2 Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan arrogant enough to insist on his right to fum¬ But sometimes his rage is less controlled, and ble after his own vision of reality. Taken as a he fails to project anything much besides a whole, this collection succeeds rather well in baleful cynicism: TAILING conveying to the reader a distinct sense of per¬ I will be sixty when the century turns I will get very drunk and be very happy sonality. and this seems to me a considerable achievment. or very sad Strangely. Lawless is at his worst when he Unless, of course is being most personal: his vignettes con¬ I cerning sexual adventures and drinking him¬ self to popularity seem to me not much more than cute: Sitting in the cool of this library The problem here is not that his rage or disil¬ Reading Parson YVeems and John Barth lusionment is not justified; it is that the poet Facing girl in miniskirt with knees spread fails to focus us upon the source of his emo¬ In this gloom can't be sure tion. the conditions which produce it. Instead, Could be black panties he turns us toward his hard-boiled self pity, POEMS Jesus! an erection! trapped in this which may be cathartic for the poet but doesn't periodical room do much of anything for the reader It's finally happened But overall this collection presents us with a I'm many-faceted personality responding to an ugly world. This is accomplished by means of a dirty somewhat tedious device (dribbling the last old line man ken lawless or banal "You won't respect me down the* anymore," she said "Honey. I'll respect the pants off you," page i: but it is also accomplished I said by engaging a sharp ear. an unblinking eve. and a barbed tongue. Lawless is worth watch¬ And I ing. especially when he makes us see our selves: did But when he turns his eye to Every day we get the body count A ZEITGEIST PUiUCATIOH the world at large Estimated enemy dead 21, or 53 VC killed he is pretty pungent indeed: We kill a lot of them Write a short essay on Law and Order First Still, it costs us over $340,000.00 a head to prize is a weekend in Detroit By DAVID ROBERTS do it Second prize is Some people think we can afford it A TAILING OFF, Poems by Ken Lawless, Zeit¬ week Just geist, Inc.1969 because in Detroit. Ken Lawless, of Orange Horse fame some That's what is called an oldie but a goodie, years ago in East Lansing, is not dead: he is and what Lawless does is to bring the chestnut alive and well and gnashing his teeth over the state of the world in general. His poems are to a burning issue of our times: he makes us see and hear the ugly humor inherent in our caustic and witty, crotchety (pun intendedi and indignant, sometimes insightful and un¬ paradoxical times This particular poet is an enfant terrible, and at his best (as here) he failingly energetic. When he is good he is hor¬ rid (as befits a poet who envisions himself gets out of his own egotism enough to tell us as a black humorist), and when he is bad he is something about the world. Surely it's worth our while to listen to a ranter who raves with such incisiveness about things that matter so much: "This is pure science, don't ask jme," With this issue. Collage wraps . said.the Scientist up its publishing history for anoth¬ As he studied the germs We Hve in our own atmosphere And sustain each other's breathing er year. The staff has viewed the "This is applied science, don't ask me," Almost as if we were underwater said the Engineer progress Oi the magazine through¬ As he With a tube connecting our mouths. developed a way to put the germs out the seasons with tempered op¬ I've often wondered what it would be like into a nation's water supply If you left me--of how I'd drown and timism: although we have- had "War is hell, don't ask me," said the not care many prolific and enthusiastic con¬ General As he altered tactics and stragety in the tributors (especially in poetry). we I think of it now light of the new weapon still feel that there are talented "Preventive retaliation, don't ask me," As and creative people who are not said the Politician As he handed his mandate over to the using Collage to full advantage. • General Nonetheless, the generally high OK, I won't ever ask you again surface level of response, which increased From -Bruce Gravert steadily throughout the year, was now gratifying. I'm Unfortunately, not all of the qual¬ telling ity writings that were received were able to be used due to space limitations. The problem of de¬ ciding which material to select from a range of worthwhile items is often an unpleasant one. Any manuscripts which were not used can be picked up at the State News office in the Student Services Bldg. Looking towards the future. Col¬ lage has big plans for next year. To avoid the perennial problem of a more or less frantic beginning, with few early contributors and fewer returning staff members. Collage is attempting to locate ilirecti nichuel o'n en I interested people now for next year. Uru/i hi •ill tin . . . sninly muffiil Artists, staff writers, idea people forei/ii ures/tomle tinriil fiillierl in general-call the State News of¬ . s.in.h mofl'nl fice (355-3252) and leave your tin till robe its. million nouuk. jun iluki il. I. O. sunil\ nioj'l'iil name. inillin. iihinml hnnniiui. in uryiinne aeorge. fumes .». HI . . nuncy cliuich llieihi scocpol. jun bluckislon. 11.1l.il.. bruce /tuge 12 . . jim youslini! And for evervone-during the long urnrert. murk mc/therson. I,nlli\ iimles. ilnriil flllOtOS, fill"!1 . Inner liifsoiii hot summer, think of Collage - e. nlkire. nunc) bruekslone. /ii-lei limine. John and produce. We are all part of knu/t/i II. ruth k miftft. Jennifer lee. eric suuter. robert i iiiulei inolen. ciilhs horcn. umibel il it \ ei, the Collage. shurron murks. Tuesday, May 20, 1969 3 The fatal excellent (yet "hard "> teacher, and a person flow ideas and approaches in a discipline, should By THEDASKOCPOL EDITOR'S NOTE: Theda Skocpol is an East who has devoted much time to work with in¬ not have to conform only to standards set by dividuals and groups of students. Finally, an older, established faculty members If they, Lansing senior majoring in sociology . asst. professor of sociology, who was not yet up and graduate students had a say in tenure de¬ for tenure, was denied reappointment for "in¬ cisions. increased flexibility and openness to The tenure system in American universities avowedly exists to protect diversity of ideas, sufficient research" and general "unprofes- change would be built into academic disci¬ and the right of critical dissent, through job sionalism " The sociology professor (who plines wishes to remain unnamed' was recognized by Graduate and undergraduate students have security for professors. For those who manage students and faculty in his department as an ex¬ an interest in good teaching that is not now ade¬ to attain tenured status it does this admirably. Even though some so-called "incompetents" cellent teacher, of undergraduates especially. quately represented in tenure decisions be¬ No one to my knowledge has suggested, nor cause it is an interest that is not directly shared are protected by the system, this is undoubtedly the price that must be paid if diversity-and do I mean to suggest, that these three firings bv the facultv. As matters now stand, the therefore differing definitions of what com¬ petence' is-is to be protected. But the tenure system has a fatal flaw that has nothing to do with the competence of those already protected by the system. Tenure's Achilles' Heel is its gatekeeping func tion for a set of self-recruiting scholarly disciplines. In the words of Bert Garskof. the tenure system in practice seems to function as a blackballing mechanism for a comfortable social club." Who shall be tenured'' Decisions are made by the already-tenured faculty in each department Within six years after he begins his career, a young professor must prove his professional competence to the satisfaction of his already socialized, and already established, senior col¬ were "political" in purpose. Rather, they are faculty claims to consider both teaching and simply examples of professional colleagues research when making personnel decisions. leagues. If a young professor has unorthodox In practice-because faculty members do not ideas about teaching (including the truly "un¬ conscientiously performing their gatekeeping function of preventing "unacceptable" per¬ witness each other's teaching, and because orthodox notion that teaching is more impor¬ sons from becoming tenured professionals at national prestige in academic disciplines is tant than research*, if he has a deviant defi¬ nition of what his discipline is about, or even if MSU. How ironic that in all three cases profes¬ dependent upon research, not teaching-the he doesn t "fit in" socially (eg. at departmental sors recognized by all concerned as above faculty tends to assume or neglect teaching average or truly excellent teachers were re¬ competence in tenure, and other personnel leased. How ironic, too. that in at least two decisions. cases a somewhat deviant strain of thinking in If students (especially undergraduates who the discipline in question was removed along are not directly tied to the faculty for profes¬ with the rleased professor In what sense--in sional advancement) were to participate in these cases, in the Garskof case, and in others tenure decisions, teaching would surely re¬ we have not heard about-is the tenure sys¬ ceive more emphasis. We would not witness tem ". . . offer(ing> the diversity of opinion the sorry spectacle of excellent professors considered essential to education"1" being denied tenure by their colleagues. Rep¬ (iiven the operation of the tenure system as resentative procedures can be devised to as¬ .i self-recruiting process among the faculty. sume that student representatives on (enure * nu one shctuld be surprised that the tenure committee's could become aware of. and con¬ SystemSoften stiflesv*.