2 Michigan State N e w s , «East L an sing, Michigan THINKINGABOUT... P o l i c e - o r P ig ? 12:06 a.m . - Officer in making routine building checks discovered a door ope 1 at Demonstration Hall. Officer entered the building to investigate. Building ok. noth­ ing missing. , 12:49 a.m. - An assault is reported. Com- 9:52 p.m. - Arrested two subjects as plaintant stat*_d that firecrackers w ere minors in possession of intoxicating li­ quor. Transported subjects to station and thrown at him near Holmes Hall. The dis­ interviewed them. Subsequently released patcher sent officer to the area to in­ subjects and advised them to return for in­ vestigate. A form ation on w hether the prosecuting at- tornev issued a w arrant. 2-04 a.m . - Hospital run. Car 4 is transporting fem ale student to Olin Health 9:21 p.m. -- Received a telephone call C efter from G ilchrist Hall. Coed was bleed- reporting an attem pted suicide. Officers ingTrom the mouth. dispatched to Em m ons Hall and trans­ ported subject to Olin Health Center for treatm ent. 8:53 a.m . - Larceny from a vehicle is re ­ ported: complaintant says the hubcaps were 7 21 p m - Officer stopped vehicle on taken from his car. Officer is dispatched to a routine traffic stop. While talking to dri­ take the report and investigate. ver he observed a night stick protrudtng from under the front seat. Arrested sub­ ject for carrying a concealed weapon. SP36 a.m . — Loading dock a t Mary Mayo Hat! reported blocked by unauthorized cars. 3:25 p.m. - Prisoner logged at station I itt dispatched to investigate. The dock is for obstructing a police officer. 3:42 p.m. foqpd blocked and attem pt is made to locate -O fficer escorted prisoner to Lansing the»owner. Township Justice Court for arraignm ent. 1:52 a.m. The loading dock at the li- brary is reported blocked by unauthorized 3:11 p.m. — Malicious destruction re­ cars. I nit dispatched to check. It is found ported by the Grounds Dept., saying there are blocked and qwner cannot be found. A tow­ obscene writings on the sidewalks near the ing service i$ »called to remove car. Short­ Student Services Bldg. and outdoor pool. ly after it arrived, owner also arrived. Left Also on the gates of the pool. An officer is owner and \,rec k er service to determ ine assigned to investigate. fee. 2:13 p.m. — A breaking and entering is reported from North Case Hall. Complain­ ant said clothing was taken from hei room. Officer sent to take the report. The daily ro u n d . . . and m ost of us never realize, except in annoyance, the job that is being done. P erpetuator s of an existing evil? Unrecognized "B atm en" in disguise? Guardians of our liberty? Plain men who never m eant to be heroes? Who knows? and again, who cares? When your head is being hit by one of their c lu b s.. When your clothes are stolen . . . When you're stopped for speeding When someone you know needs em ergency help you care. Police--or pig? And why? C o lla g e is s till a c c e p tin g m a n ­ u s c rip ts fo r fu tu re is s u e s . W rite rs d o in g e x c itin g th in g s IH n -r lo r ....................................................I h n i d C i l h f r i P H O T O C R E D IT S in p o e t r y , f i c t i o n , d r a m a , c o m ­ I 'o r t r y E d i t o r ......................................................................... I H o n n r V ¡ ‘ h o lo p r o itliy E d ito r . . . . ( .o n io n M u o r i­ ( 'o v e r ph oto b y G o rd o n M o o re m e n ta ry or g ra p h ic s s h o u ld P h o to p a g e 3 b y B o b Iv in s i li ¡ l i t u i K y k e r l. Ir in k a ( lin i-. M u ri J n r s n lir . P h o to p a g e 4 b y B o b Iv in s g e t o n th e s tic k . W e a r e a t th e P h o to s p a g e 9 b y G o rd o n M o o re C liff k n c liin x k r . H r iir r S p ili II"" < • (rm u d ey . S ta te N ew s o ffic e . Sunday Jon rp h II o l d i n t - i r . J im > o n s lu m . D oa n H ou s­ P h o to s p a g e 8 b y G o rd o n M o o re to n . H ik r O S fn l. P h o to p a g e 10 b y B o b I v in s th ro u g h T h u rs d a y a fte rn o o n s . 'R o o t , h o g o r d ie . . B y W IL B U R R Y K A R T It w a s 3 a .m . a s th e d a r k b lu e e a r tu rn e d fr o m th e h ig h w a y a n d sto p p e d in tro n t ot th e o n ly b u ild in g e x h ib it in g a n y lig h t . P a s s in g h e a d lig h ts c a u g h t th e r e f l e c t i v e g o ld s h ie ld on th e d o o r id e n t if y in g it a s a p o lic e p a t r o l c a r. A re d neon s ig n b lin k e d O u t th e w o r d s . B e n n y s C o n e y C a f e N o. 2. G h o s t lik e im a g e s o f th e p a tr o n s in s id e sh o w e d th ro u g h th e ste a m e d -u p w in d o w s ot th e a l l n ig h t r e s t a u ­ ra n t. T h r e e o f f ic e r s e m e r g e d fro m th e c a r and m a d e t h e ir w a y to w a r d th e d o o r. T h e o ld e r o f f i c e r s p o k e in a g r u f f , lo w v o ic e r e m a r k in g . 'I t s a good n ig h t f o r b u r g l a r s ." In s id e , th e a t m o s p h e r e w a s a lm o s t a s d e ­ p r e s s in g a s th e n ig h t. T h r e e c u s t o m e r s w e r e le f t fro m d r u n k s r u s h , th e old w in o s a t in th e booth n e a r th e r e a r , h is h ea d d ro o p in g f o r w a r d fro m t im e to t im e , je r k in g u p rig h t a g a in w h e n h is n o se s t r u c k th e c o ld p la t e ot h a lf- c o n s u m e d s o ft b o ile d e g g e s . U p fro n t a s u p e r - s a le s m a n ty p e w as ta lk in g a f a s t lin e to a w o m a n p a s t h e r p r im e an d sh o w in g th e m ile a g e to p r o v e it. T h e o f f i c e r s p a s s e d h is ta b le ju s t a s he m u m b le d . " W h a t th e h e ll g iv e s , th e fu z z r id in g th r e e to a c a r n o w ? O n e o f th e o f­ There will be m ore to adapt to.# Fam ily ing that they were good friends of the Mor­ f i c e r s g a v e h im a h a rd s t a r e a n d he tu rn e d fights, m ale teachers m olesting little boys, tons asked them to go with him to break the b a c k to h is la d y f r ie n d . T o m s lid in to a booth city officials hooked by the rackets, boys and news. The officers then returned to the Mor­ a b o u t h a lf - w a y to th e r e a r o f th e b u ild in g . H e girls who ran away from bad homes, and much ton home and the neighbors followed in had b e e n a n o f f ic e r fo r a b o u t tw o y e a r s , and more. You mav change from the eager officer, another car. Hank looked a t John and said, d e lig h te d in t e llin g a b o u t c a t c h in g u n s u s ­ like Tom. to a m ore pessim istic type, like "O.k.. do your stuff. I^ver deliver a death p e c te d s p e e d e rs . Hank. After all. everyone but cops are crooked m essage?" H a n k , a te n y e a r v e t e r a n , s a t b e s id e h im . and vou know some of them m ust be. too. The "N o." said John. “ What should I say?" T h e o th e r o f f ic e r , a r e c r u i t , m o v e d in to th e one thing that won t change is the neon light John had felt quite confident up till now. In o p p o site s id e o f th e bo o th. T o m le a n e d o v e r and the grease and the deep fryer at Benny's the short span of six months he had handled to th e r e c r u i t a n d nodded in th e d ir e c t io n of No. 2. drunks, helped pick up accident victim s from th e w a i t r e s s . " N a m e s B e t t y . H e s a id . I Ju st then a telephone rang. Betty answered the highway, chased runaway kids and an es­ d o n 't th in k it w o u ld be h a lf b a d i f you c o u ld and turning to the three officers said. " I t's for caped convict through a swamp. But now he c le a n it u p a l i t t l e . " T h e r e