£ 0Z.61 'S ^reruqaj 'Aspsinqx "Women's liberation" is the buzz word of 1970. In the 1960's, buzz words which were guaranteed to trigger negative responses ranged from phrases like "civil rights" through "black power" to "end the war" and "legalize pot." Contribute toCollage Just what do you (choose one: blacks, students, communists, peace freaks) want anyway? was a widespread All members of the University community are invited to submit work to Collage. uncomprehending reaction to 1960-style We are interested in almost any publishable form of creative effort - essays, activism. photographs, reviews, poems, drawings, etc. Submissions may be mailed or brought Now. with a shift in activist priorities, in person to the State News office (third floor, Student Services Bldg.). the reaction has changed- although it retains its basic incomprehension. "Just what do you (women) want, anyway?" The answer, as ever before, does not deal so much with wants as with culturally deprived rights. The pressure of the Western environment has created many objects of inferiority: the woman is .foremost among these. Woman, a societal "nigger" long before the Negro, has too long been consoled with such panaceas as "the hand that rocks the cradle . ." and "behind every great man . . ." Behind every great man there is nothing more than a woman preconditioned into standing in the shadows. But because sex discrimination is far more subtle than racial or ethical biases, it is infrequently recognized by men or women. Hopefully, "women's lib" will not remain a buzz word triggering images of saloon-smashing, female suffrage and lesbianism. This is not an issue we can afford to be polarized on. Consider the woman-and remember your humanity. -M.N. Bookmarks "Antioch Review," XXIX, i (Antioch Press, Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387), 136 pp. $1 The current "Antioch Review" is a special issue entitled "What's Happened to Magazines?" and is an in-depth study of the field. The reasons for this study are, as the editor points out, because "there is simply nothing available in print.. which attempts to offer a broad if not . comprehensive critical view of the contemporary American periodical press" and because "Of all the institutions in our culture, the American press is one of the most preciously held and self-protective ... criticism of the press within the press is virtually A sampling ot the articles in cms issue uiuicates the scope of the study : "Life Cycles in the Age of Magazines," by Clay Felker; "Reflections on the New Journalism and the Old Fiction," by Benjamin DeMott; "Weeklies and Weaklies," by Robert Sherrill; "What Ever Happened to Lit Magazines?" by Beverly Gross (selected for inclusion in "The American Literary Anthology 3"; "On the (N.Y.) Literary Left," by Walter Goodman; "The Underground Press and How it Went," by Jesse Kornbluth, etc. This issue of AR is a demonstration of McLuhan's axiom: the medium is the message. A magazine which attempts to discuss other magazines has to be of high quality itself, and so AR has been redesigned by Samuel Antupit - the new format is beautiful and very readable. AR is changing in other ways: it will not discontinue printing fiction and poetry, but it plans to have more special issues devoted to a limited topic, which will be explored in-depth. This will create a specialized, yet director michael o'neal cover terry sharbach flexible, magazine - and places AR somewhere senior staff writer marion nowak between the usual little magazine and the page 3 shelley sutton market-slanted big magazine. fred zirm, dana panknin, jane nelson, luann page 6 sandy moffat dummer, page 11 ron norton douglas lawder, howard brody. photos, pages 2, 9 doug elbinger -Albert Drake albert drake, torn samet, elwin green, greg rathjen. photos, pages 5,10 producing managers company photos, pages 7, 8 . . oldsmobile public relations Thursday, February 5, 1970 3 Parody contest: Fred Zirm, First place winner Presence And what does man do in this situation? 0 Night, which ever art when day is not! Finding Modes ot being himself lost, he tries to find himself A Midsummer by losing his Night's Dream self with and in isolated others who are Being as object is static and structured. Being attempting the same thing, if they exist and if as subject, i.e., human being, is dynamic and By JEAN-PAUL SAUTE" the world exists at all. Or you for that matter. adaptable. In other words, it is presence made malleable and molded by absence, thus the Proceeding from this basis, we can see, or term Translator's etre de gelee note rather I can see, if I exist, that perception is the - - (jelly - being). This jelly-being has key, since I see it. At least I think I see and many qualities. We shall consider I believe that this is the original time that M. only applying Descartes' cogito I can venture from my temporality and its implications here. That is, we Saute's work has been translated into shall only consider English by perceiving ego to the world of my perception. jelly-being in relation to a a one whose native tongue is French. This has But the perceptions I have time continuum. We shall call this for the are not - - time given me a different point to see from. I hope it shared necessarily - being. / makes for a more accurate traduction because M. by all humans. Is it not true that one person can look at a glass of water and call it half Presence and absence are both relative to time. Saute's work deserves understanding at least. full, while another can look at the same glass and Something is present or absent in relation to a Perhaps a few explanations will help call it gin? Yes, but this is particular moment. Presence is positive and concerning the words I have translated different. just a matter of misinterpretation. monistic. Absence is of two First I have chose to translate "etre" types; excused and as "being" unexcused. Excused absence can be accounted in most cases. Last, I have also chosen to Presence and absence for by things in the world of for - the time - translate "maison" as "dog," too. - The error lies in a misconception of absence. being and human perception. Unexcused absence My thanks to M. Le Brun of the Sorbonne and Absence is not is not. Absence is is. It is a mere cannot be so explained. Death is an unexcused to Larousse's "Dictionnaire de Poche", too, who absence of presence, or rather the absence since it is timeless and not of this have helped me walk the tight presence of an world. string