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SUNDAY, DMothers'ay Women's I"Sntars Abrams) "Come Wilson) Gradu te 'II, "Duet: Neon" Torch Lambda Track, Notre Golf, I"Sntars 8, "The Music Music 4, MR(3euc:s0itiacl, Epihany/mc BA(rPreoAnadC)y, ■im 1MA0Y Si"GToanahgrbfeo19&B(erlin0g"7, 9&AB(fricaa"7c,k, Epihany/Amr M(cPDonAelKiCva),SerisInvitaolM(tk8ingh":0e, (GR8iov:a1ane5ly, 1MSATAURYDAY, AD"ndAaalolu-n's&eoxptrimhn¬erA19&(07, Student Aud.) "Duet: Neon" FRIDAY, Greta Gosta Anthony) "Come Conrad) "Duet: Neon" FAfriilcman SGpaolrt nf, I"Sntars Abrams) Recital: AMuusid.c) Salv dor Dog" slan clasi thony) tal PAawradrdes Epihany/Amerc KW(ioPvndAaer)sC,M(KP8ui:a¬r1ub5ly, EAGxra¬dut IP(Kraesgrt) 8MWEDANSY, MN(8oue:s1wic5f, CBRuhoildrmanl)gEpihany/c AB(PrreAonaCd)y, Micvhgsn. BMovSislUn.g 9MTHUARSYDAY, ABfricwaa"icthk,BM(aUalnk¬eiob ROTC "Duet: Neon" Recital: Aud.) 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MInvetaiotl FIentesriaioll Invitaol RBIntaeirccolegia &(Ma2ktingh":30e Hater's Mad Golf, "Stars In Abrams) Recital: Clayton Aud.) sic Mad MSU "Duet: Neon" Rugby, Basebal, Golf, Judo I"Sntars Abrams) MSU 8, "Dr. "The "Gred Epihany/Amerc Music "Gred "The Epihany/Amerc 2MTHAURSYDAY, A(Fa7uust":d3.0), Richardson' W9&(K,nea1ck"7l0s8) Strovheoimn's A9nt,h1o0y9) AAr(euPndAa).C,(R3e:c0ital, 3MFRAIDYAY, Strovheoimn's A9n,th1o0y9) AF(ausu7t":d3.0), Richarson' W9&(,e17l0s8) AA(ruePnAdaC.), IMBdaviSassenUb.al, Drive Tony - Erich &(7 "Duet: Neon" Student Aud.) Erich & (7 "Dr. Tony Knack" "Duet: Neon" Blood Thursday, May 2, 1968 Lautrec By JIM ROOS * paints b/e Having gone through my last cans of Bounty Beef Stew and Chili Con Carne a few days ago. and being thoroughly fed up (pun intended) with the prospect of another pre-cooked. pre-frozen. mono- sodiumglutamated. synthetically soybean- ated dinner. I decided to cook. Brandishing the nearest cook book ] began browsing through recipes in the hope of finding something that might reflect the spirit of Spring. "Hmm. How about a barbeque?' I thought. 'Yes, let's make it a real occasion and invite some friends. Here's the perfect recipe. Just right for the back yard: Mouton Entier Roti En Plein Air." Excellent. Whole Sheep Roasted Out of Doors.' "Now for the directions. Let's see, 'Dig a hole one meter fifty by one meter and one meter deep. Lay a bed of flat stones and for three hours make a large fire so' that you have a huge bed of embers--do not let the smoke overshoot the hole by 50 centimeters. On each side of the hole plant a big branch of green wood cut into a Y, letting a few branches overlap beneath the Y to act as hooks. Have a very long solid branch of oak or holly, on which you will thread - a pretty sheep of about 18 months or two years such was a part, and of which he has left Lobster a l'Americaiiie was another 'Sure. Well, perhaps this recipe is a us so many priceless souvenirs. Lautrec little too rigorous. How about something Anyone who *ha» read or seen the movie specialty. It is one of those delicate dishes that requires a half dozen simple, like chicken." I thought. With a version of Pierre La Mure's Moulin Rouge little fumbling spices immersed in white Bordeaux, heady and page flipping I finally or even spent jl lew hours gazing at some came across the directions for the prep- Cognac, tomato sajce, butter and fine Lautrec restaurant scenes will realize olive oil. eration of the chicken: "How To Make that the little* man from Albi considered Chicken Tender." "In order to make On one occasion? Lautrec was asked fine food to £e one of the indispensable to chickens immediately edible, take them out prepare it for a friend whose apart¬ joys of life worthy of the most profound ment, although spacious, was cluttered of the hen-run. pursue them into the open reflection and afteiition. with antique knicknat ks, shined and polished country, and when you have made them In fact, Lautrec and his close to perfection. «. run. kill them with a gun loaded with friend, the art gallery owner, Maurice Upon his arrival f?r preparing the dinner, ve'ry* small shot. The meat of the chicken Joyant were grrat gourmands. It was Lautrec was showL' the kitchen by his gripped with fright will become tender. Joyant, who after the artist's death, es¬ host where everything had been carefully This method used in the country of Gabon tablished the memorial museum of Lautrec set out for making* the incomparable lob¬ seems infallible even for the oldest and. paintings at Albi, and it was Joyant, who ster dish. : toughest hens. " during the artist's That was enough. I don't mind a little lifetime, . shared so Lautrec, however, -refused to put a foot many occasions of partying, cooking and inside, declaring hi.-* intention of cooking cooking, but chasing chickens into the recipe hunting with Toulouse-Lautrec. the lobster in the drawing room on an open spaces-what kind of a cook book is It is not surprising then that it was - electric hot plate ' this? Joyant who al#o published a limited edition As poet Leclerci? who was present on Turning to the cover leaf I quickly found of the recipes of Toulouse-Lautrec, il¬ this occasion, tells it "George Henri- out. I had been reading The Art of lustrated co-authored by ; the artist's originallv de¬ Manuel (the host), i in great anguish be¬ Cusine. by Maurice Joyant signed menus. Happily, the book has re¬ cause a Lobster a l'Americaine has to be and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec. cently been made available in an English cot up alive, hastily covered his most The book had been sent to me by a translation. friend some time ago and somehow I had precious pieces of furniture with sheets. Most of the recipes are reproducible, Then, wrapped in { long white apron in inadvertently shelved it, never realizing but even the simple ones seem esoteric which his short legs kept getting entangled, what fantastic creations it contains. and are typical of the highly developed It seems that Lautrec, great artist brandishing a spool- as long as himself, taste buds that Lautrec possessed. As and moving saucepaSs about, Lautrec, pre¬ that he was. had an artistic imagination the symbolist poet Paul Leclerq has and enthusiasm for preparing good food pared the lobster -a l'Americaine whose written, Lautrec was the kind of gourmet memory lingers with oie yet. that nearly equalled his zeal for drawing who "always carried a little grater and a "And Lautrec towk such care in the and painting the gaudy, sensual nightlife nutmet to flavour the glasses of port he of late 19th century Paris of which he preparation that no* damage was done to drank. He loved to talk about cooking the drawing room. and then only, did and knew of many rare recipes for making Henri-Manuel breathe again." the most standard dishes. He loved dishes Indeed, Lautrec recognized the importance which had been simmered for hours and of organization an^ appearance in pre¬ seasoned with perfect art. " paring a meal. >ihe table settings and One of Lautret's great specialties was menus always had ro be carefully planned "Ring Doves .with Olives"' and he even and executed to meet fas high standaras. used it as a judgment of character. Of The menus were usually his own crea¬ people he scorned he would say, "They tions, either new iift drawings, lithographs are not worthy of ring doves with olives, or watercolors, or perhaps a transformed they will never have any and they will theme or variation* on one of his well- never know wh^t it is." known paintings. But with those whom he spent his It is, infact, doubtful if haute cuisine, hours of merriment, Lautrec would go for all its delights, could ever have out of his way to prepare the finest captured Lautrec's jotal dedication as did cuisine. Joyapt describes a typical incident his first love-painting^ during one j of their culinary adventures. In 1930, painter "When as the only passengers on a cargo the JSdouard Vuillard told ship toiling through heavy seas between story of a memorable feast held around 1897 at Lautrec'r home in the Avenue LeHavre and Dakar, we insisted, in full Frochot-a feast 'JiaJ was puzzlingly cut journey, on putting ashore on the coast of short at the cheese Brittany to inspecl the fishing boats and to "Follow co^-se me," the master of the house take on a cargo of lobsters and quivering ordered his guests, and led them a short fish. way to the apartment of his friends, the "The boiler room was transformed into musicians Dihau. • s Hanging on the wall a kitchen. We opened cases of old port was a then unknown masterpiece of Edgar and fine olive j>il . . which, with pre¬ Degas, inspired by^ the orchestra of the meditation accompanied the baggage of Opera where Diha£ played the bassoon. these modem pirates who gorged them¬ Showing them the painting, which now hangs selves on vjjst lobsters a l'Americaine in the Louvre. Lautrec cried, "There is and Bourrides Bordelaises" yoiv dessert!" » 4 Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan The Bob Dylan of Vietnam By LEE ELBINGER "One thousand years of slavery under Chinese aggressors, One hundred years of domination under Western invaders, Twenty years of continuous civil war: The fortune the Mother bequeathes to her (Children is a sad Vietman." It does not look like much on paper. Pretty redundant, a little sentimental, not very convincing. Maybe the trans¬ lation is no good. But it does not matter because the above words are cold, dead, black and lifeless on a printed page thousands of miles from their place of birth. I have seen these words alive; wrapped in skin and throbbing with crea¬ tion, I have