The Chi00™ MaroonVolume 84, Number 61 Friday, June 6, 1975First-year coed givensuspension after party,violated dorm curfew Iarn aaainst threat to:ademic freedomOctober 20. 1961A 17-year old first-year girlwho decided that 2:30 amwas too late to return to herdormitory and instead sleptat a boy’s apartment wassuspended last week by thedisciplinary committee(DC).The girl did not sign out ofher dormitory October 1,when she left to attend aneighborhood party. Atmidnight, w'hen she shouldhave returned to Northhouse, she rode with somefriends to another partyseveral miles south of theUniversity.At 2:30 am she left thesecond party and realizedthat she had violated hercurfew (Girls under 18 maystay out a total of four hoursa week after 11 pm. under nocircumstances returningpast 2 am.)The girl had been told byreturning students thatstaying out of the dormsovernight without signingout was common practiceand that no one ever wascaught or punished for doingso.Consequently, she thoughtshe was acting with impunitywhen she decided to spendthe rest of the night in thespare room of the apartmentof a fourth-year male studentwhom she met at the parties,and postpone her return tothe dormitory until thtfollowing morning.Within the next few days,the assistant resident-headThe atom-bomb may havebeen the war’s biggest secretto most Americans but itcame as a mere anti-climaxto the editors of THEMAROON who hadinadvertently almost‘spilled the beans’’ sixmonths before Pearl Harbor.Alert readers of THEMAROON could havelearned of the A-bomb onApril 20. 1945. In a story onNobel prize winners thepaper, in referring to ArthurHolly Compton, mentionedthat he and “his colleaguesare working on the problemfraught with tremendouspossibilities of releasingatomic energy.”Publication of the articlewas one of nearly 2,000Big Bucksp. 3 of her floor discovered thatshe spent the night ofOctober 1 illegally in a man’sapartment, reported her“for her own good’’ toMarilyn McCormick, theresident head of Northhouse, and initiated theproceedings which resultedin the girls’ suspension onOctober 12The student wassummoned to speak withMarge Ravitts, residenthead of West house andassociate director of studenthousing. James E. Newman,assistant dean of students,and George Playe, dean ofundergraduate students.The discipline committeesuspended the student forone quarter, and accordingto other students who claimto have spoken to her afterthe committee meeting, toldher to be out of Chicago by 12noon Saturday, two daysafter the committee met onher case. According to thesame people, she was told to“exercise better judgment inher choise of friends ” Shewas also told that she couldnot make up at home thework she would be missingthis quarter.The student has previouslybeen subjected to otherdisciplinary measures. Shewas suspended from herelementary school and theprivate girls' high school sheattended for committingoffenses such as smokingillegally in her roomcensorship violations inregard to the atom bombreported by the New Yorkermagazine on Oct. 27.Divinity studentflees with fundsMay 22. 1906It is alleged that H HarveyMullan. a divinity student inthe university, who has beenconducting the UniversityCafe at 657 East Fifty-seventh street, hasdisappeared, owingcreditors to the amount ofnearly $500. Mullan tookcharge of the cafe in Januaryand apparently did aprofitable business. Lastweek he sought to increasehis patronage by sellingmeal tickets at a reducedrate, and Thursday heabsconded with the money. Alarge number of studentswere caught in the scheme.Up to date nothing has beenheard of the runaway. It issaid in his defense that hehas simply gone away toraise money to pay his debts. ViqulibMayLosing nearly everythinghe possessed in the great SanFrancisco earthquake,deprived like hundreds ofothers of his home andvaluable property andcompelled, as the thousandsof San Franciscans havebeen compelled, to start inlife anew, William A. Gray,Law, ’01, has shown hisloyalty to his Alma Mater bya subscription to the WilliamRainey Harper MemorialLibrary fundDr. T.W. Goodspeedyesterday received a letterfrom Oakland, enclosed inwhich was a subscription tothe fund Mr Gray explainshow he came through theterrible fire and earthquakeand adds his word of praisethat the trustees havedecided to make this a fundfor the many rather than toerect a building by largegifts from a few rich men.A. E. Bestor. chairman ofthe Alumni Committee, hasturned over to Dr.Goodspeed the first thirty-five subscriptions receivedfrom the Alumni. The fund isnow $52.108.50. not includingthe student subscriptionfund, a report of which hasnot yet been receivedSecret reporttells collegechangesMarch H, 1957Tuesday s meeting of theCouncil of the UniversitySenate may spell the end ofthe College in its presentform if the predictions of amember of a specialcommittee of the Councilcome true.In a confidentialmimeographed report datedJanuary 11, 1957, andrecently revealed to theMaroon, the committeemember (a full professor ina department of theUniversity) outlined theproblems still facing thecollege as seen by him Healso gives some possiblesolutions.The solutions sound thedeath knell of the college.Concerning thecurriculum, organized todayessentially as Robert M.Hutchins originally revisedand organized it during his20-year stay here, the reportstates vehemently: “TheCollege must abandon thesacred number of fourteencomprehensi ves”...Literaryp.9 • ,»ia> lb. 190bIt was stated in several ofthe city papers yesterdaythat Dr R P Johnson of theFifth Avenue Church, NewYork City, had resigned toaccept the presidency of theUniversity. The facts thatDr Johnson has resigned,and that the church is the oneattended by theRockefellers, must havebeen construed by someambitious reporter to meanthat Dr Johnson would comehere The rumor is notconfirmed by any of theUniversity authoritiesDr. A. W. Small, whenasked about the subject said:“There is not one chance in athousand that there is anytruth in the rumor There hasbeen no talk around theUniversity concerning thequestion I have no idea whyDr Johnson resigned.”...Dr. Johnson is wellknown here He is one of theUniversity preachers, andwas here in this capacity afew weeks ago.Campus guardkilled by un -known youthSeptember 27, 196HAn air of tension prevailson campus in the wake of theshooting of a security guardin front of the American BarCenter Saturday.Students, already afraid towalk around off campus,have become increasinglyfearful of being accosted oncampus.Rumors of a black youthgang plot to kill “a cop aweek” have spread amongcampus police, but therumors are not substantiatedby the details of the casemade publicThe guard killed wasWalter W. Lovell, 58. anemployee of the Wells Fargodivision of Central WatchService in Chicago. He wasto go off duty at midnight,and he apparently walkedout to his private car in frontof the center (nearWoodlawn and 60th to awaitrelief He was alone in thecar )University policemanKenneth Burger, heard shotswhile riding on 59th andcame over to investigate. Hefound Lovell with a bulletwound in his chest and aslash on his left arm runningfrom wrist to elbow. Burgerreported seeing three blackyouths running from thescene as he approached, butpolice are unwilling to saypositively that the youthswere black.Lovell was dead on arrivalat Billings Hospital. mber 22. 1!M5Fifty-one of theUniversity's most eminentprofessors andadministrators, members ofthe University senate, in aprecedent-shattering appeal,this week called on PresidentTruman and Congress not toinvade academic freedomsLetter from DaleycongratulatesMaroon staffNovember 2. 1961Dear Mr Greenberg,My congratulations to youand to the staff upon theconversion of the Maroon toa daily publicationThe editonal declarationof intentions for the futureseems to me mostinteresting, and I sincerelyhope that all of your aimswill be brought tofulfillmentThe Maroon has alwaysbeen an outstanding studentpublication, and it is evidentthat you and your associatesare determined to make iteven more so. An alert,aggressive and objectivenewspaper is always anasset to the community, andwe wish you all success inyour new venture.Richard J. Daleymayor, city of Chicago The resolution, adopted bythe council of the Universitysenate, highest facultyruling body, was directed atproposed governmentcontrols of atomic energyresearch as contained in theMay-Johnson Atom-BombBill now in the senateA governmental-imposedblackout on dissemination ofscientific information wouldmenace the safety of thenation, the professorswarned They urged that norestrictions be imposed onteaching, research, orcommunication of the resultsof basic scientific research“Since the development ofmankind requires that thefreedom of inquiry beprotected in order topreserve and enrich ourcivilization ’Narc...October 4. 196*Since the beginning of thesummer the unofficial countfor student drug busts in thearea is nine There is a narcon campus so cool it Thenarc has been known to haveworked on other campuses inthe Midwest More specificinformation will be availableto the campus in the next fewweeksMaroon seeks fundsto save old issuesBound copies of oldMaroons are headed fordust with no means ofpreserving their contentsbecause the specialcollections department ofRegenstein does not havethe funds formicrofilming them.Some of the copies,which go back to the 1900issues of the DailyMaroon, are alreadybeginning to fall apart.The paper has turnedbrown, brittle, and onsome pages has begun tobreak away.The department has forsome time planned onmicrofilming the issuesbut has been unable tofund the project.That’s why the firstpages of today’s specialissue are filled withstories from old issues.The editors of the Maroonare appealing to any interested alumni to helpus fund the microfilmproject.Our estimated costsinclude about SHOO fordeveloping a negative andapproximately $20 foreach of two positivecopies, one for theRegenstein's readingroom and another for theMaroon files. We alsoneed a microfilmmachine for our office.That will cost a fewhundred dollarsdepending on its age andcondition.The Maroon over theyears has chronicled thestory and history of theUniversity of Chicago in aunique way. We hope itwon't be lost.Send all contributionsto The Chicago Maroon,in care of The AlumniAssociation, 5733University Ave.DO YOU FEELLike a little fish in a bigpond? There is no needtor ii iff ou read TheDaily Maroor?Septemoer 1935Maroon jumped gun on bombsix months before Pearl HarborNovember 23. 1945The Big Med Machine haswon this spring’s CampusChampionship Award forfinishing as the top rankedsoftball in the Maroon'sIntramural Top Ten team.They join the Wild Bunch infootball and The Zephyrs inbasketball as CCA winnersthis year.The Big Med Machinedefeated The Harder TheyCome in the Universitychampionship Big Med fellbehind 8-0 before they cameto bat. and trailed 11-9entering the bottom of theseventh and final inningRIM INFOWith one out SherwinWaldman singled, but wasforced at second by BarryAtlas for the second out.Buck Strohm tripled Atlashome and Art Weiss singledStrohm in to tie the gameand send it into extrainnings.After THTC failed to scorein the top of the eighth. BigMed put runners on secondand third with only one outTHTC walked Dick Wahleiintentionally to set up tneforce at home, but GaryDowney foiled their strategyto score Bill Conway iromthird with the winning runIn other year-endingIntramural news, the 1Mdepartment has compiledthe resuits of their spurtspopularity poll, and it showsWinter League Basketball as the favorite, in a tie withPre-Christmas Basketballwith 146 points. Touchfootball finished third with138 points, softball wasfourth with 133, and Socimtied with Volleyball for fifthwith 129.The IM department hasalso announced that it willdrop several sports for nextyear. They are IM Playday.Coed Archery. Men'sFencing, Men’s Bicyclingand Coed Bicycling. Theywill also drop Bridge andChess from IM's. but these two events will be picked upthe recreation department.Entries are now beingaccepted by the recreationdepartment' for simmersoftball leagues. For|detailscontact Coacm John Schael inBartlett’s front office. Thenext deadline will be fortouch football on October9th. Speaking for theMaroons sports staff, I wouldlike to thank the members ofthe University communityfor their continued interestin athletics, both var^liy andintramural.First televised forum involves UCj November 30. 1945The University of ChicagoStudent Forum this weekbecame the first forum ofany kind to be televisedanywhere.This initial event wasj broadcast Tuesday eveningfrom station WBKB, anj experimental televisionFINAL INTRAMURAL station at the State and Lakebuilding owned by Balbanand KatzJoining in the topic underdiscussion, “Shall We Givethe Secret of the Atom Bombto Russia'.’” were SilviaSlade, Curtis Crawford.Robert Voas and Chairmanand Forum director HubertWax—— tSOFTBALL TOP TENThe Big Med Machine (-32 See Your Food 11 h i5. The Harder They Come4 The B-School Bombers 7Point totals are out of a possible 60 awarded tenpoints for first, nine for second, etc Numbers inparenthesis indicate first place votesOther receiving votes: Lower Rickert, LowerFlint, Divinity. Economics, and The BlackstoneRangers.STUDENT GOVERNMENT'Che Hnitotrsitg of ChicagoIsa Notts Hall, 12!2 East 5<>ih SrsErr • MIdway 3-0600, Ext H'3CHICAGO • OLIN'OtS 6063'N OPEN LETTER TO THE PRSSI IAL SEARCH COMMITTEEAs the President of the Student Government and on behalfof the students o‘~ the University of Chicago, I would like tosubmit the following statement regarding the selection or a newPresident for the University.Candidates under consideration by the Presidential SearchCommittee for the office o^ the Presidency of our Universityshould have no political affiliation with the Nixon or FordAdministrations: this will preserve the political independenceof the President. Tne new President should be familiar withthe operational mechanisms and the traditions of this University.The new President should be a prominent scholar and a capableadministrator.It is hoped that in the future the Student Government andthe Faculty Committees can move toward an intimate cooperationwith each other. Despite some uncertainties arising from pastexperiences with the Student Government, I believe that as theS.G. begins to redefine its responsibilities, the Faculty Com¬mittees and the Administration will come to view us as a reliablebody, and the true representative of the students. We urge thatthe Faculty Committees and the Administration, in turn, recognizethe importance of direct student participation in matters concerningstudents and the University.Sincerely,fat’kj /AFariborz Maissami,President of Student Government2—Tbo Chicago Mar ©Qifcr Friday; vcbnl 400 Students Occupy Ad Bldg!January 31, 1969Dozens of students faceexpulsion from theUniversity as a result ofcharges lodged against themat the administrationbuilding sit-inUharles O'Connell, dean ofstudents, said in a statementyesterday that theUniversity will takedisciplinary action againststudents involved in.“disruptive’’ actions. Hesaid the action mightinclude expulsionRadical attacksI Maroon editor overeditorial phrase! March t. 1969Jeff Blum, expelled 69. the• Mark Rudd of the University| of Chicago, walked into the1 Maroon office Frida vJ afternoon and seized Editori Roger Black by the shirt. jBlack removed Blum's| hand and told him to get out. ;The Maroon editor joins jcleans of students Charles jO'Connell, new collegiate !1 master James Redfield. j An ad-hoc studentnegotiating committee saidat the capturedadministration building lastnight that they have notchanged their demandsdespite the University’sstatements.November 15, 1946Queen of the "annualMAROON beer bust will beValerie Kopeckv, it wasofficially announced todayby the paper's editors. Asqueen, she will preside at thebeer bust tomorrow night towhich all publication staffmembers have been invited.In conjunction. MissKopecky has been chosenThe Magnificent Doll” bythe management of the RKO’alace theater, i ind wil^reside with star Gingei-togers at the midvvesjremierc 1 of the p: icture ohat lame hursdavNovember 21 Edward Levi wasunavailable for comment..ilnside the building, allprivate offices were locked.There was no phonecommunication into or out ofthe building The buildinghad been prepared for theoccupation.The beer bust will be heldin the basement campusroom of the Sigma Chifraternity house, 5614Woodlawn, tomorrow nightfrom 9 pm. to lam.Temporarily suspendedduring the war. the beer bustis a traditional campus eventwhich MAROON editors arevigorously reviving.Invitations have been sent tolb campus instructors, mostof whom were pre:war“regulars'“ at the annualparty Chancellor and Mrs.H u t c n i n s. traditionallyinvited, have a 1waysexpressed rep.rets but staff• men b< ; s have not given upUniversity presidentEditors choose Vole.-ie KopeckyQueen of Maroon beer bustt b\ Howie Machtinger and ij Len Handlesman, expelled ![graduate student in ;! sociology.Black said he didn’t know jj exactly what .had gotten j| Blum so excited but he i| suspected it might have been \j the reference in Friday's' paper to the small campusj “lunatic fringe”.; UT elbowed outby Uni verst iy; January 16, 1962j University liquors, knownI to generations of UC} students merely as “UT,”seems doomed to closure bythe University’s plans forexpansion.The tap room, which hasi been on 55 street for nearly! 30 years, is located now at 55j and Ellis, where theUniversity plans to build anadjunct to the Home forIncurables.If University plans followthe time-table presently laidout. UT would have to closeno later than April 30.Ben Karkover. the presentproprietor of UT, explainedthat he is not averse tomoving, having done so onlyseveral years ago, but thatno other suitable locationcan be found.Krakover, known to hispatrons simply as “Ben,”said UT was situated at 55and University until UC builtPierce tower there.PartyRetiring editor in-chiefTim Rudy invites all past,present, and futuremembers of the news, arts,and literary staffs to anoffice party today beginningat high noon. Drop into theoffice for a bite to eat andsomething to drink beforefacing those finals. UC admitshousingsegregationJanuary i7. iUC officials admittedyesterday that Negroes arc jbarred Irom li\ mg m severalbuildings owned by theUniversity.But. according topresident George vy Beadle.