wismifTiiimtmi» s i »-•> " »r vgg HAIR East raise recently Lansing barbers on passed by agree that the 25 - cent haircuts in the Greater Lansing area the Lansing Barber's Association will not seriously affect their and business because there will always be a need for "daddy pleasing haircuts," annual family reunion haircuts and "going to court" trims. Hair — its length and style, location, color, curl, lustre and smell — has always been a powerful symbol since Louis XIV walked into his barber at the court of Versailles and said, "Pierre, HISTORY give me the full bottom." Wigs made the man during the 18th century and Louis knew that all men of business and letters were identified by their grave "full bottom" wigs with the wavy pompadour on high and billowing curls falling to the shoulder. Tradesman wore a "natty scratch" and the country gentleman either wore a "natural fly" or a "hunting peruke." By Mary Morrice "Long - hair," "Afro," "straight" and "far out" are among the labels for hair today. In the 18th century, era of wigs, male hairstyles ranged from the "clergyman's bob" to and the "foxtail pigtail." French revolutionist Maximillian Robespierre wore his hair in a "frizzle" and Robert Bums, Allan Adler true to his down - home poetic style, went "natural." Total beardlessness was common at this time with the exception of one obscure English street musician and an American Quaker named Joshua Weekly Supplement who was persecuted because of it. of the The American Revolutionary army had orders Michigan State News (Continued on next page) November 17. I *>70 Washington ord to keep their ha Louis XVI's peruke (Continued from front page) The center hair part became such an object of from George himself to keep their hair combed suspicion in 1904 that it was said that "no man and powdered and to be shaved. The British who parts his hair in the middle" could ever have soldier was more of a dandy with orders to have the dubious distinction of carrying Texas in a "correct curl patterns" and to sleep face presidential race. downward all night so as not to disturb the hair. Some hair bias still exists as was pointed out by East Lansing barber Bob Ridenour. He said a During the 19th century, the time of Charles Dickens, Lord Byron and Percy Shelley, hair student came in for a haircut recently because he went natural with only dandies curling their hair, was planning a trip to Georgia. "Tlie last time the student had visited that usually with hot crimping irons. Side whiskers grew from early wispy strands to state, he had been shot at," Ridenour said. Moustaches at the tum of the century were bristling full beards with the Romantic poets identified with virility, manliness and spirit. A leading the way. Dickens called mustaches close cropped hair style took on a military "glorious, glorious" and said that without them - "life would be a blank." association. John Keats wore no moustache or beard but During the forties an anthropologist labelled moustaches as "non conformist" and a Shelley combed his full head of hair casually - back much like young James Dean of the 1950's. psychoanalyst called them "symbols of Lord Byron's hair came just below the ears and maturity." was parted on the side. Moustaches at this time usually fell into one of An English countess of the period observed four categories: the "waxy pioty kind," the that long hair was never indulged in "except by Clark Gable type, the Dewey one, or "drooping painters and fiddlers." moustaches." Modem manchu However, the 1800's did bring into fashion a As beards and moustaches retreated into the variety of beards and moustaches. The Vandyke background of hair consciousness in 1950, more beard was associated with doctors and the subtlety in hair styles emerged. "Horace Greeley," considered typically The Madison Avenue cut or the "Princeton" of American, framed the face with a fringe of 1954 demanded hair one inch long all over, flat whiskers and was worn by the pioneer. on the top and sides, and combed in a two step A long goat - like beard was called "Uncle process, first to the side and then back. Sam." Moustaches were referred to When stone faced James Dean played in the as "soup strainers" and "horseshoes." movie of Steinbeck's "East of Eden," the Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany brought into vogue hairstyle to identify alienated youth was born the stiff bristling moustache at the turn of the and further exaggerated by Elvis Presley in 1956. century and a "moustache trainer" was invented The hair began at this time to rise in height and so that men could duplicate the Kaiser's growth. grow in length evolving into such different styles The trainer was