I Jl»/> ill tO Graphics Sandy Moffat Bruce Spitz, William R Stewart, Tom Samet, Pages 12, by William R Stewart seyus> . Ed.Rosenberg. Ela Pages 4. 5-bv Sbglley Sutton Singh. Harold Renn : 8, 9 btf-SarfayTHoffat & Infor Innately. lit protect our gooil I pledge allegiance Taps. mime, ice are not To the smogged and A prayer for dark to cool us - permittedlilted to to accept . v\ Greyly coughing shadows Dry the bleeding sidewalks Of my land; who collar-up and lawless For our walking on tomorrow. a no in ymous contri- A Tuck the awful folded flag TAPS. but ionsms. II e will i\jj) Beneath their eyes. To call the dark ones home |ivilhliolil names at And squatting dumb On empty-windowed, empty-pocket roads. your request. Ill Upon the alleybrick, And blind and cigaretted curbs And garbaged like a night cat Shrug, unwatched by the folding pennant yinonymous donors Digging breakfast, And we, unlifted from the pin jp lease contact us at Rip the cold stars That sticks us to today, once, or their works From its night. Slip warmly wombward Then raise it, Past the dust, to street-lamped of art are forever Milk and honey lanes, Where a child has shinnied lost. Dirty-kneed and clawing for a cloud; Paved thick and warm with carpetdown. The crumbled city chalk-like on his hands. But darkness has the streets The Where dark and wormlike from the cracks pole is waiting rootless, Come rising shapes \ext term -r Barkless, hard and sapless Glinting in our spacious skies. To vaguely haunt us if we sleep. spring—will see the And we're impaled upon it Or silent, (sliding blackly continuation and Squirming trout-like Through the black) In the bottom of the boat. To lower down the rottings conclusion of the Of their cold and sexless flag. Our helpless flip-flop fresco articles and Slapping in their ears. No proof this night; the letters from II Sexless at the top No flag still there; man dances in our eyes A barren pole to wag 'Schulz in prison, The black Its laughing emptiness tomorrow. h or lack And swings the natural rhythm of the breeze. of appro¬ And mirror-like No rag to catch the life-gift priate space and He wags the sterile loins Of the early morning light. lime, these selec¬ That hold us weaklv where we stand. -Tom Samet tions hare been delayed. COLLAGE ui gently requests fit lion: we hare plethora of poetry. \a modicum of arti¬ cles anil reviews and only a fillip of fiction. Some of you COLLEGE STUDENTS POETRY ANTHOLOGY out there are lazy. (,et busy. The NATIONAL POETRY PRESS announces its SPRING COMPETITION The closing date for the submission of manuscriot* by College Students is ANY STUDENT April 10 his verse. There is attending eitfter junior or senior college is e ligible to submit no limitation » to form or theme. Shorter works are pio ferred by the Board of Judges, because of «pacc limitations. Each poem must be TYPED or PRINTED on a separate sheet, arid must bear the NAME and HOME ADDRESS of the student, and the COLLEGE ADDRESS as well. MANUSCRIPTS should be sent to t! OFFICE OF THE PRESS #41 NATIONAL POETRY PRESS 32}0 Selby Avenue Los Angeles, Calif. 00034 .U.l.U. 5.1.1.1.1, Tuesday, February 11, 1969 3 4 Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan Bv BRUCE SPITZ This then is one problem: in a city of monu¬ Under the guise of the operational definitions mental structures there is not one that we can expressed in the U.S. census, the East Lansing relate to as human beings or take pride in as Comprehensive Plan and MSU public relations a community. releases, we are all partaking in a prosperous, Overcrowding and Loneliness exciting urban complex. There are signs of Lecture halls, cramped buses, dormitories . . . stress arising from a disproportionately large an overcrowded environment produces dif¬ student population but .the overwhelming indi¬ ferent fields. Sociologists speak of alienation cation is that this is a growing, healthy com¬ and the harmful effects of a myriad of social munity. However, under the guise of living roles. Psychologists discuss the ill-effects of a here, the East Lansing-MSU complex appears lack of privacy and the loss of ego strength to be no more than a thriving necropolis, a and individuality. Communications experts re¬ contained agglomeration of people and things. fer to information overloads and organizational As individuals we are isolated. As groups we entropy. Behavioralists talk of territoriality segregated. And as contemporary urban and a behavioral sink. MSU speaks of a are living- citizens we accept the lack of community and learning complex. its complementary vitality and warmth with I propose that the constant exposure to and undistinguished resignation and apathy. It is the inability to escape from masses of people the purpose of this article, therefore, to pierce is a debilitating force, and that that force is in the paradox and to examine those forces which operation on this campus. prevent us from coalescing as a community. The greatest consequence of the omnipr;^- Architecture and the Life Aesthetic ent crowd are obstruction of meaningful rela¬ "Architecture is the art which so disposes tionships and the destruction of solj-Kide and and adorns the edifices raised by man, for privacy. It is to the latter that I direct my com¬ whatsoever uses, that the sight of them may ments. contribute to his mental health, power, and As a population of individuals we need to ex¬ pleasure."