“We are proceeding as lastas we can to attainintegration as soon as wecan ”Charges of UC segregation 1were first presented by agroup representing St identGovernment and UC’schapter of the Congress ofRacial Equality (CORE).The group sponsored testcases in which Negro andwhite students applied forapartments in Universityowned buildings. !n each ofthe six cases, Negro studentswere refused apartments,while white applicants were Ioffered apartments. Director Staggreturns from SouthunimprovedAp. if 20, 1900Brown as a nut with tanaccumulated in southernclimes. Director A AlonzoStagg returned to thecampus yesterday to take uphis duties again. Heappeared in the—best ofhealth, but declared he islittle better than when hewent away, stating that hislegs still are affected withrheumatism.“I am glad to get back.” hedeclared to a group of trackathletes on Marshall Field,“but I cannot say that I amas well as I hoped that 1would be 1 am feeling wellfor the l. >st part, but mylegs still bother me“Things don't look welleither for the track orbaseball teams. . . Theredoes not seem to be a greatdeal of hope for the trackteam ”Communistclub revivedNovember 30, 1945Revival of the CommunistYouth Party appeared to beunder way here yesterday,but well know-n campus left¬wingers refused to comment.In a three-pagemimeograph publicationdistributed by mail toseveral hundred students,the “U. of C branch of theCommunist party’’announced that it “willpublish a series of politicalnewsletters”. Sit-In Ends!February 14, 1969Students occupying theadministration building havevoted to end their two weekold sit-in A motion to leavethe building within 24 hourspassed by an overwhelmingmajority at a meeting in thebuilding early Fridaymorning.Earlier St that meeting,students had voted to modifythe original demands of thesit-in. As of press time, itwas not clear whether thegroup intended to maintainits demands after ending thesit-in.The uhicago Maroonspecial issue staffTim Rudyeditor-in-chiefFred Eglerhumor czarDove Candela staffJacques 8rezooMaria Crawford Sc oilSieve DurbinKevin KomroczewsMJefl Roth Frank FoxMike KlingensmilhPaul YovovichBob Yovov/chAnn ThorneThe College at theUniversity of Chicago:An Insider's Guide"it's a thought process that could change theway you look at the world—and the way youspend your weekends."Friday, June 6, 1975 *Th« Chicago Moroon—3ji* »#■»» •* •! iMn » •* »<«•«• > *f r»-- »’ I ' ■» *' ’' ■ "f *1 *t tr»<» » —*,*«»*~ )|V»I . »*n * >4«rr«M*r»f7v>n<k' • >r>Ti;)n<iiiurnr(ii|Welcome to the Life of the MindIn today’s hurry-up-and-get-it-out worldprospective tuition-payers should be askingthemselves one question: What’s in it for me? Youmay wow them in Being and Nothingness, but whatdoes that sheepskin mean to the clown that’s handingout the keys to the executive washroom? It takes areally great student to make his own breaks - and ittakes a really great University to break him.Here at the University of Chicago, we’ve got theacademic machinery to provide you with the tools towork over your prospective employers. Our high-powered intellectuals will supercharge your jobopportunities and boost your career to a higher energylevel. We’ve got the philosophers to teach you todiscourse with the best, the psychologists to makethem feel crazy if they disagr^ and the humanists tomake it all sound pretty.Let our four-year program show you how to makethe life of the mind work for you. Our superstars willpersonally improve every aspect of your being fromthe first moment you glimpse our world-famousgargoyles. At Chicago there is no hard line dividinggraduate instruction and undergraduate teaching, nolarge mental space between the laboratory and thelecture room, and no patronizing of young students byestablished intellectuals. You say the word, baby, andwe jump.When a high school student considers the college towhich he might apply, he raises certainquestions: How does this college differ from others?What are its strengths? How will these strengthsbenefit me? How will I keep body and soul togetherafter paying my tuition? But at the University ofChicago, we don’t claim to have all the answers. Onthe other hand, we know how to duck the questions.And maybe that’s what makes us a great University.It is easy to misunderstand words like “the best,’’ or“excellence,’’ and particularly the words “rational4—The Chicago Maroon - Friday, June 6, 1975 Our high-powered intellectuals willsupercharge your job opportunities andboost your career to a higher energylevel.Does respect for intelligencealways dominate the language?LHEWLETT-PACKARDGRADUATION SALEONE WEEK ONLY: JUNE6-JUNE 13.1975Hewlett-Packard's HP-45advanced scientificpocket calculator. $245SALE PRICE $225.00The HP-45, Hewlett-Packard’smost powerful pre¬programmed scientific pocketcalculator, gives you ex¬panded trig capability; nineaddressable memories withfull register arithmetic;automatic means, standard.deviations and factorials;U.S. Metric conversion con¬stants; and HP’s error-savingRPN logic system with 4-memory stack. The HP-55 Program¬mable Scientific PocketCalculator from Hewlett-Packard. Regularly $595SALE PRICE 1360.00The 49-Step User Memory letsyou program the HP-55 your¬self to solve repetitiveproblems automatically,without software or a “com¬puter” language. The HP-55also gives you full editing,branching and conditional testcapabilities, 86 pre¬programmed functions andoperations, 20 AddressableMemories and a built-indigital timer. The Hewlett-PackardHP-70 business pocketcalculator. Regularly$275SALE PRICE $253.00The businessman's pocketcalculator that’s pre¬programmed to solve morethan 100 time-and-moneycalculations. Use it foreveryday accountingproblems like discounts,markups, extensions and per¬cents. Or, for more complexproblems like return-on-investment, cash-flowanalysis, effective rate-of-retum, loans and mortgages. The Hewlett-PackardHP65 fully program¬mable calculator.Regularly $795SALE PRICE $731.00The HP 65 fullyprogrammable pocketcalculator provides a100-step programmemory, 9 addressabledata memories, and 51keyboard functions andoperations. You canoperate it from thekeyboard, program ityourself, or use it withpre-recorded magneticprogram cardsavailable in such fieldsas electricalengineering, mathemat¬ics, statistics, finance,navigation, and sur¬veying. The Hewlett-PackardIIP-MO financial pocketcalculator. Regularly$395SALE PRICE $360.00The HP-80 financialpocket calculator is pre¬programmed to solvealmost any time-and-money problem. Theseinclude: retum-on-inve-stment, effective rate-of-return, cash-flowanalysis, future value,loans, mortgages, bondfirice and yield, trendine analysis, sum-of-the-digits interestrebates anddepreciations schedules,means, and standarddeviations. The HP-80even has a built-in 200-year .calendarA Hewlett-Packard representative will be in the store todemonstrate all the HP models plus the new HP-21DEMO TIME: 10 am-2 pm Friday June 6 onlyUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO BOOKSTORE5750 S. ELLIS AVE.CHICAGO, ILLINOISHours: Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. New HP-21 Sciewtiftc PocketCm., kalor frouo Hewlett-Packard.The only calculator in its pricerange that gives you all hastelog. mg and exponential functions.plus rectangular/polarconversions, full registerarithmetic, two mg operatinginodes, full display formatting,and HP's error-saving RPNlogic system.This graduation give a gift for a lifetime- Give the best with a Hewlett-PackardFriday, Juno 6,1975 - Tho Chicago Maroon—5r ? .t'9'HM. ycb't4 - nooicvVi o^nDirC - 4"Can I cut the Intellectual Mustard?"discourse.” But when money talks, people listen.But money doesn’t make a great University. Theteachers do. And the rule at Chicago is verysimple: The best members of the faculty, the mostproductive in their writing and research, should beavailable to students. But rules don’t make a greatUniversity. Intellectual freedom does. And we prideourselves on allowing our faculty members to maketheir own rules, run their own show, dodge their ownstudents, do their own thing. On the other hand, moneydoesn’t hurt.Graduates and faculty alike (above) join in revivingcrumbling ideals (left). After reading this, you, as a potential subsidizer ofone of the world’s great Universities (you lucky dog)are probably asking yourself: Can I cut theintellectual mustard? Am I ready for big-leaguebrainstorming0 What does it take to keep afloat in thissea of scholastic skinny dipping? If we at theUniversity of Chicago say to students that we areinterested in excellence and wish to cultivate it, wemean to say this: If you have ability we will developit, if you have desire to learn we will help you, if youhave$3,000 a year we’ll spend it. But we will do so onthe only firm ground, the true terra firma, the strictlysolid turf, as it were, of the most honest criticalevaluation of your work you will ever get. We can’*promise you that your pride will be flattered, but wpcan promise you that your wallet will be flattened. Ifyou have pride it will be led to co-exist with yourintegrity. If you have money, you won't for long.So why hang around in that dead-end high schoolhonor society? Is Snow-Cone State really for you°Haven’t you always wanted to hit the collegiate bigtime, rise to the top with the butterfat of theprofessorial milk, make that big splash in today'socean of educational mediocrity? If the answer to anyof these questions is yes, why not fill out theapplication in the back of this book? It’s a thoughtprocess that could change the way you look at theworld - and the way you spend your weekends.The college groduote is presented with a sheepskinto cover his intellectual nakedness.”Robert Maynard Hutchins6—The Chicago Maroon - Friday, June 6, 1975The University of ChicagoOffice of the PresidentSHOl Ellis Avenue • Chicago, Illinois 60637%Dear Prospective Student:It would probably.be a unanimous judgement, among those qualified to judge, that theUniversity of Chicago has been and remains one of the great Universities of the worldAnd as one of the great University presidents of the world, who is better qualified tomake this very judgement? As you probably are aware, the test of the success of everyuniversity, as well as every classroom, is this: Does respect for intelligence alwaysdominate the language, the organization of material, the hierarchies of achievement,and all the rest of the necessary but burdensome ritual and structure of a university? Bethis as it may, someone has to watch out for that necessary but burdensome ritual andstructure. And that’s were my job comes in. If, for the president of the United Sates, “thebuck stops here,” then one might say that, for the president of a great University, “thebucks start here.” And it is those very bucks, that quintessential green stuff of which allUniversities must partake to survive, that brings me to write this letter to you. thepotential source of that same eternal lifeblood that we in the academic community haveso quaintly dubbed “Cold Cash.”The brochure which you are about to read describes the programs and achievements ofour college. They may strike you, upon first reading, as so diverse and all-inclusive as tobe inconceivable. But we here at Chicago are willing to pay the price of a seeming chaosof standards if in doing so we can preserve the free initiative of the college and thestudents, and maintain a healthy pluralism of educational values and intellectual effort.But we need you, the billpayers of tomorrow and the suppliers of the ready money oftoday, to help us pay that price. And that’s why, if I want to sell myself to this University,I've got to sell this University to you.That the University of Chicago is one of the three or four leading centers of basicresearch in this country would not be questioned What is often questioned is its ability tofork over the bills required to keep those laboratory apparatuses running in high gear -academically speaking, of course. Our many and generous contributors have, over theyears, always chipped in when the chips were down, and the University has always beenable to bankroll even its most visionary projects. A quick glance around campus at suchmonuments to generosity as the Student Village, the Physical Sciences center, the Musiclibrary, and the new University Theatre confirms this view.So, when I ask you to join our University community, 1 ask you to leave your highschool days behind you both physically and mentally It’s high time you stopped thinkingabout what one of the world’s great Universities can do for you. and start thinking aboutwhat the University of Chicago can do with your money. W’e're not saying you don't knowwhat to do with it - just that we can spend it better. And if you don't believe it, isn't itworth a few thousand bucks to prove yourself wrong?So, prospective students, forget those Yale interviews, those Penn State scholarships,those Berkeley bashes Make the step up to a real life of the mind, a community whereprofessors are not asked to teach down to the young and uninformed Move out of themolds of established thought into a river of inteilectual freedom. Put your money whereyour head is - and you’ll be doing both of us a big favorYours truly.John T. Wilsonj Acting PresidentUniversity of Chicago P S This Maroon College Booklet is intended only for the pleasure of our reading publicAny attempt to connect this booklet with any official University pronouncement, anyUniversity publication, or any figure. University or otherwise, dead or alive, is nothingmore that a paranoid fantasy and is hereby denied as false Tim Rudy, EditorFred EglerDavid CandelaJacques Brezon^ ,, Summer Film ScheduleSponsored by Summer on the QuadranglesTues June 24 ADAM’S RIB/ George Cukor (1949)8 p m. Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn Tues. July 1 PERFORMANCE/ Nicolas Roeg (1967)banter about some of the most respected 8 p m.comic lines in all of film. She’s a courtroomlawyer, he’s the district attorney and you Fri. July 4 RIDER ON THE RAIN/ Rene Clement (1969)can be sure that the marvelous situation of 7 & 9 p m Tues July 29 THE QUILLER MEMORANDUM/Michael Anderson (1966 ) 8 p mthe two representing opposite sides at acriminal trial affects their bedroom man- Sun July6 PETULIA/ Richard Lester '1968' Fri Aug 1 THE TOUCH/ Ingmar Bergman7 & 9:15 p mners as well Once again. Tracy and Hep¬burn 7 & 9 p.m.Tues. Julv 8 THE HAUNTING/ Robert Wise (1963)Fri June 27 PARTNER/ Bernardo Bertolucci (1968)7 & 9 Bertolucci originally intended Partner asan experiment in long takes. Accordingly, 8 o.mthe material for each shot needed to be strongenough so as to require very little cuttingand still not be boring. What results, Fi i. July 11 THE HOT ROCK/ Peter Yates* 1972)therefore, although Bertolucci largelyabandoned his original plans, is an amazingstring of outrageous scenes which outdoeven Ken Russell, including a perversecommercial for laundry soap and an in¬credibly funny seduction scene. 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Shop indoors, in comfort, nightly till nine (above),then enjoy the finest in luxury accomodations(below).Book Supplement to the Chicago MaroonVolume 3, Number 3 The University of Chicago Friday, June 6, 1975Miss Austen and Mr. BushJane AustenBy Douglas BushMacmillanReviewed by Jim PhelanIn the Preface to Jane Austen, DouglasBush specifies the goals and methods of hiswork. The book is “a general account, a sortof ‘companion’ to Jane Austen, on a modestscale, addressed to general readers.” Bushpromises that he will not do any ‘‘elaborate,ultra-sophisticated analysis of eithertechnique or ideas,” but rather willdemonstrate Austen’s ‘‘increasing masteryof dramatic situation, dialogue, charac¬terization, and atmosphere, of form andtheme, of her active awareness of a principleenunciated by Henry James: that ‘the art ofthe novel,’ ‘only to a less extent’ than that ofthe drama, is ‘above all the art o'preparations.’ ” The final end of the book is‘‘to illustrate the long-accepted fact” thatJane Austen is ‘‘one of the finest Englishnovelists and that in both her art and hermoral and social outlook she is the only, orthe supreme ‘classical’ writer in that richdomain.”Bush’s methods follow rather sensiblyfrom his aims. Because he wants to write ageneral companion to Austen, his firstchapter places the novels in the context ofthe social history of her time, and the secondchapter places them in a context of her ownlife. Because Bush wants to demonstrate herincreasing mastery, he discusses the worksin chronological sequence, begin:, ng withthe Juvenalia and concluding with thefragment Sanditon. I should point out,however, that Bush does not make a simpleequation between Jane Austen’s age and thequality of her novels. He refrains fromranking the novels, but does divide thembetween the youthful (the Juvenalia, Nor-thanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, and'ride and Prejudice) where we can see asteady progression in quality, and themature (Mansfield Park, Emma, Per¬suasion and Sanditon) where discriminationsof better and “worse” are left to the in¬dividual reader Again because Bush wantsto demonstrate Austen’s mastery and herawareness of “preparation,” within chaptershe follows the “development of a story . as abasis for comment.”In judging Bush’s book. then, it isreasonable to ask questions about the wor¬thiness of his aims, the appropriateness ofhis methods for those aims, and the degree ofsuccess with which he executes his methodsto achieve his aims. One can hardly quarrelwith Bush’s desire to write a general criticalintroduction to a major author: the fact thatthe Macmillan Masters of World LiteratureSeries (to which this volume belongs) isflourishing indicates that there is an ap¬preciable audience for such works, andcertainly this audience should have access tothem.Granting this larger aim, the subsidiaryone of demonstrating Austen’s increasingmastery of various fictional techniques alsois worthwhile It is exactly the kind of thingone would expect in a general introductionBush however never explains how he willjudge mastery of dialogue, characterization,atmosphere, form and theme, andpreparation, so we must be cautious aboutendorsing this aim until we know what mastery of technique means for him. Hisdiscussions of the individual novels revealhis underlying assumptions about the natureof fiction, and consequently what he meansby mastery. I shall take this problem upagain when I turn to his discussions of thenovels.Bush's final aim, i.e., illustrating thealleged fact that Jane Austen is the only orthe supreme “classical” English novelist isbaffling. It is not at all clear what he means(Jane Austen is like Homer?), and his quotesaround “classical” are no help Fur¬thermore, even if I could figure out who theother “classical” novelists might be, Isuspect that Austen’s superiority is either, asin the case of a Fanny Burney, obvious or. asin the case of a Henry Fielding, impossible toprove in a book of this kind.Bush’s first two chapters are probably themost helpful ones in the book He conveyslarge amounts of information concisely,judiciously and, as far as I can tell, ac¬curately. In his discussions of both Austen’sEngland and Austen’s life, he chooses factsand incidents that are either relevant to thenovels or matters of intrinsic interest.It is his actual discussions of thenovels—over three-fourths of the book—thatcreate the most difficulties. As one who hasread some of the Juvenalia (“Love andFreindship,” “Lady Susan’’ and“Catherine”), all of the novels exceptMansfield Park and Sanditon. and some butnot a great deal of criticism, I found the bulkof Bush’s discussion either undistinguishedor annoying. I should like to present some ofthe reasons for my response.Bush makes many ^lib assertions that arenot very helpful in characterizing or un¬derstanding Austen’s fiction For example,the statement that her common theme is thejourney of a young woman through illusion toreality probably applies as well to novels byFanny Burney, Charlotte Bronte. GeorgeEliot and Erica Jong On the other hand, hisstatement that the appointed end of comedy is marriage sets Austen’s work completelyapart from any others which have charac¬ters who are married at the outset andremain married throughout, regardless ofhow we respond to them. (A recent exampleof a comic work with married characters isDavid Lodge’s The British Museum IsFalling Down)Bush occasionally makes assertions socarelessly that he ends up contradictinghimself. He says that the chief difficulty ofSense and Sensibility is that Elinor andMarianne “seem quite often to be not somuch persons as personifications of opposedqualities ” A few pages later, he says that inMarianne. Austen had created “a vitalhuman being.” In discussing Emma. Bushpoints out Chapter 2 is “one of the rarechapters in the novel in which Emma doesnot participate and one of the few that arewholly narrative.” then, on the next page hesays that apart from the opening paragraphsof the novel “the first four chapters haverevealed Emma almost entirely through herown thoughts, speeches and actions ”Bush’s carelessness unfortunately alsoappears in his plot summaries (which iswhat his following the development of a storycomes to). In his summary of Pride andPrejudice, for example, he says that afterthe Netherfield dance, Lizzy Bennet’s nextmeetings with Darcy occur when she isvisiting Mr and Mrs. Collins This neglectsthe whole series of interactions betweenthem at Netherfield when Lizzy goes to helpnurse Jane back to health, a series of in¬teractions which is crucial for our un¬derstanding of what happens at HuntsfordBush’s reliance on plot summaries and hisemphasis on preparation create furtherproblems He often assumes that after agiven point, what in fact does come next, hadto come next—and what’s more, we know- inadvance that it had to come next. Thisseriously underestimates Austen’s craft- follow was probably the best thing to follow agiven point. However, as we read we cannotalways predict what should follow. To take aconcrete example: Bush says that afterLizzy has read Darcy’s letter and has cometo feel a “benevolent neutrality” towardhim. we can imagine the following conditionsfor their next meeting: it will be involuntary,at Pemberley. after Lizzy has seen it onceand heard reliable testimony on Darcy’scharacter, when she will be in the companyof respectable relations, and when Darcywill have a changed manner I cannot speakfor Bush, but I certainly did not imagine allthose conditions in advance.Bush's reliance on plot summary is, Ithink, the main reason why his chapter onPersuasion seems flat. The plot of Per¬suasion is much more an internal one thanthat of any of the other novels, so focussingon the external events, as Bush does, will notget one very far Worse yet, some of hiscomments about these events are rathershallow. He explains William Elliot’spresence in the novel this way: “The authorevidently felt the temporary need of anapparent rival to Wentworth, and when hisusefulness was over, the need of getting ridof him: and she fell back upon eighteenth-century melodrama” (in the story Mrs.Smith tells Anne Elliot). Such an accountcompletely misses the important roleWilliam Elliot plays in the deserved punish¬ment of Sir Walter and Elizabeth.I think Bush's failure to perceive moreimportance in the role of William Elliot isrelated to another important weakness in hisbook: Bush has a preconceived notion ofrealism or more precisely, realistic com¬plexity, by w hich he judges the novels Thus,because Mrs. Smith’s story is amelodramatic rather than a realistic device.William Elliot’s role in the book is not han¬dled well. It is this conception of realisticcomplexity which is Bush's criterion forjudging increasing mastery It is this con¬ception which leads him to rate Pride andPrejudice as the last of the youthful worksrather than the first of the mature; It is thisconception which causes him to rate Emmamuch more highly than Pride and Prejudicei.e., because it is more realistically com¬plex to treat a heroine no one but yourselflikes than it is to treat one whose judgmentsusually match your own.Realism is also the criterion for judgingdialogue. Is the syntax of that character’sspeech more complicated than the speech Inormally hear? If so, there must besomething wrong with it. And so onAs my remarks on William Elliot inPersuasion implied, my objection to Bush’scriterion of realism is that little or no con¬sideration is given to intrinsic reasons forelements in the novels. Might there be a goodreason to treat the heroine one way in onenovel and a different way in another*’ MightLizzy’s language be formal and her syntaxcomplicated in her refusal of Darcy for anyconceivable reason? Might she be try ing torefuse vehemently while still observing rulesof propriety, still showing him a certainrespect? Might there be a reason, besidesfear of banality, that Austen plays downsuccessful proposal scenes? Bush, contentwith his external notion of realistic com¬plexity, never considers such questions, and,I think. do66 considerable injustice to Austenbecause of it.manship. With the hindsight of our reading ofthe whole we can in fact see that what didFri4ty: Jufc«4j4 9f7S > Th« CHteogoMaroori--9 *98.6By Ronald SukenickSearching for SurvivorsBy Russell BanksThe Secret TableBy Mark MirskyPublished in New York by The FictionCollectiveDistributed by George Braziller Inc.Reviewed by Pat Cecchini“What would we poor people do. if we couldnot always come up with some idea, likecountry, love, art and religion, with which wecan again and again cover ud that dark blackhole, his limitless solitude in eternity.Being alone.” -Max Beckmann, Briefe imKreigeRussell Banks chooses to begin Searchingfor Survivors with this quotation; it is anappropriate one, not only for the collection ofstories which follows it. but also for the kindof fiction published by other members of theFiction Collective. These three books areabout creation, about the “pure invention”that is fiction itself and the self-consciouslyimaginative manner in which theircharacters move through life. Although theFiction Collective is an experimental groupcommitted to “non-commercial aualitvfiction,” their works aren’t as little-magazine-precious as they might appear tobe in their pompous P R. Each of these threecollections is immediately accessiblebecause they rely only on creation — onfantasy, illusion, and mythmaking. Thereader enters an innovative and unfamiliarworld with each author, a world where priorconceptions of fictional order and style arenot so much neglected as totally irrelevant.Our pleasure in reading these collectionscomes from the processes of creation thatthe authors share with us; the storiessucceed when we recognize our own fantasticprocesses and stillborn myths pursued forthe sheer delight of invention.Banks' first story “Searching for Survivors(I)” presents a dilemma and resolutionwhich typifies the structure of several otherpieces in his collection. The speaker beginsby lamenting the loss of Henry Hudson, thenew world explorer, who left his ship andcrew with a tiny band of followers to searchfor a northwest passage. Had he been onboard the Discovery, muses the speaker,cowardice and common sense would haveprohibited him from joining the smallergroup, he would have “stuck with the biggerboat and would have watched the smallerone, Hudson standing darkly iron-willed inthe bow. as it gradually became a blackspeck on the sheet of white-rimmed leadbehind us, and then disappeared altogether.”Thoug ts of Hudson and the sense of loss hisname provokes starts off a fine train ofassociations and the speaker recalls other losses...his Hudson car...his driving buddy inhigh school, now a broker instead of afamous mechanic or race car driver...andback again to Henry Hudson, via the suddenhappy thought that now that he has anelkhound puppy named Hudson he can trainhim to carry a sled, and they can drive upinto the north country someday and meet upwith traces of the dead explorer on the shoresof Hudson Bay “where the Cree or theEsquimaux would have helped him, and hewould have survived there peacefully intoold age. telling and retelling to the few of uswho'd elected to leave the Discovery withhim the amazing tales of earlier voyages.”The storyteller has himself become heroicas he lets his imaginative processes work; hehas now become one of Hudson’s brave crewwho shipped out with him. Heroism and thelack of it are the two standards in Banks'universe throughout this collection. Heroismis a quality held only by the greats of thepast; all of them are dead. Ordinary personsachieve heroism, transcend theirordinariness, by imaginative leaps intogreatness, as the speaker in “Searching... (I)”has done. This process of identification withthe survivors of a greater time functions notonly on the level of fantasy, as it does in thefirst story, but also on a more basic psychiclevel of emphathetic immersion in the spiritof heroism. In “With Che at Kitty Hawk”, ayoung woman whose life seems to be fallingapart (failure of her marriage and loss ofmotivation) experiences a kind of epiphanyas she visits a monument to the Wrightbrothers. She “sees" an image of thebrothers, their love for each other and theirtremendous creative energies: “They didnot permit themselves (she decided) to liveas she had feared she was condemned to live— curled up inside a self that did not reallyexist, slowly dying inside that shell...” Theperception of this self-created image has analmost physical effect on her, “she feltastonishingly lightened by it, as if she couldfly," and with the aid of this vision of theWright brothers she resolves to make “amachine that could fly, making it out ofwires and shreds of cloth and oddremainders of wood and rough pieces ofother machinery — the junk of her life sofar.”Moving back and forth between the worldsof reality and imagination is a healingactivity for theearthbound storytellers here;they partake of greatness by virtue of theirgenerous imaginations.Banks utilizes the imaginative mechanicsof the dream factory in “With Che in NewHampshire.” Here, the speaker creates ascenario, complete with flash-forwards andflash-backs, stopped-action, and slow zoom-ins, of his return to his hometown. He seeshimself getting off the Boston-MontrealGreyhound in Crawford, New Hampshire, amachete scar running down his face,carrying everything he owns in a duffle bag.He walks with a limp, and he is dark, silent,mysterious. He will be a veteran of guerilla warfare in the jungles of South America, hewill have fought at the side and gained theconfidnece of Che Geuvara; he will becoming home finally to write his memoirs,memoirs “which in actuality would be atheoretical textbook thinly disguised as amemoir and which eventually, it is hoped,would replace the writings of Debray,Deuvara, Chairman Mao, and evenLenin...”This is a fine funny story: the speaker isobviously a very romantic young man whocan think of no better a mysterious past thanto have fought with Che and he doesn’t miss adetail in his descriptions of how he will look,what he will wear, what he will carry in theduffle bag. But beneath the romantic clichesand the adolescent daydreaming, there is anagging insistence on the inner knowledgethat “you can’t go home again."In order toreturn to his roots, the speaker has to provethat he is a survivor of some heroic events.Time cannot be wasted — he muse havebecome something in the world in order to belet back into the world he deserted.Even as Che is hiding in the jungles or in acity hotel in some of Banks’ stories, RobertKennedy is alive and living in a utopianIsrael in Ronald Sukenick’s 98.6. The novel isdivided into three parts; in the first,"Frankenstein," the author-hero presents ablitz of impressions of life in the ordinaryurban world; although Frankenstein is amythic locale, it bears an uncomfortableresemblance to Southern California. Ronmoves through his days at a frantic pace,heaping emotional and sexual experienceson himself, always coming back to his“problem" — how to deal with fluidity andfragmentation and change. In the secondsection of the book, he goes with otherchildren of Frankenstein to a commune,where they live off the land, built their ownhabitat, invent a new language, andotherwise rehearse the counterculturalexperiments of the late '60s. Ron's desire inlife, and his purpose in writing this novel, isto reformulate the Mosaic Law: “This novelis based on the Mosaic Law the law ofmosaics or how to deal with parts in theabsence of whole Interruption.Discontinuity. Imperfection. It can’t behelped. This is very instant as I write you read a hundred things. A hundred thingstangle with resolve ignore before you aretogether. Together for an instant and then allsmash it all gone still its worth it. I feel. Thiscomposure grown out of ongoingdecomposition."The communards want to escapeteleology, to embrace the change that is aconstant flow. They change their names andtheir sexual partners as often as they feel theneed to, for instance, in the hopes ofembracing a natural response to the fact offragmentations and fluidity. But theirattempt to reach a spiritual 98.6, a normalcythat works better than the oppressive andstatic normalcy of Frankenstein, takes itstoll on the members of the commune. Ron’srecognition of the Mosaic law is finally anintellectual understanding; the spiritcontinues its longing for wholeness, the mindits search for certainty. They fall apart, thiscommune, but their attempt has been a nobleone. Sukenick writes sympathetically of theoften hopelessly freaked-out mentality ofthe children of Frankenstein Ron'scommune is one of many populating thecoastal landscape; there are Jesus freakes,the Planet Krypton, the Riverboat Queen,the Hell’s Angels: all are perceived asslightly eccentric ordinary citizens of acommunity whose tax base is fantasy.Historically, this book might be readtogether with The Electric Kool-Aid AcidTest which reveals itself as the day-tripper itis; Wolfe’s irony and condescension to thepeculiarities of the hippies leaves no roomfor respect for what people were trying to doin the important Counterculturalexperiments Sukenick is continuing theexperimentation in this book; in his fiction,cause and effect don’t have to follow eachother and his prose can be as randomlymotivated as occurrences in life as along ashis imagination seeks the composure “grownout of ongoing decomposition.”Mark Mirsky’s The Secret Table is a hardbook to read. It too relies on mythmakingand the transcendence of the imagination tocreate meaning. But the meanings that arecreated are almost inaccessible to the readerbecause his imaginative vehicles — hissymbols and images — are so personal as tomean nothing to anyone else. “Dorchester,Home & Garden” concerns a young man jreturning to his blighted neighborhood inBoston. With other survivors of the old IJewish neighborhood, he undertakes a Iparanatural journey through the city’sunderworld Angels and Greek heroes andOld Testament prophets journey with him.Seeking his own history, as well as that of theneighborhood, he ends up weeping on hismother's grave, mouthing the prayers shetaught him. This is a profoundly irritatingstory; maudlin and excessively overwritten, iMirsky fares better with the novella“Onan’s Child.” Here he retells the story ofthat transgressor and makes his refusal to goalong with the cycle of generation and deathsympathetic and reasonable. We rethink theOnan story from a Blakean point of view; itis the earth that desires man here, natureneeds “fructification.” “The earth, alive Iwith pestilence, dripping blood, sweatingseed, each crumb of it sweet with theperfume of generarion. ...Yea, the ground(continued on page 8)THIS WEEK FEATURINGPRAEGER BOOKSNOT REMAINDERSMUSIC, ART HISTORY,ARCHEOLOGY$7.50 to $35 VALUESREDUCED 65 to 80%EXPANDEDFRENCH LANGUAGESECTION75,000 New & Used BooksBooks fortThe ScholarThe BrowserThe CollectorPOWELL'S BOOKSHOP1903 E. 97th 9 AM. to 11 PM. Everyday10—The Chicago Maroon - Friday, June 6, 1975o ckU oodd*,x> art! • it*V I enui .yutirl THE PRISONERSA Roman Comedy by PLAUTUSJUNE 5£8at 8:30JUNE 7at 730International Amphitheater&£*».Chicagcr°' tklK* »«0 *OOp1:«* f*»t1*»l CoOTUtM. 