nothing but a patch of silk as the Beatles' Liverpool cut, the casual Kennedy gauze attached around the head with two leather tuft and practically every imaginable straps sewed to elastic web. combination of styles. Sitting Bull Scratch wig Louis XIV ordered the "full bottom" when he picture at left. WKAR's Carl Olson wanted to freshen up for court. Modern haircuts enjoys a magazine during the trim procedures. are often only a "trim around the edges." In Moustache trainer Percy Green St. L active social By Roy Malone Associated Press demonstrations "in no way" influenced the keep the mimeograph machine churning out news releases which attack police policies, top changes. ST. LOUIS - Percy Green is a It now is called a civic parade. The route was politicians, big employers and any institution leading citizen of St. Louis. He that Green thinks needs to be reported. changed to have the parade finish in an leads a small band of 'humane He formed ACTION in 1964, calling it Action integrated neighborhood. And it is no longer Committee connected with the Veiled Prophet Ball. revolutionaries' that is to Improve Opportunities for The ball is a private affair. But because it is simultaneously the most - loved, Negroes. The group now has more than two dozen active members. held at the public Kiel auditorium, ACTION'S most - suspected and most - black "Queen of Human Justice" tries to crash it The group's stated goals are: better jobs for effective civic group in the city. blacks; humanizing the police department; each year and gets arrested. Green himself takes credit for the changes: making changes in a white - oriented value "The facts speak for themselves." system. St. Louis police know he is nonviolent, and has That first year Green and a white companion less than two dozen active members, both white Each morning Green, 34, dons a black climbed one leg of the uncompleted Gateway Arch to protest what they said was a lack of and black, however, intelligence unit detectives sweatshirt with the words "ACTION Guerrilla Force" on the front, combat boots, black beret blacks on the job. They stayed up four hours keep close tabs on him. Police records show Green has been arrested and before being hauled away by police. fatigue jacket with five stars on the epaulets. about two dozen times, but he's ne,rer been He bids his wife and son good - bye and sets Woodrow W. Zenfell, who was supervisory convicted of anything more serious than a city off for work in an integrated neighborhood in engineer on the Arch project, said Green's ordinance violations. midtown St. Louis. demonstration "brought to light, in a dramatic His wife Betti works part time as a nurse, does Some St. Louis whites see him as a law - way, what was going on." free lance writing and helps prepare ACTION breaking demonstrator and agitator who know "The President's Committee on Equal news releases. no limit. To many others, especially blacks, he is Employment Opportunitysent some people out," ACTION'S latest target is the commercialism of a constant check on police and employers and a Zenfell said, "and it was decided that on the very Christmas. Green calls the white Santa Claus a "conscience of the community." next contract we would require a written racist instrument that keeps blacks in debt. "I'm a black humane revolutionary. The news statement of affirmative action in the hiring of "I'm not going to teach my son to believe in a media hung the word militant on me," he says minority workers. white Santa Claus. We have to start tearing down from behind dark sunglasses. "Percy's climbing the Arch triggered it." this whole concept of lies and racism," he said. "We're nonviolent," he says of his small Green has been arrested during the past several biracial group. Andy J. Brown, Jr., St. Louis' Human "But it's a rule in change that years for trying to disrupt the annual Veiled Relations Commissioner, while critical of Green's some laws have to be broken. When you exhaust Prophet Parade, traditional kickoff of the fall attacks on the Veiled Prophet Ball, an Plan A you move on to Plan B." social season. He has been charged for lying institution in the city since 1878, said: ACTION headquarters is in north St. Louis, a down in front of parade floats and in 1969 for "I know most business leaders wish they never group of second - floor rooms, the walls of which dropping tacks along the parade route. heard of Percy Green. But I wish we had 100 are covered with pictures of black leaders. There ACTION called the parade racist because it Percy Greens." are charts bearing the names of large employers featured a white "Queen of Love and Beauty" on "He never wants a piece of the action, like