seen these heavy words float in air. vibrate, and fade away- leaving only the sting of their painful could echo up and down my memory and presence as proof of their existence. I little story. It is about Bob Dylan and am not talking about politics; I am talking Joan Baez and other people I grew up with. overflow into my life (whether or not the bass and treble were in perfect align¬ about art. Unfortunately, there is a dif¬ There were these people named Bob ference. Dylan and Joan Baez, see? and they sang ment). The experience of Art is a First, the words are in English. That songs. I was a punk little kid growing cross between a religious experience and is impossible. The meaningful words, up and I thought I could say "existential¬ an orgasm. One takes you out of the the words I heard, were in Vietnamese. ist" and be one. world, the other makes you part of the Second, the words are frozen and cold. Romantic image fascinated me, held my world; Art does both. Now look at Trinh Cong Son again: I heard them sung-with a tune, with a attention, and captured me, I will never But intellectual kids of 15 or 16 "One thousand years of slavery under waver, with a guitar, with a reason. know. in America with no wars and no wants Chinese aggressors, These words mean more in Vietnamese in the air than in English on a page. and no material problems tend to fancy One hundred years of domination under themselves "individuals" (i.e., important), Western invaders, "OBe thousand years of slavery under Twenty years of continuous civil war; Chinese aggressors, and-since the difference between "indi¬ viduals" and "Supermen" is slight-they The Mother's fortune is a brood of One hundred years of domination under rootless bastards soon become Rebels. It is a delightful Western invaders, ' stage to go through-and a necessary one And a gang of faithless traitors." Twenty years of continuous civil war: Trinh Cong Son is the Bob Dylan of if one is every going to grow up and be¬ The Mother's fortune is a forest of Vietnam. He does to modern Vietnamese withered bones, come Egoless. But Art cuts through all these barriers of stages and cultures to kids what Bob Dylan does to us. He gets The Mother's fortune is a mountain of his fingernails under the trap-door of their unite and commicate and connect experiences graves." that are same to experiences that are attention and he pries their minds open, Same thing. Too much politics, too much similar (this is no fancy word game. Or and once he gets inside their heads he emotion to be real. Unreal-no, surreal. begins to do all sorts of good things; he We cannot understand these words, anyway. maybe it is.) Dylan sang songs that got inside my blood, that got inside my belly, unties knots, he relaxes, he calms, he We are white Americans. For he is an that tore me apart and dewed me up and makes the pain bearable. "One thousand years of slavery under artist (doctor?) and Art is a medicine caused me to narrow my eyes and in¬ Chinese aggressors. hale very, very deeply. Dylan wrote (drug?) and we only take it when we are One hundred years of domination under sick (i.e., out of tune with nature) be¬ Western invaders, songs that could serve as a relief-map when we are healthy we are in Twenty years of continuous civil war: of my nervous system, he picked the cause with nature, in constant touch, a part clumsy thoughts out of my head tune The Mother bequeathes barren fields, prosaic, of the world but not apart from the world, The Mother bequeathes homes burned and filtered them through his special machine and they came out (lead to organic and very, very young. But we row by row." Rebles are sick; we need drugs, we need Talkin' 'bout Art, man. I cannot explain gold) slogans to poems. A sigh by Bob to you what Trinh Cong Son's songs mean Dylan at the end of a declarative sentence (Continued on page 5) and the twang of his ever-patient guitar to Vietnamese youth, so I will tell you a Gai Tai Cua Me By TRINH CONG SON Translated by MARK LYNCH One thousand years of slavery under Chinese aggressors One hundred years of domination under Western invaders. Twenty years of continuous civil war: The fortune the Mother bequeathes to her children Is a sad Vietnam. One thousand years of slavery under Chinese aggressors, One hundred years of domination under Western invaders. Twenty years of continuous civil war: The Mother's fortune is a forest of withered bones The Mother's fortune is a mountain of graves. One thousand years of slavery under Chinese aggressors. One hundred years of domination under Western invaders. Twenty years of continuous civil war: The Mother bequeathes barren fields. The Mother bequeathes homes burned row by row. One thousand years of slavery under Chinese aggressors. One hundred years of domination under Western invaders. Twenty years of continuous civil war: The Mother's fortune is a brood of rootless bastards And a gang offaithless traitors. To teach the children the true language. The Mother hopes thai the children will not forget the color of their skin That the children will not forget the color of ancient Vietnam. Hoping for her far-scattered children. The Mother calls them to hasten home: "O children of the same father, forget your vengeful hate." Thui sday, May 2, 1968 5 * War as a new reality, but "I'll let you be in my dream art shine form again. The Viet Cong dig tunnels, if you let me be in yours." The medicine and call them too, we "sneaky." And men are doing their best to cure a patient Trinh Cong Son djgs tunnels, he supports that other doctor would pronounce any and supplies an infrastructure just like "hopeless." Buddha and just like the Viet Cong. The Bob Dylan arid Trinh Cong Son are not honeycombs can f>e found in his songs, just artists wh^n they appear on stage and the pattern of tunnels mean that he, too, sing their songs. They are Artists all has propaganda to sell, he, too, has a the time; their respective lives are their vision, a dream he wants you to buy, art and these songs which people cling to but this dream is different. This dream is like precious n\etal are really just baubles, The Last Dream: where everyone dis¬ just fortunate occurrences that happened covers in a drug-fjash of insight that he to congeal in a sometimes unfortunate is an artist, that his life is his creation, life. his children are his "fortunate occurrences "To teach tfcg children the true language, that happen to congeal in a sometimes The Mother hopes that the children will not unfortunate life", the world is his museum, forget the col»r of their skin and his mind is the only critic. When That the children will not forget the color The Last Dream ^has been dreamed, we (Continued from page 4) * of ancient Vietnam. will need no more jrtists (for everyone's life Art, we need sex and religion t and e^en Hoping for her far-scattered children. will be a work of aTt) we will need no more madness) to feel a part of the worJd. The Mother callls them to hasten home: doctors (for every- ne then will be healthy) We do not feel that way naturally; we w6re 'O children of the same father, be silent ind we can helpful and proceed taught not to. forget your vengeful hate.' " with our real task il^life (which is to make the And since we are sick/unhealthy we ntied Did I say "sometimes unfortunate"? planet beautiful.) doctors ;artists i to help us becofne Bob Dylan is like Trinh Cong Son. but It does not matter that the poet's words healthy and capable of dreaming our o^n they are not the same We white Ameri¬ hang heavy and < rude on Western ears. dreams again. cans suffer from the psychological torture They were writter- for attentive pairs of What is the sickness? It is a straijge of having too much; Trinh Cong Son is Yellow ears, not White ears with soft, form of blindness: an inability to dream. singing to people who have nothing. Hence, marshmellow lobes These words were Our society is rife with people who sufter a certain crucleness, a lack of sophisti¬ not written on \elvet cushions with a from this dread disease < which strides cation, a sweaty urgency that even Boo long, plume pen between sins of hot choco¬ millions every year). But fortunately, Dylan's sweatiest, most urgent ballads late They were" written^B a war-torn even though we are crippled with tflis cannot match Injustice in our country country where e-Ape from the tragedy ghastly affliction, we are rich and <^an (separate but unequal water fountains, and the pain is -not possible; sleep is pay medicine men (artists) to dregm etc.) has a n small "i" when compared shattered by rolling military trucks, food is our dreams for us until we get the time to the bedlam, the mind-boggling horror of scarce, laws charge daily, there is no to dream for ourselves. A pretty niifty Vietnam. If Qod dies in Western society, television, it is not possible to plan ahead, arrangement that used to work. But She the grief is nt?t too painful and we get barbed-wire clearly defines the spaces one Artists ( being Rebels themselves) $re over His death quickly. We are habituated is allowed to inhabit, the idea of enter¬ too hip to play this game api have bfen to change and nobody liked God very much, tainment is ludicrous, religion is profane, telling the Citizens ( anyon; who d<*es anyway. But when Buddha dies in Vietnam, sex brings children, art requires leisure not dream) to get lost. Actually, th«jse the case is different. It takes machine time and it is not possible-I repeat-it doctors are not as harsh and cruel as gun bullets to kill Buddha, it takes napalm is not possible to cbtain time and it is not their behavior might indicate. They viyw and "search anti destroy" missions. Buddha possible to obtain, an emmigration visa. this seeming unconcern for he patieiit's has no intention of bowing out gracefully, So T^inh Cong Son is stuck in a situation welfare as therapy The Artists ^re of yielding to the pressures of old age. that Bob Dylan never experienced, although telling the world to dream its ttwn dreams- Buddha will fight, Buddha goes underground, Dylan sang about it o^ten enough. -in other words, everyone lias a right digs honeycomb? of tunnels to live in and Stuck with him in America's largest to his own subjective interpretation 'of wait until it is safe to walk in the sun¬ (Coutinu.