^ VLOl > Hj"VH more impressionistic technique Is not original direction. Vander Molen is Vander Molen searching rather than Robert Vaisder Molen with lyrics, the -- folk rock, Joni Mitchell's just observing. Like many of his contemporaries, poems of Galway Kinnell — one sees it he is not content with the many places; but Vander Molen uses it, as he did "oughts" and "musts" of a "career"; in poem II he muses, the simpler devises of Imagism, with authority.) /ywBiBTions no Despite the expansion in the question that the same poems, there is poet wrote them. I'll get a Job factory They no longer deal with the great Michigan north (he notes in one poem, "As a boy / I was Or I'll turn myself in closer I to the shore") but they do deal, always, As a farmer with the poet and his life. The most important Walking from the woods change in this book is that the poet, though In my boots young, has already realized that a good part of Become obstinate him comes not from his immediate experience As a farmer and surroundings, but from his past -- the stone - faced aunts, the solemn barns, the porched Sharpen my knives homes ("I dissolve into snow / I worship the In the barn child / That wasn't me"). As he says in the second poem, Denis Donoghue wrote a few years ago that most I grew up believing long modern poems are "works of moral In large views ambition." In their culminating effect, Vander In the terms Molen's poems do have a strangely moral impact. Of many suns One young poet, searching, for the best that is in But I've shrunk him -- or in any possible life. "Variations." Read From that... it. These poems also convey -•Linda Wagner of Zeitgeist $1.25 "Variations" by Robert Vander Molen (Zeitgeist Press, $1.25, available at Paramount News) Robert Vander Molen's "Variations" is another book of good poems. Vander Molen, an MSU student, has published two earlier books with Zeitgeist, "Blood Ink" (1967) and "The Lost Book of Deep Ocean Fish" (1968). The present book differs from the previous ones in that it is one long poem, comprised of seventeen sequences, instead of numerous short poems. It is like the earlier poems in its ironic understatement, its sometimes flat phrasing, and its attention to the simple and conrete: Old women with hats director michael o'neal cover jon burbach Walk slow senior staff writer mar ion nowak photo essay, pages 6.7 wayne munn On some slow day mark nixon, betsy roach, john reese, linda photos, pages 2.3,8 courtesy of WMSB-TV In their heavy black heels wagner, albert drake photos, pages 11,12 terry luke While the street becomes a trance.. artwork, pages 4,8 nancy church The surrealist tendencies of "Deap Ocean Fish" show in "Variations," too, but to better advantage. Once the reader is used to Vander Molen's customary Objectivist approach (short descriptions of the "real"), he reads the surreal poems with a tentative response. The lines about the bullet wound in the poet's stomach -- sure, we know this is fantasy, or do we: Look at its context: I awoke thirsty In some decayed board of a hotel Where at the sink I discovered A small hole in my stomach But I had no pain I could feel the bullet Under the skin With my fingers.... The impression is of a real sink, real skin, real idiom. Like Kafka, only the single premise is fantastic. Many poems in "Variations" work in this manner, joining concrete and imaginative for a harsher, more evocative picture of the mood and times. Sometimes it seems as if Vander Molen has consciously substituted the fantastic for the more expected metaphor. "Ill, 4" is a poem that would have been typical in either of the earlier books: The glorious screams Of my childhood Of my strength Of my beauty The toss of diamonds On the floor The ending image crystallizes and clarifies the list preceding it. In "Variations," his more customary approach is to avoid the tight summary of the metaphor. Vander Molen gives the same concrete opening, but follows it with an oblique image, or another seemingly disparate picture. Instead of shaking his head with a satisfied "That's right," the reader can only keep reading -- the poems seldom "end"; they have consequently become appreciably longer. (This jooa -^ipuui^ JU buiouU SJpA| 'sai-rejoduia-juoD siq jo Aubiu 35(17 -gui/uasqo }snf 4; tfou ABAljuy UBtn JSqiBJ SuiipjBas si ua|Oiv japuBA uojjoajip sjjaip^ipv ?uof 'jpoj jffoj -- uajojv Japu^A W!M si:nom uuuou [euiduo jou si onbiuqoa? Dijsiuoissajdu/r aioui Thursday, March 5. 197ft 3 Life on 'Sesam By BETSY ROACH Story reading, puppet dramas, short films and education early, since half of all the commercials help the racially growth in a integrated cast person's intelligence takes place between birth nd of children and adults teach such concepts as age four. Another 30 per cent occurs between 57«g a song of before and after, letters, words, numbers, classification and ages four and eight. Sing a song and sing some more. ordering, as well as reasoning skills and problem The booklet also cites statistics saying that 90 Sing a song and try to tell me solving, to the preschool children who watch it. per cent of households with an annual income Which comes after and which comes before. Sesame Street is a city street. Action centers less than $5,000 have a television set. around the candy store, or the steps of one of Locally, "Sesame Street" is seen Monday the houses, where members of the cast gather to through Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. It's "silly song time." talk about sounds, table manners or the wind. on WMSB, channel 10. Retuns of Friday's Five of Jim Henson's Muppets bounce around A furry grouch of a Muppet named Oscar lives program are shown at 10 a.m. on the television screen singing this little ditty. A in a nearby trash can, where he can be found Saturday man illustrates the mornings. concepts of "before" and watching a televised football game between the The big problem is "after" by showing the order of certain actions — getting people to tune into Midtown Meanies and the Dullsville Drudges. educational television. The program, which is experimental, was "I don't think the community is accustomed developed by the Children's Television Workshop to watching channel 10," said Faye Elizabeth, and is seen nationwide on some 200 educational community contact for WMSB. "The thing is to television stations. change their viewing habits." "Sesame Street" uses the repetitive, She said each television is allowed 1,000 free entertaining, fast-paced style of a commercial as copies of the "parent / Teacher Guide to a means for teaching letters, numbers and ideas. "Sesame Street," which is published once each The program is funded by the month. Carnegie Corporation, the Ford Foundation, the U.S. Miss