutes to roll on ice, Stands of driftwood fees Wait to be tailored water, dry your tears, —David Gilbert for all Umbrella green; ■ai winter-lean Is not lost, repeat. Squirrels watch love dressed In yellow shorts, white levis —Roy Bryan Stroll along The water running paths. Then, he touches buds David Gilbert, Cincinnati, Ohio, junior, is a member of North Sprouting the greenness Roy Bryan, East Lansing Wonders* academic house. Asa member of the Honors That haunts winter bushes. College junior, has had his work pub¬ he has been Instrumental in organizing the Provost lectures. lished in Zeitgeist and has been He is one of the founders of the Undergraduate English Club. — Roy Bryan active in campus literary life. 10 Thursday, October 12, 1967 BOOKMARKS McMurphy: Kesey's Christ? "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest* actions, the man Murphy attacks and has committed suicide; Mc¬ half-throttles her.Now,both came the across back up same with his fist swinging all In motion and busting the cheek by surprise." McMurphy actions gained him nothing, except pain and By Ken Kesey; Signet paperback Conflict is non-existent until McMurphy's ar¬ finally the living death 5f lobotomy. But through the CUiefs eyes, we get the peculiar statement rival. The men, for much of the book, have no that the inmates were martyring McMurphy: clearly developed personalities; they are, as By DAVID GILBERT "It wasn't the nurse that was forcing him, McMurphy says, rabbits. Through McMurphy's basketball team, his fishing trip, his intermit¬ Instead of writing book reviews per se,l would it was our need that was making him push tent conflicts with Big Nurse, the men gradually rather initiate an open forum of sorts, In which himself slowly up from sitting ... obeying orders beamed at him from forty masters. acquire more humanity. I will express my views on some literary selec¬ At the end, McMurphy has been given a pre¬ tion and invite anyone to agree, challenge or It was us that had been making him go on for frontal lobotomy which has left him little more otherwise respond to my opening in a some¬ weeks, ... weeks of making him wink and what Informal manner. grin and laugh and go on with his act long than a vegetable. The lnmate^watch him being rolled in, they deny him: they Wy the Big Nurse Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's after his humor had been parched dry be¬ is trying to put one over on them, that McMurphy Nest" is certainly grist for several mills. Be¬ tween two electrodes." cannot have been beaten.McMurphy,even though sides being an exceptionally readable book, an But again, this is described by the Chief who we don't know what his motivation was,has per¬ unqualified success in the use of the first per¬ pictures everything intermsof machines,and we son form, and a quite realistic piece of work, can't be sure of McMurphy's motives, for we're formed a positive function. He has, in effect, "Cuckoo" poses some very timely and interest¬ never let into HIS mind. In all his actions before performed a miracle. This scene, with the in¬ mates and what Is left of McMurphy, Is com¬ ing questions. One of the most intriguing ques¬ the final attack, McMurphy seems to be able to tions centers around the Christ-figure, or as it control himself. Yet in the final attack, he is de¬ parable to Christ being removed from the cross, scribed, as being unable to resist. He has been bloody and befouled, and his disciples seeing not may be, non-Christ-figure in the person of a reality but what they want to believe. McMurphy, a new inmate at the state asylum trying like hell to keep himself under control The story is the Chief's. As in Hemingway's, where the action takes place. throughout, say, the last fourth of the novel. " He doesn't want to buck the system, it seems. In Another Country," we are concerned with Is Kesey presenting a new Christ figure—that Yet from the moment Water George is touched, the Major not just in terms of his being able to of the swaggering, boisterous roustabout with a you can almost tell that McMurphy has finally resign himself to his fate, but with his effect cheerful disregard for authority? This is the red- committed himself, is going to make a stand, on the young man who relates the story. It's the Chiefs growth to manhood and maturity, haired McMurphy, who comes from a penal and stick by It. The question is really, is Mc¬ to the use of his powerful body with his mind, settlement into the asylum, laughing, singing Murphy's decision a conscious one, or is he forced, by the inmates longing for a real life, to which our attention is drawn. The key may be and generally raising hell. His appearance and actions (and in fact, everything in the book) to sacrifice himself for them. that McMurphy dies because he has finally com¬ are described by one of the inmates, an Indian Our knowledge seems to depend on the charac¬ mitted himself to one course of action,one defi¬ called Chief Bromden who poses as a deaf- ter of the narrator, Chief Bromden. Is Kesey nite goal—to ruin Big Nurse. Chief Bromden is made to see that no one can make him into a mute. The Chief has retired to one portion of saying, then, through