--John Ruskin perience fully and completely that which all in¬ Examination of any of the architectural ren¬ dividuals must experience if they wish to lay derings or plastic models of buildings on this claim to any fornKof separateness or identity: campus will result in an alarming realization- there is no difference between the model and the building. The model has been scaled down, detail has been blurred, only the distinctive qualities are presented for the purpose of creat¬ ing an impression, or an abstraction of what is. The model is static-a painted corpse of a liv^ You laughed me into melodies, ing dynamic creation. Pitirim Sorokin states that social space is the result of a flo'ltural quicksilvered hours to "Much of the loneliness anxiety in our so¬ triad: that of 1. meanings. 2. humeri agents, reckon by. Y our fingers ciety is not the psychiatric loneliness which and 3. inanimate vehicles and ^ physical set¬ brushing cobwebs from results from rejection or abandonment in child¬ ting. For example, the concept of education, a by skies. hood. It is possible to live too much in the ) ou touched me into gracefulness, professor lecturing, anrf-'the classroom within world, to try to escape loneliness by constant which the lecture oeC'urs. are all separate yet the tracing of talk, by surrounding oneself with others, by reckless patterns offlesh by- intrinsically lirjfefed. When you make the trans¬ modeling oneself from people in authority ition from a^mall. wood-paneled classroom to braille and sigh. or with high status. Alienated from his own the coorrete-slab. television-monitored class- Hut, dear teacher, self, the individual does not mean what he says ro9m'. you have not only changed the buildings of the crimsons, the unfoldings of and does not do what he believes or feels. He ^,^ut also the concept of university education. spring. learns to use devious and indirect ways, and to Architecture, the only art form from which we I u-as a child traveling wondrous base his behavior on the standards and expec¬ cannot escape, is one of the most powerful non¬ landscapes, breathless and tations of others. Cut off from his own self, verbal conveyors of social meanings and intent. glad-eyed. You did not warn me he is unable to have communal experience with The power to shape the environment is the of your winters and wondered others, though he may be popular, or to exper¬ that they caught blue-lipped power to create social meanings and to instill me ience a sense of relation with nature. in man a sense of his position and a social de¬ and shaken. Many of these individuals love truth, yet their lives are finition of his humanity. There is predicted on appearances and false ties; they Man is not infinitely plastic. He cannot adjust only the rain now, do not concentrate their energies enough to to any environment. If we wish to develop crea¬ it talk s to itself all day, against be able to become in fact what silent window panes. they are in tive integrated individuals, we cannot shove inspiration. What is it that drives a man to sur¬ them onto a conveyor belt that lacks privacy, round himself with the same external double- denies individual expression, prevents meaning¬ -By Ela Singh talk, the same surface interests and activities ful interaction, and abhors spontaneity. When during his evenings at home and during his days the beautiful and the aesthetically pleasing are at work? It is the terror of loneliness, not lone¬ deemed superfluous at a State institution, the liness itself but loneliness anxiety, the fear of State has not destroyed those qualities, it has being left alone, of being left out. It is absolute¬ just helped to create a new life-aesthetic, a new ly necessary to keep busy, active, have a full conceptual form of the human being-that of a schedule, be with others, escape into the fanta¬ that is. we must endure the unobstructed, un- scrawny, castrated figure held upright by gad¬ sies, dramas, and lives of others in television or meddled. uncomforted realization that we gets and standardized parts. When the State in the movies. Everything is geared towards fill¬ exist apart from others, that our deems privacy, individuality, and other basic pain and sor¬ row can be shared with others but not ing and killing time to avoid feeling the empti¬ human needs superfluous, it destroys even by others, ness of life and the vague dissatisfactions of ac¬ that loneliness is not shameful, nor self-confron¬ those remnants of a man and enshrines the gad¬ tation a sham. And hopefully, in our state of quiring possessions, gaining status and power gets and the standardized parts. Where does and behaving in the appropriate and one go on the MSU campus to be reminded of isolation, we learn to know ourselves, to know approved ways. The escape from loneliness is actually an his humanity or to be inspirted or exhilarated our problems, and to draw strength from that escape from facing the fear of loneliness." by the human genius'1 knowledge: we learn to feel, to relate to others, and to I propose that one of the reasons we do not savor our own humanity MSI", the al¬ behave leged adamant believer in the individual, has as a community