-d on page M) Letter reflects war pessimism edge of its aims and teachings and I be¬ group had changed Ihe attitude and thinking The following "open letter to Senator Ful- came fluent in understanding the double of the student body. bright" was written by Elizabeth Kong, who has talk which they employ so freely to de¬ When our University came under the lived in the Far East under communist rule ceive the uninitiated. communists, the underground propaganda most of her life. John N. Moore, professor of I am not » communist. My two years in group left with tfc ? retreating government Natwal Science at MSU, has suggested that Cot- Red China convinced me that the Commu¬ soldiers, Went to Vie next province where Inge publish this to provide its readers with nists are the 'most cynical exploiters of they posed as refugees, obtained a scholar¬ "another side" to the question of U.S. participa¬ mankind that ever existed. Under them, not ship from the government and continued tion in the war in Vietnam. even your thoughts are free, for every ef¬ their subversive worl;. fort is made U; control your thinking, and Before China fell I paid a brief visit to Dear Senator Fulbright: if you do not; conform', they have terrifying Britain and the Joited States and was For many years I have admired you f-tr ways to deal wlith you. I saw their cruelty shocked to find thjt propaganda specialists your excellent ideas and for your cle.-jr to the people, peasants as well as intellec¬ had been at work n both countries. Every¬ way of stating them, bat I am sorry to sfcy tuals, and I can honestly say that in my where I went the opinions I heard on China that I cannot support you in your attitude province the peasants did not welcome their were those of Mao and his party at Yenan. to the war in Vietnam. I know you are tryiug "liberators", aud before long they hated I ought to know, fot I then lived near Yenan. to be very objective but, it seems to me, them because J hey were worse off than Why do I mention all this? Because I that you are leaning over backwards to tte before. Though 80 per cent of the intel¬ find in America a2d Britain today exactly objective against America. lectuals in Shanghai welcomed them when the same situatio, as in 1947. Intellec¬ 1 am not an American and I have livwd they arrived, two years later the same 80 tuals, liberals an£ many others' imagine in the Far East for almost forty years. I per cent had tnly one hope-to see them that they are being honest and objective was in China for twenty years, the la?t overthrown. ! in their opinions, not realizing that these two of them being under the communist The Communists are probably the clev¬ ideas have been cleverly implanted in their government. Then followed nine years in erest people' irr- the world at propaganda minds. The same Ifpe of undergrd^MS is at Malaya during the war against the Commu¬ because they can twist the truth cleverly work also all ove? Europe and* ii behind nists there, and I have now been in tlys and they can make a lie appear true. the various anti-war lemonstrations.' ''• country for about eight years. Like mo>t Though they m.ake extensive use of radio My dear sir, f;*om your utterances, I others out here I listen to American broad¬ and literature., in foreign countries they believe that you are being deceived You casts. specialize in- <;he personal approach. A do not seem to realize that-whether you When the Communists took over China; I number of underground members join a like it or not, and regardless of whether club, a social group, a discussion group you think the United States was right or was teaching in a university. Along w&h or they take classes in a college. They go wrong in the first place, your country is other faculty members I underwent t«?o • anywhere they tcan meet people informally, now at war with North Vietnam. There are years of "brainwashing." During the first especially intellectuals. They never only two alternatives before your govern¬ three months we had an intensive identify with thi> communist party but they course ment—either to wi i the war quickly or to with three hours of discussion every mqjrn- skilful at are guiding conversation, voicing negotiate on Communist terms, for they ing in small groups, with assigned outvie opinions or gating suggestions about cur¬ will never negotiate on any compromise reading to do, and lectures, meetings ^td rent political matters. Other people often acceptable to you > South Vietnam, unless propaganda plays to attend. Since I ,vfcs think these ideas are good and quite in¬ they are defeats To imagine anything anxious to know communism from the Mb . nocently mentioj? them to their friends who else is only wishfi' thinking, as you would side I read a grctt many books and mag.;.' pass it on no their friends and so on. I know if you listened to Hanoi and Peking. zmes published in Peking and Moscow* 1 myself saw this happen in the University can claim to have a fairly thorough knowl¬ where I taught; for in six months a small (CoatTaed m page B) Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan STEP: By ROY BRYAN is accredited meaningful by the State of Mississippi but not Learning is not just one-way. most frequently expressed by returning STEP The attitude "That we hare delayed in choosing, or, by the Southern Assn. of Schools and Colleges, volunteers is that they themselves hase gained by delaying may be making the wrong de- which represents the national standard. Rust, much more than they were able to impart. choice, does nol sentence us either to sep¬ therefore, is ineligible for most federal and As one former volunteer said, "When these aratism or despair. But we must choose. foundation grants which are available only to black students begin to articulate who they are We will choose. Indeed, we are now choos¬ accredited institutions. For years. Rust has and what they feel, the world view I held in ing." played a leadership role in Marshall County East Lansing seems very„very small." —The Kerner Report in the civil rights struggle. The blacks' schools in Marshall County are In the past four years, this project has caught the interest of many people. But it was Dr In 1964, the civil rights struggle in this coun¬ on the "split-session" system, which means Martin Luther King, Jr. who saw immediately that the schools close during the planting and try was a national cause of causes. Today, civil in 1964 what this direct involvement could mean. rights issues are clouded by urban strife, con¬ harvesting seasons so that the young people He came to MSU for two consecutive years to can work in the fields. This cieates two interrup¬ cern with the Vietnam War and political cam¬ tions in the academic year. By the time these help raise money for the STEP program. It was paigning, and the fact that Rap Brown and Stoke- because of his efforts in 1965 that STEP hajl students reach Rust College, they are two years ly Carmichael and other black militants have enough money to carry out its program. Subse¬ or more behind the national averages for read¬ confused the liberal believers (especially the ing and math proficiency. The college must de¬ quent STEP programs have been so successful white ones) with the concept of Black Power. that this year all of Rust's entering freshmen will But out of this confusion has emerged the black vote an inordinate amount of time the first two years improving these skills before real be required to attend. Consequently, STEP'S man's determination to gain control of what has minimum budget has risen to $20,000, along with popularly been known as the Civil Rights Move¬ college-level work can begin. 