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THE CIRCLE
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_ Amerik_a~s· ..
·Collective
-~:Sickness
.A-.
Place
For----Us
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. . ·Bv.
e1LL DEUCHER
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·. BY TOM HACKETI. .
·contemporary hell.
.
over the rainbow. However, right ·
Appalled by·the apparent lack of anything but m~scles on .one of .
It
would be nice to. be away
It would oe nice to tum on here at Marist College this week
Marist- College's newly elected leaders, I writein an ·eff9rt. toJ:lank-
from
it·
for awhile - the papers,
the six o'clock news some i:ught you can cast out your raft upon · . those rusted brains of Marist into sonie sorfof action: ~-:
·: \ ·.,._.,_,,,'._.,_.,
: ,
.· the tests, the drinking, the dope,
and
instead
.of: Viet Nam, the river for an hour or so and · · •~1 shouted out-, who killed the·KeMedy's?_--when after all,it was
de· press ion;
Clta mpagna t, .murder, riots, fires, pollution;
let your mind and body become
you· and me.:,Just as all the co'psare criminals an,d all the sinµers .
Donnelly, Marist, PoughkeeP,sie, -. sickness - man in all his grosness;
part of Oz.
It
won't hurt.to:be a · saints, after thi_s tale just •Call me tucifer, 'cause
Tm
in_ rieedof some.·
New York, America; The river is I would like
to
see a little bit of
child again. To let your mind
restraint." ~Jagger-Sympathy For The Devil·
·
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so p~ceful on a pleasant spring laughter, _singing, dancing - man
silently slip• through happiness_
·· We here at Marist are all devils, all-guilty of murder, all assassins,
evening when the sky is clear at his loving best. Butthat is just
and ·peace.
all guilty of· perpetuating a society which ;turns pee>ple into _sick
and the water is calm. The.river
a· dream that lies somehwere
*****
human beings .. ·
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; · · ·_
· '·. ··
is placid, , multi-colored
lights
. Human nature _can no longer be turned to~- an excuse fot· murder,
dance
softly
on the water
for wars. Human'nature doesn't·produce
people lik'e, Booth, Ray,
mirror. Perhaps a boat is silently
C
Oswald, Hitler, Stalin or Johnson.These
people represent the_death
slipping its way through the
O
ffl
m' u n ;.
ty·
·.
of human nature. When the true nature of the·huinah is searched for .•
night, just passing through so to
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by individuals the result is; King, Gandhi, Christ: The unfortunate
speak. Yes, it would be nice to
··
fact 'is that Amerikans tend to hide their nature,:refusin,g to discover
build a raft and cast your fate to
it within themselves. The result is a sick animal who puts his fellow'
the currents and block. out the .
·
-
man in mental institutions
if
they dare uncover theineal pature; The
past and reach out and touch
EV
o.
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t;
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time has come to reexamine the insanity of society and.perhapflp.e
life.
Passing
mountains
and
1,
sanity of those who are rotting in our mental institutions. . . . .
unknown
towns,
negotiaHng
Amerika is sick, the whole damn White y.restern-world is sick. Try
with the elements, fighting to
and deny it; can't you see the 10% of your populatfon in mental
keep living, to keep searching for
.
institutions, 1/3 of all your. marriages washed out legally; drugs and_
. that which is new'. Se.eking an
BY TERRENCE MOONEY
Reaction)
the· opportunity'
to
alcoholism running rampant. Ask why Amerika took up where our
,
-education.
. Tuesday, May
5, the Chamber
contact and confront the "local
capitalist friends in France left off in Vietnam. Why do we need
I know a place where you can of Commerce of the City of . establishment.".
If
we are going
peace in Vietnam; to revitalize a dying system here_jn Amerika, to
laugh away reality and become Poughkeepsie· is sponsoring a
to work within a system, any
have more people who we can dump our surplus on, or maybe to
absorbed
in fantasy.
Its so Student
Business Management
system, we might as well be
complete D.ulles
link
in the dam· that will stem the poisonous waters
simple, really. All; you have to Workshop to discuss the topic of
good at it.. This conference will
of communism.
.
. .
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do is get together with a small "Community Evolution." Major
hopefully
also' be then an
You're blind if you can't see the sickness today, and you're stupid
crowd
of people, pn,ferably
governmental agencies such as
opportunity for student pressure
if
you can~t see that it has ~een growing like a cancer for over three
unknown peers. Then you start
Urban
Renewal
and Model
groups,. to begin "to learn the· .hundred ·years. Ever since the white_westdiscovered other1ands·and
building
a fantasy
world.
City's,·
local
business
and
ropes."
.
·
_
resources, they have been going "nuts" wHh greed; fron;i continent ·
Everybody assumes a different
political leaders and the news
Community
evolution means
to ·continent, from colonialism to neo-colonialism, from attempted
character, they are completely
media will all be represented in just .. that,
but even more, it" genocide of the Indian to the same for the Negro, to.the fin;1l death
reborn,
If
everybody cares and the ·.round-table
discussions.
means community participation
of nature and life itself.
·
·
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everybody works and everybody
Students
of this college have· in
an
agreed
d-irection.
