The State News Bi-weekly Magazine Thursday, October 26, 1967 9 i. — '>Vv* 4 :-v * ■ of P " 4 The PAC is presenting "The Skin of our Teeth" through Sunday. See Cover Notes on page Photo by 3. Dave Laura ture, sic 50th LEON imu 7NOV. S(LPec¬K Auditorm)(Wonders)R(DECeITaAnL 8Mw:uo1¬d5ins, ANBOOIVL¬FSY REVOLUTIN BIRTHDAY N8OV. A a)Jorgens,Aud.) 9NOV. an-LdfSgAuditorm)* 9B&(r7od,y)2(LE7S:1O0N, WH(O9KRAI:ZR0-NS, A(ANBTrIGreOonNdEay) TUESDAY, PAUL-HENRI 8:15, ANTIGONE GRADUTE Turner, Aud.) SHEVIK TROSKY' WEDNSAY, A(NBTIGrOoNEdy R(OECwITeAnL 8Mp:ui1ans5isct,, THURSDAY, GJORYECNE. comedy, FMLAINNT BRIDGE OUR Union) JAZZ FM) M(SDHaAeN¬tKroRi,8:30) 5NOV. I(UV7nA:i0oN, (Arena)SATONNED- A&4bram,s)(PinLcAlYudSgSTOPHRAEN,DAM.S7t:ue0dtcio,Fairchld)(ReECorITbtALM4u:cs0lariicnets, E(PRbINTtyS LEanaarstsiitg,Libray) 6NOV. 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Instiue) THE &poetry, SUN, AT leyan FOTBAL Daawmey,) SKIN (Fairchld) OPERATION Conrad) &JULES SOCER SUN, (H2E:N3G0E SUNDAY, SKIN (matine, &JULES THE THE SUN, 2OTHUC6RSTDA.Y, T(Shetaater)&(CRO7SBW 'H(6olam7es)TOOEUFRH 2(L7ES:10ON, (WH9KOAR:RIZ0-NS, (TREAS Okaeexmhoibts 3Ohrc1outg.) 2OC7T. 9&(FE7STIV,AL '* 9(CR7OS&B,W TOOEUFRH (8GAR:F0UNKEL, 1(C7ON:04ERT, RASHOMN OPERATION Brody) DIALOGUE SKIN (Fairchld) BRIDGE Union) LOWEL oartnist Libray, FRIDAY, CHAPLIN Antho y) OPERATION Wilson) SKIN (Fairchld) &SIMON Jenison) -RECOD Bes ey) 9, THE JAZZ FM) 109 THE Thursday, October 26, 1967 3 Meditation: By BONNIE PERRY path to Being' While this it is not appeals particularly to Americans, easily obtained. Awareness comes very Yellow lights glowed In the darkened triangular slowly over a long period of time and with much room as the whispering audience rose to offer a effort. Yet Americans characteristically want more for less, want it fast and are willing to buy solemn welcome to the prophet. As the strains of the opening song on the Beatles' latest album, it. Maharishi has such a commodity for sale and is offering it in this period of spiritual "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band" filled the area, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi glided to starvation. This might help explain why enter¬ the center table. He was dressed in long flowing tainers, who have plenty of money but little self- white robes and adorned with fresh and colorful awareness, are quite willing and able to pay for their insight. flowers. His shoulder-length greyish hair blended Several fee-charging centers have been es¬ together with his white beard. He smiled faintly as three women from the tablished throughout the world to teach this method audience came forward from different directions of reaching greater awareness. The headquarters is located in Shankaracharya, Kashmir where with bouquets of flowers for him. Maharishi then perched himself upon the table, legs crossed Maharishi has an academy. Last year's enroll¬ ment at the academy verifies the claim that under him, and fondled a daffodil in his fingers. The audience in the Expo '67 Youth Pavilion Maharishi appeals to the Western mind. Sixty Westerners attended as opposed to only four reverently resumed their places and hoped to absorb his Transcendental Meditation philosophy. Indians. Enrollment may increase rapidly this year since In a high-pitched, soft voice, the philosopher Maharishi caught the fancy of British and Ameri¬ began his discourse by explaining that most men can entertainers. In addition to the Beatles, are not living their lives to the fullest and are not Rolling Stones and Shirley MacLaine,Mla Farrow experiencing the happiness that can be theirs. He and her 19-year-old sister. Prudence, plan to claims that there exists a field of Being which is a state of pure existence. As the Being is transcen¬ spend the month of January at the academy. Prudence then hopes to establish a transcendental dental in nature, it cannot be perceived by the meditation school In Boston. This effort follows human mind. This is because the senses over¬ Maharishi's desires to spread his academies whelm the mind. However, the mind can go Maharishi Mahesh Yogi throughout the lagging United States. His main beyond the senses through transcendental medi¬ vehicle of Influence is the International Meditation tation. And when the mind does this, it becomes, "... happier, more creative, more intelligent." Society. The president of the Montreal chapter of the Maharishi is vague as to the specific nature of perience and helping one to greater consciousness and happiness, Maharishi also claims that by I.M.S. introduced Maharishi at his Expo presen¬ the Being. Hedoes not claim it to be a god-figure, tation with general comments about the value of the and quite explicitly points out that he favors meditating, one can achieve whatever he desires. religious institutions. An individual can apply When questioned on this statement, the philosopher prophet's philosophy. But he failed to give any information on the background of this man. his philosophy to any religion which then heightens wanted to be taken quite literally. He added then problems In the world today (he Reports place his age at 56 and claim he spent his religious experiences. He stresses that that serious the majority of his life in the monastery of one transcendental meditation is not a religion, but a mentioned the war In Vietnam and poverty) can of India's four leading Hindu holy men, Shan¬ technique that enhances religion. be overcome by his method of meditation. But if This technique is credited with having the ability we do meditate and still fail to overcome these karacharya Brahmananda. problems , we obviously have not meditated According to one version of his histroy, Ma¬ to replace drugs. Maharishi says drugs are no harishi expected to become head of the Shrine of longer necessary to help one gain expanded con¬ properly. The question, quite naturally,raised here Is how Kidarnath after his master's death. But Shan¬ sciousness since his technique does the same thing and with even greater results. The Beatles, who then do we meditate properly so as to achieve karacharya named a younger disciple as his these appealing results? Maharishi avoided successor. After Shankaracharya died of alleged confess to having taken drugs, seem to concur with this belief. John Lennon of the Beatles, in divulging much Information about the mechanics poisoning in 1953, Maharishi retreated to the Uttar involved, but kept repeating the phrase, "You get Kashi in the lower Himalayas of Uttar Pradesh a recent television interview in London, said of for less." He means you get more con¬ State and meditated. drug-taking, "It had done all it could for us. more sciousness for less effort expended by using his Since then he has toured the world eight times There was no going any further." But in addition to heightening religious ex- method. seeking to deliver his message of meditation to the world. Perhaps this world is now ready to accept this delivery. Cover Notes on the PAC MSU Asian Latin American Presents Foreign Series The University Performing Wilder's satiric comedy con- part of Mrs. Antrobus, earned Arts Company is currently pre- cerns the family, especially those her BA degree at Douglass senting Thornton Wilder's Pulit- characteristics which allow it to zer Prize winning play, "The survive trials and disasters. The Skin of our Teeth." family depicted in "The Skin of College. summer the American She has worked stock and toured with Players Co. pro¬ In