Elizabeth said free Office of Education and several other federal and copies of the guide are also available at various national agencies. pick-up centers: the Bethlehem Lutheran Church Statistics gathered by the A.C. Nielsen Co. Office, Friendship Day Care Center, Cristo Rey Community Center, indicate the program is seen by some two million Spartan Nursery School, Community Services households daily. Officials of the Children's Council, the West Side Drop-In Center and Heard Television Workshop estimate that "Sesame Start offices. The guide, which costs Street" reaches over five million children per $2 for a six-month subscription, helps parents review the day. ideas presented in the program with the children. Studies have been conducted in an attempt to Miss Elizabeth said a major problem is whether measure the program's effects on preschoolers. (continued on page 8) Edward Palmer, research director for the for example, you pick up the fork before you eat Workshop, found some of the most impressive the cake. increases in the of Then comes the inevitable commercial. But area naming letters and numbers. wait — they're advertising 0! The letter 0. Some 130 three - to - five - year - old children There's a catchy jingle with animated cartoons in day care centers in Maine, Long Island and about 0. It's enough to make you sing along. Tennessee took part in the learning tests. The Like in other television programs, another sample was divided almost evenly between black commercial follows. It's about the number eight. and white children, including those from homes "E-e-e-ight!" screams a cartoon spider as he spies with working mothers and modest economic a snake which forms an eight. Film clips show means. After six weeks the ability to name letters objects in groups of eight - fight coins, eight showed a nine per cent gain for viewers pies. The number flashes on the screen various compared to a three per cent gain for times in time with music. non-viewers. The ability to name numbers Then back to the program. Obviously, this is showed a 12 per cent gain for viewers and a four not the run - of - the - mill stuff to come from per cent gain for non-viewers. the idiot box. A booklet about the program put out by the It's "Sesame Street." Workshop emphasizes the need to begin a child's 4 Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan Notes on women's liberation . . . whites and pottery. But a fust - class Hall and what right to see happens. Try the same thing in By MARION NOWAK realize one's own potential freedom from the Snyder Hall and see what doesn't. Sure, the rules overwhelming prejudice of cultural cliches. are the same. But their enforcement makes them To understand the idea of women's liberation You, as a college male, are about to enter a life different. is to realize, perhaps for the first where you will inevitably sabotage the life of a time, the Ironically, here as so many times in the past, ultimate essence of oppression in this to fulfill your own fulfillment. the oppressive system is society. woman helped along by the You discover not merely the nature of And you, as a college female, are probably the oppressed. Because of the overwhelming oppression (more so than in mere oppression of product of lifelong pressures sugaring you into conviction of the oppressor, many blacks minority groups), but the extent to which delight at the prospect. honestly believed they belonged in slavery, and modern society is based on a total exploitation An idea of the total system pressurizing of women. women into their place can be gathered using Two current controversies in America are Michigan, and particularly MSU, for examples. A witch is an all pointing up the need to scrap the present system: MSU's part in this societal fact, like its part in . - woman Everything. It's theater, revolution, magic, terror, joy, ecology and women's liberation. The movement America's racism, is a perpetrator of the system for environmental reform is based on poisoning that changes only under duress. Such duress has garlic flowers, spells. It's an awareness not yet appeared. that witches and gypsies were the original Adherence by the University to a Michigan guerillas and resistance fighters against residency law, for instance, seriously affects the oppression . . . Witches were the first economic life of many students. This law dictates Unto the that all wives follow the Friendly Heads and Dealers, the first birth woman (God) said, I will residency of their husbands. Thus many coeds studying in - control practitioners and greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy Michigan abortionists, who may have premarital in-state status are the first alchemists ... A witch lives and conception; in sorrow thou sha.lt bring penalized for marrying. laughs in every woman. She is the free forth children; and thy desire shall be to Dorm life, although not directly part of each of us beneath the shy thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. discriminatory, further reveals the symptoms and smiles, the acquiesence to absurd stresses of the modem means of female male (Genesis 3:16) oppression. domination. . . if you are a woman and Interpretation of rules and regulations in dare to look within yourself, you are a residence halls is a prime example of these witch (■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■•■■■■■■■an ■■■■ . . .you are free and beautiful. . . symptoms. The rules in theory are pretty equal, Whatever is repressive, right? The major difference in written regulations solely male - of the physical planet itself. Women's liberation, oriented, is that men aren't allowed in women's halls after greedy, puritanical, more strongly than any "civil rights" movement authoritarian those are your targets... in history, is instead based on the closing while women can enter lounge areas in - poisoning of men's dorms anytime. Again, women's halls are you are pledged to free our brothers minds and lifestyles. locked while men's are not. Merely to say that from "I am Furious (Female)," a pamphlet oppression and stereoptyed sexual roles as women need more protection is not just well as ourselves. You are a produced for the Women's Caucus of the New witch by University Conference, states that "the condition inadequate but naive. Why does the University think women must be protected? saying aloud, "I am a witch," three times, of female oppression does not 'depend and on,' is not The answer to this reveals the basic thinking about that. You the product of,' nor is it prejudice are a witch 'integral to' the inherent in the problem. Women, the by being female, untamed, angry, structure of society: it is that structure." University joyous, This is why