27 £ Hor,,M s,** ,20J- N * ***** °f *W UCtfTAfla 32* 1300. tnttttr potM *mthU nHmlt . fn.fo»» >203. M S S9«; or •«» ’ICtt’IOfi outlet, 32* 1)point* utthlft !111«oH • Tpr trfomtttpn: U 6 M43 Reynolds CM)SM and Ikmvernty Directed h\ Stephen HeinstocATnuvJaied hy \khnhs Rudatl$L50mmW-m.t[ ln lheHenry Janies’ Letters: Volume I, 1843-1875edited by Leon EdelHarvard University Press, $15.00Reviewed by Jerry W. CarlsonThe best letters seem to me the mostdelightful of all written things — andthose that are not the best the mostnegligible If a correspondence has notthe real charm I wouldn’t have itpublished even privately; if it has. on theother hand. I would give it the glory of thegreatest literature— Henry JamesSuch is the introductory quotation to VolumeI of Henry James' Letters edited by LeonEdel. It is an auspicious quotation making avery large promise. Happily, the promise isfulfilled: indeed, surpassed. Reading thisvolume of letters is like opening a Pandora’sbox of literary riches.One critic has recently hypothesized thatliterature is “the embodiment of a cognitiveact which is or can be experienced as its ownintrinsic justification.’’ Or, in James’ words,literature is that which has “the real charm.” Whatever critical language one cares truse cannot blur the fact that these lettershave IT:Ah. ma chere.such a wife! Je n’ en revienspas she haunts me still. A figure cut out ofmissal — out of one of Rosetti’s or Hunt’spictures — to say this gives but a faintidea of her. because when such an imageputs on flesh and blood, it is an apparitionof fearful and wonderful intensity. It’shard to say (whether) she’s a grandsynthesis of all the Pre-Raphaelite pic¬tures ever made whether she’s anoriginal or a copy. In e;ther case she is awonder Imagine a tall lean woman in along dress of some dead purple stuff,guiltless of hoops (of anything else. Ishould say.) with a mass of crisp black hair heaped into great wavy projectionson each of the temples, a thin pale face, apair of strange sad, deep, dark Swin-burnian eyes, with great thick blackoblique brows, joined in the middle andtucking themselves awav under her hair,a mouth like the “Oriana” in ourillustrated Tennyson, a long neck,without any collar, and in lieu thereofsome dozen strings of outlandish beads --in fine Complete.For its vitality and interest this passagestands by itself — although, as it turns out. itis a description of Jane Morris, the wife ofthe poet William Morris and the model formany of the Pre-Raphaelite paintings: “Onthe wall was a large nearly full-length portrait of her by Rosetti, so strange and unrealthat if you hadn't seen her. you’d pronounceit a distempered vision, but in fact an ex¬tremely good likeness.’’Of course one cannot forget for long thatthese letters chronicle the early years of anovelist who is to become a landmark inAmerica’s literary geography. The earliestletter comes from the reluctantly ex¬patriated. thirteen year old Henry in Pariswith his family, and the last letter in thevolume deals with James’ willful decision, atage thirty-two. to live abroad These years ofdevelopment have been massively reportedelsewhere, most notably in Edel’s biographyand in James’ own autobiography. Whatmakes these letters a welcome addition tothe huge James’ bibliography and not justanother annoying, unnecessary footnote isthat they vibrantly show the process of ayoung powerful New Englander becomingHenry James. We see. for instance, thenovelist’s habit of observation developingearly: seventeen year old Henry spendsmuch of his classroom time in Switzerlancwatching the prison next door through awindow adjacent to his seatBut. more important, we see momentswhich remind us that James was not always a literary lion, the Edwardian man of letersand clubman of John Singer Sargent’sportrait. There is the young man with aliterary inclination and wide curiosity at¬tending a dissection at a Swiss hospital,partying with (German university students,mountain-climbing, visiting many of theVictorian greats (George Eliot. Ruskin.Darwin), going to the dentist, and writingvery polite, conspicuously casual letters tohis first editor Above all, there is thefascination of self-discovery. In a letterwritten in his twentieth year. James heavilycriticizes an evangelical meeting he hasrecently attended: “The brimstone fizzles upin the pulpit but fades away into musk andcologne-water in the pews.” And then adds.“(Don’t it strike you that I'm veryepigrammatic0)” It is a telling addition Onthe one hand, he is making an earnest, openrequest for recognition of writing talent fromone of his closest friends. Thomas SergeantPerry; yet. on the other, he tried 'unsuccesfully) to mitigate the force of therequest with intentionally comic grammarAt the very least. James was never a case ofwhat he disliked most: “American sim¬plicity.”The encounter of American naivetewith European sophistication, the subject outof which James made his greatest works,finds a large place in the early letters At hisschool in Geneva his fellow students are coldand unfriendly; the young American judgesthem to be “uninteresting ” Moreover.Geneva compares unfavorably withNewport. Rhode Island Paris, though, has agreat impact By 1867 he begins to see a morecomplex relationship between his identityand the myriad qualities of Europe:We are American born — i faut enprendre son parti. I look upon it as ablessing: and I think that to be anAmerican is an excellent preparation forculture. We have exquisite qualities as arace, and it seems to me that we areahead of the European races in the factthat more than either of them we can dealfreely with forms of civilization not ourown, can pick and choose and assimilateand in short (aesthetically, etc.) claimour property wherever we find it To haveno national stamp has hitherto been a defect and a drawback, but I think it notunlikely that American writers may yetindicate that a vast intellectual fusion andsynthesis of the various National ten¬dencies of the world is the condition ofmore important achievements than anywe have seen We must of course havesomething of our own — somethingdistinctive and homogeneous — and I takeit that we shall find it in our moral con¬sciousness, our unprecedented spirituallightness and vigour.Yet eight years later, in 1875 James decidesthat “unprecedented spiritual bghtness andvigour" is less characteristic of theAmerican race than he had hoped For him todevelop his “moral consciousness.” for himto realize himself as an American, he mustlive in Europe He writes to his family: “Itake possession of the old world — I inhale it— I appropriate it.Travelling through these letters Is liketravelling with James. Moreover, thepleasure of the journey is compounded by theediting of Leon Edel. winner of the PulitzerPrize and the National Book Award for hisbiography of James Edel argues in thePreface, correctly I think, that in an age ofphoto-duplication a “complete letters" isunnecessary What we have. then, is a "mostimportant letters." Overall, the selectionseems just and representative while thefootnotes are always concisely informativeand free of pedantry Furthermore, themajor historical groupings of letters havebiographical prefaces which help to set thecontext — although here Edel goes out on anoccasional limb When he writes that “theCivil War had sharpened a desire in youngAmericans for new scenes, foreign places,and escape from the guilt of fratricidal war.”Freud is being taken up the wrong treeStill. American literary scholarship owesI^eon Edel a great debt for this volume. Wecan only wait for the three to follow Yet evennow . we must concur with the judgement ofJames' nephew who read the letters in 1919:“I suspect that these letters will become, inthe history of English literature, not only oneof the half dozen epistolary classics, but asort of milestone — the last stone of the agewhose close the Great War has marked ”We have books that tell you about the link betweenThe Wasteland and Waiting for Godot...We have books from the counsel of the best minds...We have books that contain the zest of three-year-olds...We have books that counsel you on the belief that theworld is all dawn...We have books that insist on standards of excellence...Please try and visit us soon.University of Chicago Bookstore5750 South Ellis AvenueHours: Monday-Friday 8-5; Saturday 9-1(On Saturday, June 7 only we will remain open until 3 p.m.) u>Friday, June 6, 1975 - The Chicago Maroon— 11 TheChicagoLiteraryReviewGawain: A New TranslationSir Gawain and the Green Knight:A Comedy for ChristmasTranslated by Theodore SilversteinIllustrated by Virgil BurnettUniversity of Chicago Press$10.00Reviewed by John BootsThe last decade has witnessed thepublication of a veritable plethora of criticalliterature relating to Gawain and the GreenKnight, and the translations that haveappeared since 1970 constitute almost anembarrassment of riches. So great has theproliferation been, in fact, that theChristmas-time appearance of TheodoreSilverstein s new translation was greetedwith the skepticism born of satiety. Thequestion on many minds, if not on many lips,was “Can we possibly need another?” Thisreaction was as unfortunate as it wasinevitable, for a glance at the new Silversteinbook confirms that this translation isdifferent both in quality and intention fromits predecessors.Even the wrapper suggests that this one issomehow different. The lion's share ofmodern translations of Gawain have been,one way or another, “students' editions.”Almost uniformly, they have been cheaplyproduced paper editions, equipped with thestandard introduction and armed withfootnotes, glossaries, and even graphictables of the action. With this book, however,the price alone proclaims that it is not for theclassroom, and the red. green, and gold of itscovers suggest a Christmas gift to beunwrapped for the sheer enjoyment of it.There is nothing of drudgery about thispoem, and Silverstein and his publishershave made every effort to ensure that thepackage conforms to its contents. Hence thescholarly apparatus that encumbers othertranslations is absent here, and the lines andfitts go without numbers. Even the usualtranslator's note is reduced to a two-linepoetic commentary on the poem’s colophon.Such silence is eloquence itself. WhatSilverstein is obviously aiming for is arendering that will appeal not to students oracademicians, but to ordinary literate peoplewho care about the traditions of Englishpoetry but find scholarly trappings tiresomeand linguistic barriers forbidding.The absence of footnotes, however, oughtnot be taken to indicate that this is in anyway an unscholarly job. an insidious“modern re telling.” Silverstein is aformidable scholar, and his rendering is, linefor line, as true to the original as iinguisticexpertise and long thought can make it. Hisscholarship is everywhere evident, but it is scholarship gone underground. It worksinternally to make the translation better, andnot to explain it from outside.The poetic form of the original is a verymodish combination of Anglo-Saxon andFrench meters, with a long, loose alliterativestanza capped by five short, tightly rhymediambic lines. This form Silversteinreproduces to near perfection. His long linesvary in length, lending movement andelasticity to the stanzas, and each is broughtto its spinning close bv a bob-and-wheel ofchiseled rigidity. Alliteration and.onomatopoeis abound, but the translatorhappily avoids the pitfalls of excess andslavish adherence. One of the marks of hissuccess is that the labour and craftsmanshipthat has patently contributed to every stanzanever shows through the easy, polishedsurface of the poetry. It is often true that hisstanzas suggest rather than reproduce theharsh consonant clusters that give theoriginal so much of its northern vigour, butthey suggest them very well. And we mightbe reminded that it was Chaucer’s Englishand not the Gawain-poet s that finally gaveus our own.The task of the poetic translator goesbeyond the mere approximation of a verseform, however, and even beyond capturingthe sense of the lines. He must come to termswith the verbal texture of his original, withits vocabulary and diction, with its syntax,and its modes of ornamentation. With SirGawain. these problems are magnified bythe poet’s marked idiosyncrasies, by his veryoriginality. The demands of his alliterativeline necessitate the use of recherche words,and his text abounds in archaisms,neologisms, and foreign words. The syntax,on the other hand, is surprisingly “modern.” and the combination of old words in neworder gives a racy qualtity that must, in the14th century. have seemed verj avant-gardeThe peculiar excellence of this translation isthat Silverstein manages not only to capturethe form and sense of his original, but itsdistinctive verbal texture as well.His text is liberally salted with Frenchphrases, while archaisms and technicalterms from the period stand side by side withmodern colloquialisms. There is wit in thepassages of repartee, and puns and doubleentendre in the descriptions. Furthermore,his diction is flexible, changing as the sceneschange. Silverstein’s rendering of Gawain’srequest for the Christmas adventure is ansubjunctively circumlocutious as itsoriginal:‘If you, my honored lord,’ he said toArthur,‘Would bid me from this bench to standthere by you,Thus letting me politely leave the table,And if My sovereign lady would allow,I’d come before your noble court incouncil. <p. 18)And as the seasons run out and the year turnsagain to New Year, the translation retainsthe sinister alliterative sounds of the originaland captures the inimical quality of theweather and the season:Now comes ihe New Year near andnight goes by.The dawn drives out the dark, asHeaven demands.Outside the winter’s weather wakes,grows wild.The clouds cast down their steely coldto earth—Norther now enough to nip the naked!The frosty snow descends on shiveringbeasts,Loud the blast blows howling from onhighAnd piles the drifts up deeply in thedales.Our hero listened long as he lay waking,Kept his eyelids closed but could notsleep, (p. 97)Silverstein achieves his effects by usingprecisely the devices used by the Gawain-poet himself, and that. I think, is the secret ofhis success. The result is a translation thatpreserves not just the sense, but the variedrichness and flavor of the original. I comeaway from this translation, as I have from noother, satisfied that I have made real contactwith a great medieval poet.The answer, then, to the question thatopened this review is a resoundingtaffirmative. Not only do we have a perpetualneed for translations as good as this one, butwe need occasional reminders that the firstpurpose of good stories is to entertain. Theycan perhaps do it best when they stand, likethis one, supported by sound scholarship butuncluttered by its trappings The Female ImaginationBy Patricia Meyer SpacksAlfred A. KnopfReviewed by Shirley Kistler BakerHappily for Patricia Spacks, the Kschcrcover of her book does not adequateh reflectits contents The .hollow female head-against-clouds of the jacket design can’t justbe thrown away with the dust cover — thedesign is also embossed on the book — butEscher’s pseudo-profundity and visual tricksare not Spacks’ style. Spacks writes a sen¬sitive, straight-forward, trickless narrativeof how many women writers view variousaspects of the female condition. She tries toidentify the themes which absorb femaleminds over three centuries of Englishliterature. She points out that women con¬sistently write about adjustments to thelimits of the female condition — how womenlearn to compensate for the lack of in¬dependence, power, and chance for artisticexpression.In trying to see what is specifically femaleabout all this, Spacks makes a stab at callinganger the defining aspect of the femaleimagination. This is an exciting theory, sincethere exists ample cause for female anger.Unfortunately, although she points out theinstances of anger in many of the writingsshe discusses, Spacks fails to really tie herobservations together into a defensibleconclusion. With another selection of writersand writings, it seems that it would havebeen quite easy for Spacks to bring into focusthe underlying image of the all-powerful,flesh-devouring goddess that she alludes to inher conclusions, but her own wide per¬ceptions and her selection of writers do notallow her such a narrow view.That the author’s view is not narrow orpolitical is a major asset of this book.Although Spack does not necessarily succeedin defining tor all time the femaleimagination, she has written a collection ofthoughtful and provocative pieces whichprovide much enjoyment and insight for thereader.USED BOOKSBOUGHT AND SOLDPaperback and HardbackLarge stock of novels, drama,poetry, literary criticism, andliterary biography.JOSEPH O'GARABookseller1311 E. 57th St.363-099312—The Chicago Maroon - Friday, June 6, 1975 jus' erfv:Ch»co9°Vots^°9ennSou'hSh°'e-***** NOICL FURNITURESALE!from Chicago's largest hotelsking SIZE BOX SPRING4 MATTRESS SET $99.95FULL SIZE BOX SPRING& MATTRESS SETS $49.95TWIN SIZE BOX SPRING6 MATTRESS SETS $39.95SOFA A CHAIR SETVINYL COVERING ALL COLORS.,. $49.95LOUNGE CHAIRS $15.00 UPPULL-UP CHAIRS $10.00 UPIIABLE LAMPS $2.95 UP7 DRAWER DESKS $29.95OPEN DAILY 9-5AMSTADTER FURNITURE7315 COTTAGE GROVE2M-M44*An Evening with Renoir_i_ _JMy Life and My FilmsBy Jean RenoirTranslated by Norman DennyAtheneumReviewed by C.J MeyersEarly in the course of his autobiography,Jean Renoir observes that “one enjoys astory because one is in sympathy with thestory teller,” and perhaps this best explainsthe appeal of My