The Chicago MaroonVolume 94, No. 2 The University of Chicago ^Copyright 1984 The Chicago Maroon Friday, July 6, 1984Sinaiko clarifies ROTC, UofC negotiationsBy Hilary TillTHE PENDING formalagreements between the Uni¬versity and Reserve OfficerTraining Corps (ROTC) unitsin the Chicago metropolitanarea will not “militarize theUniversity of Chicago,”campus said Herman Sinaiko,Dean of Students in the Col¬lege. He also stressed that theproposed agreements wouldnot “change or dilute degreerequirements” here.Herman Sinaiko, Dean ofStudents in the CollegeCurrently, some U of C stu¬dents on their own time are al¬ready involved in ROTC pro¬grams at other universities. and the agreements would dolittle more than legitimize thatinvolvement, Sinaiko said.During an interview yester¬day, Sinaiko described the Uni¬versity’s policy on ROTC andgave details about his negotia¬tions with area ROTC units.Sinaiko said there will not bean ROTC base on campus; thispossibility has “never beenunder consideration in the lastforty years.”Instead, the University isconsidering signing crosstownagreements with ROTC unitsat nearby universities. TheUniversity is currently nego¬tiating with Chicago area AirForce. Army, and Navy ROTCunits, and the requirements ofeach service vary, Sinaikosaid.Under one of the agreementsthat Sinaiko described, theUniversity would only give ac¬ademic credit to those ROTCclasses for which the Universi¬ty has equivalent academiccourses. The University wouldalso be required to officiallynotify students of availableROTC programs and pledgenot to discriminate againstprospective students on thebasis of race, creed, color, sex,or national origin.Sinaiko said he would favorsuch an agreement with one important qualification. As theUniversity does not have.? mil¬itary science or military histo¬ry curriculum and i acrefore nocourses equivalent to ROTCclasses, the University will notgive academic credit forROTC classes. If any demandsare made upon the Universityto give credit for an ROTCunit’s classes, the Universitywill not sign a crosstownagreement with that unit.Sinaiko said the Universitywill not give up total control ofits curriculum under any cir¬ cumstances. He added no onecontrols degree requirements“except our own faculty.”THE DEAN SAID it wouldbe “perfectly respectable” fora student to take ROTC classeson his own time and attendtraining camps during thesummer. Several U of C stu¬dents are currently doing this,though Sinaiko said he did notknow how many. Currently, hesaid, information about ROTCinvolvement while attending Uof C is spread by word ofmouth. In several cases, a formalagreement between the U of Cand an ROTC unit would mere¬ly formalize what has alreadybeen occurring for severalyears. For example, about ahalf dozen U of C students arecurrently enrolled in and fullyparticipate in the ROTC pro¬gram at Loyola University inChicago. Although these stu¬dents’ ROTC classes appear onLoyola transcripts and not onU of C transcripts, they arestill eligible to compete forscholarships to pay their U of Ccontinued on page threeCurrie: study Fair feasibilityBy Cliff GrammichTHE CHAIRMAN of the Il¬linois House committee on theproposed 1992 World’s Fair hasexpressed support for an in¬dependent feasibility study tobe done on the Fair. State Rep.Barbara Flynn Currie (D-26)this week said such a study is aworthwhile idea, althoughsome say the Fair is sodiscredited as to warrantcancelling.The study is one of the provi¬sions of SB 1983, whichauthorizes up to $8.8 million infunding for the Fair authorityover the next year. Currienoted that the authority did not gain a permanent fundingstructure, which it had soughtat the outset of the Assembly’ssession.Loevy is new CAPS directorBy Hilary TillSTEVEN LOEVY bee methe new director of CareerPlacement Services (CAPS)Monday. He replaces JulieMonson, who served in thatposition for the past five years.She has accepted a positionwith the development office atthe University of Califor-n i a — Los Angeles(UCLA).Monson nearly a year ago in¬formed the dean of students inthe University that she wouldresign this summer. TheUniversity then undertook anationwide search to find anew director.The person eventuallychosen to succeed Monsoncame from inside the ranks ofthe University. Loevy has beenthe administrative director ofthe Committee on PublicPolicy Studies for the pastthree years. He resigned fromthat post June 29.