c r u i t d id n 't d a r e you Tiger." turned a little white. lo o k . Tom jumped up and took the telephone. "Come on." said Hank. "I don't know what S h e c a m e o v e r to t a k e t h e ir o r d e r s a n d it "OK Corp." he said. "We re on our wav. Let s to say either. Never do until the tim e w a s s t a r t lin g to s e e h o w r e a l l y a t t r a c t i v e go. T here's an accident at Cook's Corners." com es." sh e w a s : t a l l , s le n d e r , w it h a f a u lt le s s c r e a m - Six months later, you are working with Hank knocked on the door several tim es. lik e c o m p le x io n , n a t u r a l bond h a ir an d d e ep ic e -b lu e e v e s th a t w e r e a ls o ic e - c o ld . S h e Hank. You've passed your probationary period He coulp see that the house was in need of and are now accepted as one of the crew. Y’ou r e p a ir a n d p a in t P r o b a b ly th e c o s t o f a b o u t g la re d at H a n k , s m ile d a t T o m a n d to s s in g are able to sell tickets to speeders just like one y e a r a t th e U n iv e r s it y w o u ld ta k e c a r e o f h e r g o ld e n h a ir a t th e r e c r u i t , s a id to T o m . they told vou in recruit school. Imagine. it. W h e re d yo u p ic k u p th e te n d e r o n e ? She People thanking you for a ticket! But that's! A d im lig h t fla s h e d in s id e an d so o n th e o f­ took th e o r d e r a n d w e n t b a c k to th e g r i l l what they do. f i c e r s an d th e n e ig h b o rs w e r e a d m it te d to The gal's a doll." Hank said But the "Coffee tim e " said Hank. "Wheel er over to th e h o u se . T h e m e s s a g e w a s d e liv e r e d , and kind of doll that will get you fired -hates to Benny's No. 2 John. And let's get in and a f t e r th e i n it ia l sh o c k und c r i e s o f a n g u is h cops, runs with a bunch of hoods in the area. out before the drunks come in." h ad s u b s id e d , th e o f f ic e r s , w it h th e h e lp of I got one of them breaking into a building last th e n e ig h b o rs , a s s is t e d th e M o rto n s w it h th e vear. The judge gave him two vears at Jaek- "O k" you say. and soon the big blue car r e s p o n s ib ilit y o f b rin g in g h o m e th e b o d y. town." is parked in front of the fam iliar neon sign Hank a t one point turned away, and after "H ere come the hoods now. said lo in , Hank pauses at the doorway and sniffs the taking a deep breath, turned back to the pre­ as five voung m en 18 to 25 years cam e in the air. "Good night for burglars." he re ­ sent the calm facade expected of an officer. back door. They went to the far corner and m arks. B u t on the inside, the ice that i s supposed began to invest in the pinball machine It John smiles and says to himself. "Some to be in policem en's veins, turned to water. was now 3:3(1 a.m. The drunks had somehow night he's going to smell right. " The neighbors had a right to cry with their left quietly. Even the one with egg on his "How va been John'1" friends: the m inister would come and com­ nose. The only inhabitans of Benny s No 2 "C an't complain Betty, how s tricks'.’" fort them later, and the undertaker would were the cops, the "hoods and a cold, beauti­ "Whadda ya m ean how's tricks? Y'ou know guarantee burial with dignity. But for that ful. but lonely voung woman. I don't run around on Jack. " brief moment of crisis, when a m other's W h o w a s th e r e c r u it .' Y o u a r e . T h i s is y o u r "Say B etty." Hank interrupts. "Jack keep­ forgotten pain of childbirth returns and f i r s t t im e to w o r k th e m id n ig h t- to - d a w n p a t r o l. ing nis nose clean?” changes to a pain tearing away her heart, L e s s th a n th r e e m o n th s ag o you w e r e w o r k in g "You bet he is." replies Betty. "If some as the reality of the situation com es crash­ on a f a r m , m ilk in g c o w s , p lo w in g f ie ld s and damn cop don't throw him in jail for suspic­ ing in upon her. the uniform and officialdom fe e d in g h o g s. Y ou w o u ld s e e th e p o lic e c a r go ion and lose him his job he ll be o.k. " of a police officer is stripped away and the b y a n d w o n d e r w h a t w a s g o in g o n. N o w vou Benny's number tw o." says Betty as she officer cannot escape the tragedy that be­ fin d y o u r s e lf on th e in s id e - o n ly tt f e e ls m o r e answ ers the phone. " It's for you Tiger." falls the people he serves. lik e th e in s id e o f a g o ld fis h b o w l. John gets up. takes the phone and w rites Hank and John left. For the next few min­ D u r in g th e n e x t f iv e y e a r s B e n n y 's N o 2 down a message. "O.k. Corp. w e’ll run utes all was quiet except for the efficient w i l l be a r e g u la r sto p on th e m id n ig h t-to -d a w n right out and tell him ." John walks back to rum ble of the Interceptor engine. p a t r o l. It w i l l be a p a r t o f y o u r c h a n g in g lif e the table, takes his officer's cap from the Hank broke the silence. “ You know John, s t y le Y ou w i l l le a r n to e a t hot d o g s d ro w n e d rack and says. "L e t's go Hank. We've got the dead die easy. But that m other will die in c h ili c o a te d w it h c h o p p ed o n io n s a n d w a s h e d a death m essage to deliver." * ** for the re st of her life." d o w n w it h b la c k c o f fe e , a l l a t 3 a .m . Y'ou w i l l "This is a hell of a job," said John. "I d e v e lo p a s u s p ic io u s n a t u r e to w a r d a l l p e o p le It was Hank's turn to drive and as he don't think money can ever com pensate for a n d soon th e o n ly p e o p le vo u w i l l k n o w h o w to turned the cruiser onto the highway. John this kind of duty." t a lk to w i l l be c o p s a n d ho o d s. Y o u w i l l filled him in with the details. There had been The officers returned to the station and le a r n to s m ile w h e n b e in g in s u lte d an d to a c t an accident over a t the University. Two or went over the indicent with the corporal on e m o t io n a lly n e u t r a l w h e n h a n d in g out a t ic k e t maybe m ore young men had been killed. The duty. to a w e t-o v e d w o m e n . car was a red buick convertible registered You're right John, said Corporal Ed­ to Gary Morton, a farm er living in the area wards. Money cannot com pensate for every­ patrolled by Hank and John. thing But you're going to find this to be true The city police departm ent of Univeristy many tim es during your career. Many times City was not sure, but they thought the your only pay will be the personal satisfac­ driver had been Gordon, the fa rm e r's son. tion received from helping a citizen in trou­ The boys had been celebrating Gordon's ble. From removing & dangerous crim inal 21st birthday and on the return had lost from society or saving a life or keeping a control and struck a tree. kid out of trouble. Consider it a privilege As Hank approached the Morton farm ­ to be able to serve your fellow men. And stead. the moon drifted from behind the rem em ber that in spite of all the forces of clouds revealing the'outline of an old square society that would wre£k the peace and tran- farmhouse. Hank drove on to the next farm ­ house He woke the occupants and after learn­ (continued oil -*&e 10) 4 Michigan State N e w s , E a s t Lansing, Michigan R E C O R D S : Ladybleah’ % By CLIFF KACHINSKE E lectric Ladyland; The Jim i Hendrix Ex­ perience; Reprise Records; Album courtesy of ' Discount Records. Imagine a recording studio, a bare square room with a glass panelled booth on one wall. Inside the booth an engineer is quietly tw iddling dials. Amplifiers are strewn about on on