Singing B Sir". Teeth" is the Antrobuses of Mo our duction of "Kind who have survived every natural and human calamity conceivable. Rick Hite, playing the husband, COLLAGE They are to be taken as repre¬ has a MA in Romance languages sentative of the basic heroic and literature and has spent time mi'J. human material. on the language faculty of Madi¬ son College. He has had ex¬ E xecutive E dito The play is out of the ordinary tensive acting experience in¬ Eric P ianin in that it attempts to involve cluding eight seasons of summer the audience in the on-stagepro- theater in Virginia. Feature E ditor . cedings, and is constantly re¬ R obe rta Yafie minding thern that they are The play will run through Sun¬ watching a performance, not real day at F alrchild Theater, after life. The action is set both in which it will tour Michigan in modem and pre-historic times repertory with "Romeo and Contributors Dave burden on the Juliet." . . . and places a great Gilbert, Jeff Justin, actors who must adapt them¬ Stuart Rosenthal, Jim selves to new techniques of pres¬ Yousling, Bonnie Perry, entation which include speaking Jim Roos, Wesley Hills, Dennis Chase, Robert directly to the audience. Hie leads of "T he Skin of Notre Dame j / Vander Molen. our Teeth" are both new 'o Social Commission "he Performing Arts Company. Jill Goldwasser, who has 'he presents the V< ; " BElKIN productions present Wednesday, November I, FOUR TOPS JOAN IN CONCE RT University Auditorium BAEZ Doors open 8:15 p.m. General admission $2.50 7:30 p.m. Concert begins 8:30 p.r Full-time MSU Students; 50C SUN., NOV. 19—7:30 p.m.—MASONIC AUD. All SEATS RESERVED: S2.SO-S3.SO S4.50-SS.S0 Tickets at the door (I.D. at door) ON SALE NOW A. J I. Hudson Center, Downtown. Nerthljnd,, S3.00 and S4.00 UNION TICKET OFFICE 4 Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan Student draft In determining the classification of a«oliege r By WESLEY E. HILLS and JIM ROOS student, special test scores, which were pre¬ Ever since its introduction into our society, viously employed are no longer considered. Any full-time student attending a university will be the military draft law has been an object of con¬ allowed to complete his undergraduate education. troversy, Although in times of peace it has been In fact, this allowance may be extended up to the relatively well tolerated, the demands of wartiii^^ armies have made the draft the linchpin of U.* age of 24. For example, if for some reason a manned strength and an important factor in shaping student must take 5 years to obtain his bachelor's the destinies of countless young American men. degree, it is possible that he can be classified It is this molding force which the draft exerts I-S. This will postpone induction until the end of the academic year to be completed for graduation. upon the lives of so many individuals that has often made opposition to the law difficult to cope with. However, this classification may be granted only Certainly, no more vociferous opposition to once, and graduate students are not eligible. Thus, undergraduates may be deferred until compulsory military service has been launched than during the present war in Vietnam. The pro¬ they receive a bachelor's degree, fail to pursue a full-time course of instruction, or attain the age test is clear and gaining significant momentum as recent demontrations attest. of 24—whichever occurs first. The premise of the military draft law is that As for graduate students, those who were regis¬ tered for their first year of graduate school be¬ every man is available for service unless his local fore October 1, 1967 may be deferred for one board finds he should be deferred or relieved of obligation. It is an important premise, for it year. Graduate students entering their second or later year of graduate study before October 1, correctly implies that the local Board has primary 1967 may be deferred for one year to earn a mas¬ jurisdiction over the future of every Selective Service registrant. ter's degree. In some instances, these more advanced stu¬ A local Board is composed of 5 unpaid citizens appointed by the President, who meet monthly dents may even be permitted to continue work on a Ph.D. Of course, this would, like every other to decide the military fate of the young men in their areas of jurisdiction. Every male citizen Is consideration, depend upon the action of the local Board. required to register at a Selective Service Board in his neighborhood on, or within 5 days after, After October 1, 1967, only graduate students his 18th birthday. in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, os¬ It is important to note that the residence ad¬ teopathy, optometry or other critical fields desig¬ dress given at the time of registration determines nated by the Director of Selective Service will be the local Board which will always have authority deferred in the 2-S classification. to classify the potential draftee. If an individual thinks his field may be critical, This is an essential fact often mi sunder stood or even though not listed above, he should contact overlooked by registrants who seek to change their his local Board to as'< their opinion. Nowadays, local Board in the hope of diminishing the pos¬ one can make few assumptions concerning mili¬ sibilities of being drafted. This cannot be done. tary classifications. Once a person is duly registered, the Board of Although the draft law states that all deferred original registration maintains authority to class¬ sftidents have their liability extended to age 35, ify registrants. Changes of address do not alter it is primarily the professional group (doctors, this authority. engineers etc.) at whom this extension is aimed. The classification of individuals is determined In present practice, most students will not be by the local Board according to age, occupation inducted if they somehow manage to pass their and other considerations which may qualifyordis- 26th birthday. qualify a man from military duty. There are 5 Thus, the only possibility for a potentially elig¬ major classes of registration and 18 classifica¬ ible student to avoid being drafted is to convince tions in all. These are listed below. his local Board that the national interest will bast SELECTIVE SERVICE CLASSIFICATIONS be served by allowing him ro continue worK on a photo by Chuck Michaels CLASS I Ph. D. Apparently it boils down to the Ph. D. Class I-A: Registrant available for military SPECIAL NOTE or the rice pattiesl And even this slim chance of service. A registrant who was deferred on or before his escaping service is only available to the number Class I-AD: Conscientious objector registrant 26th birthday should ascertain from his local board of students now engaged in advanced studies (sec¬ available for non-combatant military if his liability has been extended to his 28th or ond year of work on a master's degree, undertaken service only. 35th birthday. before October 1, 1967). Class I-C: Member of the Armed Forces of the Normally, registrants are classified as avail¬ So far we have been discussing student defer¬ United States, the Coast and Geodetic able for military service unless the local Board ments assum'ng that local Boards will follow the Survey, or the Public Health Service. decides that a deferment, under regulations then in guidelines set down for them. In most cases they Class I-D: Qualified member of reserve com¬ force, is in the national interest. Thus, the ques¬ will, if the