any initial discussion of women's says in effect, are too weak to defend themselves. and immortal. • liberation is so difficult. It's quite easy to point Why? By and large because, from birth, every woman is pressured the facts of prejudice against blacks, culturally into believing so. up or even or Indians. Such groups are a small segment Jews, Woman is physically weak, and therefore she is (Exerpted from the Witch Manifesto) of society; it is so much easier to emotionally, psychologically and mentally weak regard such also. She is an inferior — but a fractions than to view the whole system of necessary one in nanlriml many specific social functions, like maintaining universities. Therefore, she must be The realization of the condition of women protected, many Jews honestly believed they deserved the somewhat like a microcephalous idiot. death comes by studying the whole society, rather than camps. Consequently, both furnished This protection of the semi-human extends a small part of it, for its ingrained biases. people who acted in overseeing functions to hlep through all phases of dorm living. Imagine make their own kind obey. The typical college student prides himself on keeping girls out of the lounge of guys' dorms At MSU, the function of the RA his respect for human rights. He believes that after twelve. And as imagine having to escort all "perpetuator /overseer" is only subtle as the people like blacksshould be equal, not inferior,in female guests through men's halls to as the eyes of society. But how protect the pressure of society. But since the RA is the initial deep does our great guys' privacy and innocence. And, even if such rule enforcer, this can have love for humanity go? Sure, blacks can be equal rules were created, how many ramifactions. to whites. Jews and Italians are long would they be That Friday night booze bash, for instance. We OK, too. Well, enforced, it at all? all know that a what about foreign students; or homosexuals? guy can't possibly be corrupted Do they deserve human rights too? Enforcing these rules offers another example by a little drinking; men are too strong to be of the manifestations of oppression at MSU. All shattered by the experience. But women! The And, most of all, do you really think women dorms have about the same rules deserve human rights? regarding threat of corruption to the coed is always there. fornication, liquor, noise. But, because of the Being foreordained sub-humans Not the "right" to look women can't pretty, have a few differences in enforcement, these rules in effect be allowed to ., years of post-wedding career, then tum into a are toy with such masculine things as totally different in male and female halls. Try liquor, aggressive sex or noise. Masculinity would baby factory, seeking fulfillment through whiter to have a Friday night booze bash in Williams shatter her. The lifelong pressure convincing women of this determines residential life here and everywhere. Another part of residential existence is dorm government, best exemplified by Men's Hall Assn. (MHA) and Women's Inter-residence Council (WIC). The mere fact that there are two such on-campus groups rather than one is important. But, if there were one, it's doubtful that any coeds would participate actively. Automatic deference to male figures is programmed quite well into the modern American woman, and college is a place to further this way of life. Greek life at MSU epitomizes in many ways the entire system of modern female oppression. We see here two distinctly separate - by - sex organized groups, which adhere to the exploitation pattern through the convenient nicknames of "social clubs." Sororities, functioning today as just such social clubs, are designed largely to perpetuate the idea of woman as an attractive piece of property. In a sorority, one Enjoys Being A Girl. Crucial to any such enjoyment is proper behavior; that is, an entire facade cautiously built from the right manners, makeup, dress and purpose. The purpose of the facade is to catch a man by play - acting the ideal woman. The nature of the facade forbids any reality in this idealism: the package produced is mostly a fantasy, and entirely a trap. Ironically, it does not man but the just trap a woman. When you live such a fantasy, you're forced to become that lose anything you've won fantasy, or by it. (continued on page 8) uESnpjfv 'Suisurj jspg 'sa\3>j ojpjs uegnprjv fr Thursday, March 5,1970 5 . . . ancf a translating of the idea 'all hysterics are women' faults. But things I thought were psychological into 'all women are hysterics' took place. aren't — iney're societal. They're not just my EDITOR'S NOTE: The following comments FOUR: 'Hysterectomy' means getting rid of problem — they're a lot bigger than that. are edited from a conversation with four hysterics. TWO: Like not being heard, or overlooked, or women students active in the women's not even speaking out in classes... Concerning local activism, the only liberation movement at MSU. thing I've done is in the area of self - defense. I Yeah. I explained this away by thinking 'Maybe I don't feel safe or at ease alone on wasn't clear enough' or 'maybe I'm stupid.' campus after Interview by MARION NOWAK dark. Since the University is concentrated all in That's what we're told to think. Males tend to one area, we're really sitting ducks, we're really speak up first — females dont feel as competent, accessible. I want to establish the or can't get a word in edgewise, or seek approval principle that the University owes you so they remain silent The whole ONE: After doing some reading and talking protection, and not just pressure of from cops cruising around. You should be society makes women need to seek male approval. about the subject I went from a feeling of taught how to protect yourself. This includes not When I stopped setting my hair it really threw individual confusion to a feeling of real just oppression. I wanted to do something about it. students, but staff and female faculty ... me: I wasn't pretty any more! Before, I had to I took these ideas to the ombudsman to see if depend on this fantasy of prettiness to get what I Groups I was involved in that operated on a the University could establish a daytime free self wanted from men. Now I'm able to be much personal basis were generally dissatisfying. Over Christmas we attended a conference in Ames, - defense program. He told me if I didn't feel safe more honest. Io-va dealing with women's liberation. I came on campus I should transfer to some other FOUR: You just don't know what goes on in back with a real collective of campus, or go home. When I said that implied your mind. I used to get complimented on the sense working for my sisters