^»tb#p thattseftcettrftges vey the full-Fange *>» a-l>e«||. diversity and controversy Why should any given professor. Indeed those students whose qne believe that a department full ot academ¬ opinions are now so proudly considered" ics. trained in a graduate school system that by the faculty are only the privileged few who inculcates a similar set of ideas, methodolo¬ happen to catch the right faculty ear at the gies. and behavioral norms in everyone, would right time be especially open to change in their disci¬ Faculty members who argue that only stu¬ pline'1 Like any other closed, self-governing dents have sufficient information about teach¬ group, academic disciplines, and especially ing. and a sufficient direct interest in it. to single departments, develop their own self- make informed judgments about teaching meetings or cocktail parties i. he is vulnerable justifying world views-which include often quality. Of course students are not infallible to rejection as unprofessional" when he stagnant definitions of what the discipline is They are not asking for control of tenure de¬ comes up for tenure. cisions. only a voice in them. In fact, faculty supposed to study, and what a "proper" aca¬ Rejection of young faculty members is ac¬ demic professional is supposed to be In a members in one specialty are not fully quali¬ complished with the utmost honesty and sin¬ system where such self-enclosed academic fied to judge their fellows in other specialties cerity on the part of the departmental estab¬ cliques control tenure, the "vagaries of pub¬ either. Given the limitations of all concerned lishments. MSU radicals have insisted that lic opinion" do not have to attack deviance in to judge fully, the ideal to be worked toward Garskof was removed from the psychology de¬ the universities, for tenure will be granted in tenure decisions should be a pooling of partment for "political reasons." In effect, he only to the politically and academically ortho¬ information and concerns among represen¬ was. But in the motivations of the psychology dox. anyhow. tatives of all groups in the academic com¬ faculty members who voted to support Dean munity with a legitimate academic interest in Winder's action against Garskof. he was not A who receives tenure. A more open tenure Proposal for Reform I have spoken to various faculty members system, one that considered the viewpoints about the Garskof decision. They justify their What must be done to of untenured faculty and students, as well as realign tenure in prac- support of his removal by references to his . tice with its ideal aims? Certainly the need to those of tenured faculty, could better serve unprofessional" unwillingness to come to de¬ protect unorthodoxy will not be well served tenure's original purpose of guaranteeing di¬ partmental meetings, his unwillingness to con¬ by eliminating job security for everyone. For versity, rather than promoting a self-perpetu¬ sult with his colleagues about his classroom then administrators, acting under pressure ating narrow professionalism, within academia. practices, and his stubborn insistence upon from state legislators, public pressure groups, teaching subjects in Psychology 151 that they, students, etc.. could simply remove a dis¬ his colleagues, deemed "not psychology." senter at any time; and faculty cliques could In a sense it would be nice if the Psychology more easily fire unconforming colleagues. Dept. had fired Bert Garskof out of blatantly Rather than being completely abolished, political motives, for then most students and tenure must be radically reformed. The sys¬ faculty at MSU could dismiss him as an unfor¬ tem's contradiction now rests on the fact that tunate. but deviant, case. But the problem goes already-tenured professors are the sole dis¬ well beyond occasional intolerance toward vo¬ pensers of the privilege of tenure to new¬ cal political radicals. Even as Garskof was comers. In order to break this inherently con¬ noisily removed, the same result was accom¬ servative. self-recruiting cycle, other groups plished ever so silently in three other cases must begin to have some say 'on the granting that I know of. (Many professors, of course, of tenure. In addition to tenured faculty, three are removed each year without anyone making other groups within the departments ought to an issue of their cases. Probably, in some of be included in tenure decisions: untenured these instances, those released are truly incap¬ junior faculty (except the one being consid¬ able of fulfilling the functions of a professor, i ered in a given casei; graduate students; An asst. professor of philosophy. Edmund and undergraduate students Byrne, apparently deviant in his approach to Each of these groups has an obvious, di¬ his discipline in the eyes of his colleagues, was rect stake in the quality and results of ten¬ refused tenure and reappointment despite the ure decisions in a department Furthermore, fact that students esteem him highly as a teach¬ each would bring to bear on such decisions er. Also refused tenure and released because its own distinctive interests af viewpoint. of "insufficient research" was an asst. profes¬ Untenured faculty, often bearers of new sor of English. Mary Devine. well known as an 4 Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan Inside ROTC © By MARION NOWAK in leadership lab ia "core" program, mainly- Collage Interviewer consisting of arms and marching with little bearing on class work). 1 think you'd have a hard time leveling criticism at ;iny other parts Discussing the presence of ROTO on cam¬ of our program You can point out any number pus. an editorial in the April 15 State News i run simultaneously in 28 American college news¬ of subjects where they do the same thing In art. business, agriculture, is it education or papers' said that "perhaps the most blatant ex education and training'.' ample of colleges and universities willingly per¬ We're quite aware of all this criticism and are forming the functions that are rightly the ex¬ clusive concern of the military is the Reserve trying to improve the department. We can, we have and we will continue to do so. We recent¬ Officer Training Corps iROTCi Pedagogically and philosophically, military training has no ly proposed course changes to the curriculum committee which the Army has been in the pro¬ place in an academic institution . Clearly, cess of developing since 1965, a curriculum we continued academic support for ROTC would feel will be more academic and academically be the height of political partisanship. compatible with other currieulums. For in¬ ROTC is the principal source of officers for Is ROTC indeed the " exclusive concern of stance, there is projected more civilian par¬ the Army. This arises from the old citizen the military?" Or can a university truly limit ticipation; our U.S. military history course is army concept of the Founding Fathers, who its place-for-universal-learning position to "ev¬ were afraid of a professional army There is taught by a civilian professor and is a fairly . . erything. save one0' no other group available as potential officers T T ' 1 ' " I ' " TIT * '"T"T " with as advanced a level of education to pro¬ vide officers. Sure, we could get all our offi¬ cers from West Point (at a cost of $50,000 per man rather than $5,000 through ROTC-also important from the taxpayer's standpoint) or. more likely. OCS. but the level of education wouldn't be the same, wouldn't be as high. If you want to go all the way with the mili¬ tary-industrial complex, if you carry this thing to its ultimate, let's do away with the colleges of business and engineering. They pro¬ duce the industrial part. Jim Aubrey, Detroit senior, is cadet colonel of AFROTC: There are lots oi different people in AF¬ ROTC, with different commitments. We meet four