registrant keeps the Board informed ponent, or student taking military tion we must answer is: what are the current in writing, with up-to-date information concerning training, including ROTC and accept¬ regulations, particularly for college students, and his status. People who fail to do this are classified ed aviation cadet applicant. how are they being applied in the face of an in¬ as "delinquents," and are placed at the top of the Class I-O: Conscientious objector available for creasing demand for military man-power in Viet¬ list in the IA pool. civilian work contributing to the nam? Occasionally, a student will receive his draft maintenance of the national health, To help answer this question we recently inter¬ card and be horrified to find he has been classi¬ safety or interest. viewed Col. W. J. Meyers, Deputy State Director fied IA even though he is attending a university Class I-S: Student deferred by law until gradua¬ of the Selective Service System. Col. Meyers told o,i a full-time basis. State Director of Selective tion from high school or attainment us that only those people classified IA orlAO are Service, Col. Arihur A. Holmes, says that "prob¬ of age 20, or until end of his academ¬ being called at this time. However, he said "there lems like these result because no one lets the ic year at a college or university. is no blanket deferment for any occupation," and Board know the situation until the registrant is Class I-W: Conscientious objector performing reiterated the fact that "it all depends on your practically on his way to the army." And once civilian work contributing to the Board." induction procedure starts, the local Board has no maintenance of the national health, The order of selection in classes IA andlAO is authority to stop it unless there is a serious ill¬ safety or interest, or who has com¬ currently the following: ness or death in the family of an inductee. pleted such work. 1. Delinquents (i.e., registrants who fail to keep Unpleasant situations can only be avoided if the Class I-Y: Registrant qualified for military their local board informed properly)-Age 19 and student meets his obligation to keep his file cur¬ service only in time of war or na¬ older, with the oldest selected first. rent. To qualify for a 2-S deferment, scudentsm-. st tional emergency. 2. Volunteers—Ages 17-25 in sequence in which make their request in writing. This can be in the CLASS II they volunteer for induction. form o! a lecter, or a Selective Service Form .'04, Class II—A: Occupational deferment 3. Non-volunteers—Ages 19-25, single or mar¬ obtainable from any local Board. Class II-C: Agricultural deferment ried after August 26, 1965, with the oldest selected In addition, students must have their college Class II-S: Student deferment first. provide an annual certification of status at the be¬ CLASS III Although registrants 19-25, who were married ginning of each school year and at any other time Class, III —A: Extreme hardship deferment, or on or before August 26, 1965 are theoretically a change in status occurs. registrant with a child or children. also eligible, they are not being drafted at the If a student is dissatisfied with a re-classifica¬ CLASS IV present time. The same holds for non-volunteers tion of his status, he should immediately request Class 1V-A: Registrant with sufficient prior ac¬ 26 or older or those between 18-1/2 and 19 years of age. an appearance before his local Board. An appear¬ tive service or who is a sole surviv¬ ance is not a formal appeal but is the first step ing son. It is no secret that many men try to avoid the in resolving any classification problem. Class IV-B: Official deferred by law. draft. However, college students who cling to their Of course, If an appearance fails to satisfy a Class IV-C: Alien not currently liable for mili¬ 2-S deferments, hopefully contriving ways of ob¬ registrant, he msy appeal the decision of the tary service. viating service have little possibility of success board. In fact, there is no broader or more Class IV-D: Minister of religion or divinity stu¬ under present circumstances. Col. Meyers noted that "college students not easily affected appeal privilege in any similar dent. governmental structure. Class IV-F: Registrant not qualifiedforanymili- meeting service obligations has no basis in fact." Recently, the time limit for appeals was ex¬ tary service. • Indeed, he pointed out that "67 per cent" of elig¬ tended from 10 to 30 days. Within this period CLASS V ible college graduates enter military service as Class V-A: Registrant over the age of liability opposed to only 60 per cent of the non-college for military service. group." (continued on page 5) Thursday, October 26, 1967 5 ... (continued f rnnti m a f rr«m n/-irto /l mrl from of time, a regis rant m-y appeal by simply page 4) comprehensive final and mental The determination of an inductee's qualifications. . . . physical examination consists of approx¬ physical sending his local Board a letter containing his Selective Service number, signature, and the WANT imately 10 steps. It begins when the inductee fills out a medical history and strips to his under¬ statement "I want to apeal." No special form is wear. Each inductee is advised to bring a required. When an appeal is taken, the registrant's file is complete medical transcript from his family sent to a State Appeal Board. If the regis:ran" physician if he believes he has a significant works, attends school, or lives in a s:ate oxsid? physical or mental defect. the area of his local Board, he may request that One doctor told us that an inductee with a long the appeal be given to a State Appeal Board in medical history of minor asthma may spend an area near him. years planning to disqualify himself, only to be It should be mentioned that the State Appeal drafted in the end. Board is not the State Headquarters of Selective The same doctor also told us that "Inductees Service, b:r is a special board composed of 5 from lower economic levels, who often have lacked proper medical treatment, are referred to members, as is the local Board. In Micnigan, one can appeal to State Appeal Boards in Grand specialists when a physical problem is dis¬ covered. Therefore, despite the lack of a medi¬ Rapids or Detroit. It is vital in taking any appeal to the State Ap¬ cal history, he will be treated fairly. peal Board that the registrant mrkes sure all in¬ "Certainly," a doctor said, "there is some discrimination against the lower economic levels, formation upon which his appeal is based is con¬ tained in writing in the file of his local board. but . . ." The Commanding Officer interrupted Written records are of the utmost importance, at this point. for registrants are not permitted to appear After stripping to his underwear and filling out local Board does accept outside medical evi¬ before the State Board. This board cannot con¬ the medical history, the inductee is given a chest dence, it must be verified by the local Board sider any information that the local Hoard has X-ray. When this is completed, a urinalysis is medical adviser. made. The presence of sugar or albumin in the not already seen, except general inform-:'ion con¬ If the registrant claims to have some illness cerning economic, industrial, social conditions urine is not always sufficient evidencetodisqual¬ or handicap which the medical adviser fails to an3 reports on conscientious objectors. ify an inductee. verify, there is little hope of avoiding the