because it's really important to me ... staying home the rest of my life, he said 'I guess way I looked a lot. I knew what a big facade it so.' Rust added 'I don't think any woman could was. Women have this big We must be careful of using rhetoric. When we problem with fantasy protect herself against a man even if she does and reality: they are made to believe say "there must be a revolution" we have to people will know self - defense.' I then asked him who the only like the unreal about them When I explain why very carefully. To me there are some . . . group should see concerning the school's legal started reading women's liberation literature, it logical reasons we have to work toward this goal. All the changes that have to be made will never responsibility for free daytime lessons. Hie really blew my mind that it was so well-written^ University attorney, Rust told me, but 'he A woman worte this? I was so take place in this society because capitalistic repressed . .. doesn't see students.' TWO: When a woman does something athletic, society reinforces the dominant patterns set up THREE: Now that's a really fine example of how the reactions before, providing surplus labor and good are just a scream. the university helps its students go FOUR: I feel really insecure about consumers. Still, any time we use the words like through the sports. proper channels to effect change. Women aren't trained to use their "revolution" or "capitalistic" we must be bodies, so conscious that we're clear on what we mean. We FOUR: Before talking to the ombudsman, I they're insecure and unwilling and sure they'll asked the dean of the women's HPR dept. to fail. can't alienate people. THREE: My mother taught me not to be athletic I'm really in a quandary. I wouldn't talk of support the self - defense program idea. She said, not from fear of failure but because I revolution before the conference but that's 'I realize girls are afraid to go out after dark but might get really hurt, and scarred. They teach you in all sorts of unfair. Assuming women can't accept the idea is you still have to prove to me that this program is little ways.... both unfair and condescending. really needed.' . . . What the program should teach is something like karate, that builds FOUR: You're told it doesn't matter if you TWO: Personally. I'm not as deeply into it as don't do well, or you're simply not encouraged. that. I'm not at the point where I'm ready for strength and gives you confidence. We shouldn't It makes it easy to leam to fail when you don't the idea of revolution. Perhaps it's because I get just tricks that don't alleviate the problem don't fully understand my feelings about that women freeze — they're scared because they get any supportive behavior. If you succeed women's liberation yet. think they're weak ... A policeman came around except in being "feminine" you lose approval... ONE: the dorms to talk about self - defense. His ONE: I have a new sense of total honesty. It's so Primarily, capitalism operates on a property basis: people are property just as much method of defense in case of rape was either good to be completely honest. When I first heard scream or get raped. That's all. Your only of women's liberation, I thought it was as things are. Certain groups of people are made really to be satisfied alternatives. stupid, run by a bunch of castrating bitches. But as castes, particularly blacks and ONE: It's so easy to get sex on campus. A rapist our own experience bears out everything women, to serve a property function. Their is really out for violence, not sex. Screaming women's liberation says. physical characteristics identify them as surplus labor. They've the 'last hired, first fired.' They're won't stop him. FOUR: I thought I was the only person in the used to keep the general work force's wages low. There are so many things that women just world messed up because I was a woman. It was take on themselves that we assume are our own really fascinating to discover I wasn't. They're paid less than white males. This surplus labor is thrown in and out of the market, keeping wages down and profit high. THREE: Another economic function of putting women in a separate class is that they come to serve a social function of doing jobs for free. Caretaking, janitorial, childcaring services are done for free when otherwise additional workers would have to be hired. This today is a sexually discriminating function. It's necessary to create the proper mentality in a class of people, like in "Brave New World" where the Gamma class is brainwashed into liking its labor. A whole psychological context is created to pressure women into voluntarily performing certain functions. They certainly wouldn't take these jobs for pay so they must be brainwashed. Considering the economic thought behind the system helps you to go from frustration and hatred to an understanding that when we're fighting male oppression we're fighting the entire economic system. FOUR: When women's jobs are reclassified part-time, employers don't have to pay fringe benefits; they're not covered by the union so they can be fired at any time ... ONE: This oppression is so cohesive that the whole social system really works well together. It's an entire psychology constructed out of a social context. Some of Freud has no proof at all but his results were consistent with his expectations based on his social context. FOUR: These include the myth of the vaginal orgasm and the idea of anatomy - as - destiny: woman is capable of having children, therefore that's ali she should do. THREE: Freud also said that women\ don't form identities until they get married. A woman's nature is to fit to her husband's form. FOUR: Freud took men and made women their opposites, negativ e men, instead of investigating women as women. ONE: Also, he described social attitudes rather than delving into them. THREE: Freud also perpetrated a medical belief persisting from Plato, who 'discovered' that all hysterics were wemeii. Freud studied only female hysterics with things like paralyzed legs and said the paralysis was due to an emotionally misplaced uterus. He never examined similar male things like wpatence. Here you see how the w ssc- » TJ © 5 ii --2 u S -a ^ " e "2 £ -e M m ai e "& +■» tS , B _ _ _ — SS3-S jfj = | 3; ,-S 1 -s « 1 Iia' - 6 Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan The Alba The Albatross is a coffeehouse that that each performer ca tries to be human. The underlying limited to three. It concept is of a place where people can Hum-'n-Strum nights th get together and talk with each other weekend talent has been and, as a sideline, be able to hear some The photographs on t good folk music or see an underground taken at the Hum-'n-St film. The emphasis is on February 25. participation and involvement, not entertainment. The Albatross is locate floor of the Paramount 1 Hum-'n-Strum, a unique feature of the Ice Cream Shop - Paraph< Albatross, is an expression of just this and is open every day < philosophy. Every Wednesday evening from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. finds the Albatross stage filled by Friday and Saturday), anyone who wants to perform a song or pretzels, chips and pops a read a poem. Lately the response has The Albatross is here, been so great that the number of songs the wing. Photo essay by W * & «- • cS5tS iif^i a go~°a£# — _o >. o, « —» S £ £ 2g -2 S Ta.