is because we are to¬ blatantly and harmfully denied this need as gether too much and are not alone enough: that it is impossible to being relevant. operate as a community when the majority of the constituents are Existential loneliness, as Clark Moustakas attempting calls it. cannot be granted nor controlled. It to flee from themselves. is part of being human. It can. however, be Problem: We must provide the opportunities hindered and stultified It can drown in distrac¬ for the individuals to experience solitude and tions and crowds. What arises in place of sell privacy. Specifically, if the residence hall ar¬ confrontation is fear of that confrontation and rangements are not modified with this goal in the frenzied desire to escape loneliness at mind, we wi# only perpetuate a system of the any cost. The following extensive segmented and confused whose first and proba¬ quote from Mous¬ takas' recent book, loneliness, not bly only focus is how to produce for that system only de¬ and not fly apart at the seams scribes loneliness anxiety but also is an apt description of the tenor of campus life: (continued on next page) Tuesday, February 11, 1969 5 MSU: (continued from previous page) trilogy in four parts One may ask: Why doesn't the student look taxes are passed onto professional people who or work off-campus? The answer is simple. live elsewhere in the community. The non- student residents get disgusted with paying high The Economics of Containment Hie is physically captive, a product of two admir- ible forces. taxes and living next to niggers so they move out Ghetto or enclave economics--the economics First, his time budget is distorted and frag¬ to the suburbs. And, zip zap, we have our own af containment-operates with textbook clarity little ghetto developing, and the East Lansing within the East Lansing/MSU milieu. The fol¬ mented. He may sign up for only 15 credit but he has requirements; and those municipal government becomes plagued with lowing analysis will be restricted to three as¬ lours, financial worries. Why go to Detroit to study pects of that operation: the student as a factor -equired courses are conveniently spread urban blight? We have it right here. ?f production, his physical mobility, and the' cur¬ .hroughout the work week. rent plans for enlarging the central 1 usiness district as it pertains to student housing. Impli¬ cit in the argument is that students are niggers, an approachmade famous by Jerry Farber MSU is a service community, that is. one in jvhich men are not only the producers of goods jut also the goods produced. The student main- .ains a peculiar position for he is both the pri- nary raw material and the primary finished jroduct. He pays for all the transportation re¬ tirements incumbent in his travels from home The problem is twofold. First, the student o campus, thereby eliminating a bothersome Secondly, it is getting harder and harder to )wn a car. Not only has tuition been rapidly population is an artificial market created by actor that plagues most corporations when they MSU. When MSU decides that it should not ocate, i.e. the minimization of the transfer cost "ising, but traffic regulations have become more interfere with the supply side, that capitalism or basic materials. The student has made MSU stringently enforced and parking facilities are is the only doctrine feasible in our society, a mperivious to demographic changes and trans- usually one half to three quarters of a mile away from a dorm. It doesn't seem to bother us that contained market is ripe for the pick'n. >ort rates and in doing so has created one of the all other employes, or visitors or reporters can According to Wilbur Thompson, as a city grows nost enviable of firms--an aspatial factory. The in size, the variety of available goods increases. itudent is the largest consumer of MSU produ- park adjacent to their destination-when the But when that city is captive, variety is not nec¬ ;er goods (campus housing, instruction, etc.) Man says no, you listen. The only other forms of transportation are feet, bikes, and the MSU essary. It will consume anything. ind comprises the largest sector of the MSU bus system (one of the few solvent mass trans¬ Secondly, you will never form a community orce. We are a group of men so situated as to when the base of that community is both trans¬ >e at one time five major factors of production. port systems in the country). For the most part, ient and exploited. You can not integrate niggers )ne would assume that we wield tremendous we choose the bus system which is a very inter¬ into a society. Only when men are mutually re¬ lower within thisuromplex. However, one can- esting way to travel because: 1. All it does is go round and round. You spected and acknowledged does any communal lot assume anything when dealing with a group •f never leave the plantation. synthesis take place. niggers. The Brick Spider 2. In allocating 20 minutes between classes A settlement of people is like a child, for as to travel to those classes, what has effectively the community organism grows, it cries for been done is that one third of your day time is devoted to being shuttled around campus. independence, for a life separate from its human creators. The MSU creature is full At the end of a