Howcan-youaccusesomeoneofmurder,whentherearemillions
builds
spirit,
then you are been asked to coordinate and to
Participatory democracy is .not
of sick men backing their actions. AU of you are guilty- guilty of
half-way there. All around you lead the four twenty-five minute
such a bad idea if we can make it
murder in Vietnam unless you· have directed everyone of your
another
world begins to take sessions that will revolve around
work.
efforts to stopping this madness which dehumanizes man!
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shape and soon everyone realizes various aspects· of community
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that they have created a new. growth and change. The·former •
reality, a new world, in which Mayor of Poughkeepsie Richard
you
are
all .cast
in_to
Mitchel,
will
keynote
the
predetermined
characters who workshop
at 9 a.m.
The
lack flexibility
and who are Chamber
of Commerce
has
completely
alien
from the invited· eighty students
from
function of time and place. This Marist' as well as Marist graduates
place is called the stage. The and two students from every
reality is called Oz.
other Hudson.· Valley College.
There people laugh and work, The purpose of this program
is
they have a purpose behind their «to 'create a dialogue between
toil and that is to bring laughter students and individuals engaged
into the hearts of other people: in business management that' are .
People who walk through the currently
involved
in every
theater
doors seeking escape aspect of community change and
from
twentieth
c·entury life, development." .
·
. .
even
if
it
is
only for an hour or
,
It
is
hoped that such efforts at
so.- They can 'sit back and · let community cooperation .are nc:it
there minds be brought · from curtailed at the end of this
here to there.
Fot
them jt
is
a "dialogue." Cooperation or the'
raft cast out into the river - it is desire . to create a dialogue are
escape. And when these people just nice words, as it is soon
. are children, those wonderful learned in the scheme of politics,
human-beings who can' create
if
not
a.cc om pan i ed by
what ever they wish because :organization.
and
defined
they have imagination, the world programs.
becomes even ·more real. There
Students are encouraged to
• laughter and na1vety are the ·attend
·and
t·o actively
elements of the utopia we all participate
in . this program.
search for within our minds, Perhaps such a "dialogue'' will
they·' have a little _heaven, we provide
to students
interest
have
a seasoned
view of groups (B.A,B.A., Appalachian
DREAM-
BY LINDA CLOER
Once· upon a time then< was an ideal cherished in the hearts of all
red-blooded Americans.
It consisted of the hope that any man could
start with nothing and end with everything and
this ideal was _called
the American Dream. The id~al is
is
now .obsolete. The problem'
exists in the fact that too many Americans don't realjze this. I_n their
distorted concept of success they are plotting their do·om, and they
are taking you down with them. ·
.
.
What has happened is this: We~ve become an economically
oriented soc~ety. Something inconceivable becomes crystal clear
when it is explained to us in terms of
MONEY.
Take f9r example
Dick Ottinger's Campaign speech. WE spend 3 million dollars an
hour in Vietnam, he proclaims, and middle class America nods its
head in dismayed agreement. Had he said "We're killing human
beings," he would have been proclaimed a "Commie-bastard."
Perhaps, you feel smugly righteous now. After all, we are the
concerned generation .... or are we? Did you · ever consider the
possibility that our concern arises from ·necessity? Poverty, war and
injustice are nothing new. We are concerned because we have no
other choice. The dilemma now becomes not what kind of world we
want to live in, but whether or not there.will be a world. The Dream
peddlers are still trying to convince you differently_. "to limit one's
wants judiciously or to harness productive energies to satisfy priority
needs of mankind is seen to be unpatriotic. Such attitudes would
augur the end of our competive system ...
"*
·
We are losing sight of our Humanity. You can sit in a psyc. class
and hear students argue that retarded people should be destroyed
because they don't function, don't contribute to society and they
cost money to care for. Nothing expresses the economic. philosophy
of our age more precisely than this materialistic approach. We
measure a man according to his output and his output according to
it's monetary value.
·
Wake up America. The American Dream is. a really heavy
nightmare.
*"Motive:• Jan._ 1970
Levy
on
Dissent
BY BOB
SULLIVAN
response, the . presiding officer
refusal, Levy _was ··
to . be • tried
On Monday night, Dr, Howard
stated that "medical ethics is no
under Article· 15, the maximum
Levy; a former Army medic who
defense."
penalty being a· restnction
to
· was court-martialed for refusing
The defense thus· shifted to
posf
and
a pos.sible
fine.· ·
to instruct Special Forces troops
the seco~d charge involving his However, ·prior to the 'trial, an
· in: de·rmatology,
_addressed a
statements.
Levy 'pointed
out
Army
I ntelJigence
agent
crowd
,in Vassar
College's
that, the
key word here. is pi::esented-
hi's.'hospital
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S.tudent Building;.
.
~• ;.-.intent
to create ... " ·The·
commander a- 180-page security.· ..... ·
'Although
the.topic
was
charge is similiir,,to
the one
d_ossier on;Dr.:Levy."'Atter·--···;---:---··
••prssent
)n
the
Military
around which the Chicago trial
perusing
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do_ssi~r;;~he
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Services,"
Di:. .
Levy talked ·a
evolved. .
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, :. , commander-.. · st;ate4:. • ''L:evy,
ts·
a ·
gr e a
t
d e a l a b o u_t- his
. The Army produced witness , p_irikq
t::
arid: arrange<F for a
cou.rt-martial
and
his
related
after witness, . each
o{
whom
court-martial;
Thougli-
the
experiences.