Chief Bromden, that this machine. And so we get this magnificent sym¬ his mind, like a child. He describes all he ex¬ system which purports to be for man's benefit is actually for his destruction? He IS saying that, bol at the end. when the Chief heaves a quarter- periences in a very simplistic manner. But, to ion control panel of the tub-room (the totem of the return to the question, is McMurphy a Christ but he #1^0 seems to say, again according to the figure? He himself says he is a con-man, Chief, that it s a system composed of the in¬ "system") through a window to make his escape. bolstering up the inmates so they will come mates, too. Not only do they drive McMurphy to Then if Kesey is describing any kind of a back to be cheated again out of their cigarettes. self-destruction, provided we accept that thesis, Christ figure, it is a realisitc Christ figure,one Near the end of the book, McMurphy is faced but they also rip each other apart in "Group filled with ignoble as well as noble emotion. To with a crisis. He sees one of the inmates. Water Discussion," and write down anything a fellow say someone is a Christ figure is to say he is George, being soaped and handled by one of the inmate might reveal of himself. This amounts one who has consciously chosen to immolate him¬ orderlies; George dies a little inside before Mc- to little more than squealing oneachother.They self, and that he really has no defects, because don't really think, or participate in life, nor do he is directing all his actions to his noble pur¬ Murphy's eyes because of a phobia about dirt and being touched. McMurphy rips into the orderly, they solve any of their problems; they are on the pose. But obviously, in a realistic view of the and because any outbreak of "contrary behav¬ way to becoming "Chronic" patients. world, which Kesey seems to have here, no man ior" is viewed as dangerous, he condemns him¬ But it's the "Big Nurse" system that is doing could do that, no man is doing that. But in spite self to the brutal electro-shock treatments to this to them, in part. Do these people, the mem¬ of all his self-interests, McMurphy is effecting shake him down. McMurphy knows that the bers of the "system," the nurses or orderlies, some good. "Big Nurse," the personification of the "Sys¬ do they have a belief in their own goodness? Do But essentially I don't think he is a Christ tem" (the emasculating bureaucracy that takes they feel they are effecting a cure, helping the figure, unless you wish to take the view of a away a man's individuality) has it in for him and inmates? We don't know, except through the Christ without the power to be evil, that is, un¬ controls the amount of time he will remain com¬ Chief. His view is that they are, for some un¬ able to will the bad. It seems more in line with mitted. known reason, servants to the great god Rule. Arthur Miller's theme of a man's compulsion to Again the question is, is he a Christ figure? Certainly, the orderlies seem to be chosen for justify himself totally as a man. By the same After the fight, he is given an opportunity fol¬ their ability to hate, as evidenced by the fight token, Chief Bromden must fulfill his need to lowing each electro-shock treatment to apologize between one of the orderlies and McMurphy return to the days of his Indian forebears by to Big Nurse for his conduct, but he refuses. (supposedly a sick man, protected by the state); returning to the out-of-doors. And this may be The climax occurs when McMurphy, who ha s done "McMurphy, you forcing me to protect my¬ his wanting to fly over the cuckoo's nest. his best to make one of the inmates feel like a self. Ain't he forcing me, men?" The other He wants to be out, and I suppose, McMurphy man—to the extent of smuggling in a whore and two (orderlies) nodded. He carefully laid could be the other goose, because he gets out, liquor for him—finds that due to Big Nurse's down the tube on the bench beside George. too. He cannot be touched b>'the "system" again. Cheetah' pounces, misses his thoughtfully added suggested dosages and By DOLORES COLANGELO An air of commercialism pervades. , estimations of the length of the subsequent In trying to be "where it's at" the pub¬ "Cheetah" cometh. lication comes off as rather offensive. highs. In a more positive vein, a few of the articles Sleek, glossy and someone's idea of groovy, One would hope that the flower-hippie-pot- the October issue of this magazine is number and several of the columns are entertainingly acid-draft-dodging generation at which "Chee¬ one of volume one. tah" is obviously aimed would have been cred¬ informative. Attempting hippiness, "Cheetah" unfor¬ ited with at least a small amount of perception "Infamous Put-ons I Have Known," con¬ tributed by Paul Kr^s iner,' is a stand-out. The tunately delivers a failure wrapped in a beau¬ and depth. tiful lay-out. The content leans heavily on popular music inimitable Krassner style is reiVeshing and The cover features a psychedelic motif as lends a note of hope. Perhaps "Cheetah" will and'singers. rur more of it. well as offering a listing of the goodies inside. Brian Wilson, of Beach Boy fame, is raked "Cheetah's" shot at