draft Some individuals who have been diagnosed dia¬ Thus, appeal judgments are made solely on the by faking illness. Nevertheless, there is still betic by a family physician are still dfafted. basis of written information contained in the local the induction physical to be passed or failed. This is because the Army has its own (high) stand¬ Board file. Consequently, communications be¬ In order to gain some insight into the proce¬ ards for diabetes. tween a registrant and his local board via tele¬ dures of the induction physical examination, we After urinalysis, the examination proceeds with phone or in person should be documented by a paid a visit to the Detroit Induction Station at a measurement of blood pressure. The Army registrant and sent to the local board to keep the Fort Wayne. Gathering information there turned standard for blood pressure is approximately written records as complete as possible. The out to be a difficult task, primarily because of the absence of relevant written infor¬ 140/90, depending upon the age of an inductee. presence or Commanding Officer's unwillingness to observe If a person has high blood pressure, the doctors mation can mean the difference of winning or the First Amendment to the Constitution. He re¬ have him rest In bed. If they suspect that the blood losing an appeal! fused to give his name or permission to obtain pressure has been purposely elevated with med¬ It might further be noted that an iniiC'.ee can the names of his staff. He would not allow an ication, they have permission to hold an inductee ask to review everything in his selective serv¬ interview with his staff unless he was present. three days for testing. ice file just by going to a local Board and making And, he cut off the replies to questions whenever a request with the proper identification. To any Following the blood pressure measurement, the he chose. In fact, he even requested permission inductee sits In a booth and discusses his medical one else, except authorized selective service to edit this copy—which, of course, was not history with a physician. The doctor marks com¬ personnel, the file is confidential. granted. Is it worth the effort of appealing? If statis:ics plaints he believes mtff require spcial attention. Nevertheless, some interesting facts were "It's amazing how formerly vague pains become are any yardstick, the answer is most emphatic¬ uncovered despite the obstacles thrown in our ally yes. Nationally, 1 oat of 3 local Board de¬ suddenly worse when an inductee receives his path. induction notice,'' one physician said. cisions are overruled by appeal boards. To begin with, the station has three military When the medical interview is completed, What happens if the State Board upholds the de¬ doctors, 15 civilian doctors and a number of a blood test for venereal disease is administered. cision of the local Board? contract physicians who are specialists. These If the test proves positive, the Individual is dis¬ If the State Board decision is no: by unani- specialists evaluate particular complaints such qualified until satisfactorily treated. m: is vote, the registrant m?y appeal to the Pres¬ as knee or asthmatic problems. The service recently received permission to ident. The request for such an appeal should be rhe three military doctors study information sent to the local board within the 30 daytime received from thecivilianphysicians and make the (continued on page 12) period. there is ' If the State Board vote was unanimous, i no further avenue of appeal on the initiative of the registrant. However, (and this seldom happens) the State Director in which the local Board of registration is located, or the National Director or Selective Service may take an appeal to the President from the classification determined by the State Board. Naturally, there is no appeal from the decision o' the President. It is always passible that in the appeal process the time period mry not be sufficient. If the local Board is satisfied that a failure to appeal within the alloted time was duetoa lack of understanding of the right :o appeal, or some other cause beyond the registrant's contro', it can extend the deadline. If new facts arise that have not been considered when the registrant was classified, the registrant may request reopening of his case by the local Board. Again, the new facts m. 3' b.e in writing. If the e/idence is considered important enough to reopen a classifica:ion. all the registrant's appeal rights are reinstated. It must be noted that registrants are not the only persons with appeal privileges. Dependents and employers also may appeal in certain cases. In¬ formation for employers who wish to request tem¬ How wide porary deferments o' key employes in critical occupations can be obtained from state draft should a headquarters in Lansing. Although it is becoming increasingly difficult to avoid Induction, people still try. CoU Meyers traditional noted the increase of conscientious objectors in response to the Vietnam war. However, he cau¬ Shetland be? tions those who seek to use this as a guise to escape the draft. They should be reminded that conscientious objectors must be able to prove a Soft textures, lighter weight, and subtly blended colourings reminiscent of the heaths and history of religious training and belief if they wish moors of northern England, give these Shetlands a distinction that can be achieved by no to be seriously considered. There are 61 reli¬ other fabric. Knots neatly and beautifully complements traditional sportswear, blazers gious groups recognized by draft boards in consid¬ and suitings. To know all the facts on traditional neckwear write for the free booklet. ering conscientious objection. These may be found in "Statements of Religious Bodies on the Con¬ "Tiemanship " Resilio Traditional Neckwear, Empire State Bldg.. N.Y.. N.V. 10001. scientious Objector" Revised, 1963. P.S. We say a traditional Shetland should be 3" wide but no slimmer. Another of the most important aspects of the draft is the pre-induction physical examination. At KNAPP'S MEN'S STORES, Lansing & E. Lansing Although in considering reclassifications, the 6 Michigan State News, East Lansing. Michigan Quiet day in Hong Kong... By LEE ELBINGER China's National Day, comparable to our Fourth of July, is celebrated on October 1. Be¬ cause of bombings, riots, and random terrorist activities that have plagued the British colony of Hong Kong in recent weeks, it was expected that October 1 would be the climax of Communist attempts to undermine the local Hong Kong gov¬ ernment. Surprisingly enough, the day passed with little incident, indicating a reorganization in leftist priorities concerning Hong Kong, To say that October 1 in Hong Kong passed with little incident, however, does not convey the tension that charged the air. Swarms of policemen armed with sub-machine guns pa¬ trolled the streets in armored trucks. Maoist posters and banners were hung everywhere-- especially in the poorer, more explosive dis¬ tricts of Hong Kong. One man lost his life and 82 people were jailed when the festival atmos¬ phere of China's National Day gave way to a rock- and bottle-throwing confrontation with the police, but this was the only major incident that marred the solemn, subdued celebrations. In a city where bombs are known to explode unexpectedly,injur¬ ing innocent people (a recent incident killed two and injured 22), the relative calm of October 1 was accepted with a sigh of relief