scholastic year, one full term of daylight class time has been wasted. grown. Trapped in her webs of architecture and general design, lodged in her bureaucratic rit¬ uals and classes, captive in her crowds and And 3. the student can learn to appreciate mechanized prowess, she displays a spirit quite togetherness' in a more direct fashion than the independent of even the most charismatic indi¬ dorms or lecture halls can provide. vidual. Hoover, in The Location of Economic Activity, It seems that regardless of culture, cities ap¬ states the problem very clearly: "The magni¬ proach each other in character as they grow, as tude of price differentials corresponds inverse¬ their density patterns become greater, and as ly to mobility.'' In other words, if there is a jani¬ the society industrializes. The individual is unob- tor working for $3,000 an hour down at Olds- mobile and you are doing the same thing for a strusively and harshly nestled into the arms of the community' and forced to inbibe its charms. $1.50 at MSU, the principal reason you are not The large ghetto displays the additional quali¬ getting better wages is because you are immo¬ ties of: restricted physical mobility, a restricted bile-captive. overcrowded housing, restricted work opportu¬ It has been recommended by the East Lan¬ nities (low paying, menial jobs), and the denied sing Planning Commission that the Central access to positions of community responsibility Business District should be renovated. And so, or policy decisions. These problems are domi¬ urban removal-more aptly called Negro remov¬ nant in both the black slums and the white mul¬ al-has been implemented. Parking facilities and shopping mails are to be erected after level¬ tiversity enclaves. ing an undesirable' section directly adjacent to the Grand River shops. I think that some sta¬ tistics about that area would prove interesting. Like grape pickers, we have submitted to the •thic of the transient. We form no unions. We vork for minimal wages. And we would gladly It is the oldest section ot town with most of cab if any attempt to organize was made. the dwellings built between 1887 and 1920. Like niggers, we hop from menial job to me- It is one of the most deteriorated parts of East lial job not differentiating between getting up at Lansing. ,;30 Sunday morning to mop the Man's floor It has the highest concentration of student ir lining up every evening to feed the mob. rooming houses in East Lansing 1.50 is a $1.50. Anybody who gets uppitty The dwellings are generally assessed at be¬ ibout wages can leave. However, if you're a tween $10,000 and $15,000 and taxed accord¬ eal good Tom and work hard and don't bitch, ingly. veil, they'll allow you to rise up in the world, First, where are those students going to move to after their residences are destroyed? "hey'll give you a 10-cent hike per hour and nake you head elevator boy; that way you can The situation is reminiscent of the problem of nake sure that none of the other boys get lazy displaced slum tenents in the '.Bjg Gity. '^ »r lay off the job. And while you're working eal hard, they'll just boost your tuition and Secondly, there\ ^ approximately 5.5 stu¬ -our room and board so high and raise your dents living Ine&ch rooming house in that area. alary so little that there ain't a way in the world If we assume that each pays only $50 a The past four years that I have spent at MSU. hat you can't stop working for them-boy. I have watched policies change and liberties' .month for rent and that the current capitaliza¬ Like educated fools, we gladly offer our tion rate lies somewhere between 7 per cent and granted by the score. Yet the quality of charac¬ •xpertise for nigger wages and help make 9 per cent, then on the average the value of ter which is MSU has not been altered, it has . daces like Kellogg Center a proverbial^gfiW those houses (regardless of condition) as in¬ only grown more frenzied. The aura of me¬ nine. This of course is done under ibe-mask of come property is between $45,000 and $27,500. chanized structures has intensified, the crowds We're giving you experi^nec^" If private Yet the slumlords pay taxes on only one third have increased, and the prevalent apathy has •orporations paid the.jstfie type of wages as of that value. Overcrowded, students utilize remained prevalent. The student protest over dSU during thjek nianagerial traning period, trivial questions such as open houses or hours a disproportionate amount of community serv¬ he only people they would attract would be ices. The need for those services increases but remains a convenient method for ^pending lO-.y^af-old retirees, hydrocephalic idiots, and- neither the slumlord nor the student contri¬ energy in blind alleys. >h ves-college students trying to get through bute adequately to the tax base. Increased (continued on page II) ;chool. 