Life and My Films, forwithin a few pages one cannot help but forma solid sympathy with the author. Renoir’sautobiography reads like a friendly after-dinner conversation. It is short, chatty,anecdotal and infused with the warmhumanity that marks all of Renoir’s films.Indeed, the Renoir personality that oneknows so well from The Rules of the Gameand The Grand Illusion finds in this differentmedium an equally delightful expression.One quickly discovers in My Life and My Films that, for Renoir, people are alwaysmore important than places or things. Thebook abounds in characters and seems toprogress mainly through his discussions ofone good friend after another. Fortunately,Renoir is a master of the art of the charactersketch and such figures as his father’smodel, Gabrielle, and friends PierreChampagne and Jaques Becker become asquickly fascinating as many of the figures hehas introduced to the screen. Vet somehowRenoir himself never gets lost behind all ofthe people he introduces, and the bookremains very much his own life story.One reads Jean Renoir’s autobiography,however, not because he is particularly goodat telling stories about his friends, butbecause he is one of our greatest film¬makers. One wants to read Renoir onRenoir, and catch any reminiscences he mayhave to offer about the making of his films.Renoir comes through with many...And the Lords of Finance on Higfi said, ‘Yea, andthe Day of Judgement nears, for the End of Fiscal YearApproacheth. And they looked upon the Quadranglesto see what had been wrought, and, to, they diddiscover the dark workings of the Devil Inventory.And they turned to the Shepherd of the StudentCoop, and spoke mightily, i<What is this inventory thatthou hast allowed to accumulate against Our Wishes?”And he fell upon his knees, and cried out, “Lords, whatshall Ido to atone for this sin?”And they replied: “LET THERE BE CASH!”And thus was the END-OF-YEAR RECORD SALEbegat. And every Record in the Student Coop Stock wasreduced. And CTI/KUDU jazz was specially reduced.And Jimmy Cliffs THE HARDER THEY COME wasspecially reduced to pay homage to the UndergraduateIM Softball Champions. And Vassar Clements' OLDAND IN THE WAY was reduced to pay homage to theLords of Finance. And the prices were of the type whichevery Pious Customer could approve.And the Shepherd fell on his knees once more, andberged, “Lords, let us not reduce the price of SpecialOrders, for the Staff hath slaved mightily over them,and let us have this sale but TODAY ANDTOMORROW, lest the populace procrastinate, andstay away from this Holy Place to spend their coin onbread and wine. And let Us remind Them that theQuantities are limited. ”And the Lords Finance looked down upon him, andsmiled, and Approved what he hath requested, for theywere once again convinced of his Devotion to theAlmighty Dollar.THE STUDENT COOP END-OF-YEAR RECORD SALE. EVERY RECORDIN STOCK REDUCED. TODAY AND TOMORROW ONLY.Riptl* CM Bast*tat. Ilfc 9:30445. S: IM.in, m trill bt open Ms tmmm, «Mi • ml tf Urim. reminiscences (perhaps not as many as onewould like, but who can satisfy an insatiablefilm buff?) as well as rather detaileddescriptions of the making of his earlierfilms. Renoir is sometimes technical, such aswhen he examines the properties of variousblack and white film stocks, but more oftenhe discusses general directorial problemssuch as camera positioning, rehearsaltechniques and the use of the close-up.In such discussions it is interesting to seethat Renoir firmly believes in the “ItalianMethod” of rehearsal, where the actorsbegin by reading their lines in an ex¬pressionless monotone. Renoir’s theorybehind this is that his actors will not get off tofalse starts on their parts by “acting” theirlines before they have a firm conception oftheir own and fellow actors’ roles In thematter of the close-up, Renoir reveals whatmany of us have often suspected: he vir¬tually worships the close-up. and he hasmany times created entire scenes simply tolead up to and away from a previously-chosen close-up shot.For those who are not familiar withRenoir’s early, silent films, the sectiondealing with the beginning of his film careerwill be perhaps the most fascinating Renoirinsists that “I set foot in the world of cinemaonly in order to make my wife a star.”Renoir had married one of his father’smodels in 1919, and although the two hadbegun careers as pottery makers, theirpassion for the cinema (especially Americancinema) soon led them in that direction.Renoir’s film theories were rather differentin his early years. “I did not believe in theimportance of the subject-matter. Irecognized the necessity of it, but denied itthe privilege of influencing the course of thenarrative.” Renoir classed himself with theavant-guard of his day and spent mejt of hisefforts on “technical innovation.”It seems, however, that Renoir’sdescriptions of his silent films are as close aswe will ever come to them, for with the ex¬ception of The Little Match Girl, Renoir’searly movies remain virtually unscreened Ifprints in reasonable condition do exist,someone (DOC, Art Institute?) could do allRenoir-lovers a great service by arranging afew showings of the silents as well as some ofhis early sound films—especially La Chienne(1931) which Renoir describes as a “turningpoint” in his career.Later in My Life and Mv Films. Renoirdiscusses his stay in Hollywood and offersmany of the sort of intelligent foreigner’simpressions of America that are intrinsicallyinteresting to Americans. He also includes ahighly entertaining and seemingly irrelevantaccount of Dr. Barnes ofPhiladelphia—establisher of the equallyeccentric Barnes Foundation in Merion. Pa.Renoir never met Dr. Barnes, but he devotesan entire chapter to the doctor's adventures.The only reason Renoir gives for Barnes’place in his book is that Dr. Barnes “is theonly person on earth who has collected mypottery.” This is certainly reason enough forRenoir, and such a reason perfectly fits thespirit of the entire volume. In this sense. MyLife and My Films is an extremely suc¬cessful autobiography. For while it is shorton Renoir’s history, it is long on his per¬sonality—and surely it would be difficult tobecome acquainted with a more thoroughlyenjoyable personality than that of JeanRenoir.Friday Black Theatre U.S.A.Edited by James Hatch and Ted ShineFree PressReviewed by Scott LeeBlack Theatre U.S.A. is an anthology ofmajor significance for understandingAmerican theatre. At this time Americantheatre is the finest in the world. This bookhelps to make that assertion meaningful.James Hatch and Ted Shine have combinedto give those who care about the theatre abook that shouts that the stage delivers to usinsights by means of our most deep-seatedfeelings It is by this appeal that Americantheatre, and in particular the Black Theatre,commands the respect and attention itdeserves.Ted Shine writes. “This anthology is theoutgrowth of need and neglect: thedesperate need for a single volume withenough plays by black writers so that theymight be read and evaluated historically andthe neglect of editors and publishers whohave ignored the works of all but a fewplaywrights.” Shine and Hatch do begin tosatisfy the need and they remedy, assuccessfully as the form of this book permits,the neglect of a powerful statement ofAmerican experience. For these men thesurcess or failure of a play that has as itssubject the experience of being black in thiscountry depends on the true rendering of thatexperience The historical nature of thisvolume rests not only on the chronologicalpresentation of these plays but on thedialectical struggle of successive blackplaywrights in their attempt to create theblack experience on the stage While theattempt has been made by whites suchas O’Neill and Green to capture thatexperience, the most successful efforts camefrom neglected black playwrights. That isthe argument of this book. It is persuasive.Though the editors pay some attention totraditional divisions of theatre into genres orforms the main divisions of this book rest inthe times from which the plays emerge.There are gains and losses by this approach.Like most other plays of the nineteenthcentury, The Black Doctor, Ira Aladridge,and The Brown Overcoat. Victor Sejour, are“well made plays” — that is, they areterrible works of art. So, why include theseplays0 Their value comes in the contrast oftheir treatment of black lives to thetreatment of Willis Richardson s Flight ofthe Natives or Richard Wright and PaulGreen's Native Son. While The Black Doctorpresents a man destroyed by the racialprejudice of white French society, thepresentation is such that it is neitherconvincing nor moving. Whereas Wright’sBigger Thomas is victimized too, we areoverwhelmed by the very real conditions ofhis existence that doomed him from thestart. It is the vivid conception of conditionsversus the pale shadows of circumstancethat contrasts these two plays. Wright’sinsights into those conditions constitutes theprogress of black theatre and success of hisplay. The “lost” effort of the reader in thefirst part of this history is repaid by theperception of later gains in the art.One theme that lunges at the audience inmost of these plays is survival. In the face ofa persecution surpassed only by the horror ofNazi Germany, blacks' historical strugglegave birth to plays about men and womenintent on survival. It is the quality and formof that survival that generates the pathosand comedy found in these plays. Andy’ssuccess in dealing with Lou as a system inWalk Hard comes after a brutal attempt to"keep him in his place.” The dignity Andygains depends on the individual nature of hiseffort. It is not just in his refusal to breakthat he gains that dignity but, moreover, it isthe integrity of the personal values by whichhe always acts that gives him esteem Thosevalues rest in an unwillingness to abide byinjustice. And Andy’s struggle bears fruit inthe successful realization that throughcommunal action he can work to gain theindividual justice he seeksIt is when there is no hope for the successof such communal action that the individualsin these plays suffer the greatest harm.When Bigger Thomas loses his life in theelectric chair it is because there is nocommunity to save him; from the com¬munity that asserts that “it is necessarytms deseased member be cut off — cut outand obliterated — lest it infect us all untodeath.” It is the fact that Max, Bigger’swhite lawyer, who understands what is is inthe prevailing society that will destroyBigger but who has no concepi at all of why(continued on page 8)June 6, 1975 - The Chicago Maroon—13Lesser LessingThe Memoirs of a SurvivorBy Doris LessingAlfred A. KnopfReviewed by Shirley Kistler BakerIn 1971, Doris Lessing published herBriefing for a Descent into Hell which inmany ways elaborated on themes of TheFour-Gated City, the consummating volumeof the Children of Violence series. In TheFour-Gated City. Lessing dealt extensivelywith madness as the true vision in our con¬temporary world and with the threat (andactual arrival) of an apocalypse of un-dertermined cause. In both Briefing and inher new novel. Memoirs of a Survivor.Lessing takes those themes (madness inBriefing and apocalypse in Survivor), shakesout the accumulated crumbs of the richrepast of Children of Violence, and lays a new table with a plain but filling meal.The cast of Memoirs is essentially limitedto the middle-aged narrator and her oddly-acquired ward — a girl of twelve or thirteenwho brings with her a large, strange, cat-likeanimal. A romantic interest for the girl —her initiation into womanhood as thefollower-companion of the leader of a pack ofdispossessed and roving youths — providesLessing with a chance to display her vir¬tuosity at revealing the often-unmentionednuances of female-male relationships. In aparticularly telling scene, the narrator andher ward Emily are visited by Emily’s loverwho, in the conversation, unconsciouslyreveals himself as temporarily weak andhelpless. The narrator sees it, Emily sees it,but the narrator also sees that Emily, in asilent display of loyalty to her lover, sup¬presses as it arises the knowing glance that,had it passed between the two women, would have subtly betrayed the ma'e-female bond.In this novel, as in Four-Gated City, themiddle-aged seem to be living at the tail-endof once-meaningful lives Adults, still withpuzzlingly strong inner lives, lead marginal,withdrawn, and ineffectual exterior lives.The adolescent sons and daughters of theseineffectual grown-ups live very active buteven stranger lives — with all of the recentintellectual, sexual and sartorial rebellions and the concomitant mixture of decadenceand naivete. Lessing joins the much lesserwriter James Michener in the now-questioned concept of attributing to thesechildren the salvation of society. She seemsto see that the apocalypse shall come but theyoung shall survive it. She may be right.Unfortunately, the seemingly contrived deusex machina ending of her novel will satisfyonly the fourth-dimensionalists among us.But Lessing, even when less than perfect,inevitably includes in her offerings sometrifle almost inedible in its perfection. In theChildren of Violence series, the particulartreat was the uncanny portrayal of MarthaQuest’s mother, especially in her later bitteryears In Memoirs of a Survivor, it is Hugo,the cat-animal. People who live with ratherthan keep animals will savor the independentparticipation of Hugo in the plot. It makesone take more seriously Doris Lessing’s littlebook on cats which the New York Times didsay was the best cat book ever.Lessing has, however, in Memoirs of aSurvivor, written a good deal more than ananimal book. 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Racism, from 1909 Chicago to 1974Boston, is an American ill, but it seems—atleast seemed to a generation of non-Southernliberals—to take on epidemic proportionssouth of the Ohio. The blustering, don’t-mess-with-the-kid individualism that everyonefrom D.H. Lawrence to Alistair Cooke labelsas peculiarly American reaches its often-destnjctive frontier era apotheosis below 35degrees latitude.All God’s Dangers combines theseelements to produce the most arrestingAmerican autobiography of the past twodecades. Theodore Rosengarten tapedconversations with Nate Shaw over a periodof two years, and ended up with a story of oneman’s courage and conviction in the South; itis precisely because of the extreme par¬ticularization of both character and settingthat Nate Shaw’s story becomes universalenough to illuminate the dark side of theAmerican character.Born the son of a slave, Nate Shaw wouldhave found the apologies of recent revisionisthistorians for slavery interesting. He speaks,simply and forcefully, of the “slavethinking" that led blacks to be satisfied withsharecropping and the limits imposed uponthem by the white landowners. In thePreface, Rosengarten notes that Shaw’schildren criticize him for “wanting to bewhite”, that is, wanting the same things forhimself and his family that whites had.The story is predictably infuriating;working in the fields from the age of nine,Shaw is forced to sign notes with white landowners to get food and fertilizer. He worksoff the notes, enrages the gentry by refusingto sign more, and, through an amazingcapacity for back-breaking work and a stiff-spined pride, manages to buy his own teamand plows for farming.Shaw succeeded, as much as a black manin southern Alabama could succeed in theperiod around World War I, through thatcombination of hard work, pride, and a senseof self-worth that, unlike the individualism ofmany of his neighbors, led him to stand upand unite with others.That union took the form of a Share¬cropper’s Union, formed in Alabama’sblack belt in 1931. A meeting at Crane’s Ford,Alabama was broken up by a sheriff andposse in June, with one black farmer killed,his house burned, and 35 blacks jailed. Shawjoined the union, for, in his words:I looked deep in that thing too— I heardmore than I seed and I taken that inconsideration. And I know what wasgoing on was a turnabout on the southernman, white and colored; it was somethinunusual. And I heard about it bein anorganization for the poor class of peopleWhen a sheriff came to evict a friend ofShaw’s from his farm, Shaw and othersgathered. A deputy fired at Shaw, hitting himthree times; wounded, Shaw shot back withan old pistol. After several days of hiding, hewas arrested. In jail, the sheriff, along withseveral bankers, tried to get him to sign “jestthis little scrap of paper” that would havegiven them his farm. He refused, and after aone-day trial, was sentenced to 12 years inprison.He served his time in Alabama’s prisonfarms, winning respect among the inmatesas a man who wouldn’t bend. As the yearswore on, his wife worried, his children left,and his mules died, but Shaw had no regrets:It was a thing that I never did thoroughlyunderstand and get the backgrounds of it, but I was man enough to favor itsmethods. My head and heart had beenwell loaded about the condition and thewelfare of the poor—I couldn’t stand it nomore. I jumped in that organization andmy name rings in it today. I haven’tapologized to my savior for joinin; it wasworkin for right. A man had to do it.Upon his exit from jail, Shaw found himselfa mule man in a tractor world, but stillrefused to give up. He began all over again,with two mules, and kept farming. In hisfinal session with Rosengarten (Shaw diedfour months after the book was finished),Shaw explained why he never left the land:I feel a certain loyalty to the state ofAlabama; I was born and raised here andI have sowed my labor into the earth andlived to reap only a part of it, not all thatwas mine by human right. It’s too late forme to realize it now, all that I put into thisstate. I stays on it if it gives emsatisfaction for me to leave and I stays onbecause it’s mine.All God’s Dangers won the National BookAward for Contemporary Affairs, eventhough it covers the era from 1908 to 1973.The award was particularly appropriate,since Shaw’s narrative is both