.
summarily denied that Levy's . dossier was urinie evidence in
· Levy then explained. why he
statements
influenced· them. .. the proceedings,
to
this day,
disobeyed the order. Firstly: he
However;- the Army contended·
neither Levy nor his attorneys·
could not adequately train the
they needed only. to -show that
have received- permission to read
men in the allotted .one week
the-
statements
could, have. it. The reason,theattomeysand
time
p·eriod,
secondly,
an
influenced soldiers, and
it
would · .Levy anL.considered. &'security,
admittedly subjective factor, was
show."intent'' was present.
·.
risks."
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the
fact that Special Forces
Levy, proceeding to discuss
· Levy add~, however, that)ast
medics are not medics at all, but'
the t.hird charge, .~tated only
year_ over• ..
15ll,0g9.
_soldiers
rather are trained soldiers who ' that; to
him,
the charge
was _;-
deserted and.
50,~Q0
more ,went
have
knowledge
-of first-aid
contradictory; "one can't-~e an.··
A.W.O.L:
That repr~sents .abo~t
tactics. He added that no Green
·officer and a gentleman at the ,
LO%
of .. the ,_A(m.y.
If-
1t
" Beret· ••medic" has
a
Red Cross
same time;" . .
.
continues, ·as General Wheeler
(insignia denoting medic) on his
Looking back· on the · trial,
has admitted,_ it : c:ould dissolve ·
I.D. Another P,Oinfhe raised was
Levy said.that now, the·defense
tlie · Armed Fore.es. Levy: 'said, ·
, that
the Special Forces use
they. presented, centering around.
w~e .Nix_on might. not. be the
medicine for political purpose~, , ethics, the Bill- of .Rights and · first American Pr~s'ident to lose
by sending in !lledics to aid · civil liberties was "roII]:afltic ~t
a wa~,
he· could·, lJe the first.
· communities before the troops
best."
A..mencan President. to lose· an'
enter
to
recruit soldiers. In
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H ete,
Levy
,turned
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· qtiestiori of civil h"berties. Trying
to describe
his
belief on · where
Amedca'stands,;he
said.he can't
place faith
:iri
the Bill of Rights
but neither does he believe that
we,·are, as yet, ex'iiting in an
absi>lutely totalitarian;-, fascist
society. -. ·
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,
· ·' He characterized. the American
-people.as .'bei11g similar· to
·an·
animaj. When cal,lght in a_very
tight trap, a .small animalwill
self~am·putate
· and
escape,
however, when caught in a loose
trap, the animal will run around,
to no avail, until captured by the
hunter. The American people, he
believes,
are· -caught ·in.· the
- second trap.
..
our•freedom·is.what
hecallsa
negative freedom {i.e. ther~ are
certain things . the government
.cap't talce away). What. we are
fighting for is positive· freedom,
the pow~r to end
war,
end
pollution,. end racism, etc. The
, power to make these decisions
is
in the hands of a small number
9f p~ople.and until the general.
public
has a say i~. those
decisions, there will_ be no real
civil b'berty. Our freedom allows
us certain "privileges,'' but even
these are based on American
imperialism
which promotes
racism
and
exploitation
of
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THE CIRCLE
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Before
I Go
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BY TOM
SCZERBA
.
weren't looking,
·Tony
- ~his
.
the pus is green paper, and we
{ must. admit that in the four
.
CO
Un try
i S a ma S St Ve show no signs of getting well. To
·.
yearsrvebeenatMarist,"student
irrationality ... or m!lybe you can Terry
McGowan-
-
.
Thomas
;
-
part!cipatio~
in
·budgetary
..
•.
just cope with it better than
I....
-Jefferson
advised a revolution
>
m~tmgs,:house-sy~ems
and so.,
To
.John
Redmond - either
every ten years. I don't.think
-
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forth has had amazmg progress·
-
Dow. Chemical does not believe
that the lack of one for almost
·
·~
~ut only- ~eca~se of amazing
·
_in
"our strategy in battle," or
;
200
.
years
is a "Light and
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~ lse ~ yo": r con ce ptio n
.
o
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transient" cause. I do agree with
•
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_And;
·•~
Ja tant
..
cont~dichons
. co~sideratlon; of. !1uma~ Iµ"e" your
.
opinion. ( or maybe just
stdl exJSt'. A studen~ guilty o~ an
has its grour_id ~-s~1ence f1ct~on. implication)
that· the "should
.
•
.a
~t-, of. v and a ~1s111 which
·
'l;he _hypocnsy.
1S
m the_ doing,
hav:e" (implying '<should be")
en~angers the h~lth
of well-
not m the saymg; Amerika has
·
that Joe spoke of
in
the editorial
bemg
·
of. anothe_r. 1s not legally never mad(?
.i(
her unserving . has no
·reality.
The "should be"
prose~t_e~. (R_eS1deJ?,t
boat;ds.are
··
purpose to tell the masses.what
nev:er did exist;: the truth is
paternalistic bullshit);
·students
.she's
been up. to, or how she
.
"what is."
·
;·
··
·
do not, to my knowledge~ have a
accomplishes it. Yes,
John,
I
·
To Robert Donldson -
It
also
vot_e
q_n the
:.fina·ncial
.believe
Amerika is a collective
takestwosidestomakelove
.