40 student volunteers to staff the program. ment. Another problem is rooted in the teaching This shift in civil rights leadership has made style of many Southern classrooms. Teachers STEP is one of a number of possibilities for do not encourage active student participation problems for white liberals. How can they re¬ white student involvement. But any sort of in¬ gain relevant and effective while acknowledg¬ but stress discipline instead. The student is volvement requires an individual commitment. ing that they are no longer the leaders? For taught at by an authoritarian figure. Students If that commitment is made out a sense of guilt, are expected to digest what the teacher says years, the civil rights movement was shep¬ then so be it. Better than guilt lead to respon¬ herded by whites. Now black people have and what they read and then to return this in¬ formation at appropriate times on tests. The sibility than to despair, which is the other al¬ taken the initiative and they will (and must) ternative. The struggle for human rights must not give it up. The liberal whites can no student is not encouraged to be original or to lead us all to face our conscience sooner or take positions contrary to the teacher or the longer coach blacks on how to gain their inde¬ later, in one way or another. The way does not book. pendence. The blacks have decided for them¬ matter so much: there are many alternatives. selves and have begun a real revolution, one STEP attempts to bridge the gap between the But the time is now. To borrow from James controlled from inside rather than directed strict discipline of the public school years and Baldwin: from without. Where, then, do the liberal the "idea" orientation of college. The program whites fit into the picture? provides the entering freshman with a five- "If we-I mean the relatively conscious week Study Skills Institute which stresses com¬ The answer is that whites must play a sup¬ whites and the relatively conscious blacks munication skills and mathematics. Classes are portive role from here on out. There are num¬ who must, like lovers insist on or create the erous ways of doing this. One is to support ap¬ held in each subject daily, but the tutoring re¬ consciousness of the others-do not falter in propriate legislation as it is proposed on the lationships are the heart of the program. In¬ our duty now, we may be able, handful that tense contact during the five-week program local, state and national level. But many indi¬ we are, to end the racial nightmare and viduals (especially students not of voting age) between these two groups of students makes change the history of the world." feel impotent here. At the national level one can considerable progress. write his representative. On the local level, it may be possible to wield more power bat stu¬ dents really have little influence here. A second role for white liberals is to raise money to support the cause. Again students suffer, for they do not have much money. Pseudo-intellectualism in the movies But students can raise money, and they have. The students of St. John High School (St. John, Mich.) recently contributed $1,000 to the Peace Corps. And over- the past three years, fans would go to a Howard Hawks or student volunteers of MSU's Student Educa¬ By JIM YOUSLING Billy Wilder festival? This would mean tion Project (STEP) have raised more than Those of us who have worked with the sacrificing a film that fairly wallows in $40,000 in private contributions to support their various film societies have, during the meaning in favor of late-late show fare program at Rust College, in Mississippi. It past year, made the astonishing discovery like "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" and is not hard to find a worthwhile project to that films by such "obscure" art fiim "Sunset Boulevard." both of which are support. Trinity AME Church in Lansing has directors as Bergman. Antonioni and Fel- entertainment films, not "art" films. lini are now doing big business on a com¬ purchased 10 acres of land adjacent to their Somehow, most American film enthu¬ property to build recreation facilities for Lan¬ mercial market. This is. oT course, an siasts are so hung up on fancy camera indication of the public's new awareness sing youth. But the church does not have work ("The Graduate"!, obscure plots of the film as an art form. any more funds to develop the land-to level i"Blow Up") and moral messages, it and provide equipment-and so the plan has In response. Hollywood productions are however phony ("Patch of Blue "i. not been completed. The role of concerned beginning to resemble their European that they fail to appreciate the honest whites to provide financial assistance is of competition. Heavily influenced by the simplicity of our Hollywood heritage The obvious importance. success of the two pop-cinema Beatles fact that "Thoroughly Modern Millie" The third option for white involvement is in films. American movies like "Two For had no intellectual significance, for ex¬ education, and it is here that white students can the Road" and "The Graduate" have ample. obscured the fact that it was one enforced the new European techniques play an important role. Education is our bag- of the best-made pictures of the year. the means by which we, as well as black stu¬ upon very American stories. There have In Europe, men like Hawks. Cukor. and dents, learn to understand our past and control even been abortive attempts to create Wilder are held in reverence. Signifi¬ our future. Few white people understand how art films that were arty in content: cantly. the covers of the first two issues the legacy of slavery has affected educational "Mickey One." "Tale of the Cock." and of the leading intellectual film maga¬ opportunity for black people, not only in terms "The Misfits." These films, like most zine. (ahiers du Cinema. featured of the separate-but-equal nonsense of the early of Bergman, assume that the deeper, al¬ Gloria Swanson in "Sunset Boulevard" 1950's, but of the black student's continual strug¬ legorical meanings are much more im¬ and Bette Davis in "All About Eve." gle to make a white-oriented university relevant portant than superficial entertainment or to him. Dick Gregory does not exaggerate by credibility. But somewhere along the line, we Ameri¬ much when he jokes that: It seems appropriate, then, that we cans have convinced ourselves that a film "I went to one of those separate-but-equal re-evaluate the state of film in America should say something. . .that it should schools down South. I don't know how old and consider its future, because we may have a deeper meaning. And we have the textbooks were, but they sure kept me be headed toward a highly undesirable forgotten that a good director does not out of the Navy. If people wanted to sail off phase of pseudo-intellectualism in the need to make his presence known by the edge of the earth~I sure wasn't gonna be cinema, best exemplified by the sudden, swooping cameras and clever editing. In one of them." faddish popularity of Ingmar Bergman the past, a good director was one who As students, we must support black students' as MSU. Virtually every major Berg¬ could coax great performances out of efforts to deal with their own problems. This man film has been shown at MSU this his actors and placed his cameras ac¬ is the philosophy behind STEP. STEP was or¬ year. . .even a very minor one. And cordingly. Now, we talk about Berg¬ ganized in 1964 to help orient entering fresh¬ an entire course on Bergman is cur¬ man's philosophy and ignore the incredible men at Rust College in Holly Springs, Miss. Act¬ rently offered by JMC and the Romance accomplishments of his troupe of actors. ing not as "experts" in particular disciplines, Language Department. Great! Bravo! but "experienced students," the STEP vol¬ I'm glad to see these films given long- as In turn, we have begun to shun films unteers are able to encourage skills and ap¬ due recognition somewhere west of Man¬ that exercise the emotions more than proaches necessary to become more effective hattan. the mind. So we walk out of "L'Av- students. The nature of the project was suggest¬ But at the same time I am worried ventura" admiring the photography, im¬ ed by the administration at Rust College. about the large number of people who pressed by the direction, and discussing Rust is a Methodist-affiliated liberal arts col¬ worship "art" films to the point of alienation. Yet how much better is lege with an enrollment of 500 students. The ignoring the craft of the "non-art" cine¬ "Bonnie and Clyde." the non-intellectual student population is entirely black, but the ma. Students crowd in to see films like hit of the year, which the intellectuals faculty of 35 is inter-racial. Some 60 per cent "The Seventh Seal" and "La Strada American Cinema (Continued on page 8) of the students major in education. The college Yet how many young Thursday; May 2, 1968 7 Poets show Goodman writes beauty with an ^element of pop- By DAVID GILBERT "his grin like the youngster's on the cornflakes box"-but with so much more. . Pop Poems by Ronald Gross Gross may produce a series of photo¬ Simon and Schuster, 1967 $1.95 graphs, where Goodman takes details of Available at Campus Books photographs, retouches th^/n, colors them, infuses them with life and motion, and Hawkweed by Paul Goodman presents you with a kaleidoscope. Vintage Books, 1967 $1.65 Available at Campus Books Mary Chasin is a poet,'and a very good one. Again, like Gross and Goodman, she has taken the world as her scope, Coming Close and Other Poems by Helen Chasin populating her poems vith scenes from Yale University Press, 1968 $1.45 old home movies, Sprint , UFO's, and a wealth of love in many £ languages, as in Available at Paramount News "The Word Pimm" : Spring is that time when a young man's thoughts turn to fancy, or when a young poet's turn to the latest trend in poetry. T.S. ELIOT WITH SYM0OLISM The word Plum is delicious In perusing the bookstores, I hit upon pout and push, luxury of three volumes characterizing, I think, self-love, and savoring murmur three major areas in modern poetical endeavor. Ronald Gross is a poet com¬ menting on "popular culture", or as the nPQEM' jy. full in the mouth and like fruit falling „ blurb puts it, "the continuous verbal undertone of mass culture is turned up full volume." Paul Goodman is a popu¬ pierced, bitten, provoked ijto lar commentator trying to formulate juice, and tart flesh * his insights in poetry. And Helen Chasin is a modern poetess writing poetry. Never did I see so much lovely dogwood question Gross' book travels the gamut from tamed on lawits as yesterday at Haverford and reply, lip and tongue t both pink and white, and also Peter Bevin precise reproductions of advertisements of pleasure. and