^imrnn §.2O- = us . -2 « r § ~ Ogf £^ = — Q. 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An additional irony is that the pressures, even the paradoxical onces, point one rights laws regarding sex. victim is not conscious she is a victim. This way. And MSU helps them point that way. But perhaps the most important implication is furthers the perpetuation of the sorority ideal of What can be done to make women into first - that, because the very nature of America today class citizens? Only part of any solution begins at depends on keeping women in their places, the t enjoying being a girl. MSU. The question of residency requirements, Fraternities exists not whole nature of society must be changed. Many as just social clubs but for instance, has an obvious solution: don't liberation groups insist that the only way this symbols of the raison d'etre of the sorority. True, sorority women don't confine themselves penalize the wife economically for her husband's will come about is through a revolution. Whether to residence status. The well ingrained conviction - revolution or evolution suits as a solution fraternity men. But their symbolic value as the rvost significant determinants — and the only that women are weak (if so, why do they outlive remains a deep intellectual and psychological c aterminants within the Greek system — is great. men?) can be countered at least one way: problem of human rights. For this reason, it's highly unlikely that a through a self - defense program designed to Any belief in human liberation must inevitably eliminate female fears of physical weakness or consider — more, emphasize - the woman. Any united Greek organization could be said to truly represent all Greeks in student government. helplessness. larger justice shouldn't exclude half the world. If But such therapy is on the whole inadequate. the only way a man can stand up is by Graek women ultimately would defer to Greek crushing It is all too easy to recognize that women will down a woman's life, he does not deserve to men. Their way of life depends on it. never be free until they have full control over stand. More importantly, the system that justifies Independent career life as such is not their own bodies. considered valid future for most his stance must be changed as subtly or as totally a women at The most direct implication of this is reform as it destroys. MSU. This is not only because MSU is the nation's largest university marriage market. The majority of female students here major in areas not likely to interfere with woman's social function of preserving the family. (As Engels states, the word "family" comes from the Latin "familia": the total number of staves belonging to one man.) Elementary education, social work, home economics and nursing are a few fields the compassion of woman is expressed in. The panacea that women are compassionate is extended to emphasize that women, because they are so emotional and compassionate, are not suited to hard cold things like math, logic, medicine. At MSU this is expressed in the preponderance of men in such disciplines. MSU, remember, does not consciously say "Keep them women out" of such fields. It's just that to enter and succeed in them the coed must be, like the black, super - talented. Otherwise she ends up in her predestined social place, binding together her nuclear family Vid seeking fulfillment. This brings us to another point in which MSU figures importantly: the idea of Fulfillment. This is a panacea doled out as a substitute for freedom. Women can find true womanly fulfillment through womanly things like whiter whites, Pamper diapers, Revlon and — if it all begins to pale -Excedrin. Why should a woman even bother to attend college, then, if she only is happy in the home? The answer: college helps her to feel Fulfilled. She is, after college, capable of conversing more readily with her spouse and his friends, more Sesame (continued from page 3) all come home from school at lunch. All of them the guides will reach people who will read and watch this wonderful program and are very use them. interested in it. My three - year - old counts all the time and even recognizes letters and says Estimating some 380,000 preschoolers in the Lansing - East Lansing area, she said there are not 'That's from "Sesame Street." enough free guides to go around. For this reason Geraldine Wells, teacher-at the Friendship Day she wants to know who gets the guides. Care Center in Lansing, said the children who Miss Elizabeth is especially interested in watch it there during lunch "like it a great deal." finding out where potential "Sesame Street" Hiram Fitzgerald, assistant professor of viewers are. psychology, said "Sesame Street" is the first "I understand that there are quite a number of children's program he has seen that makes an organizations and courses on campus that take attempt at using psychological principles. students out into the community," Miss Fitzgerald said the variety of people and Elizabeth said. situations presented widen the horizons of the She said she wants these and other people to white middle - class child. tell people in the inner city about "Sesame "The program presents people from various Street," and then to tell her who they told. She ethnic and racial backgrounds in situations where would then give the volunteers guides to take to they're just people," he said. the homes. Fitzgerald said "Sesame Street" is definitely Miss Elizabeth said she needs a mialing list of the favorite program of his five - year - old son. viewers of the program in order to mail out This is a sign that television could have a great, announcements concerning the program and wonderful effect on children, he said. The main other programs of interest to preschoolers. effect the program has had on his son is to She said in order for the station get more stimulate questions about differences in people guides they must be paid for by someone in the and places, he said. community. Those wishing to underwrite Fitzgerald said the use of the commercials