the floor, indicator lights glowing like red eves Everything quiet. Into the studio soars Jim i Hendrix flying astride his guitar like a witch on a broom. He tunes up his guitar and plugs it into an am p and when he's done he stands with his shoulders hunched, holding the guitar and m uttering to it, "heh. heh. I'm cornin' to get va. Move over Rover and let Jim i take over. Yeh. You know what I'm talkin' bout." His voice rises until he's stand­ ing there actually singing that weird stuff and he stands bolt upright with a m aniac gleam in his eyes and purple steam from boiling brain cells comes out of his ears and he's READY. READY TO PLAY. COMPLETELY STONED INSANE AND READY TO PLAY Oh. wow. Because what comes out of all that boiled-brain theatricalism is nothing but the m ost incredible m usical garbage. The one man who has to listen to all of it, is forced to listen to all of it. is the recording engineer, probably a thoroughly likeable man who se r­ iously digs rock and whose ears fail to function above middle “ C" because they are gradually being destroyed by listening, through e a r­ phones, to recording session after session played as loudly as possible. After the engineer listens to Hendrix' garbage for just so long, until he c a n 't take it any m ore, he walks out of his booth, picks up a microphone stand and hits Hendrix as hard as he can on the back of the head. The mad light drains out of Hen­ drix' eyes and he realizes that he has a guitar in his hands and for a m om ent of crystal clear sanity he plays something brilliant on it. For maybe three or four bars. But the mad glow in the eyes and the musical garbage comes back until the recording engineer gets fed up again and repeats his perform ance. That is all you need to know about E lectric Ladyland, Hendrix' latest release. Except for one sm all thing; don't buy it unless you enjoy sifting through garbage to find some worthwhile listening. Everything worthwhile on the entire album could have been recorded on a single 45 and an additional disc the size of a doughnut. Unfortunately, this album could P o lice-- two disc set, and if you try to listen to it all at one tim e you will get a Hendrix Hang- o over, a complex of pathological sym ptom s (continued from page 61 that comes from listening to too much Hen­ Pious words. Empty. Irrelevant to the prac­ multaneously to understand the bluffing and drix in any 48 hour period. tice of law enforcement. counter-bluffing involved ». Fortunately, however, the 45 rpm single Accepted and applied, the spirit of the code Dailey imm ediately said he would encourage mentioned above has been released and is would lessen current abuses within the police investigations, but added that he would stand available a t your friendly record store. It's departm ents and would lessen that from out­ by the Chicago Police D epartm ent regardless. called, "All along the W atchtow er." It's the Hardly a notable answ er to the police- image side. O. W. Wilson, form er Superintendent of Po­ only consistently good thing on the whole problem of Chicago. Columbia. Berkeley, etc. album, and it can be had for a whole bunch Possibly it is necessary that individual offi­ lice. Chicago, told it like it must be told: "W e ¡must have the strength within our agen­ less than the album itself. cers who did unnecessarily m ace oj beat demon­ What distinguishes "All along the Watch- cies to run a tight ship' and to detect and cor­ strato rs (or reporters or bystanders' be dis­ tow er" from the rest of E lectric Ladyland rect our own weaknesses. We should not have missed. But the case is not closed there. and m akes it better than the re st of the album To blam e only individual officers, to say the to wait for public pressures and newspapers exposes to call these m atte rs to our attention is that it forces Hendrix to be a little less Chicago cops are different' is only to pass the Hendrix-like than usual; it forces him to be True leadership can be gained only by an buck. It's all too similar^ to the isolated white what he could be. with a lot of self-control, intolerance of wrongdoing by police officers. m an saying. "I'm not racist; I'v e never called a good musician. The Dylan lyric has a Unless we abide by the very highest standards a nigger n ig g e r." simplicity and grace that refuses to be tam ­ The Law Enforcem ent Code of Ethics-tends among ourselves, we have a no business enforc­ ing the law upon others.'' pered with, either vocally or instrum entally. to be only something a police officer once read * The lyric demands that Hendrix refrain from injecting his usual m eaningless weirdness. This, Too,IsImportant • • • In the crazy m om ents ot m y mind pluck clarity you pick your som etim e path through my confusion. like a strange flower E d i t o r i a l c o m m e n t Goldenrods and clover hang from your hair and put it in windowboxes and for a while where, every now and then o n t h e E l e c t i o n s I stand washed in fresh rain thinking of you. and m y eyes flickering forward I rem em ber to w ater my singular garden “ II t* h e a r s ir e n s in t h e n i g h t . ' to you with smiles. -D avid G ilbert — R ic h a r d \ l . .\ix o n Tues day , N o v em b er IT, 1968 5 O FFIC ER O R E IL E Y , H ELP ME ACROSS THE STREET, PLEASE THE WIND That bubbles deep within. I BLOWS ANGRY Then suddenly spews like cannonball, And hurls upon its fools Harshly the WIND blows, winding Where it boils Gentle trees like corded strings; then explodes; Then plucking them from their Mother And some breathful clean Whose earthy breast they suckled; But just as soon m ay be ► Who fondled them from birth. The gentle eye of hurricane. t a Cardboard boxes (filled with >, W IFE Wildly the stick swirls. for flesh we wait you move against me like an edge of w ater from the source of dream our game Little boys and perty girls we talk of graves who struggled from M amma, and women and watched the serpent swirl daddy's redrooftop high upon the air early night I take from you what would seem Olfy silence I am what I take V. * t# I hold you against your pain not understanding the way of wind from night you ask for me & Then falling each upon the grass 1 have already fled ho Which once laughed a playm ate's laugh- to you Now kicks, vehemently. vour mvth Young girls with tender cheeks Now tum ble through the air. you read And fall in beds of roses. line by line No longer is the WIND the som etim es Fool, With lovely welts and swells inside you Who lifts her happy skirt And precious words of dirt what is there to be With his tim orous sneeze. In which a rose will never grow. what movement can v a call To reveal the sunny virtue Clearly the eyeless fool perceives your own Which young, clever Ham let That the bloods of men distil t Lay upon O phelia's lap. And law becomes the wooden machine w arm through Sunday . % ■ Now, unnoticed, from Satan's ugly spleen. To strike, wanting it warm Which chews and grinds and rips good vomit. and club. we shadow the .day 1> He springs warlike, nailed in black ; and m aim . To pillage the field, the farm , the city. and KILL The country club, the bar~ A child's hallucinogenic dream . With bolts of firey puffs And I. a conscious watcher. what you think you«re And tiny drops of piss. Can only turn away not what I see Which worm the flower path The two brothers, upon my feet. you are what 1 And strangle every gasp. A C. Crossley would be Upon this venom course -R ic h a rd “ ". Amorosi No sailor fills his sails; Nor daemon kite a kinship feels. In its twisting tum bles (or