and unions and how many blacks they have a float along with her court of maids — society some militant types who always have their hands employed. debutantes. out. All Green wants is for things to be straight. Two small boys come in with money they got The parade has changed in character each year He wants people to listen. He has been the for returning empty soda bottles and hand it to since the ACTION protests began in 1965, conscience of liberals, conservatives and die - Green. The coins, along with bigger donation? although parade spokesmen say the hard segregationists in St. Louis." wrires novel or love Triumph of being By Marc Charney Associated Press then mock cherubic. NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Standing at the "It's a very nice kind of fame, if that's the - front of the classroom, Erich Segal, in rumpled word," he says. Through it all there is a kind of nervous energy trousers and nondescript suede shoes, looks like "It's based on the same kind of gentleness I put — and Segal says it is this energy that explains into the book. him best. any bright young man teaching Latin poetry to a group of bright young Yale students. "I have heard from every single girl I have ever And, as he says it, he wanders through the Except this Erich Segal is also the author of the gone out with. Very few guys ever get the chance apartment, picking up a shoe here, a book there, novel "Love Story," which has been at the top of to undo all their mistakes?" simultaneously talking, packing for a dinner in the best - seller charts simultaneously in the But Segal says the first thing for him is California and thinking about his next class. United States, Britain and France. teaching. He entered the academic world at "I've always lived this way," he said. "I've Unlike some of the poetry he teaches, the Harvard about 15 years ago, and hasn't left it always worked 20 hours a day. I've always run novel is simply written in up - to - the - minute yet. When he got his Ph.D. six years ago, he went 10 miles in the afternoon. I wanted to do language. It is a short novel about two young straight to Yale to teach. everything. people in love, and it is filled with traditional, The scriptwriting began partime while at "They said you'll wind up doing nothing, but unabashed sentimentality, Harvard. He wrote an off - Broadway musical and all I did was have a dream. The difference is, i Or, as Segal puts it, "the triumph of what's was introduced to Richard Rodgers three years mine happened to come true." wonderful about being square." ago. His show business career was off the ground. The apartment itself tells the story. A suitcase This is also the man — more precisely, one of But before "Love Story" and "Yellow lies open almost permanently on the floor, next the men — who wrote the shooting script for the Submarine," Segal was also writing other books to a piano on which Segal plays sentimental Beatles' fanciful cartoon feature, "Yellow that were well- reviewed — scholarly essays songs and composes his own music. Submarine." analyzing the Greek and Latin writers he teaches His books are strewn about the office, amid He commutes several times week about. a now tear sheets of British ads for "Love Story" and between New Haven and "The classes are the parent thing," he says. "I Hollywood to work on foreign language editions of the novel. look forward to my own lectures." screenplays, one of them being the movie version And there's a degree from Harvard. "I don't of "Love Story," or to New York to appear on "When I walk in there, the kids know I'm there know where my A.B. is, but that's a Ph. D." television shows as a celebrity. because I want to be there, not because I don't Segal goes on packing, musing first about his Yet Segal, 33, still lives in a do anything else." resident adviser's track shoes — So there he is every Monday and Wednesday, at simple bachelor apartment at Yale and acts as adviser to students upstairs — when he's home. the front of the drafty Gothic lecture hall, "The one thing I always pack is my track He composes his own music. teaching 250 Yale undergraduates about shoes" — then about clothing — "I lead a very He runs 10 miles a day. technical innovations in Sophocles, or in a organized life," then about a book to take on the Since "Love Story" was published last seminar room teaching Latin poetry — in Latin — plane so he can prepare his class. to another class of 20. The tension of remembering things to pack gets February, he's worked on translations of the He paces up to him, and he looks up. "Someday I'll have an book into Spanish, Italian, French, German and and down the lecture hall's stage, , Dutch. He