“One of my responsibilitiesat Public Policy Studies was todevelop an internship andplacement program,” Loevysaid. “We have had one-hundred percent (job) place¬ment (for graduates of theCommittee) in the last threeyears.” All students looking for sum¬mer internships between theirfirst and second years in themaster’s program were suc¬cessful in finding positions thisyear, he added.PRIOR TO his direction ofthe master’s program inPublic Policy Studies. Loevytaught in the College as aWilliam Rainey Harper Postdoctoral Fellow. In thisposition, he taught commoncore Humanities courses.Asked about CAPS, Loevysaid, “I think CAPS has beendoing an excellent job.” He ad¬ded. “I intend to build upon thesuperb services that JulieMonson's office has been pro¬viding for the last five years.”Among the services thatLoevy has targetted for fur¬ther development are theplacement programs for bothundergraduate and graduatestudents, the career counsel¬ing program, the alumni con¬tact service, and the GraduateIntern Program. He said hewould also attempt to reducethe amount of paperwork in¬volved in getting a job underthe program. State Rep. Barbara FlynnCurrie (D-26), chairman ofthe Illinois House commit¬tee on the proposed 1992World's Fair.Currie said the feasibilitystudy is to be done by thosewith no connection to the Fair.Those conducting the studywill also be prohibited fromgaining benefit on the FairShe said such provisions willsafe-guard the integrity andaccuracy of such a study.While Currie noted manyclaim the Fair is sodescredited as to warrantabandonment, she backs thefeasibility study, to determine if future committments shouldKp m ri pTHE CHICAGO 1992 com¬mittee has called for no furtherfunding until a feasibilitystudy is completed. The Com¬mittee and twenty otherChicago community organiza¬tions last week urged comple¬tion of a feasibility studybefore further funding isgranted to the Fair authority.While Currie said funding forthe Fair authority will con¬tinue during the feasibilitystudy, she noted that the studymust ne presented to Chicago'smayor, the state's governor,and the General Assemb’ybefore June 1. 1985, which isbefore the General Assem Jvwill make funding decisions onthe authority's operations for1985-86.FUNDING FOR the authori¬ty's 1984-85 activities is thefourth priority of the spendingbill. The bill also calls for up to$28 million to fund McCormickPlace renovation and expan¬sion. and up to $10 milliondollars each for promotingtourism of Illinois and refur¬bishing the state's parksystem.Currie said McCormickPlace funding is “somethingwhich should be done.” Shealso noted that the $10 millionfor promoting Illinois tourismwill bring the state's expen¬ditures in this area up to scalewith similar promotional pro¬grams conducted by Michiganand WisconsinPitcher on Jackson's Cuban tripPHOTO BY KC MORRISSteve Loevy, new CAPSdirector, was the adminis¬trative director of theCommittee on Public PolicyStudies.Inside gcjElvis:The Motif By Mark S. ShermanTHE MUCH-PUBLICIZEDrelease of prisoners by FidelCastro was incidental to thereal purpose of JesseJackson’s recent trip to Cuba,INTERVIEWaccording to a former pro¬fessor at the Divinity Schoolwho helped organize theJackson delegation and wenton the trip.“The meaning of the tripwas not the prisoners,” saysW. Alvin Pitcher, chair of theEthics and Society field at theDivinity School until his retire¬ment in 1978. “The prisonerswas just a kind of dramaticsideshow.”THE REAL PURPOSE ofthe trip was to enlist Castro'ssupport for a negotiated end tothe war in El Salvador, ac¬cording to Pitcher. “If you'regoing to have a seriousnegotiation, they should be in¬cluded,” he says.“It’s absurd that we willrelate to all kinds of countrieswith all kinds of governments. everywhere in the world, ex¬cept to Cuba, which is in ourback yard, ninety milesaway.” Pitcher says. “Itmakes it much more difficultfor them to take us seriously.”“If you think that what youare trying to do is create theconditions for mutuality andcompromise and accomoda¬tion and negotiation andcooperation, then it seems tome...(that) a lack of com¬munication is the greatestforce for destroying any ofthose things.” says the manwhom many know asJackson's mentor.“The same thing's true inpersonal relations,” Pitcher,70. says. “You have to begin byassuming that everybody issomebody, and everybody hasa kind of integrity. It might notbe quite your integrity, butthey have a kind of integrity,and they have a desire downdeep to cooperate and to berespected and to respect otherpeople and to be human.”Change is possible. Pitchersays, “if you can just get peo¬ple talking, communicating. experiencing each other....i mnot a romanticist who thinksthat it’s inevitable that if youcommunicate, you're going toget cooperation and so ve yourproblems. I think the reverseis true: if you don't com-.municate. you're much morelikely to get violence and tohave hostility.”JACKSON’S WILLINGNESSto talk with Castro has irkedthe Reagan administration,which only a few months agoapplauded Jackson's successin negotiating the release bySyria of a captured Americanpilot.