a personal taleof the American nightmare so far this cen¬tury, and a history that makes a collegesyllabus seem as pale and dusty as the dry-earth of Alabama.I^s Diners de Gala by Salvador DaliFelicie$50.00Reviewed by Peter W. MackinlayLes Diners de Gala, conceived bySalvador Dali, is both a “fantastic” workof art and an exquisite gastronomic guideAt $50 per copy, it is also perh jps the mostlavish hoax of the season. The celebratedartistic creations of Salvador Dali borderon self-parody or merely restate hisestablished surrealist concerns. Thesumptuous photographs and the carefullyprepared recipes authored by a genius notDali’s provide the serious focus of thework. Both the photographic andgastronomic material stem from ademocratic, humane intelligence whichcontradicts the perverse and whimsicaldetachment of Salvador Dali.Beginning with the table of contents.Dali elaborates a gastronomy ofsurrealist fantasy dedicated to a sensualrather than pleasurable epicurean ex¬perience. The titles of the first fivechapters suggest the pleasures of Kraft-Ebbing rather than those of BrillatSavarin:1. Les caprices pinces princiers2. Les cannibalismes de l’automne3. Les supremes de malaises lilliputiens4. Les entre-plats sodomises5. Les spoutniks astiques d’asticotsstatistiquesDali further retreats into this "fantastic”,sensual world in his epiphanaic definitionof gastronomy:“Do not forget that, a woodcock "flam- •bee” in strong alcohol served in its ownexcrements, as is the custom in the best ofParisian restaurants, will always remain for r. ~ m that serious art that isgastronomy, the most delicate symbol ofcivilization.”Undoubtedly, the surrealist world ofSalvador Dali is an imaginative world towhich few of us would be admitted. Ob¬viously, Dali is detached from the popularculture of McDonald’s and Walgreen s, theworld of Skippy peanut butter and Oreocookies. His universe, by its definition, isbased on principles few of us would share.Dali assumes a fundamentally anti¬democratic universe, a world of “legitimacy,hierarchy, and mystique.” For example,Dali hates spinach “because it is shapeless,like liberty.” From this mystical hierarchy.Dali promises even higher transport throughthe appreciation of the visceral:It is the very filling of the void the fillingof this psychic break, that hole thattrench, its filling by intelligence and thenby an entire system of thought and valuesthat will allow sublimation and tran¬scendence and constitute in the end therise of the mind of the spirit of in¬telligence.Despite Dali’s Olympian detachment. LesDiners de Gala is a serious guide togastronomy. The lavish photographyprovides a sumptuous source of interest, andthe recipes are within the realm of manystudents of haute cuisine. In tact, the chef,who prefers to remain anonymous, is mostrealistic and democratic in this advice to thewould-be gourmet. The chef suggests thatjellied cod fish may be prepared with ready¬made gelatin, and even tolerates the use offrozen dough. His more technical knowledgeproves equally helpful: African giltheadsmay be scaled, gutted, and washed at thifishmarket, most butchers will bone rabbit,snails should be allowed to sit for a weekbefore preparation “since one can neverknow what they ate before they werepicked." And. for the novitiate, to castrate aPeruvian crayfish, simply pull off the finwhich is at the center of the tail.Despite the sumptuous qualify of thegastronomy, many recipes could beprepared by chefs of modest skills In a world of food shortages and energycrises, a gastronomic guide seems almost ananachronistic artifact. The epicureandelights of the past seem difficult, if notimpossible, to recapture in a modern era:The Crayfish of Paracelsus has to beserved along with the heads or torsos ofsmall hot-blooded martyrs, as a gestureof homage to Gilles de Rais (C Jes ofRetz) whose most delightful ejaculationswere brought about by gazing at the dyingfaces of his smooth-cheeked and innocentbeheaded little ones, the virginal purity ofwhom could only have been compared tothat of his former comrade-at-arms, theMaid of Orleans.A Big Mac, anyone?Zen and the Art of .Motorcycle MaintenanceBy Robert PirsigBantam$2.25Reviewed by Martin E. NorthwayTalk about ego As a young scholar, RobertPirsig went crazy pursuing a single principleto unite the disparate threads of Eastern andWestern, of mystical and rational thought.According to this, the “cured" Robert Pirsig.the young Pirsig was an ambitious geniuswho came to the University of Chicago as agraduate student in Ideas and Methodsprepared to dynamite the bastions oftraditional philosophy. “No one.” Pirsigwrites in retrospect of his other "self.” "wasreally accepted in Chicago until he’d rubbedsomeone out It was time Aristotle got his.”This is a curious and engaging book whichwould be almost disgusting in its egotism andnear self-loathing were it not for the author’sdelicate sense of satire and determined self¬revelation. It is said that John Ehrlichman —himself going through wrenching personalitychanges — recommended the volume to hisfriend Congressman Pete McCloskey.Though not as great as some who read it willclaim, anyone who reads it will learnsomething about himself and his ambitionsand doubts.BOOK SALESEMINARY CO-OP BOOKSTORE’S 13th ANNUAL SPRING SALE!Storewide sale in progress, ailbooks at 20% off list price, nowthrough June 13th.5757 S. UNIVERSITYMON—FRI 11-4Friday. Jun«6, 1975 -Tha Chicago Maroon—15TheChicagoLiteraryReview00The Humanism of Ayn RandBy Martin E. NorthwayIt is said that everyone is either a Platonistor an Aristotelian. Well. Ayn Rand is noPlatonist. She admires philosophical con¬ciseness and disdains interminablephilosophical discussions which producegrudging results. For her, the nature of truthis strictly linear, not dialectic, and the rulesby which we must live can be arrived atthrough carefully conceived logicalprocedures.It is the logical coldness of herphilosophy—known as Objectivism—whichmakes Ayn Rand’s work seem inhuman.Someone has remarked that looking for thehumanitarian side of Ayn Rand is like tryingto find compassion in a crocodile. That is nota fair assessment. If her fiction tended tobecome increasingly polemical over theyears, and if she does not have that fawningindulgence in mankind’s weaknesses thatmany modern writers have, she at least doesnot sell mankind short on its ability to makesomething of itself.Miss Rand would like Chicago. Its tallbuildings, its rapidly developing skyline, itsexcitment, its elemental vitality, are allqualities she admires in New York City,where she lives and works. Unlike manycontemporary thinkers, she does not see lifein cities as necessarily dehumanizing. If ithas its crime and social problems, its graftand corruption, the city also offers man therichest field for the attainment of his fullesthumanity.The city is the predominant setting in MissRand’s novels We the Living. The Foun¬tainhead, and Atlas Shrugged, and in herplay Night of January 16th. Returning to herhome after her family’s five-yeardisplacement by the Russian Revolution, theheroine in We the Living, Kira Argounova,joyfully anticipates arriving in Petrograd“where so much is possible and so manythings can happen to you.” Her mother, whois shocked by her attitude, replies, “You’resaying that quite happily, aren’t you? Ishould think we’d all be quite tired of 'thingshappening,’ by now . Haven’t you had enoughhappen to you with the revolution, and all?”Kira’s wide-eyed innocence and optimisim isa reflection of Miss Rand’s own optimismabout the human condition, even in the faceof difficult odds. The dramatic influencesthat shape men and events, the conflicts thatdetermine the successes or failures of acivilization, exist in greatest measure and inboldest relief in the city. In order to lessenthe burden of the challenges to reason, whichthe author sees as the only salvation of a freesociety from dictatorship, intellectuals areprone to retreat from the moral imperativesof empirical philosophy and (she writes inher first published explanation of thephilosophy underlying her novels, For theNew Intellectual) “admit their abdicationfrom the realm of the intellect by embracingsuch doctrines as Existentialism and ZenBuddhism.”It is when civilization is most in need ofmoral leadership that intellectuals seem toshrink from their responsibility to defendfreedom and rationalism from the tyranny ofmysticism and from philosophies that invitethe enslavement of people. Man, she says,cannot be faulted for feeling uncomfortableabout making errors when confronted withmorally ambiguous circumstances; what isunforgivable is shrinking from the perceivednecessity of making moral judgments. In astill later explication of her thought, TheVirtue of Selfishness, Miss Rand explains,“If, in a complex moral issue, a manstruggles to determine what is right, andfails or makes an honest error, he cannot beregarded as ‘gray’; morally, he is ‘white ’Errors of knowledge are not breaches ofmorality; no proper moral code can demandinfallibility or omniscience. But if, in order toescape the responsibility of moral judgment,a man closes his eyes and mind, if he evadesthe facts of the issue and struggles not toknow, he cannot be regarded as 'gray';morally, he is as black’ as they come.”This tone of moral seriousness pervadesher fiction as well as her non-fiction, andretrieves Objectivism from the charge that itis a “pagan” philosophy. There is much inMiss Rand’s work that flies in the face of Judaeo-Christian values, though much of thesupposed conflict between the latter and theObjectivist argument that moral philosophymust rest on rational tenets is the result ofher unsophisticated view of history that isseen in its most slovenly aspects in the“Witch Doctor”-”Attila” dichotomy of Forthe New Intellectual. Certainly some aspectsof the author’s fiction must have shocked herearly audiences, the subject of extramaritalsex for example, which must have set criticson their ears in 1934 (when Night of January16th was first staged as Woman on Trial) andin 1936 (when We the Living was firstpublished). But if she is at odds with Westernreligion, she is also an opponent of hedonisticphilosophies. She argues in the first essay ofThe Virtue of Selfishness that “To take‘whatever makes one happy’ as a guide toaction means: to be guided by nothing butone’s emotional whims. Emotions are nottools of cognition; to be guided by whims—bydesires whose source, nature and meaningone does not know—is to turn oneself into ablind robot, operated by i nknowable demons(by one’s stale evasions), a robot knockingits stagnant brains out against the walls ofreality which it refuses to see.” To be ahedonist is “to declare that ‘the proper valueis whatever you happen to value’—which isan act of intellectual and philosophical ab¬dication...”According to Miss Rand’s articulatedphilosophy, the maintenance of one’s life andthe promotion of one’s own happiness mustbe the highest purposes of life. Philosophieswhich set the survival of society against therational (an important and savingqualification) self-interest of the humanbeing contradict the sense of nature, and areinvalid. Unlike animals, man can will to beirrational and pursue ends that are self¬destructive when only rational behavior willpromote his happiness and self-esteem. Thisis the meaning of sex in the author’s fiction;the Rand heroines do not “escape” to lovenor do they make love to just anyone, butrather they find lovers who epitomize theirown highest values, people who are morallyserious and who esteem their selves.Ayn Rand regards herself as a literary“romantic realist.” She finds a commonbond with the writers of the traditionalRomantic school, particularly Victor Hugo.Though she disagrees with the philosophiesof most of the Romantics (which she regardsas “mystical”), she admires their depictionof man as potentially or actually heroic. Sheinveighs against the “Realists,” who, shesays, tend to pick “slices of life” which reallyreflect the more sordid side of exis¬tence—and tend to represent life as a pigsty inwhich the achievement of heroism is im¬possible.The spirit of any work of literary’ art,according to her essays in the relativelyrecent The Romantic Manifesto, may bereduced to two basic elements: the artist’s“sense of life” and his philosophy. The“sense of life” has to do with the writer’sgeneral attitude toward life, his idealism,confidence, or optimism, or his self-deprecation or pessimism, and how thesequalities are reflected in the concrete por¬trayals of his characters. “Predominantly(though not exclusively), a man whose normal mental state is a state of full focus,will create and respond to a style of radiantclarity end ruthless precision—a style thatprojects sharp outlines; cleanliness*,’ purpose,an intransigent awareness and clear-cutidentity...” The highest achievement in art isto depict a “concretized ideal” of right ac¬ton. Philosophy and a “sense of life” meld inthe characterizations of The Fountainheadand Atlas Shrugged; the lack of a concreteembodiment of Ayn Rand’s philosophy in Wethe Living makes it a less unified work fromthis standpoint.The issue of literary merit is a separateone from the consideration of moral merit.We the Living is a better work in manyrespects than Atlas Shrugged and TheFountainhead, from the strictly literarystandpoint. Unfortunately, her literaryimitators are inclined to seize on her moredramatic declarations as gospel and theirworks tend to be merely a preachy flip side ofRussian Socialist Realism: they are not, forexample, inclined to heed her caution that“Art is not the ‘handmaiden’ of morality, itsbasic purpose is not to educate, to reform orto advocate anything. The concretization of amoral ideal is not a textbook on how tobecome one. The basic purpose of art is not toteach, but to show—to hold up to man aconcretized image of his nature and his placein the universe.” Had she paid closer at¬tention to her own advice, and were she amore gifted writer, Atlas Shrugged might bea much less polemical work while being amuch more successful book from the stand¬point of philosophy and literary merit.The most noteworthy aspect of her literarycharacterizations is the glorification ofcapitalists as “concretized ideals.” BecauseWe the Living is a story of life under Com¬munism, it necessarily lacks such a “pure”characterization, though Kira’s lover LeoKovalensky at one point comes close to thatideal. But Howard Roark, the individualisticarchitect in The Fountainhead, and JohnGalt and Francisco d’Anconia in AtlasShrugged are examples of such ideal heroes.That such “capitalist-philosopher kings” donot actually exist—the combination of greatbusiness acumen and a carefully articulatedpersonal philosophy being a rare com¬bination—is not a problem precisely becausethe novels are works of imaginative fiction.But the implications of her characterizationsconflict with her expressed doctrine of“selfishness” which is a part of the Ob¬jectivist philosophy. While in her art, “good”capitalists affirm their selves in their work,their impulses are not materialistic. HowardRoark actually jeopardizes his opportunitiesto be a material success for the sake of hisartistic principles. Miss Rand’s doctrine ofselfishness as expressed in her non-fiction,however leans toward a blanket approval ofall outcomes of capitalism and of allcapitalists. The heroes of her novels areintellectually self-conscious to a degree notoften sec l in the manufacturers of steel orwidgets. In the real world, the capitalistsurvives because he is responsive to thedesires of the market; while the Rand heroor heroine may starve because of his or herrefusal to bow to those desires.There is clearly a complexity in hernovels which has gone unappreciated by hercritics, and which perhaps even Miss Randdoes not fully understand. Miss Rand’sliterature does not glorify materialism atall: the impulse of materialism comes notfrom innate “greed” or “avarice” in men—itcomes from values that are acquired fromoutside one’s self rather than developedcritically through one’s rational faculties.Thus the desire to achieve “status” typicallyderives not from one’s desire to develop hisfaculties fully but rather from a desire toearn approval from one’s fellows. The goalsof Miss Rand’s heroes and heroines springfrom their rational egos, not from what I willcall their “reflected” egos; they really comefrom self insofar as that is possible. To acertain extent, persons so constructed will be“free” regardless of their social en¬vironment, but basic capitalism is mostconducive to their full development, thoughit all too often does not achieve thisdevelopment.In her articulated philosophy, as in TheVirtue of Selfishness, for example, shestumbles by defending all manifestations ofego, without analyzing its complex natureShe affirms the individual’s right to life andto make the decisions for his own life, andcomes close to an adequate libertariandefense of capitalism on moral gro* ids. But,on the whole, her philosophy of “selfishness”16—The Chicago Maroon - Friday, June 6, 1975 lacks the discriminating moral sense of herfiction. k - ,Ayn Rand’s fiction is a potential gold minefor a Spirited consideration of moral issues.We the Living deserves to be more widelyread for the insights it provides into therealities of life under Communist dic¬tatorship. The alarming decline of Americaneconomic productivity and the decline ofcertain values that implies should makeAtlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead freshreading. Though it is a shame she has notbeen equal to the gigantic tasks she set forherself, Ayn Rand cannot be criticized forevading the major human concerns of ourtime.A Bibliographical NoteAIT of Ayn Rand’s published works areavailable in Signet paperback editions.Fiction: Night of January 16th (play)(1933); We the Living (1936); The Foun¬tainhead (1943); Anthem (1946); AtlasShrugged (1957).Non-fiction: For the New Intellectual(1961); The Virtue of Selfishness (1964);Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1967),highly