Krassner's art is embar¬ And the greatest of these is Cass. over the coals at painful length in an attempt Yes, on the inside of the cover, suitable for to attribute to him that which he d oes not rassing and would have been far better left undone. The Krassner piece is preceaeu uy a framing, is a foldout of the generously pro¬ possess: genius. portioned Mama — decked only in daisies with Bob Dylan, the Beatles, the Mamas and the bit of feline (perhaps?) humor: an obituary of a tattoo on her bottom. Papas and the Monkees (for the sake of camp, Krassner, who is the only living thing in the The index page quotes in fine printa saying to one would suppose) are interviewed, discussed, magazine. the effect that the holiness ofGod is everywhere: and finally, patronizingly patted on the back. "Cheetah's" image of its ideal reader is a fine prelude to "Cheetan's" spiritually stulti¬ epitomized in a section on clothes "mod"eled fying Journalism. After music, the drug scene is the biggest by a scrufty-looking trio of would-be jet set- After a quick once-over, it appears that the space-filler. ters. magazine might be an elaborate spoof on with- "Cheetah's" choices of America's 11 hlp- In trying to be "in", "with it" and "hip", it literature. But a second reading reveals piest colleges are presented. The rationale Cheetah cheats its readers and reveals Its staff of : s a remarkable collection of unaware failures a format reminiscent movie n»gazines: behind some of these picks is nebulous to bright splashy leads on all the stories, ac¬ say the least. who probably all live in Scarsdale. companied by superb photographs and illustra¬ In another article, a colorful chart is pre¬ But then, the foldout itself is worth your tions, followed by nothingness. sented. It is a catalog of drugs; "CheetahV 50 cents. Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan 11 MUSIC Barbra An An . . nnalvsis analysis nf of . whv Rar-hr-a Strpisflnrl 1* why Barbra Streisand is, without exaggeration, the greatest new per - * th By JIM YOUSLING former in a generation consists largely of the Streisand sang on television again last expected comparisons. Her voice has a supple-- night. Without even seeing the program, the sr.' - ness and range rivaled only by the great Ella jst assumption I could maVt would be that she Fitzgerald. She has all the belting impact of Mer¬ was better than anyone else on television this man and Jolson. But, most important of all, she season, for Barbri Streisand has never failedat has the inexplicable power of acting, rather than anything. merely singing, all her material. Within one year sne obtained her first night Perhaps Judy Garland Is the only living vocal¬ club spot, her show-stopping part in the musical ist who shares this gift of sincerity that turns "I Can Get It For You Wholesale," a Columbia even the most banal lyrics into shimmering recording contract, and one-woman concert truth. Just as Judy made "Over the Rainbow" tour. During the following few years, the girl mean something much more personal than from Brooklyn turned out six more best-selling Munchkinland, Barbra dusted off "Happy Days LPs, guest-starred on two others"HaroldSings Are Here Again" and made it an exhausting ex¬ Arlen" and "Pins and Needles"), triumphed in perience. "Funny Girl," signed the most liberal nuki¬ Granted, the Streisand Sound is mellowing. rn'illion-dollar television contract in history, and She no longer screams and giggles, as in tho jured the country on.-e mce in a superlative- first two albums. In fact, her voice has beert exhausting series of concerts. nearly buried under cascading violins in her But perhaps her most satisfying achievement more recent albums, the most obvious example has been I.nding time for a four-year-old mar¬ of which is her two recordings of "Gotta Move," riage and a nine-month-old baby. Not a bad rec¬ on '*The Second Album" and the much-later ord for a girl of 25. "Color Me Barbra." Still, she will never be a female Andy Williams, content to merely pre¬ No v Miss Streisand is embarking on a new sent the latest commercial successes in an in¬ career as a movie queen. The possibility of fail¬ ure in films seems non-existent. For the first offensive manner, because, thank God, she is time in history, an actress has walked into a scill a "kook" In the most complimentary, sense. studio with a milllon-dollar-per-film contract Aside from her startling rendition of "Happy and no previous experience in films. Whether or not "Funny Girl" is a successful movie (and Days," she uses unconventional songs like it will be). Miss Streisand will continue to make "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf" and "Silent movies at a million per. Two more ("Hello Night," which nobody considered worthwhile without pigs or Christmas. Dolly" and "On a Clear Day") are already In addition to singing usually ignored numbers ii the planning stage. in unexpected ways, Miss Streisand is Barbra's stint in Hollywood must seem like respon¬ sible for reviving countless songs wmcn the Grand Ball of her Cinderella-like life. migni have otherwise quietly faded into oblivion ("To me, being really famous is being a movie But just as