The Chicago MaroonVolume 94, No. 38 The University of Chicago Friday, March 1, 1985-Irving Kristol, discussing Jews and capitalism in thisquarter’s third Olin Center Lecture, said “Judaism neverconceived commercial relations as being, in and of them¬selves, inimical to the moral and spiritual life.”Kristol speaks aboutJews and capitalismBy Tony Berkley andSteve LenzerSaying that “Jews live likeEpiscopalians and vote likeHispanics,” Irving Kristol,co-editor of Public Interestmagazine spoke about theconflicts between Judaismand capitalism in a free¬wheeling discussion at thethird Olin Center lecture thisquarter.Joking with his formerapartment-mate Saul Bellow,with whom Kristol shared aHyde Park apartment in the1940’s, Kristol addressed how'a Jew’s attitude toward capi¬talism is related to a Jew’s at¬titude toward religion. Kristolasserts that a new type of reli¬gion called “secular human¬ism” emerged as a by-prod¬uct of capitalism. He sees aninherent confrontation be¬tween “amoral” capitalismand Judaism.The Judeo-Christian ethicteaches one to act accordingto a prescribed moral code,while capitalism does notspeak of any moral code. Thiscreates a conflict within indi¬viduals who feel an obligationto act according to theirmoral code yet also feel aneed to participate in anamoral capitalist society.The result of this confronta¬tion, according to Kristol, is acompromise in a new religioncalled “secular humanism”.It differs greatly from Ju-diasm in that “psychology re¬ places theology, the self re¬places the soul, and the ideaof progress emerges.” Secu¬lar humanism extends themoral component of Judiasminto the realm of politics.Kristol reasons that secularhumanism implies liberali¬sm, and concludes that thoseJews who are more orthodox(hence less secularly human¬istic) tend to be more conser¬vative politically, while thoseJews who are less orthodox(hence more seculary hu¬manistic ) tend to be more lib¬eral.Kirstol was careful, howev¬er, not to imply that capital¬ism and Judaism were in op¬position. Judaism, he asserts,“never perceived commer¬cial relations as being, in andof themselves, inimical to themoral and spiritual life.” In¬deed, he sees Judaism asmore receptive to capitalismthan other Judeo-Christianreligions. It is this receptive¬ness that is responsible forthe Jews’ relative success incapitalistic societies.In addition to editing PublicInterest, Kristol is a seniorfellow at the American Enter¬prise Institute, and John M.Olin Professor at the NewYork University GraduateSchool of Business, and a fre¬quent contributor to otherpublications such as the WallStreet Journal, the New YorkTimes magazine, Commen¬tary, and Encounter.Law School ProductionThe Law School presents its annual play this weekend.“The Return of the J.D.” promises to feature some sur¬prise guest appearances ana lots of laughs. Dean approves funding groupBy Larry KavanaghDean Herman Sinaiko for¬mally accepted on Tuesdaythe results of a referendumheld in the College two weeksago, calling for the establish¬ment of the College Students’Association, composed en¬tirely of undergraduates. Re¬presentation in the 17member CS/ v ill be appor¬tioned by reside. ° had. v,. hsome seats reserved lor Jr iein independent n»-jsing.The formation of this orga¬nization was necessitated bvthe new guidelines fo” distri¬bution of the increased activi¬ties fee. Starting in theSpring, 25 percent of each st,>-detri’s tee will be allocated di¬rectly to the section of theUniversity in which the stu¬dent is registered. The Col¬lege, however, does not havea representative bod} towhich its $23,000 yearly shareof the funding could be given.The CSA will fill this void.The scope of the group’s re¬sponsibilities. though will ex¬tend far beyond disbursementof money. The referendummandates a body that willalso “address the concerns ofstudents in the College, andorganize major activities forthe College.” It is clear thatthis group will function as aCollege student government.The clause commissioning itto “address the concerns ofstudents” could give it agreat deal of authority, andmake it the forum for Collegestudent issues.Chris Hill, president of theStudent Government, specu¬lated that the group might di¬vide itself into a finance com¬mittee and a few otheractivity-oriented committeesHe stressed, thougu, that theorganization, when elected,would define its own func¬tions.Sinaiko, the dean of stu¬dents in the College, in an in¬terview with The Maroon, ex¬pressed his hope that his bodywill interpret its role broadly.He intends to ask the CSA forhelp in planning a Spring Fes¬By Hilary TillThe Court Theatre’s cur¬rent production, Arms andthe Man, has been 4 playing tofull houses just about everynight since previews start¬ed,” asserted Crista Cabe,the director of audience de¬velopment for the Theatre.The play, which opened atthe Court Theatre on Febru¬ary 21 and will run throughMarch 24, is a George Ber¬nard Shaw comedy. In theplay. Shaw iampoons late-Victorian, ‘'idealistic notionsabout love, war, andheroism,” according toCabe.The director of the Shavianplay is Nicholas Rudall, whois also the Artistic Director ofthe Court Theatre Rudall hasalready directed -ereral crit¬ically acclaimed CourtTheatre productions. For hisdirection of You Never CanTell, Rudall recently receiveda Jesf nomination for best di¬rection.Performances of Arms a. dthe Man will take place onWednesdays through Satur¬days at 8 p.m. and also onSundays at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30p.m. in the Court Theatre, tival, and would like the bodyto counsel the deans of theCollege on student issues andproposals. “I would like to seesome serious and sustainedoutput from them,” he said.In deciding matters of poli¬cy in the College, the deancommented, “we frequentlyoperate in the dark.” Heused, as an example, the Uni¬versity’s addition of + ’s, and-’s to students’ transcripts.“It never occurred to me thatthe +/- system would raisedebate,” he said. He sees theCSA becoming a voicethrough which undergradu¬ates can effectively expressopinions on and help revisenew policy before it is imple¬mented.Sinaiko applauded Hill andStudent Government vice-president Brad Smith for thework they did in bringingabout the creation of the CSA.Hill and Smith, through SG.organized the referendumwhich mandated the forma¬tion or the new organization.The election to select repre-sentaives of the CSA will takeplace between April 1 andApril 10. Balloting will be heldin tne College Mailroom. Stu¬dents wishing to run in theelection must pick up a peti¬tion in either the CollegeMailroom or in Harper 280.Petition will become avail-food franchise to some HydePark developers who are nowremodeling space on 53rdstreet. The restaurant is like¬ly to open late this spring.Peter Carlton Enterprises,a local developer, purchaseda two story coftdormr.Him at1514 East 53rd Mm-< whichpreviously housed the ShortStop Co-op and ano1; ex . fort.The space hac beer. u,. fursale for several year*The owners have guC -d thespace and expect t) bethrough with remodeling inwhich is located at 5535 SEllis. The play’s final performance will occur on Sunday.March 24 at 2:3u p.m.Tickets cost Si 1 for Wednes¬day, Thursday, and Sundayshows and cost $12 for F rid ayperformances. Tickets forSaturday performances cost$13. Students, senior citizens,and groups, though, are eligi¬ble for discounts. “T cketsmay be ordered by calling ’heCourt Theatre Box Office at753-4472,” according to Cabe. Herman Sinaikoable on Tuesday, March 5,and must be returned to theMailroom or Harper 280 byFriday. March 22.Representatives will bechosen as follows: four fromthe Shoreland, two from fra-ternaties, three off-campus,two from Woodward Court,two from Pierce, one fromBurton-Judson. one fromBreckenridge/1215/Broad¬view. one from commuters,and one from Snell-Hitch-cock. Students will vote onlyfor representatives fromtheir housing.two to three months. Depend¬ing on what storefront work isdone, the developers mayqualify for the city’s facaderebate program, according toa member of the Local Devel¬opment Corporation. Throughthat program, the city re¬funds a portion of the moneyspent on improving the store¬front.Petei Carlton Enterprisesowns othtr Wendy’s fran¬chises, although this will bethe fie si located in HydePark. The developers wereuna\ aiuble for comment.s out Courtfn conjunction with theCourt Theatre's production ofShaw's plav New Republicfilm critic Stanley Kauff-mann will lecture on “Shawof the Avant-Garde'' on Tues*day. March 5 at 8 p.m. in fheCourt Theatre. Tickets for thelecture cost $3 and are avail¬able through the CourtTheatre Box Otiice. For stu¬dents, senior citizens, andsubscribers, tickets will besold for $1.50.ybiJREAD OURLE1TER SECTIONifiCLESTHU ISSUEWendy’s comes to Hyde ParkWendy’s has granted a fastArms and the M2 /i The Chicago Maroon—Friday, March 1, 1985iRegistrationForms Availablein ReynoldsClub 200Career PlanningFor Graduate StudentsSaturday, March 28:30 AM — 5:30 PMIda Noyes Hall mmmAdded Workshop:Issues in Dual Career Families Jane Henry C.MORTON- MURPHY=AWARD =For Contributions to Extracurricular ActivitiesApplications for WINTER QUARTERNow AvailableRoom 210 - Ida Noyes Hall - 962-9554Deadline: MARCH 15THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOJOHN M. OLIN CENTERpresentsSteven Smith, Ass’t. Prof.Dept, ofPol. ScL,Yale University‘Rights, Revolution and Community:Hegel’s Critique of the Liberal State’Thursday, March 7,19854:00 p.m.Social Science Research BuildingRoom 122, 1126 E. 59th Street The“North Side”MAROONEXPRESSTHERE ARE JUST A COUPLE OFWEEKENDS LEFT TO BLOW OFFBEFORE EXAMS BEGIN...LET THEMAROON EXPRESS ASSIST YOU...TAKE SOME TIME OUT TO...... see “Blood Simple”--Ebert says it’s good. Starts this week at theBiograph. While there see “A Nos Amours.” Pick up some PlittDiscount Tickets at the Reynolds Club Box Office, (get off at GrantHospital stop)... catch what’s happening at “The Jazz Showcase” in the BlackstoneHotel one block south of the Art Institute. Shows are usually prettycrowded so it’s best to call ahead-427-4300.... Previews for Checkhov’s “The Cherry Orchard” happen this weekat the Goodman Theatre on Columbus (some of us remember thisfrom Common Core Lit) Get off at the Art Institute. 443-3800 fortickets.... Lots of good movies around. Water Tower, Fine Arts. ChestnutStation, Biograph, Carnegie and others are right on the way! Let ustake you there.Tickets for the Maroon Express can bepurchased with a U of C ID at the Ida Noyesinformation desk, Reynolds Club box office,or any Residence Hall front desk. Individualone-way tickets cost $1.25.viewpoints 3Chicago Maroon—Friday, March 1, WZlmm—mmamChallenging Ariel Sharon’s work and “good” reputationBy John P. EganIf libel is said to occur when a pub¬lished falsehood damages another per¬son’s good reputation, how in the worlddid Ariel Sharon make it into a court oflaw?Good reputation? Let us not forgetwho we are speaking about. Sharon’shands are so bloody that he makes Cen¬tral American dictators look like paci¬fists. Alexander Cockburn, a columnistfor The Nation, was not exaggeratingwhen he recently said that Sharon was“one of the vilest men in the worldtoday.”Sharon, now Israeli Minister of In¬dustry and Development, had filed a$50 million libel suit against Time mag¬azine. At issue was a February 1983story on the massacre of Palestiniansin the Sabra and Shatila refugee campsin September 1982. In mid-September,Sharon met with Pierre Gemayel. thefounder of the Maronite Phalangeparty and militia, to offer his condo¬lences on the assassination of Pierre’sson, Bashir, who had been electedPresident of Lebanon. The meeting it¬self was not contested, but Time as¬serted that during the meeting Sharondiscussed the need to avenge Bashir’smurder with the elder Genyal. A fewdays after the meeting, over 800 Pales¬tinians were massacred at Sabra andShatila.Although Sharon was able to provethat he had not discussed revenge withPierre Gemayel, he could not provethat Time published its story eitherknowing it was false or with a recklessdisregard for its truth or falsity. There¬fore, both Sharon and Time claimedvictory. Time because it formally wonthe suit, and Sharon because he hadproved that Time's story was false anddefamatory.Time has been justly accused ofsloppy editorial procedures, butSharon has a reputation for blood and violence, pure and simple, and while itis never flattering to be accused of plot¬ting a massacre, Sharon has super¬vised so many massacres that onewonders how his reputation could bedefamed by the false story that he wasplanning another.Sharon stands out as perhaps themost violent figure in Israeli politicstoday. He was the leader of the no¬torious Unit 101, an elite commandosquad which terrorized Arabs and Pa¬lestinians throughout the 1950’s, and aquick glance at some of the standar-dard works on modern Middle Eastpolitics and history will reveal some¬thing about Sharon and his craft.In the 1950’s “violations of the (Israe-li-Jordanian) armistice boundarieswere frequent, and were being com¬mitted by both sides....The Israeliswere determined to stop (Arab) infil¬trations by a policy of retaliation.” Anddo they did, in grand style. ArielSharon’s Unit 101 carried out its firstterrorist operation against the Arabvillage of Qibya, in the demilitarizedzone between Israel and Jordan.In alleged retaliation for the murderof three Israelis a few days before — towhich the Jordanian government hadshowed a willingness to find the perpe¬trators — Unit 101 attacked Qibya onthe night of 14 October 1953. “Fifty-three villagers, regardless of age andsex, were killed, and their homes(were) destroyed. The pattern resem¬bled the Deir Yassin massacre of 1948;it was an indiscriminate killing of civil¬ians with the obvious purpose of sowingterror among the borderland Arab pop¬ulation” (both quotes from GeorgeLenczowski, The Middle East in WorldAffairs, p. 424.).Visiting the site the next day, UnitedNations officials reported finding “bul¬let-ridden bodies near the doorways,and multiple bullet hits on the doors ofthe demolished homes, (which) indi¬ cated that the inhabitants had beenforced to remain inside until theirhomes were blown up over them. Wit¬nesses were uniform in describingtheir experience as a night of horror,during which Israeli soldiers movedabout in their village, blowing up build¬ings, firing into doorways and windowswith automatic weapons, and throwinghand grenades” (David Hirst, The Gunand the Olive Branch, 2nd edition, pp.181-82). Not a Sabra-Shatila massacre,perhaps, but it was an ominous startfor Ariel Sharon.Sharon’s next big assignment wasThe Koltz Plan for the 1992 ChicagoWorld’s Fair will be displayed at Uni¬versity National Bank. 1354 East 55thStreet, Mar. 4 to Mar. 22 during regularbanking hours. This pian will not iso¬late Hyde Parkers from the Loop dis¬trict.Steve Koltz is an Urban Plannerfrom Chicago who has a Masters De¬gree in City and Regional Planningfrom Illinois Institute of Technology.He served as a member of the first AIAWorld’s Fair Committee in 1979-80. Hehas testified at many city and statehearings against the current isolated180 and 110 acre landfill lakefrontsite.He completed a two-year IIT mas¬ters thesis, 1981-83, on a no landfillWorlds Fair Site along the SouthBranch of the Chicago River, over tothe lakefront on vacant and deteriorat¬ed land. His site contains such long¬term residuals as utilities, transporta¬tion, access to the lakefront park, anew river edge park and a portagepark between the river and the lake-front, a Soldier Field landscaped park¬ing structure, many new buildings, his¬toric renovation, new housing and the “pacification” of Gaza in the early1970’s. Sharon’s was a “pacification”in the same way that the American de¬struction of southeast Asia was “pacifi¬cation.” Under Sharon’s command.Arab suspects in Gaza were regularlybeaten and shot by Israeli soldiers,houses of suspects were demolished asa matter of course, and civil rights anddue process were wholly alien conceptsto Arabs accused of one “security” of¬fence or another. Gaza was brutallyconquered within a few bloody years,at the expense of many Palestiniancontinued on page sixredevelopment. Much of these residu¬als were based on community, city andworld’s fair input.The Koltz Plan does not relocate any¬one in Pilsen, allows Chinatown, Dear¬born Park and McCormick Place to ex¬pand, does not relocate Lake ShoreDrive, allows Michigan, State andClark to pass through site and MeigsField would be shut down over a two-year period, but returns. Koltz pro¬motes a four zone arrival-departureplan that parks 26.000 cars, 1,000 busesand 1.000 boats with shuttle and directaccess to site. He coordinated publictransportation allowing for directaccess to eight gates on the fair site.The inland location will revitalize sur¬rounding neighborhoods and providejobs for many. After the Fair one-thirdof the site would become parks and theremainder residential redevelopment.Koltz was commissioned by theFriends of the Parks. World’s FairCommittee, 1984. for his masters thesisand to build a model of his plan. Cur¬rently the World’s Fair Authority andthe city of Chicago are considering asimilar River-Lakefront no landfillsite.World’s Fair plan on display"Innovative Practice Methodsfor Social Work withDisadvantaged Populations"Guest Speaker; Barbara SolomonMonday, March 4 3:00-5:00 p.m.The School of Social ServiceAdministration969 East 60th St.Sponsored by The School of Social Service Administrationin conjunction withThe Black Student Assoc. & Student Assoc.Funded by SGFC Free AdmissionUNIVERSITY CARRENTAL5508 SO. LAKE PARK241-6200LATE MODEL DOMESTIC CARSSAFE FOR HIGHWAY DRIVINGAUTO TRANS - AIR COND. - RADIODAILY OR WEEKLY RATESWE’RE #3! THE INTERNATIONALCOFFEEHOUSEHosted by Kristin EricksonWith special guesthris FarrellFriday, March I,9:OOpm- l.'OOamInternational Houx1414 Ust 59t» StreetGeneral Admission $2 includes complimentary refreshmentsWHO IS A JEW?PATRILINEAL DESCENT:A REFORM PERSPECTIVERabbi Herman E. Schoolman,Emanuel Congregation, ChicagoFriday March 1, 8:30 P.M. Hillel House5715 S. WoodlawnSponsored by Kadima (Reform Students) and Hillel4 lettersiThe Chicago Maroon—Friday, March 1, 1985More information onadvisory committeesTo