tumbling tw ists). Debris becom es potpourri; yet vicious Deadly m issies; destruction. And I (?). a conscious watcher. Care wrong? Less. Right? Less care. But for the little boy or m iss; Or for a frenzied father. REFLECTIONS SUN CHILD. LISTEN Who stum bles his precious home. And finds not sad rem orse And then there was the m irror with the golden edge Sun To cry: “ God? Why all this?" Between the heavy curtains. It glowed in the dark. tunneling 1 rem em ber I looked very little and black. clouds from the wind Marching two abreast Sm aller than Mr. Burlington's favorite chair. huskings: With wooden halberds raised high. In flourishing salutes to a Justice But then I played princess on it. P ractice the ways of woman Which has summoned up the scene. My portrait edged in all that gold. diligently. They advance (upon an autum n crowd Precious gifts were given to me. fingers searching Of repugnant lodestone eyes. The heavy glass ball on the desk excellence Which spit blood and iron tears. In the corner was from China. in scaling ivorv. And wonders what m onster it be That requires such forcefulness) The princess smiled (who was m e). This too is an a rt Advancing they seem like soldiers I was so very beautiful. Who m ay have re a d : Especially with red velvet Between your pa nted That Saint George an awful beast did slay And plump pillows, or so they said. nails crush When the tim es upon him called They said like a doll, pretty blue gently the sunf lo er To flush the country's moors And pink and gold with fluffy curls.- child in mind. Of the gnawing disease and then a courtier cam e who~ Which fired the peaty grounds; In her place, Or th at Sir Gawain, on one Christm as eve. Nice Mrs. Burlington, th a t's what Mama called her. learn the thrust With festivity and his grace. And then she opened the dark and her eyes said I of a woman's bod Took to behead the G iant green, Looked grev and brown in a dusty glass. “ My goodness. movement towat W ho-with all the required heraldry All alone? " Oh no. But I didn't tell her that. a man. ■ , And within the law~ -K vle Kinsev Challenged the good sir's noble King. Allow this moon Yet. the officers prod their ranks inside your parti, And a motley group they see : to strut. T -,n(ia M. Amorosi Some bearded as the grizzly b e a r- Eyes no less the re d : Some brewing the rapid fire it M ich igan S ta te N e w s , E a s t L a n s in g , M ich igan < to erase laws and statutes against marijuanS. Trinka Cline, a junior from West Union, Illi­ Personal discretion will have some bearing i to ic r ir m a n k in d . . . to fir o lc il th e . . . It m akes little difference that only 10 p fj w ea k fr o m o p p re ssio n o r in tim id a tio n . th e pe a c e- cent of a police officer's tim e goes into crim inal f u l a gainst vio len ce o r diso rd er: a n d to resp ect proceedings, with 90 per cent miscellaneous, th e ( (in stitu tio n a l rig h ts o f a il m e n to lib e rty, including c a r accident calls and rem oval s»f e q u a lity a n d j u s t i c e . . . squirrels caught in air conditioners. > I w ill k e e p m y p ric n te life u n su llie d as an e x ­ He is rem em bered, criticized, rom anticizrd a m p le to all; m a in ta in co u ra g eo u s calm in th e and ridiculed, hated and praised at tim es f?ir fa c e o f dan/ter. scorn. o r rid icu le; d e v e lo p se lf- that one-tenth of his tim e when he attemptfe- re stra in t . . . Ilo n e s t in th o u g h t a n d d e e d in b o th in proper or im proper m an ner-to defend af*.d m y p e rso n a l a n d o ffic ia l life . I w ill he e x e m p la ry protect society from itself. ^ in o b evin /t th e laws o f th e la n d a n il th e reg u la ­ Seated in one of the best "Pig Ad" schools tio n s o f m y d e p a rtm e n t. of the nation, one really wouldn't expect ^o . . . I w ill n ccer act o ffic io u sly o r p e r m it p e r ­ hear a Police Administration prof say. "Thewe so n a l fe e lin g s . p re ju d ic e s, a n im o sitie s or fr ie n d - is just no way I can defend the Chicago polices' sliips to in flu e n c e m y tlecisions. II ilh no co m p ro - The typical policeman will at least partialry iii isc fo r c rim e a n d w ith rele n tless p ro se c u tio n defend the actions of the holocuast or w|il o f crim in a ls. I w ill e n fo r c e th e law c o u rteo u sly simply say. "D on't judge the rest of us by Clfj- a n d a p p ro p ria te ly w ith o u t fe a r o r fa v o r , m a lice cago police: they're like that: they're a differ­ o r ill w ill, never e m p lo y in g u n n ecessa ry fo r c e ent breed of cop." o r vio len ce . . . D em onstrators, dem onstrations, univarsi­ I otle o f I t h its a d o p te d b y th e ties. anti-war. anti-racism , agitators, commu­ In te rn a tio n a l I ssn. o f I h ie fs o f P o lice nists. rocks, streets, bottles, bricks and human Id ea lly law enforcem ent is not a job. an waste. Blood and clubs. Ouch. eight-hour detached existence, but a way of In recent tim es the police departm ents a c r o s s life, a mode of thought and deed. the nation have become infamous for the handl­ Perhaps if we could isolate every police in g or muffing of dem onstrations and 'r i o t s .' * officer from the society at large, except for When should the police move in. enforce t|i£ those unfortunate m oments when each must most minute law to the hilt and end a non-vio­ venture out for eight hours of duty, we could lent dem onstration? When the d e m o n s t r a t e ^ indeed make the ideal a reality. are peaceful and the spectators aren 't, wf:p But policemen shed their uniforms, live in the should be arrested? And worst of all c o m t s sam e neighborhoods as the rest of us. breathe the question of how one goes about it all. the sam e air and eat the sam e foods and go The sam e 'rebel' Police Administration p rrf some of the sam e places and do some of the suggested that it is som etim es desirable sam e things. "bend over backwards, even bend the la w >3 Perhaps it is justifiable to say we get the little" to allow the expression of free speech law enforcem ent we deserve The quality of During the nights of the D em ocratic C o n v e n ­ their situation reflects the quality of the so­ tion was it really necessary to enforce tlje ciety that produces them. park closing hours? Was this not a slightly 'spe­ Law enforcem ent is somewhat popularly cial' occasion? The decision to clear the parPs viewed as a negative function: the police are was obviously not the m ost practical answee. suppressors, out to get the violator or even po­ Ju st how harm ful can a few thousand youth tential violator or anyone they don't happen singing songs and huddling around trash cab to like or agree with. fires actually be? \ For the m ost part, the policeman holds less Were the police wedges sent through the now than a bachelor's degree-m ost likely only a famous G rant Park necessary? How justifiable high school diploma. He is very likely the is it for officers to break rank and run swing­ product of a conserva­ ing clubs through a frightened crowd of un­ tive background and arm ed' youth? rem ains conservative It is noteworthy that although police usual-y in his political prefer­ have their own photographers. Chicago wf£ ences today. unable to produce shots of people charging He m ay be worried the police lines. Of m ore than 600 a rre sts m a^e about the negative ste r­ during the week, only 16 people were ch arg^i eotype of the cop and with "unlawful use of weapons ' >! m ay be defensive Viewing the Chicago police display of m a n ­ about his actions . . . shift