“A lot of my contemplationon the trip and since then hasbeen trying to get a hold ofJesse’s nonviolent ap¬proach., because it’s verymuch a part of him.” Pitchersays. “I remember in the earlydays (of the civil rights move¬ment in Chicago), we weretalking to Claude Holman, thealderman of the Fourth Ward,who was one of w hat they call¬ed the five silent blackaldermen because they servedDaley, continued on page threeADAT SHALOM SHABBAT DINNERin traditional atmosphereTONIGHTFriday/July6 19848:30 p.m.$3.50sign up at Hillel5715 S. 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I’d like to he able to getcolor pnnts or slides (or both) from the same roll and expenence theremarkable versatility of this professional quality film.NAMEADDRESSCITY STATE ZIPLimit of 2 rolls per customerINTERVIEWPitchercontinued from page one“Before we went into that meeting,Jesse said, ‘Well, now let’s n6t go inthere with hostility, assuming that thisperson is essentially inhuman, that heis essentially evil, that he’s essentiallyself-interested, that he doesn’t haveany human interest in black people,black reality as a whole, and assume(instead) that if the conditions changedunder which he was operating, so thathe didn’t feel like he had to becomepart of the machine in order to getthings for his constituencies and inorder to get enough money to do someof the things he wanted to, and just sur¬vive, in terms of expenses, that hewould change his position. Let’s go inwith that assumption, and see whathappens.’“I think that way of looking at thingshas helped me over the years, when Ican remember it. It’s a very usefulperspective in which to deal with peo¬ple,” Pitcher says.Jackson has been convinced that ifthe war in El Salvador is not brought toan end soon by nonviolent means, therebels will win, Pitcher says. The USwould then intervene, and all hellwould break loose, in this view.“The moral imperative is to preventthe isthmus from blowing up into a full-ROTCcontinued from page onetuition, according to Capt. Burton ofthe Loyola Army ROTC detachment.Burton said that the U of C students inhis detachment are all on full tuitionscholarship.This kind of arrangement, however,is not allowed by all ROTC units in thisarea. Sinaiko said that the Navy ROTCwill only accept students from other in¬stitutions with whom they have a cros¬stown agreement. Also, the Air Force scale war,” says Pitcher, whodescribes the region as a “tinderbox.”US OFFICIALS deny that the Duarteregime is in danger, Pitcher says.“The representative of the embassy inEl Salvador said it’s not true. (Hesays) that the insurgents are gettingweaker...that they would not be able totopple the government, that in factthey would be pushed back. That washis position. And then I said, that’s thesort of position we got in Vietnam allthe time from the military and fromour intelligence, and it was completelywrong.”Pitcher remains unconvinced thatDuarte can turn things around.“Duarte hasn’t got much power. Hedoesn’t have the power to release aprisoner. That power is in the hands ofthe national assembly, and the nationalassembly is controlled byD’Aubisson,” he says.Pitcher’s collaboration with Jacksonon the Central America tour was thefirst time the two men had workedtogether in over a decade. They met in1965 while Pitchei was working for alocal civil rights group called the Coor¬dinating Council of CommunityOrganizations (CCCO). Jackson, a stu¬dent at Chicago Theological Seminary,walked into the organization’s head¬quarters one day armed with letters ofintroduction to local leaders of the civilrights movement.ROTC detachment at the Illinois Insti¬tute of Technology has the same re¬striction.Sinaiko said that the pending formalagreements with ROTC units would“not affect in any way the integrity of adegree at the University of Chicago.”Therefore, Sinaiko said, any formal re¬lationship with ROTC units would havevery little effect on the University. Itwould, he continued, benefit those stu¬dents interested in a military career.He said that the University has alwayshad a fair amount of students who gointo the military after graduation. “I will never forget,” Pitcher says.“He came into the office, and I was inthe back, and there was one of thesehalf-windows between the general of¬fice where I was. And he leaned overthat half-window, and I said to myself,‘Here is the man.’ I’d been in a senselooking for someone to give strength tothe movement and to provide addi-PHOTO BY KC MORRISW. Alvin Pitcher, former chair ofthe Ethics and Society field at theDivinity School, says the real pur¬pose of Jesse Jackson’s trip toLatin America was to enlist Cubanleader Fidel Castro’s support fora negotiated settlement in El Sal¬vador.tional leadership, and it just seemed tobe there, that’s all... That’s how I firstmet him. He just oozed power, what Icall power of being.”THE CCCO hired Jackson at Pit¬cher’s behest. Pitcher himself went outand raised the money with which topay the young man’s salary.The next year. Pitcher, Jackson, andtwo other people from ChicagoTheological Seminary founded anorganization called Operation Bread¬basket. Its purpose was to win forblacks a role in the economic spheresfrom which they were largely exclud¬ ed, by seeing to it that black firms got ashare of the business parceled out byagencies of government and by largecorporations. Pitcher took charge ofthe group’s negotiations with buildersand bankers.Pitcher won contracts worth $35million before retiring from theorganization in 1971. Not until 1983 didPitcher start upon the path which wasto lead him back into Jackson’s innercircle.In the fall of that year, Pitcherhelped organize a foreign policydiscussion group at University Church,5655 S. University Ave., where he holdsthe position of Minister for SocialMinistries. The group was looking forways to bring its analysis of the situa¬tion in Central America to the attentionof the wider public when one of itsmembers, Don Browning, a professorat the Divinity School, suggested thatsomeone try to get in touch with JesseJackson and ask him to make a majorforeign policy speech on the subject atRockefeller Chapel. A1 Pitchervolunteered to try to reach Jackson.“I went to one of my old contacts inthe movement,” Pitcher says. ‘‘I toldher what I wanted and she called meand told me I should go ic this meetingof Citizens for Jackson seven o’clock onsome Saturday morning, and thatJesse would see me. And so I went.“It was like coming home, becausehe noticed me in the audience. After¬wards, he took me aside...and askedme to ride with him to his meeting upon the North Side. So I gave him mystory. Part of the story was he shouldgo to Central America and do what hedid in the Middle East.... I talked wiihhim about (professor John,Coatsworth as an authority on the sub¬ject. So he invited both of us to comeout to his house the next cay. Andthat’s how the whole thing gotstarted.”AL PITCHER will discuss Jackson'stour of Central America at the regularmeeting of Operation PUSH. 10 a m. onSaturday. July 7, in their headquartersat 50th and Drexel.NEWSNOTICEVEHICLES ILLEGALLY PARKED ONUNIVERSITY PROPERTYTHE ILLEGAL PARKING OF MOTOR VEHICLES ON UNIVERSITY PROPER¬TY, ESPCECIALLY ON DESIGNATED FIRE LANES, HAS BECOME A SERIOUSSAFETY PROBLEM.TICKETING BY UNIVERSITY AND CHICAGO POLICE OFFICERS WILLCONTINUE. ADDITIONAL MEASURES ARE NECESSARY AND, COMMENC¬ING JULY 9, UNIVERSITY POLICE OFFICERS AND OTHER PERSONNELDESIGNATED BY THE UNIVERSITY'S SECURITY DEPARTMENT WILL APPLYWARNING STICKERS TO ALL MOTOR VEHICLES ILLEGALLY PARKED ONUNIVERSITY PROPERTY.QUESTIONS CONCERNING ENFORCEMENT MEASURES SHOULD BEADDRESSED TO UNIVERSITY SECURITY. DURING NORMALBUSINESS HOURS, CALL 962-8190.QUESTIONS CONCERNING APPEAL PROCEDURES ON ISSUEDTICKETS SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO THE PLANT DEPARTMENT'SPARKING OFFICE (BOOKSTORE, 4TH FLOOR) 962-8935.EFFECTIVE JULY 9, 1984, PARKING FINES WILL BE $10FOR ALL BUT STUDENTS, WHOSE PARKING FINES WILREMAIN AT $5. THE PARKING OFFICE ADMINISTERS THECOLLECTION OF FINES IMPOSED BY THE UNIVERSITY.The Chicago Maroon—Friday, July 6, 1984—3VIEWPOINTSFun at the U of C, the home of head-swelling partiesBy Lawrence Lurvey“YOU KNOW something Billy, I’ve decided you’renot really the complete sniveling, brat I alwaysthought you were.”“Gee, thanks Mom.”“And to make up for all those times I sent you tobed without lunch, I want to take you somewherefun.”“That’s OK Mom, I4d rather sit in my room andplay with theseiLincoln Logs you bought me forChristmas.”“I insist Billy. You and I are going to Happyland.”“Is Happyland an amusemect park. Mom, or areyou having another throwback to the 60’s?”“Of course it’s an amusement park, Billy. It haslots of great rides, too. There's the pukecoaster,vomitout, and regurg wheel, and you can have funlike all the other children—the ones withoutenlightened mothers.”