by the business community and tourist trade that dominates the colony's economic scene. While instigating feelings of joy and gratitude^ the lack of terrorist activity also started a wave of speculation as to Peking's new attitude toward Hong Kong. The dominant feeling is that Peking is too busy with internal problems to concern itself with Hong Kong, so it asked Communist groups to celebrate the National Day as a festival rather than a demonstration. Since the colony police were so well armed and well prepared for trouble, and since many of the leaders and cadres in the various Communist unions and organiza¬ tions were wanted by police for past disturb¬ ances, the celebrations occurred " underground" —that is, quietly and soberly. Fancy, Western restaurants were rented by different Communist groups and decorated in Red banners, flags,and slogans. One can imagine the proceedings occur¬ ring in a manner similar to any political dinner (at $50 a plate) in the United States, except the speeches were probably more fiery, more trite, and more desperate. The position of a Hong Kong Communist is peculiar because, on the one hand,he is expected to be revolutionary and follow the thoughts of Chairman Mao, and yet, on the other, he is ig¬ nored by Peking as an outsider. In addition, the British are making it particularly difficult to hold meetings, to rally, to chant slogans,light firecrackers, place bombs in the middle of crowded thoroughfares, and engage in all those Thursday, October 26, 1967 "J menaced other charming practices that Communists given to doing from time to time. The Commu¬ are by a crazy dragon nist position is relatively weak in Hong Kong because the people here cannot be as wildly xenophobic and nationalistic and still talce money from the "foreign devils" who employ them. Many Chinese in the colony strive to learn English, wear Western suits, and practice Christianity, etc. Because the Hong Kong Communist finds him¬ self In such a peculiar environment, irony per¬ vades every expression of his presence-. A huge theater can be seen in Kowloon dominated by two enormous billboards: One billboard shows Com¬ munist cadres carrying red flags, waving red books, and announces the supremacy of Chair¬ man Mao's thoughts. The other billboard an¬ nounces that the movie "Monkees, Go Home" is coming soon. Similarly, the red flags and lan¬ terns that adorn the Communist banks and department stores also Illuminate advertise¬ ments for fortune tellers, faith healers, Billy Graham, and night clubs. The red (colored) wall posters that cover most walls and buildings are strikingly apolitical in tone: they advertise flats to rent. It is the poorer sections of Hong Kong, such as Mong Kok, where communism Is alive. To walk through the streets of Mong Kok Is to experience an entirely different sort of life—a life apart from the flashy, neon face that Hong Kong shows to the tourists. Here families live ten people in a room. Noise, clutter, and garbage assaults you from all sides. A Westerner rarely ventures into Mong Kok—you are met with stares of fear,an¬ ger and surprise. It is from Mong Kok that the unions recruit their terrorists when they wanta bomb thrown or a riot instigated. To patrol the streets of Mong Kok on October 1, armed with only a camera, seems particularly dangerous. But China's National Day seemed to pass unobserved in Mong Kok. True, the flags, signs and banners were more in evidence there, but the people haggled in the marketplace, worked and played mah-jong exactly as they would on any other day. The weariness and unconcern that could be s£en on the faces of the people belied any ideas that nefarious revolution was brewing in the back rooms and alleys of Mong Kok. And it is indigenous revolution that Peking wants. For the weird game of pride in which China has enmeshed herself declares that it would be beneath the dignity of the Chinese people to step in and take Hong Kong (as could so easily be done within 24 hours). Peking wants the cruel British colonialists to be ex¬ pelled by the righteous indignation of the op¬ pressed masses enlightened by Mao's thoughts. As everybody knows, chances of this happening are very slim—but that does not concern the Chinese strategists because Hong Kong brings 700 million badly-needed dollars annually to the mainland. What does concern Peking, however, is the fact that recent disturbances in Hong Kong have caused some of the money to flow out of the colony to be reinvested in Singapore, Tai¬ wan, or Manila. The problem that faces China now is whether it should take Hong Kong while all the money Is still Intact, or wait until an indigenous revolution expells the British (thereby vindicating Marxist ideology but giving Hong Kong time to reinvest its money so it will be worthless when the People's Liberation Army arrives). Once again the problem of Com¬ munist ideology vs. practicality has Peking in a quandary. In the meantime, life inHong Kong continues— "business as usual." Life has been made slightly more pleasant by Chinese cooperation in various matters such as fulfilling its water contract with Hong Kong. Dissention in nearby Canton between "Maoist" and "anti-Maoist" factions (actually, both sides claim to be the "true" Maoists) led to disruption of transporta¬ tion and water supplies. Asa result, water was rationed to the resident^ of Hong Kong on September 26 for a period of 4 hours per day. More embarrassing than its inability to supply water to Hong Kong was China's inability to hold its much publicized Trade Fair in Canton on October 15 as scheduled. The water was re¬ stored to Hong Kong on China's National Day, and the Trade Fair will commence on Novem¬ ber 15 • The restoration of water to Hong Kong and the lack of serious incident on October 1 seems to indicate that Peking has no intention of taking Hong Kong at this time. The people of this colony have learned to live, work and sleep with a menacing, silly, petulant and some¬ times crazy dragon on their border. The ordi¬ nary citizen of Hong Kong knows that there is no telling what Peking will do, so there is no sense worrying about it. 8 Michigan State News, East Lansing. Michigan 11-year-old newsman sustains 4-penny press He's covered topics like civil grows up—after attending Har- By ROBERTA YAFIE rights, his European junket, the vard and working on the Crimson, The penny press-part of Van- East La"sinS Clty C,ounc"' a"d Criumson staffers have f« °n hing Americana jEsn't ted the lshing next week- the ™rch on Wash" to ington. substantial success-the late President Kennedy, for example. wind knocked out of it after all. The East Lansing Star stands David is a seventh-grader at So have 11-year-old newspaper- as testament. East Lansing Middle School, and men. Some have grown up to be Four cents, four pages, hot off wants to be a journalist when he college editors. the mimeo, on sale at Wylle's Bookstore, 12 cents a month to subscribers. The weekly paper Is the proj¬ ect of David Blum, an enter¬ prising young man of 11 who, with his staff of Kenny Grabow, age nine, and his father's type¬ writer and mimeograph, Is out to buy a printing press. The Star's offices are wo— one at 549 Division St., which David shares with his family, and the other at 401 S. Kedzie, which he shares wi^i hi? father, Albert A. Blum, professor of social science and chairman of academic studies in the dept. of labor and industrial relations. The Star was born back in '64, a joint project of David and his