recommended; The RomanticManifesto (1971), also highly recommended.Collective Creation(continued from page 2)under me was skin and bone and I lay downand was one with it. And when I arose again Iwas shaped anew.”There is powerful erotic writing in Onan’sChild and Mirsky succeeds when he gives hisideas a mythic framework to hang onto.When his ordinary characters are left ontheir own, however, his fiction turns inward,and the work itself seems the product ofimaginative masturbation.These new books from The FictionCollective deserve an audience. They are nothermetic nor are they sensationallyinnovative in the manner of someexperimental fiction. Their authors aretraditional storytellers using language innew and imaginative ways. They are joyfulcreations.Black Theatre(continued from page 5)Bigger “felt like a man — when I was doingwhat I never though I’d do” that brings homeBigger’s complete isolation. Here is Biggerin his last moments of life in a prison celltrying to define the most important action ofhis life and the only response Max gives tothe question of why Bigger felt that way is“That’s the answer men must find, Bigger.”If men and women are to survive whentheir community is destroyed then they mustfloat. This is the price that Ed Bullins’characters pay in Goin' A Buffalo. It is ameans to live. In the face of destruction withno gains possible it is all people have left.And it is bleak. Float and you can survive.But you are in an ocean of nothingness withonly memories of your struggle to keepfloating as possessions. If Art. a model of theeasy going survival technician, is the onlyalternative to communal safety thensurvival is bitter indeed.It is the exploration of survival, and theconcommitant hopes, disappointments, fearsand the successes such as Baldwin’s SisterMargret in Amen’s Corner that constitutesthe heart of this book. When the curtain riseson most of these plays that is what theaudience will have to learn about. Thesewriters are experts on it.The Chicago Literary ReviewThe Chicago Literary Reviewappears several times each academicyear as the literary supplement of theChicago Maroon. This issuz was editedby Creath Thorne and Ann Thorne, withhelp from Meredith Anthony, ShirleyKistler Baker, John Boots, JerryCarlson, Pat C ecchim, MarkGruenberg, Scott Lee. C.D. Jaco. C.J.Meyers. Peter Mackinlay. Martin E.Northway. Jim Phelan, Cecilia Vo re.and Bob Yovovitch. Special thanks go toour illustrators, Karen Moline and LoriSiegel. The entire contents of thissupplement are copyright 1975 by theChicago Maroon."Of evils we must choose the least."Aristotleuncrowded streets - the best lighted in the world.Thrill to the sights and sounds of a neighborhood inaction, often apparent from your own front door. Andrelax in the reassuring knowledge that wherever yougo, whatever you do, a University security guard isnot far away.But this is not just a student community. Many once-glamorous hotels dot the lakefront. their inhabitantsliving relics of the splendor that was once Hyde Park.The pristine economic setting frees neighborhoodbusinesses from the price wars which plague so muchof Chicago. Hyde Park offers a wide variety of< isential services Every student has his favorite*among the 32 dry cleaners, and a bottle ofThunderbird and half a chicken at Harold’s are stillless than $3. Tai Sam Yon, one of Chicago’s ten bestr a ho sprint from theUniversity.Here at the University of Chicago, we recognize theimportance of diversion lor your high-powered futureleaders of the world So we have provided the finestand most thought-provoking nightlife this side ofWhite Sox Park. The campus’ favorite hot spot, next tothe library, is the University Pub, located deep in thebowels of Ida Noyes. For many, the life of the mindstops at 4 o’clock when the Pub opens with HydePark’s only happy hour. But for those who prefer tomingle with the locals, there are many taverns tochoose from. From the intimate Sundial to thegeriatric Cornell Lounge, from the catatonic Copa tothe exotic House of Tiki, students can poke at theunderbelly of Hyde Park life. And at Jimmy’s, ourmost popular bar. students on their way up rub elbowswith professors on their way down.The University of Chicago has written a new' chapteron the tabula rasa of Hyde Park But things go to an extreme in Chicago...This Univer¬sity isn t taking any chances.The University of Chicago has written a new chapteron the tabula rasa of Hyde Park."Come on Down and Give us a Try."wv- 4 Friday, June 6. 1975 - The Chicago Maroon—17There is a Student LifeEnterprising students find ready cash (above)and good food (below) easily available. Yes, there is a student life at the University ofChicago. And we think that’s a good idea. It’s notevery great University that allows its students therange of activities that we do. This may not be theRitz, but what do you expect for three grand a year? Ifthere is excitement to be found in Hyde Park, thisUniversity will find it. If there are parties to be held,this University will be invited.It’s not easy being the University of Chicago. Andwe don’t want to make you think this is a so-calledparty school. We’ve gone out of our way to screen badinfluences and social misfits out of your classes. We’llmake sure you can pursue your studies in a clean,well-lighted library, free from the riotous debaucherythat occasionally creeps to the very doorstep of thisgreat University. Absolutely free minibus servicewhisks students to the nether regions of Hyde Park.And at the C-Shop, students gleefully gather tosubsidize their fellow students in the dorms.Most students consider dining hall meals well worththe walk. But for those who prefer a shorter pre¬breakfast stroll, three student-run coffee shops areavailable. Here customers drown out memories of theTiki with the campus’ last fifteen cent cup of coffee.Few University clubhouses can compete with the quietspaciousness of Ida Noyes. Here students of all sexualpersuasions gather to do their own things and set theirown pins. And at Reynolds Club, students may playpiano in acoustically designed cinderblock rooms,while students put introductory phy sci to good use onChicago’s most challenging pool tables.But our students do have a social life. Oh yes.Indeed. No question about it. In fact, this Universityprovies ample opportunity for fun in the sun and justplain mingling. Through such activities as the RifleClub, the fencing squad, and the football team,students have many chances for contact with eachother. And, we are told, similar possibilities for deepand meaningful interpersonal relationships exist offcampus. We like to think we do our part in helping ourstudents get to know each other. If they emerge astotal strangers after four years, it’s their own damnfault.But, you may ask, what is the quality of life at theUniversity of Chicago? Who provides the grease tokeep the social machinery running smoothly? We areproud to give credit where credit is due: It is ourhousing office which makes this University one bighappy residence hall. Without its meticulous attentionto those little details which make life bearable, wedon’t know where we’d be. The free paper towels in thewashrooms, the unlimited Kool-aid privileges in thedining halls, and, yes, even hot water, are all availableat the touch of a fingertip, thanks to the thoughtful,courteous folks at University Housing.As we said before, we’re not ashamed to admit thatour University does, indeed, have a social life. Wehope you believe us. Don’t be misled by false reportsthat this great institution is a social desert astagnated pool of apathy, a sexual quagmire. Butdon't take our word for it. Come on down and give us atry. We think you'll find there’s more to our social lifethan a lot of stoned gargoyles.IMPERFEC18—The Chicago Maroon - Friday, June 6, 1 975Hyde Park through the SeasonsFallWinter You were smart Nitti, real smart. Maybe toosmart for your own good. But you made one mistake.Nitti s dark, guilty eyes narrowed til they lookedlike a pair of dime slots in a juke box. He wasn tpleased. What s that, Mr. Ness?You forgot all about Bogaccini. When you sold himdown the river to Joliet last fall, he sang like a bird.Like a sweet, sweet songbird, Nitti. But not too sweetfor you.Nitti went for his rod, but my boys had him covered.As they led him out to the paddy wagon, he lookedback at me with those squinty black eyes and said,You re crazy, Ness! You II never make it stick.I lit a cigarette and headed to Newton s for somecoffee. Six months later, Bogaccini had some highclass company in Joliet. The Enforcer had mode hislast hit."ELIOT NESSIM-■>4 -rm*1 A—I have seen the best rodiators of myGeneration hiss themselves to death on Hyde Parkwinters.My pores are clogged with the black snowballs ofA January Gory day.For six months I lay at the Point, my bodyHostage to the winds, in search of an iceberg.I lost the iceberg.The nights, the nights - black, black records on endlessRides, turntables of the gods. My eyes likePissholes in the snow.For this, I l.eft My Maryland?SIMONE SURESHOTSpringWhen movements assume importance in the life ofa people, it is not only to satisfy the urge of in¬tellectual curiosity but also to watch the vagaries andvicissitudes of human behavior Qrd to learn themethods of idea propagation and erfcwth that we turnto the rock from which the move^ei t sprang and tryto find the germ of the idea, wthrough the incrusted inertiafruit, first the blade, then thethe ear. But though no man cjust how or by what force tbough inclined, an effort wasticular flower from its crannieunderstand it all in all—ifcurately as possible the faggrowth can be said to give un germinate, pushbout it, ond bearrt the full grain inthat he knowethis bent and thelo pluck this par-root and all, andIng down as ac-■ermination andPng.I EDGAR STONERFriday, June 6, 1975 - The Chicago Maroon—i9WHAT CAN THESE TEN PEOPLETEACH YOU ABOUTTHE LIBERAL ARTS?HANS MORGANTHEAU PAUL TILLICH ANDREW GREELEY CHRISTIAN MACKAUER NORMAN MACLEANJAMES VICE ROBERT HUTCHINS RICHARD MINTEL MARLENE DIXON SAUL BELLOWTraining in the liberal arts offers a life of financial reward, personal recognition, and the freedom to live asyou please. But...not everyone can or should become a pedagogue. Before you decide, here are some factsyou should know.HOW MUCH CAN YOU EARN?Although starting salaries may be modest, your career in liberal arts is limited only byyour imagination and talent. If you've got what it takes (and the skills to use it),youcanrise from the pits of Hum 106 to fluid and fast-moving fields like Ideas and Methods andthe Committee on Social Thought, then just sit bock and watch that salary start to soar. Acritical edition here, a popular textbook there, and you'll be on your way to financialsuccess you never before thought possible. At least once a year, Saul Bellow takes timeoff from his busy teaching schedule to knock out a best selling novel. And he's not alone.Every day, thousands of nighiy paid humanists are discovering the differences betweena deod-end career and the personal and financial satisfaction that a University ofChicago education con provide.ARE THE LIBERAL ARTS FOR YOU?Let's be frank. A career in the humanities isn't for everybody. No one's ever claimed itwas. We re looking for a few good men who have the ability, physical stamina, andfinancial resources to survive our grueling four-year program. But, you may ask, whatwill it take to bring me up to scholastic snuff? We re not here to mince words. Life in thehumanities is no picnic. Are you ready for a life of airy arguments, hoary hypotheses,convoluted conclusions, and skillful plagarisms. Are you prepared to put your reputationon the line each and every time you confront a salacious student? Are you willing to livewith the ups and downs, the ins and the outs, the agonies and the ecstasies, the alphasand the omegas of faculty politics? If you have the intestinal fortitude to endurefreshman classes, foculty parties, meaningless convocations, and the trials of thetrustees, if you can stay afloat in a sea of cheap sherry, maybe you've got what it takes.If your answer to any ot the above questions is yes, keep reading. If not, do us a favorand pass this on to a more intelligent friend. WHAT IS A PROFESSIONAL HUMANIST?Any bright high school student can work his way through philosophical texts such asWalter Kaufman's Existentialism From Dostoevsky to Sartre. But few have the ability towhip a philosophical discourse into marketable shape. That’s a job for a reallyprofessional humanist - a man who knows how to fertilize the Tree of Knowledge. Whileothers find themselves caught with their fingers in the academic cookie jar, University ofChicogo graduates are right now harvesting the fruits of a ripening intellectualdevelopment. Don't be content to sit and munch on the hors d oeuvres of the intellectualfeast. Break into the main dinina room of the academic community, and apply your ownpersonal garnish to their food for thought. Cut through the philosophical froth to the full-bodied ale of academic spirit. It takes a real professional to survive in the rough-and-tumble, dog-eat-dog world of scholarly skirmishing. We'll teach you how to parry eochthrust of pointed criticism, expose the bogus experts, and put the liberal EasternEstablishment in its place once and for all.A NEW KIND OF UNIVERSITYA few short years ago, William Rainey Harper, dissatisfied with the current state ofliberal arts education, founded a great University in the swamps of a great city. Sincethat time, the University has prospered while the neighborhood has declined. Hardenedby Hyde Pork life, thousands of well-trained Humanities experts have hit the road insearch of greener pastures, broader horizons, and safer streets. Let us do for you whatwe did for them. A University of Chicago education brands its students with on indeliblemark - one easily recognized by friends and employers alike. Underlying a superficialpluralism, is a solitary yet unifying vision of the good, the true, and tne beautiful. Thisessence of being, this crux of existence is the fundamental reality through which allbenefits to your students accrue.But why take our word for it? If you're looking for a rewarding and exciting career in afield with a completely unpredictable future, if you're willing to take risks, acceptresponsibility, make decisions, and ride the crest of the intellectual wave, maybe, justmaybe, the University of Chicogo is for you. Finding out is as easy as filling out thecoupon on the next page.THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOIT’S NOT FOR EVERYBODYBUT IT COULD BE FOR YOU20—The Chicago Maroon - Friday .June 6. 1975.!•*. <« -1*0 ■M-'+*-•***■ -i .. * W% < •< - .E-Z TEST YOURSELF APPLICATIONe Arc your —parents alumni?U -njiiiZ3Do your parents con¬tribute to the Alumni Fund? English is my:no2nd comprendolanguageX~NODo they ownUC chairs?YESf 1 NO Hagaimeel favor deenviarmeinformacionsobre ellab School.Do you likePrarie School Gothic?YESAre yourparents trustees?Do you follow^ the White Sox? Who's buriedin Harper's Tomb?W.R. HARPER S. BELLOWDo you read theGrey City Journal? Do you eatat the Medici?-JlJ Do you readGreeley’s books?NO I— 1 IVESSEND THISCOUPON AND$3,000 TODAY 11 *I O.K., I’m hooked. Turn me on to the Life of the JI Mind. I enclose $3,000 check or money order (No J{stamps, please). iI!jj Tel[ me more about:\ _ Social Thought| VA Benefits 1—_ Kung Fu club• Jimmy's# No matter how AI & Bobby Unserfinish at Indy, they’re countingon their Renaults to give thema lot of comfort on the way home.In Renault's 1 7 Gordmi coupeconvertible and in every Renault 12 Tlfarvly sedan and Renault I 2 wagon, you IIfind Renault s legendary comfort Bucketseats, deep and wide, slide a full footforward and bock And they re fullyreclmable There's plenty of foot, knee. hip.shoulder and head room inside And the economy of up to 34 mpgin -hm Gord-mis mighty contorting too No wpnrferAt and Bobby are counting on their Renault*Afltri JrUir.g 5 DC rr..!o* •"they II need oil the comfort they can getRENAULTJMy 9m{wb, 9hc.2347 SO. MICHIGAN AVE.CHICAGO. ILLINOIS 60616TEL. 326-2550 \\7ht \7ret V- xShop q V We sell quality:G"*tars, Banjos,Mandolins and manyother instruments.We also offera wide variety ofmusic books andrepair services.AKGULIAN DROPS OUTTo the Editor:On Friday of finals week Laura Akgulian a third-yearRussian major, will drop out to join the Washington politicalscene. Working os a private assistant to her state senatorLcura will specialize in the area of foreign affairs. Realizingthat her talents were being wasted at UC, Laura looks forwordto a brighter future. I think what I have to offer hos no marketat the U. of C. The atmosphere here is too academic, and Iknow there is another world beyond the University. This moysound corny, but I want to stretch my wings and grow. I feellike o crushed sporrow, but like o a phoenix. I plan to rise fromthe ashes. ‘ Like many other students who enter the Universityoptimistically and then grow disenchanted with theintellectual environment here, loura joins the sixty percent ofeoch entering class that even^paliy leaves Chicogo. Her friendsand professors wisfvher every success.Ginger MoschettoKaren Matlaw^5 TAI-SAW-Y&WCHINESE-AAAERICANRESTAURANTSpecializing inr ANTONESE ANDAMERICAN DISHESOWN DAILY11 A.M. TO ft: 30 P.M.SUNDAYS AND HOLIDAYS12 TO ft:30 P.M.Orders to take out131ft last 63rd MU 4-1063 CARPET CITY6740 STONY ISLAND324-7998Has what you need from a$10 used 9x12 Rug to acustom carpet Specializingin Remnants & Mill returnsat a froction of the originalcost.Decoration Colors andQualities Additional 10%Discount with this Ad.FREE DELIVERYWith This Ad OnlyUsed Desks *15Used Chairs *5&uPNew Chairs ‘25'cosh and carry"UIPMEN19UPPLY CO8600 Commercial Ave.Open Mom-Sat. 8:30-3:00RE4-2111Friday, June 6, 1975 - The Chicago Maroon—21MAROON CLASSIFIED ADSSPACEStudio apartment in modern high-rise10 min. walk from RegensteinBeautiful view of lake Avail 13 June$149/ mo Call Cyndy Brown, 753-4?' 