between absence of presence. Likewise, presence is the The act of dying is within man's literalitiness and mere opinion only. perceptual presence of presence, or rather, the absence of a field, though. He sees it as the one inevitable presence of absence. possiblity for his jelly-being. He is Charles Fou seized by what The question then is: are these two states I call queasiness. which Dunkirk 1940 causes him to twist and Editor's note co-existent or does one arise out of the other. shout and work it out spiritually. Man The answer is yes. Most things are apprehended confronted with death, his In own death, becomes isolation, M. Saute's work is impressive. as an absence first, out of which may come ill with grief-mourning sickness. Since man is the When viewed in its historical context, it is even presence. Love is missed before it is actualized. only being who experiences this, he can be more so and approaches the unique monumental There are cases in human defined as the being - who experience, though, - barfs. Woman, proportions of the work of a Spinoza, Kant, where the presence of something is intuitively meanwhile, is the being - who - mops. Schopenhauer, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, James, grasped in its essence before it is even felt or The only answer is to immerse oneself in the Heidegger, Russel, Leibniz, Hegel, Nietzsche or known to be absent. Mystical experience and liquid of life until one dissolves. That is the Hefner. I could go on forever, could you? Such religious conversion may fall under this category. solution. What is the problem? varied intellectual import! "Presence and Absence" can be seen as not only a refutation of Kantian Idealism and Spinozean Rationalism, but also as a continuation of the two in a too subtle for you to comprehend. Because of the obvious importance of the paradox IWIIIHT work, I feel I must justify what changes I have made in the text. Most of the changes were made for the sake of brevity and the avoidance of needless repetition. I felt that by shortening the text by deleting unnecessary redundant;. I was making M. Saute's argument clearer. That is, 1 thought I could promote clarity by doing away with passages that merely said what had been said before without anything added. So most of the changes were made for the sake of brevity and the avoidance of needless repetition. Finally, I have made one fundamental change ip the original translation. I have rejected "bad faith" as the translation of "mauvaise foi" and instead substituted "self deception". This - way I think that I have avoided the religious connotations which I'm sure M. Saute did not want anyway. Similiarly, I have deleted all reference to God, which accounts for the greatly fJXSUfak: shortened length of this edition. I wish you good luck in your study of "Presence and Absence." After reading it I'm sure you'll say to yourself, as I did, "Ground of all being, am I smart!" Paul Ane But as a general rule absence precedes presence, Okemos 1969 except after essence. These two modes of existence are mirrored in Introduction two mental modes. In turn, these two mental (From an announcement by the Miles As a child in the south of France, I modes are expressed in the common phrases, Modern Poetry Committee . . . ) experienced my first encounter with the "presence of mind" and "absent-mindedness." Absolute. It was in the third grade. The But where was I? Thus, man as a duality is the The Miles Modern Poetry Committee springtime sun seemed almost solid as it slanted presence! of an absence of presence of the is between the seated children. Mme. Eclaire called presently soliciting manuscripts for a absence of presence of absence. The implications the roll. "Present" replied Paul, and Jacques, and are obvious. possible anthology of Detroit and Lucille and the others. But then she called on Being and non-being Michigan poetry. All manuscripts should Charles, the class clown. "Absent" he answered. be sent or brought to the Miles office, We all laughed. Suddenly, though, I realized that Presence and absence are the essence of being 5257 Cass, Detroit, 48202, on or before there was serious truth in that laughter. and non-being, an essence which depends on March 15, 1970. Please include return After class I went up to the desk where Mme. human perception and expectation. If I go to a Eclaire sat. Looking up at her I asked, "Do you cafe in order to see Pierre, all of the cafe will be a postage. not think that Charles has stumbled The poet should now, or at sometime, upon the mere background, or ground, for the expected irreducible dilectal duality that modem reside in the appeareance of the figure — Pierre. It will be a defined area. It is not philosophy has been in search of since blur until I see Pierre And if Pierre is not there I Descartes?" "No," she said, and hit me with a . important whether he or she is previously experience nothingness and non-being. published, as the concern is quality, not ruler. I was not discouraged. While facing the Subjectively, I miss Pierre to the point of even status. blackboard on which I was to write "I shall not doubting the very existence of the cafe, philosophize in class" a hundred times, my mind, reasoning thusly: If Pierre is not here, how can There are no imposed limitations on too, became a tabula rasa on which words of the cafe be here? One the length of the manuscripts, but it may scoff at such truth, not chalk, were to be written. And I knew scepticism, but even if I engaged myself in the should be said that these truths would provide the the proposed key to Locke, very simple act of ordering a drink, the bartender Spinoza, and every other modem philosopher. would demand proof, so why not I? anthology will be less than 200 pages in The blackboard is full now. I would like you to total length. Or similarly, if I'm looking at an see it. apartment All that says "NO PETS," doesn't the question types of poetry. either necessarily arise, "What kind of pets can I not experimental or academic, are welcome, Pccepi and the plight of have?" Or more specifically, "Can I not have a as are any questions regarding this venture modern man dog? I've always not wanted a dog." And finally, or any other matter by extension and synthesis, "How many dogs can concerning the Miles Modern man finds himself lost and alone with I not committee .. . have? How does an apartment others in a world given to him that is not his own say but has no one else to claim it. How paradoxical! anything?" 