older brother, now 14. The pair canvassed the neighborhood for subscribers, came up with three and produced carbon copies of the paper for its reading public. David's father suggested the change to mimeo andtypewriters; prior to this, David would print the stories by hand. With par¬ ental help, David took over, bringing the paper to Wylie's, then Spartan Bookstore. "My brother was older and could think things out better than 1," David noted. "II? dictated stories to me, like on civil rights." David turned to more of a local angle, focusing on East Lansing news of interest to residents. In the interim, he picked up two subscribers and got on Sen. J. William Fulbright's mailing list. When the Blums went to Europe on sabatical, David found himself' based in Geneva. When Fulbright was in town he spoke with the senator, and then followed up with a letter. He suddenly found him¬ self with some first-hand re¬ ports. From the standpoint of the buy¬ er, it pays to advertise in the Star at the going rate of three cents a word. Not only do you get a good If you want a business or accounting career with all the growing room c deal, but a better paper, for David in the world, we have a suggestion. is channeling his revenues into a printing press fund. He's experimented with Start with Humble and you start with the company that supplies Jokes—political and "any kind". more petroleum energy than any other U.S. oil company. 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Ave. 482-0691 Humble Oil & Refining Company America's Leading Energy Company Metropolitan Life INSURANCE COMPANY A "Plans for Progress Company and an Equal Opportunity Employer NEW YORK, N. Y. Thursday, October 26, 1967 9 COMMENTARY "... if Ayn By DENNIS CHASE ever you hear a man telling you that year, Rand and her ideas are studied, via tape record¬ ings, by over 5,000 Individuals in every state, and her following is growing. Hardly the sign of Consider this defie analysis of the liberal movement: "Starting out as advocates of limited repre¬ sentative government, the 'liberals' end as cham¬ you must be happy, that it's your natural right, a discredited philosophy. pions of unlimited, totalitarian dictatorship. Start¬ that your first duty is to yourself, that will be the man who's not after your soul. That will be To anyone who has studied her works, one thing ing out as defenders of individual rights, they end as apologists for the bloody slaughterhouse the man who has nothing to gain from you. is clear. She is not Hobbes, or Spencer, or of Soviet Russia. Starting out as apostles of But let him come and you'll scream your empty Summer, or Mills. Her philosophy is unique. human welfare, who beg for a few temporary heads off, howling that he's a selfish monster. So As her aide, Nathaniel Brandeon, put it, controls to relieve the emergency of people's the racket is safe for many, many centuries.'' "Ayn Rand's antagonists have unfailingly elected poverty, they end with J.K. Galbraith, who de¬ Maybe. Maybe not. to pay her what is, perhaps, the mands controls for the sake of controls and a But it is an adequate and frightening description greatest tribute one can offer to a thinker whom one opposes; they have all felt permanent cut of everybody's income, not be¬ of the state of society during the 1964 presiden¬ obliged cause people are too poor, but because they are tial election, and of the terror some feel when to misrepresent her ideas in order to attack too affluent. Starting out as brave champions of them No one has felt willing to declare: reading Rand. For Miss Rand is one, perhaps the ... freedom, they end crawling on their stomachs only one, who knows that if capitalism isto be de¬ 'Ayn Rand holds that man must choose his values and actions to Moscow, with Bertrand Russell, pleading: fended, one must do it on philosophical grounds. exclusively by reason, that has the 'Give me slavery, but please don't give me "I know that I am challenging the cultural tra¬ man right to exist for his own sake, that no one has the right to seek values from death.' " dition of two and a half thousand years," she has others by .physical force—and I consider such Conservatives get the same treatment: said. She means it. ideas wrong, evil and socially dangerous.' " "Capitalism is not the system of the past; Her philosophy, Objectivism, is based on "The it is the system of the future—if mankind is to Virtue of Selfishness," as the title of one of her Quickly, Objectivism is this; 1. Metaphysics: Objective reality ("Nature, to have a future. Those who wish to fight for it books says. Happiness, says Miss Rand, is man's be commanded, must be obeyed.") must discard the title of 'conservatives' . . . highest end. The concept of selfishness is the key to her 2. Epistemology: Reason ("You can't eat your Today, there is nothing left to 'conserve:' the cake and have it established political philosophy, the intellectual belief in capitalism. In a stunning philosophical too.") switch, she justifies laissez-faire on the very 3. Ethics: Rational self-interest ("Man is an orthodoxy and the status quo are collectivism end in Her philosophy enables her to be against the grounds that most professors condemn it. himself.") 4. Politics: Capitalism ("Give Vietnam war and the draft, endearing her to the "Just as man cannot survive by any random me liberty or left wing, and to fight "poverty" bills and stat- means," Miss Rand writes, "but most discover give me death.") and practice the principles which his survival "From her start, America was torn by the ism, endearing her to the rightists. She does requires, so man's self-interest cannot be de¬ clash of her political system and the altruist not, however, straddle both sides of the fence. termined by blind desires or random whims, morality," Miss Rand writes. Capitalism and al- She merely defines her side and stays on it. bCit must be discovered and achieved by the guid¬ triusm are incompatible; they cannot coexist in Miss Rand is offering an awesome respon¬ ance of rational principles. This is why the Ob- the same man or in the same society. Today sibility. To damn her, make no mistake about the conflict has reached its ultimate climax; the jectivist ethics is a morality of rational self- it, is to damn man, existence and life on this interest—or of rational selfishness." choice is clear cut: either a new morality of earth. She offers, contrary to what is often said, rational self interest, with its consequences of Asked by "Playboy" magazine if she was really no easy solution, but demanding ones. In the as laissez-faire as she claims. Miss Rand replied: freedom, justice, progress and man's happi - words of the old carnival barker, if you are tired "Now let's get this straight. My position is fully ness on earth, or the primordial morality of of "discussions of Power (black or white), pub¬ consistent. Not only the post office, but streets, altriusm, with Its consequences of slavery, brute lic welfare and "social necessities," and If roads, and above all, schools, should all be pri¬ force, stagnant terror and sacrificial furnaces." you disagree that governments should balance That was written in 1963. men's interests against another's, then vately owned and privately run. I advocate separa¬ some tion of state and economics.'' The most impressive thing is Miss Rand's Objectivism is for you. Objectivism derives its greatest tribute from consistency. She is not one thing one day, and But Miss Rand says it best: the