weapons 'seized' from those arrested, o t e to the point of advocat­ finds it hard to believe that with such weapof^s ing 'tougher' policies. in hand and with the supposed intent of tfje A police state is not to­ dem onstrators, injury to police officers was rpt tally repulsive to him. five tim es as great. Yet his basic job is to m ake snap decisions Mayor D aley's official report fails to explain concerning how 'b est' to protect and carry out the police raid on the McCarthy suites of flie the prom ises of freedom and the necessary Conrad Hilton. He distorts the evnt and does limiations as stated in the U.S. Constitution, not attem pt to explain what happened or wfcv. federal statutes. Supreme Court decisions and if police were so certain that projectiles w e r e sim ilar documents on a state level as well as coming from those windows, no one was r'r- various local ordinances and regulations. Snap rested. Only blood on the Hilton carpets. £ decisions without really over-stepping powers Chicago has found itself the e x a g g e ra tio n 'ip f of arrest and infringing on the duties of judge everything ever done wrong. The hypocrisy. T ie and jury and executioner. sweep-it-under- the-rug-and-blame-the-Comm es In an instant he must do a rough parallel philosophy. The propaganda and overplay of Al­ of what courts and prosecutors take hours or leged plots of Yippies to assassinate everyone weeks or years to interpret and decide. Ju st and to destroy the city (But one has to appre­ as court interpretations are overturned or al­ c ia t e the mind of a Yippie and a p o lic e m e n i i - tered. so m ust the policem an's decisions flex. The officer and m arijuana. A significant por­ (continued on page 4 i J tion of the population considers it only just T u e sd a y , N o v e m b e r 1 2 , 1968 7 the university’s c jm plete disregard for H ar­ Mark Jarsulic, D earborn Heights senior, is lem residents in t IK decision to construct the a m ajor in philosophy. Morningside Heights gym and the university’s By MARC JARSULIC complicity with A merican im perialism through M ailer has said it. Huey Newton and Eldridge the Institute for D efense Analysis w ere both Cleaver have said it. And anyone else who has issues which had ft be confronted. But neither had sufficient opportunity to experience the Columbia nor th< corporations and govern­ tender m ercies of the rio t baton and the jail m ent agencies co.-tracting with her w ere inter­ cell will say it: the American police a re pigs. ested in anything other than insuring th at the Pigs; brutal and som etim es sadistic enem ies university would • ontinue as a research center of the people. In the latest edition of H arper’s and a processing $tant for future technocrats. Magazine (November, 1968), Norman M ailer New York police.w ere therefore told to spill devotes m ore than a few lines to the activi­ the blood necessat y to end the strike. ties of policemen. Among them is an exam ina­ tion of the American cop m entality, the best, perhaps, that has ever been w ritten: And of coursf- there was the Convention of “ . . . The cop tries to solve his violence by Death in Chic*«o. Thousands of youth had blanketing it with a uniform. That is virtually come to that * fty to protest the corruption a commonplace, but it explains why cops of a party whi^n would not nominate a can­ will put up with poor salary, public dislike, didate who w a ^ e v e n vaguely popular or re­ uncom fortable working conditions and a gen­ pudiate a hide* j s w ar it had helped create. eral sense of bad conscience. They know they Though the p* ¿pie in the stree ts had no are lucky; they know they are getting away chance of getf^'g hold of the political m a­ with a successful solution to the crim inality chinery, they v. ere still a threat. Their pres­ they can taste in their blood. This taste is ence disrupted the carefully constructed practically in the forefront of a cop’s brain, he sham of demc" ra tic process, and the voice is in a stink of perspiration whenever he goes of their disi flection into action; he can tolerate little in the way of threatened to-*, drown insult, and virtually no contradiction; he lies out the em pty Rhetoric with a sim plicity and quick confidence which inside the co »/ention will stifle the breath of any upright citizen arena. It wa there­ who encounters it innocently for the first time. fore decided '*,at the The difference between a good cop and a bad dem onstrators would cop is that the good cop will a t least do no have to be C itained m ore than give his own salted version of events and if possiU e, dis­ --the bad cop will m ake up his version. T hat is credited for V ing in­ why the police arrested the pedestrians they stigators of ■ plence. pushed through the window of the H aym arket You saw the r .. .ults on Inn a t the Conrad Hilton: the guiltier the situa­ your television ¡reen. tion in which a policeman finds himslef, the In tranquilit; and in m ore will he attack the victim of his guilt.” crisis, police >~ t used Brutal. Some would m ake this fact the key­ to preserve th* control stone of their political activity, finding in the which the fe < have police a principal targ et for their execrations over the m a i , and and expending m uch energy attacking them. that is the es ¿nee of But by doing so they ignore their real enemy, their job. Son£ fright and hence a re less able to confront the police suggest, thatf* since who a re m erely agents of that enemy. police are ui; jnately Consider the functions which police per­ under political >ntrol, all this can be changed form. In tim es of relative tranquility, police through norm,* dem ocratic means. But they are called upon to prevent minor disturbances whould be inured to exam ine m ore closely from expanding. When strikes become too pro­ the real n a tu ifro f A m erica’s “dem ocratic” longed or too violent, police are used to sm ash government. I- can best be characterized as them ; when the lumpen proletariat, now con­ a bourgeois djirfocracy. That is to say, while fined m ostly in the black ghetto, become too re­ there is popuii£ participation in government stive in their m isery, the necessary steps are through elections and conventions, actual po­ taken to quiet them. And, of course, the m em ­ litical control rdsts in the hands of a monied bers of the upper and middle classes a re pro­ class. A candidate receives the money nec­ tected from the ravages of common crim e, essary for election only if his intentions are although no serious effort is m ade to elim inate satisfactory to that class; he will be re-elected the organized crim inals who prey on the less only if he has fulfilled his obligations to them. affluent. High appoint! p»* office (and high office gen­ In tim es of internal crisis-w hen demand for erally) is lim ted to m em bers of that class. fundamental social change has grown stro n g - Significant siu ^ o rt for political parties is pur­ they are the bulwark of the status quo. When posely lim ited ffi the two m ajor ones, thereby the rebellions in W atts, D etroit and Newark eliminating t l * instability of parliam entary threatened the normal order of business, the government w ich som etim es perm its popular grievances of ghetto dwellers w ere not even influence. The reality of this situation is un­ considered. Police were sent into ghettos questioned ; yt 4 need only to read T h e P ow er to stop the disruption by any m eans necessary. E lite or to sc n ^ n iz e the activities of your state They refrained from totally indiscrim inate vio­ representative' or confirmation. lence only because the people in political con­ To put the latter plainly, a small class of trol feared m ore w idespread uprisings. Even people c o n tn .i A m erica; though politicians the sym pathetic m edia w ere unable to dis- control the po pe. it is the money of the power . guise the ruthlessness with which the people elite which c<^ trols the politicians. It is there­ operated or the callousness of those who di­ fore the menq .prs of this select class who are rected them. striking out a! the prisoners of the ghetto and During the student strike a t Columbia Uni­ the dem onstrators in the street. Though they versity. police perform ed the sam e counter- have m ade cof « into the im m ediate antagonists, insurgent function, though in a m ore restrained it is they who ir e the real pigs, the real enemy manner. Clearly the strik ers w ere in the right: who m ust be u p fro n ted . 