6 Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan "Who keeps us prisoner, The quote is from feter Zeiss' MARAT/SADE. The picture is one of a series of '"emotional hieroglyphics" by Peter Key Mack. Both are intended to depict the MSL community. Which is u:here Collage comes in. This issue of Collage was set up as a particular, one-sided perspective to invite reaction and comment on the part of the \1SL community. Too feu• of us take time to examine the world in which we live; like fish leading glass-bowl lives, we never notice the limits of our environment until we bump our noses painfully against the invisible sides of the J'ish- bowl. Most of us don't want to break the fish bowI; we are afraid of losing the valuable fluid that keeps us alive. On the other hand, we may not need to stay submerged in water to sur¬ vive: if we are men, rather than fish, perhaps we should re-think our mode of existence. The question posed by the writers ,n this issue is that the fishbowl is not so much a haven of protection, but a u hii fpool of spiritual death. They propose that our human potential is diminished by our fishbowl en¬ vironment. Collage is interested in response from our "fishbowl at!leagues:" ask yourself where you stand. Do you think you are being cheated by East Lansing merchants? Or by the Uni¬ versity? Or by The Man ? On the other hand, have you con¬ sidered the problems facing private entrepreneurs who cannot depend on a steady population, but only a steady flux of population? If you were an administrator or a merchant, would you rrally handle things any differ¬ ently? Do idealists "get things done" or are they only a burden, a drag on the general progress of the fishbowl community? And do they have anything to contribute, besides dis¬ cern tent? . ind is disc * > * 4 8 Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan The scattered leaves and pieces are like people come to rest in corners and on other sides of hills. —Clifford Randall MSU, We Love ThyBy WILLIAM R. STEWART Button, button, who pushes the button: where Shadows but by consent of the "taxpayers" of the Metro- A does the Power lie? The legal existence of MSU pole, the parent state. Within the colony, this long time ago, before you were born, there Board of Trustees is the single central locus were THEY. And THEY convened in attics. and hence all real power, resides in the corpor¬ ate person of the MSU Board of Trustees. The of all power: adjudicative, legislative, coer¬ And THEY suffered the existence of AUSG, Board of Trustees is the University, and the cive, and repressive. In terms of power, nothing and THEY ignored it. And AUSG grew befud¬ real exists outside of this body. A study of pow¬ dled and factious, and died. And it begat University is the Board of Trustees. To under¬ er at MSU therefore takes place within a colo¬ stand the dimensions of this power and the real¬ ASMSU in an impotent image. And THEY over¬ nial context. Relevant to the position of the colo¬ whelm ASMSU and it grows befuddled and ities of its exercise within the Multiversity is to fully appreciate the efficient and effec¬ nized "native." it is a study of attics and sha¬ factious. And there was CSR, and THE) broke tive implementation of White Anglo-Saxon Pro¬ dows. it. And there was Paul Schiff, and THEY were testant principles, not of education, but of in¬ The MSU Colonial Administration, headed by amused. And there were "illegally assembled" direct colonial rule. the Board of Trustees, is a statist bureaucratic crowds, and THE) bloodied them. And there It is a reality of the colonial situation that the machine empowered to administer a colony of was The Paper, and THEY repressed it. And there was Zeitgeist, nd THEY forbade it. And • traditional" societal mechanisms and insti¬ the Metropole. by the Metropole. and for the tutions (those having real existence for the colo¬ Metropole. (It somehow seems a shame that the here was Ken Lawless, and THEY indicted nized population before desired product is an outstandingly mediocre, him, tried him, and hanged him in his absence. the colonial imposi¬ And there was Gary Groat, and THE) hanged tion) merely appear to continue to exist and unintegrated man possessed of an expensively- him beside Lawless. And there was the Orange function, while in fact they are form with no programmed repertoire of behaviors which he content-structure with no power-shadows. All executes on command, for a price, with the pro¬ Horse, and THE) withdrew to await its death. power has been alienated from then and per modicum of expertise and a minimum of And there was SDS, and THEY will not suffer invested in the Colonial Protectorate Govern¬ self-initiated thought. But then, that's Gar¬ it. And there was BSA, and THE) were elusive. skof s problem, isn't it? i For THE) convene in attics. And there was ment- the Guardians, the Trustees of the colo- (continued on next page) Bertram Garskof... and THE) are. ny-not by consent of the governed community. Tuesday, February 11, 1969 9 "We Love Thy Shadows" (continued from previous page) The local area administrator either resides us all. is reputedly still in existence. Do we have in a single unit, an apartment, or goes home at the power to preserve, protect, defend, For the administrative purposes of the Board uphold, night. He has no ethnicity~in terms of power he enforce, or amend even this, our "Bill of of Trustees, in fulfilling the rich promise of the is "white." In his local area he is the legibly Rights?" the Continued existence of the Aca¬ land-grant philosophy, power is delegated wealthiest individual, he commands social demic Freedom Report, and of all similar tri¬ downward level by level through the ranks pres¬ tige