times a week, three in class (for seniors). The rest is spent in core training (leadership lab), which is things like marching on parade and wearing the uniform. This is the big thing that's most misunderstood. It's the part that shows the most but only consists of 10 per cent of your grade. No matter how much you put in. •Yne'teltfrYi intfcVi Afiti quite a i'ew petfpfU don't even know the classroom part exists . . . Which is more an-example at political parti¬ popular history course in the university. We're- There are many lega'l means of getting out sanship. keeping ROTC or eliminating it? proposing to extend the requirement to poli¬ of the draft. Many people aren't resorting to Perhaps the following comments, made by- tical science and management particularly. legal means before trying the extralegal. You three people deeply involved in the ROTC pro¬ I don't make policies for this government, all can be a student, get married in some states, gram at MSU. will provide a perspective on I do is support and defend the Constitution join the peace corps, work during Interna¬ this question as well as provide some insights Our concept of government includes that of tional Geophysical Year taking temperatures in into the larger problems of war and the mili¬ duty and rights. Every man has an obligation to Alaska for the government, work in a hospi¬ tary. duty as well as to rights. If a man is not willing tal .. . The alternative is going to jail, proba¬ to fulfill his duty, he doesn't deserve and may bly for longer than you'd be fighting. But any Jim Comstock, Livonia senior, is a lose his rights I feel that every U.S. citi¬ man is justified in refusing to act in a manner member of the Rangers, an extra¬ zen has an obligation to his country and when he considers immoral. It's a decision you have called upon is morally obligated to fulfill to make in your own mind curricular ROTC organization. with every right there is an obligation and there As far as the draft for me. it's taken care are very few who have decided they want no of. One thing about ROTC, you sign up to serve ROTC is a form of occupational training. The part of their rights. for six years but two are gone when you advanced program covers this in several sec¬ tions. It's like chess; there's no right answer- graduate. The first two years of AFROTC The military people are the first to wish just moves As far as the subjects taught, you're just a student. Then you take an oath ... there was some way to end wars-we're the first to support and defend the Constitution of the the basic skills that have to be learned are like to lose. But when others are in opposition to our the basic skills an accountant has to learn. It United States. It's a little shocking to know government it would be foolish to eradicate should be accredited like that at 9:10 on a Tuesday morning you're sign¬ everything else. Some the military. So quickly do people forget ing away your life. But the competition for things though, should be taught by professors, Czechoslovakia . . . and this is exactly what AFROTC is pretty stiff: we were all glad we using more objective material than army docu¬ happens to a militarily weak country. I don't were there. ments . . . want it to happen here. It upsets me to see people really gung-ho An individual soldier in .a combat situa¬ about ROTC. It's part of a class, a means to tion who refuses to follow orders could con¬ get a commission. The experience here has ceivably kill many men. There are no morally very little correlation to experience in the justifiable grounds that cause the death of fel¬ service. You play soldier here for about 15 low soldiers. If they refuse to obey orders. I minutes a dav-which is very different from think they should suffer the consequences in¬ 24 hours a day. volved and accept justice instead of leaving There is a right to protect but also there is a the country. This is a personal moral decision It depends on whether he chooses to disobey right to take ROTC. As for propaganda, we're occasionally shown his orders some in class to fill time. We were shown a You can't do your job thinking-you'll end up film about bombing Germany in World War II killing someone. Once you've made the decision that concluded that strategic bombing hurt to serve, or you're drafted into a combat po¬ wartime production but that production of the sition. you lose the option to decide what is mor¬ stuff continued anyway Korea's similar Oper¬ ally right or wrong. ation Strength didn t work either We decid¬ ed in class that we should stop bombing North Col. Robert G. Piatt, professor and \ietnam long beloif the government did I n chairman of military science: l-irtunatelv what Tti< « ulcts decide doesn't car ry any weight with I lie government You've got ROTC has been on this campus since 1917. with military training available lor man\ \ears betore-since Civil War days, in fact. The Mor¬ \ lot of people used to think in Senator Mc- rill Act of 1862 established a requirement tor Carthyish ways th;it communism is a con¬ military training on every land grant campus; spiracy. SI)S as communist-inspired and fi¬ nanced is utterly ridiculous. The Russians and a state law provides that military training of some sort must be offered at public colleges. the Chinese haven't got the slightest chance The idea of indoctrination is a highly debat¬ of tomenting revolution in America. It makes able issue. We're especially criticized lor this Tuesday, May 20, 1969 5 The By JIM DUKARM stance of resistance Denny McGuire weaker than his objection to prison, the mil¬ I turned in my itary sometimes ends up with problems The Dealing with the draft is, for young Ameri¬ draft cards at the May 28 rally. At that time I was still in school but following statement is offered by an MSU can men. one of those unpleasant necessi¬ student whose ambition is to become such a ties which--like death and taxes-have become didn't want to be, and so before I dropped out I had to decide what do about problem. For obvious reasons, his name is to the even more unpleasant and unavoidable since not given: the United States draft. began fighting in Vietnam. Over 296.000 men were drafted last year, and "I couldn't take part in the Vietnam war "Right now I'm 2-S but that won't last long they will be joined in uniform by about 350.000 since I just dropped out. They'll probably get or in the military that was waging it, so I around to reclassifying me more by December 1969 this summer Not everyone deals wih the prospect of was thinking about conscientious objection. and send me my induction Canada, or going underground notice. I already liked military service by packing his bag and put¬ the identity I had and didn't feel like "I'm not going to try to get out of it or chang¬ ting on a uniform; a surprising number of ing it. so'l couldn't go underground. The whole try to flunk the physical or anything. I'll otherwise healthy men are rejected by the idea of conscientious objection under the law just let them draft me if they want to. The Army because of drug problems, mental in¬ seemed ridiculous-you can't only thing is I won't sign their security oath. participate in the stability. or strange sexual preferences. The military system because you feel it's im¬ Swearing that I'm not subversive would be bad number of addicts, schizophrenics, and fairies moral, so they make a place for you in the faith. I intend to live up to my political be¬ roaming the streets of East Lansing alone is liefs. system based on your objection to it. And astounding. Few of these creatures are ever I didn't like the idea of heard regretting a lost opportunity to " see the having someone else "While I'm in the service I intend to passing judgment on my conscience. When l organ¬ world" or "become a man" or whatever. ize It'll be more along the lines of thought about Canada. I decided I really had Progres¬ sive Labor, you know, class a commitment to this countrv-at least the analysis, imperial¬ ism. and all that. A lot of people are people of it-and should stay. taking the Trot approach-organizing around arrest "So there was nothing for me to do but cases, civil liberties, or anti-war type stuff, and turn in my cards. It was a personal confirma¬ I can't buy that. You organize people around tion of my decision, and I'm not sure what some temporary issue, like stopping the war. kind of political significance it had. But after all. personal things like that are a large part of what politics are about. Maybe my action got other guvs to think about how far they were going to cooperate with the military, but I don't know. "The FBI came a couple of weeks ago and asked me if I still believed in what I did. And I do. I've had plenty of time to accustom my¬ self to the idea of prison It-it's going to be a new experience, and in that sense I'm look¬ ing forward to it. And also to getting it over with " MIKE YOUNG "I