and subscriptions for underprivileged families can other attention - getting devices are very send the money to "Sesame Street," WMSB, important in the teaching of numbers and letters. MSU. He said children are entranced by commercials at Miss Elizabeth said she had heard no an early age due to the fact that they are simple unfavorable comments about the program; the and quick. As an example he mentioned his 14 - general response to the program has been very month - old daughter, who orients toward some enthusiastic. commercials. Mrs. Marjorie Tingley, of Jackson, wrote to 'This is an example of what people can do WILX-TV: with this really important communications "I have five boys, two of them preschoolers. medium," Fitzgerald said. "I think it's one heck The other three, first, second and fourth graders, of a beautiful program." ireSnprjv 'Suisueq jsBg 'smsm sjbjs wzSwom Q Thursday, March 5, 1970 9 A seasoned By MARK NIXON The day before he had sighted his gun. The trail wound muddily into the • He shot at three tin cans. The kick of the Kneeling, Al began to gut the body poplars like the scarred bed of a vanished stock of the doe. "Mike, help me. Hold its against his shoulder was back leg up." Mike stood river. Three hunters walked side by side in comfortable. He squeezed the trigger back, white - the trail with the gunstocks under their clean and the shots made his ears faced, arms trembling and heavy. ring for arms and the barrels pointing into the an hour. He felt confident and "Help me," Al said again. Mike held good. But up the back ground. The hunter mthe middle, the old now he was here and he wished he had leg, still warm. one, walked with a heavy limp. Parts of Mike backed away. Al's hand killed one. was the ground were frozen and their There was a far away sound of twigs fumbling inside the neck. He withdrew a red stained hand. "I footsteps made stifled crunches that cracking behind him, a faint and subdued, can't get the echoes in the windless forest. The old as if it had resounded windpipe. "Al turned and was sick. only in his mind. He hunter cursed softly. waited. Again a distant movement arose Low sloping ridges thinly grown over The young spikehorn turned its head from the forest floor. He was dead still. with poplar and scrub jack pine followed and started walking. He watched it amble His breath tried to come slowly through on, over the edge of the swale and up a them on both sides. The trail became his tight pressed lips. narrower and brown tufts of swamp small pined knoll. grass The sound was regular and sharp now, flourished in the mud. They stopped. like tramping. "Yes, like a hunter," he "Oh god," Mike said aloud. The deer was gone. Filmy white breaths rose and disappeared thought. "Yes, of course. Probably a damned hunter. No amimal is that noisy. Yes, the woods are full of hunters. "I'd better not move. No telling about some hunters. They shoot at anything that moves. I might startle him. I'd better not move." The tramping became obscenely loud. "God!" Mike laughed to himself. "How does the guy expect to see deer when he's stumbling over every leaf and log in the woods? Well, maybe it's a woman." ' The old one said women were bad hunters. He rolled his head against the stump to the right to see the approaching hunter. Within minutes the sound of the first It was a young spikehorn. It walked shot cracked high into the treetops, hung slowly into his view from around the corner of the stump. Ten feet there, then drifted far into the woods and away. A oblivion. Then two more shots fired, one clean easy shot. The young deer from their mouths. The morning air had a stopped. after another, and fell into the same It turned its head and faced him with solid feeling that stuck to the lips and bewailed and ghostly echo. depthless black eyes. The hide seemed insides of the nostrils. "They may have missed," he thought. brown - matted, like dried summer grass. "Stay close to the swamp," said the The hairs all flowed the same "Maybe it got away." He stood up and old one. "They'll head for the way as if gazed at the pined knoll, wanting to see swamp in groomed. Its thin strong legs stood daylight." He plodded lamely off the trail fastened to the earth. It did not move. He over it, beyond it; to see the young and behind the ridge. spikehorn. "They may have missed." could almost feel its heart beat. The other two stood silently, hearing There was another shot, echoing with the sound of the old hunter's ragged sharpness, like the sound of a footsteps being swallowed by the forest floor. fragment being chipped off a large rock. The doe lay in the dry leaves, its "See you back at the tent, Mike," said "That's the pistol," he thought. "That's -sides heaving. At the base of its neck the the tall one. what they use to finish it. They couldn't hair was soaked with a small patch of "Good luck," said Mike. The tall one bear to use a knife. No. They couldn't red. walked away. touch it when it was still living." "Oh my God," choked Al. "God, I Mike looked up. The leafless branches He walked back the way he came; webbed over a sullen dawn - lit sky. There thought I saw a rack. I was sure of it. again on the mud trail. There was a wind God!" Al was crying. were no limbs clashing or trunks creaking. now, rocking the frail - looking poplar He dropped to his knees before the He climbed a steep sloped limbs, blowing the snow clouds into the dying animal. He unsheathed his knife and land. He met two hunters on their way in, embankment, and at the top looked drove the knife deep and hard into its below to the other side. The swale was and he nodded to them. neck. The blood pumped out onto the tundra - like; a treeless clearing overridden leaves and steamed in the cold air. The "Any luck?" said one. with marsh grass and thick gnarled roots. "Nothing," said Mike. sides stopped heaving. Huge pine stumps rotted in the swale, The others weren't back yet. He went their jagged bark lifting like black desolate inside the tent and rested on a cot. The spikehorn had not moved. "I have fingers. Everything smelled of kerosene and wet to wait for him to look Mike chose a spot at the edge of the away. If I move canvas. He stared up into the tent while he's looking, he'll bolt and I might darkness. swale near a stump. The insides of the miss. Look away. Don't watch me." A stump had decayed fully and now quack "Maybe," he thought, "there is clean easy shot. grass and moss grew there. Sapless roots (conuiiued on page 10) lay unearthed by erosion at the base of the stump, gray and spindly, suspended and grasping in the air. He sat down with the gun across his lap. "There won't be many deer in there," he thought. "He was right. I'm too far from the swamp." His eyes