application forms to satiric re-work¬ proud of his pitching and very wide his ings of slogans, with some of his own grin poetically-stated ideas. Whether Gross' like the youagster's on the cornflakes The "luxury" of language, the magic box. i of words melting into images, the sen¬ work constitutes poetry is a difficult To meet "a rpal writer who wrote books" suality of style, put Helen Chasin into a question to resolve. Surely his "Ditty" is a masterpiece of economy and inven¬ he sought me otjt. class unobserved by Gross and only some¬ He was a troubled boy times attained by Goodman. Gross gives tiveness: late last nighj among his friends when I language and its subtle effects, Good¬ Double Double your your pleasure- us pleasure,, long hours leveled my attention at him, man the inner experience that lends valid¬ DoubleDouble youryour funfun,, at only him. Ai^d all the time ity to that language, but it is Chasin whose WithWith Double-Double- MintMint we kept looking into each other's eyes, fine lines mix perception with the pitch not catching <;ach other at it by surprise of passion. And when you finish reading Double-Double- MintMint Double-Double- MintMint gumgum. but as if endlessly drinking, in spite of one of her poems, the resonance of it himself in love' I willingly in love. stays with you in the mouth of your mind. The fine, easy-swinging slogan that comes smiling to you across the mass media tube "gums" itself up in its own stuttering silliness. To recite "Ditty" aloud is like chewing gum and talking, by means of which you swallow the gum and gum up the words. Whether this serves simple transposition of Gross' de¬ the title poetry (thought-pro- Paperbounds on your voking as it is> is another matter. Gross is perhaps best designated a poetic reading list?' satirist; there is a bite, but certainly THE SCIENCE OF BEING no tenderness in his lines. His style is AND ART OF LIVING permeated by a quiet and rather amused anger, as in the very short but highly By Maharlshi Mahesh Yog) effective "Yield": Paperback 95$ Yield. "Life need not be the painful strug¬ No Parking. gle it is commonly represented to Unlawful to Pass. be. We are meant to be happy, Wait for Green Light. and here Is a way for everybody; Yield. a way which involves no austere discipline, no break with normal life Stop. and tradition ... gives meaning." Narrow Bridge. Merging Traffic Ahead. Yield. MAHARISHI, THE GURU Martin Ebon Yield. The emasculation of modern man by Paperback 75$ his own system is clarified by the quick "Beyond pot . . . beyond LSD. succession of roadway signs familiar to Maharishi teaches a simple modern any beleaguered driver on this nation's technique taken from ancient prac¬ highways. The insistent "Yield" harps tice of meditation, especially adap¬ like an unforgiving master forcing his ted to the jet age. He believes dog to heel with repeated smacks of a that if only 10 per cent of man¬ rolled newspaper. kind would practice Transcendental Paul Goodman's verse is more satis¬ Meditation, permanent world peace would be assured." fying as poetry. His lines are marked with lyricism, inviting you to call him long-distance, collect, just to tell him, "O.K., I understand. I really do." Good¬ I^RB^OOK^ man discusses sex. the North Country he grew up in, growing old and growing young, and the human element in the vastness of the world. Reading his "Haverford", for example, is like catch¬ ing a glimpse of an unusual sight, or a pretty girl, and turning on impulse to following with your eyes, and discover¬ Over 100 Publishers ing that your feet. too. are following her (or it): Stocked in our Warehouse 8 Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan Pat Paulsen ■ op the campaign trail By STUART ROSENTHAL Pat Paulsen is excited about coming to Lan¬ sing. "YeS," he said, "there hasn't been excite¬ ment on the campaign trail since Pisco, Wash¬ ington. Have you ever been there? Everybody should try to make it out to Pisco once in his life." Pat's modest break as vice president of edi¬ torials on the "Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" has catapaulted him to fame, wealth and, finally, to Grandmother's, the pinnacle of a campaign trip which has taken him to Van¬ couver, British Colombia where thousands of Canadians offered to draft him for Prime Min¬ ister and as far south as Hawaii where he led M6 surfers in a Paulsen rally. His address to the National Press Club drew a standing room only crowd as a result of the can¬ didate's resolution to demonstrate the need for frugality in government by eliminating such un¬ necessary luxuries as chairs. While in New York, his organization sponsored the extravagant "Paulsen 89 cent-a-plate din¬ ner." where Pat. attired in a billowing white chefs hat and double breasted apron made his first major policy statement on the campaign: " just have to make your own good times. Like Campbell and Leigh French, who does the No Substitutions." have you ever been stuck in Salt Lake City?" "Share Some Tea With Goldie" segments dur¬ Over thirty six people at the black string tie The campaign is being chronicled by two of ing the regular season. affair munched Paulsenburgers with Smothers Pat's ardent boosters. Jinx Kragen, who has While in Lansing, the comic will appear for onions as the presidential hopeful reiterated three nights at Grandmother's in addition to var¬ authored several cookbooks and is well quali¬ some of his stands on issues, formulated during fied to write about another hard boiled egg, ious campaign activities. his stint as editorialist at CBS. and Mason Williams, who produced The noto¬ "Somebody," he said, "suggested a tour of "All this talk," he countered a charge that rious "Bus Book" which sold for $35 and fraternities and sororities, but we're more in¬ the government is corrupt and should be opened into a life size poster of a Greyhound terested in sororities-women voters, you know cleaned up. "about padding expense accounts, Bus.' I was invited to dinner at Triangle, but I don't special gifts, and payrolls can only lead to in¬ "We were going to call the book, "The Mak¬ know what it is and I'd prefer Circle, anyway. vestigations and convictions. I've heard a lot ing of the President 1968," Jinx said, "but we Only I wasn't invited." of complaints about junkets on the Riviera ran into some trouble with Theodore White or "Yes," I asked Paulsen, before concluding and use at federal funds to buy yachts and such. somebody like that." our phone conversation, "could you make a These critics are picky, picky, picky. The book will be out in broad statement for readers about how July and will parallel our "This is a government for the people, of the the television special that Pat is currently you're looking forward to coming to Lan¬ people and by the people; and there just aren't filming. In fact, the personage will be followed sing?" enough of people you can buy in the govern¬ around Lansing by a camera crew shooting "Certainly," he replied. "I'm .... looking . .. ment forward footage for that show and for the "Smothers .... to ... . coming .... to ... . Lan¬ "Let's end these half-truths about senators' Brothers Summer Show" staring Paulsen, Glen sing." relatives on the government payrolls working in Washington. Sure, they're on the payrolls- hut they're not doing a lick of work." As a television man, Paulsen is vehemently against cnwornhip in his medium. "I am sick," he asserts, "of all the sex in television ending Intellectualized up on the cutting room floor. I also detest the (Continued from page 6) In "Bonnie and Clyde" however, did Arthur restrictions on what yon can say about Presi¬ are still trying in vain to justify and Penn have something to say about 1930 dent Johnson. They won't let you say anything pigeonhole. In it, we are shown a film, society and the criminal mind , or did he do his damnedest to make this bizarre love story had, because it shows a lack of deference for we experience a film, and although the the most exciting vicarious experience to ever the office, and you can't compliment him be¬ experience is open to individual inter¬ cause nobody will believe you." pretation. the film has not told us any¬ rip across a silver screen? Again. I would In favor of educational reform, Pat is wary thing. In every Bergman film, the char¬ pick the second example. about the necessity of sex education in the pub¬ acters inevitably sit down for a moment And just because we should relagate movie- lic schools. "Sex doesn't have to be taught," and discuss love, God. communication or movies to the entertainment category, we he insists, "it's something most of us are born something else important: meanwhile should not consider them any less artistic. with. they are also dropping heavy little hints Film, after a long period of having to apolo¬ "I saw training film Z7-F when I was in the about "what this film really means." gize for being escapist entertainment, has now service, and I'm still almost a bachelor." "Bonnie and Clyde." on the other hand, gone overboard in the other direction, feeling He is also a champion of draft policy re¬ ends abruptly with their deaths. There it must be intellectual or socially significant vision and has proposed a lottery system where is no "Crime does not pay," no "So¬ Thus we have trash like "Tale of the Cock" names are put in a hat and selected by hat ciety made them what they are," no with pretentious symbolism oozing from every size, the tinyheads go into the service and the "All they needed was love." There is pore (Aren't we getting sick of seeing Christ fatheads into