handed Colonel Holmes my draft card. Well, actually it was only the one with my m «■*<•! !an tificate and never got around to getting another one "i iffScovered I had" lost it when I turned 21 and tried to get into a bar. "When Resistance was just getting started I heard that Brad Lang was going to turn in his draft cards and it kind of shamed me so I decided I had to do it too. But Brad finally decided not to. " About three weeks after I turned in my card I got a letter from my draft board saying that my card had been found abandoned in Lansing They explained all about how necessary it was for everybody to carry their cards and how if I didn't carry mine they would turn my name over to the attorney general. They sent me an application form for new draft cards' For a year before that I was 1-Y because Several thousand individuals have responded I was mentally, physically, and morally un¬ to draft notict-s by taking prolonged vaca¬ lit Well, my 1-Y ran out in September and tions in Canada or by teaching elementary they sent me a notice to report for a physical, school, putting braces on their teeth, or claim¬ which I ignored A ing exemption from military service couple of weeks after that as con¬ one I got another notice for a scientious objectors physical and ignored that one too. Then, about the end of A small but significant number of draft- October or the beginning of November they age males have ventured to resist the draft sent me a letter. Basically all it said was and when that issue is resolved they're satis¬ directly, burning or turning in their draft please answer this letter 1 didn't answer it. fied and vou lose your base. You have to show cards, publicly refusing induction, and often and I haven't heard from them since." people the basic things that those issues arise serving time in prison. The number of draft from. Asked about the philosophy behind his non resistance cases has risen from about 200 in 1960 to almost 1,200 last year and cooperation. Young replied. "It's a joke. That's up to 3.000 the only sane attitude towards the whole "Actually, my chances of accomplishing any¬ in 1969. There are over 600 draft law viola- thing. "The resistance bit is complete bullshit. thing special are pretty slim. The main idea of ters in prison today, and 23.000 men are clas¬ For people with wierd senses of humor. Po¬ military organizing is to get the guys to think¬ sified as "delinquent by their boards-an in¬ litically, it's a loser. ing about these things, to act as a kind of crease of 9,000 since 1967. "I was just sick and tired of playing their catalyst to get them to continue their politi¬ Draft resistance at MSI' has been a sporadic cal activity after they are out of the service. game. Every time they sent me a letter I affair, first taking the form of an anti-draft had to drop what I was doing and hassle "The military is full of blatant contradic¬ union organized in 1967 by SDS. The anti- with Selective Service. I didn't even want to tions. Servicemen are confronted with them all draft union featured a pledge signed by mem¬ have to think about that bullshit, so I quit. the time and they are really uptight. It bers to resist and refuse to submit to mili¬ Since then, it's been great. makes the military an excellent organizing tary conscription, but did not go as far as MSU place The only direct effect this might have "If they want to do something about it. Resistance, which appeared on campus in May on the military is to tend to make the mili¬ I'll take five years free room and board. The last year and encouraged young men to turn prospect doesn't bother me now. but it probably tary more repressive. But the service itself is in their draft cards. will when and if it happens. " unreformable. It would be like reforming the Dennv McGuire and Mike Young, who ex¬ Oakland Police force. plain their relation to the draft and draft Draft resistance or noncooperation is gen¬ resistance below turned their cards at that "I suppose I support draft resistance, but in erally based on an individual's judgment in the long run I don't think it's effective May 1968 Resistance rally Denny McGuire. a that he cannot, for moral or political rea¬ former M5>U student now living in East Lan¬ sons. serve in the military. When the draftee's polticallv. If all the people who went to prison sing. was visited by the FBI recently and ex¬ political beliefs are strong and his objection or skipped the country and so on would join up pects to be arrested before summer: to military service per se weak, or at least instead, they could really mess up the military. " 6 Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan THE. CRISIS IN THE EDITOR S MIDDLE EAST NOTE: Daniel Vlillin and Arie While the Jews accepted the 1947 l' N rights of the resident Arab population. She Melnik are members of the MSI' Israeli Club. partition resolution, the Arab League made was prepared to accept a small land area of public its program for the "occupation of 8.000 square miles in peaceful co-existence Palestine by the armies of the League's with her Arab neighbours, including a Pales¬ Ever since its birth in 1948. Israel's peace, member states and forcible prevention of the tinian Arab state. The Arabs refused; they security and development have been agres- attacked Israel continuously and with all sively attacked. Israel's very right to exist establishment of the Jewish State-' (See means. The Arab aggression in 1948 and has been forcibly denied by its Arab neigh¬ New York Times. Nov. 30. 1947*. A large scale thereafter led to human suffering on both bors. The records of the United Nations are invasion of seven Arab armies took place on sides. full of official statements by Arab leaders, May 15. 1948. The Arab states and Arab lead Terror in all forms is an Arab tradition of in the past 21 years, announcing their inten¬ ers encouraged the local population to leave tion to destroy Israel by all means of organized Israel and about 580.000 Arabs left Israel long standing For more than 40 years prior physical violence The Arab population and to the emergence of the state of Israel, or¬ during its war of Independence. (This figure other sympathizers of this violent cause have was verified by the U.N. mediator. Count ganized political terror. anti-Jewish and inter- been conditioned by their leaders to the an¬ Arab. has been a firmly established tradition Bernadotte, in his report to the General As¬ among the ruling elite of the Arabs (see ticipation of a total war preceded by the con¬ sembly in 1948' The Arab refugee problem stant harassment and terror of the prospec¬ is indeed regrettable. However, it was the New York Times, Oct 15. 1938 >. This not tive victim. created as a result of the establishment of the terror was encouraged by the Arab govern¬ ments. The stated reason for these tactics state of Israel but because its establishment was the idea that the Jews and their national was forcibly resisted bv the Arab states. movement. Zionism, were the principal obsta¬ cle to the realization of th Pan-Arab dream. Thus the Jewish people and later its na¬ tional state became the permanent scape¬ goat while the people of the Middle East continued to suffer from the suffocating op¬ pression of their self-appointed leaders. The real struggle of the Palestinian peo¬ ple is not against the Israeli scapegoat but against the heads of the Arab league which have never stopped using them for their own ends. The Palestinian intellectuals of today, claiming that they are waging a war of popular liberation against Israel, labor un¬ der the same illusions as did their prede¬ cessors who followed the Mufti. They fail to see the real role of the Arab League and how its feudal and corrupt regimes serve the in¬ ternational ambitions of the U.S.S R. The banner of Arab nationalism which was at first born«toy- an atiMphrcd- commercial mkWJ1 The welfare.and ftolitjcal eights of Palestin¬ class and by decadent feudalists, whose power In lights of the social economic ian refugees were never taken into considera¬ was sustained n'v the tVench and the British, and cultural achievements of the state of Is¬ rael and its*demonstrated capability to help tion by the Arab countries. The parts of Pales¬ fell into the hands of the military establish¬ tine which fell into Arab hands in 1948 were ment who relies on the political and military other underdeveloped countries help them¬ selves on one hand and of the social and annexed forcibly to Jordan. Egypt and Syria support of the USSR. By their nature, these economic respectively. The local populace was oppressed dictatorial regimes seek military adventures. problems which the Arab countries face, on the other, one wonders if indeed the by its own so called brothers'. Instead of Beside active aggression against Israel, these destruction of the state of Israel would con¬ focusing on a constructive effort to solve the regimes, under the leadership of Egypt's tribute a speck to the welfare of the Arab refugee problem, the Arab countries turned to Nasser, oppressed the Kurds in Iraq, invaded people. In order to understand the conflict, liquidate their own Jewish population. In the Yemen using neo-fascist tactics (such as gas one must look back in history and evaluate years immediately following 1948. more than attacks on civilian population i. conducted a certain facts. We shall, therefore, begin with a 700.000 Jews left Iraq. Yeman. Egypt. Libya genocide campaign against Christian blacks short recount of the major events of the past and other Arab counties. These Jewish refu¬ in the Sudan (where 500.000 blacks were few decades and then summarize the present gees who had lived in these countries for count¬ killed, according to the New York Times of situation and the prospect for the future. less generations left everything behind. Their May 15. 