1weekdays, 752 6882 eves & wkndsGrad to share 7 rm apt June 10 Oct. 2$60/ mo 51st Greenwd. 324 4677 after 7PMRoom for grad student in attractiveKenwd home for summer. Air cond.Private phone Campus bus 285 3673.Lg 3 rm apt new paint, firs refinished55th & Everett. For Aug 1. 643 69692 rms in 4 bdrm apt at 58th and Kenwdavailable end June 241 5021SUMMER subl fall option 53rd &Woodlawn 63 plus util Ken or Steve 2888734To sublet w option for new lease;Sunny, spacious 3 bdrm apt in SouthShore, 2 baths, dining rm, 1/2 blkfrom shopping Trans June 15 Call375 369CSunny 1 BR turn apt nr campus. Suble’July Sept $155/ mo 667 3145.LONDON. Apartment for rent duringAugust, Sept 493 3186Roommate wanted third person inlarge apartment. Call 947 0234,5 1 2 room apartment 54th K:moark.Wood paneling, laundry fa.iiitieslarge back yard 2 car garage . acrossfrom parks & tennis courts AvailableJuly 1st. $285.00- mo. Call Ms Bomar288 1060 day or eveROOM in pleasant home. $60 mo inciutils, heat kitch. privs. 624-5352.Rm in large apt. V,c 54th 8. Ingles'de.$77/ mo. Phone days 787 9637,evenings 241-7256Own bedroom in new hi-rise. $65 plusper month. 624 1692 eves. & wkndApt for Univ. fac or staff 4 bdrm 2 bth,irg !v & dr, kitchen, sun porch backproch back yard. Ample parkingacross from park. Vic 54th andGreenwd $263 324-1978 CHICAGO BEACH BEAUTIFULFURNISHED APARTMENTS Nearbeach, parks, loop, UC and 1C trains;11 mins, to loop busses, door Modestdaily weekly, monthly rates 24 hr.desk, complete hotel services 5100 S.Cornell DO 3 2400 Miss Smith.Male grad wanted to share 6 rm. apt.52nd & Greenwood Call Van Days753 8304 eves 752 6151Ind Dunes Rent by month or season. 4br house fill equipped, near lakesecluded 288 8085 or (219) 874 7894Communal HOUSE $73/ mo includesall rent, util, etc. Private roomscommon cooking. 2 of us seek 2 3 morepeople for intentional community. CallDavid or Ellen 493-5419 5450 DorchA.C rom in priv home Female only.Priv. bath On camous. Call 324 4481.Live in Frederika's famous buildingNearby turn or unfurn, 2, 3, 3-1/ 2 rmcomplete apts for 1, 2, 3 people Quiet$120 up Free utils, Latham, Thompson, Rutherford 6045 Woodlawn 4272583, 955 9209 or Iv word at 922 8411 ext.311. Short arm lease or longerale Roommate Wanted June/ JulyOct. 1. Large Apt 2900 N Clark. Ownbedrm Friendly 8. Gd Rent: CallAllison *549 2455 after 5 all weekendsA room for rent near campus $10/ wkFour UC male student Ret. exchD03 2521Co-op apt. 5 rms 2 bdrms 1-1/2 baths.Lge yard, play area parking. Close to1C. UC. Coop. Price. $14,816.31.Assessment; $199 14. Call 955 5275/ mo person, 4 bdrm needs 2 people;5335 Kimbark; 363 3933Space for female from mid-June.Op'ion to sign lease 241 5839ONE OF A KIND Spectacular 1 bdrmin Classic S Shore Dr bldg, view oflake, huge iiv ? dining rms, w- b frplc,1-1/ 2 bath, cptd, Idry, super security,inside garage avail. $240. Avail Aug. 1or Sept. 1. 474-5283, 221 6607.1 bdrm apt., oak fir, tiled kitchen &bath walls, stv. refrig. Nr. 79th & So.Shore $160 Call 374 1239Il The University of Chicago Christian Fellowshippresents^ JESUS PEOPLE, U.S.A.IN ROCK CONCERTFEATURINGTHE RESURRECTION BANDANDTHE HOLY GHOST PLAYERSDRAMA GROUPFRIDAY, JUNE 6, 7:30 P.M.QUANTRELL AUDITORIUMin COBB HALLFREE ADMISSION!PARENTCOOPERATIVEFOR EARLY LEARNINGPRE-SCHOOLEducational ProgramField Trips • SwimmingGym • Full & Half DaysAges 3-6 yrs.Hyde Park YMCAHrs: 7:30-6:00 PM684-6363 BEAUTIFUL A SPACIOUS 2 bdrm onS. Shore Dr. 2 baths, 15X25 Iv rm, w/ bfrplc, 14X20 din rm, huge master br,a/ c, patio, gas grill, luxury in asmaller classix bldg, super security,Idry, inside garage, avail Aug 1 orSept 1, $295. 221 6606, 474 5283.SUBLETS2 fully furnished bedrooms in homey 3bedroom apartment. Now thru Sept. 1554th & Greenwood. On minibus route$75/ mo/ person Call 288 8924.arge furnished bdrm in lg 3 bdrm apt$65/ mo call Frances 324 7739Coachhouse available July 1 Sept. 1w/ fall option 53rd 8. Univ. 1 bdrm.$175/ mo 363 6387 evesRoommate wanted for summer only.55th & Dorchester, $63/ mo, call Judy363 5582 or Charlie 241 6255, 6-8 PMSummer Sublet (June 15 ) plus falloption 5-1/ 2 rooms, semi furnished.$175 1/ 2 block to 1C plus mini bus 3632590Summer Sublet Large 2 bdrm apt at53 & Greenwood. Furn. Call 947 0719Apt to sublet $50 only From June 17July 3 at 5316 S Dorchester. 2-1/ 2rms. Call 288 2235Sublefte^s cancelled Please calagain. 5 rm furnished apt avail. June15, Sum sub 8, Fall opt. 924-4056.Nice room in apt open for summernice neighb nice rmmts cheap nearcampus. Call 955 7353 iateLITTLE PIERCE 1400 E 57th St. aircond $84/ mo, clean, modern, call 6675124Bdrm sublet 6/ 13-9/ 1 w option formonth of Sept $70 inc utilities. A/ C/Bed, etc. Secure, sunny 1400 E. 57th.955 1475 before 10 PM Pat.Summer sublet w/ fall option. Rm inapt w/ 2 others. $7 mo 55th & Cornet I 955 5019 after 6Beautiful rms w/ lake view avail, inlarge sunny apt right across fromPoint. Summer sublet w/ fall optionWomen or coupl'i only 955-4531 or 6435752 EFFICIENCY FOR SUMMERw/ option. W/ or w/ o furn, nice bldg& good loc on lake $145/ mo incl. util.Negot. Call 324 1000 & Iv message forapt 806Summer sublet w/fall option. Rm inapt w/ 2 others $70/ mo. 55th 8,Cornell after 6. 955-5019SPEND SUMMER IN A LARGEHOUSE/ 54th and Harper Rent$50/ mo. Call Rich or Fred 753 2811 eve493 5245 FurnRoommates needed for summer,sublet. 54th & Ellis Furnished Lessthan $70 per month 241 7667Summer sublet faculty apt needs 1 or 2persons 58 8, Bikstone 100/ mo 68411401 block from Regenstein. Summersublet House 643 7661 or 753 2989Sublet 4 rm furn. apt, July Sept. Lightairy good loc. (nr 1C 8, Coop). Suitablefor 1 or 2 Rent $165/ mo. Call 947 9721afternoons or evesSummer Sublet. 7 rm apt, 54th 8,Cornell. 2 blks to lake Porch, yard,rm, kit, study Avail June 20 Setp 15$240' mo Call 643 6245 PM 10 PMLG FURN BDRM avail 6/ 7 9/ 25 in 3bdrm East HP apt. $88 ' mo. 288 183!SUMMER SUBLET 1 bdrm of large 3bdrm apt. Close to shops, campus 54 iMaryland. Rent $50 a mo plus utilities947 89732 needed tor sunny 3 bdrm apt 6 15Sept 15 $67-' mo 54 8, Ellis 363 3383Sublet N Side mansion July 1/ 30 Nr.garden Low rent Bike/, avail 7 5791days 728 3517 evesSublet 6 14 to 9 ' 27 1 bdrm Harpt^ Squcenteral air cond. fully furnished$140/ mo 538 2998Summer Sublet—5 bdrms in our house2 options for fall Vic. 56th &Maryland Rent $50 mo plus utilsCall 241 5608 after 6SPACE WANTEDWant Bed w/ roof 2 3 wks June 9478197.OAK FURNITURE-ANTIQUESREFINISHED1649 E. 55 th667-45801-6:00 PMTUES.-SAT. AS IS DesksTablesChairsDressersBookcasesMuchMoreWe Also DoRefinishingIndividual AttentionTo Most Small Cars312-mi 3-3113foreign car hospital & clinic, inc,*^^^5424 south kimbark avenue • Chicago 60615KIMBARKLIQUORSWINE MERCHANTSOF THE FINESTIMPORTED ANDDOMESTIC WINESFeaturing our direct imports,bringing better value to youlTHE ONLY TMI WINE SHOP M HYDE PARK53RD KIMBARK LIQUORS, UK.1214 E. 53rd St.53-KlMbeH( Mesa NY-3-3355 WANTED: 2br apt by desperate gradstudents up to $180/ mo or so Rewardfor whoever connects me with suitableapt. Call Jeff 7S3 0103.UNIV family nds 2 4 bdrm HP apt. hsesublet or rent from June call 753 2822Visiting prof from England seeksfurnished sublet for Sept 75-June 76Call 753 8083 or 363 8956 NOWResponsible married universitycouple wishes to sublet and/or carefor Hyde Park apt. or home. Nextyear Begin in fall. 947 9432.Need cheap studio apt for 6/ 1 or61/ 15 Call Sherry 667 7163 aft 8 PMHELPSCENESIsraeli Folk Dancing will continueThursday evenings during the summer at Hillel House. FREEAlternative School? The PhoenixSchool offers informal discussion forparents Wed June 11 (7 9) For information call 643 324)EUROPE FOR SALE CHEAP Youthfares are back, fly to Europe anydestination, "Thrift faire" for studentsover 22 yrs Special fare to MiddleEast vai Athens also int'l Student IDcards, Railpasses, student fours andmore Call, write or stop in at NUSTravel Service, 22 W. Monroe St., Rm1503. Chicago. IL 60603 (312) 726 6836NUS is the nonprofit National Union ofStudent Travel Service of GreatBritain.Tennis everyone? Get your stufftogether at new Harper Court TennisShop 52nd & Harper Open May 24. 9 5DINNER FOR 2 for Under $10. M THDinner Specials The COURT HOUSEin Harper Court Desperately need grad student to tutorin gen chemistry call 928 4153 after 5.Summer jobs full or part time salesmen wanted for food industry excellent earning potential selling experience preferred Need car 241 6631Sifter wanted for two children in myhome, Wednesdays and Thursdays.Please call 324 7048Babysitter, my home, 16 mo girl, MonFri 8 30 12:30 starting mid June orJuly 1 thru Aug 31. 955 3891Reliable university student to care fortwo boys 6 and 8 in East Hyde ParkJune 16th to Joly 31 Mon thru Fri 3:005 30 $20/ wk call 684 4962 after 6:00Earn $2.00 and learn somepsychology! Subjects needed tor 1hour psycho linguistic experiment Weare also looking for subjects who willbe available during the summer CallMay Stockman at 753 4734Want a job in Europe this summer orfall? Language not essential, 2 mominimum, program includ orientation$194 00 Send for catalogue and application, enclose $1.00 StudentAlternatives Abroad, 176 W AdamsSt., Rm 1717, Chicago, IL 60603NUDIST TRAVEL CLUB needs morefemale volleyball players MYWCLUB, PO Box 1342, Aurora, IL 60507Top paying $) leisure spa seekingattractive girls day or night work 3locations to choose call for more into337 8757.Portraits 4 tor $4 and up MaynardStudios, 1459 E 53 2nd FI 643 4083PEOPLE FOR SALETutoring in German and Spanish byexperienced teacher Call 268 1877after 6 PMAFRICAN HOLIDAY IHA'sTravelogue June 6, 8 PM 1414 E 59thSt Students 50c Others SI Exp student offers complete care fryr floral/ veg garden Reasonablerates Pref reg work 684 8340 4 6 PMPEOPLE WANTEDGrad student for child supervision/ chauffeur after 3 PM in exchange tor room in attractive air condKenwd home Two boys, 11 and 8 Needcar. IShrs'wk Aug or Sep' 1st 2853673NOUIE'S BARBER SHOPWill style your hair a* youwould Ilka if dona.1303 E. 53rd St. .FA 4-3878 VrYoung Designs byELIZABETH GORDONHair Designers1 620 E. 53rd St.288-2900PIZZAPLATTER1460 E. 53rdMl 3-2800I FAST DELIVERY jAND PICKUPI— — ■VOLVOImport Parts Distributing, I P D . has aMidwest Distributor. Foreign SpecialtyAuto Parts 26 page catalog full of Volvogoodies Bilsten. Marchal Speedatronplus many engine and suspensionmodifications send $1 50 third class($2 00* air mail) ‘refunded with $20 00 TV repair. Ronald Black will fix it foryou!! Expert color TV, B&W TV.stereo ecuip Fast, cheap, guaranteedservice! Hyde Park Resident Call 6675257Busy families hire a domestic jewelI'll take the load off your hands. Aftns8. eves Shopping, cooking B.babysitting Call Katherine 752 7022For exp piano teacher call 947 9746TONE Movers will move you in onetrip in van or enclosed truck.Guaranteed service and carefulhandling At very low cost 324 6255 or288 1364MILES ARCHER MOVERSReasonable prices Call 947 0698 or 7524910 for informationBabusitter available Responsiblemature women available duringsummer Very good with children, hasserved us well for 1 yr. Call 947 9226For Exp Cello Teacher Call 324 2144FOR SALE1967 Buick Le Sabre for sale Excellentrunning condition Call John at 24169276,500 BTU air cond 70, sofa bed 35desk 35, coffee table 5, dresser 20double bed 30, bkcase 3, drapes 10,broiler 15, mixer 7, chairs, lamps 2886035.ELECTRIC BROOM. Old but runswell & does a good job $7 241 5438AIR CONDITIONER 5000 BTU, littleused, 1 yr old, only $70 (was $125 new).Michael 955 9269 evesVERSAILLES5254 S. DorchettorWELL MAINTAINEDBUILDINGATTRACTIVE 1V* AND2 V* ROOM STUDIOSFURNISHIDor UNFURNISHED$1294. $209Based on AvailabilityAil Utilities IncludedAt Campus Bus StopFA 4-0200 Mrs. Groak• Eye Examinations• Contact Leases (Soft & Hard)• Prescriptions filledDR. MORTON R. MASLOVOnOMTIISTSpurchase lo FOREIGN SPECIALTY AUTOPARTS. 519 Merlin Drive. Schaumburg.Illinois 6017? Hyde Park Shopping Center1510 E. 55th363-636322—The Chicago Maroon - Friday June 6, 1975MAROON CLASSIFIED ADSSolid oak desk (21' X 52”) 4 drawers$40 Secretary's chair (adjusts) $35.Amer style brown sofa V40, wood(carved) side chair $10, bunks $10 hallrugs $10 538 5408BICYCLE Mep's 26” three speed,excellent condition call 947 9(UCHousehold good. King si/e bed. Dinetteset. Rugs, Chest of drawers, Drapes,etc 264 4774. 4 PM 8PMWeekend apartment sale June 6, 7, 8Furniture and lots of stuff Tastefuland inexpensive Call 947 8533Habitrad for Hampsters, boy's hockeyskates !sz 5), boy's bike (needs minorrepair) high chair, stroller, poiaraoidcamera, $5 each 734 6418'75 DODGE SPORTSMAN windowvan 6cycI , stick, p.s , AM FMMmt, 8mo warranty left Cos' $4610, must sentor $3800, Hyde Park owner, 324 2123,please keep tryingBACK YARD SALE Clothing, toys,luggage, playpen, higbcheir, muchmore Sat June 7, 10 4, oft the alleybetween 5329 8. 5335 S Kimbark3m mariwood a10 6 200 FURNITURELove seats slide pro movie mischumidifier $75 Glass table $100Dining table 6 chairs $200 It wood624 5499BOOKS BOUGHTCash for used books, Powells 1503 E5i’th St 955 7780CHANGE OFADDRESSAre you moving? Do you know youraddress for fall? Notify Hiilel of allchanges 5715 Woodlawn, PL2 1127CANOE TRIPRifle Riv Mich Jl 4 6 Co op no.exp neelimit 12 pers need 6 pass car camp eaprovided 324 i499 HICKORY TV REPAIRRONALD BLACK will fix it for you1!Expert color, TV, B 8. W, TV, Stereoequip Fast, Cheap, GuaranteedService!! Hyde Park Resident Call667 7780STEP TUTORINGInterested in helping neighborhoodchildren? Student TutoringElementary Project needs volunteersto tutor students bi weekly in schoolwork or with special projects Formore information call Jay Sugarmanat 947 8804 or Mary Lou Gebka 2416256BLUE BOOK BAGA blue bookbag was lost on May 21 Iffound call R Nayer 288 0577 aft 6TYPINGSUNSHINE TYPING Some freeediting Fast service Cali 288 2235TYPEWRITER SALE NATURAL FOODSWANTED Dinner serviccontinue throiRECORDERS RIDE WANTEDTo Washington, DC On Sunday, June15 will share driving, expenses CallSteve 643 4847HYDE PARKCHAMBER ORCHJoin U of C Chorus 8. Soloists inConcert featuring music by Englishcomposers June 7 8. 8, 8 15 PM BondCheapel FREECONCERTRock & Folk Gospel Concert tonight at7 30 9 30 PM Resurrection Band andHoly Ghost Players Quantrell AodCobb HaH Spons by UCCF Free AdmissionWANTED•10' F t r) a , J •a!ion (3 00) will payPlease can 955 5805 13* h0 per10 PMtd, good having no case Second The money inthe housing account could NOT havebeen "spent on more constructivestudent activities " You convenientlyforget that that money comes fromdeposits, an of which can be reclaimeda* any time Third Those living inglass houses oughtn’t throw stonesWe're an against apathy, negligence,irresponsibility 8. soon, perhaps yOurfriends who expected to elect youPresident at the first meeting wouldlike to hear more about those subiects?Vendettas aren't the best way towaste talents like yours Sweet's donesome positive good here, you still havetwo years to try PGNeed a string job"* We do it onpremises at new Harper Court TennisShop 52nd 8. Harper opens May 24 V F2 6 Sat 9 5 Sun 114PREGNANCY TESTING10 AM 2 PM Saturda y $1 50 donationAugustana Church at 55th 8.WoodlawnBy The South SideWomen's Hea,,r Se'vcesRape 667 4014RUDY'S FAREWELL Jett Roth Mike KImgensmifh, JeanneDufort and Maria Crawford ScottThe job of Maroon editor has beenmore frustration than fun, but wellworth the experience The greatest ioywas working with a fine group ofpeopleUpon leaving office, ' d like to wishmy successors success, my criticspeace, and my friends my gratitudeTim Rudyretiring editor in chiefLAUDSWith this '6sue of the Maroon,Volume 84 of the paper is complete,and many if not most of the peopleresponsible for its publication endtheir association with the newspaperPutting ou’ any student paper isgenerally a thankless task while iustabout everyone around reads it and isoenefited by ts existence, the onlyreader response which s ever heardtends to come from those relativelyfew indiv,duals who fee! that they havebeen somehow mai gned, defamed orminconst,ued by some staff memberButWOMEN'SMAGAZ: N E YOGA LOST & FOUNDBYE,. 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IS 3 PcCbevh :an givear Noirocyou on campus Cali Ron 3 2080 oiname and number at 955 1481'll call you back.PAN PIZZADELIVERYrne Medic 1 Deiiveveexdays, 5 11 p’394 Save 60 cent. ■om 5 10 p m;aturday, 667,OU PILI^ it UPFRENCH EXAMTo prepare for French read ng examon July 21 5 days a week 1 I 2 hoursdaily L'rnded enrollment $75 perstudents Call Roberta Tuckrr 288 3427by June 10 RIDE OFFEREDInterested in sharing ride to EvanstonM F dur.ng new summer sessionPlease COli 643 439C evemrgsSTUDENT STEREOWe are piewseb to announce the add ' on ot Bose, infinity ano EPi to ourlist of equipment ava, able a* discountprices Plus, we still offer nonestadvice and the best discountsavailable from lines like Advent AR,Pioneer, Sonv, Maran U, Technics,Dynaco Teac. and many more Call241 5752 eveningsCONDO $55,0004 odrm 3 bath wall wan carpeteddrapes, worx firepi washer dry selfe'ean s'eve 624 5499enfldflement \ Heddins riuusCUSTOM MStOMID OBIOINAIS A llMITIO ID'TIONS | >l iLi ii, \ cocrcou 1.0. i.» SUVI. ns 4 // - til/H you like, youmay choosefrom a finecollection ofdlomonds ondjother gems1 Bond Chaoei FREEDO YOU STUTTER?Beahviorai anaiyss Lac, needs sutiects to investigate effects of d fferentkinds of reading procedures We paywell! Cal! Ms Parry, 947 6537UNIVERSITYCHORUSHyde Pk Chamber Orch performsByrd, Handel, Britten 8. others June 7b. 8, 8 15 PM Bond Chape; fPEPHILLEL LIBRARYPlease re’urn a'i overdue libraryPoors to Hiilei before June 10 ThankyouA NEW ANTIQUESTOREAt 1703 E 55th a brand new old furniture and memoraiO'a srop has >js*opened Round oak pedestal tables,tile cabmets (wood), brass obiec's,and old framed prints at reasonableprices Come and see Edna FerDer'scarved maple bedroom set from thePullman Hotel Tues Sun 12 6 losmg ,*s most defl cater! schoithe way. are you showing upfinals’) Rob Sfre tLaura Akguima I crave somen,an fun t,me but Lau'C vapprove. Lusts, RurikDeares* Gospo/ha What w-Park be ee; feb.a’ Wt-a1 w■■oei Tebya? 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