the editor:My thanks to Julie Weissman for herarticle on the student advisory groupsin the University (2/22/85). The effec¬tiveness of such groups depends large¬ly on their ability to attract both stu¬dents interested in membership andthose who wish to see their concernsaddressed through the agency of stu¬dent committees. Ms. Weissman’s ar¬ticle gave the SACs and FSACCSLmuch-needed publicity which I hopewill encourage students interested inthe advisory process to join or bringtheir petitions to them for help.A few points beg response. The firstconcerns the purpose of any advisorybody. Advice, by definition, is not acommand. The “power” spoken of inan advisory committee is the power tospeak for others of like mind andshared concerns; it is not and shouldnot be the pcv/er to make any changeaccording to one’s desires. When stu¬dents complain that their voices havebeen ignored, it seems that one of twothings has usually happened: no onehas actually spoken to someone in thepostion to do something about the prob¬lem, or those to whom advice has beenoffered have said no. Failure to actual¬ly speak up is a common enough prob¬lem which we can all understand; thatlegitimate requests can be denied doesnot seem as reasonable. When studentsbring a conern to faculty or adminis¬tration, they can expect, probably de¬mand, to have their arguments heard,and they can expect to have the rea¬sons for the situation or decisions ex¬plained. The neglect of such courtesiesmerits indignation. But the considereddenial of a request is a legitimate re¬sponse, and no one who takes the notionof advice seriously should refuse to ac¬cept that as a possibility. If we want toinsist that all of our demands are actedupon according to our desires, then weshould quit the pretense of thinkingthrough situations reasonably and goback to storming the administrationbuilding.Secondly, advice does not solely flowto administrators from student initia¬tive. Students do alert faculty to issues,yet faculty as well ask for advice fromstudents (which, again, they may re¬ject), and students advise each otherthrough the course evaluation pro¬gram. In other words, advisory com¬mittees should find more to do thanholler loudly to bring attention to an¬noyances of which administration maybe unaware. Advice can be construc¬tive, proposing alternative programs,changes in curriculum, or new ser¬vices. To be more than idle wishes,such advice should come backed byconcrete proposals which speak tosome thought on the subject: who willuse the innovations, where facilitiesmay be housed, what the cost will be,and so forth. The success of a proposaldepends largely upon its feasibility andchances for usefulness, and that is bestensured by reinforcing suggestionswith research rather than tossing outisolated ideas. To advise well, st w’should know the issues and c ' iswhich they represent, be that a ca. .ni-tory, a collegiate division, or a pro¬gram. (Joining such a committee is in¬ cidentally a great way to learn.) Thesuccess of any advisor depends uponhis reliability, credibility, and famil¬iarity with the subject, as we all knowthrough contact with those who at¬tempt to advise us.Thirdly, the remarks on the courseevaluation work done by the collegiateSACs were not quite correct. While theNew Collegiate Division SAC is still inthe process of establishing its ownevaluation program, the burden ot thiswork falls heavily on the other fourSACs, not simply the Humanities’ andPhysical Sciences’, as stated in the ar¬ticle. If my tally from the 1983-84 evalu¬ation booklet is correct, last year BioSci summarized evaluations for 52courses; Phy Sci, 97; Humanities, 143;and Social Sciences listed 316 classesoffered in its division with either asummary or a note that evaluationswere not returned or were on file in theSoc Sci office. The reasons that manyclasses do not make the booklet vary.Humanities, for example, offers over600 undergraduate classes each year,many of which have fewer than 5 regis¬tered undergraduates and are there¬fore difficult to summarize fairly. Thechief hindrance is the chronic dearth <tfstudents willing to read through files ofevaluations and attempt to summarizethem with equity and wit.Finally, the quote attributed to mewas incorrect in its context. I havefound that the DSAC this year is “themost productive, progressive commit¬tee I have seen” only in comparison tothe others that I have worked with per¬sonally. Committees such as the BioSAC. Soc Sci SAC, and the group whichadvises the English department haveimpressive records of successful ser¬vice, and I meant no evaluation ofthem or of FSACCSL in a comment in¬tended simply to express my opinionabout only those committees I haveworked with.Elizabeth ZimmerlyChairman, Dean’s StudentAdvisory CommitteeFourth-year Student in CollegeParties should servenon-drinkers, tooTo the editor:I recently attended a campus-spon¬sored party where I witnessed a mostdisturbing incident. The “bartender”(a student manning his shift at theopen bar) was harassing someone whohad asked for straight orange juice, in¬sisting that he had to “save themixers” (o.j., tonic, etc.) and that if heserved her anything he had to add evenjust a bit of booze to justify it. When theperson explained tht she did not drinkand really just wanted the juice, the“bartender” besieged her with intru¬sive questions and sarcastic remarks.The woman ended up taking a papercup to the water fountain.People choose not to drink for a vari¬ety of reasons: health, religious con¬viction, or simply personal preference.Some literally risk death by consumingalcohol. Regardless of the reason, sucha choice is a matter of individual integ¬rity and deserves to be respects assuch.Perhaps the whole scene could havebeen avoided if alternative beverages(pop, non-alcoholic punch, etc.) had been provided in addition to the bar. Atsome universities this is a policy forany party funded with school money.People who choose not to drink stilllike to go out and have a good time;that can be hard to do when they aremade to feel like unwelcome freaks.Randi KleinParis program directorresponds to U of CTo the Editor:As the Director of the SarahLawrence Academic Year in ParisProgram, I would like to offer a fewcomments concerning studies inParis.First. I would like to specify that thetuition for the SLC program in Paris is$9,980 for 1984-85, and not $13,000 aspreviously printed. Referring to FrankLuby’s January 18 article and on ourstudents’ behalf, I would like to under¬line the unfair generalization concern¬ing the “lack of seriousness among stu¬dents from other schools”. The qualityof some of the institutions concerned aswell as the qualification and motiva¬tion of individual students would seemto justify some nuancing of the abovestatement.Moreover, some comments concern¬ing Frederic Ruiz-Ramon’s January 25letter, might be useful to students plan¬ning to study in Paris. Regardless ofthe program chosen, I would indeedfully endorse Frederic’s statementconcerning the necessity of having a“strong command of the French lan¬guage” to fully benefit from any aca¬demic year abroad — particularly ifone intends to pursue his or her field ofinterest.The U of C Paris Program must in¬deed be a welcome alternative to U of Cstudents as SLC, a small Liberal ArtsCollege, emphasizes faculty-studentcontacts in the learning process, anddoes have very different attitudestowards teaching methods and courserequirements. Apart from the orienta¬tion (pre-university) period when stu¬dents are given intensive languagetraining and a general historical andpolitical background designed to facili¬tate the students’ insertion into theFrench society and educational sys¬tem, students can choose from a vari¬ety of courses ranging from the SLCseminars, classes taken at French in¬stitutions and individual courses set upto answer the specific needs of studentswhenver the French University systemcannot accommodate those needs. TheSLC Program combines classes takenat French institutions with individualtutorials to compensate for the size andimpersonality of the French system. Inaddition, students are also generallywelcome to join the university groupdiscussions with the exception of theInstitut d’Etudes Politiques. It should,therefore, be noted that what prevent¬ed Frederic Ruiz-Ramon from “fullyexperiencing and integrating into theFrench system” remains the excep¬tion.The insertion into the French societyand educational system does requirepatience, determination and time. Stu¬dents planning to study in Franceshould bear this in mind; they shouldnot, however, forego this goal as it issuccessfully achieved by a number ofstudents every year.Professor Monique MiddletonDirector,Sarah Lawrence CollegeAcademic Year in ParisIsolating human rightsviolators won’t workTo the editor:In a letter printed February 12, JohnP. Egan argues that there “can be nocompromise” with oppression and thatgovernments which violate humanrights “must be isolated and left towither and die, like £ w^d deprived ofsoil.” Mr. Egan ther ' ,upports thecurrent refusal to arm SouthAfrica, and calls i rest it, atrade cut " ii, and a ban x. ' -• -andsales. Wi ever the merit c ,>e par¬ticular proposals, Mr. Egan’s generalprinciple is unworkable and endangersthe ideals he wishes to advance.Thoroughgoing application of hisprinciple would require the UnitedStates to abandon all forms of detentewith the Soviet Union (including arms control talks, grain sales, and othertrade), to scrap its growing friendshipwith Mainland China, to eliminate eco¬nomic aid to Ethiopia, Mazambique,Zimbabwe, and many other countries,to terminate security ties with alliessuch as the Philippines and SouthKorea, and to eliminate investment inand trade and other ties with dozens ofnations throughout Africa, Asia, andCentral and South America.It is obvious that these policies wouldfrustrate important geopolitical inter¬ests, such as arms control and ourcommitments to allied democracies,and would harm the American econ¬omy which relies in part on interna¬tional trade and investment. The poli¬cies are also likely to impede Mr.Egan’s humanitarian goals. Trade andaid cutoffs often inflect severe suffer¬ing on the populations of poor coun¬tries, and abandonment of an oppres¬sive regime can lead to its collapse andreplacement by an even more oppres¬sive government, and isolation fromfreer societies may only reinforce thepattern of human rights violations. -The utter impossibility of consistent¬ly applying Mr. Egan’s principle raisesan even more sinister possibility.Under his principle, the only manner inwhich association with a regime can berationalized, when such association isbelieved to be necessary, is to absolveit of human rights violations. Themoralistic refusal to deal with govern¬ments we don’t endorse will inevitablylead to amoral endorsements of gov¬ernments with which we must deal.Human rights then becomes a facadefor ideological and geopolitical consi¬derations, in which supporters of di¬vestment from South Africa oppose di¬vestment from the Soviet Union andopponents of trade with the SouthUnion support trade with South Africa,citing human rights slogans to advancetheir ideological ends.Detente and constructive engage¬ment are indeed morally troublesome,and may well need to be changed orabandoned. They certainly must be ac¬companied by a forthright recognitionof the evil nature of the regimes in¬volved, and a continued willingness toconsider human rights along with geo¬political factors in foreign policy deci¬sions. Sanctions and public criticismare often necessary. Unfortunately,sweeping and simplistic slogans are oflittle help in making these difficult de¬cisions.Alan D. Viara (Law School, ’87)PoliSci not short onfacultyTo the editor:How about publishing some goodnews about the undergraduate pro¬gram in Political Science? For examp¬le, twelve 200 level political sciencecourses will be available in the SpringQuarter, 1985. In addition, there will befive graduate level courses open to un¬dergraduates with the consent of theinstructor.I will not quibble with several misre¬presentations or errors in Terry Tro-janek’s story in the February 12, 1985Maroon (“Poli Sci short on faculty”)but will mention that five members ofthe Department (Nathan Tarcov,Charles Lipson, John Mearsheimer,Cynthia Kaplan and David Green¬stone) have been teaching SocialSciences 110 or 120 and that PoliticalScience concentrators were notifiedprior to the Winter Quarter that threeadditional 200 level Political Sciencecourses were being offered.Lloyd I. RudolphChairperson, UndergraduatePolitical Science ProgramOur psychic overlord?To the editor:Your Institutions’ charter in serviceto the universe has been rescinded. Inthe state of Illinois-the U of Illinois (Ur-bana-Champaign) and U. of I. Chicagoare your successors.And certain “clerks” janitors etc. ofyour (UC) workforce control your psy¬chic destiny.As of 2/20/85-you will not receive anymore postings from me.psychic overloadof the universeVernon W. Allen Jr.The Chicago Maroon is the official student newspaper of the University of Chicago.It is published twice weekly, on Tuesdays and Fridays. The offices of the Maroon arein Ida Noyes Hall, rooms 303 and 304, 1212 E. 59th St., Chicago, Illinois, 60637. 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Hilary Till, BobTravis, Terry Trojanek.Contributors: John Egan, Francis Robicheaux, Steve Siegelviewpoints 5Chicago Maroon—Friday, March 1, 1985 ■■■■■■■■Higher college standards: Who pays the price?By Jeff SmithThere’s an intrusive connection be¬tween the sudden outbursts of concernover education both England andAmerica have experienced in recentweeks.In America, the public focus hasbeen standards. Particularly in Illi¬nois, late 1984 saw moves by the Boardof Higher Education to toughen admis¬sion requirements at state universitiesand by several community colleges tofollow suit. At the same time, the de¬bate about the quality of lower schools,which prepare students for college (orfail to), continued both in Chicago andnationally, with the Council of ChiefState School Officers calling in No¬vember for a national system of schoolachievement tests.In Britain, which admits proportion¬ally less than half as many of its“school-leavers” to college as does theUS, the focus has been access. The gov¬ernment here is said tc have sufferedits worst crisis since the Falklands in¬vasion when, in December, EducationMinister Sir Keith Joseph proposed acutback in the public grants that aremost British college students’ chiefsource of funding.With even fellow Tories in revolt, Jo¬seph retreated. But the issue has justre-appeared at Oxford University.There, amid sharp controversy, thefaculty turned down a proposal toaward Prime Minister MargaretThatcher an honorary doctorate thisspring. The chief grounds for opposi¬tion were the Thatcher government’seducation policies, which some Britisheducators blame for the drop in thenumber of university slots availablefor British high-school graduates.The comparable strength of concernin the two countries is illuminating be¬cause these issues, standards andaccess, are the flip sides of each other.Without compensating measures of some sort, higher standards mean alowering of access, and greater accessmeans a lowering of standards.Most Americans are quite comfort¬able acknowledging the first point butnot the second. Hence you have politi¬cal opposition in the US to efforts toraise admission standards at stateschools. Liberal admissions policiesare associated with a progressive out¬look on racial and economic equality.But on the flip side, no one wants totalk about the quality of those schoolsunder such liberal policies. If the issueis raised there is bitter controversy, such as could be seen in the ChicagoTribune letters column last fall in re¬sponse to Professor Gary Orfield’sanalysis of some of Chicago’s state col¬leges.Yet it is fair to ask whether the vastexpenditures on state higher educationare doing the most possible good evenfor their direct beneficiaries. Like anyformer instructor, especially in En¬glish composition, I have my own brief¬case full of horror stories, includingsome favorite course evaluationsturned in by students at a major stateuniversity: —“This course has sharpen my writ¬ing skills and broaden my knowledge incorrecting my own errors.”—“The writing we did during thequarter were on many kinds of paper.”(The student meant, “We wrote manykinds of papers.”)—“I knew what mistook I usuallydid. 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Since whenmust it be guaranteed that a law willnot be broken before it is passed. Thereare laws against rape, yet women areraped everyday; does this mean thatwe should repeal rape law's?Abortion is a human rights issue.This is a human life that w’e are talkingabout, and not one, but two—that of theunborn child and that of his or hermother. They are two distinct, sepa¬rate individuals each entitled to humanrights.I do agree with Smith that the stateshould not have the right to tell anyonewhat to do with their body. A womanshould be able to do whatever shepleases with her womb; it is the defen¬seless unborn child she may not touch.Thus, outlawing abortion is not makinga woman’s womb “the property of thestate.’’ It is guaranteeing the rights ofa human being unable to stand up forthese rights.Stan Smith goes on to imply that pro¬lifers, if they support the death penaltyare being hypocritical. Let’s get thefacts straight. Whatever w'e may be¬lieve about the mortality of capitalpunishment, abortion and the deathpenalty have only one thing in com¬mon—they both kill. However, the sim¬ilarity ends here. The death penalty isa killing of a rational adult as a punish¬ment for a capital crime. He has beenjudged guilty in a public trial throughthe due process of law', and he is killedby the state.Abortion, on the other hand is thekilling of an unborn child, who hascommitted no crime and so isn’t beingpunished. The unborn child is guilty ofnothing and has not gome through thedue process of law. Finally, he or she iskilled by a private citizen. Althoughthese are tw'o life issues they certainlyare not the same thing.Furthermore, Stan Smith is not jus¬tified in claiming that “right-to-lifers’oppose abortion solely for the reasonthat the right to abortion is so centralSharoncontinued from page threelives; atop the pile of rubble and bodiessat Ariel Sharon.In the first Begin government(1977-1981), Sharon was Minister ofAgriculture, a post he used to spear¬head the colonization of the W’est Bankand Gaza, now properly “pacified.” Vi¬olence between Jew and Arab in theseareas increased dramatically, in partbecause of the vast confiscation of Pa¬lestinian land, necessary for the coloni¬zation drive. Sharon’s policies had theunintended effect of strengthening Pa¬lestinian nationalism in the occupiedterritories; consequently, the Israelimilitary authorities responded by clos¬ing Palestinian universities, destroyi¬ng trade unions, imprisoning or exilingintellectuals, confiscating more land,dismissing elected officials and sub¬jecting them to a campaign of official¬ly-tolerated terror, demolishinghomes, censoring the Palestinianpress, and abusing and torturing Pa¬lestinian political prisoners in Israelijails.As Minister of Defense in the secondBegin government (1981-1983), Sharoncontinued this policy, called the “ironfist,” in the occupied territories.Others, less charitably but more ac¬curately, termed Sharon’s policies areign of terror. Unable to beat WestBank and Gaza Palestinians into sub¬mission, Sharon tried a different tack:he would invade Lebanon and destroythe Palestine Liberation Organization(PLO), and thereby demoralize the Pa¬lestinians under occupation. Perhapsthen they would knuckle under to his“iron fist.” The invasion of Lebanonand the seige of West Beirut wouldmake Sharon’s heretofore violent ca¬ to women’s rights,” and that “the rightto do so is central to the struggle forwomen’s equality.” As soon as theequality of a group of individuals issaid to rest on their “right” to takeother human lives, I will certainlyquestion the “equality” of anyone.I think that the issue is not whetheror not signers of the petition are unk¬nowingly supporting a rightwing move¬ment, bi t whether or not any privateperson has the right to take the life of afellow human being.Heather HarlanTo the editors:It seems that a great deal of the op¬position to the petition against “lega¬lized abortion until birth” concentrat¬ed on the stereotype of the “Pro-lifer”rather than the issues. There are, nodoubt, zealots on both sides of thisissue. However the majority of signersto that petition are Hyde Park liberals,and on that list you will find the namesof some of our community leaders whohave done the most effective w'ork fcrsocial welfare, race relations, and thelike. Most of us, aging hippies and lib¬erated women with careers and chil¬dren. have supported, and will contin¬ue to support liberal issues. Nor, asone epistle seemed to imply, are we ig¬norantly “sucked in” by our cruel“leaders.”The problem for us is w ith the reali¬ties behind the words “choice” and“life.” Choice and absolute personalfreedom are great wonders of democ¬racy. But both of these are limited in ademocracy, when killing is involved.Killing is an awful word, but for thoseof us who have had children inside thewomb, and for any w'ho know the simp¬le medical act that a fetus has a dif¬ferent genetic structure than itsmother, different arms, legs, head,brain, and heart; it is very hard to sitsilently w'hile the law allows third tri¬mester fetuses to be expelled from thewomb by various procedures. All ofthese procedures have the intent to killthe life in the fetus. These processesare nearly alw'ays successful. Late-term abortions are not generally prac¬ticed in good hospitals like Lying-In.Nevertheless, late-term babies areaborted in hospitals and clinics all thetime — Planned Parenthood’s AlanGuttmacher Institute reports that ap-reer look like small potatoes.Under Sharon’s command, the IsraelDefense Forces (IDF) invaded Leban¬on in June 1982. Within a few days,West Beirut was surrounded and underseige by the IDF: for the next twomonths, food, water, medicine, andelectricity would be cut off every fewdays. Almost one million people hadcrowded into West Beirut, and through¬out that grisly summer conventionaland anti-personnel weaponry pouredinto the city and terrorized a defen¬seless civilian population. Escape fromWest Beirut was impossible, as Israel’sallies, the Phalange, guarded thecheckpoints connecting East and WestBeirut. The American governmentnever protested the destruction andterror, accomplished with Americanweapons in defiance of explicit lawsgoverning their use.One American newspaper corre¬spondent gave a hint of what part of theseige of Beirut was like:To many people, in fact, the seigeof Beirut seemed gratuituous bru¬tality...The arsenal of weapons,unleashed in a way that has notbeen seen since the Vietnam war,clearly horrified those who sawthe results first-hand...The use ofcluster bombs and white phospho¬rous shells, a vicious weapon,was widespread...In the lasthours of the last air attack onBeirut, Israeli planes carpet-bombed Bourj el-Barajne (a Pa¬lestinian refugee camp south ofBeirut). There were no fightingmen there, only the damagedhomes (shacks, really) of Pales¬tinian families, who once againwould have to leave and find an¬other place to live. All of WestBeirut, finally, was living inwreckage, garbage, and proximately 250 babies per week areaborted between 5 months and birth.Piease note that these 250 babieseach week are only the ones Gutt¬macher has reported to it on the volun¬tary information provided by abortiondoctors. The State of Illinois has noteven been able to require anonymousreporting of abortion statistics, be¬cause under the current abortion lawthis has been found unconstitutional(see Charles v. Carey). No one knowshow many, or how late, these late-termabortions are. All that is available isthe figure of some 250 per week (12,860per year) which are voluntarily report¬ed. This worries some liberals. If wewere sending 250 convicted murderersto the gas chambers each week, we lib¬erals would be rioting in the streets.Can’t we sign petitions against the kill¬ing of late-term babies, without beingbranded “misled” or “bigoted?”Recently Ms. Magazine devoted anarticle to the importance of maintain¬ing the legalization of abortion untilbirth. Reasoned one of their sources,“ ‘Viability’ just won’t work. It’s toovague and shifting a notion.” The ar¬ticle summed up, “...it is the experi¬ence of relationship that marks thetransformation of a fetus into a child. Ithappens at different moments in dif¬ferent pregnancies.” We in the Unive-sity community should think about thelogic of this statement. For the logicnecessary to rationalize the currentabortion law has necessitated this re¬definition of a human being. Thesewomen, and their colleagues atPlanned Parenthood, with the recentslogan, “If you believe every childshould be a wanted child, shouldn’t yousupport a woman’s right to abortion?”have a new definition — a fetus is or isnot worthy of life depending onwhether its mother wants it. Is a per¬son defined by whether its mother hasa “relationship” with it? Does this thenmake all adopted people walking fe¬tuses, because their biological mothersdid not establish a “relationship” withthem? Is there no hope for the child of amother who does not love him/her?I have know wonderful adopted peo¬ple and wonderful people who have hadto grow up with mothers who did rejectthem. 1 appreciate the extraordinaryimportance of motherhood, and take itvery seriously. But surely this is toloss...Somewhere, the taste ofvictory must be sweet” (CharlesPowers, Los Angeles Times, 29August 1982).Several friends of mine survived theseige of West Beirut, and their storiesare often far more grisly thanPowers’.Then there was the massacre atSabra and Shatila. From where Israelisoldiers stood guard, on the tops ofbuildings overlooking the camps, therewas a clear line of vision into Sabraand Shatila. This, combined with thescreaming of terrified women and chil¬dren — the men having long ago beentaken to detention centers in south Le¬banon and Israel — would surely havealerted Israeli soldiers that somethingwas amiss in the camps.Many Israelis were outraged by themassacres as well as the bloody sum¬mer that proceeded it, and they de¬manded that a commission of inquirybe set up to determine Israel’s respon¬sibility for this atrocity. The KahanCommission was created, and althoughit was seriously compromised by its re¬fusal to hear testimony from many re-levent witnesses, it found that ArielSharon had an “indirect responsibili¬ty” for the atrocities at Sabra and Sha¬tila. Scholars of international law ridi¬culed the concept of “indirectresponsibility”: either one does or doesnot have responsibility when a massa¬cre occurs in an area under your con¬trol, carried out by your allies, and fa¬cilitated by equipment you providedthem.As Israeli Minister of Defense,Sharon had overall responsibility forthe invasion of Lebanon, the seige ofWest Beirut, and the massacre atSabra and Shatila. However, Sharon’ssuit against Time sought to erase thelight judgement of the Kahan Commis- exalt “mother love” beyond all humanbounds. It is an incredible conceit onthe part of women to think that they dohold, or should hold, the power of lifeand death over their children, whetherthey be children inside or outside thewomb. Children are extremely pre¬cious human beings who pop out on thedelivery table with quite distinct littlepersonalities. These children grow in aworld of their own, as well as of ourown, making. They lead little lives oftheir own. Some mothers regret this.But no child is a genetic/psychologi¬cal/sociological clone of its mother. Itis simply not the same person as she.Of course no one’s womb is “a wardof the state,” but the very differentarms, legs, head, brain and heartwhich are inside that womb, ought tobe protected by law when we are talk¬ing of viable, adoptable babies. Howcan we claim that absolute personalfreedom has more importance thanthat beating heart in a separate per¬son?Abortion is a strange problem in acountry where birth control is inexpen¬sive and nearly 100 percent effective.Millions have not taken contraceptionseriously because abortion has beenportrayed as a “liberal.” “heads up”and simple solution. For millions whohave suffered the anguish of goingthrough an abortion, this liberated so¬lution has been a nightmare that onlygets worse with age. However, as longas abortion is glamorized, and as longas the fetus is thought of as a non-en¬tity, there is no reason to hope that menand women will take contraception asa real responsibility. Yet there is cer¬tainly unlimited freedom and choice inthat decision.There are also choices available ifone is in trouble with a pregnancy. Cou¬ples of all races wait, some forever, toadopt. Now, according to the SurgeonGeneral, handicapped newborns arealso immediately placed with familieswho want them. There are numerousinterim services and support groups,from families who wish to give womenwith problem pregnancies a place tolive, to those women in WEBA (WomenExploited By Abortion), who havejoined to help each other, and hope toprevent others from suffering. Usuallywomen with an unwanted pregnancycontinued on page sevension, and the burly Israeli politicianwill obviously use his recent “victory”in New York to continue his climb tothe top of the Herut party.With his megalomaniacal and violentpast effectively obscured by a subser¬vient American media, Sharon hasbeen free to fling his disgustingcharges of libel. The Israeli Generalhas also been aided by legalistic wran¬gling over what is “germane” to hissuit: evidently his 30-year history ofruthless violence against defenselesscivilians, readily accessable to thosewho cared to look, was deemed irrele-vent.Screaming “blood libel” and “anti-Semitism,” Sharon has succeeded insilencing the generally docile Ameri¬can media. One would think that a cur¬sory examination of Sharon’s pastwould merit at least a side-bar to thedaily newspaper reports on the trial;failing that, how about film clips show¬ing the seige of West Beirut, or of RedCross workers exhuming Palestiniancorpses from the mass giave outsideSabra and Shatila?Unfortunately, this was not the case.The trial was conducted without anyreference to Sharon’s past, whichwould have made his assertion — thathis good reputation was damaged byan inaccurate Time news story — ut¬terly ridiculous.And so we go on, with a selectivesense of the past. Can anv*>ne behovethat the Israeli-Palertinian conflictwill be any less violent in the future? Atwhat point will Americans understandthis conflict in its historical context?When will we refuse to be bullied by thelikes of a Sharon? The victims ofSharon’s madness and violence havean answer, if we would only listen -othem.John P. Egan is a free-lance writer liv¬ing in Chicago.viewpoints 7The Chicago Maroon—Friday, March 1, 1985 wmmmmmmHigher college standardscontinued from page fiveThese are choice quotes, certainly,but not untypical. The students whowrote them viewed their own experi¬ence positively. And students at thelevel of ability these comments indi¬cate had no trouble passing university¬wide proficiency exams and movingalong through the system to higher-level studies.But what that “higher level”amounted to can easily be inferred. Itamounted to instructors with expen¬sive and very specialized graduate-school educations (and a correspondi¬ng lack of training for remedialinstruction) teaching, in effect, sixth-grade-level subjects. The system’s as¬sumption was that if you gave the mostdisadvantaged students an extra term,say, of preparatory work, then theycould re-join the mainstream, which it¬self was none too distinguished. Inspite of increasing amounts of personaland scientific evidence to the contrary,it was hoped that a little extra quantityAbortioncontinued from page sixdo not know where to turn, and if theyopen the Yellow Pages under “Birth”will find the pages taken up with abor¬tion advertisements. The campus Pro¬life group pays for a hot-line to provideinformation for those looking for op¬tions.But clearly, any “solution,” once achild is in the womb, is extremely pain¬ful for the mother. Some abortions willalways be necessary. But the abortionproblem as we know it — a million anda half per year — would vanish if themedical facts on the fetus were keptbefore the public, and contraceptionwas taken as a serious responsibility.Mary Quinlan McGrath(Ph D. ’83) could substitute for a lifetime of havingbeen denied quality.This sort of thinking leads to anynumber of problems. Institutionally, asstate-funded college study takes up theremedial burden, the pressure on pub¬lic elementary and high schools to doan adequate job decreases.Thus the lowering of standards spillsdown through the whole system. Andsince the gap between the best andworst lower schools is thereby wi¬dened, inequality of opportunity be¬comes more deeply ingrained, notless.Individually, as more people attendcollege, “degree inflation” robs theirhard work of its value. Economic andsocial pressures for more and moreschooling increase, even as attritionalso rises. Student life comes to becharacterized by that distinctive blendof apathy and fear that so profoundlyinhibits real thinking in the collegeclassroom.Many people working in the systemseem vaguely aware of these prob¬lems. But it is very hard to admit thatwhat you do for a living is at best anunwitting mistake. I found that my fel¬low instructors would readily agreethat the teaching they were doing was“college” in name only. And yet. with atwist of doublethink, they would simul¬taneously insist that open access givesus a more cultured, intelligent and“educated” populace.There is a similar block to facing theproblem at the level of public policy.Vast amounts of money have beenpoured into state universities, especial¬ly since the 1960s. Neighborhoods weretorn down to make room for them. It ishardly thinkable that we should nowretreat from so great an enterprise orfrom the hope it represents for a bettersociety, at least as long as there is noclear alternative.But of course there are alternatives.A major one came dramatically to the fore late last year and has been under¬scored in several recent Chicago Tri¬bune editorials. This is the Head Startalternative — the recommitment of re¬sources to, as the Tribune put it, “theright point: in the preschool years,when a human being can be most easi¬ly influenced.”A study which the High-Scope Edu¬cational Research Foundation re¬leased last year revealed two things. Itdemonstrated that Head Start-type in¬tervention in the early years can im¬prove later school performance, thusgenuinely raising the overall intelli¬gence level of society.And it strongly hinted that withoutsuch intervention, the really disadvan¬taged do not benefit much from laterschooling, “remedial” or otherwise, in“colleges” or elsewhere. Certainlygenuine higher learning depends onone’s early aptitudes having been care¬fully cultivated at each stage.In short, we need to group publichigher education along with thoseother Great Society efforts that may-do some good, but that tend to comeinto play too late in people’s lives tomake a lasting difference.If we want our tax dollars used togenuinely expand young people’s op¬tions and to put a dent in inequality,then the solution is to shift prioritiesnot just toward state-funded early edu¬cation, but specifically away from atleast some forms of state-fundedhigher education. Redoubled fundingfor Head Start and Home Start will, asthe Tribune noted, be difficult to comeby. A radical reduction or even shut¬down of some state-funded college pro¬grams — the most inadequate, super¬fluous and fradulent — would be alogical source of such funds. (Thismight apply to some state-subsidizedprivate programs as well as to stateuniversities as such.)In turn, sound early-learning efforts,by increasing the adult productivity oftheir participants, not only will in timepay for themselves (many times over,according to the research). They willalso help pay for those legitimate higher education programs that docontinue to draw public funds.Such a trade-off of “higher” for earlyeducation will be strongly resisted byentrenched academics (in fact, it runscounter to my own interests as a some¬time academic job-seeker). More im¬portantly, it may be poorly receivedboth by social progressives and by stu¬dents who feel the public colleges arenow their last, best hope.So the shift in priorities should in¬clude a stepped-up commitment, usingthe newly freed funds, to programswhich really do help young adults andwhich will be essential under the futuresystem. This includes:• Increased public scholarships, per¬haps on the British model to ensureaccess to quality higher education forall needy but truly qualified students• More clear-headed and innovativeforms of adult remedial instruction(one of several possible models tostudy would be the “Story Workshop”program pioneered at Chicago’s Co¬lumbia College)• An increased commitment of re¬sources to public elementary and highschools. This initiative would helpequalized opportunity for further edu¬cation while also reducing both the stu¬dent’s and society’s need for so much“higher” education in the first place.Current ideas in England and Ameri¬ca converge on a program like theabove. Led by Oxford and Cambridge.British universities have long setworldwide standards for quality. ButBritish educators worry about the "eli¬tism ’’ of their system, and many speakadmiringly of America’s far greaterquantitative access.Our American experience, mean¬while. has shown that without quality,open access defeats its own purpose.Our public policy henceforth should bebased on insights gained from both sys¬tems — especially America's unique, ifnot triumphant, experiments withquantity.THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOBlack Graduate ForumleWe presents a lecture oWojww byPAULINE KINGIGovernment Solicitor, New ZealandDepartment of Maori AffairsCommonwealth Fund-Harkness Fellow oweewo0 MINORITY LAND RIGHTS ANDNEW ZEALAND PUBLIC POLICYTHURSDAY, MARCH 7, 19856:OOp.m.INTERNATIONAL HOUSEA Reception Will FollowFunded by SGFC 'oWo1oW© REPAIR • SALES • RENTALSBY THE WEEK OR MONTHAPPLE MACINTOSH Vh" DISKETTES $4.00 ea.APPLE MACINTOSH RIBBONS $5.50 ea.EPSON MX-80 RIBBON $5.50 eo.EPSON MX-100 RIBBON $8.95 ea.OKIDATA/GEMINI RIBBON $2.75 ea.UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO BOOKSTOREOFFICE MACHINE DEPARTMENT970 E. 58th St.2nd FI.962-3400 or 753-2600PURIM PARTYBEVERAGES... 