8 Michigan State N ew s , E a s t Lans ing, Michigan ill “J can't get younger; have to be an old man /, that's a l l . . .' T u e sd a y , N o v e m b e r 1 2 , 1968 T h e s c h o la s tic s k y s c r a p e r This is the second of a three-part series on the speak of the environment without predica­ vised housing will inform you that one-half effects of the physical environment upon the ting the existence of man is as non-sensical to two-thirds of the residem-e fiill applica- student body. Bruce Spitz is a senior m ajoring as to speak of man without predicating the cants who wish to move off-c impus claim in urban studies. This series is excerpted from existence of an environment. Both environ­ that the dorm life style is unt arable, e.g., research he has conducted in connection with his m ajor. m ent and man a re defined in relationship to study is very difficult, not s u f . *5601 space, each other. If the dorm s a re ugly and sterile cram ped 3 in a room, regi -ntation of By BRUCE SPITZ what are the social implications? Can we m eals, etc. About one-fourth )m that it State News Staff W riter relegate esthetics to the load lugger? What is cheaper to live off-campus * n addition, A dm inistrators seem to be m em bers of a is the function of functional design? last year the trend of those wis ,ig to move select cham ber of com m erce which basks A dm inistrators apparently take two posi­ off-campus followed a rather * ’ivious pat-' in the glow of growth, size and monolithic tions. One is to defend the ugliness as both tern. There were about 300 ap; icants Fall structures. One can easily picture them at an economic and functional necessity. The term , about 700 applicants Win$ term , and a national convention proudly surrounding a other, a less frequent but more candid re ­ about 1.000 Spring term Two p its become large aerial view of the campus, a four foot sponse. ties the legislative process and es­ clear. The dorm life style m^ than any high model of Hubbard Hall and a big sign thetics into a clumsy misshapen knot. It other factor drives people out 0 the dorms. reading. ‘40.000 AND STILL GROWING! seem s that the state government is very Secondly, the longer the exposure of that life The question is what are they growing? Why hesitant to allocate funds for beautiful build­ style, the greater the need to get ou have the residence halls been built? What ings because “ there is a nasty public re­ effects do these mega-dorms have upon action to anything that is beautiful. People their residents? Can an academ ic community i I connote beautiful with money." And although co-exist in their presence? And finally, is a this m ysterious body known as the Public living-learning complex something you live is not sufficiently trained to m ake that judge­ in or the nam e of a particular psychosis? m ent (a judgement which architects will (The tragedy of that last statem ent lies in fervently deny) or sufficiently educated to the m ere quality of its hum or). distinguish between what is beautiful and In the last ten years MSU has graduated what is not, they influence our lives to a from the ranks of a large university to the disproportionate degree. We have been progressive and im pressive position of the taught that green grass and pretty trees and m ultiversity. She boasts an educational sys­ football stadium s make a campus, not the tem that supports 15 colleges. 92 schools, dorm itories. We operate within residence and over 170 program s of study. She pre­ halls which are, as FORTUNE magazine de­ sents her student enrollm ent with over scribed them, “ graceless but highly funct­ 3,800 different courses. And as always, we ional.“ They are functional for re-fueling a re awed by the m ere numbers. Little con­ (eating), for re-charging (sleeping), for cern is expressed over the validity of those general m aintenance (secretion and excre­ colleges or schools or courses, nor do we tion), and for general m ultiversity opera­ seem bothered that less than 45 per cent of tion (study and organized group activities). the U niversity's expenditures w ere allocated Finally, if dorm living is a s m arvelous More than m echanically oriented, they are for the operation of the U niversity (1967: as we are told, why is there a 50 per cent mechanical. The student is plugged in and G eneral University Fund - $62 million. To­ turnover in residents each year?» Why do out day and night: activated for certain opera­ tal MSU Expenditures - $142 million). We half the students who lived in .th e dorms tions and then deactivated when those opera­ accept the MSU rationale that ju st as Life, one year move out as quickly as-eligibility tions have been completed. Nowhere within MSU is diverse and enormous. We accept allows them the next year? r' those mechanized shells are human emotions that she maximizes exposure to the a rts and subjective needs (love, privacy, individual­ One answer to that question ■« already to different people and opinions. We accept ity, security, etc.), sexual or territo rial been examined: the oppressive, design of that as a non-profit organization her gigan­ drives acknowledged. In those ra te m om ents the mega-dorms. However, the' ^ are two tic enrollm ent allows her to m ake the m ost other factors which are jaq} im portant. when we can separate ourselves from the of economies of scale and pass the savings machine, we become convinced that every- One is the adm inistrative con* { >, and the off to us. However, we accept in both a state thing-people, elevators, buses, fly s-a re other is a m ore subtle sad y< * m ore per­ of ignorance and fearful compliance, shrugg­ autom ated packages controlled from a cen­ vasive behavioral drive that ‘ 4.1 ju st re­ ing our shoulders to the nebulous doubts we cently been seriously accepted -¿the notion tral location a t the Computer Center. But harbor, and m aintaining that a t w orst MSU the m ental vagary cannot last forever; we of territoriality. SI is ju st a little over m aternalistic. The News Two books recently published ’¿’ill aid our return to reality and plug ourselves back in. L etters sent out to incoming freshm en never For those of you who become depressed understanding of the residence 15*1 situation. mention the costly diseconomies of scale m erely upon entering a mega-dorm and con­ One is "The T erritorial I n i t i a t i v e " by that her trem endous size incurs. sider yourself m aladjusted, I suggest that Robert Ardrey, the other “ T h t Hidden Di­ In 1967. the university allocated $7.8 m il­ you pick up a copy of High Rise or Low Rise: m ension” by Edward Hall. B;e of Can it be