1967 > and sent mercenaries to bomb Biafran hospitals and schools. In the mean¬ properties were not given to Arab refugees but rather served to augment the political and time the needs of the Arab people were not The Historical Facts economic power of the ruling feudalists. In¬ merely neglected but completely ignored. stead. the refugees were put into camps, The Israeli war of Independence could have their freedom of speech and movement lim¬ ended with a true peace had the Arab League ited and their economic and social develop¬ The rights and the sense of belonging of the ment restricted. (continued on page 11) Jewish people to Israel date back to the days of the Bible. In fact. Israel was never without The Arabs who stayed in the State of Is¬ a Jewish community. By the end of the 19th rael acquired full citizenship. As citizens ot century Jews from the Palestine province and Israel, they enjoy the same rights as all new immigrants from Europe began to move other citizens In addition to their legal from the cities to the countryside and build equality, the Arabs in Israel take full bene¬ new agricultural settlements. It should be noted fit of their political rights under the state's at that time. Palestine was no longer the democratic process. There are four political land of milk and honey described by the parties led by Arabs and unlike the situation Bible, but a poor Ottoman province half of which in some Arab countries, all Arab women in was a semi-desert. The other half was covered Israel have the right to vote. Many Arab with civil servants are employed by the Govern¬ stony hills and marshy plains. Large of ment. including judges, teachers and admin¬ areas marshy-salted land were sold to the Jewish settlers. istration officials. The Arab community in Israel has made substantial strides in the historical, economic and social fields in the past two The religious and national as¬ sociation of the Jews with the land of Israel decades, thus showing that peaceful coexis¬ tence with Israel is not only possible but also was granted recognition, and legal sanction in this century, first by the League of Na¬ beneficial to the Arabs themselves tions and then by the United Nations In 1948 the state of Israel was born. On the eve of its establishment, the distribution of land Separating Facts from Illusions in the part of Palestine which is now Israel was as follows: 8.6 per cent of the land was Palestine was never an exclusively Arab owned by Jews. 3.3 per cent by Israeli w\rabs. country and never had an Arab government. It had been occupied in modern history by the 16.5 per cent by Arabs who fed and over 70 Turks and then by the United Kingdom. The per cent of the land was the property of the Mandatory Government and now constituted young Jewish state was not created at the the property of the state of Israel. (See' expense of any one who lived in what was British Government Survev of Palestine. 19461 the Palestine. Israel never disregarded the 8 Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan GIs and the underground press Bv MARYANNE GEORGE at Fort Knox. Kentucky, are two such local last October express the awareness of the base papers. need for GI resistance while in the military Both the national and base contain "This is the first time in this nation's pri¬ "Freedom of expression is our basic heri¬ history that during a war. soldiers gathered marily letters from and interviews with anti¬ . tage. Thai right is not eliminated when a man war GIs and anti-war editorials. The papers together in an organized and democratic fash¬ becomes a soldier. Indeed. that right becomes deal ion to protest their heavily with the case of the Fort Jack¬ own country's commit¬ enhanced; it become*, a duty, a duty to laud ments and conduct. Soldiers son 8. a group of black and Puerto Rican GIs are telling their his country for its greatness and. like any world, for the first time, that on trial for holding an anti-war discussion they will no. other citizen. to criticise betrayal of longer wage unjust any group at Fort Jackson wars, that they will now' its basic ideals. I siddier's obligation is The wage peace.'' large amount of college graduate not silence and unquestioning obedience." draftees in the service is greatly responsible The GI underground press has encountered --from an editorial in the (•I fof the strength of the anti-war movement. strong resistance among the "brass.' officers underground paper Task Force. Most of the editors of the base papers are and commanders Opposition has taken the former anti-war college students. The GIs form of ignoring the existence of the papers and especially these college GIs have taken to harassment of GIs having copies or of Traditionally, when men have become ser¬ vicemen the rights of the military have taken on a broader and vastly different perspective writing for the papers. In a recent incident towards their role as a soldier following or¬ at Fort Dix. a sergent demanded that one of precedence over the constituional rights of his privates give him all his copies of the ders This questioning perspective is illustr¬ the servicemen The court marshall replaces the right to trial by one's peers. Service¬ ated in the article below from Shakedown, underground papers. The sergeant forced the men have discovered that once in the military published at Fort Dix. Obedience to the Law private to empty out his footlocker. The their rights of free speech and assembly is Freedom"' is the motto printed over the private, recognizing this as a direct violation door of the stockade. of his constitutional rights of private guaranteed by the First Amendment are den¬ property, ied. as in the case of the Fort Jackson 8. reported the incident.The sergeant was subject "Obedience to the Law is Freedom ." to disciplinary action. Today, however, resistence to this denial Every enlisted man on the base has seen Th absolute Constitutional legality of the is strong among .GIs and has found its voice this beauty outside the stockade Perhaps GI press and the resistence movement is in the underground press. Servicemen the best way to view this kind of jive is to one of its who strongest bulwarks. The GIs con¬ thought their anti-war sentiments would compare it to the well-known Nuremburg tinue to have "inalienable rights'' as service¬ have to be temporarily silenced while in Trials after the defeat of the Germans. Their men. This fact ties the hands of the "brass" the service have found that these opinions primary defense was that We were only who are looking for an effective way of silenc¬ can be expressed in the GI papers. following orders These men were then ing these papers. found guilty of war crimes against' humanity. GIs in Vietnam contribute heavily to the Although the papers are legal they are Thus, for the first time in not popular among commanders and encounter papers' marking perhaps the first time in history the history that soldiers in combat have overtly world recognized that orders (read as lawsi many difficulties. The papers have to be expressed disloyalty to the war in which were no longer an excuse for men to follow printed off base and delivered late at night. blindly iread as obedience > what their GIs that are known to contribute to these they are fighting commanding officers said was necessary papers are frequently the object of discipline GIs and anti-war civilian groups have organ¬ which all know is freedom for exaggerated charges 1 we i. of infractions of ized these underground resistance papers on a minor rules. national and local level to encourage resistance The above also can be applied to "MY The papers have no financial base and must to the Vietnamese war and encourage GIs to COUNTRY. RIGHT OR WRONG because We rely solely on contributions from the GIs demand their constitutional know that any country can be wrong. Fbr rights while in and donations from civilians. Subscriptions the military. Three national newspapers. example, it was once against the law^ for are sent to any GI free- of charge workers to demand higher wages, while Task Force. The Bond and Viet Nam GI better work¬ civilian subscriptions are available usually are published by veterans with the help of ing conditions, etc. but they knew that was for $5 jive So they got together-just like we've got ft anti-war civilians. Individual bases have also ..org*pi?pd their own uod^wr^nd jaapprs vixil.