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The funds raised by this firstSister sponsored event will be given tothe American Red Cross African ReliefFund.Thirty official dancers collectedpledges from the University while localbusinesses contributed various goodsfor the dance. Mallory’s. Mellow Yel¬low, Giordano’s, McDonalds and Mr.G’s contributed money and food stiffswhile local bands Rnakti-3, J and the1-4-5, and D.J. Mix also contributedtheir services to the 8 hour event.Sister Nan Lewicki noted,“Everyone involved had a lot of funand prizes for the most energeticdancer were given out to the partici¬pants throughout the evening.”Further donations are welcomethroughout the next two weeks and canbe made through one of the dancersthemselves, a sister of Alpha DeltaPhi, or by calling Nan Lewicki at643-6991.Westburg speaks on StarWarsThe call for a “Strategic Defense Ini¬tiative” in a speech by the President onMarch 23, 1983 has provoked more con¬centrated debate than perhaps anyother nuclear strategic doctrine. Someproponents claim that it will provide a“nuclear umbrella” against attack,and that its implementaion will boostthe American development of hightechnology and space industries. Crit¬ics state that it will cost hundreds ofbillions of dollars, require decades inimplementation, and rely exclusivelyupon unreliable laser and particlebeam weapons.Who gave the idea for strategic de¬fense to President Reagan? Does stra¬tegic defense require expensive andunreliable high-energy weapons?Ralph Westberg, President of CitizensAgainst Nuclear War (CAN-War) andmember of the High Fronteir taskforce, will speak on “The High Fron¬tier Concept and the Star Wars Myth”this Sunday, March 3, at 7:30 pm. Thiswill be accompanied by a film showing,and will be held in the West Lounge,Ida Noyes Hall. Lecture and film willbe followed by questions. Sponsored bvSANs WAR.BRIEFLYICM}T&bB£X!s JTNCiNCWITH A GOY NEAPING5VMTHEHCRests, menj'i/egoton1002 CdttokJ..* ir^JosrifirrsWm-.ir^soTTXEP. 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T ext year,Patrick Ewing, Keith Lee, and very poss bly Way-man Tisdale will enter the already crowded field ofversatile big men, and the NBA will nave reachedthe point where the court can no longer containthem.Finding enough room to stand has become a bigproblem. Today, everyone is bigger and better. Theseven-footers are no longer immobile oafs who havetrouble lumbering up and down the floor. Playerslike Ralph Sampson can be seen not only grabbingthe rebound, but also slamming the ball at the end ofa fast break. The three second zone is no longer anobstacle to these men. Their quickness enables themto be six or seven feet from the basket and still be ina position for a rebound after the shot is taken. Thecenter traditionally would stake out his three-by-three plot of ground and wait there for the ball. Nowthe center roams the whole court, sometimes takingshots from the top of the key.Just imagine all the havoc caused by one of thoseguys roaming around. Now think about the HoustonRockets who not only have Sampson, but Akeem Ola-juwon as well. If both these guys gets under the bas¬ket for a rebound there is no paint to be seen. Re¬member the All-Star game with five seven-footers onthe court at the same time, or the sight of Sampsonfollowing on the break and almost permanently im¬planting the ball in the floor of the Hoosier Dome (bythe way, couldn’t they at least have named thatdome after Indiana’s most famous citizen. Dave Let-terman).Besides the increased size and mobility of thecenter, all the other positions are also growing. Whoever heard of a 6-8 point guard or a 7-4 forward. Whatchance would 5-8 Charlie Criss have these days. Be¬sides the seven-footers blocking-up the middle now,the 6-8 guards are big enough to battle the big boysunder the glass. W’ith this situation, there now existsan area approximately 10-by-12 which has to contain10 guys between 6-8 and 7-4.The increased size of the players also takes thethrill out of one of the most exciting aspects of NBAbasketball, the slam dunk. Any one of the dozens ofplayers in the NBA can perform acrobatic jams that.vere once reserved for only the premier players.The excitement of a 360 degree tomohawk dunk is di- The Third Stringminishr J when it occurs every other play.In addition to the increased facility of the slam isthe ir jreased efficiency of the jump shot. Guys rundow j the court, stop 25 feet from the hoop and hit allnei. Guards are shooting an unheard of 55 to 60 per¬cent from the floor. It has become automatic.To change this situation around there must besome changes in the court’s physical appearance.First of all, the three second zone has to be enlargedto keep some of these giants out of the middle. Alongwith a larger painted area, a bigger court is needed.The bigger court would provide more space to play,but most importantly it would slow up the game byincreasing the distance the ball has to travel. Ifgoing coast-to-coast means running more than 100feet, the fastbreak game may slow down to give theplaves a chance to catch their breath.The most dramatic change that I proposed wouldbe lengthening the height of the hoop. I know this is asore spot with many players who fear it will onlyscrew up the shot they’ve worked on all their lives,but when players running through the middle withtheir hands in the air can collide with the rim a timefor change may be imminent.Honestly, I know few if not none of these changeswill occur, but if they did, NBA basketball might be¬come an interesting rather than an exciting game.Let’s leave Bob Knight aloneby Dennis A. ChanskyThere are two questions about Bob Knight whichbeg to be answered. First, why do us scribes havethis morbid fascination with him? I’ll bet that this isthe tenth or twelfth Bob Knight piece you’ve readsince that chair drew a lane violation last weekend.Second, why does Indiana University put up withBob Knight? They have decided not to accept his on-file resignation this time, and they probably neverwill.I ask these two questions because their answerscan easily fill an entire column. Some writers seeBob Knight as their meal-ticket, and he certainlydoes keep them in the gravy with his antics. Somewriters hold that Bob Knight is the greatest basket¬ball genius of the post-Wooden era, and that he willbe their main topic of discussion at the old-writer’shome, therefore they follow his every move. Butothers of us see the complete Bob Knight, part child,mostly genius, but above all, a force for good in theworld and the NCAA.Everyone knows that Bob Knight wants his players to take degrees, and that he wants them to goto class to earn their degrees. And everyone knowsthat Bob Knight wants to clean up the recruiting vio¬lations in the Big Ten and the rest of the NCAA. Ev¬eryone knows that Bob Knight wants games officiat¬ed well and fairly. But just like B. Budd,sailoi/foretopman, Bob Knight naturally reacts tostrike against evil, throwing players overboard,tirading against hypocrites, and flinging courtsidefurniture.But how come Indiana University has never triedto execute Bob Knight? Is it because he providescomic relief? The world isn’t yet cynical enough tosee one man’s violent aversion to unfairness as pa¬thetically funny. Is it because the alumni love him?Supposedly his support among the alums is fading. Isit because he is a great genius, the only coach in thepost-Wooden era to win two national championships?Well, John Thompson will probably win his secondnational championship this year, but only a sympa¬thetic Jesuit can justify Thompson’s presence on acollege faculty. The fact is, Bob Knight belongs on acollege or university faculty, for he is an academic ofthe highest order.Like the ideal academic, Bob Knight knows no bot¬tom line. His goal as a coach is not 20 wins, not theround of sixteen, not the final four nor the nationalchampionship. Bob Knight told another great coach,A1 McGuire, that he competes against the game it¬self, not against other teams. Knight is a scientist,and like scientists physical, biological or social, he isdedicated to furthering the knowledge of his field forits own sake. Bob Knight seeks the basketball truth,whatever that could possibly be.Thus, when he was given data that any jerk couldhave written up as an A paper, he sweated over itand turned out an A-plus paper, and won the goldmedal in the meanwhile. More recently, after invest¬ing considerable time and effort in his research, herealized that his data and his thesis were not mesh¬ing. First, he benched four of his data, then he start¬ed reworking the thesis. Most basketball coachesand some second-rate or complacent academicswould have written the paper the way it was turningout at mid-season. But being a great coach and afirst-rate academic, Bob Knight could not trade theproper pursuit of the truth for an assured trip to thetournament.Maybe Bob Knight does not want to go to the tour¬nament this year. Maybe his thesis is not ready to bepublished yet. Maybe he is being a bad boy so we willleave him in the peace of his laboratory.Crescat scientia basketball et vita excolatur.Women’s track wants first at conferenceThe men’s MCAC conferencetrack meet takes place today and to¬morrow at HCFH along with thewomen’s title meet. By Michael Ilagan•‘We’ll be hard to beat,” stateswomen’s track and field coach LindaWhitehead. The team hopes to win theMACW Indoor Championships to beheld tonight at 7 p.m. in the HenryCrown Field House.Whitehead predicts that her teamcan finish no lower than fourth in the 11team field. She expects tough competi¬tion from defending champ Grinnell aswell as St. Norbert’s, Cornell andLawrence. Chicago is coming off astrong performance in last Friday’s U.of C. Invitational.Grinnell’s team will feature a well-By Anthony B. Cashman IIIMembers of the men’s varsity fenc¬ing team will compete in a pair ofmeets this weekend to attempt to quali¬fy for the national championships.On Saturday, the Maroons travel tothe Great Lakes Championship atNotre Dame. Individual winners of thiscontest qualify to fence in the RegionalChampionships on Sunday at North¬western.At Notre Dame, three fencers in eachweapon from each team participate ina round-robin tournament where com¬petitors fence five bouts in their pool.The number of pools is decreased untiltwelve fencers from each weapon qual¬ify for the meet on the following day.Competitors at the Regional Champi¬onships fence in a similar fashion toqualify for the national champion¬ships.The year represents the best chanceto send a fencer to Regionals that the Uof C has had in several years. The teamhas steadily improved since CoachGraeme Jennings, a former Australian balanced attack with their strengthlying where Chicago is weak, the dis¬tance runs. The Maroons lost two vet¬eran distance runners, Sarah Dell andAnn Reed, to injuries. Picking up theslack in the distance runs are freshmenKarin Kenny and Kerry Begley, andsophomore Rachel Vinkey. Whiteheadfeels that the key to winning the titlewill be Grinnell’s performance in thedistance events. Grinnell must split upthe points in the distance events withother teams if Chicago is to have agood chance. If no one comes out of thedistance events particularly strong,the Maroons should take home theOlympian, took over last year. Theyhave taken more str’ps and more teammatches than the past couple of yearscombined.Jennings has seen the program dou¬ble in size in the past year. He has alsoseen a “talent revolution” as this yearbrought two freshmen, Tim Stuhl-dreyer and Howard Lee, who had actu¬ally fenced competively in highschool.Moreover, the team already pos¬sessed perhaps the greatest amount oftalent that it had had in recent times.Foremost among these is A1 Schultz,who is nationally ranked in the foil.Schultz and Stuhldreyer, also in thefoil, represent the best chance for qual¬ifying as they have fenced the mostconsistently all season.The foil squad this weekend will con¬sist of Captain A1 Schultz, Tim Stuhl¬dreyer, and A1 Zeyher.The epee will send Captain Lee She¬phard, Brad Marin, and Carl Mueller.The sabre will have Simon Ahn, How¬ard Lee, and Rick Petzko. title.If the distance runs go as hoped, theMaroons must still perform well intheir strength, the field events. Whenthe U of C took second place in lastyear’s meet, they split the points in thefield events with St. Norbert’s. Thisyear, St. Norbert’s should be strongagain in the field events, so theMaroons have their work cut out forthem. Whitehead also points out thatthe field events are more unpredict¬able than the running events. In thefield events, a small change in tech¬nique can make a big difference in theoutcome. The team hopes to preventany lapses by preparing in practicethis week. With the line-ups basicallyset, Whitehead stressed “block starts,tuning-up and sharpening” in practicethis week.In last Friday’s invite, the Maroonsput forth some outstanding individualperformances. Shauna Smith set a newschool record in the 60 yd hurdles witha time of 9.2 seconds. Smith also estab¬lished a personal best in the high jumpwith a jump of 4 feet 10 inches, whichwas good enough for second place.Natalie Williams and Linda Kinneycontinued to perform well in the fieldevents. Kinney set a personal best enroute to a 1st place with a long jump of16-5M>. She also managed a secondplace in the shot put and a third placein the 60 yd dash. Williams took first inthe triple jump with a distance of 31-3and first in the 300 yd run with a time of38.6 seconds, her fastest time since lastyear’s conference meet. She also tooksecond in the 60 yd dash and fourth inthe long jump.Outstanding performances were alsoturned in by Beth Laskey with a 33-5>/2distance in the shot put, Myra LaVenue, with a 42.9 second 300 yd run,and the 4 X 400 relay consisting of LisaPeterson, Ingrid Buntschuh, NanLewicky and Williams. The team ranits fastest time at 4:31.2.UC fencing team to try forNationals this weekendsports 13iThe Chicago Maroon—Friday, March 1, 1985«Maroon ScoreboardMEN’S BASKETBALL — FINAL1984-85 STANDINGSNorth DivisionConf. AllW L W LBeloit 10 4 15 8U-Chicago 9 5 13 9St. Norbert 9 5 14 8Ripon 8 6 14 8Lake Forest 6 8 13 9Lawrence 1 13 6 16South DivisionConf. AllW L W LMonmouth 12 2 17 6Coe 9 5 11 11Cornell 8 6 12 10Grinnell 7 7 9 13Knox 5 9 6 16Illinois C. 0 14 5 17Championship Playoff: Monmouth 77. Beloit 59 MONMOUTH BEATS BELOIT FOR MEN’SBASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIPSouth Division Champion Monmouth pulled awayfrom North Division Champion Beloit alter a 38-38halftime tie last weekend for a 77-59 victory and the1984-85 Midwest Conference Men’s Basketball Cham¬pionship. The Fighting Scots will advance to theNCAA Division III Midwest Regional.League scoring champion Bill Seiler of Monmouthled both teams with 28 points, while Matt Newtonhauled in nine rebounds and Don Brandon provided10 assists for the Scots. Evans Papanikolaou notched19 points, Mike Clinton grabbed eight rebounds andMarc Anderson tallied five assists for the Bucca¬neers. GrinnellLake ForestKnoxMonmouthIllinois C.Scoring LeadersBill Seiler, Mon.Dennis Blyly, Grin.Tom Reader, Rip.Jeff Fleming, Corn.Brad Losch, IC G1314141414 FG1141231109198 FT6938598566 TP297284279267262 75.176.977.479.691.9PPG22.820.319.919.118.7Rebounding LeadersG REB RPGTeam Defensive Avg. Jim Niemeyer, Grin. 14 132 9.4Beloit 58.7 Mike Clinton, Bel. 14 121 8.6St. Norbert 62.5 Bill Rosene, LU 14 120 8.6U-Chicago 63.2 Rick Rice. LFC 14 113 8.1Lawrence 68.7 Bill Seiler, Mon. 13 97 7.5Ripon 73.1Coe 73.4Cornell 74.1SKI CLUB UC Skiers defeat 3 Big Ten schoolsBy Peter KutscheraFor the first time in recent years,the U. of C. Ski Team shown surpris¬ing success in intercollegiate compe¬tition. Made up of almost all fresh¬men, the team managed to overcomeits lack of experience through hardjkpractice and post a very respectablerecord. Elise Ralph, a freshman, leadoff the season with a gold medal (Sla¬lom & GS. combined) in the first Na¬tional Collegiate Association (NCSA)race at Americana, Wisconsin. Ralphcontinued her winning streak atMount LaCrosse, Wis. with a firstplace in division II, beating presti¬gious ski colleges like Northern Mi¬chigan University.After average results in the NCSA Varsity SchedulesMen’s SwimmingFeb.28-Mar.2Thurs.