.. tra~sact~on~
of_ the _coJle~e.
·sickness,
and it has affected us
I thank
you
for·
this
(which, l*e_1t or not, 1s their._ all - you, me, and the
editorial"
opportunity to give myself the
on_ly r.eality for fou_r years);
board
of this. pape_r. The
·
illusion of getting a load off my
.
moreover. the C.F.D .. recently
symptoms have been ignored,
mind.
:
proved
..
that
..
even
student.
·
·
··
·
_opinion
_isn't ·worth.
shit, everi
·
.
when the opinion is one held by
over 40% of the student body
(when was the last time 40% of
··
the stµdentbody had an opinion
about
anything?) An "earth
DO·IT!
day" was held
,where
everybody
~
BY CHUCK
MEARA
.listened
to a few people talk, I read the news today, Oh boy
,
and. ignored the cans_ and broken
And though.the news was rather sad
glass in fron·t of Champagnat
and
Well I just had
to
laugh.·
the' still-to-be-seen remnants
·of
They
spoke concerning how
~
!
R
i'.ver
.
Day" ·-- a
·function·
.
·.
The
,
~fay was 4 July, I 976.
.
America rarely censors any news
organized and conducted by the
America had been free from
media and
almost
always lets the
soon-to-be graduating seniors.
British control for 200 years.
truth be spoken. He spoke of
A· few notes in reference.
to
For
the
occasion
the U.S.
America's
legal
procedures
.
previous letters-to-the editor: to
Government
had
given. its
which usually guarantees the
Tony Lofaro - the Viet Cong;in:
backing- to massive rallies which
defendent a fair trial. He spoke
light of Ho's dream, desire to
were
held
throughout
the
·
to the "silenced silent majority."
liberate the territory,_which.they
country.· Millions of Americans
They were his people.
.
once ruled from -the hands of
had taken part in the festivities. ·:
The .War in Vietnam had
foreign
aggressors and their
Troops marched proudly in the
ended in
1972
and. Mr. Nixon
·
puppets. In other words, Tony
streets and the latest in defensive
and Mr. Agnew were re,elcctcd
the
reality
of the
North,
atomic weapons were displayed
with almost 60%
,of
the vote.
Vietnamese
Army is one of
in their magnificent glory
_in
the
The choice between Nixon and
political and national liberation,
capitol and other major cities.
General
Abrams had caused
.
not of-economic interests. And
President
Nixon.
and
his
25,000,000 Americans to stay
as
for
destruction of possessions
successor to be Vice-President
away froni the polls. Although
..
- it is a very distinct reality, it is
.
Agnew spoke to the
.crowds
on
U.S. troops were fighting in Asia
happening all the time.
It
is only. giant
screens concerning
·
the
(Jaos), in Africa (Ghana), and in
the manner in which it happens
freedoms that came with this
South
·
America (Guatemala) it
that is
~a
inatter
·
of taste. You
first Revolution 200 years ago.
was considered to, be at peace.
'·'•
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,
·
'/
NO,Jim8.
for
.·
Heroes
Only a few men were killed each
. week, according
,to·
Government
officials
.. The
'wars
were
overshadowed
by America's
recent landing oti Mars. It was a
triumphant
day·
for
all
Americans
as
'3
·astro"nauts
landed
and
planted ari American
: :
-Bi JOHN
ZEBATIO
·
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flag. There was no evidence of
·
The "proph. etic" have developed a new consciousness, born in the·. life, but scienti sts will continue
to
search.
for
something,
· •
·
face qf'the realities-of the world situation. The prophetic, are those
somewhere.
.
·
who want;wru·work, and ultimately believe in revolutionary change
Integration was rapidly finding
for
society.
-
·
.
·
·
· ·
·
·
·
its way into the nations school
:
·
"They:
have-seen (to borrow from Cleaver} racial arrogance, savage systems. Mr .. Nixon promised
·
brutality toward the conquer:ed and subjugated people; genocide, the
that he and the Senate, working
slav~
trade, the systems extermination of American Indians, nations
.withip the guidelines of the
(ightingiri imperial depravity over the lands of other people.
Supreme Court· would do all in
:
·The,
prophetic nave
_heard
the
President lie and they know about
their power to speed the way for
·
·the
_corrupt'
and elitist rule of the legislative class. They know hunger
a-
J
otaBy
integrated
school
and are
.witness
to the capitalistic_ necessity of moldistribution of
.
system in the next ten years. He
·.·.wealth
. .They· also'. know that_: pollution is
-
a result
.
of profit and
also hoped
to
put some money
,
:
govemni.¢ntal failure and that the perpetration of the money system
.
into the ghettos in his drive to
has warped
·the
mind of man_:·
.
-
.
:
.
.
initiate "black capitalism." But
·
.
One
..
of the reasons for the development of this new consdousness
not much was said these days
,
by.therev:olutiori-
any class is the experience of the attorney general
against the administrative. Too
.
•
•Mitchell·
and his attempt to create the garrison state. (To borrow
many people·.·. had been killed
froi_n the Tiµies) witness·the inquisition by questionnaire of those
along the way. There were· no
•.
attempting
to
demonstrate in the vicinity of the White
_House.
black leaders in the country.