- to do, and did something about it Law stands Despite the harassment and fin^Aal dif- ten by active duty GIs. Although primaril> for what"* is. it supports what is* 'andjf V<* all blindly obeyed it we'd still, be living, in publish. The resistance movement is mush- intended as local papers. copies reach other , 1776.'' .woming -.w- much so thai* J s'^eortfl' under¬ bases because of constant troop movement ground paper. "Shakedown" began publishing The Last Harass, published in Augusta. Geor¬ Excerpts from an editorial in Task Force at Port Dix. In the words of an article from gia. and Fun, Travel and Adventure, published on a GI march for peace in San Fransciso Task Force, we've shown it can be done' *33,000 Ch DEAD SO. FAR IN VIETNAM The Fisherman at the FROM THE BOND/LNS Jetty Some beer, a few cigarettes, Grand Rapids But no radios and no light you are nothing real to me Except the ivory-eyed voyeur anymore From Market Street to Monroe Who envies the sea her gentle lovers. now that I have The dead man of bald cheek bones All the moon can claim forgotten Peddles with his basket of suckers Are stony meteors who, those fractured dreams In the spatial nothing. all weathered in some The Bridge Street bridge to the West side Rape her and scar her. infertile field The river pricked with foam from the rapids A fisherman curses. and I'm bleeding Box elders and men Pulling in his line, bleeding my unimportant life Standing on rocks beyond the backfilled canal Finds not some moonfish Snook blue or away as any useless souvenir The black ball tosses in the sun pouring rebars snapper The cigar store nailed with old But I'm bleeding blood wrestling only red pubic hair. posters Damn seaweed! pale as death But soon freshly dressed line nowr that I have tossed His bicycle revolves without sound Spins through the air He desire out disappears in the traffic of school Plunges towards her deeps. children Waves caress his feet The boats, the seamen --Nancy Brackstone -Robert Vander Molen and her nightly dedueers At the jetty. --peter dodge National priorities and ABM men. It comes in three components-long Do we have any justification for what the By AN A BEL DWYER range Spartan missiles designed to intercept premier of Italy calls "annihilation without missiles outside the atmosphere, short range representation"? Would it not be more profit¬ When will enough Americans agree on a Sprint missiles to intercept missiles in the able for all of us. including industries for time to reorder our priorities? After we whom defense contracts are so important have spent $400 to be secure under a "thick atmosphere, and radar to guide both of these The radar can not distinguish between real to enact the "National Economic Conversion antiballistic missile 1ABM1 system'.' When and dummy missiles outside the atmosphere Act." Sen McGovern described his bill as we have built an antiballistic missile for If dummy missiles were sent the Spartan "comprehensive study and planning to assist every intercontinental ballistic missile in converting excess military production ability missiles would be useless Once inside the i ICBM i and a bomb shelter for the Penta¬ atmosphere, the radar can differentiate real and military funds to civilian needs." That's gon '.' from dummy missiles. Sprint missiles would a civilian argument - the industrial part it s foolish for the I'nited States not to then be launched and. in about 80 per cent of the complex. On these grounds industry go forward with the art of the ABM. Sec. of the cases, would knock out the incoming might one day be convinced. of Defense Melvin Laird said. A fascinating warhead causing a nuclear explosion in the The military reason for wanting the ABM art indeed. An art with admirable symmetry atmosphere Such an explosion creates a is finally made clear by a retired general, of Sprints and Spartans and radar. An art cloud of ionized gas which radar waves can Leon W Johnson, in a Special Report from based on the neat logic of surface radar to notxead through. As Sen. George S. McGovern the Center for the Study of Democratic In¬ guide underground ABMs to guard underground "said in an article in the February Progressive: stitutions called Anti-ballistic Missile: Yes ICBMs. Sen. Philip Hart said he thought it In a light or medium attack, the attacker or No? Gen. Johnson says that he wants the was rather like "building the house to guard could use the explosion of one» warhead, or of ABM because it would bring us back to the the god that guards the house." the ABM sent to destroy it, to blind the de¬ old style of war. How dull a game it is if, ir fensive radar to another warhead following the first move A wipes out B and B wipes close behind. In a light attack, the defender out A simultaneously. With the ABM we could could possible counter by tracking each in¬ have A shooting at B and B stopping the shot coming warhead from several directions with in mid-air with one hand and with the other different radars. In a heavy attack, however, shooting A. That's the old kind of war. Re¬ involving hundreds of offensive and defensive member0 We all played it as children. Shoot detonations within a short period, an effective a guy and he has to count to 500. For some defense is inconceivable." apparently nuclear war is still a count to If the Russians decide to attack us. they 500. But to die having refused to surrender and we will have proven ourselves equally something ridiculous, to die having purposely unsuccessful in solving our problems, with poisoned ourselves, to die because we have or without the ABM. To increase our nuclear refused to reorder our lives, is total non¬ arsenal seems a strange way to search for sense. peace especially since it is likely that the Russians would counter our ABM with in¬ creases in their offensive weapons. Surely nuclear disarmament. » presumably through conferences, makes much more sense On April 29th. Gerald Ford, in great heat and indignant at the thought of anyone being against the ABM. proclaimed: It looks as if some people want to unilaterally disarm $7 billion. President Nixon claimed in his the I'nited States. Merriam Smith in the March 14th statement, will cover the cost of April 27th Lansing State Journal told us that a thin" ABM system to "insure that our many people oppose the ABM "but Nixon strategic retaliatory forces will not become refuses to surrender" because he believes vulnerable'''to" a 'SoViet attack"'1 "*vve need ii s "essentiallo 'tk*; secorityof the«or,ur.try A warming picture to see the President re¬ ABMs. he said, to "safeguard our Minute- nicfl 'so we have a 'credible deterrent." fusing to surrender when most arguments dem¬ If the Russians know we can blow them up. onstrate that the ABM in no ways adds to the the proponents of ABM argue, then they will security of this country. A warming picture not blow us up. to see, the House minority leader yelling traitor. On the basis of a report made up by former Maybe, after all the rhetoric. President We as a nation have spent $20 billipn try¬ Sec of Defense Robert McNamara. Ralph Lapp in a May 4th New York Times Magazine Nixon means something more obscure. May¬ ing to build an air defense system which was article said: "Only if the Russians could be he senses an inherent emasculation in scrapped because it became obviously use¬ doing what the alternative to annihilation less. $20 billion would have given $1,000 confine a U.S. retaliatory strike to fewer than 200 warheads could they hope to pre¬ is - restructuring our economy so that it is outright to each of the 20 million poor people based not on military hardware but on health, in this country. Not much to be sure--but serve more than 28 per cent of their pro¬ education, and welfare. In time our appropira- it could have bought some food, purchased ductive capacity and obviously their present tions could go 66 per cent to HEW. 15 per some building materials -- not poured down society." 200 warheads could easily, then, the drain. That we should consider throwing be considered cent to international aid. and 2 per cent to an unacceptable blow. the military. That is surely far more away an initial $7 billion on the ABM is a CBS said on April 29th that our nuclear national disgrace. arsenal now includes: 1.000 Minutemen ICBMs representative of the needs of this country and the world than the 66 per cent to the The battle lines are drawn in the Senate "each with a one megaton bomb capable of military. 