and respect, he has the prerogative to re¬ umphs of responsible native self-government, of the Colonial Administration. The scope of ject the "decisions" of any and all legislative is assured only so long as the Board of Trus¬ each individual packet of power so delegated and adjucative "redommending boards " at his tees and the President of MSU suffer them to clearly defines the administrator's permitted level and below, he has sole access to all dis¬ exist. All power is theirs. range of exercise of such power, his "local ciplinary. coercive, and repressive force, and Within this Colonial system we have no re¬ area-' with regard specifically to his place in the he is empowered to issue administrative orders presentation. no legal existence, and no pow¬ hierarchy overtopped bv the Board. This dele¬ which have the force of law. To seek power over our own lives within a Again, this power er. gated power is revocable: the Board giveth and is derived.frprn the single central locus of the Board taketh away. er whfch owns or controls all pow¬ ystem ture and which denies it to us by its very struc¬ The resultant structure is a thoroughly bureau public services, as a prerequisite of its existence, is all utilities, all media of absurd and intolerable. To remain aloof is to cratized legion of civil servants-clients of the consequence, all trans¬ portation, all housing facilities, and the colo¬ remain disenfranchised, powerless, and sup¬ power-patron Board -responsible only to the nial lands themselves and all else that stands Board and dependent upon its favor for pressed To seek power outside of the duly- or moves thereon. The least of these constituted shadows, is to walk the thin line adminis¬ the original granting and continued existence of trators, the friendly neighborhood Resident of "treason" and to be dangerously "subver¬ their power, their positions, their salaries, and Assistant, holds more power than the whole of sive." And THEY will not suffer it. their legitimacy to rule a transient disenfran¬ ASMSU. When the Native Local Government, or I am a nigger. You. dear reader, are also a chised " native'' population. The Board, the Pro¬ any of the greater "recommending boards" or nigger. Think long upon it. my brother. tectorate Government, is the sole policy-mak¬ "advisory committees" seeks to reach a com¬ ing power of the colony-the Colonial Adminis¬ promise with the colonial power, the only thing trative apparatus implements and executes it compromises, the this policy. All policy, all law. proceeds down¬ only thing available for compromise, is itself. ward through "properly constituted channels'" At the time of this writing, the Academic which may be blocked or made more circuitous Freedom Report, the crowning achievement of by the local administrator at any level. It is Native Local Government and sacred to government by executive order and administra¬ tive decree-Colonial government, without alter¬ native. by inter-office memo in triplicate, in¬ corporating inexhaustible opportunities for miscommunieation, blundering and abuse. It is doubtful that an administrator deriving power, career, and legitimacy from above will be overly responsive to appeals from below, The Plaster has fallen but then the MSU Colonial Administration is and smashed in small parts manifestly an administrative institution of the Metropole. not a political organ through which a piece for each. the will of the governed natives may seek ex¬ Keys for broken locks pression. Thus, we leave the realm of attics and Doors that open outward wander among shadows. Rooms dark For the administrative purposes of the Protec torate Government and the Colonial Governor, Lights with pull chains revocable power has further been delegated to turn us all downward to faculty and student " recommend¬ on or off ing boards'" boldly empowering them to "ad¬ vise." permitting them the freedom of speech, depending on our piece of plaster within limits-and ASMSU. the Native Local Government, is the least of these "recom¬ -Clifford Randall mending boards." Neither the faculty, nor the students, nor the faculty and students com¬ bined. are the University, nor are they in any sense self-governing. In terms of real power within the colony, they are at best, irre¬ levant. There may appear to exist a minor power enclave in the "traditional" political form of the tenured faculty, but in a confrontation with the Colonial Administration they must surely be acutely aware of the revocable nature of their "recommending" status, and that there are other more effective coercive alternatives open to the Protectorate Government than mere fir¬ ing. They may appear to hold some small mo¬ remember dicum of autonomous power, but in the final analysis, all policy decisions from above even¬ tually meet with their approval." As for the un tenured faculty, let it merely be said that they comprise, with respect to the students, only a small percentage of the captive nature labor force available to the government. Let it be repeated that the pretentious poli¬ tical organ that is ASMS!' is the least of these "recommending boards." The "traditional political forms of representative democracy and government by consent of the governed em¬ bodied in this Native Local Government are like¬ wise made sham, shadow, and structure without content. The power relationship of its elected officials to the administrators in their re¬ spective local areas is absurdly legible The Na¬ tive Local Government official resides in ing-learning-expp ierfce unit shared bv a liv- a vary February 14th ing number of native roommates. 