·
Mitchell, pleading the need
to
protect the flow of traffic, has called
Over l ,OOO had been, killed in
..
for an updating o(the laws governing protests and demonstrations
-
the past 3 years. They had
-
but
differentiates
.between
peaceful demo_nstrations such as
armed themselves.
It
was not
,
<
American Legiori parades and those of the anti-war movement.
genocide.
They
had to·· be
,
.
Other acts of the American government-have jarred the minds of the
-
rev_
olutinary·
·people
into co_
nsciousness. W_
.hen
Congress passed the
.
removed. J'hey were dangerous.
They were
•violent.
Some had
anti-riot Jaws of 1968, it gave the Government the dangerous option-
fled the country. Maybe t~ey'IJ
•
of prosecuting me_n,
·
not
.
for what they have. done, but for what
come back. Mr. Mitchell would
thoughts they are suspected of thinking (i.e. the Chicago trial),
like to get those niggers too ....
-Indeed/the
prophetic
·have
exp·erienced the fact-that, armed with
Hopefully
future American
.
that hunting, license, the Nixon Administration has proceeded to
hi
-11
d his
1
undertake what can
_only
be described as political trials. In addition, .
story
wi
not rea t
way. t
•
the Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a bill that would.make
cannot read th is way. But if
-
•
·
· American youth does not act
·.·
it po·ssible to punish provocative speech. These actions have_not gone
now to deter the course America
unnoticed by the people of the revolution, the prophetic.
-
-
.·
The people of the revolution, the prophetic have no time for false
is now following it will read like
T
that.
We must support the
--. _
-
heroes or blind hope.
hey are not interested in rhetoric, they reject
·
Chicago
8
:
1
(You remember
·
·
the fad and the.fashionable, they refuse to be co-opted - they· are not 'Bobby Seale_ bound and gagged
funky revolutionaires.
·
The prophetic know that change, not reform but radical change,
·
in a United States courtroom).
·
·
·
N
·11
u
h
-
· ·
b
We must support the Panther
21
.
;!!fsfect~ccur. o hero wt se them down t e nver
.nor
can they e
in New York and the Panthers in
Of course, the p·eople of the revolution do not, no can they have
New Haven. These people are
th
·
·
·
h
·
t -
·
h
·
Th
k
h
·
h
fighting for a new America, an
.-
e_ answers tot
e
urgen quesJ10ns t ey raise,
ey nowt at w at
America that will free the black
has happ·ened and what is happening cannot continue to be. The
man from the bonds that have
prophetic Mve an idea of what the world,will be like. They have
enslaved
him
r
9
r 400 years .
.
idealistic plans or stupid systems - they know what's wrong so they
They- are fighting to free the
can work for what's right. '.fhe prophetic people of the world
revolution know that.,man is man (he is not a "national" for
white man from the syStem of
instance) and that he is'human.
routine that allows a man to
They also know that he lives by food and material goods, and he
thi nk he is free but in reality
is
a
breathes the same air. This
is
enough, after the revolution to
slave to laws. America's future is
h
in the hands of the youth.
establish the collective uman endeavor of life and this is enough to
America must travel the road we
sust_ain the people of th e revolu~~!';.
want it to travel. There must be
a change. Let it be.
.
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PAGE3
EDITORIAL
The Credentials
Factory
. A
critic of the traditional educational system once said, "A college
diploma
is
like a driver's license.
lt
doesn't mean that you can drive,
it merely
indicates
that you may drive."
·
When we
examine
this we begin to see its validity. A diploma does
not, necessarily, indicate that the bearer
is
better qualified than one
without
a
diploma; it is merely his working permit.
The piece of paper, since it, in itself, is worthless, is not our point
of interest. Rather we are concerned with what the diploma
stands
for; that is, graduation from the traditional system of education.
Class. Attendance. Test. Apple•polishing. Fear of finals, Paternalism .
BullshiL If this is preparing us for the
"great
outside world," then
we.don't want any. part of
it.
Professor Hodgkinson, in his recent talk at Marist, said that
.
today's educational system "doesn't encourage the student to go for,
the•,'A' ,_rather
it
ma\(es them fear the
'F'."
Orie thing the system does do welI,
is that
it
teaches the student all
the games he will have to play when he gets into the bigger "system"
after graduation.
It
is
a fact that a guy can sit in
.his
room for four years, pull a 3.7,
graduate Magna Cum Laudae, and become. a great accountant.
-Another
can drink his ass off for the same duration, pull a
2.2,
and
become a
"teacher"
or something like.that. But please don't tell us
that either of those people are "educated." You're wrong. They are
both machines; both cqntrollable, both predictable, and both easily
placated by the system. Their potential for growth and creativity is
virtually nonexistent.
So what does one do? Does he sit idly by and wait for_someone
else to run his mind? Docs he say, to quote Phil Ochs, ":monopoly is·
so much fun, I'd hate· to spoil the game." Or does he begm to
educate himself? And does he- learn
·
that education is not
120
credits, a 3.0 in
his
major, and four intramural trophies? Does he
ever learn that education is something he must experience, not
memorize?
·
·
A person is only educated when he has broken the bonds placed
upon him. The student must realize that requirements are set up for
the person who cannot set them up for himself. However, we regret
to-admit that the typical student does need these requirements. For
just as the typical citizen could not be trusted behind the wheel
·
without a driver's license, the typical student cannot educate himself
without a_properly supervised road test.