15 per cent to HEW. and 2 per cent and, once more, the direction of the country flattening a city the size of San Francisco"; will be determined 656 Polaris missiles, in submarines roaming to international aid allocated in 1968 by the outcome. Probably A man who expressed his opinion at the the battle lines are not drawn because of the the oceans, "each of which can burn to death STOP ABM booth in the MSU Union, was merit of the arguments. Probably they are everyone within a radius of five miles"; and drawn because the President and the adminis¬ 650 bombers each carrying several war¬ probably being basically more honest than President Nixon and Sec. Laird have been tration consider as their constitutents those heads. "We do not want any of the three who advocate continued military buildup. Those vulnerable." said Dr. John Foster of the in their public statements. He said he didn't Pentagon - neither Minutemen. nor Polaris, want to stop the ABM because he owned too people in this country who want to change pro¬ nor bombers. Is there art in this Trinity? many shares of stock in defense industries, portions in our national allocations must make and he wanted to see them get the contracts. themselves heard. Forty-seven senators will Imagine what the Russians would have to He added, parenthetically, that he thought vote against the ABM. 43 for it. Ten have do to wipe out our nuclear retaliatory force nuclear war was inevitable. not yet committed themselves and four of Consider blowing up 1.000 Minutemen simul¬ Is the experiment of intelligent life on this these. I hope, will be convinced by their taneously. Consider blowing up enough oceans constitutents to vote against it. After all. and enough skies to get at all the submarines planet so dismal that we assume there will be and even wish for nuclear annihilation'.' we could buy Russia for $400 billion. and bombers also simultaneously. Even il none of our weapons were launched the re¬ sults would surely be annihilation - not just of us but of much of the rest of the world Only vindictive satisfaction in launching our own weapons would prohibit the Russians from inheriting a ghastly world. Some think the only way to prevent nuclear holocaust is to make sure that the Russians know we can retaliate with more than 200 one megaton bombs. We have already decided to increase our offensive warheads to between 10.000 and. 11.000 over the next few years Even with that number, the administration inks lust build an ABM system to 200 of our ICBMs. Wi have tried to build defensive systems for nuclear weapons in our submarines and bombers neither has been successful The latest ABM is for our land based Minute¬ 10 Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan Fiction Master, the moon return to my thou knowest that to turn back for 1 sit waiting tor me, that place, that I may listen again. I may -Xhabbo A Time Post the wind The dancers whirled The man's man came barefoot with jerky strides through It was a dark and damp night The sky eves, wild with the fear of the dance, raced was alive though it was clogged with still- the cutting grasses. His feet were raw and the wind to the bushes of the hilltop They lying sweeps of smog. A palid moon found bleeding since he had taken his shoes off where the concrete ended and the grasses. began were too late The wind was blasting its the steps of a man walking in the streets below. His feet were numb from the chill Behind him the sky bulged with a huge ugly world-gathered derision from gaping mouths bruise over the distant city A fitful wind shaped by leaf and shadow. His frantic blood- seeping through his shoes so he hardly knew covered feet found the top of the hill. Bony them as they went. He shivered and hugged sprang up. swirling over the field and about the man He became aware of the pulsa hands clawed the air in a desperate attempt his clothes to himself, the muted chatter of his to separate the merciless dancers. It was no teeth sounding an occasional vague companion ting noise sent by the city on the wind The for his footsteps. The chill hung over the earth land began to rise, slowly the chill night and use. He stopped, swaying in his tracks The the emptiness and his face before him began dancers became one The wind gathered itself and the city and through him It made him and smashed through him. vanishing beyond aware of itself and the night to dance. Outright panic trickled up from his toes. They joined hands and danced faster with his heart in its possession. The day had ceased to separate itself His chest heaved and he ran with all his The man stood trembling on shaking feet from the night Past and future had left him stranded in the howling, empty all- might The rise became a hill The city's planted firmly in the earth Sweat poured from noise rose with a shriek, ripping him with his body and his blood dripped down into the present. Here was the awareness forever ot his face in the chill night He didn't like ground He looked down and saw the blood of this feet. He looked out and saw his it As he walked the buildings squatted, hunched, emptiness looking back out of the chill night of his eyes. The man slowly turned his face up with their backs toward him. iron claws toward the moon in the clearness of the night digging into the earth. Above, the patches of The moon looked down into the empty eyes and smog began to shift unsteadily around their the aloneness. He filled them with his cool anchors. Their movement casted shadows of wobbling, great-beaked heads down below light. A fly flew down out of the moonbeam and lit on a bush next to the man For a moment the man watched as a head Where are vou° slid to the edge of a sidewalk. It stopped He turned his gaze upon her His knees just short of the curb, with a scratchy neck buckled beneath him. He did not speak but stretched out behind and its huge beak hang¬ stretched out on the ground, every muscle ing flabbily over the edge. It ventured no further. The time of the chill was upon the straining into the earth. The earth became earth. part of him and fashioned his heart The earth knew him and he knew the earth In The man himself would never have ventured the cool dawn he heard voices speaking in into the street if it hadn t been for his feet each other. A strong steady wind returned They were unreasonable. But the man had to the bushes above They quivered in the passed the forgotten beginning which had left him discontented: and the hate, tended so stirring air and chanted in unison: carefully, which he unwillingly found turned to "Tiger, tiger, burning bright In the forest of the night..." fear and nausea Everything he had known had not known him But his feet in their numbness and rejection now knew him and led him out of the city. The moon shone palely down on a chill, t\ field A Mnail wind was blowing. A Human Vitae By JIM BLACKISTON mg ceiling to ogl< .,i the books in the dimnv i corner My eyes caress them, delicately yet 1 the scholar, finish my nightly toilett. firmly reading the tit I'- and dilating ■ from the and dimness \stronomy it s hard to under¬ addjng mic final cup of water to my il stand th.it the stars are reallv burning sun> ready distended stomach, exit the bathroom it: Indian Philosophy go..d' this could be my robe and turn out the light, listening to the laughing and constantly new voices cresting interesting: after all to act in unison w.ith on the sound waves arriving from the base¬ Nature should not be an unapproachable doc ment and backyard. Brother's voice snaps in trine I will try to understand it and to learn those unpronounceable names. And to ac¬ jest at some guest or other of his. and I climb the stairway in the dark and the tide of company the mood. I light the candle and talking subsides, with only an occasional voice burn some incense in my room. And now for reaching my ears from below The kids come me my room is India at night. With my and go from den to patio, the often-slamming library and the dark, my room is Achilles' door index of their traffic running up dissident quarters, or Epicurean heaven. My an the room is the world. steps, spilling into the kitchen with help for the host, and out the back door. An hour, and the bloated feeling in With the closed door and the air-condi my stomach has subsided: my mind is awake tioner now (I've read it takes boa constrictors long¬ on. my room is undisturbed I'm too er I know that downstairs the kids are danc¬ full from my refrigerator visitation to corn- BOOKMARKS template what culinary marvel the self-ap- ing to the rhythm of modern music; shaking in the bustling cellar, pointed chefs had been engaged in preparing slowing strolling with Too full yet to feel deeply curious, or the trembling night breeze slipping past the deeply leaves of the trees in the backyard i Laugh¬ SUMAC, No. 1 & No. 2 (Box 29, Fremont, Mich¬ anything else. I guess I'll read . . Shelves igan 49412.). $1.00 