-Sat—MCACChampionships Awayraces early in the season, the men’steam did not lose faith and continuedto practice weekly at Lake Geneva,Wis. The hard work paid off. At thelastj NCSA race of the season, theTeam of Kevin Wodicka, MatthewNatt, Tom Weyrick, and Peter Kuts¬chera came forth strongly to beat allthree competing “Big Ten’’ universi¬ties: Northwestern. University of Illi¬nois at Urbana, and University of Wis¬consin at Madison. This record wasmuch better than the team had ex¬pected and it provides an incentive towork hard for next year.The team has planned three week¬end race trips next year, to Wiscon¬sin, Minnesota, and Michigan. Women’s Indoor TrackMar. 1, 2 Fri., Sat—MACW In- Home 7 p.m.door Championships 11 a.m.Men’s Indoor TrackMar. 1, 2Fri., Sat.-MCAC In¬door ChampionshipsWrestlingMar. 1. 2 Home 7 p.m.11 a.m.FencingMar. 2GnhJK_"!f; L , ,ZlKENNHDY RYAN MON1GAL & ASSOC6508 South Lake Park667-6666NEW LISTING-EAST VIEW PARK CONDOMINIUMLots of grass and trees surround you in your own private parkacross the Drive from Lake Michigan. Three bedrooms, twobaths. Formal dining room with natural built-in buffet andpanelling. Heated sun parlor off the living room overlooks thepark. Butler's pantry and kitchen pantry. Well priced at$69,000. Marie Wester, (res. 947-0557)PARENT INVESTMENT-CAMPUS COMMONSLarge studio (nearly 550 feet) near Blackstone and 59th Street.Refmished oak and maple floors. 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Meetingswill be followed by a social hour withrefreshments.THE MEDICI DELIVERSDaily from 4 pm call 667-7394.COMING OUT?GALA holds a small informal meeting for peopie who have never come to a meeting before.We discuss what it means to be gay and theproblems and possibilities that follow this op¬tion. Tuesday at 8pm, 5615 S. Woodlawn.TENSE NERVOUSANXIOUS?If so, you may qualify to receive treatment foryour anxiety at the University of ChicagoMedical Center. Treatment will be free ofcharge in return for participating in a 3-weekevaluation of medication preference. The pur¬pose of this study is to examine the effectsvarious drugs have on mood and determinewhich drugs people choose to take. The evalua¬tion involves only commonly prescribed drugs.Following participation in the experiment,subjects will receive 6 weeks of a non-experimental treatment which will be made ona clinical basis by an experienced therapist.For more information or to volunteer CALL962 3560 weekday mornings between 9 and 12.Subjects must be 21 years of age. Needed: Third and sixth grade boys and girlsfor fun study on art, Earn money! Call Wendyat 962-1548 and leave your name and number.MACINTOSH OWNERS!Macstation $75.00 Great deals on all hardwareand software! Yes, we do custom programm-ing! Golden Rule, Inc. 929 2592.BLACKFRIARSAUDITIONS FOR 'HAIR'This Sal, March2nd, Reynolds Club North Lounge, noon to 5:00pm. Prepare a song or we will provide one foryou.WOMEN PLAY RUGBY!Interested? Organizational Mtg. and "Rookie”Clinic. Sun. 3/3; 4:30pm. 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W, TH 9:30-6F, SAT 9:30-7SUN 12-51I I■v'-f1 AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PEOPLE OF THEUNITED STATES AND THE UNITED STATESCONGRESS FROM MEMBERS OF THEFACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOWe petition the United States government to:1) Stop all covert aid to military and paramilitary groupscurrently fighting to overthrow the government ofNicaragua.2) Stop all threatening military maneuvers by U.S.warships, war planes, and ground troops in CentralAmerica.3) Stop all military aid to the governments of El Salvadorand Guatemala, which participate in, or at least allow,widespread abuse of fundamental human rights.4) Explore all peaceful diplomatic means for resolvingregional conflict.5) Respect international law and decisions of the WorldCourt.We believe that current U.S. policy promotes neither peace nordemocracy in Central America. It is leading us to an ever increasingMOLECULAR GENETICSLucia Rothman-DenesHewson SwiftNEUROLOGYSara SzuchetPATHOLOGYHyman RochmanDonald RowleyPEDIATRICSMartin MathewsPHARMACOLOGICALSCIENCESLeon GoldbergPHILOSOPHYDaniel GarberChristine KorsgaardDavid MalamentIan MuellerHoward SteinWilliam TaitWilliam WimsattPHYSICSDana BrowneDaniel FriedanHellmut FritzcheThomas HalseyLeo KadanoffKathryn LevinAlbert LibchaberGene MazenkoSidney NagelMark OregliaEugene ParkerThomas RosenbaumJohnathan RosnerSteve SchenkerRobert WaldROMANCE LANGUAGESMary Louise Holman-BekkoucheThis petition was circulated by members of the University of Chicago faculty, students, and CAUSE.Names listed are those received as of February 26, 1985.military involvement. It must be stopped.ANTHROPOLOGYBernard S. CohnJean ComaroffMe Kim MarriottMarshall SahlinsMichael SilversteinGeorge StockingTerence TurnerASTRONOMYS. ChandrasekharMark HereldAdrian MelottDavid SchrammJennie TraschenMichael TurnerBEHAVIORALSCIENCESErika FrommFrederick LighthallDavid McNeillBIOCHEMISTRY ANDMOLECULAR BIOLOGYHerbert FriedmannBUSINESSAlex OrdenCHEMISTRYRobert GomerCLASSICAL LANGUAGESAND LITERATURESW. R.JohnsonRobert KasterGeorge WalshHUMANITIESDean Herman Sinaiko DIVINITYDon BrowningAnne CarrLangdon GilkeyJames GustafsonRobin LovinAlvin PitcherGene ReevesAnthony YuECONOMICSJose Alexandre ScheinkmanEDUCATIONPeggy MillerENGLISHWayne BoothMerlin BowenJanel MuellerRichard SternRonald ThomasChristina Von NolckenWinthrop WetherbeeHISTORYRalph AustenJohn CoatsworthFriedrich KatzPeter NovickRobert RichardsLINGUISTICSJan FaarlundMATHEMATICSPeter JonesWilliam MeyerMelvin RothenbergPaul SallyMEDICINEJanet RowleyMarch 1,1985 • 17th Yearby Michele Marie BonnarensThe leaflet reads:“DO YOU OPPOSE:• A system that murders people in CentralAmerica, the Middle East and Africa inthe name of “democracy’’ and big busi¬ness?• A system that directs resources into mil¬itary hardware and away from humanservices such as child and health care;where a few profit and millions starvein Africa?• A system that claims to be “pro-life”but turns a blind eye to violence againstwomen and racist attacks?DO YOU ALSO SUPPORT:• People taking risks to oppose this sys¬tem and struggling to break free fromoppression; to create a world free fromracism and U.S. intervention?• The development of the Earth in a waythat benefits all people without damageto the environment and the threat of nu¬clear annihilation?• The building of a world where we andour children can live free from violenceand exploitation, in control of our ownbodies and loving whom we choose?MARCH WITH US through downtown Chica¬go to take action against different cor¬porations and government institutionsthat profit from war and women’s oppres¬sion here and around the world. FORMORE INFORMATION CALL DISARM NOWACTION GROUP: 427-2533”It came into my hands at a Womyn’sUnion meeting a couple of weeks ago.Sara, a member of DNA, had traveled toHyde Park to talk about the upcomingevent. Seated in the erratically heated of¬fice we share with the debate team, situ¬ated as close to the radiator as is advis¬able, I listened with no little amusement.The thought of traveling to the South Sideto talk to four womyn about taking DirectAction in opposition to the evils of theworld seemed so futile that I was immedi¬ately charmed by it.The project seemed deliciously naive. Idecided to look further into this group.Disarm Now Action Group, which hasbeen in existence for two and one halfyears, grew out of the June 12 Coalitionwhich was itself responsible for organiz¬ing the 1982 march for peace in New YorkCity — a march which drew an estimated1,000,000 participants (“official” figuresstate 750,000 participants). In Chicago abroad based coalition of 60-100 alreadyexisting groups worked to organize suchthings as transportation to the action inNew York.Though the,focus of the New York actionwas on conventional and nuclear war,issues of domestic policy and racism werealso raised. There was a growing debateas to whether or not the issues needed tobe narrow or include other issues beyondthe single nuclear disarmament issue.After the June 12 action, the Chicagoparticipants returned to their own groups.However, a handful of womyn and mencame together as individuals, all agreeingthat it was important to connect issues.Adopting the four points used by the ThirdWorld and Progressive People’s Coalition,which was active in the June 12 march, theDNA group called for: 1) A freeze and re¬verse to the arms race; 2) A redirection ofmilitary funds to meet human needs; 3) Anend to intervention abroad; 4) An end toracism at home. It was also decided that itwas not enough to petition, leaflet andlobby Congress. In addition, European tac¬tics such as those being used at Greenhamand in West Germany should be em¬ployed—particularly Direct Action.DNA began to look to things in Chicagothat spoke to the above connections. Itwas their opinion that the arms race wasnot only conducted in Geneva, Washingtonand Moscow. They noted that there wereover 250 military contractors in the Chica¬go area, and these were seen to be asmuch involved in the production and main¬tenance of war.The group’s first action targettedNorthrop. Located in Rolling Meadows, anorthwest suburb, it is the largest defensecontractor in the state and is responsiblefor the production of both conventionalana nuclear war materials, including theB-1B bomber. 200 people participated in ademonstration on Northrop property onJune 20, 1983, as part of a National Dayof Coordinated Actions organized in partby the Mobilization for Survival and theI ivfirmnre Artinn Group (the latter 3330dated with the Livermore Labs in Califor¬ DISARM NOW: FEMINISTS MARCH FOR PEACEnia). 37 people were arrested for blockingdriveways and doors and were chargedwith criminal trespassing, which is a ClassC misdemeanor punishable by up to 30days in jail. The majority were given su¬pervision.In October of the same year DNA decid¬ed to expose the large number of militaryrelated contractors in the area and fo¬cused on 20 of the 250. They leafleted allmonth and on October 24, another Coor¬dinated Action Day, they participated inDirect Action at six of the sites. Motorolareceived primary attention because of itsproduction of electronic parts for weaponssystems, and a olockade was set up at itsSchaumburg headquarters TargettingMotorola also served to unite the actionwith an event that occurred two days ear¬lier. At that time 1000 people participat¬ed in the pouring rain in a demonstrationin downtown Chicago, stating their opposi¬tion to the deployment of cruise andPershing weapons in Europe. Motorola isdirectly involved in the production oflaunch systems for these weapons. Ap¬proximately 28 participants were arrest¬ed, and most were denied release on per¬sonal recognizance since they argued thatthey wouldn’t show up in court. Moved toCook County they were released that eve¬ning due to overcrowding of the jail at26th and California. They were chargedwith a Class C misdemeanor and given su¬pervision or probation.DNA’s next action sought to expose thelinks between militarism and womyn's op¬pression. Inviting other womyn to joinwith them, 150-200 people marched in ablizzard on International Womyn’s Day,March 8, 1984. The group stopped at aseries of places in the loop which repre¬sented pertinent issues. IBM was target¬ted for its links to the military through itsproduction of electronic component chips,as well as its policy of hiring and under¬paying third world womyn. MarshallFields was also targetted; the display win¬dows were seen to epitomize the portray¬al of womyn in the media and the objectifi¬cation of womyn’s bodies. The groupstopped at the British consulate to demon¬strate their solidarity with the Greenhamwomyn and their support tor Irish inde¬pendence. The Federal Building was visit¬ed for “just about anything you can thinkof,” as one womyn put it, particularly thetendency to direct funds away fromwomyn. City News, a new porn shop to theneighborhood, was visited, as was theMetropolitan Correctional Center to showsupport for Alejanria Tores. A PuertoRican prisoner, DNA claimed she wasabused a number of times by the guards.This stop was also made to show supportfor those fighting for Puerto Rican inde¬pendence, to call for an end to US inter¬vention, and to state opposition to the useof Puerto Rico as a military facility.The last stop was a marine recruitingstation, where seven womyn had earlierentered and refused to leave. Five womynwere arrested for trespassing, though thecharges were dropped at court. Word wasthat the decision to drop the charges wasmade in Washington since the marineswere actively recruiting womyn at thetime to fill desk jobs and the like, thus re¬lieving men for active duty. A trial andsubsequent publicity was not seen as de¬ sirable.Taking inspiration from this action andthe NOT IN OUR NAME! demonstrationwhich occurred in New York City last No¬vember “to ‘sound the alarm’ against‘powerful white men in corporations, themilitary, government, and other institu¬tions’ who make ‘decisions that perpetu¬ate the war against us all’ ” (Off OurBacks, January 1985), DNA has been or¬ganizing actions for March 8, 1985.Feminists who may be preparing to takepart in this particular InternationalWomyn's Day action should stop and givesome consideration to such a decision. Forwomyn living in the period Anno Femin-arum it is not difficult to see the intercon¬nectedness of the issues described byDNA, and to see strong links between mili¬tarism and womyn’s oppression. However,once ser\ig with those eyes many femin¬ist? uiso see their oppression as the cen¬tral problem, ana noi sixth on the list ofworld evils — a viewpoint that if sharedby some DNA members, iu not the focus ofthe group as a whole. For that reasonalone, choosing to join with DNA on Inter-natonal Womyn’s Day might easily be seenas counterproductive. DNA has alwaysbeen a mixed group, and though itswomyn members have been responsiblefor organizng the action, it is certain to re¬flect the interests of its entire member¬ship. While this male presence may be arelief to some, it may be an outrage toothers and in any case is certainly some¬thing to think about. Womyn should be onguard against getting swept into issuesthat waste their collective energy.DNA, and similar groups which offer“womyn’s issues” on their agenda, sug¬gest that support for independence move¬ments (such as those in Puerto Rico, Ire¬land and Central America) will aid inending womyn’s oppression; but ask your¬self the nature of these independencemovements. Are they non-violent or are they just another group of boys with gunsand ammunition, perhaps permittingwomyn to join them in their deadly maneu¬vers for freedom?DNA’s four points are a call for an end tomilitary aggression and a challenge tofocus on human needs. This should be de¬manded of all people. It is time to realizethat support for aggressive behavior is in¬appropriate in all cases, whether or notthe cause is perceived as “right.” As fe¬minists, we should realize that no cause isright for violent behavior, and allowingviolence to leak in sets us back and contin¬ues our oppression.The Greenham womyn have become asymbol of womyn’s strength. United in en¬ergetic opposition to the destructiveforces of an aggressive world, the group isremarkable for its philosophy of non-vio¬lence — non-violence not only in thewomyn’s protests, but also in their visionof the world. It is the Greenham spirit thatserves as a powerful inspirational forcefor the peace movement, and it should beconsidered in its entirety.Yes, make a statement on InternationalWomyn’s Day, but a statement in favourof womyn and feminist goals. On Interna¬tional Womyn’s Day let womyn speak forwomyn.Womyn are invited to gather at 57th St.Books to travel to the action together. Wewill be leaving by 10:45, and will takepublic transportation. If you would like tohave your womyn’s voice heard in the or¬ganizing of the event, there will be ameeting Monday March 4th at 7 pm at theWellington Avenue Church, 615 W. Wel¬lington. A video, “Bringing GreenhamHome,” will be shown at this time. The ac¬tion is scheduled to begin at the FederalPlaza at noon, Friday March 8th, to bepreceded by guerilla theatre at a yet tobe announced location. Call 427-2533 formore information.Photographs by Catherine Ailport from We Are The Web, The Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice=K= =«= =V=SUN DA YS AT 9:30 AM.AN ADULT FORUMRACISM and SEXISMinCHURCH LANGUAGEMARCH 3: Dr. Thomas KochmanUniversity of IllinoisAuthor, Black and White Styles in ConflictMARCH 10: Dr. Susan ThistlethwaiteAssistant Professor of Theology and Culture,Chicago Theological SeminaryMember, Inclusive Language LectionaryCommittee of the National Council of Churchesof Christ in the US. A.MARCH 17: Dr. Judith MarkowitzPh.D. LinguisticsMARCH 24: Dr. Walter MichelAssociate Professor of Old TestamentLutheran School of TheologyMARCH 31: Rev. Karen BloomquistAssistant Professor of Church and SocietyLutheran School of TheologyAUGUSTANA LUTHERAN CHURCH55th and WOOD LAWNSponsored by Social Ministry Committee& Lutheran Campus MinistryM w H " HPOCKET POETICS PRESENTSYOUNG DOGSPOETRY EXTRAVAGANZAFEATURING:— AN OPEN POETRY READING— 15 THINGS YOU CAN MAKE OUT OF THEJAWBONE OF A GIBBON MONKEY/THE JAWBONE OF AN ASS— A GOULDISH FANTASYBY JIM DUNN— MING, A SOUND-TEXTBY TEST PATTERNS— RECONSTRUCTBY ENTARETE KUNST8:00 MONDA Y, MARCH 4REYNOLDS CLUB FIRSTFLOOR THEATERSIMULCAST ON WHPK 88.3 THE FORUM FOR FEMINIST SCHOLARSHIPPRESENTS THE FOURTH LECTURE OF ITS WINTER-SPRING SERIESRECONCEIVING BIOLOGY: WOMEN,REPRODUCTION AND THE LIFE CYCLE“TAKING THE MENOUT OF MENOPAUSE”PAULINE BARTASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DEPT. OF SOCIOLOGYUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISMONDAY MARCH 4 AT 4:30 PMHARPER 130THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO1116 E. 59 STA RECEPTION WILL FOLLOW THE LECTUREIN WIEBOLDT 408FUNDED BY THE WOMEN S BOARD OF THE UNIVERSITYOF CHICAGO, THE ILLINOIS HUMANITIES COUNCIL, ANDTHE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIESKMUIRNISIn These Great limesJLG.A. POCOGKMe, CommerceIWM8M0 SAT10:The University of Chicago Departmentof Music presentsMUSIC OF )-S-Orchestral Suite in b, with Lyon Leifer, fluteMotet,'Komm, Jesu, komm'Cantata/Christ lag inTodesbanden'Tire University Chamber Orchestraand Motet ChoirElaine Scott Banks & BruceTammen,conductorsSunday, 3 March 1985Eight PM*University Church of Christ5655 South University AvenueFree cTopen to the public2—FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1985—GREY CITY JOURNAL• - - f - ' ■ ► . i ♦ i v ' f i-.