5 0Z.61 'S MBtuqaj 'ABpsirim State Est fit i^nnsirag*, Michigan Parody contest: Jane Nelson and kbbajCkfU 2— ^ »•-** Luann Dummer, Second place winners Puk.1^ — O- i£M The Fairie "^T^" 0MO-! "i- - t~ d^ir Disposed into One Canto, Fashioning One Immorall Vice MICHIGAN . Canto I SIGNATURES The patrone of true Lustiness Am Foule Pureness doth defeate: AntktUffy oj Curmu Miihifm Poetry Chastity him to entrappe. Doth in Elaine him meet. A lustie knight was pricking in the bedde Yclipt in mightie armes of Faire Elaine. Who to such joyes of passion she him ledde That never more of pricking on the plaine He thought; but from that turned with disdayn. This knight, in troth, was clept Sir Ligamore: For toole of live he did not ere restrayne. But, in Elaine he made his finall score, Loath'd leprosie she gave and off of love he Bookmarks swore. MICHIGAN SIGNATURES, edited by Albert 1.2 — As I.M. Scholarshit pointed out in "The 1.6 — "Ligamore" derives from Primitive Drake (Quixote Press, 1969, 96 pp.) Use of the Archaic Y-Prefix in Spenser's 'Fairie Germanic "legjanan" (to lie) plus Old English Albert Drake, Asst. Professor of Queen' " (Grove Press, 1910), this is the first "mara" (more) which developed in the Midlands English at instance of MSU, has assembled with careful skill an Spenser's use of the archaic y-prefix by the 12th centuiy into "more." This source in the poem. has been questioned by F. Q. Fink in "Old Greek anthology of poems by practicing Michigan Sources and Analogues" (Ohio University Press, poets. It's a good looking book presenting more 1.2 — I.R. Gay pointed out in "Spenser's than eighty poems by the well-known and the 1945) and traced to a character noted for his lesser known and testifies to the large number of Fairyland" ("True Romance," 1952), p. 1001, prowess in Homer's lost romance, the "Ur-Iliad." fine poets working in the state. The book should etymologically "Elaine" may be traced back to Old Noise prefix "gi-" plus Old also serve as a means for Michigan writers to get English strong 1.9 — A late medieval commonplace which did verb "licgan" (Class V, j-present), to lie, to know one another's poetry. not distinguish leprosy from venereal disease. obviously not the preterite plural form, but the The most authoritative source on this point is an As editor, Drake manages to avoid preterite singular form. This argument has been anonymous work of the early tenth century restrictions which we often find in regional called into question by numerous scholars, most entitled "Memoirs of a Medieval Woman." For a anthologies. He does not slyly try to sell, recently by Miss R.J. Hoard (Doctoral Diss., discussion of the identity of the author and her promulgate, a fashionable style of writing, nor University of Manchester, Humanistic Series No. does the book promote any kind of school. probable relationship with the Beowulf-poet, see 155,1960). Johann Wolfgang Drake's bias is apparently only for good poetry, Sanzraisonmann, and the book shows his catholic taste: Old forms "Weltschmertz von le Moyen Age" (Girodias 1.5 — This line is an obvious indication that worked in arresting, inventive ways are included Publishing Co., 1951). Spenser revised in haste. ("Song of the Mad Qubwoman") along with those that exploit the tense idiom of our time, ("Expressways"). William Pitt Root's "Jennifer by Moonlight" is a poem where compactness of imagery and nightshould combine with a startling effect: (A cricket with short circuit whirs in grass behind a stone. Hie dark electric sound Parody contest: Dana Panknin, Third place winner seems to shine, attracting our daughter with her Prologue mouthful of moth-wings ...) and John Wood's powerful "The Woman, Opened by Loving" is to list only a few of the poems worthy of being anthologized. to Nor do the boundaries of Michigan impinge Studentbury upon the quality of the poetry. Tlie book does not suffer from a provincial pinch.As its title, MICHIGAN SIGNATURES, indicates, the poems present a distinctive, highly individualized collection and proves that a regional anthology can also be one of universal dimension. The book, available at Paramount News, is dedicated to A.J.M. Smith, poet-in-residence at Whan that the sandman with his shoures soote MSU since 1931 — a handsome gesture. The studie halle hath perced to the roote. -Douglas Lawder And bathed all the minds in swich licour. Of which a dream engendred is the flour; as nets of meshed cloud Whan the teacher aches with his loude breeth catch the dying moments Awakening on very holt and heeth of sunlight fleeting, The grande ires of the students younge, the silence of spring Who straightly like the Ram their course will ronne. comes ever so sottly And make like wrathful fowl with medodye. in the feeling of dusk On him who roused from slepe their drowsy ye, 1 reach to touch your hand (And whan y-fledde hath teacher's courages): to reassure the madness that is me Than longen he to goon on pilgrimages. but you're not there while nets of cloud close and capture the dusk in darkness like winter and gray snowflakes --Greg Rathjen Thursday, February 5, 1970 5 To open the By HOWARD BRODY will happen to - Rosencrantz and of Gonzago," which the band of roving Guildenstern in the end. First, watching All the world's a stage tragedians act out before the Danish King the inevitable unfold creates a feeling of and Queen at Hamlet's request. In And all the men and women merely suspense which Stoppard exploits very "Hamlet," the play shows in miniature players. effectively. Second, since the plot the events that have led up to the elements present are already worked out, situation. Stoppard expands it so that it This quotation from "As You Like It" Stoppard can concentrate on developing shows not just the past, but also the is only the most famous of the many the characters and the philosophical future fates of Rosencrantz and references to a theme which recurs often overtones - as did the ancient Greek Guildenstern. Also, the player king, in Shakespeare - life as a stage. This masters who based their plays on another bit part in "Hamlet," assumes an theme has important implications. If men well-known myths. and women are "merely players," their expanded role in Stoppard's play. Since In the overview, there are three plays the world as stage is to be the fates are predestined by the script, and which have to be dealt with, fitting inside philosophy, it is nature that the chief of the the forces of their personalities are each