Available at Paramount of books, mine Though I'm sated, soon ing in the light and loving in the dark News. another hunger drives me to ravish them with Disturbed, restless. I arise and open the door to the unfinished room here upstairs and I my eyes. I must open one up and devour it Of the with my eyes. They are all mine, to walk to the window in the darkness and look legions of little magazines. Sumac is keep and to know Exotic tales, and English classics, out at and beyond the leaves. Sincerely, be¬ surely one of the nicest; what a surprise then to learn that it emerges not from NYC or SF poetry i psychology and a couple copies seechingly. with half-understanding emotions, but from Fremont. Mich. Although that ad¬ of Playboy in the middle shelf -it s a well- to the thousands of stars in the night sky I dress might point toward the literary back¬ rounded librarv I lean forward under the slant would speak of human life waters. the magazine is certainly not pro¬ vincial. nor even regional: edited by Dan (ierber and Jim Harrison, both MSU gradu ates. and both publishing poets. Sumac pub¬ lishes only the best contemporary poetry and articles on contemporary poetry In the first issue, for example, were poems by Nicanor Parra. a Chilean poet. Denise Lever tov, James Tate. Louis Simpson, and others of similar reputation, and a long critical arti¬ cle by Robert Duncan. The second issue has find of finds!-- a new Canto by Fzra Pound, plus poems by many hands. The third issue, forthcoming, will survey the current British poetry scene. All this is printed in a beauti ful. and very readable, format, which re suits in a distinguished and relevant publica¬ tion. ADD Tuesday, May 20, 1969 H All hail across the wooden board of battle, My peg is in, and yours, and the fellow who lives next door. Palestine Dead, a few I can remember barely; only shadows now. Test-takers, book-bearers, smooth-eyed lovers of the sun-tanned limb. Marching away in a file; filed away in a box; boxed with a marker in your memory ; will you cry? So soon as (continued from page 6) i touch But fight the battle for my lords; the rules, whatever. Are written inside the lid for any number of players, for you creeping countries followed a more brotherly course to¬ all ages. wards their own acclaimed brothers. Christ, the patterns, Longingly The diagonal or straight, do we move? Sallow Or stay, and if we go the draft will blow upon our eyes tragedy of the Palestinian people is that they Undone in my arms were swindled of their right for self-determina¬ And we shall read new pages, and we will make new chapters, tion by the Hashemite Kingdom--the puppet in¬ And youth will be the forgotten footnote. Supping the lacteal gold from stitution of the British Empire and bv the mili¬ Your breasts tary dictatorships of Syria. Iraq and Egypt On I will go and leave a tearful couple behind; and more. who took their cut from the Soviet Union. A misty night or a stifling day; the bus will stop as These very same regimes also decimated the scheduled; probably late, to show me to the swamp. most alive and progressive forces of their own "How do you do?" I will say. -David E. Alkire And then these feet, which once crept soft in your parklands, people by barbaric repression Will know the wet kiss of change in the emerald vermin pools. A Look at the Solution We are all learning, feet, we are marching, we three. Since 1949. the Palestinians had by and Into the clouds, full of grace, the sword is with me, and thee. large been a pawn in the hands of the Arab Key-punched cards no more my boys; the tags which Winter Shells governments, each state using them for its Swing in sweat from our thin veined necks are all that is left. own purposes. They changed allegiances and switched ideologies in accordance with the Digit, digit, here walks a soldier, here stands a weapon-bearer When the angels fell (salutei, support-or lack of it-given them by the Arab crushed rulers. Some of these Palestinian clandestine Digit, loh my Jesus, it won't stop coming) here lies (the light To dazzled shards. groups degenerated into glorified mercenaries, gets dimmer* a boy in a man's shell. employed by their masters to engage in sub¬ brine versive activities in rival Arab countries as Yes. I guess the bugle now. Fold the flag and send it to them. Boiled to vapor well in Israel. as They served regimes which were bent on a destructive course of action -Mark McPherson and whining and who promoted the militant excitement Fled. which engulfed most of the Arab world before the six-day war. Its outcome proved to be calamitous not only to the Arab terrorists To a long icy beach and their paymasters but to the Arab people Toward Molten West a to certain gray afternoon dawns as a whole. Toward a molten west we go, Is offered up Despite this, the Arab countries, led by Toward incandescent lava an ossified wing fragment President Nasser of Egypt, continue with That will later blacken: Cold stiff feathers their policies of total rejection of any form Cool already. of reproachment seaweed strained. They continue to support The edges gray already. indiscriminate terror activities against civilian A hardened bleached curl population. The Arab countries and the ter¬ In this night or ror organizations fail to realize that a con¬ Will fires, hotter, tinued terror can only postpone or eliminate on foam fingers Stranger glow . . . any chances for settlement. They fail to realize -Kathy Ingley to the minnowed moon that Arab terror is a two-pronged plague A smooth stonev tear. Terror is a corrosive, destructive force which tends to backfire and erupt into actual vio¬ BOOKMARKS --Jennifer Lee lence in the Arab states themselves. In No¬ vember. 1968. Arab blood was shed in a wild LOSERS WEEPERS, George Hitchcock. Edi¬ controntation between government forces and tor. Kavak Press (2808 Lagyna St., S. F. Cali¬ terror groups in Amman. Jordan (more than fornia. 94lVlt, i969. $2.00 Available at Para- 50 persons were killed i. and only last week . mount News. 16 persftns were killed >n similar street clashes in Lebanon. Losers Weepers is an anthology of tound Christmas We strongly feel that the Arab countries poems-that is. poems which were written un¬ night 1967 with 80 per cent of their people, illiterate, consciously or unintentionally; they are often millions without jobs and hundreds of thou¬ the results of journalism or advertising. Emptied it is from gone away: going sands disease-stricken, need peace as much Found by the alert reader, one who is sensi¬ as Israel does. Pe^ce is the only real solu¬ away to where now is. tive to the nature of language and poetry, tion to the problem of the Arab masses. that which had passed as simple copy sud¬ touching close the negress coat. It will put them for the first time in 20 denly becomes a poem. years on a constructive path. It will enable But can an accident become Art? Can a*news- Exit Mama's Christmas warm. them to spend their-vast resources (in 1968 piece become a poem by taking it from the they received over $2.5 billion for oil alone i column inch and putting it into stanzas? Swung down a slide, it shoved off on schools, hospitals, homes and industry for It surely can; the art depends greatly upon straight from a schoolyard merry go round. their own people rather than to spend it on the finding-for not everything results in ammunition and terror activities. found poetrv-and sometimes further shap¬ Striding black leathers damn the miles home, Peace is the solution proposed by the State ing and selecting is necessary. I think that it is a matter of intention, and often this is re¬ where walls now thick with incense of Israel. It depends on the willingness of the Arab countries to negotiate an agreement. versed when the writing becomes poetry. flow past smoke-streamed faces. Heels stab with Israel. In For example, a found poem called "Why '" negotiation. Israel will strive was originally an advertisement from Daph¬ pavestone. pulsing a cool Christmas blackout. towards mutual agreement compatible with the legitimate interests and honor of all par¬ ne's San Francisco Funeral Service; as poet¬ -Cathv Hoven ties. ry this is one of the strongest anti-war poems I've read; • your country no longer has space in na¬ tional o cemeteries for burial of veterans and reconciliation families. No plans are being made to create new space. Why? ... the focus of the broken rusted gloom is altered: Once upon a time your government promised every man who fought in service of his the moonlight falters, country that shining thinly on the he and his immediate family could be two impatient predators buried in a national cemetery . desecrating an elaborate ALL THIS SPACE, EXCEPT FOR A parabola ot hate . . . CUSTOM MADE SAN PAIS BV. HANDFl'L OF GRAVES, HAS NOW BEEN USED I P. SLICK -Sharron Marks brother gambit WHY? • TRADING CO. 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