often she rescues a gem-like scar.") song from a failure like "Drat, the Cat!" ("He For almost twenty years, Barbara Joan Strei¬ Touched Me"), "The Yearling" (four songs, in¬ sand lived in near-poverty with her mother in cluding "My Pa"), and Cole Porter's television Brooklyn. After graduation, Barbara became production of "Aladdin" ("Come To the Super¬ Angelina Scarangella, doing bits in summer stock market"). and Greenwich Village shows. If she should retire tomorrow, Barbra Strei¬ Her fairy godmother appsared the form of sand would be a legend, having accomplished a talent contest. Barbara Joan became Barbra in a five-year career what it took Garbo 20 and was "discovered" by Harold Arlen, Jule years to do. She sits at the peak of show-busi¬ Styne, Elliot Gould, Ray Stark, a cult of fans, ness. and finally, with the opening of "Funny Girl," Where can she go from there7 Don't worry. the general public and Time magazine. Simply thank Brooklyn for giving her to us. Discovering Partos By JIM ROOS Themes varied. are gradually expanded, yet continually At times, monotonous rhythms invoke In these hip, hippy days. East and West seem association with the shammanic chants of Cen¬ to meet more often than ever before; this is tral Asia. especially true in music. People have been What the listener of Partos' music becomes searching for new sounds and, for the moment, quickly aware of (besides the startling har¬ they have found some in the music of the Orient. monies) is an emphasis on melodic line. Per¬ Indian classical music has gained a large haps this sounds strange when applied to twelve- new audience attracted by a freedom of ex¬ tone music, where all melody is supposedly pression that transcends the strictures of Wes¬ incidental. Nevertheless, Partos has succeeded tern classicism. Ravi Shankar, sitar virtuoso in coming full circle by composing an atonal and present idol of the hip, has been a major melodic line in complete contradiction to the influence on popular groups. The Rolling original conceptions of the Schoenberg system. Stones and the Beatles Incorporate the sitar To emphasize melodic line Partos uses an and other Oriental instruments into their num¬ Eastern structural device of allowing the solo bers. instrument(s) to "Improvise". They are not True, much of the furor is probably a fad. real Improvisations, but written out for the Yet, in its wake many ears will be opened to instruments and coupled with an even orches¬ the sounds of the East. As this happens, tral meter. the strange beauty of the microtone world could I recall vividly the spellbinding effect such an become more widely appreciated, and listeners arrangement had on an audience when Partos' of Western classical music may find a new Violin Concerto was premiered by Menuhin in genius in composer Odeon Partos. Chicago two years ago. The solo violin's Partos is a 60-year-old Hungarian who has long floriture passages against the rhythmically lived in Israel since 1938. He received his measured accompaniment brought an aura of musical education In Budapest under Hubay, mystery over the house. Bartok and Kodaly. What makes Partos' music The Violin Concerto (1958) is only one of so different from other classical contemporary many works that Partos has composed for string composers Is his use of Eastern melodic instruments. A marvelous violist himself, he principles in a Western framework of com¬ has written two concertos for that instrument, position. This is accomplished by introducing Agada for Viola. Piano & Percussion, an ex¬ elements of the Arabian maqam (pronounced cellent String Quartet, Dmuyot (Visions) for mah-calm) into, the Schoenberg twelve-tone Orchestra, Ein Gev (a symphonic fantasy) and •numerous other pieces of significance. system. The maqam Is actually the Arabian counter¬ To be sure, Partos Is an eclectic. He uses part of the Indian raga. It is an extended, the system of Schoenberg, the external forms freely woven pattern of melody basedona modal of symphonic movements and even some of scale. It may be dignified and slow in tempo Bartok's motivic serialism. Yet, like other (Rast); faster and more intense (Mahur), eclectics before him (e.g. Scrlabin andSzyman- stressing the interval of a 4th(Bazat),andso on. owski), he has fashioned a refreshingly original Introducing a maqam pattern into a dode¬ musical personality of his own. Listeners of caphonic tone row produces music witha wailing, classical music would do well to acquaint them¬ rliapsodic quality and nearly hypnotic effect. selves with it. 12 Thursday, October 12, 1967 Michigan State News, liast Lansing, Michigan MSU Book Store MSU Book Store MSU Book Store MSU Book Store MSU Book Store MSU Book Store OUR BACKS ARE AGAINST THE WALL... that is "our best selling paper backs" are against the wall and the rest of our huge selection is scattered throughout the store according to topics-over 5,000 titles to choose from. If we don't have it we'll order it GAMFS GflMFS v v\s HBEST SELLERS ""-Or STOP IN MID BROWSE AT MSU BOOK STORE in the Center for International Programs just East of the Stadium MSU Book Store MSU Book Store MSU Book Store MSU Book Store MSU Book Store MSU Book Store (,