other like a set of children's colored company of tragedians should be the powerless before the much larger forces of philosopher. plastic kegs. The outermost one is If this play in the play. Shakespeare never fully - - a play - in - a play Shakespeare's "Hamlet," in which business looks developed this theme because he was Rosencrantz and confusing on paper, Guildenstern appear Rosencrantz and Guildenstern do not find committed to the Aristotelian dramatic briefly and have no distinct personalities. it all that revealing and enlightening model and the tragic hero - the tragedy Stoppard's play fits inside "Hamlet" in themselves. That something is a bit amiss of the significant man and not of the that it shows Rosencrantz and with them because apparent in the first insignificant one. Macbeth might say that Guildenstern's roles in "Hamlet," and also scene of Stoppard's play. On their life is "a tale/Told by an idiot, full of way to follows their activities in between their Elsinore they have been idly tossing coins, sound and fury,/ Signifying nothing"; but "Shakespearean" appearances (the time but for some reason Guildenstern has then it seems rather silly to be listening to that they are offstage in "Hamlet"), until tossed ninety-two heads in a row. After a a play about Macbeth's life. Macbeth is finally Stoppard's play merges into long and circuitous discussion of the after all the big fish in his pond, and when "Hamlet" in the last where scene the possible explanations, Guildenstern finally he talks about insigificance it doesn't English ambassador strides into the comes to the heart of the matter. It used quite go over. corpse-filled Danish court to announce to to The modern theatre is much better be, he says, that "the sun came up as uninterested ears that "Rosencrantz and often as it \*ent down, in the long run, and suited than the Elizabethan stage for plays Guildenstern are dead." Stoppard, like a coin showed heads about as about often as it insignicance — indeed it seems to Shakespeare, wants insignificance to be showed tails. Then a messenger arrived. thrive on them. And Tom Stoppard in the hallmark of the two courtiers; in We had been sent for. "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Stoppard's play the characters are always Nothing else Dead" has in this regard taken up where happened. Ninety-two coins spun forgetting which one is Rosencrantz and consecutively have come down heads Shakespeare left off. Stoppard has carried which Guildenstern. But as Stoppard's off the paradox of having bit players be ninety-two consecutive times ..." play develops, Rosencrantz and This is their ultimate his main characters. Also he has turned Guildenstern reality: they assume definite and have been sent for, and the old theatrical device inside out to individual personalities. nothing will be as it was before. They have been sent for to create the device of the play - outside - The innermost of the three plays, the take part in "Hamlet," the play - outside - the - play. This device serves him well in play - within - the - play with respect to the - play, which has taken control of two important respects, because we both "Hamlet" and "Rosencrantz and already know from "Hamet" what Guildenstern Are Dead," is "The Murder (continued on page 10) Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan Stimulus/Response style and stale it is (when you. haven't seen in years) medium the message. Marshall. I doubt Boston Common but I'm caught like you in being My mind with lint and pennies the front for mother's anxieties Filled my pocket in the rain. and father's enemy To warmly watch the flannel night That cat-like pushed its nose I'm laid to the movements Between the people on the square, And filled our heads with fur my looking glass mirror reflects (and who knows if I'm more And soft bewhiskered thoughts to the less than I was) Of tigers in the dark. and still We talked and watched the snaking breath Of grey hallucinating curls my poems fall prey to a style the way staleness wreaks havoc to my meanings Of colors, stripes and snarls in our eyes. and the medium is there The Spaniard from Chicago stopped To say our dreams were only smoke to glory in its glassiness And he had paid too much for lids leave the unrest to wait That pulled him drooping to the night. a better system of sighing And all the lonely walking dead To sweeten up his tears. Far down the blinking plip-plot street crying softly An old man peeping-tommed his eyes -Greg Rathjen in the night At lovers on the steps. teardrops sparkle in Who warm and curled the light . . . Between the street and sky And all the lonely walking dead Hung weightless in their dreams. pray to Someone And now the night for a someone . . . Is melting on our tongues And all the lonely walking dead Chocolate dark, and warm coming back from Like cider running from the clouds. where they've gone While rain wet lids going back from whence they came Hung out to dry, Stand stiff and starched, hoping for someone ... And ready for the day, Every day is the same To Bare. sting them warm Brown coffee yellow sheets gray hair With cinnamon and sun. hoping for someone to care -Tom Samet And their death is in their eyes And all the lonely walking dead dying every day are Eternal -Elwin Green c5 $ "2 S s!L> a 2 a 'g c O) c <® "<* Mf * £-3 J-S t! 5 § fSIfs~£i* g-i S «f 3f 2-g el-Ss~-S3?~ sc '•ifjlaHj®! =3^-4= J? J? £ uv iii^i.fr O .2 O ! i Hi ii lit!! 11 f! i? 11 fill 11; i iw I e j 11 Jfi%. te;#j3~j The worker facto and ry EDITOR'S NOTE: The writer of this article is a senior in advertising at MSU and has been a full-time worker at the Lansing Oldsmobile plant since September. The work ethic at Oldsmobile is best summed up by that favorite word of industrial public realtions: the Team. The concept of the team is stressed constantly. We are all on one big team together, we are told, and with pride in our teamwork we can turn out Better Quality Cars. Even the company newspaper, mailed to workers' homes, is called Team. This emphasis on pride in teamwork is, of course, intended to counter the old problem of industrial dehumanization. Qasacally, the problem of assembly-line work is that each man loses all personal pride in his job: after all, he has no finished product to take pride in, no outstanding craftmanship to identify with. So, today, the craft of the team is emphasized. Be proud of your share in the product; be proud of the craft of the team. Unfortunately, this just doesn't