attitude of those who disagree. Teachers and another the next. She has been accused of being professors in high schools and colleges, ap¬ too negative because she attacks liberals and con¬ "... there is no such thing as 'the public parently unaware of the wide circulation of her servatives with equal venom. She flays away and interest' except as the sum of the interests of books and of the fact that her philosophy and the notions of God and Society without fear of individual men. And the basic, common inter¬ alienating anyone. She has said that she considers est of all men—all rational men—is freedom. writing style provide the most significant con¬ trast to popular trends, ignore her. Or worse, that conservative "National Review" the most Freedom Is the first requirement of 'the pub¬ they erect straw men, discredit them, and then dangerous magazine in America. Inconsistent? lic interest'—not what men do when they are claim that her philosophy has been discredited. Negative? Or just fair? Who would you prefer: H. free, but that they are free." Her books regularly sell 100,000 copies a Rap Brown? Now, once again, who's the fascist? BOOKMARKS Is Gnossos Winnie-the-Pooh? By DAVID GILBERT and It is at Christopher Robin's instigation that plained and inexplicable, becomes the ordinary "Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up the "Expotition" is really initiated. Similarly, orphan of a Negro settlement house. To Me," Richard Farina, Dell Paper¬ Gnossos discovers the "pole," the means with The final collapse of the Pooh-myth comes backs, 75 cents of Paramount News, which to start a student revolution, through an when Gnossos is resting at the idealistic "Hun¬ E ast Lansing. attempt to secure his own right to have a girl dred Aker Wood" of his friend, David Grun, and is Richard in his apartment. The whole plan is the product The book-of-the-neurotic-week sees a newspaper headline, "G. ALONSO OEUF Farina's Been Own So Long It Looks Like Up To of the mastermind of G. Alonso Oeuf, the Chris¬ ACCEDES TO PRESIDENCY." Gnossos returns Me, which, while not spanking new, is very much topher Robin surrogate. to his apartment to be accosted with a draft notice. Pooh Bear is a toy bear being dragged about The breakdown is complete: Christopher Robin- a part of the contemporary scene. I should like to consider the book with regard to the Winnie-the (though cared for) by his master, just as Gnossos, Oeuf is no longer the beneficient procurer of for all his independence, is essentially deployed Pooh motif that runs throughout Farina's novel. immunity for Gnossos-Pooh, but a scheming Gnossos Pappadopoulis, the chief protagonist, by Oeuf: manipulator of politics and people; Piglet-Kristin is, according to the blurb on the back of the book, This self-identification with the Pooh myth, an is no sympathetic companion but a traitorous "a shaggy-haired, pot-puffing product of the Great escapist and childish action, lends a charming whore (she is sleeping with Oeuf); Heffalump Society, an amoral collegiate hipster who loathes view to Gnossos, who is so busy tripping out and the ineffable is a needlessly dead and prosaic convention lusts for kicks and Is determined, above searching for "the Word" that he can't "stop Abraham Jackson White and Gnossos-Pooh is all else, never to lose his cool." More, he is a bumping" long enough to figure out which way is not so much being bumped down the stairs as very sensitive and confused young man, trying, in up. bounced with malice and hatred on each and every many senses, to live up to a myth not entirely The breakdown of this Pooh-myth, so to speak, concrete Jagged edge available. of his own creation. Hs returns from a prolonged has its origin in the search by Gnossos for a Pig¬ The Pooh-myth (and its breakdown) closely absence to Athene Cbllege at the start of the novel. let-companion with whom' he can be himself. parallels the actlon and theme in Farina's novel. The Winnie-the-Pooh motif is derived from sev¬ Gnossos, at about the middle of the book, thinks It does not encompass the mysterious fears with eral of the stories in A. A. Milne's Winnie-The- he has found his Piglet In Kristin McLeod: he which Gnossos is Infected, nor the depth of Pooh, notably "In Which Piglet Meets A Heffa- calls her Piglet, takes her to an all-Negro dive Gnossos' character. But the very sudden intro¬ lump" and "In Which Christopher Robin Leads where he is the only white accepted and shares duction of the villain, G. Alosnso Oeuf, and the An Expotition To the North Pole." As Pooh, with her his confrontation with his own particular strange happenings in Been Down accord well with Gnossos is a furry bear of very little brain devils. It is with the desertion of Kristin-Piglet the fairy-land atmosphere of the Pooh stories. to the extent that he is searching for someone that Gnossos begins to doubt the reality, the essen¬ Farina's final statement might be that man cannot to whom he can surrender, In much the same way tial truth of the Pooh world he functions in. As a live by myth alone, but I don't really know. After that Jimmy and Allison employ their game of result, he abandons his love for Kristin in an at¬ all, at the end, Gnossos (as his name Implies) animals in John Osborne's Look lick In Anger. tempt to get her pregnant, and goes to Cuba with comes only to self-knowledge, not to commitment Gnossos' search for "the Word," for "where his alter-ego, Heffalump. Heffalump is killed by to any action, nor to total capitulation to the sys¬ it's at," is linked with Pooh's search for the some army hell-raisers or snipers or something, tem. Heffalump, for the Woozle and the North Pole. The but Gnossos is perhaps equally affected to learn Oh la. "Expotition to the North Pole" is particularly that Heffalump's real name is Abraham Jackson Bump bump bump, significant as it shows Pooh's noncontrol of the White. Thus the mystical Heffalump of the Pooh down the funny stairs. situation: he discovers the "Pole" by accident, story, the fierce and strange animal, the unex¬ Gnossos' last words are strangely eplphanal. 10 Michigan State News, East Lansing. Michigan POETRY Life clarified through poetry By JE FF JUSTIN reflection on what I've just done to rest bank pregnant. Our emotions your having like emotions, you or what's been happening to me.. The violets' reclining head. were growing with inexorable re¬ pick up the rhythm and begin to I wanted to write a poem today. I'm dissatisfied with those vague Sat we two, one another's sponsibilities toward each other. see patterns in your own spinning Whenever I see a kind of day thoughts. 