the government. nothing. Perhaps the film is so power¬ images by now?). or trash like "Guess Who s "Some people tlnnk that the selective service ful because we all experience aliena¬ Coming To Dinner?." which takes a "daring" system is unfair and we have a name for these tion, impotence in a mass society, love subject (which hasn't seemed daring in ten people-soldiers!" of violence or fear of death. The film, years) and whips it into a Hollywood froth. Should we spend billions to reach the moon? however, is about Bonnie Parker and Who WOULDN'T want their daughter to "Of course," says Pat "we already know Clyde Barrow, NOT about alienation, im¬ marry Sidney Poitier? He's more White- where the Hilton Hotel will be. There are a lot potence, violence or death. It is a film Middle-Class than Mickey Rooney ever was. of taxpayers who don't understand what we of action, not philosophy I look forward to that wonderful day when will do wbu> we go to the moon. They fail to films may be viewed with the sense of balance It is thoroughly amusing to see critics and realize that there are some places where you wonkl-be critics try to analyze the success of and perspective that the other arts enjoy. No one claims that W.P.A. murals of toiling "Help!", "Goldfinger," and "Bonnie and laborers are more worthwhile than the "es¬ Clyde" in the same terms as "Blow Up" and capist" idealizations of the romantics. The Cover "Persona." Ingmar Bergman is a philoso¬ pher who uses film fluently to express himself. historical "1812 Overture" is no more worth¬ while than the abstractions of Beethovan's The unusual cover of Collmg* this issue was Richard Lester, on the other hand, is a man Fifth. A "message" film is no more artistic taken by Boh Ivins, a junior from Niles, who who loves filmmaking above all else; if his than a Western. The quality of the subject has been instrumental in supplying CoUmge and personal philosophy appears in his films, it is matter is not more important than the quality the Smte .Vm with outstanding photography secondary to the film experience itself. Thus, of the artist's execution. They cannot be sep¬ in recent years. Photographers are often the if we have two schools of film thought, why not arated. unnng heroes of any publication. Editors usu¬ have two sets of criteria? ally view them as being somewhat limited in We might think in terms of the creator's In short, we should withdraw some of the scope, and mostly mechanical. purpose. In "Blow Up," did Antonioni want to weight given to illustrated theologies, and Ivins quickly dispelled this myth when he de¬ withhold information from the audience to recultivate our appreciation for the equal diffi¬ scribed bow he took the cover shot "The pic¬ make a murder mystery (as Hitchcock did in culty of entertaining. Great intellectuals do ture was taken with a Pentax Spotmatic using "Psycho"); or did he want to say something not necessarily make great films. The cine¬ a Mum leas. Illumination was existii^ light about the subjectivity of truth and reality, ma. like any other art. is a process of the guts bounce strobe. Exposure was f 8 at 1/60 picking the murder plot as the best filmatic and the heart as well as the mind. secouTri-X,'besaid illustration? Surely the later is more probable. Thursday, May 2, 1968 9 Noon and the passing of another noon reminds us we've grown older. I have harvested Wolfsbane with the elder of fools ... and I remember now greyly how he stood under the hanging trees of our children's alleys and her eyes grown large with the greenness in her years and her sweating panting voice you show me yours and I swelled in the lust of the budding sapling no - you first the rage in her heart and her throat burned blush and our eyes grew quiet in morning's indecision. and I slid down hopefully to the beach of love . .. The Angelus, the Angelus, Confetior Deo, Omnipotenti. There was a time when I heard the groaning world pause fitfully in your doorway to rent sunshine for a six-pence and I stood in your line with my cap in my hand and my eyes grown golden in your heart... (can you take me from this) in Izmir the roads are camel dung (I have to think of my family's position) my uncle is the queen of Cincinnati (will we be happy) we will lie nightly in the dark My Mother in the and watch each other die My mother in the morning stepped at night, where windows (do you love me) outside to hang her yellow veil gave me the stret'. below I have seen... i have seen .. to dry. And I and the radio Cincinnati. walking in the mirrored hall when the teeth wfre the crowds at the corner in the summer of my fourteenth year all brushed of langston and ogg wanted my face to clear up and the turtles waiting for the noon tram the White Sox to win the pennant wanted his sister - together. Wolf Larson not to kiss anybody and the moon to whisper and the s^in to shine its cleansing liglv A man on my Mather's yellow veil. on my mother's yellow veil. and a woman "Zeby" Gibson, fabled short stop darkly swayed in the loins of our sandlot afternoons, wanted Last year Louis R batted .321 and had of their life my bike, 78 R.B.I.'s. Is acre caused down to the beach of love to whistlt; down from masturbation or and held each other the river hill, past the the handling of tuLtles on viselike in the sand trucks and trees and baby carriages rainy Thursdays^What does it while the frog went croak so we would think him as daring matter then to stand and the fish went swim asPhilD.'sdad in the mirrored hf 11 waiting and the sea went cleansing who onc^ killed a dirty Japanese, for the veil to dry-? I could've this shame from the beach while I run breathless to Oregon in the shjjme of my room and become a hig>climber, sent a man for Annie Gibson - and a woman numbered steps of their silence French Girl with Bread to hang my shirts to dry red-flannel by hfr veil to the blackened porches Hillerue I hardly knew you. pour me the maple on of their lives my woody breakfast * You came bunting out and the night went nightly and 1 ift her sad skirts of the Gaulist countryside and the wind went windy like a starving frog grabs flies to show me the secret. And I did too. and the breath came death When the radio was off and the teeth from their hearts. from a poppy. Was it the way all brushed . ♦ Christ's teeth. Is it noon already. I must make my appoint¬ you carrjed your loaves of bread, wrapped ment. I must make my appointment. I must make another in your long arms your St. Willy Freeman, third base wizard appointment. negro, and patron saint of the fourteenth fingers molding creases in this morning's dough? year, venerable object If only for a moment of the two-dollar pilgrimages let me walk beside you to the sacred shr: ne Or did you too sense I must hold this yellow world in that instant when of Comiskey Par*, pray and feel myself bronzed for the thighs the tired earth hung heavy with the glow of your name which held ir.y eyes with eyes just meeting, that if only for a moment.. this was the moment shaded, shamefully in my turtle room; and I see myself shallow in my mirror to sell owr truth my hair is october and give sense to in the sweet wilk-ws of Sunday mornings yet I am a Wednesday child when the world ajngs with Thursdays spent waiting under the sign of the fish in the red speckled fields rocking chair boards of white paint porcf>es, and I have been of our youth? and the ovens filped with goose drawn to gather in the city, down to the scent of dinner waiting- Hillerue I hardly knew you. drowned too I will cry the beach of love • for the man who Joseph Dionne, Grand Rapids junior, at¬ wanted his face to clear up, I have harvested Wolfsbane tended Grand Rapids Junior College where "Zeby" Gibson'i sister, with the elder of fools his poetry was published in their magazine, and for the sun fining "Display." A play of his was also produced on my mother's /ellow veil. and the passing of another noon there. Two years in the army in France reminds us we've grown older. (with a visit to Turkey) furnish much of the imagery of his poems. JOSEPH DIONNE JOSEPH DIONNE Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan Napalm insane asylum (Continued from page S) on villages: bad art is Khanh Ly. She would be Vietnam's Joan Baez. but that is stretching analogies a bit far. I think of her as a Julie Christie who can sing like Barbra Streisand. Baez (although I love her) simply does not have the grace or the existential defiance of Khanh Ly, in spite of the fact that Baez is mature enough to compose whereas Khanh Ly can only-at 23-sing songs written by Trinh Cong Son. But, again, she has had a harder mountain to climb than Joan Baez, and if Trinh Cong Son's songs need polish and Khanh Ly renders them like a pre¬ cision machine, look at their working con¬ ditions and see the distance they have had to travel. "A yellow-skinned Vietnamese girl Loves her homeland as she loves the ripe rice fields. A yellow-skinned Vietnamese girl Loves her homeland with tears running down her cheeks." Photo by Lee Elbinger When Trinh Cong Son wrote these words, "free kill zones"; this accept with White minds. Notice "A yellow-skinned Vietnamese girl" meant as is^ bad art. owners, It is sick, unhealthy, it alienates from I say "White minds"~not "bloody hands." just any yellow-skinned Vietnamese girl,' nature, it means disharmony and disunity. Contrary to what anybody says, the sins an impersonal creation/fiction designed to That is why the creators of this Vietnam of the fathers are not passed on to the ignite your imagination. But when Khanh fiasco(and. in all fairness. Lyndon