work, and for reasons other than the overwhelming lack of real identification with shiny automobiles., The greatest single factor undermining the team ethic is the treatment of the individual in the factory organization. Responsibility, and consequently punishment, at Olds disseminates downward. For instance, if a certain number of cars is put together shoddily, the general foreman lands on the foreman whose men goofed up; he in turn lands on the guilty individuals. In the abstract, this eems quite sensible. As it is practiced at the Olds plant, however, it results in negative motivation and alienation. The primary method of punishment is the "write-up" system. Workers who fall short are written up; two write-ups in six months can cost a man his job. Write-ups can be given for major job mistakes such as putting on a part wrong, not putting it on at all or refusing to fix a mistake. They also are meted out for trivialities like talking back to the foreman, failing to call in prior to absence, or missing work without an excuse. One man of my acquaintance missed a day because his car's engine blew up on the way to the plant; he received both a write-up and an hour-long lecture. When under - 18 workers miss a day, their parents are phoned to conform his excuse. If none is forthcoming, out goes a write-up. Such petty authoritarianism undermines any effective enforcement and creates considerable resentment. Resentment is also the main byproduct of the Olds system for correcting mistakes on the job. Everyone's mistakes are announced over the loudspeaker at maximum volume, usually an hour after the mistake has been made. The time lapse and the irritatingly high volume, added to the the usual factory noise, produces anger at the new demands, apathy toward one's part in the great team, and refusal to do - it - yourself. Theoretically, repairmen at the end of each than harder work. oriented due to the punishment system. The department are supposed to fix mistakes, but the greatest complaint of the announcing system is The extremely poor and even dangerous pressure on foremen is sufficiently large to that "Repair is getting out of hand. Get on the working conditions at the factory further corrupt render most of them extremely poor in handling a positive work ethic. The harassing and their workers. When one is forced to regard men job!" unnecessary noise from the loudspeakers, added as instruments toward a relentless production Benefits and incentives, which are designed to provide a positive motivation, are actually of to the general noise level of the factory, raises quota, one eventually does so. The result is the the total noise to deafening proportions. It is loss of both middleman status and the salve of very limited effectiveness. The use of shop rules extremely difficult to speak and be heard. common courtesy. Once more, a kick for the is the best example of the failure of the benefit system to benefit the worker. Shop rules, Furthermore, due to an economy drive — which is humanity of the common laborer and a snicker intended to preserve good will and safety, tend itself another cause of rage among the workers, for the team ethic. to work out in favor of management rather than due to its adverse effects on them — few, if any, The total effect of such treatment for the laborers. For instance, it is against shop rules to workers can receive the proper protective bottom - of - the pryamid worker is quite serious, jump over the pit: men are working below and a earphones from the management, even with a emotionally. The Olds environment -in spite of doctor's recommendation. The same goes for the push for team spirit — generates frustration, slip could injure both the jumper and the pitworker. However, during an average night safety gloves. One woman in my area who works anger, pain, physical and mental exhaustion, some workers jump over the pit more than 400 with harmful, painful brake fluid couldn't get hatred and apathy. Because of the punishment times just in the performance of a job. (If two safety gloves, in spite of the factory nurse's system, these can't be worked off on the job: try men perform such jobs, jumping is unnecessary, recommendations. There are so-called safety screaming back at an obnoxious foreman and but both the recession and the economy drive at men, but they complete studies on the day shift. watch the fun. On - the - job emotions are the plant have eliminated that extra man, along The night shift, despite the obvious need, has carefully translated into on - the - job apathy. "If with the observance of a shop rule. In the end, never been the subject of any safety studies. The you think, you think about the situation you're only rule tightly enforced for everyone is the stuck in and then you just want to get violent," shop rules are observed unless they interfere with wearing of safety glasses. one pit worker explained. This apathy applies the work, and then they are often disregarded. The job must be completed regardless. A union does exist at Olds, and consequently not just to each individual's interpersonal The hypocrisy of shop rules is shown in a so do committeemen to handle individual behavior, but to one's job. Why care about different way by the dictum that we must accept grievances. Naturally, as a corollary to ethical Oldsmobile, since it certainly doesn't care for "new ideas." In practice, a new idea is nothing practice at Olds, new workers are never told they you? This is why any amount of punishment other than additional work. When one learns to have such a thing as a committeeman. wouldn't prevent — and might even increase — Management orientation programs ignore their the flaws in the final cars, and why the workers perform a single task well, he is given another to do in addition. This continues until he can't existence. Workers usually find out about them who steal parts from the plant express no guilt through the grapevine or coincidence. If they feelings. The rewards are so few. perform any more simultaneous jobs adequately. The rage built up at work can't be left there. Personal considerations, such as injuries or don't, they often receive unjust punishments extreme exhaustion, are rarely important. with no recourse but to accept them. Consequently, it's taken home as a nice surprise for the family, a sort of little paycheck bonus, Consequently the temptation (widely indugled Factory foremen, who theoretically act as middlemen between labor and higher in) is to avoid doing one's