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Senior piano £ Senior prano (4:0 , MSU F L so¬ Auditm) Orchesta Dock Audi¬ Bodman, (3:0 Auditm) h o w A u d i ¬ 1 E M7a B O r N s . D o A n Y , , 1 0 9 9 , A n ¬ 1F0E T8U9B E,S9. D.ARYi,c h Senior ¬ (8:15, 1FE6SUBN.DAY,PSinRueecrei,tal: Mu(2s:i0c, Symphon Auditorm) JoRseecpihtal: Mu(8st:iruc1m5pe, AMarkte (A8m:e1r5ica, IoMwvBSassakUe.tbl, ARleacintal: BLvoiinzlaedra, BPldragct.i)e ERleecintal: M(u8s:i1c5, 2FETH0UBRS.DAY, (Cab7ir":o30,f Anthoy) &(Expres"R7yan's (Smoke"10a"S9numder 9&(Sade"7, &(Expres"R7yan's &(Road"ft7hoer Clinc) MMinevsSostaU. RLectialr,s QuWiontdewin Auditorm) S 1 8 sey, torium) Thievs' (Unio ) Balet torium) Joint 2 FFE violn; 1 RBI D. 103 A Y , Senior piano "Nights "Von Brodv) "thony) Mar t Wels) "Von Wilson) "Two Vet Hockey. & ards Music 100 Arts Tfiomerly Balcony" «PAC,8:0 15) Music- "The Arena ltorium Student Lincol's Royal "Sing' Days Brodv) \ilsn) Tomr¬ (8:0, pia¬ Tomr¬ Conrad) IFETUBES.DAY. FetThbrhou.egatr,Aud(8i¬S:t1Cril5nebg,asnof 1R.3e:0cita,l tAudiorm 1FEW2EBDN.SAY, Birthday1FET3HUBRS.DAY, B18aW:line5t,peg Auditorm)1(R0a7ini"t:93hne, Anthoy) (Mia7y"&n9, 1FEF4RBID.AY, DV-aleantiy's 9&M(iay"7n, Taon"Ydestrdyay, An19&tho0y9),SThaCoalewmnptus EPxhBhibooattrd 2Fe(bU)nio,th.rug Competin Mexico"Wide Auditorm)LEudRel-esciat: RDnavecliard.rinet; AuMditoums)ic 1FES5ABTUR.DY, Taon"dYestrdyay. A1n9&tho0y9),9&M(iay"7n, "erutnvdA o"Backgfrund Auditorm) SOtMahveiSso.I DNamotere IlMinvBoaSssske.tIbl. "7 Days ("wor7 "7 All Union ADS "Wide Faculty wig, (8:15, no ("wor7 Days "7 F(8:0(1. enci g. and Calendar Tuesday, February 11, 1969 H Trilogy (continued from page 5) These are the important issues: Does MSU have the right to keep the student physically captive? Does MSU have the right to tell you not only how but where you can live'' Does MSU have the market that it is hour never right to inform worth more a captive than $2 an regardless of the job or the going wages GIVE HER SOMETHING HOUSE TO REMEMBER YOU BY of in the La/ising Metropolitan area? Does MSU have the right to make all key policy decisions for you. to act as an orgaThsVrv- which presupposes to be the electorate, the Valentine's Day is coming up, flowers are legislature, the judiciary, and the executives all at one time'' And while you ponder these questions ask nice, are but they soon die, and the memories thrown out with the drled-up flowers. INDIA yourself one morel-would your parents agree to Give her something which lasts—something live in such a community0 As it is now. the MSU complex leans mind¬ which will remind her of you everytime she sees it. lessly over some chrome precipice, blindly glar¬ 0 ing. efficiently pulling strings. Encircled, we 101 E. GRAND RIVER stand state center in a Ptolemaic model of cap¬ Take a look at our fine selection of beads, tivity. Entrenched in ourselves, yet grasping, necklaces, earrings, bracelets, bangles, and we look out onto a theatrical backdrop of plas¬ rings. DOWNSTAIRS tic trees and Lionel train stations. Cowed into BETWEEN KESSEL'S AND herds; thankful yet alarmed at the anonymity and the social inertia that those herds provide. CUNNINGHAM'S Anxious to prove our economic independence HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! in a system that nourishes dependency. An¬ 332-8403 xious to be productive in a system that demands consumption. Anxious to be a part of something in a system in which we remain a piece of some¬ thing else. Anxious. Captive. Paperbounds on your reading list? ISCWSIWC WW 8»! o- THE ALGIERS MOTEL INCIDENT By John Hersey Mm; s Paperback $1.25 Motel This report is a personal inves¬ tigation into the deaths of three black youths in Detroit. On the fourth Incident day of the Detroit riots,newspapers reported that three Negroes had W/\ ..John been killed in a sniper battle at 1 the Algiers Motel . This re¬ Hersej' , . /I port tells what really happened at the Algiers Motel. RIGHTS IN CONFLICT • •• By The Walker Report Paperback $1.00 The confrontation of demonstra¬ Chicago police in front of BOOKMARKS tors the and Conrad Hilton Hotel was seen by millions of Americans on TV DIRECTORY OF LITTLE MAGAZINES & and recorded for others in news¬ SMALL PRESSES (Dustbooks, Box 123, El papers and magazines across the Cerrito. Calif. 