Johnson sons. The sins of the fathers are the Ly sings "A yellow-skinned Vietnamese was not solely responsible for the mess he sins of the fathers; the sins of the sons girl loves her homeland . . she IS has perpetrated so ineptly) were all Bad Dylan knows this; . are something else. a yellow-skinned Vietnamese girl standing Artists. They are surgeons who would not afraid he was to dig (a tunnel?) "down right before your eyes LOVING her home¬ kill the patient rather than change the to the source and flood us with ballads to land. And you feel so close to her you operation. They are self-appointed psy¬ quench our peculiarly Western thirst. Dylan are embarassed, as if you had walked in chiatrists who would cure mental disorder is a good Artist, is a real American. on someone who was quietly sobbing. She by beheading anyone deemed insane. But somehow the Bad Artists have gotten wields her voice like a laser beam, Bad Artists are by no means incurable. all the money (all the power) and they- slicing and carving away at the invisible barrier that separates her from her audience. They are generally harmless and can often ignorant. and unhappy though they be-run be put to good use working in the offices the show (do they really? Does the show She closes her eyes and throws her head and factories of the world so that Good run them?) People like Dylan (a Good bat* and slowly releases a stream of Artists will have the food and leisure Artist, a real American) and Donovan Vietnamese words that enter the micro¬ time to carry on the true work of the human (a Good Artist, a real Briton) and Trinh phone and are amplified in a thousand (which is to make the race planet Cong Son (a Good Artist, a real Viet¬ nervous systems, echoing in a million beautiful). Every generation is bound to namese) can only sit on the sidelines and brain cells, reverberating in Infinity. Her have its share of Bad Artists and civili¬ sing ballads to the drowsy ear of History life, too, is her art; she never performs zation has lasted a long time in spite of telling future generations what it was like because she is always performing. Like them. But we in America at this time to be alive now, at this moment in history, an Oriental Julie Christie she flaunts the in history are placed in the unsavory when some countrymen drop napalm and petty rules and dictates of society; she position of seeing the Bad Artists in con¬ some countrymen take LSD. smokes cigarettes (unheard of for Asian trol. The idealism that attended our "One day a girl goes through her village, women) and she walks barefoot when country's birth got lost (in the subway?) Goes in the night, a night echoing with she feels like it. She waves her indi¬ somewhere between Wall Street and Madison the howl of guns. viduality, her uniqueness, and her beauty Avenue. Our vision (i.e., dreams, plans Suddenly she clutches her heart, like a tattered but precious flag; it is all for the future) seems to have gotten Over her fragrant skin slowly spreads she has in lieu of security. Her favorite mugged in Central Park; our children sit the stain of blood. song is about a Vietnamese woman who in solemn attention before millions of A yellow-skinned Vietnamese girl has lovers from all over Vietnam-from television sets and movie screens and lap Takes with her the dream of the homeland Hanoi, from Hue, and from Siagon-and she leaves life behind who. up the illusions (opposite of visions) as finally goes mad. Somewhere on this offered by Hollywood and NBC which are A yellow-skinned Vietnamese girl baffling planet Earth there is a girl who no more nourishing than the Dixie cups Has her love for the homeland is so hurt and so beautiful that she sings of vanilla ice cream that they simultaneously when nothing else is left." about her pain; if you did not know that shovel into their mouths with wooden I do not know if Trinh Cong Son's songs before, you know it now. spoons. Our Good Artists are horrified and are as melancholy and as surrealistic as "A yellow-skinned Vietnamese girl disgusted and disheartened: we have won his friends claim them to be because I Loves her homeland so she loves her all the material battles in life, yet we do not know Vietnamese. I do know that people, weak and feeble have lost the war. We are literate, but Trinh Cong Son is an intense, sincere She sits and dreams of peace we do not read; we are rich, but we do man, and, since he has devoted most of Loving the homeland with the primal love." not share; we are free, but we do not dare his 28 years to philosophy and peace, has So here we are with artists-artists to walk our streets at night or live and no reason to lie to us. I do know that in a culture that our government is me¬ dress differently from our neighbors or Khanh Ly sang in Saigon bars and night¬ thodically and cheerfully killing. These look at other people's eyes (let along see clubs before she quit to join Trinh Cong people (like all true artists) are fearless the world through other peoples' eyes). We Son's quixotic mission and she tried to enough and honest enough to wear their represent a massive failure amidst bogus commit suicide six times. Ask me about private lives outside, in full view of all, success and the songs of our Dylans and Vietnam and I can only tell you what I've for the scrutiny and delight of the public. Baez (sons and daughters of the middle seen: a yellow-skinned Vietnamese girl They are ( like all true artists) indiv¬ class) must be appropriately subtle to shot by American soldiers and a yellow- iduals who have thrown open the gates catch the special, unique anguish of having skinned Vietnamese girl singing the songs and windows of their Subjectivity to share too much, of being too fat, of hearing of Trinh Cong Son. All else is commentary. with the world bits and pieces of their lies, of being orphans with parents, of Trinh Cong Son and Khanh Ly have no vision (their dream). These people are crying ourselves to sleep at night even money to record and share their art and the only free people; the Citizens do not through our beds are soft and our bellies their government probably would not let share because they are afraid to dream. are full. Dylan sings to his own people: them if they did have the money. They Should we admire the artists or should we those who have had it too good, those who can be heard in Saigon, and-since I envy them? Neither: we should simply know too much. That is why our Good have not been in Saigon in two months- join their ranks. It is not necessary to Artists are hip; to be hip is to know too it is possible that they are now banned or draw or sculpt or play a guitar to be an much for your own good. Even Dylan dead. There is no way for us to hear artist; everyone has his own life which went underground (like the Viet Cong)- of their anguish just as there is no way he may fashion as he wishes. Space is he found his element at the lowest common for them to hear Dylan-hence communica¬ the canvas; time is the paint. The creation denominator, among the hill folk, the country tion failure, hence war. will speak for itself; only its creator folk, the Negroes, the last people in the Someday we will be at peace, and our (Creator?) can judge it. country to have any contact with the land, radios and phonographs will reproduce "You've yet to know the homeland at with nature, with the root, source, founda¬ their art while their appliances will re¬ peace, tion of everything. Our dance and music produce ours. Until then: You've yet to see Vietnam as it was, have been translated from black tradition, "O stroke of death, sorrowful and in¬ Yoa've yet to ting the old village verses culture (mod, different; our hip, and even square one time; jazz) is a gift from Africa in appreciation O Motherland, dark a thousand years. Yon have only a lonely, hate-filled heart." for our (un)kind treatment of its citizens, A yellow-skinned Vietnamese girl reached War is bad art. Dropping napalm on the homeland alone it is a gift offered with black hands that designating large tracts of land we the children of colonialists and slave But I am still driven to search." Thursda, . Hay 2, 1968 11 On McCarthy's campaign trail person during one weekend of Eugene Second, great concern had been voiced By Steve Haynes McCarthy's campaign in the Presidential in recent years by Anyrican clergy, and primary marked* * first in American justifiably so, he sail. Their iden¬ Fort Wayne this weekend was blitzed tification with critical social and moral politics, and the performance is being by a corps of student canvassers from American conditions hytf contributed im¬ repeated in Indiana, The stakes of the a variety of campuses in the East and I'ace have been -compounded, as well, with Midwest. Assembled from Western Michi¬ measurably to contemporary dialogue, an intense battk between McCarthy and especially among leaders of American gan University, the University of Buf¬ Robert Kennedy' for the sympathies and society. falo, Kalamazoo College, Albion College and MSU, the students dispersed through support of Indiana ^otys. Finally, and "naturally," said Mc¬ the city and knocked at over 16,000 doors This writer cativa^sed two distinctly dis¬ Carthy, were the politicians. Bat, be similar neighborhfKxis of Fort Wayne and said, their awareness of the necessity on Saturday alone, speaking with tens of action was accentu tied by the con¬ of thousands of voters about the cam¬ was impressed yn the one hand by the concern displayed by most voters for tributions of clergy and ac^emicians. paign of Senator Eugene McCarthy for