<« » t iMary and Elizabeth, Kathe KollwitzWOMEN'S HISTORY WEEKSaturday March 2 CELEBRATE at the Chicago Historical Soci¬ety’s “Women’s Work is Never Done.’’ Meet Historic char¬acters from Chicago's past, such as Jane Addams, Mrs.O’Leary, and a Victorian parlor maid. Lend a hand withhousekeeping chores from the pioneer days by cardingwool, weaving, and churning butter. Work with turn of thecentury labor saving devices — apple peelers, cherry pit-ters and raisin stoners. Tour the Chicago History galleriesto discover the contribution of women in Chicago’s past.Join in singing songs that reflect the experiences of Chi¬cago’s working class women. Come all, and bring your kid¬dies! Chicago Historical Society, Clark St. at North Ave.Call 642-4600, ext. 42 for more into.Monday March 4 CONGREGATE Help Organize the Interna¬tional Women’s Day Demonstration, and brainstorm on aguerilla theatre to precede the action. Come to the Wel¬lington Ave Chuch at 615 West Wellington 7:00pm. For infocall 427-2533.All Week March 4-6 CELEBRATE at the Jane Addams HullHouse Museum University of Illinois at Chicago CircleCampus, 800 S. Halsted. Special Slide Show on the Womenof Hull House. Tour of the two Hull House buildings (famousfor being the only attractive, i.e., non-Mussolini modern,architectural edifices on the U of I campus) conducted byJane Addams herself, back from the grave. Special exhib¬its and Fascinating Women. More info call 996-2793. Muse¬um hours 10-4 Mon-Fri.Friday March 8 DEMONSTRATE at the InternationalWomyn's Day Demonstration and Direct Action, sponsoredby the Disarm Now Action Group. Women unite to opposemilitarism and the oppression of women, to support wom¬anhood and unity. Assemble at High Noon at the Federal Building, Dearborn & Jackson.Friday March 8 COMMEMORATE at the New World ResourceCenter 1476 West Irving Park, 348-3370. “Kathe Koll¬witz: Artist of Protest" In commemoration of InternationalWomen’s day, New World invites you to come celebratewith us the works of the great German artist of protest,Kathe Kollwitz. Slides, presentation, and discussion led byChicago artist Laura Hoeckner. If you aren't familiar withthe name and work of Kathe Kollwitz, don't deprive your¬self any longer. Admission $1.00.Friday March 8 CELEBRATE Join us in a Women's CoffeeHouse at the U of Chicago's International House, 8:00 'tilclosing. Featuring Live Music by Aileen Philips and plentyof rib-ticklin’ refreshments. A splendid occasion for womenand their friends to meet in a casual and friendly atmo¬sphere to commemorate International Women's Day.Saturday March 69 EDUCATE yourselves at the InternationalWomen’s day Conference: “Which Way for Womyn?" atRoosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan, at the CongressLounge on the second floor of the building. Registration at9:30 am. Featuring lectures on: Salvadoran Women; Sur¬viving Incest and Violence; Reproductive Rights Under At¬tack; and workshops on Violence against women and chil¬dren; Third world womyn’s organizations in the U.S.;Women against Militarism; Racism in Chicago: women FightBack; and lots more Admission is Free, and child care isavailable.No excuses will be accepted for not participating in atleast one of these fine and varied events. Or schedule yourown celebration. Just don’t let another Women's day slipby without observing it. Remember: Every day is Men'sday, until we claim them all back for ourselves.—The Women's UnionMISC“Taking the Men out of Menopause” Thefourth lecture of the Forum for Fe¬minist Scholarship's Winter-Springseries, will be given by PaulineBart, Associate Professor, Dept, ofSociology at The University of Illi¬nois. A reception will follow the lec¬ture in Wieboldt 408. Mon March 4at 4:30 pm, in Harper 130.International Women’s Day coffeehouse The Women’s Union has decid¬ed to hold another of our ever-popu-lar coffee houses to celebrate Inter¬national Women's day. Our cofeeehouses provide the opportunity forUniversity women and their friendsto meet in a casual and friendly at¬mosphere. Come and join us FriMarch 8 from 8 on, at InternationalHouse, featuring live music by Ai¬leen Philips and refreshments torall. We're planning another coffeehouse to be held in April. Anotherup-ccming event in April: We will beshowing the award-winning film Nota Love Story, a documentary expos¬ing pornography, on Thurs, April 11at 8. An informal discussion and re¬freshments will follow, and a splen¬did and politically correct time isguaranteed for all.The Space Shuttle Performance UnitsPeformance Art will reach the moonbefore it touches the greater part ofthe Midwest. The Space Shuttle Per¬formance Units wili in the meantimedisregard cheese and explore thevast possibilities of the Potato inthe Ida Potatoes show this Saturdayat 8 the Hall of Ida Noyes, 3rd floor.The Units are a coalition of around-town talent rumoured to have killedpigs on stage in one of their last per¬formances. Of course, there is abso¬lutely no truth to this allegation; butthe excitability of an audience at aSS:PU performance is evident.SS:PU may be sent to the outer at¬mosphere even sooner than it ex¬pects. While still earthbound, it istrying to raise money for PLAID—amagazine its members are puttingtogether. Contributions (prose,sketches, cartoons, recipes, etc.) arewelcome from every sector of thepopulation. The admission cost is$2—bringing a live potato however,may afford you a better hagglingposition. You can get in free if youcan talk the doorguards into it.March 2 at 8. —Conrad GeesePerformorama Two benefits for the gal¬lery. Tonight: performance artistsKyle Gann, Laurel Serleth, Brendande Vallance, Paul Sturm. Saturday:performance artists Shawn Decker,Hudson, Carmela Rago and NicholasSistler. Both programs start at 8:30,at N.A.M.E. Gallery, 361 W. Superi¬or. $6, $5 students.Performance Art Irish artist Nigel Rolfeand Minneapolis filmmaker ChrisSullivan will perform at the MoMo-ing Dance and Arts Center, 1034 WBarry on Fri March 1 and Sat March2 at 7. Sullivan's “Domicilaries” is amarionette show based on an origi¬nal folk tale depicting a family insqualor, in search of survival, and afamily well off. Rolfe will perform“Untitled." 472-7662.FILMTake the Money and Run (Woody Allen,1969) Woody Allen’s first feature isa pleasant although uneven spoof ofdocumentaries and crime movies.Woody himself stars as small timehood Virgil Starkwell whoseparents will not be interviewed un¬less disguised by Groucho masks.We follow Virgil through a series ofepisodes including a bank robberyfoiled by a spelling error and get¬ting locked into a prison farm “hotbox” with an insurance salesman.One gag grows into another andthings go smoothly, often hilarious¬ly, until Allen purports a knowledgeof something significant and sudden¬ly we’re painfully aware that heknows little more than what yearsof psychoanalysis have taught himabout himself. Still it's very fast andadequately funny to ensure an en¬tertaining evening. Sat March 2 at 7and 11.Play it Again, Sam (1972) Once again,Woody Allen cascades us with thefruit of his self-actualization loom,and despite any self-effacement wemay see, the Woodman still occupiesthe center of his universe Nostalgiawaxes and wanes as a Humphrey Bogart impersonator attempts tobolster Woody's libido by showingactual and remade footage fromBogie’s old movies while Woodyawkwardly enters into an affairwith the wife of his best friend (por¬trayed by his perennial satellitesDiane Keaton and Tony Roberts).Hopelessly superficial, Play it AgainSam still entertains when Allen’sstand-up routine coincidentallymatches up with the mis-en-scene —and when it does the results can behilarious. Sat March 2 at 9. DOC.$2.50. - DKSingin' In The Rain (Kelly and Donan)Vincent Canby likes this one. SatMarch 2 at 7:30 and 10. LSF $2.Romancing the Stone (Zemeckis 1984)Comparisons between this movieand Mr. S's Raiders of the Lost Arkand Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom are inevitable and, frankly,bore city; but let's face it, despite allthe early talk about how Stone wasa startling, original film, it is stillvery much the tired old modern up¬date of the cliffhanger/serial genrethat Lucas and Spielberg exploitedearlier. The trouble is that Stonelacks the others' charm, humor, andsense of fun, while attempting to re¬tain a certain sense of contemporarypertinence. Personally, I found thefilm to be a bit old hat — a dissatis¬fied romance novelist is ploppedsquealing into the Columbian rainforest, where she finds a mysterylover to lead her on a quest for trea¬sure, adventure, and danger. DannyDeVito is an amusing villain, but Mi¬chael Douglas, as sexy as lard, ishorribly miscast as the romanticmale lead. Katheleen Turner hasnever looked better, but in thismovie she may s >1 the Equal Rightsmovement back a docade with heract of helpless-girl femininity. Butthen, those interested in women’srights will be going to Doc's SexualDifferentiation Series on Monday,and certainly will avoid this littlebeast. DOC, Fri March 1 at 7, 9 and11; Sun March 3 at 2:30 $2 50. -PRThe Riddles of the Sphinx (Mulvey andWollen 1977) A definition of themother-daughter relationship, fromthe point of view of the motherProdigal daughters, beware—vourtime has come DOC, Mon March 4 at8 $2. The Defiant Ones (Kramer, 1958) AndPauline Kael likes this one. TueMarch 5 at 8:30. LSF. $2Cluny Brown (Lubitsch, 1946) A plumb¬er's niece and class struggle withJennifer Jones. Wed March 6 at8:30 LSF $2.Safety Last (Mewmeyer and Taylor,1923) A title certainly not descrip¬tive of Law School's programming.Thur March 7 at 8:30 LSF. $2Loves of a Blond (Milos Forman, 1965)Sex as bittersweet comedy coursesthis film, a candid and compassion¬ate look at the awkwardness ofyoung love. It involves the searchfor truth in the midst of banality,sensitivity in the midst of reckless¬ness As Czechoslovakia s most ac¬complished filmmaker declares:“Truth is not enough — it must betruth that surprises.” Thur March 7at 8:30 p.m. International House$2 - BTTHEATREThe Cherry Orchard The collaborationof David Mamet and GregoryMosher has produced such plays asGlengarry Glen Ross (winner of the1984 Pulitzer Prize) and the Broad¬way hit American Buffalo In thisnew production of the venerableChekhov play, Mamet (whose othercredits include the screenplays forThe Postman Alwavs Pingsana The Verdict) reworks a literaltranslation from the Russian. If all goes well, he should be doing NewYork by spring break. New TheatreCompany, Goodman Studio, 200 S.Columbus, 443-3800. Tues-Thurs at7:30; Fri-Sun at 8; Sun matinees at2:30. $14.50 (previews) $15.50.Opens tonight. Thru 31 MarchThe Dark Lady of the Sonnets...and twoother one-act plays by George Ber¬nard Shaw and the Concrete GothicTheatre. Tonight at 8 in the Reyn¬olds Club first-floor theatre. $3, stu¬dents.Ida Potatoes, or, Starch For a StrongSystem. A play by the Acme Club, inthe Ida Noyes third-floor theatre.Sat, March 2nd at 8. Don’t worry,it’s S’udent Activities approved.Levitation Final weekend for a glimpseo' mortality in the Midwest. JeT-r.ominated. Victory Gardens The¬ater, 2257 N. Line oi Ave.,671-3000 Fri at 8; Sat a- 6 & 9:30;Sun at 3. $11 -$14. Studen* dis¬count.Return of the J.D. We know they can lit¬igate, but can they act? A produc¬tion by your friends and mine overat the law school. Tonight and to¬morrow at 8 in the InternationalHouse Theater. $5 in the Gr&enLounge and at the door.DANCEBallet Folclorico Nacional De Mexico De¬dicated to the preservation of Mexi¬can folkloric dance, the Ballet Fol¬clorico celebrates its 25thanniversary in a performance at theAuditorium Theatre, 70 E CongressParkway, on Sun March 3 at 2 and7:30. $4.$17 50. 922-2110.MUSICThe Butthole Surfers A hardcore punkband from San Antonio who are con¬sidered cool by a lot of cool critics(Christgau, Carson, Young, amongothers). Everything they do is acti¬vely anti-commercial but not anti¬fun as is immediately demonstratedby their very name. As an extrabonus, people who’ve paid close at¬tention say their songs are focusedand bright enough to have built spe¬cific meanings on top of the general,raw ones the form usually workswith. Sure, that won’t come acrossclearly in concert, but it probablyfeeds the passion that will, so itcounts Tonight at Cabaret Metro,3730 N. Clark. 549-9293.-FSDel Fuegos These guys play formalistrock ’n’ roll, which in this case meansmusic in the same vein as the earlyRolling Stones: Chuck Berry, cumR&B, cum Chuck Berry, cum main¬stream-pop. cum Chuck Berry.They're new; they're loved by peo¬ple everywhere who are looking fora fresh sound with that old familiarflavour; they're playing in this towntonight, at the West End, 1170 W Ar-mitage.— FSMercy Seat It looks like the ViolentFemmes broke up, because this isbilled as lead singer/songwriterGordon Gano’s new band. The Vio¬lent Femmes were a mostly acoustictrio with a flip attitude and an entic¬ing sound that were compared toJonathan Richman for all the wrongreasons; they shaied many of thesame faults, but the Femmes had ar¬rested adolescent fixations, notover-developed childisn ones. TheFemmes' sound was a group effort,but that attitude, which turned fromsour to rotten on their second LP,was all Gano's. Still, one shouldn’tgive up; the guy’s got a talent forthe pop hook, and maybe with thisgroup he'll start from scratch again.At twenty-one years of age, it’s notsuch an impossible thing to do. SatMarch 2 at Medusa s, 3257 N. Shef¬field Open midnight-8 am, show¬time 1 am. 18 and over. —FSUB40 This mostly white, English reg¬gae band started off living up to thepolitical consciousness of theirname, which as most people (should)know, is the same as that of their na¬tive unemployment compensationform They earned a large and loyalfollowing in England early in this de¬cade, but as time wore on, theydrifted toward a more popish reg¬gae that eventually got theirnewest records introduced in thiscountry Their audience here, there¬fore, surely expects less of themthan their English one does (did?),but that fact doesn'* diminish theworth of their pop craft, which isconsiderable. Since live shows areusually done as career anthologies,it will be interesting to see how theyplay it. Mon March 5 at the Bis¬marck Theater, Randolph and La¬Salle -FSNoontime Concert Series The Universi¬ty of Chicago Department of Musicpresents soprano Mary ThereseRoyal in a concert nf songs by EricDennen Ms. Royal will sing settingsof poems by John Donne, StephenSpender, and Marge Piercy. She willbe accompanied by Gail Gillispie onlute, Sidney Friedman on piano,Da via Tuttie on clarinet, and DianeMues on viola The concert is dedi-continued on p. 4Grey City Journal 1 March 85Clarification: Last week's article submitted by Michele Bonnarens, Al:End Torture, was a condensed version of testimony submitted by AIUSAto the US Congress in May and June 1984.Staff: Steven Amsterdam, Rosemary Blinn, Pablo Conrad, Jesse Good¬win, Susan Greenberg, David Kay, Irwin Keller, Michael Kotze, NadineMcGann, David Miller. Patrick Moxey, Brian Mulligan, Susan Pawloski,John Probes, Ravi Rajmane, Max Renn, Paul Reubens, Rachel Saltz,Wayne Scott, Franklin Soults, Mark Toma, Bob Travis, Ken Wissoker,Rick Wojcik.Production: Bruce King. Nadine McGann. Laura SaltzEditors: Stephane Bacon, Bruce KingGREY CITY JOURNAL—FRIDAY, MARCH 1. 1985—3GBS, CGT, OKby Andy ProbstLast week, Concrete Gothic Theateropened their second production of thequarter, “An Evening of One Act Plays byGeorge Bernard Shaw.” The group is onceagain showing their ambition, for an eve¬ning of Shaw can be very difficult to dowell. CGT's production does some very in-BEASTIE BOYLike some of the best rock records. DonHenley's Building the Perfect Beast con¬fronts its culture. These discs do not justcapitalize on the season’s cuii°nt fash¬ions; rather, they question preva.iing atti¬tudes. And when these questions are con¬veyed in literate lyrics and melodies, themessage gets across, even to a complacentpopular audience.Henley challenges radio listeners withhis album's first single, ‘‘The Boys of Sum¬mer.” At first he seems to be up to nothingmore ambitious than a catchy reminiscenceof a summertime romance at the beach.Then he broadens his meaning:I never will forget those nights.I wonder if it was a dream.Remember how you made mecrazy.Remember how I made you scream.Out on the road todayI saw a Dead Head sticker on a Cadil¬lac.A little voice inside my head said.