.
But there is hope for •~you," the potentially creative force which
·Dr. Teichman recently spoke of. You must learn that many teachers
and administrators, especially on this campus, are willing to give the
student" the chance to "liberate himself." But be forewarned. The
initiative must come from you.
If
you want to do something, do it
yourself, don't wait until the day it will be handed to you.
It
may
never come.
* *
*
* *
Farewell
This
is
the last issue of the CIRCLE for this semester. The format
and content of this paper has a definite purpose. We want to point
up a few of the problems that are bothering Marist and the nation.
Even though summer is coming we will have to remain active.
Organizing will be going and there will be many anti-war and
anti-fascist activities. Do it!
*
* * * *
1HE
•CIRCLE
Editors
Sal Piazza
Joe Rubino
Contributors: Vincent Begley, Linda Cloer, William Dcucher,
Gerard Geoffroy, Tom Hackett, Michael Klubnik, Chuck M~,irJ,
Peggy Miner, Terry Mooney, Tom Sczcrba, Robert Sullivan,
Paul Tesoro, John Zebatto.
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PAGE4
MONSTER
BY
JOE
1
RUBINO
The American Way
. Dyi_ng for·~:;ril<>~~~-~ish
!·could light·~·niatch
Cigar J.B., trY.
~ne
of,:.mme. ..
·
..
My God, if
I
could only fall asleep .
,'
. Dead tirei:I, old boy,_36 holes today.you know'.
_Mouth is so;dry;'why does the water.:have to reek?
Hey, one more for the boys over there, 'okay?
Nixon said he's withdrawjng
150,000 mo.re
I missed.old Millhouse tonight, how was he?
Yeh, but it'll .take at least a year.
· ·
·
That tricky-Dick's a sharpie, isn't he?
.
__
Do you think anybody really cares?
· . .
.
. ·
I'm sick of looking at the news, mind
if
I
change the chanµel?
Tell me, Joe, is it worth
it
all?
·
·
Not at all.·
The Rebirth
i was
6
happy birthday to me (you can have anything you w,nt, son)
I wanna gun, ·aria holster.
·
.
·
· ·.-
. ·
·- ·
Wowee_! I_ w_anna be buffalo bill you be the buffalo ..
i was
8
happy:birthday to m~ (since.you've been a good lit!le boy)
_ train-s. trains. just_ what i wanted, choo, choo, outa my way.· .
·.
'
i was IO happy- birthday dear joey (your getting to be a big boy
now)
,
a bat, a ball,
a
mitt.
throw i(~ast,.dad, watch me clobbedt.
.·
.
'
.
.
.
i was
12 ha.ppy birthday to me (now you're a mature little rrian) '
thanks, dad·, · ·
·
·
world war
2
heroes its sure a big book. ,
i was
16
h~w
~Id
a.re you rt6w
-
-(enjoy ttie party kids, i'll be upstairs if you need me)
out in the back -
·
bufwill you still like me tomorrow,joe
sure.
·
iwas
17
hatipy :birthday to me? (why so sad, son, cheer up,
what would you like for your birthday)
·
·
nothin, nothin, n9thin, don't want no thin.
t;
I was
1
18 Happy Birthday fo nie (not a sound)
. "In every stage of oppression
we have petitioned for redress-in
the most humble terms: our
·repeated
petitions
have been
answered
only
by repeated
injur.y·.
A president
whose
character is .thus marked by
every act which might define a
tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of;
a free
people."
Thomas
Jefferson:
·
* * * * *
APRIL 30
1
1970
. .
.
,
_fre.sig_r,,_,
Th,:e_~-tire::
.
. , : .We're
AH
Pi9s
4'.
,·
BY MIKE KLUBNIK._
.
review comes. off
like
·a private
.· There is a,growingmalignancy
joke
(what?).'-There'.-are
four
in our . country. today~ which . firesign theatres,
or· the~e · ~re · ,
cannot be diagnosed.
_It
isn't an. four. members of ·the F1resign
ideology,
it
isn't a movement, it ·
Theatre;
.They. ·have · evoked a
isn't
even
an opinion; yet,
form . <>.f
-.·commu.,~ca_tion laid ·
somehow
it
is
effused
down m.e1ght-~rack stereo ~hat
throughout
this land of ou!5
war!ls us a~am~t
·t_he_
sen?us
warping ·minds ·left and right. - ~hil~
sa_y.rng
somethmg
One
of the carriers of -this incredibly. unportant. They a~e
malignancy ·js : a
33 · .1/3
RPM _
dropout ·method actors,_ radio
plastic·
disc_ from Columb!a
announcers,
and m~d _
.hipsters,
called "How Cim :You.Be Two
who ~ave :the power to alter.
,Places at.Once When You're Not
co~sc1o~sness
,through
-1941
Anywhere
At· All?" A good-- . radio senals. They ~ave ~arn_ed .
question. The , Firesign Theatre
~s not to repl_ace
P,JgS
with p~s
will make no attempt to give ari m our revolutions; yet on the1r-
ans wer, .they
just
ask the
fi~st
45 they ~ar~ us,."W_e're 3:ll
questions: . , •
,
. ·
pigs, . we all live .m trees like pig
, Soinew'here, between insomnia
.fat." That's.right, :eorky,
andinsanity
iny mind was first
*****
infested with this insurrection.