1 want to get at the best. That stanza saysthisbyinvesting thoughts. like this one—pregnant with some This is why a vague poem, with¬ truth, clarify my perceptions. the outside world with the drama change in the weather—that feel¬ These opening lines of John minds' dynamics. out skilled images, is worthless. Poetry does this. It makes Donne's poem, "The Ecstasy," of our This ing comes upon me with a greater There is no forceful focusing on you understand the mutual effects is metaphor. intensity. It's because of the are a good example of what I of your consciousness and your the outside world which enables peculiarities not only of my own mean. Think of the time, in- The poet can't telepathically world on each other by relating you to grab the world in the way way of writing but of the action dispensJble in every MSU under¬ transmit his emotions into your the poet did. of poetry in general. you and your world in meta¬ graduate'1- career, when you were head, and his own thinking is so phors—a process of words which lying by the Red Cedar with a And really good poems become The earth in a state of change involved that he can't resolve his tells you about one set of things lover. I recall one their own world for anyone to always reminds me ofthewaymy bright after¬ emotions in his own. So he in the terms and actions of when those banks had the ties down hi s experience. The poem is physi¬ own life is changing. When I noon spinning thoughts to another, thus defining by com¬ tenderness of a cal. It has a form, a shape wake up under the blank plastered pillow on a bed something real in the outside parison the emotion of both sets. before lovemaking. And yet there world and makes those real in sound, a movement. It can have ceiling of the residence hall and things these characteristics of life be¬ then look out at the sky's organic was a tenseness in the situation start to spin in the same way. Where, like a pillow on a bed, of sunlit talking which is well And since the common elements cause of the deep roots that words ■ movement, the different way I our send down into your conscious¬ see the world throws me into A pregnant bank swelled up, expressed for me in calling the in the human situation necessitate ness. And the poem, the most in¬ tense blooming of language, is thus nourished by the deep as¬ SPLIT OUT. sociations which your living has given to words. Prose concen¬ trates on their, intellectual con¬ notations; poems, while keeping these meanings, go far deeper into the words' emotional over¬ We II go 50/50 with you on the USA. tones. Modern rock music is a similar experience. It attempts to in¬ volve you organically, with direct emotional participation. But the added dimension of the driving rhythm rides roughshod over the subtle words. The two media are two different ways to externalize your living. Poetry in this way becomes a specially intense learning. You understand rationally -out of a TWA 50/50 Club: your half- textbook. You do this also within a poem, but you also apprehend price ticket to all the action, from coast to your life by intuition. the poet's controlled coast. Most any time, The poems we've published in this issue, on the opposite page, anywhere—you re on do this. Robert Vander Molen's- technique is skillful but for just half our regular very demanding on the reader. His way of using metaphor is simply Coach fare. And you re to focus on a series of images, all of which taken together com¬ in for the full treatment, municate what he i s trying to tell us, each one exposing a different mealtime, plenty of good facet of his meaning. food. On many long hauls, Por instance, in "Twenty-one years old," to rive a sense of stereo and hi-fi music to desolation at the acrid, lull routine <>f mature life, he write- make time fly. On cross-country non-stops, & a stan/a about a house set in an acrid land, with no human activity break the dullness. Read the new movies, too. There's more: you'll get to lines aloud. Ritinnally and emotionally, comprehend: reduced rates at all Hilton and you Sheraton hotels in the country. ... A dream house Plus a club Newsletter to fill you No woman to beat rugs On the porch in on other discounts-here Stump fence Squirt.. ': «into the same sky. and abroad. The whole deal V\ hat ! writing about is the V hat he is Wling you i- will set you back a grand total elm" of his maturity. of $3 for your 50/50 .•ms only \t th Club card. the mo-t des- joy. I li. t's If you're under 22, move fast. Stop into your "The Love Prufrock," for Son;' e of J. Alfred n a m p 1 e , de- nearest TWA office and get your card, today. scribe1- a stifled Yet I fin J a vision ion of stilted joy there by man. indirect proof. His beautiful pic¬ turing of sorrow describes tome the end of sorrow. Since 1 take P.S. Attention College Bands, Comhi , Vocal Groups. Don't pleasure in life. I take pleasure forget the National Championships a he 1%K Intercollegiate in the living poem' - clarification Jazz Festival sponsored by TWA. Fo Welcome TWA of life and in the poem itself IJF. Bo* 24<), Miami Beach. Florida to the world of as a physical form of beauty. 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A dream house sXl' Scoured by land No woman to beat rugs On the porch Stump fence Squinting into the same sky - V * ^ Elusiions Walking home in the morning The mist is cold And the weather in a day Photo By BOB IVINS Facing winter Everyone has forgotten Where they have-hid their scarfs Butterfly Bow-Hunting A butterfly that my yellow-black dog Chased crouches on wings Between the bushes and sails out Into a larger world than I could find Went bow-hjjnting with my father Makes a peculiar shadow across the sand A few times when that was his interest Sitting on a stump in Newaygo But my dog vanished long ago Getting a little sun in October Put to death I think Shot arrows in the sky Smelling bonfires crossing in the trees Crossing mossy brooks This was all second growth Twisted orchards some farmer lost in the woods Only small ground apples Souls Run down grassy ravines No lakes left but ferns T ree bridges I am one of the old Chinese Who soothes his soul In the rock etchings in the leaves I am rich A warlord of the mountains I have many dogs And they shake to their toes when they bark Monday Filled with many thoughts On Monday ambitious sun—- T railing into Fall Filled with smooth alertness Robert Vander Molen, Grand Rapids junior, —Windows cool has been published extensively in Zeitgeist Magazine. Zeitgeist published his first book Wandering through my drawer of poems, Blood Ink, which was reviewed in the For old pictures first issue of Collage. Tom Wesselmann: Still-Life #20. 1962 12 Thursday, October 26, 1967 Michigan State News. East Lansing. Michigan Comprehensive (continued from page 5) the individual from pain, but preventing him from activities st brief interview and asked what sort of homosexual they've been engaged in. "If we started being a hazard to himself or others." treat physical disorders prior to induction with getting 40 a day, we would crack down. We prob¬ Also at this time, examinations are made of the permission of an inductee. However, one could ably defer many whoarenot hdmosexual, but. . ." heart, lungs, chest, genitals, rectum, as well as keep his gonorrhea or hernia and remain dis¬ Again, the Commanding Officer interrupted. checks for possible hernias. The final test is for qualified. I'.ach inductee is given mental examinations The next test is for vision. Color blindness hearing. "We receive more trouble on this test to check intelligence levels. "We have ways of than any other," said the doctor in charge, determining whether or not an inductee is trying," does not exempt people from service. However, "but we have a special cheater button to catch it can limit opportunities for training. As for vis¬ To be sure, the service protects its inductees. the ones trying to escape.'' ual acuity, one can be corrected to 20/400 vision It will allow three-month deferments to establish The most common mental disorders that can in one eye, 20/20 in the other, and still be drafted. the seriousness of any problem found during cause disqualification are obvious psychosis and After the vision tests, the inductee strips com¬ physical examination. However, after that time homosexuality. 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