speaks 10 languages. shooting questions at his students, biting his apartment everywhere." And. he says, he's grown used to the kind of nails, waving his hand, knotting his sallow face A pause, and he looks out at the campus. "No, airline stewardess who says: "Gate 15, Mr. Segal, into expressions first thoughtful, then quizzical, I won't. This is my apartment. and thank you for 'Love Story.'" "This is where I go out of." it's what's happening 2SS MSU Scots Highlanders will be and a party in the near future and Auditorium. Advance tickets may be then break off into rap sessions. The meeting tonight at 7 p.m. in purchased at the Union Ticket SDS Dorm Complex meetings to $1.00 service charge per Demonstration Hall for beginning dance Friday will feature the RUST Office, price is 50c. Groups of 15 or discuss ROTC, dorm cafeteria service, in the lower lounge of Snyder Hall. A bagpipers and Scottish Dancers. more people can get a 10% discount insertion — to be pre¬ and future SDS programs: tonight at $1.00 donation will be requested. on the price of the tickets. Groups paid. 12 p.m. deadline 1 8 p.m. in S.E. Brody, E. Akers, W. For further info, contact the GLM interested in purchasing block Wilson, Also there will be a business office at 353-9795 or stop by 309 tickets, see Mrs. Leonard, room 307, class day before. The Drug Education CENTER'S meeting Sunday. November 22, 8 BENEFIT OF "SALVATION" IS Student Services. Student Services. p.m. in the second floor lounge of THIS SUNDAY EVENING, the Union. "Curioser and Curiouser" Girls, the A meeting to elect representatives for NOVEMBER 22 AT 7:30 P.M. Final Robert Andrus, Art Director, Foote, interdepartmental Biology, General five performances this weekend at society for Creative and Gymnastic Cone & Belding, will speak on "An Science and Physical Science Majors FLY to LONDON this Xmas (Dec. 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Unique door the probabilities were high that the Mall, Chess King, Grinnells. and in MSU SAILING CLUB meeting notice of your group's special event, 2nd floor Union, or call 353-9777 prizes to be awarded. For further front of Bessey Hall on Friday and tonight, 7:30 p.m., room 35. Union. daily between 11:30 and 4:30 p.m. information call 337-0745, ask for meeting, coffee, or seminar would be Saturday. Watch for another big Shore school before the meeting al seen by a high percentage of preview at the Gables Show Bar. Elwood, Harvey, or the Mad Hatter 6:45 p.m. IMPORTANT: We will be Union for Radical Political Economy himself. students? Please return card, or call voting on amendments to the will be holding an open meeting to 355-3355 and tell us time, date, constitution and bylaws. Our next discuss VRPE Projects for the rest of place, name or guest, etc. by Nov. 20. "SALVATION?" will be returning regatta is the Timmes in Chicago over this and the next term. Wed., Nov. 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Arrangements will be Tonight, Free U: Yoga, 7 - 9 p.m.. planetarium and at the door. made for individual consultation with Green Room Union; Use and Abuse tonight at 8 p.m. in the Whitehall FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS Manor Apartments Community this student on Friday, Nov. 20. MSU of the Masculine Role, 7 p.m., 1-3 Packaging Society will meet Bessey; Science Fiction. 8 p.m., 108 COMMISSION Chairman Dean Burch House. White Hall Manor is located at tonight al 8 p.m., room 31. Union to will be the speaker on today's 1:00 the corner of Mt. Hope and Help Save Lives! Give blood at the hear Ed Fitzpatrick. Placement Bessey Electronics Repair and Lecture Discussion Series on WKAR Hagadorn. All MSU Veteran's wives Red Cross Blood Drive. It will be Theory, 326 Student Services, 7:30 - Bureau, speak, and to hold elections Radio, from MSU. at 870 khz. are invited. held in the Shaw Hall Lower Lounge for officers of winter and spring pjTi., Abacus. 9 p.m., 301 Bessey; on Nov. 16 - 20; Mon. - Thurs. 2 - 8 Vocations for Social Change, 9:15 terms. Refreshments. The Christian Science organization MSU Railroad Club will meet tonight p.m.; Friday, 10 - 4 p.m. p.m., Grad advisor's apt., Phillip's dorm. cordially welcomes students and the at 7:30 p.m. in Room 37 of the The Lawyer will be at ASMSU from university community to its weekly Union. Our target date for the The Alliance to Seek a Newer World 1:30 - 4:30 p.m. every Wednesday 6:45 p.m. meeting every Tuesday, in operation of locomotive 1225 is Fall (SEEK) formerly MSU Students for afternoon this term. Call 353-0659 The MSU Veterans Association will hold its general membership meeting the Alumni Memorial Chapel '71. 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