It
lasted · n~arly half an hour and
.ended with· me. cowering under
iny pillow. WBAI-FM unleashed
Nick Danger, on the free (you
· know it) world last August and
he has defied detection
ever
since .. ,
.
. 'About--a. month ·ago I heard
the· Firesign Theatre live on
WBAI
and l~med for the· first
time . why
they
cannot· be
stopped.
It
'is . because they
cannot be defined or limited by
classification. A few facts have
filtered through
the madness,
but they- are ignored largely
because the madness feels so
good.
_
· How can I tell ym1 what .the
album is like? It is so subtle and
so brash at the same time, that a
Marist
Associates \YOuld
like to thanK'all the parents
of the students and alumni of
Marist
College
for
their
wonderful cooperation on the
Dinner Dance being held at
Champagnat
Hall on May
2nd.
With their generosity, they
helped
make the affair a
success. Proceeds from this
dance will · help the needy
areas
·of
the
college
community to carry out their
goals.
: ':.:i
alone Kentucky dusting crops hillside
·:,
~;~J~~:.l::gb::::~:~:y::::tl::~hat.
.
T_
·he
. Ne·
w
Agapa·
·,c
Age.
lf'.
J've been born
.
_
.il
WOODSIOCK
whe!Y=~~I!~G~~
you
·_
·~(.
BY MIK.
EK. LUBNIK
vib·es·at.tached to i•t·.
l_,.
told a good friend that you were
-t:·
0
•
happy that ypu were his friend?
· $f --
Proclaiming -"No One Who.
Well, .guess what? I spent three
(Did you ever tell them that you
·.t,i,
Was There: Will "Ever Be The
dollars at Woodstock when·
it
loved them?) When was the last
t.s:.f
·
·s-ame,"
ABC
is_ hyping
happened
(mosUy
for hard time you really thought about
·
W
o o· d's't o·c k rn t o a-n ooiled eggs), but to see· what the
"hello,
how · are you"·
1.-.'.,:,?·~.t.'.·•.·,·:
-establishme_nt,
'- and
making
reaHy
came down, it's, five mumbled to the person passing
, :
millions oL dollars at the same dollars at your local ciriema. I you on the way to Donnelly? _ ·
--~·\:_~.~.":'··.;
___
·
tibme. No hm~ftfel~
wk
hat I tellk y~u
will
adrmh·t
thathfor fivde
dollarks! I
.Do you ever wake .dup ahnd_
:···
a out
t e .• . 1c , you
now got to. ear t e soun ·· trac
m realize that : the . new
ay · as .
,,.
you're goirig to see it anyway :stereo, while at-White Lake, the never happened before? Do you
' ......
f_l
._1.t.
1
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·
~::.":~£.h~~:~::i;::~i-
&~;1;~t.fo'J~~1:.
i¼:1~:t
;i
;~;r:;~:❖r~~
bi~~
.
:;,;
Woodstock ha-s' all kinds of hip . than - the
plush
seats
and
If
that seems too unbelievable,
_fT
farewell
!~!h~x:ini/iiregin;~,t
1r1:
~i};~:~~~:1~~Ir::i~;
·_i_r.~_,._1.:.:
..
ll ..
:
;;i:;;~~~;i;,t~~~;.~~
·
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·~ff
:E:!iitl(~!E
,~:
express· my gratitude to you and
agony of getting to and from, the
have become king. We can no
,¼~; ·
to all my many ,friends here at
festival itself. Just push a button
longer thmk with· our tongues •
2t
the
-College
'for
th_ei~
andbehip;moneyisno·object.
because
the heart has been
. ~:
~ contribution
to
a very enjoy11ble On
the
other
hand,._ after
revived. The only trouble is that
fl
year.
It has. bt:en a year filled
M a
d
i so n Avenue
·turns
everyone has not seen th_e sun
~2t
with many· mi;mories, - many
Woodstock
into
.a religion,
coming up on the horizon. Many
-:_:,i_:_:.:.r.1.l_I_·
pl~~r!:1:
0
t~·itude.
A time_
-a~
0
?
0
!ei~sh
w~e::ta~~e
~i~;~~
~=~p!~;r:;t~~=;~~gs~~~?r:
·-.~ for farewell, Purdue University ·_ festivals. Picture people traveling
busy labeling people.
.
"''
and. the doctoral work lie ahead.
the world· insearch of the clear
Spending so much time With
°Nf.Z
Surely there
is
much to be
light
of t_he perfect
Rock
s ti p·p o s ed
"matters
of
It
lear.ned from people, experience,
Festival, m~kin~ hundreds_ of Bill consequence"
they
haven't
.
~,-~··;·:•_::·;·~=--::···~'.~-:·_··_;_,
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:-:
wedded in. relevance to people
we are
victims
of systems
high to get there, you only.have
and our world. ·
beyond our control I dug some
to be the you that you were
As I look ahead to next year, I
parts of the film as n:iuch as meant to be.
ff
am sure that you will ·also. May anyone else. Being that close to
: Beyond that sun is the land of
~-·
....
~-.-.'..~_-·_i:•-
....