“Don't look back, you can never lookback. ” teresting and eqjoyable things with thethree scripts, but the evening does not liveup to their usual standards.The first piece, How He Lied to Her Hus¬band, embodies most of the problems ofthe other two. Tom Durdak seems as if hedid not trust the witty verbal humor andhas added many bits of slapstick humor.The play deals with the discovery of somepoems written by a young man, played byJohn Walker, to a married woman, playedThe first stanza could also describe Hen¬ley's frenetic days with the Eagles. Thegroup certainly had screaming fans, andthe fast living pressured Henley to seekpeace in a solo career. Yet these facets cfromance and autobiography give way inthe following stanza to Henley’s main in¬terest. The ‘‘Dead Head sticker on a Cadil¬lac” — the hippie turned yuppie — con¬nects his private loss to a whole culture'sloss. Suddenly, the song also laments howAmerican culture has rejected the Sixties'group love in favor of private material¬ism.Throughout the album, Henley continuesto deftly link his private disillusionment toAmerica's problems in the Eighties. Heseems to recognize that people no longerwant to hear out-and-out polemics. So, in¬stead of delivering songs in the style of“The Times They Are A'Changing,” Henleyfirmly grounds his concerns in storiesabout people. In this way, Henley satisfiesthe public's tastes (the album and singleare both in the Top Twenty) without sacri¬ficing his point.The title track most clearly shows Hen¬ley expressing his disillusionment with thepopular sounds in the air these days. Wehear Henley’s voice deride genetic engi¬neering over synthesizers and the com¬plex rhythms of drum machines. The songthereby attracts people who might not im- by Nada Devetak. John Walker’s perfor¬mance embodies none of the bohemianismShaw created for the character and thus,never rises above a two-dimensional ste¬reotype. He does, however, have an en¬gaging presence and with some characterwork might have given a very intriguingperformance. Nada Devetak suffers frommany of the same problems, but here, herstage presence is not as strong. If thedirector had spent more time with themediately share his cynicism about scien¬tists’ efforts to prolong human life indefin¬itely. Then Henley can stick hiscomfortable listeners with quick barbslike: “Turn us all into Methuselah/ Butwhere are we going to park?”Another song, “All She Wants To Do IsDance,” uses current musical styles to in¬volve the listener in iis satire of Ameri¬cans in the Third World. Specifically, thesong makes fun of a woman who dancesand parties, totally obiivious to the rebelsbattling around the house. But the drivingbeat would make anyone dance. When youhear this song, the record’s best dancetrack, you move your feet. And then youare trapped. You too are dancing away,oblivious to the world's misery.Henley does not push for any bigchanges. In fact, he seems to accept thatfrustrated purposes are just a sign of thetimes. Henley, for instance, sings:I'm not easy to live withI know that it's true.You’re no picnic either, Babe.That’s one of the thingsI love about you.Henley does not so much complain as at¬tempt to make us skeptical of the Eighties'reliance on easy answers that shelters usfrom the life we are living. —Mark Share question “Why?” and less with the ques¬tion “What?” the play would have soared,giving a more impressive opening for theevening.The Dark Lady of the Sonnets is the sec¬ond offering of the evening. The two bestperformances of the show are given in this20 minute play depicting a conversationbetween Shakespeare and Elizabeth I. Mi¬chael McLoughlin embodies all of the ele¬ments which are crucial to this portrayalof Shakespeare; he is the dreamer, theplaywright, and the cheat, and when hemust deliver a rather didactic speech call¬ing for a National Theater, one is led to un¬derstanding rather than annoyance.Jeanne Gravois also understands her char¬acter to an alarming degree. The quickmood shifts and sudden queenly bearingseem second nature to her. Brian Youngand Rachel Meerson give satisfactory per¬formances in the secondary roles, but theydo not have the technique to hold theirown on stage with these two performers.The final piece, The Shewing Up of Blan¬co Posnet. may be the most difficult of thethree. It is the most didactic and also re¬quires 14 person crowd scenes. Tom Dur¬dak did not work the cast enough for thecrowd scenes — at times the stage con¬tained something close to chaos. Individu¬al performances did, however, make theevening enjoyable. Tom Mulhern as theex-alcoholic preacher was suitably hypo¬critical and holier-than-thou. MarcellaWells as the local whore swaggered herway across the stage in an amusing man¬ner, but could have added some depth toher character. Rob Press was not quiteforceful enough as the sheriff, but hadenough of the character elements to makehim believable. In the title role, ArthurJordan was satisfactory but lacked thecharisma and intensity this demandingrole calls for. While the production is notperfect, it gives one the chance to see ararely performed work by Shaw.continued from p. 3cated to the memory of Dennen, whodied in 1983. Dennen was a composi¬tion graduate of De Paul Universityin Chicago and Northwestern Uni¬versity in Evanston. Ms. Royal, whoreceived her MA in English from theUniversity of Chicago in 1980, ispresently enrolled in the DivinitySchool here. She is also a profession-TOTE THAT BARGEImagine, if you will, a breezy Julyday in the London of 1717. The banksof the Thames are lined with expec¬tant crowds; they strain to catch aglimpse of the spectacle that slowlyworks its way up that mighty river.Above it all, the sound of strings, al musician, best known in Chicagofor her work with ARTCO at MoMingDance Center, (“Crimson Cowboy"1984, “Dead Birds” 1983, “I’veKnown Rivers” 1982). The concertwill be performed on Thur March 7,at 12:15 in Goodspeed Hall, 5845 S.Ellis Avenue. Admission is free.Chicago Public Library Cultural Centerpresents the first of their Bach Ter¬centenary Concert Series. The firstconcert in the month long series in¬oboes and horns fills the air withwhat seems an auditory hallucina¬tion.The music for what may have beenthe first “barge concert" in historywas written for the occasion by theyoung German composer, Georg Fre¬deric Handel, who, though onlythirty-two years old, was alreadyfirmly established in the musical life des selected arias from cantatash obbligato accompaniment, anunaccompanied cello suite, an accom¬panied (viola da gamba) sonata,and an unaccompanied flute sonata.These arias will be performed onboth modern and period instru¬ments. Fri March 1 at 12:15 p.m.,Preston Bradley Hall, Chicago PublicLibrary Cultural Center.Civic Orchestra of Chicago will give aprogram of works by Mendelssohn,of that distant London. The suitecame to be known as “Watermusic”and is among the best-loved of Han¬del’s orchestral music. The Universi¬ty Chamber Orchestra, under the di¬rection of Elaine Scott Banks, willperform this festive work s part oftheir winter concert, this Saturday,March 2 at 8:00 P.M. in GoodspeedHall. Since we celebrate the 300th Richard Strauss, and Brahms, withGordon Peters conducting, and An¬gela Chung on piano. Fri March 1 at8 p.m. Orchestra Hall, 220 S. Michi¬gan. 435-8111.Claudio Abbado conducts the ChicagoSymphony Orchestra in more worksof Bach celebrating the 300th anni¬versary of the composer’s birth thismonth. Fri March 1 at 2 p.m. and SatMarch 2 at 8 p.m. Orchestra Hall.435-8111.anniversary of Handel’s birth thisyear, it is especially appropriate tooffer this tribute to him. The othertowering Baroque musician, JohannSebastian Bach, also has his 300thbirthday this year. To mark the occa¬sion, the Chamber Orchestra will per¬form his Orchestral Suite in B minor,one of four purely orchestral worksthat, coupled with the Brandenburgconcerti, form the core of Bach's or¬chestral music, all dating from hisCothen period in the 1720’s. LyonLeifer, our flute soloist, is best-known in the Chicago area as princi¬pal flutist with “Music of the Ba¬roque.” He has been guest soloistwith the Chicago String Ensemble,and recitalist on the Dame Myra Hessand Mostly Music Series, and withthe Bach Society. Mr. Leifer is a lec¬turer on Hindustani classical music,which he researched as a FulbrightScholar in India. He has taught work¬shops in this field for the South AsiaOutreach Program at the Universityof Chicago.We depart from natal anniver¬saries by including Mozart’s PianoConcerto in G, K. 453 on our pro¬gram. It dates from 1784, a year oftremendous artistic success for thismedium. Mozart produced six greatpiano concerti in that year, buoyedby an increasing demand for his ser¬vices as soloist. The G Major concertoreflects Mozart’s optimism in itsgraceful first movement, tender andsimply-stated slow movement, andexuberant final presto. DeborahSobol, our soloist, has appeared withthe Baltimore and Seattle Symphon¬ies, and with the Boston Pops Orches¬tra. She has performed with theMarlboro and Eastern Music festi¬vals. She recently returned from asuccessful Far East tour with violistNobuco Imai, and will make her TullyHall debut this season with violistThomas Riebl. Ms. Sobol is on the fac¬ulty of Northwestern UniversityMusic School.On Sunday, March 3 at 8:00 P.M.,at University Church (57th and Uni¬versity) the University Chamber Or¬chestra will join forces with the Uni¬versity Motet Choir in a joint concertdevoted to choral and orchestralworks of Bach. The concert will beheld at University Church, located at57th and University. The program in¬cludes Cantata #4, “Christ lag in To-desbanden”, the motet, “Komm,Jesu, komm," and a repeat perfor¬mance of the Orchestral Suite in bminor, Lyon Leifer, flute Elaine ScottBanks and Bruce Tammen will con¬duct.Both concerts are open to the pub¬lic, free admission.—Elaine acoff Banks ARTDifference: On Representation And Sex¬uality Artists participating will in¬clude Hans Hakke, Barbara Kruger,Sherrie Levine, Jeff Wall, andothers. Opens Sunday, at the Ren¬aissance Society, 4th floor Cobb(5811 Ellis). Tues-Sat, 10-4, Sun12-4.Concentrations in the Collection: Euro¬pean and American Decorative Arts.They call it, "a glittering array ofdecorative arts”: dishes for youdream house, art as invest¬ment...yawn. Thru March 17 at theSmart Gallery, 5550 Greenwood.Tues-Sat, 10-4, Sun 12-4.Ten Foks at Hyde Park No string art. nocraft kits, no paint by number onblack velvet — this is the real thing,including the works of Iris Adler,Christine O'Conner, Kevin Henry,others. Solid show. Thru March 16,at the Hyde Park Art Center, 1701E. 53rd st. 11-5, Tues-Sat.Vera Klement One of the University'sgreatest cultural assets — national¬ly recognized painter Vera Klement— exhibits very recent work at RoyBoyd gallery. Her work is a beauti¬ful integration of formalist concernsand a very spiritual and organic im¬pulse. The paintings, most of whichconsist of two juxtaposed canvases,consider the symbology of the land¬scape, the vessel, and the figure re¬lation to each other. Usually precisebut restrained in her use of color,Klement astounds us here with aspectacular pallette (notably in BlueBowl — For Linda, 1984) At RoyBoyd Gallery, 215 W. Superior.642-1606. - SBUrsula Kavanagh The first one-personshow by ARC member Kavanaghfeatures figurative paintings andpastels on various mythologies, not¬ably Hindu. Showing concurrentlywill be Conceptual Perception, alight installation by Annalee Koehn.Closes Saturday, at ARC Gallery,356 W. Huron. Tues-Sat, 11-5.Looking at Men Images of men by con¬temporary artists. Opens today,with a reception 5-8pm. At Artemis¬ia, 341 W. Superior. Tues-Sat 11-5.Jewish Women In The Arts: Points ofView from Chicago. An1 exhibition ofworks by 14 artists opens Sunday,with a reception from 1-5, at PaperPress Gallery, 340 W. Huron. Thegroup will be sponsoring a perfor¬mance by artists Sybil Larney,Susan Bass Marcus, classical gui¬tarist Julie Goldberg, and others.The performance will take placeSunday 1-5, at Zola/Lieberman Gal¬lery, 356 W. Huron. On Tueday, thegroup will be presenting a panel dis¬cussion entitled The Emergence ofthe Jewish Woman Artist, with a re¬ception beginning at 6 pm. The re¬ception and discussion will also beheid at Paper Press Gallery, and thecost will be $2.50.Leon Golub Artistic integrity/social re¬sponsibility considered in this retro¬spective of the artist's career. ThruApril 1, at the Museum of Contem¬porary Art, 237 E. Ontario.280-2660 More of Golub’s work ison view thru March 9 at the RhonaHoffman Gallery, 215 E W Superior961-6628.KALEIDOSCOPEFrom Saturday, March 2 through Wednesday March 6,the University of Chicago graduates and undergraduateseniors in the Art and Design program will exhibit theirworks in the Main Lounge of International House, 1414East 59th Street. The exhibit will be on display from 12 to6 and a reception will be held on Sunday, March 3 at 3.Admission to both the exhibit and reception is free. Thepublic is encouraged to attend to view the works and meetthe artists. For additional information, please call the In¬ternational House Program Office at 753-2274.The exhibit, Kaleidoscope, encompasses the work oftwenty artists and reflects their diverse backgrounds andpersonalities Many of the students are practicing artistsbut have returned to school for their masters degrees innrrler to nnnrontrate anrt develop their art in on environ ment of constant reflection and outside criticism. One stu¬dent who lived in South Africa expressed the frustrationsof living in a country that practices apartheid. The muted,subtle colors and landscape space of another student re¬flect his involvement with spiritualism. Another studentwho has worked in commercial design uses her excellentdrafting and design techniques in her canvases of peopleand interiors.The media and styles represented are as varied as theartists. There are a number of black and white photo¬graphs including a vertiginous series taken in a green¬house. The drawings include a portrait of Princess Dianaselected from twenty-five drawings of her done by the ar¬tist. The paintings include expressionistic works in ab¬stract spaces, as well as detailed interiors and figures anda twelve foot beach scene. There are also figurative paint¬ings in flourescent acrylics. The sculpture works are con¬structed of wood and various other materials.The exhibit differs from previous art exhibits held oncampus since it is a student organized event and is also oneof the few opportunities to see the art students’ works to¬gether in one place. The art department sponsors individu¬al shows for graduating students during the springquarter. There is also a group show of the graduating Mas¬ter of Fine Arts students in the summer which in the pasthad been held at the Bergman Gallery in Cobb Hall, but isnow handled by the Smart Gallery. The major reason forthe lack of student organized exhibits is the unavailabilityof a suitable showing space. Currently there are no spacesavailable with the track lighting and security necessaryfor exhibiting, and no space that can be occupied for thenumber of days that an exhibit typically runs. For the up¬coming show, temporary lighting was purchased andscreens borrowed to convert the Main Lounge at Interna¬tional House into a showing space. The space is unusual be¬cause the lounge will remain functional and the art workswill be integrated with the furnishings to accomodate theresidents' use of the lounge.One objective of the event is to acquaint the universitycommunity with the artists in the Ar‘ and Design program,which is housed in the historical Lorado Taft Midway Studi¬os. Located on the periphery of the campus at 60th andIngleside, Midway Studios itself is a menagerie of person¬alities. Students' studios are situated in random arraythroughout the brick building and wandering through theclassrooms and studios is like joing through the attic of acountry homeThe faculty in the Art and Design program is in the midstof current developments in art. Vera Klement. AssociateProfessor, opened a show last month at the Robed BoydGallery in Chicago, and Bob Peters, Associate Professor,will be opening a show in April at the Museum of Contem¬porary Art in Chicago.Through exhibits of this kind and ongoing works of bothstudents and faculty, the art department at the Universityof Chicago will continue to have an impact on artistic devel¬opments in this city — Katsuml Tanaka4—FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1985—GREY CITY JOURNALJapanese Restaurant SUSHIondSEAFOODIN THE EXQUISITEJAPANESE STYLETEMPURAondTERIYAKITEMPURA • SUKIYAKI • TERIYAKITuesday-Saturday: LunchTuesday-Thursday: DinnerFriday & Saturday: DinnerSunday: Dinner 11:30a. m.-2:30p.m.5:00p.m.-10:00p.m.5:00 p.m.-10:30 p.m.4:30 p.m.-10:00 p.m.5225 5. HARPER 493-4410in Harper courtALL MAJOR CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED \ THE THRILLER LIVES!“VERY, VERY “DIABOLICAL ANDIMPRESSIVE.” INGENIOUS”— Gene Siskfl, At The Movies —Roger Ebert, At The Movies“THE NkQST INVENTIVE AND ORIGINALs THRILLER IN MANY-A MOON.”— David Ansen. 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At¬tending one of our discussions doesn’tlabel you gay or mean that you’ve “comeout.” Not only do we maintain the strictestconfidentiality, but we try to create an en¬vironment where men and women can bethemselves — whether that’s gay or les¬bian or bisexual.,.*or just confused. We’rethere as a support for people like you.We are a small, informal group. Mostpeople who attend have never been to aGALA meeting, although many do eventu¬ally attend. It’s up to you. There’s no pres¬sure.Most of all, you should realize that youhaven’t “failed” in any respect.One last word of hope for you: The Com¬ing Out Group is not the only sympatheticear on campus. Both Student MentalHealth and all the campus ministers areequipped to help you with this problem.The HOTLINE (753-1777) has the namesand numbers of these people, as well asthe names of other resources in GreaterChicago.Wayne ScoffTo the Editor:Ever since the gay movement attainedmomentum in the late 1960’s, two distinctviews on gay identity have evinced them¬selves. One stresses similarities betweengays and mainstream society. The other ismore concerned with differences. Wayne-Scott covers the first view in “Gay Iden¬tity,” in last Friday’s Grey City Journal. Buta die has more than one side.Like Blacks, gays suffer from discrimina¬tion and have traditionally been excludedfrom mainstream society. It is thereforesmall wonder that there are two viewsin Black ideology that correspond roughlyto the two here mentioned. Similarities be¬tween Black and gay views should not beover-emphasized, however, differencesabound, a key one being that gays canhide, hence the proverbial closet.Given that discrimination against gaysis based on a unifying sexual preference,it follows that gays as a block suffer fromproblems not encountered by most whiteAmericans, particularly men. From hereemanate the “unique set of pressures andproblems that are totally different fromthose confronting straight folks” (Chris¬topher Street, “How to Survive GayStress”).Discrimination is a serious problem, andmuch as we would like to believe that it isa thing of the past, it engulfs us today.Every year women and men are deniedhousing, access to the media, to politicaloffice and to many occupations in the jobmarket because of their sexual preference— never mind the broken bones and livesincurred in “queer bashing.” Hence, apartfrom the very real difference in thegender of our partners, there is a per¬ceived difference which sets us apartwhether we want to be or not. We are dif¬ferent whether we like it or not, and un¬fortunately, it is often a very heavy crossto bear.As with other groups, it is the differencebetween us and mainstream society andthe similarities which bond us togetherwhich give rise to the ghetto. We are oftennot welcome elsewhere if we chose to beopenly gay, so many choose to live in theghetto rather than live a life of lies. So toowith gay establishments; most neighbor¬hoods, for instance, do not want a gay barin their midst, though they are content tohave a number catering to the main¬stream~ .i . -'ns like Christopher Street donoi ct the ghetto, a point made by Mr.