best. After all, the (continued on page 8) reward received for good work is nothing more management, are in fact totally management - 8 Michigan State News. East Lansing, Michigan Prejudice and the (continued from page 7) team spirit struggle. Partially, the black Mexican friction is - less covert. In the cafeteria, individuals a battle for social recognition — which spontaneously segregate themselves into racial courtesy of Olsmobile. One no longer wants to many of the white workers call a "battle for last groups. The john walls, or course, are a popular think, but rather to forget and work off the place." tension. Heavy drinking is an unusually popular Overt discrimination against nonwhites on place for the exorcism of aggressive racial form of recreation. Some drink before they work the Olds production line is not too emotions. widespread, to live through the job, after they work to relax, probably because too many non-whites work But not all prejudice at Olds deals with racial and — in spite of the threat of firing — there to make it practical. A problems. Working women and students receive during couple foreman call work if they can get away with it. Mindless films, "their" Mexican workers "wetbacks" and their fair share of the tension. Just as few some television and wife-beating are great diversions. Mexicans (usually triggering workers bother to reexamine their racial fistfights) call blacks Lots of Olds-earned money is spent "chocolates." prejudices, most prefer to hold on to the simple making the earning of it palatable. It may sound like a good Racism does go beyond this verbal level. idea of Woman as Wife Mother Whore. If she - - salary, but the cost of making it takes out a very Blacks, for instance, have a harder time getting works at Olds, she's slacking off somewhere. out of "the pit" Female laborers are also big chunk. Thus, even material incentives become (where all work is charged with being laughable. bone-wearying, anyone over 5'8" can't stand up gossippy, lazy, weak, quick to complain and This emotional frustration is carried over straight and cars and people occasionally fall ineffective at work. Many of the women on the onto workers life offer an ever-present into the perpetration of prejudices among the below) than whites. The average (and ever-ignored) employes. The most blatant racial conflict at length of time one worker spends in the pit is refutation of this. Perhaps as a consequence of three months. More than one black of such prejudice, those female workers are often Oldsmobile - Lansing exists between blacks and my Mexicans. In a sense the anger between these two acquaintance have spent over a year there. "masculine": generally physically powerful or Most racial prejudice, tough-acting. gruups is a classic example of misdirected class however, is more or Any threat to the life-style of the average Olds worker is translated into its simplest denominator. Female behavior and the "battle for last place" are two such denominators. The college student is another simple symbol. Oldsmobile itself pays for the tuition of full-time students who are simultaneously full-time workers. It is the prejudice of lower-level Olds workers themselves that is overt. The student working at Oldsmobile~as anywhere in Middle America-is advised to avoid a student image at work. Students, it seems, are directly responsible for the trouble America is in today. Students are not only treasonous, they are all hippies, whether they look like it or not. Beards and mustaches seem to be o.k., but scalp hair triggers the differences. Even as "conservative" a length as current campus styles triggers remarks as "hippie," "weirdo," or "faggot." Those who don't go so far as believing all students are immoral hippies still often feel threatened by their immediate presence. This is partially because of inferiority feelings in a counter where education is a national religion. The feeling seems to be, "With all that book-learning in college, you had to come here to learn common sense." The many faces of prejudice among the workers at Oldsmobile illustrate, I feel, another result of the dehumanizing process at the plant. Perhaps there would always be prejudice, but it seems now to be an extension of the miserable working conditions. After working at Oldsmobile myself, I can understand the emotional problems and resulting life - style of a worker who, unlike myself, has no hope to escape. By MICHAEL O'NEAL Collage and creativity area. It is often disappointing and everyone. This is doubly unfortunate somewhat puzzling to note the small when Collage magazine is a by - product of someone begins to believe over a amount of activity and expression the intellectual and artistic coming period of time that his natural and activity at to the surface. MSU; the magazine exists as a forum and Considering the size and personal responses are less valuable than diversity of the community, there should the "approved" ones. showplace for local talent of many be a much greater amount of work visible. varieties. In this area it is unique, with its Creative thought always starts with large circulation (40,000) and localized It is often claimed in the abstract that the individual. Unless this type of mass audience. In its attempt to thought "everyone has something worth saying," is encouraged, both by the individual and communicate different forms of but somehow this statement seems to lose by others, it will atrophy and stagnate. expression, Collage reaches all levels of The its credibility when opposite of this occurs in an the University. applied to any particular "one" of that everyone. There environment in which the inclinations and Thus, the entire existence of the seems to be a distinct gap between expressions of each individual are magazine is bound up in the value and someone's perception of a meaningful respected; where the concepts of extent of the local creative activity - idea or experience and the standardization and mass norms are subsequent those actions which are stamped with the attempt to communicate it; a gap which rejected. Unfortunately, we are not living all too often is in that type of environment. But a individual perceptions and expressions of never crossed. To an great the maker but which can nonetheless be extent, the university system itself deal can be gained by recognizing the shared with others. Naturally, such encourages this: such things as required problem posed by a societal environment activities be