that I was that wrong when I argued But to the business a t hand. life with neither plot nor conflict and without above that out of so m any thousands of stu­ The poetry in this issue is rem arkably good. a theme. But I like it; I'd like to read a story dents here there ought to be some first ra te The best a re the three by John Stevens Wade by Mr. Hathaway some time. Of the stories. fiction w riters? of Malta. Presum ably they a re translations, Barbara D rake’s “ Night Out" is pretty oood The a rt work in the issue is uniformly ex­ but they are beautifully done, simply and The trouble"1with it is that it sta rts out a s a cellent. The photograph by Justin Kestenbaum tightly constructed, conveying emotion and sketch and winds up a story. We are introduced has a ra re poetic beauty, as does Bob Hill's. meaning cleanly and satisfyingly. Read to a set of ch aracters of nearly equak im ­ And Susan Budny, Dave Pickering, and Coleen “ Trees seen from a tra in " carefully and I portance, but we a re n ’t sure who the prota­ Lee a re to be highly complimented on their think you will agree. W. Allen Taylor's gonists are until the last half page - m ean­ work. “ Miami Beach" neatly contrasts the unreal tim e. some drastic Virginia Woolfish things All in all, this number of the Red Cedar reality of that playground city with the real happen to an entirely different couple - Review is entirely worthwhile. It has some­ unreality of the Republican National Conven- Still, despite this criticism . I find Wight thing to praise and something to attack. What O ut" to be a far better story than the othey two m ore could a reader - or a review er -- ask for? 'R o o t’ (c o n tin u e d f r o m p a g e 3) q u ilit v o f y o u r c o m m u n it y an d c o r r u p t th e a d m in is t r a t io n ol o u r g o v e rn m e n t, i t . you h a v e s e r v e d th e p e o p le w e l l , th e y w i l l s t ic k w it h y o u . " “ Y o u k n o w J o h n .“ c o n tin u e d C o r p o r a l E d ­ w a r d s . “ I m e a n all th e p e o p le : th e b a n k e r s , th e p o lit ic ia n s a’ nd th e S u n d a y S c h o o l te a c h - e r s - t h e v a ll have p r o b le m s , to o - b u t fo r th e m o s t p a r t , y o u d o n 't c a t c h v e r y m a n y c r o o k s in c h u r c h . C r im e an d th e v i c t i m s o f c r i m e s t r ik e h a r d ­ e s t in th e s lu m s an d g h e tto a r e a s . The black businessman of the ghetto who can t get insurance on his laundrom at to cover the losses from the bur­ glary is soon out of business. This m an s problem is more im portant to him. and it should be to us. than a bank job at the F irst out at Benny's. And after Betty had brought we had. We had the lard type, you know som e­ N ational." the coffee and took the orders. John dug into thing like the old-typed politician with his “ T hat's rig h t." said Hank. “ And what about that ratty-looking kid th a t's the prime Hank again. “ Hank, how can you stand being captive chief of police. They sat by the pub­ suspect m the laundrom at? You know very up a t the University with all those kooks and lic trough and got fat on tax money and well he daesn't have m uch of a chance. I wish long-hairs that keep stirring up the natives. graft. They closed their beady little eyes to we had som e way to help the kid. rath er than You k n o w ! th e s e r g e a n t h e r e is k e e p ijig h is the corruption around them and soon the slop throwing his tail in jail as will likely hap­ eye on th e le n g th o f y o u r s id e b u r n s noVy. T h e and crud and human waste w ere so high n e x t thing we k n o w y o u 'll b e r e c r u it in g : b la c k around them that they w ere immobilized and pen. “ I get your point, said John. “ But 1 don t Nationalists and Ku Klux Klansmen tpr the no longer produced a m arketable product. know about you Hank. You sound m ore like p o lic e s e r v i c e . I s a w one of th o se s c r- e w b a ll The public rebelled and the farm er changed a social w orker every day. That s what you p a p e r s th e o th e r d a y r e f e r r in g to th e p o lic e to a more vigorous bacon-tvpe hog. get from those classes you're taking at the a s p ig s . I f I e v e r g o t c a lle d up th e r^ f i r s t “ This pig was long and lean and h ad a th in g I'd do i s b e nd a n ig h t s t ic k r ig h t g ro u n d longer nose to dig into the hard-packed s u r University " s o m e k o o k 's h e a d a n d th e n y o u 'll h e a it s o m e f a c e o f th e b a r n y a r d . H e s t i r r e d th in g s up "O.K. Don't get sm a rt." said Hank No an d fo u n d a b it o f goo d, e v e n in th e lo w e s t We have our job and the probation officers r e a l p ig - s q u e a ls . A n d a n o t h e r th in g • H o ld on J o h n ." b r o k e in H a n k “ N ow s e g m e n t o f s o c ie t y an d a le r t e d o th e r p ro and the social workers have theirs. But as y o u 'r e a c t in g lik e th e k in d o f p ig im p . ie d b y f e s s io n a ls to c o m e in a n d m a k e th e s y s te m one of the professors of the school of police adm inistration has said, the policeman is a th e la b e l. Y o u k n o w J o h n , sto p to t h in ! a b o u t work f o r th e lo s t a n d d o w n tro d d e n . T h is ba- it . I g u e s s w e a r e s o m e th in g l i k e p ig s . Y o u 'r e c o n -tv p e p ig is n 't th e o n e s e e n b y th e la ­ social scientist in action.' We re out here a n o ld f a r m b o y . R e m e m b e r h o w Uie p ig b e le r s . M a y b e th e r e a r e s t i l l too m a n y lard - where the citizen is. We m ust m ake decis­ ions on the spot, and not sit back in court w o u ld ro o t a ro u n d in th e slo p an d d u n (/ o t the tv p e s a ro u n d o r ' m a y b e s o m e p e o p le ju s t cham bers or in ivory towers and m ediate b a r n y a r d 1? W e ll h e re w e a r e ro o tin g a ro u n d h a v e n 't ta k e n a v e r y good lo o k . M a y b e it has on the complexities of the issues. in a b a r n y a r d lit t e r e d w it h th e o u t c a s ts of som ething to do w it h a te n - d o lla r w o rd an c “ Ok." said John. “ Time for breakfast. s o c i e t y : d r u n k s , p r o s t it u t e s , a d d ic t s ," b u rg - th e p r o fs c a l l p r o je c t io n .' O r p e rh a p s it's Let s catch it at Benny's and then be ready l e r s . s e x d e v ia n t s , m o s t o f w h ic h u#ev on d u e to th e r e f le c t io n th e y o b s e r v e fro m lo o k ■t h e ir o w n f a m i li e s : a n d a l l th e o th e r tv p e s of in g a t th e m ir r o r e d s u r f a c e ot a p o lic e m a n s to nail some red-light runners on their way to work. I'm kind of low on the totem pole hoods an d c h is e le r s w h o m a y h a v e th e m o n e y badge. “ B y th e w a y Jo h n , m ayb e yo u sh o u ld le this month so I ’d better get busy. to p r o v id e a t a ls e tr o n t ot r e s p e c t The car left the station and soon checked R e m e m b e r a ls o . 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And when you a re called tc ‘ P ig s we a re and pigs we will rem ain Anc Secondly, status and power are very care­ fully delineated in the type and am ount of the campus, you can leave your night-sticl if those people who are sincere about chang space you have, and the control you have over here and have a hair-pulling contest wit! ing our social system and the injustice tha that space. Head Advisers a re given suites your opposition. But let m e point out a few rejegates people to be barnyard of society within which they can raise a family. Grad m ore things. I say Come and join us.' If you have the “ The young people a t the University havt gi^ts to be the “ bacon' -type pig, w e'll lei Advisers a re given bachelor pads. RA's are a song that goes. ‘What the world needs now y y i don the uniform of our order. From the given 'th eir own rooms. Uhdergradua-tes is love. . .’ These kids a re right, John. Anc blackest black to the w hitest white, the race a re put two in a room. Freshm en are I hope they don’t forget it when they get ou of man needs you now. Wrap that university cram ped three to a room. You know who you into the not-too-lovable world. Maybe wit! degree around your right hand and let it be­ are and how you are by where you are. their help we can leave our night-sticks a cam e soiled with the stain of human exper “ Motivation for territory is psycholo­ ience. Your community will have the type ol gical." The possession and recognition of home and hang up our guns as well. Th< trouble is that too many people are savin* p ig s it selects. Lard or bacon; it's up tc one’s territo ry satisfies two distinctive needs: security, which is experienced in the 'I love you. do you love m e?’ in the contex com fort and safety of the heartland of one’s of a rapist as he holds a knife at a youn* g irl’s throat. “ Well. John, it's tim e to quit. L et's head own property; and identification, which is fof the barn. Some gal by the nam e of Trinka experienced through the existence of a “ One m ore 'w ar story.’ John, and 1 11 shu up. About three years ago a Mrs. Johnsoi (N ne called last night. She said she was from “ unique fragm ent of something larger and the “ State News." Wanted a story. Some­ m ore perm anent than the individual him­ called on a civil rights complaint. She hac applied for a job at a greenhouse pack in* thing about what it is to be a policem an.“ self, a place w hether social or geographic, “ W ell." said John, “ what did you tell (that is) his and his alone." (R. Ardrey) plants for shipment. She was refused be cause she was a Negro. She was told on th< y çr?" The living-learning complexes provide a “ I guess the university is getting to m e," provocative glimpse as to how a population telephone that it wouldn't work out. The res of the people wouldn't want to work beside said Hank. “ I told her I couldn't do it. It's re a c ts when denied this form of physical her. O.K.. this was wrong. But consider the t*iO com plex." security and identification, while being sub­ irony of the situation. She was a highb As the officers turned the cruiser into jected to other social pressures. There is trained woman in accounting and office man the station parking lot, they noticed Tom constant aim less tension. There a re explo­ agem ent and had sought work in an at coming in to work the day-shift. As he got sive releases of frustration as witnessed c;ose to the car. John said to Tom. “ What torney's office. But not one Negro attorne; at the T .'J. and in the broken vending m a­ in the world are you wearing on your feet?" in the entire area would hire her. She wa: chines and busted ceiling tiles. There are a very^attractive woman, but her complexioi “ Hush Puppies." com plete w ithdrawls from the community "Hush Puppies?” was extrem e black. And attorneys all wan tee and the involvement in non-purposeful ac­ “ Y eh." said Tom. “ it’s a new kind. They a lighter-skinned girl. This was all before tions such as the fam iliar card gam e m ara­ a 'e called O inkers."' the “ Black is Beautiful” development. thons. Ardrey would call this ritualistic Wilbur Rykert, E ast Lansing senior in police “ Now I m ust confess my ignorance on thi: aggression. It seem s that when an individual ad m in istratio n , is on leave from the Michigan subject. But I might suggest. John, that who is put in the position of fighting or fleeing, lU ate Police. He has nine years previous serv­ ever started this m ovem ent-this Black i: of confronting or escaping, and he does not ice in police work. Beautiful m ovem ent-has done m ore for the wish to do either, he takes a third course. He does something which will vent his ag­ gression and frustration but which will not force him to m ake a com m itm ent to change the condition. When we exam ine the loud parties, the heavy drinking, the quick empty trips to the bedrooms in this light, their ap­ parent m eaninglessness takes on meaning. Paperboundsonyour MSU. the largest dorm itory in the world, is a behavioral sink, a receptacle for actions which especially conducive to human dis­ reading list? com fort and frustration. To q u e s tio n IK -1MIMM KÎT811H1 TOPAZ whether an academ ic community can exist By Leon U ris in this environment is a s valid as question­ ing whether a community can exist here. The P ap erb ack ..................... $1.25 answ er is simple. It cannot. Leon U ris, author of Scientists who have studied the baboon in Exodus, and Mila 18...has captivity have concluded that that species' done it againl Topaz is prim al concern is sexual intercourse. What shattering the b e st-se lle r they did hot realize (and w hat subsequent lists from coast to coast studies of the babodn in the jungle have sub­ Topaz is the controversial stantiated) was that the situation was too spy th rille r you’ve been artificial, that is, the anim al was caged, hearing about. Although it is trapped, and prevented from expressing his fiction, many of the inci­ territo rial needs and the com plem entary dents a re based upon fact. psychological benefits of those ’ needs. If His sources include form er Robert A rdrey’s thesis is correct and if m em bers of various diplo­ the territo rial im perative is a dominant X K W M U H n iK M lM V ^ K m atic and intelligence services. . .their revela­ IfON UIIS instinct among anim als, baboon and man alike, then it leads you to consider the in­ tions presented with the teresting possibility that the city is a zoo skill of one of the most and that MSU is the zoo of zoos. 1 popular story te lle rs in our A zoo where all the cages are piled up century. neatly one upon the other. A zoo where the human qualities of love, THE 10 BEST-SELLING PAPERBACKS compassion, individuation, privacy, and security a re ignored as irrelevant. 1. M y r a B r e c k in r id g e 6. Seventh Avenue A zoo which forcefully intim idates the 2. T h e P r e s id e n t ’ s P la n e I s j .l i s s i n g 7 . The Plot individual to purge himself of any distinc­ 3. R o se m a ry ’ s B ab y s 8. T h e G a b r ie l H o u n d s 4. F i v e S m o o th S to n e s 9 . T h e C h o se n tive qualities, to fit in and to function in the 5. O u r C ro w d 1 0 . A M o d e rn P r i e s t L o o k s m ultiversal machine. And the individual learns. He learns to A t H i s O utd ated C h u r c h fit in. to m ake visible all of his c h aracter­ istics and to feel guilty about standing apart. Herein lies both the horror and the energy of this social unit. The negation of the interior life as expressed in the externaiiza- tion of any qualities that were or could have been distinctly yours in the life source of the corporate mechanized society. You no longer search to find yourself; for you a re very com­ petently found, molded, and placed into a JWUS RO O K Y O R fc p recast niche. But som etim es, just sometimes, when you craw l off the shell of interchange­ able parts and stand on the periphery of the m ultiversity, its dim entions shrivel to that O v e r 100 p u b l i s h e r s of a m assive throng to isolated human beings, S to c k e d in , our W a re h o u s e a lunatics' m aelstrom of arched heads smiling scream s. Next Issue The Captive City