·
this next year find you grasping
Joe
Cocker's
epileptic
fit;
the Little Prince; it's
~
world
~-.:~ more firmly the meaning of your
hearing David Crosby admit to
where · you can fly kites; roll.
life and the happiness
it
offers;
400,000
people that Crosby,
down hills and blow bubbles
. ;£
may you find more of yourself
Stills
and. Nash are "scared
without
ever worrying about
,
· in the midst of the confusion
shit less , ' ' w a t ch ing
the
people making remarks.
·
. t
swirling about you; may you be
middle-aged (old) man cleaning
· People that go there can never
J.~.:_.
· the better for it· all and closer to_ the
port-0-sha.!11 toilets
(and· come back, they don't want to.
your chosen ideals. May you
rapping about
1s two sons one-
In the world "we can draw close
ff
tern per
your . cynicism with
at Woodstock, one in Viet Nam);
to one another in time of need,
.r;,;
realism, your frnstration
with
seeing The Who frizzle out
2,000
to understand· and love each
__
··.f.1
'hope. May the n~eded changes in watts of crystal meth energy - all
other, and live to comfort each
~
·your worlds come about because
t.hose things were worth seeing.
other." Everything old becomes
1_'
you had a part in them. (We
All in all, I
felt
the picture
new, even your own name has a
f_'.~.(
have fiad enough with cheering
djdn'.t
feel enough of what
new sound to it.
_
.,.~ -and -booing from the sidelines.)
Woodstock was. There is a lot of
For the first time, you realize
JJ-·
May you be involved in the
room in a three hour flick to
that flowers were meant for
,.s..
•ipassion of our times" and hear capture the soul of .the beast,
picking. You also discover "that
&
the encomium "he lived life to not just hi5·brand of dope. "No
the
prettiest
and
most
·~ . tht> fullest.!'
One Who Was There Will Ever Be
interesting things -are the very
.@
Thanks again for this chance The. Same." Whr d?n't. we all
ones that cannot
be
knoWDI or
lX ·
for me to be involved.
admit that nothing 1s ever the
explained."
-It's a wor1a _ of
·_""'ii ,
_,
_
Sincerely,
same from day to day, and stop
innocence where the questions
~
· · Patrick Gallagher,
trying to
be
part of something
that really mean anything are
I,
FMS
that is over.
never answered. "I'd like to see
~--;;-
I
how the trees manage to drink
water with their roots and get so
big:
I don't think anybody really
knows that. The teacher knows a
lot,.but only boring things."
·,' If
you ~ave goneJhis far into
the -·article,.
yo·u may, be
wondering what · my · point _is.
Well,
I
have • no point.
I
only
have the hope that everyone will
see that
he has an inward
destiny, and follows
it.
The..n.~~ , __ ···--·-~
agapaic
age . - "Oh,
what a
wonderful,...thing· it is, that first
trying
-and searching
and
finding;'' -·
· · .
That's glad!
* * *
*
*
Observations
. ·
,.
SUBMITIED BY BILL DEUCHER-
An Observation ·or Amerika's Middle And Upper Class Ruling.
Society. -
'---
·
"I
saw men. didn't want to be saved from. themselves, for that
wou,ld mean they'd have to give up gree4, and they'll never pay that
price for liberty. So
I _said to the world, god bless all h,ere, and.may
· the ·best man win and die of gluttony! And
l
took a seat in the
grandstand of philosophical detachment to fall asleep observing the
cannibals do their death dance."
· -
·
· · -. ·
Eugene O'Neill
(fromTHEICEMAN
COMETH)
"A climate of war creates its own horizons, its own justification
and method. Subjected to such an atmosphere for-a long period of
time, nien come_to accept it as.normal and self_.evident; they create a
_
logic that suits their state of soul. They create tools of violence as
entirely normal methods of dealing with "the enemy;" qnce created
the · tools are . used with ever .increasing ease. Peaceableness,
communication with others, discussion, public candor - these are less
and less trusted as methods of dealing with human differences .. Jn
such an atmosphere,
men· gradually come to accept a totally
different version of human life. Such men live in the dreamworld of
the schizoid or the adolescent ... The stranger becomes the enemy.
The enemy is everywhere. And almost inevitably, as the complexities
of human. relationships merge info the single image -of the enemy, a
complementary
image of ourselves arises:~ We become -the
beleaguered defenders of
all
that is good and noble in life, the
society whose interventions
are always governed by superior
wisdom, whose military might serves only the good of humanity.''.
· -
-
· Daniel Berrigan
(from THEY CALL US DEAD MEN-Macmillan)
LEVYFROM2.
oppressed peoples.
_
He concluded _ his talk by
sp.eaking
of
a great
revolutionary,
Che Guevara.
While many people hated Che
and considered
him
a ruthless
revolutionary, how many people
kn·ow of
his
work in leper
colonies. During inter-semesters
at medical school, Che would
treat
and
educate,
directly,
people in leper colonies.
Levy_ closed
by quoting
Guevara, and stating he believed
the
quote:
.. At the risk of
seeming
ridiculous, the great
revolutionary
is
motivated by
feelings of love."
CHILDREN'S THEATRE
"WIZARD OF OZ"
Friday night 8 p.m; curtain
Saturday afternoon 2 p.m.
curtain
Saturday
night
8 p.m.
curtain
Sunday afternoon
2 p.m.
curtain
If
you love children, please
bring them.