94530), 1968 70 pp. $2.00. nation. The club-swinging, the ob¬ Available at Paramount. scenities, the mindless violence shocked the world. Here are the facts behind these events, includ¬ For those who might wonder where poetry has gone, this Directory should indicate that it ing a pictorial review of what hap¬ has taken to the streets and coffeehouses in pens. force. There is a terrific and growing poetic consciousness beyond the classrooms-poems THE 10 BEST-SELLING PAPERBACKS being written and published and read and ex¬ 1. Topaz 6. The Exhibitionist changed among friends, and sometimes a 2. Coffee, Tea or me? 7. Call Me Brick poem is even sold. For money 3. Christy 8. Rozemary's Baby 4. Myra Breckenridge 9. Five Smooth Stones This Directory lists the sources from which the 5. Doctor's Quick Weight Loss Diet 10. Boston Strangler poems flow; some 700 little magazines and presses, from ABYSS ("Literature in any form considered.") to ZEITGEIST ("Our audience is mostly sophisticated university people with a distaste for the standard aca¬ demic shit, either creative or critical.") Of course, little magazines all suffer a slow, painful birth, and a quick death-it's their nature-and therefore it is difficult to keep up with their short lives. But this Directory, which is published each year, helps to keep track, and is essential for anyone interested in writing. Over 100 Publishers Stocked In Our W arehouse - A. D. D Across From The Union Across From Berkey Hall City Parking At Rear Doo Free Parking At Storeside Tuesday, February 11, 1969 1 2 Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan Verily, I ti. I ,I,linn soy unto you. l'ii -Indents he Federal Government planted the University in the garden t l» ROSENBERG ansing. it. the east: and there it put the students whom it had formed 3n ■irant Coli> beginning .ind the l» •ileial Government Trustees. The i':is upon Uni\ the face of ■ • .I the was Land without -'p; and the £h leral Government took den eti>t of I. using to till it and ke< , 1. 1 e student and put him in the gar And the Administration coiii- form and and Ict. deral G- ' • t was moving over «• of the Hed ma tided the > ludent. saying. "You may freely learn of every depart- Spirit of t' • mental tree .!, ,i the garden, but of lb" T> f>e of the Knowledge of Good ;ind Cedar. Evil \. ill not learn, for in the day that you learn of it you shall be summat ilv expelled /VI l/F was M> ~ Federal <. light. V ; iheFedvi the Federal t.overnmt Federal Goumment <■ i' said. "Let there nontsaw led the thattht light from light Knowledge. ind t' :ood. ^otp the Conscience he Government tion say. 1 You shall is i ii inore,subtle than any other ide. lt said to I not learn of any the student. wild Did departmental tree "" And the student (I to the Conscience. "We may called Ignoi.,\ce . \\i dom of the dep tnn • lal trees of the garden, but the learn ol t irn of the Wisdom of the Tree Admirusti ion said. You shall tu ither shall you advocate it. lest /to.,,,™,... the midst of t!»e student nt said. Let there b« , And it was so And the ing Fore* •ral Gove which is i you be summarily the midst of the garde) expelled ment called the Ruling F < \dministration . Jut the Conscience said to the student. "You will not be summarily expelled. For the Administration knows that when you learn eyes will be opened, knowing Good and Evil." So when the of it your student Jrh fc^the Federal Government said. "Let there be people in the Administration of the Board of Trustees to separate the Knowledge saw that the Tree was good for Wisdom, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the Tree was to be desired to make one wise, he its fruit and ate . . . Then his eyes were?)penec' took of from the Ignorance" . . . And it was so. And the Federal Government made two great People, the President to rule the Knowledge, and the Vice President for Student Affairs to rule the Ignorance: it made the Members of the Board of Trustees also. And the Federal Government set them in the Administration to give walking in the garden in the cool of the day. and the student hid himself Knowledge unto the University, to rule over the Knowledge and over from the presence of the Vice President for Student Affairs among the the Ignorance, and to separate the Knowledge from the Ignorance. departmental trees of the garden. But the Vice President for Student And the Federal Government saw that it was good Affairs called to the student, and said to him. "Where are you '" And he said. I heard the sound of thee in the garden, and I was afraid and I hid myself He said. "Have you learned of the Tree of which not to learn?" The student said. "The Conscience tkn I commanded you whom thou gavest to be with me. it gave me fruit of the Tree, and I ate the Federal Government said. "Let us make the student in it." Then the Vice-President for Student Affairs said to the student. our image, after our likeness So the Federal Government created What is this that you have done0" The student said. "The Conscience the student in its own image, in the image of the Federal Government led me to it. and I ate " ederal Govern¬ . . . it created him; male and coed it created them. And the P ment blessed them, and the Federal Government said to them. Be fruitful and multiplv. and fill the University and rule your it" . . And the Federal Government saw everything that and behold, it w£s very good fair share of it had made, Cfcn _ student has become the Vice President f6r Student Affairs said. "Behold, the like one of Us. knowing Good and Evil; and now. lest he put forth his hand and take also of the Tree of Power, and eat. and rule forever"-therefore the Administration summarily expelled CW all the host of them the Administration and the University were finished, and him from the University of East Lansing ... He drove out the student: and at the University was placed the Campus Police, with a flaming sword which turned every way. to guard the path to the Tree of Power