passed over the swale and he wondered if the stumps were made by a lumber cut or a fire. He lay his head back against the stump. His face and hands were cold already. It hadn't warmed at all. It would snow today. Tracking would be easy. He flexed his toes inside his boots to keep them warm, being careful not to rustle against the ground. "I wish I had killed one before," Mike thought. "If I had killed one, I might know." VV OL61 ' S \\Qieyi' /lcpsjr>ux 10 Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan ^4 seasoned (continued from page 9) "Is that right." "No. Maybe later. I just want to lie som Sing that jells in you as you grow "Yeah," said the tall one, biting into here awhile." old the sandwich. "It was his brother that did nething like courage. Something that es you want to kill the deer." He it. Thought he was a deer. The guy didn't Outside the old man asked something did know. Perhaps it never grew. He have a chance. Some people shoot in a low voice. did n ; care. He slept then. anything." "Yes," said Mike. "Some people will." "Naw," said the other, "the cold just got to him a bit." After a while he heard The tall one pulled open the tent flap "Say, you feelin' all right?" their boots pulling and sinking on the and stepped in. "Yeah. I'm just a little tired." worn mud trail. "I don't see any rack hangin' on the "Well, get something to eat." He went tree outside," he laughed. "See any?" Dutside. Now the wind swelled with the The flap was thrown back. A gray fury "Nothing." of the season. It pawed at the tent and "Me neither. The old man had a crack light wafted in from the opening. The tall shook it, rippling over the folds of canvas at one. Too far away one poked his head in. with the sound of a drum roll. Mike though. Didn't have " a clean shot." You comin' out with us after lunch, looked out through a partially opened He began making a sandwich. "Yeah, I Mike?" tent flap. It snowed, beating down in a ran into the game warden on the Mike lay there thinking. "They need multi way - rhythmed beat, in time with the back. Said a hunter was killed this it The old man and the other. They have earth's pulse; a lasting snow that covered morning in the next township." reason to kill the deer. Maybe we ... " the wounds of the mud trail. UBSriprjv 'Suisuvj jseg 'sm3]m ajejs ueSnPFW 01 Thursday, March 5, 1970 The theater concept at MSU By JOHN REESE EDITOR'S NOTE: John Reese is a graduate student in theatre and an actor in the Performing Arts Company. The opportunities at MSU for enriching theatrical experiences, both on and off - stage, are almost countless: THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING was the most recent Performing Arts Company presentation; the Spring Repertory Festival, consisting of the comedy, VOLPONE, Harold Pinter's THE HOMECOMING and the musical, THE THREEPENNY OPERA, is rehearsing nightly for the May 6-26 run; Michael McCarty, graduate student, is readying a production of VIET ROCK in conjunction with an undergraduate acting class (to be presented March 14-15 in Brody Hall); Doctoral candidate, Jay Raphael, is conducting a workshop based on the theories of Antonin Artaud; in addition, fourteen productions are being rehearsed by members of Theatre 448 (Directing II). These plays include DEATH OF A SALESMAN, A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM, WAITING FOR GODOT and BAREFOOT IN THE PARK; and the Theatre Dept. has recently sponsored the NEW PLAYWRIGHTS THEATRE in which aspiring undergraduate students, will work closely with directors and playwrights have had the occasion company members, and enhance the quality of acknowledgment of his talents and skills, and it to test and display their artistic talents. their practical theatre experience by this obligated to the production program in some These are indicative of the diversity of the association. capacity. In that respect, it would be a waste of theatrical experience at MSU. Hie opportunities talent and money if the theatre staff failed to Hiis assumption can be for significant participation in every aspect of misleading for a utilize the potential of the PAC. number of reasons. Hie composition of the PAC, There is an understanding among the production are available to the aspiring actor, in spite of rigorous ' screening, can vary in quality directors of the theatre staff that if writer, technician and director. from year to year. Also, the growth of the a non-PAC Thus far, the MSU theatrical picture seems actor or designer of superior quality comes along theatre artist is best attained through actual quite good. However, as in any university they will be utilized in the place of a less talented significant theatrical experience. And there are PAC member. Indeed there are recent notable program, and, especially the arts, there are too many aspiring theatre artists to be illustrations of productions which consisted of problems. One which predominates on this accommodated even in a program as extensive as campus is the conflict between the Performing the one at MSU. Consequently, a degree of predominantly undergraduate casts. Several of Arts Company and those individuals who are not last season's plays, THE GOVERNMENT resentment exists between PAC and non-PAC members of the company. members. A frequent complaint of the INSPECTOR, THE TORCH-BEARERS, LITTLE Hie Performing Arts MARY SUNSHINE, MARAT/SADE, and OH, Company (PAC), is a undergraduates is that they are limited to minor unique aspect of MSU's Dept. of Theatre. The roles and walk-ons, or they are virtually ignored WHAT A LOVELY WAR had large numbers of present company is composed of twenty when it comes to the production program. This is undergraduates participating in major and carefully selected "artist/student" members who not an unjust reaction. secondary roles. An undergraduate is currently are pursuing graduate degrees in Theatre. The On the other hand, there are important designing one of the repertory productions. The casting situation has been undeniably company members have production artistic and financial considerations that less favorable for non-PAC members this | responsibilities in acting, business management, drastically affect production decisions. One year costuming, play - writing and technical theatre. due to the Theatre Department's centers around the fact that company members experiment In theory, the PAC provides a core of with a Spring Repertory Festival of three superior are selected after a comprehensive screening plays. | specialists in each of the significant areas of TTie concept of repertory is relatively process involving interviews and auditions. simple production; it is assumed that non-PAC Following selection, each company member is although