essays are almost always of a severely hostile to the individual (which is likely to can either temporary or limited format, with assigned become more pronounced in the permanent; they can be either "pure" topics, future) actions or that type of action that results lengths and due dates. and attempt to counteract it. in a physical medium. In its simplest terms, a renaissance The immediate loser in this situation is occurs when people believe in themselves Being dependent on this latter type of the person whose reactions and and can act accordingly, to the limits of expression, Collage is especially vulnerable expressions don't coincide with those of their potentialities. It is this to periods of relative the system, and this includes almost type of inactivity in this condition that we should work toward. IO Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan To hoist with ou (continued trom page 5) way the plot unfolds at that point. alter fate. The point is not one of guilt; it their destinies. What their fates are to be Hamlet has killed Polonius; ostensibly to is whether knowledge can be related to they can see reflected in "The Murder of hush up the scandal and to prevent other effective action. Gonzago," the piay - within - the play, acts of violence, Claudium appoints A major question here arises. Would but they fight the recognition. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to take any man have likewise sailed on to his Guildenstern argues with the chief Hamlet to England. But in the letter of own inevitable death, or were tragedian that the players' version of commission Claudium sends under seal to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern acting out death is not death at all. Death, he insists, the English king is an order to Dut Hamlet of perverseness or out of some quirk in is simply, a ceasing - to - exist, a to death. Later, upon Hamlet's return, the not-being; their personalities? Stoppard seems to it is not a falling down and moaning and audience learns second-hand how Hamlet has escaped and has substituted a suggest the former. When you have been thrashing as you present it. Maybe so, says rewritten commission which will be the summoned, independent, free action is the player, but the stage death is the only impossible. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern's two attempts at decisive action spreading a belt across the stage to "catch" Hamlet, and stabbing the player king in a frenzy — both turn into burlesques, as Hamlet easily evades them and as the "murder" weapon turns out to be the players' fake sliding - blade dagger. Furthermore, Stoppard seems to be suggesting that all modern man, like the two courtiers, is out of his depths in his present situation. Modern man was not summoned by some messenger on horseback from Elsinore; he himself issued the summons, and only belatedly looked about to see where it had got him. If Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are to be taken as a type of the "ordinary man," they represent the paradox and the comic tragedy of man who seeks knowledge and then is unable to use it to his own benefit or salvation. This same theme was treated in "Oedipus Tyrannus." to name one example; or in the following passage from Robert Pen Warren's "All The King's Men:" The end of is man knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him. There's the cold in your stomach, but you open the envelope, you have to open the envelope, for the end of man is to know. One need not look far for living examples of this paradox. Man's knowledge has recently come to include an undeniable link between smoking and a one people understand. What good is it to higher incidence of lung cancer. know what death is, intellectually, if you undoing of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Undeniable, that is, to everyone can't feel it? If the deaths of the two except courtiers are the cigarette smoker. "But no cause and To return to "Hamlet" for a to seem moment, appropriate, in the sense of hoist - effect relationship has been proved for it is clear that for Rosencrantz and with - their - own petard, they should certain," he protests, and continues to Guildenstern, feeling their deaths is just know that they are acting as the puff himself to death. what Shakespeare does not want. The instruments in a death plot against their Nor need the tragedy be confined to whole idea of their being non-entities is old schoolmate Hamlet. Shakespeare the case of the individual. After all, man is that the audience will accept their deaths never actually says that they knew what the only animal that thinks. Of all the life with a sense of irony but not of was in the letter regret. they were carrying to on earth, man is the only form that seeks And closely connected with this is the England. Hamlet, indeed, suggests that knowledge. And where is our knowledge they died not for knowingly participating getting us? Apparently we are headed, Audrey Was in the death trap, but rather for being so right now, for one of three fates. We shall unlucky as to find themselves between overpopulate ourselves until we cover the Audrey two warring poles: " 'Tis face of the earth ten dangerous when deep, or we shall of your yellow red ways the baser nature comes / Between the pass blow ourselves off the face of the I have sought to find where you are and tell incensed earth points / Of might entirely, or we shall so befoul and pollute and saw you between a book binder's opposites." the face of the earth that it can no and asked if he's mended your Stoppard, however, longer is not concerned support any life at all, much less our own thoughts with this aspect per se. In this play, in exalted species. Like the peacock which is which the whole scene on Audrey day glow pale red the boat to dragged down by the weight of its own when the sun shows on me England occurs onstage, Rosencrantz and magnificent tail, man's big brain of and when you thought I wasn't there Guildenstern "inadvertantly" which he is so proud . open the may well have led I was, in a envelope and read the way. away commission him up an evolutionary dead end. from remembering time demanding Hamlet's death, and then do All this is in (he letter, and we it has been have long since your nothing this establishes their read it. We may, like Rosencrantz, eyes have talked of redness and wine complicacy in the plot. But then comes permit ourselves one bitter cry: (and. 1 wonder, of me) Stoppard's