•«. is demand in the ghetto thatcreaieo (i.e,.) But the mainstream mediastill excludes gays. It is for this reasonthat tht.-re is now a gay TV cable station inNYC. No, I do not see a conspiracy on thepart of the editors of an “obsolete” Chris¬topher Street to enforce ghettoization sothat they may increase circulation as Mr.Scott seems to implyPerhaps a more volatile issue is whetherthe so-called gay life-style is that dif¬ferent from the heterosexual one, e pointwell raioed by Mr. Scott. Well, what is theheterosexual life-style? The gay life-styleis just as elusive. But be it what it may, wedo have special concerns and needs notfelt by the average American in a host of To the editor:.w£uld litfe to begin this letter by^taftfife,*) | am not a racist 2) I am not aB-schO^XgTdjIent and 3) I am very dis-tressejct/about the current Apartheidpoises In South Africa. As the multi- „tude of Apartheid articles in last Fri-FTHIy’s Grey City Journal pointed out,, something must be done: while America' canpot afford to play “Superman” ev- •erywtoere, Americans can and should beconcerned over the conditions of in-qquajity and injustice that plague their, fellow man.I,am,weary, however, over the limit¬ed alternatives (“Bombs or Boycott")) supplied by those currently involved inthe Apartheid debate. As PresidentReagan hncj the US Government haveunfortunately been indifferent and idleto the practices of their ' ally," SouthAfrica, protesters have turned theireyes to the corporations that investand vvork' in South Africa. According tothejheory, pressure on these American, i-CCporations (and on those who supportthjfcse corporations) will lead to the *jVithdrawal of these corporations fromSduth Africa and the economic collapseof that government. But economic. col- *lapse is uncertain given tha/KJoreigh- -Vbased -companies are willing to oo busi- ''■Mness-with South Africa becJhtSt^e of * itsjjjffleconomic advantages, wit/wa^drawal of American corporations isdramatic and syrrfbfl&c.-gesture, it mightnot change the overall picture; more¬over American companies will sfcff in¬vest abroad. 7 ^ fI believe that the most promising,force tor social cjhange is South Africa's /rising Black middle class. Though “mid-"~~~-idie class” is hard to define, Black Afri¬cans have made steady progress in management levels of American com¬panies in their country. Wf ile foreign-based corporations have remainedmute to segregation, most Out not all)of the American corporations havequietly installed equal ang„. equitablepay rates for their wo&Kers. Perhapspressure should be channeled into de¬mands for policies of Affirmative Ac¬tion in those holdout corporations. Non¬etheless, a strong, Black middle classrepresents a strong political groupwith united interests that can’t be ig¬noredOne possible objection to my conten¬tion is that it will take time for theBlack middle class to grow to the pointwhere it can peacefully challenge theWhite majority government and itsApartheid policies: I do not believethat this is too far away. Presently, acoalition of middle class Blacks and lib¬eral whites have been able to secureconcessions from the government con¬cerning secondary issues such as inter-rapial marriage. But white governmentstiil remains. Withdrawal of Americancorporations in South Africa mightforestall the progress of the Black mid¬dle class or worse: it might reverse it.Responsible action must follow respon¬sible ideas;Sludenrof Irish history, I havevivTCf recollections of a lecture■a ^Catholic priest from North-d on “the Irish Question.” Be-/ttj^the beautiful words of annamed Martin Luther King,naed with words of his own,condoK^ig the terrorism of the Irish Re-Btttelican Army against the “bloody/Protestants.' Somewhere the messagewas loskx Kevin O'LearyFourth-year student in the collegeSOUTH AFRICA REACTIONfields ranging from entertainment tohealth facilities.The question then arises: where in thescheme of things does Mr. Scott’s view fit?Stressing that we are just like everybodyelse can be seen in one of three ways: a) asblind stupidity of the sort seen in peoplewho claim that discrimination againstBlacks ended in the late sixties; b) as ide¬alism, where we are all very similar atheart; or c) as a program for progress.This last interpretation is “very real.” Itpresupposes that if gays make themselvesmore palatable to mainstream society,and at the same time become a more re¬spected and powerful economic block, theywill achieve acceptance (a la B. T. Wash¬ington). There is much to be said for this,but keep in mind that economic prosperitydoes not in and of itself confer acceptance,as the plight of the ethmc Chinese demon¬strates in Malaysia.Without a doubt, acceptance is impor¬tant Only with acceptance will peopleacross America who are terrified of tellinganyone that they are gay be relieved ofthe terrible burden they suffer. But untilthen what? As long as there is discrimina¬tion against us and a need for institutionswhich cater specifically to us, there will bedifferences in life-style between gays andheterosexuals, and problems faced bygays that are of little concern to main¬stream society, problems that must bedealt with. Discrimination is not a figmentof our imagination. No, there is no SELF-CONCEIVED OPPRESSION here. Why try topretend that there is? Self-hatred, per¬haps?Alan KennedyTo the editor:I must applaud some very reasonableobservations in Wayne Scott's “Gay Iden¬tity: Self-Conceived Oppression?” in lastGrey City. It is true that there are similaritiesbetween the ‘‘gay experience” andmainstream personal experience. After all,we were raised in the same world with thesame rules, and it is reasonable that we reachinto the same realm of emotional and intellec¬tual choices in responding to stresses andsocietal pressures. At this basic level, itshould not be hard for a straight person to identify with a gay person’s experience orvice-versa.What’s more, Mr. Scott points out quite cor¬rectly that gay people represent a vast spec-and that their “values are as diverse as thelarger ‘straight’ culture around them.” In-trum of lifestyles, personalities, professions,deed, this information is crucial for theeducation of society and the attainment ofrights.But it is neither similarity to the mainstreamnor diversity of its members that informs theexistence and identity of a minority group,but rather the shared experience whichdiverges from the mainstream.A child growing up as a member of a minori¬ty perceives at a young age the fact that s/heis considered different. Gay children, alonein this knowledge, not able to turn even tofamily for support, may later on seek solidari¬ty among those who have had a similar ex¬perience. This is not gratuitous and self-serving ghettoization. This is a building ex¬perience: becoming strengthened by a com¬munity in which you are not the exception.The gay and lesbian community in whateverform it takes (and that question certainlydeserves some critical attention — perhapsin another forum), finds its primary purposein undoing some of the damage that growingup an outsider in this society can do.Ethnic and minority groups often achievethis end by celebrating their commonheritage. By finding value in their traditions,literature, art, music, they take those thingswhich marked them as outsiders and worthyrecipients of prejudice and hatred, andrecognize them as rightful objects of prideand honor.In the case of lesbians and gays, ourpublicly visible culture is a relatively new andat times elusive thing. Our heritage exists,but is often cloaked in “historical innuendo”and must be rediscovered, both for our sakeand for society's increased acceptance. (Thevery fact that speculating on Henry James’mere - supposed homosexuality was con¬sidered last week to be a “gossip session ofnational proportion” demonstrates that thereis much work yet to do.)These particular factors may at times makethe pursuit of gay culture seem an artificialendeavor. But that is not so. We reclaim ourhistory, celebrate our culture, and teach gaystudies because we have a history, have forg¬ ed a culture, and have something ofsignificance to say.Mr. Scott closes fearing that he may be“too idealistic.” Nonsense. A high degree ofidealism is a necessary ingredient in affec¬ting change. But our society is enriched bythe pluraiity of perspectives that minoritycultures bring to it, and our ideals should leadus to value those cultures for their diversity,not indict them for it.Irwin E. KellerGraduate Student in the HumanitiesMORE LETTERSTo the editor:Wayne Scott believes that “gay stress”is imaginary. Well then, “black stress” isalso imaginary. Scott sounds like an“Uncle Tom” gay person.Of course, gays and blacks are makingmuch progress in our society, but fullequality for both is still far off and it isdoubtful if it will ever be achieved. Thereis still an enormous amount of prejudiceout there. Which is more appalling to mil¬lions of white families: learning that theirson is gay or that their daughter is datinga black man?A 100% heterosexualblack man. Name Withheld.Dear Mr. Scott:For sure, Newton’s Law applies tohuman emotions. And the “self-conceivedoppression” you attribute to gay people isa real reaction to the real and prevalentattitudes about us in these times.The truth of the matter is that this soci¬ety fears and resents gay people in a wayand to a degree that portends some greatdanger for us.After all, the emergence of the AIDS epi¬demic coincides much too convenientlywith the onset of “the long night of theRight.”Finally, don’t take my word for this. Con¬duct a poll. Then you’ll be able to ap¬proach the subject with added under¬standing of why we feel the way we do.A Once-LiberatedHomosexual NowOppressed!SCOn RESPONDSWhat I hoped to emphasize in my articleis that gay men — like the writers in Chris¬topher Street — are creating more of adifference than the gender of their sexpartners constitutes — a “lifestyle” or“culture” unique to them, a set of stressesthat they alone face. It is this larger, self-conceived difference that sets them offeven farther from the mainstream. Thisisn’t a healthy stance: the behavior andvalues of this sensibility are rooted in theinsecurities and fears that develop in ho¬mosexual people as they grow up in alargely intolerant culture. They have thisin common, granted, but this doesn’t meanthey shouldn’t try tc overcome these feel¬ings, to develop a sense of self-esteem in¬dependent of defensiveness, that is not inopposition to the larger society.These are the feelings, valorized by“gay culture” and “gay lifestyle,” thatare dangerous to the ultimate goals ofgay activism. How can you expect to at¬tain the respect and acceptance of otherswhen, deep down, you haven't granted itto yourslf? When you don’t even knowwhat gay means outside activist propa¬ganda? By depoliticizing this difference,many gay people believe they somehowsacrifice their individuality. This is wrongThe very forming of a ghetto or subscrip¬tion to a “gay sensibility” supplants theindividual. S/he becomes a minority* yes,but not an individual. There are no uniqueindividuals in a gay ghetto, only persecut¬ed clones.The ultimate goal of all this writing, allthese risks, and all this struggle is inte¬gration. Integration: so that young peopledon’t have to wait until exposure to aghetto to realize that it’s OK to be homo¬sexual, so that everyone knows aboutthose nice gay people — better, so thatmost people have a nice gay person livingnext door to them. I don’t necessarilymean blending into Yuppiedom as ourfriends in New Town seem to have done,nor am I suggesting a constraining dis¬creetness or cloaking of difference.Rather, I ask only that everyone firmlybelieve that the gender of one’s sexpartners, lover, or life companion is NOBIG DEAL. More than petitions and propa¬ganda, it is this self-confidence that shouldbe passed on to others.Does this mean I encourage same-sexPDA, not to mention talking with non-gaysopenly about yourself? Only if there'smore genuine feeling behind it than thedesire to be “politically correct.” Only ifthe risk is minimal. I never denied that dis¬crimination exists: so be careful. But wedo live in the Ivory Tower, and the level ofrisk-taking should be high. It’s a waste oftime to wait for little bits of legislation togo through city council saying “leave thegays alone” before you start being your¬self in every possible situation.— Wayne ScottGREY CITY BRUNCH SUNDAY 12:30Next Friday, March 8 is National Women's Day, and we are planninga special issue on Feminism/Choice to observe the occasion. If you thinkyou'd Bee to contribute an article, story, photograph, grapic or poem-or if_rvV you're interested and just want to tak ideas -please join its atGrey City Brurch frs week ////-' O'// '' V\‘* ' ' w' |||NOTE LOCATION 1642 E. 56th 707GREY CITY JOURNAL—FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1985—7KUVIASUNGNERK PHOTO WINNERSHRST PLACE —Ira MaineA NOS AMOURS: THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHTby John PorterA Nos Amours, unsurprisingly, is a filmabout love. Suzanne is young, living withher family in Paris, and bored. Her fatherleaves home, and the rest of the family ispsychotic. She is looking for love and foran escape so she sleeps around. Thissounds like the scenario for yet anotherfilm about ‘‘those crazy mixed-up kids oftoday,” but it isn’t. Suzanne (played by 16year old Sandrine Bonnaire) isn’t a meta-pho for today’s youth or the human condi¬tion. She is Suzanne, a girl with problems.Her parents are Polish immigrants whorun a fur business out of their living roomand her brother is an aspiring writer. Thisfamily is strange, but that’s exactly whatmakes them so real. Director Maurice Pia-lat doesn’t create characters by ironingout all their quirks and ending up withbland nobodies.Suzannes’ main problem is that she can’tseem to love, or thinks she can’t. Theamazing succession of boyfriends through¬out the movie seems to support this notion.He ease at changing them is reflected inthe ease with which the story narrativelydiscards these beaus. Suzanne rejects theadvances of her first boyfriend, Luc, onlyto lose her virginity to an American sailor.After sex she tells him, ‘‘You’re welcome,it’s free.” Suzanne is as surprised by thiscomment as we are and she muses over itwith a friend. When Luc later declares histrue love she almost winces. When he de¬mands a reply she bluris out cruelly thathe disgusts her. As much as she wantslove, wfen it confronts her she has to with¬draw Suzanne’s indifference comes not somuch from disinterest as from a distancingused to isolate herself from those whothreaten her both emotionally and physi¬ A Nos Amourscally.Suzanne can love and it’s almost too ob¬vious who. Her father, played by Pialathimself, is her one true love. The ex¬changes between father and daughter arethe only times during which we see Su¬zanne lighten up, and the tension whichruns rampant through the rest of the filmeases a little. Pialat decided to play thefather because he wanted an unmediated relationship between himself and his lead¬ing actress. It works There is an intensitybetween these two characters found no¬where else in the film.Suzanne’s other big problems are herrroiher and brother Mom throws hysteri¬cal fits over her promiscuity while thebrother beats Suzanne in order to "pro¬tect” the mother from her. Their harpingon her sexuality seems to indicate an envy of the daughter’s desirability in themother and a guiltily repressed attractionin the brothe*. Indeed, the latter will lateron show a fascination for the smell andtaste of his sister. The characters of boththe mother and brother seem quite ridicu¬lous and overblown at first and one istempted to laugh at the fight scenes onlyout oi discomfort But they are a IL..<, .uolong, pathetic and, dare I say, real to hecomic. Ontr. is reminded of the John Cassevettes school of audience assault. Theshallowness of these characters as well asthose of Suzanne’s friends (most of whomwe encounter only briefly) serves to un¬derscore the depth of the relationshipwith her father. For Suzanne as well as forthe audience he is the only other real char¬acter in her world.Pialat shows h;s disregard for narrativethrough the use of abrupt editing and lackof explication. Scenes shift and it is some¬times ten or more minutes before we knowwhether a day or six months has elapsed.This is at first annoying and distracting (Isshe still at camp? Who is her boyfriendnow?), but it contributes to our sense ofSuzanne’s life shifting arbritrarily fromone person or place to another. Pialatwants us to look at the characters andtheir relationships not the plot. He focuseson crucial episodes while discarding super-‘liious considerations such as place and‘ine. Ultimately the lack of narrative res¬olution is a little unsatisfying. The heroinegoes off to San Diego and we don’t know ifthis is jus? another fling or the new begin¬ning she’s been starching for all along.Overall, the film has a coherency thatkeeps us hooked as it circles around Su¬zanne and her family. It takes a look atadolescence and family Hie that is excep¬tional in these days of Risky Business andThe Breakfast Club. A Nos Amours may bepainful to watch but it is a welcomechange.8—FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1985—GREY CITY JOURNAL ■■■■■■■Mi