it is filled with complications in members, the remaining graduate and the practice. Within a specific period of time several recipient of an assistantship as an plays are presented, alternating performance dates. A core of actors (the PAC in this instance) play the major roles in each of the productions composing the repertory. Hie other roles are supplemented by non-PAC members. Ideally the merits of such an experiment are numerous: the audience has the opportunity to view the range of more talented actors who play a variety of roles; the individual actors must meet the challenge of enduring intensive rehearsals and developing different characterizations within a limited span of time; less experienced actors have the chance to work with their more talented peers; and the university community has the occasion to witness significant contemporary and classical drama. Hiis ideal is marred by the demands of such a schedule on the time and energies of everyone concerned: being unfamiliar with the repertory concept, many inexperienced theatre - goers could view three plays within a twenty day period as too confusing or too demanding of their time; the rigors of rehearsing and building three plays are most stringent when one considers that each of the participants is also either a student or teacher; and with the present set - up, most participating undergraduates are involved in less significant ways. This latter problem seems inherent in a large university in which the number of potential participants is so great that everyone cannot be utilized. The problem becomes quality versus quantity — a controversy for which there seems to be no satisfactory or easy solution. The opportunities for active involvement in every aspect of theatre production are greater at MSU than at many large universities. The regular production program is one of the most important in the country. Furthermore, additional student productions are encouraged, and are possible since the kivas provide an excellent place to perform. The MSU Theatre Dept. is sensitive to (continued on page 12) 72 Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan Calendar March 5 March 16 - THURSDAY, MARCH 5 SUNDAY, MARCH 8 THURSDAY, MARCH 12 "Night of the Generals" (7 and 9:30 p.m., 101 Senior Recital: Elizabeth Senior Recital: Frank Merritt, french horn Rice, flute (2 p.m., (8:15 N. Kedzie Hall). Music Auditorium). p.m., Music Auditorium). Senior Recital: Penny Pekrul, piano (8:15 p.m., Music Auditorium). FRIDAY, MARCH 13 FRIDAY, MARCH 6 John Mayall with the James Cotton Blues Band (8 p.m. Auditorium). "Fahrenheit 451" (7 and 9:30 p.m., 108B Beaumont String Quartet (8:15 p.m., Music Wells). King Kong" (PAC Film Classics, Anthony Auditorium). Hall). * Big Ten track meet, preliminaries, Jenison Field MONDAY, MARCH 9 House. "Candy" (7 and 9:15 p.m., 106B Wells). Lecture-Concert "The Servant" (7 and 9:15 p.m., 104B "Graduate Works" opening (Kresge Gallery, Series (B): Shirley Verrett, Wells). mezzo-soprano (8 p.m., Auditorium). evening, through March 29). Senior Recital: Jerry Kalber, clarinet (8:15 "Sunset Boulevard" (7 and 9:30 p.m., 108B p.m., SATURDAY, MARCH 14 Music Auditorium). Wells). Graduate Recital: Donald Busarow, organ (8:15 "Fireman's Ball" (7:30 p.m., Auditorium). "Fahrenheit 451" (7 and 9:30 p.m., 108B Wells). "Hot Spur" (7, 8:40 and 10:20 p.m., 106B p.m., Hart Recital Hall). "Candy" (7 and 9:15 p.m., 106B Wells). Wells). "The Servant" (7 and 9:15 p.m., 104B Wells). "Godzilla vs. the Thing" (7, 8:40 and 10:20 p.m., 104B Wells). TUESDAY, MARCH 10 SUNDAY, MARCH 15 President's Reception for Seniors. SATURDAY, MARCH 7 Honors Concert (8:15 p.m., Fairchild). Commencement Senior Recital: Stephen Costing, tenor (4 Big Ten track meet, finals, Jenison Field House. p.m., "Godzilla vs. the Thing" (7, 8:40 and 10:20 Music Auditorium). p.m., 104B Wells). WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11 "Fireman's Ball" (7:30 p.m., Auditorium). "Hot Spur" (7, 8:40 and 10:20 p.m., 106B State Singers: Dave Brubeck compositions (8:15 MONDAY, MARCH 16 Wells). p.m., Auditorium). "Sunset Boulevard" (7 and 9:30 p.m., 108B "Green Pastures" (7 and 9 p.m., 101 N. Kedzie Early Registration through March 17. Wells). Hall). Finals begin (through March 21). Bookmarks "Riverside Quarterly," (Box 40, Univ. Station, Regina, Canada), 50 cents or $2 per year. There are Little Mags, and then there are little mags. As science fiction readers know, there is a vast underground network of "fanzines" - small, mimeographed publications which are usually exchanged among the contributors and editors. But there are also two or three s-f journals, of which "Riverside Quarterly" is the best. Its approach to the genre is critical, literate and interesting. In the first dozen issues were articles on Heinlein, parapsychology, sexual symbolism in s-f, etc., and some of these were very critical, even scholarly -- but not pedantic: "Tarzan and Rima: The Myth and the Message;" "Some Religious Aspects of "Lord of the Rings;" "Blish, van Vogt and the Uses of Spengler;" "The Faustus Tradition in the Early Science-Fiction Story." experimentation, provides the necessary life - current inequities and has revamped the 1970 - blood of the theatre. The cost of theatre at MSU 1971 production program in an effort to involve for the spectator is ridiculously low when RQ also publishes poetry, reviews, discussions, the non - PAC members more directly. In compared to commercial prices. The current letters and features and "interesting column on addition, the undergraduate theatre curriculum season coupon book, for example, sells for only Old Time Radio material. Its contributors has been revised to provide more enriching and eight dollars. This entitles the holder to attend include some of the best-known names in s-f, meaningful educational experiences; and since seven plays, a dance concert and eight films. Blish, Burdys, Roger Zelazny, Jack Williamson, the current repertory season is the first, the Most student nrodiietions are free. John Campbell, Moskowitz, Delany - names coordinators have no doubt profited by certain which attest to the magazine's stature and errors. Many members of the university community, These students and faculty alike, have never attended well-deserved reputation. problems are recognized and efforts are being made to correct them. any production. There is a considerable Leadership and responsible involvement on difference between the spectator who goes to the -Albert Drake the part of all persons concerned are essential. theatre, hates what he sees and vows never to New plavs are being written and produced. This return, and the spectator who has never given himself the opportunity to make such a decision.