original twist. The pair again "They had it in tor us, didn't they? Right from the Audrey open the envelope after Hamlet has beginning. Who'd have thought that we of your yellow red substituted the rewritten commission, and ways were so important?" And then we reseal I have sought to read that they themselves are now the find where you are the envelope, with the letter inside, and ^ --Greg Rathjen intended victims, and again do nothing to continue on the same course as before. URSllJOIJY 'SUISUVJ JSRJJ *SA\P/S/ 3JBJS URgfl/.OffV OI JUST FOLLOW ME! I KNO* THIS COZ/J / Calendar Feb. -5 M THURSDAY, FEB. 5 "The Blue Max" (6:45 and 9:30 p.m., 108B MONDAY, FEB. 23 Wells). Union Board: Thieves' Market Art Show Michigan State Track Relays (1:30 and 7:30 Senior Recital: Joan (Union). Johnson, soprano (8:15 p.m.). p.m., Music Aud.). International Rim Series: "Farewell to Arms" Swimming: MSU v. Ohio State (2:30 p.m., Men's (7:30 p.m., Aud.). I.M.). "Don Pasquale": MSU music and theatre depts. Wrestling: MSU v. Oklahoma (7:30 p.m., Sports (8:15 p.m.: John Hannah Middle School). Arena). TUESDAY, FEB. 24 '"Hie Ghost and Mr. Chicken" (7 and 9 "The Comedians" (7:30 p.m., p.m., 101 Aud.). North Kedzie Hall). "Erotic Underground" (7, 8:40 and 10:20 PAC: Member of the p.m., Wedding (8 p.m., 104B Wells). Fairchild). "Caressed" (7, 8:40 and 10:20 Senior Recital: Phyllis Ryan, soprano (8:15 p.m., FRIDAY, FEB. 6 p.m., 106B Wells). Music Aud.). Pete Seeger Hudson River Benefit Basketball: MSU v. Illinois (8 p.m., Jenison Field Lecture - Concert Series: Sviatoslav Richter, (8:30 p.m., pianist (8 p.m., Aud.). Albatross). House). "Arabesque" (6:45 and 10:25 p.m., 108B Wells) plus "Fitzwilly" (8:45 p.m., 108B Wells). SUNDAY, FEB. 15 "Hie little Girls" (7, 8:40 and 10:20 p.m., 106B WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25 Wells). Concert: MSU Symphony Orchestra (4 PAC: p.m.. Member of the Wedding (8 "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" (7 and 9:30 Sexton High School). p.m p.m., 104B Wells). Concert: Concert and Fairchild). Activity Bands (4 p.m., "Dead of Night" (7 and 9:30 Okemos High School). p.m., 101 North Kedzie Hall). Pete Seeger Hudson SATURDAY, FEB. 7 River Benefit (8:30 p.m.. Albatross). "Don Pasquale": MSU's music and theatre depts. THURSDAY, FEB. 26 (8:15 p.m., John Hannah Middle School). "Drawings: St. Paul Art Center" (Saturday MONDAY, FEB. 16 PAC: "Member of the Wedding" (8 p.m., afternoon, Kresge Gallery. Through March 1). Lecture - Concert Series (A): "Don Fairchild). "Arabesque" (6:45 and 10:25 p.m., 108B Wells) Giovanni", "Contemporary Directions Ensemble" featuring by the St. Louis Opera Theatre (8:15 p.m. plus "Fitzwilly" (8-.45 p.m., 108B Wells). the Moog Synthesizer (8:15 p.m., Music Aud.). "The Little Girls" (7, 8:40 and 10:20 Aud.). p.m., 106B "Road to Rio" (7 and 9:15 Student Woodwind p.m., 101 North Wells). Groups (8:15 p.m., Music Kedzie Hall). Aud.). "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" (7 and 9:30 p.m., 104B Wells). Varsity gymnastics (1:30 p.m., Sports Arena). TUESDAY, FEB. 17 FRIDAY, FEB. 27 Lecture - Concert Series (B): "Hie Price," St. PAC: "Member of the Wedding" (8 p.m., SUNDAY, FEB. 8 Fairchild). Louis Opera Theatre (8:15 p.m., Aud.). Senior Recital: Robert "Hud" (7 and 9:30 p.m., 108B Wells). Arts & Letters Series: The Netherlands Chamber Oosting, tenor (8:15 p.m., Music Aud.). Hockey: MSU v. Minnesota - Duluth (8 p.m., Ice Choir (4 p.m., Music Aud.). Arena). "Don Pasquale": MSU's music and theatre depts. "Africa Addio" (7 and 9:15 p.m., 106B Wells). (2 p.m., John Hannah Middle School). WEDNESDAY, FEB. 18 "Last Year at Marienbad" (7, 8:40 and 10:20 p.m., 104B Wells). MONDAY, FEB. 9 "Golddiggers of 1933" (7 and 9:15 p.m., 101 North Kedzie Hall). Graduate Recital: David Townsend, clarinet SATURDAY, FEB. 28 (8:15 p.m., Music Aud.). PAC: "Member of the Wedding" (8 p.m., THURSDAY, FEB. 19 TUESDAY, FEB. 10 Fairchild). "Premier of New Music" (8:15 p.m., Erickson "Hud" (7 and 9:30 p.m., 108B Wells). Graduate Recital: George Riordan, oboe, and Kiva). Swimming: Big Ten Freshman Meet (1 p.m., Helen Brandt, piano (8:15 p.m., Music Aud.). Men's I.M.). "Africa Addio" (106B Wells, 7 and 9:15 Basketball: MSU v. Ohio State (8 p.m., Jenison p.m.). Field House). "Last Year at Marienbad" (7, 8:40 and 10:20 FRIDAY, FEB. 20 p.m., 104B Wells). WEDNESDAY, FEB. 11 Richards Quintet (8:15 p.m., Music Aud.). "North by Northwest" (7 and 9:30 p.m., 108B SUNDAY, MARCH 1 Student String Ensembles (8:15 p.m., Music Wells). Aud.). "The Adolescent" (7, 8:40 and 10:20 p.m., PAC: "Member of the "An 106B Wedding" (8 p.m., Evening with Walt Disney" (7 and 9:15 Wells). Fairchild). p.m., 101 North Kedzie Hall). Antonioni's "Eclipse" (7, 8:40 and 10:20 Graduate Recital: Andrew p.m., Froelich, piano (8:15 104B Wells). p.m., Music Aud.). THURSDAY, FEB. 12 Hockey: MSU v. U-M (8 p.m., Ice Arena). A1 Sutterfield & The Warmth (8:30 p.m., MONDAY, MARCH 2 Lecture - Concert Special: "Lillian Gish and The Albatross). Movies" (8:15 p.m., Aud.). Student Woodwind Groups (8:15 p.m., Music SATURDAY, FEB. 21 Aud.). FRIDAY, FEB. 13 Graduate Recital: Albert Bolitho, organ (8:15 "North by Northwest" Hart Recital Hall, Music Bldg.). (7 and 9:30 p.m., 108B p.m., "The Comedians" (7:30 p.m., Aud.). Wells). Junior Recital: Linda Boozer, viola (3 p.m., 103 Faculty Recital: Elsa Ludwig, clarinet (8:15 "Eclipse" (7, 8:40 and 10:20 p.m., 104B Music Practice Bldg.). Wells). p.m., Music Aud.). "The Adolescent" (7, 8:40 and 10:20 p.m., "Hie Blue Max" (6:45 and 9:30 p.m., 108B 106B Wells). Wells). TUESDAY, MARCH 3 Wrestling: MSU v. U-M (3 p.m., Sports Arena). "Caressed" (7, 8:40 and 10:20 p.m., 106B Basketball: MSU v. Indiana (8 p.m., Jenison Basketball: MSU Purdue Wells). Field House). v. (8 p.m., Jenison Field Grove Press film "Erotic Underground" House). (7, 8:40 A1 Sutterfield & The Warmth (8:30 p.m., Senior Recital: Larry Le Master, cello (8:15 and 10:20 p.m., 104B Wells). Albatross). Pete Seeger Hudson River p.m., Music Aud.). Project Benefit (8:30 p.m., Albatross). SUNDAY, FEB. 22 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4 SATURDAY, FEB. 14 Graduate Recital: Gordon Mehling, violin (4 Lecture - Concert Series (B): Alvin Concert: MSU Orchestra p.m., Music Aud.). American Dance Theatre (8:15 Ailey Symphony (8:15 p.m., Senior Recital: Nancy p.m., Aud.). Okemos High School). Harrington, soprano (8:15 "Night of the Generals" (7 and 9:30 p.m., 101 Military Coronation Ball. p.m., Music Aud.). North Kedzie Hall).