the issues and ^personalities involved in Later in his Ufc, McCarthy referred the presidency of the United States. this year's carrpafgn The range of to the draft, U.S. Aryy type, and said It was not an altogether optimistic economic and political backgrounds was that he favared a hm venal tottery a Ml campaign, since the students were cov¬ considerable, from cjestitution to affluence, wider gndeliaes far t—iritatieai ab¬ ering one of the most conservative of and from hawkish conservatism to wel¬ jection to selective «rara. Ia Indiana cities. One hundred twenty stu¬ fare liberalism. tion, he nactiaw* thi dents from MSU participated in the exer¬ be made favarahle to c-w — ap the retara Rusty Penner, wife of the chief coor¬ cise in practical politics, following the dinator for MSU's McCarthy canvassing from Canada af maay «f the Undents aad lead of their brethren who had canvassed U.S. citizeas wha had defected there. operation, canvassed one house in north Fort Wayne the weekend before, and who Fort Wayne at the moment when the With a final round of canvassing occur¬ had helped cover Milwaukee, Wis., a home's occupant w;>s out in front paint¬ ring on Sunday prior to their retain to month previously. ing a new sign ! "Victory in Vietnam, MSU, the high point of the weekend oc¬ All was not rosey, however. Two MSU Not Negotiations or Appeasement." Her curred Saturday evening, when at about students returned speaking of moles¬ reaction to the incident was as calm as eleven o'clock Senata. McCarthy spoke tations by Hoosier watchdogs, and Lou could be expected, dutifully noting the to the students before leaving the city. Penner, MSU coordinator for the can¬ residence as "4-Ft," meaning in the Having just finished a "roasting," or vassers, was somewhat dismayed by a code utilized by tlW canvassers a house political, no-hoMs-barred dialogue aim¬ voter who had mistaken the Senator's being Republican, 'anti-McCarthy and as- ing at the degradation of participating identity: the Fort Wayne citizen was sumedly pro-Nixon and absent (Pierre Salinger was pres¬ very curious about the new programs of On the other luind a group of can¬ ent representing Bobby Kennedy) candi¬ Joe McCarthy. "Stay Clean with Gene" vassers working in * one neighborhood late dates, before the Foil Wayne Gridiron as usual took its toll of sideburns, mus¬ in the afternoon on Saturday was invited Club, McCarthy demonstrated his grati¬ taches and beards; and all the parties into one home for dinner, an invita¬ tude and seemingly r "the moral and political people said that Indiaia would not have were evident. good reaction to tie liberal attitudes problems of Amer ica^ a Upon arriving Friday evening in Fort First, he mentioned the academic com¬ of Eugene McCarthy, but we have found Wayne, the student canvassers were dis¬ munity, which he credited with one of surprising evidence thit this is not at persed to a variety of sleeping quarters, the first awakenings to the Vietnam dil¬ all so. Support for1 McCarthy is very some to private homes and others to emma, and who he said had helped greatly widespread among the" voters, and what's gymnasium floors. Up early on Satur¬ in the polarizations which now occurred more important yet It that there is a day, they received their marching orders in discussions upoj the subject. strong reaction against B<-bby Kennedy." from local headquarters and moved out into the surrounding neighborhoods. Political canvassing is a tactic usually reserved and one for of the local many political campaigns, phenomenal inno¬ Time Machines vations being employed this unusual elec¬ By JEFF JUSTIN tion year is the mass canvassing of all voters in a state on behalf of a single national candidate. The fact that virtually My own clock flexes electtcity by the bed. all Wisconsin voters were contacted in The friend who loaned me this apartment its plug-root in the binding force of matter, left his clock ticking, its spring arched by the force that enrves from pole to pole. pushing seconds toward flacidity, I'm swept on the space-tir le continuum ambitious within tjie system. Tensions in the flux of its handling i-'iy and night inside its plastic b,#ck and plastic face. If I open it, By its scoreboard I play c%,the magnetic field, the spring will come snapping out at me, a heart attack to its guarded hands. mindless of the alarm tha ends all g'ames Executive Editor Eric Pianin From the womb-coil I pus led my consciousness I'm getting wound up on its unwinding. to spread it mindless J. If I lock it and leave, it will still rattle me, From the tight fist my parents fnade Contributors . . . Lee Elbinger, Joseph scraping its cup across my jail bars. to the opened palms of deiih. I put it in a drawer fifst. Dionne, Roy Bryan, Jim Roos, Stuffed in sheets it! stjll ticks. I'm waiting to hear the cl ck sticking stop David Gilbert, Stuart Rosenthal, Jim sitting here at my friend' desk V ousting, Jeff Justin. 12 Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan Thursday, May 2, 1968 The pessimistic hawk (Continued from page 5) caused Russia to give her present massive willing to fight and then be handed over to the tender mercy of the communists be¬ YoG should know what happened as a result help to North Vietnam. I beg to differ. When America entered the war in Viet¬ cause of politics in your country. I do not of negotiations in China and in Korea. know whether your objections to the war The Communists feel that they have al¬ nam, both China and Russia were very careful to confine their help mainly to radio are honest or whether they are voiced ready won the propaganda war. They know that you, and others like you, have done speeches. They were afraid of American merely to spite Mr. Johnson. 1 hope you more to lower the morale of the South might. The U.S. could have won by the end are honestly mistaken, for then there is some hope that you may change. Vietnamese people than all the VC ter¬ of 1966. But now they see that you are rorism. Yon have made the north feel really determined not to win and, while I confess I do not know what you want. practically sure of victory. they cannot understand such an attitude, they Do you want your country to be defeated? That is why they have now put into are grateful for the opportunity you are Do you want to negotiate another Munich, operation the final phase of the Liberation giving them to drain your strength. They as Mr. Kenned> ^ants to do? Do you want have resolved to defeat you with no great War. A study of communist tactics in trouble to themselves, for only America to pull out ?'nd leave the Vietnamese to China in 1949 would show you that the war their fate-*' Your present line of attack here is following the same pattern. The stands between the world and Communist ambitions. against these who are responsible tor the enemy are making the same lightning at¬ war is filling the, people of this country tacks on several places at once to de¬ Do not comfort yourself with the thought the Russians would with bitterness. Your armies have fought moralize the people, cut off supplies from that join America the towns and spread the allied lines so against China. The answer you got from in this country, bombed this country, laid Russia about the Pueblo should show you waste large sections of it,' while North thin that they cannot give adequate defense this. The Russians believe that, when the Vietnam has been spared except for a and. at the same time, meet the massed attacks of the enemy at strategic points west is defeated, they can deal with the comparatively small amount of bombing, and then you suggest pulling out and leaving In China the Communists analyzed their Chinese The Chinese, who have always South Vietnam to its fate. You promise aid. victories for us with film diagrams to il¬ despised the Russians as barbarians, think Do you think any coalition government will lustrate how they won. Gen. Giap is not that when the west is destroyed with the let America do anything here? Have you being particularly original, though he seems help of Russia, they can easily overcome Russia by sheer force of numbers thought of the rivers of blood that would to be a more clever strategist than anyone flow as those who helped you to fight this on our side. It is still possible to win the war. It will take courage, a change of attitude and war were slaughtered? The people here think Why have the North Koreans taken the of these things, for the danger is close Pueblo, why has war begun in Cambodia strategy, and perhaps more men. Above all to them. and Thailand and why has it been extended it will take unity You have complained Mr. Senator, start thinking realistically. in Laos? Because the North Vietnamese of the disunity and instability in the gov¬ ernment of Vietnam, but you" Lay aside your dreams and ideals and face believe they have nearly won and they have are pre¬ the world as it is today and not as you. in promised their people victory this year. senting a very poor example to Southeast Asia. People out here say that American the security, of Washington, imagine it to They believe that, thanks to the anti-war be. demonstrators and the attitude of a number senators have no patriotism but will sacri¬ Yours sincerely. of U.S. senators, such as Mr. Kennedy and fice their country. Vietnam and even the Elizabeth Kong yourself. America will soon yield to pres¬ good of the whole world, to their own selfish political ends. The people here are Saigon. sure and give in. Vietnam You imply that American escalation willing to fight for victory. They are not Photo by Cal Crane