“But gee. Mom. I feel like I’m just starting toreach the stage where I can appreciate the compa¬nionless hours you kept me locked in the broomcloset learning Strauss on the oboe. And I reallydon’t mind sacrificing any further remnants of a nor¬mal childhood developmental pattern in order to fur¬ther your appearance as the perfect mother who onlystresses the important things in life.”“Forget that bull, Billy. Fun is in.”FUN, IT APPEARS, is in, and not just in itsprevious haunts of amusement parks, arcades, andthe back seats of Chevrolets. Fun has now arrived,through the cobwebs and the locked vault, into thegothic bastion of solemnity. Fun has arrived at theUniversity of Chicago.It has, you ask, thinking that perhaps you were inthe library and missed the auspicious moment. Wellthen, where is it? It is in Time magazine under theheading “Ho. Ho, Ho at Chicago; in the New YorkTimes under the heading “U. of Chicago Finds In¬tellect and Pleasure Do Mix;” and in the ChicagoTribune under “Fun comes to the U. of C. indegrees.” If it's only in the publications, you ask.how can you get in on it and why are people talkingabout it. if it can’t be found? Indeed.. . BILLY’S MOTHER is not an evil woman. She onlywanted the best for her son. When Billy was veryyoung his father was killed in one of the early Dun¬can Hines Home Microwave Use tests. That nightBilly’s mother resolved to teach her son about theimportant things in life and to ignore hedonisticfrivolities. She followed the child rearing guidebookscarefully; her favorite was Alistair Cooke’s “Nevertoo young to learn incongrous sentences that soundreal educated.” She mounted his crib on a Wurlitzerbaby grand piano to increase his appreciation ofmusic and papered over the duckeys and giraffes onhis wall with the pages of Hemingway.But things are different these days. The PTAmeetings are swarming with the first group ofmature child-bearing yuppies. The yuppies arepreaching “fulfillment” as the new method of child-rearing.“You must give your child everything he or sheneeds to be happy,” says Buffy Sue Childs, the newpresident of the PTA and a child-bearing yuppie. IfBilly’s mother goes against the methods of the yup¬pies, she risks ostracism from the PTA. With thedeclining number of school-age parents (i .e., parentswith 1-3 children in grades 1-12), ostracism from thePTA could mean no more carpool. No more carpoolmeans Billy can't get to school.BILLY’S MOTHER saw the greater priority andfastened herself into redirecting Billy away fromlaborious classical interpretation and towards Hap¬pyland (used in the figurative sense here). The shiftwould have to be enough to convince the otherparents that Billy was also being raised on a diet offun, but not so far that Billy would become as equallymindless as the other children. It would be tricky.EARLY REPORTS indicate that this year’s classof entering freshmen is large, yet nationwide there isa sharp decline in the number of college-age ap¬plicants. Private universities must now competevoraciously with one another for the qualifiedfreshman. A few such institutions still have the lux¬ury of staving off a large crowd of prospectives whoare battling for the privilege of paying their tuition tothat university.The Office of Staving at the University of Chicago has been quiet for some time. The University’s at¬titude has been “the kids don’t know what they aremissing.” Indeed, those who decline admission to theUniversity are missing the opportunity of alifetime—four years of academic pressure and at¬mosphere so great it can make your head swell. Thetrouble is most kids nowadays don’t want their headsto swell. What they want from college is what theyfeel they’ve missed in high school. The plan was towork hard in high school to party in a prestigious col¬lege. Very few were intrigued by the idea of headswelling parties.NOW THE University is starting to catch on. If wedon’t give them any fun, the kids won’t come here:no kids—no money; no money—no new physicsbuilding; no new physics building—no more headswelling.The administration of the University of Chicagowas raised by head swelling parents, and they werenot about to give up their swelling opportunities. Sothe edict went out: fun is in!But fun was new to the faculty at U of C, many ofwhom had heads so swollen their eyes barely glim¬mered out from under the inflated tissue. “Fun, wedon’t have fun here,” they said, and grew quicklyconfused. In despair, they dealt with the problem offun as they deal with all physical and philosophicalproblems; they analyzed it. They analyzed “theneed, structure, and Homeric beginnings of fun atthe University of Chicago.” And their thesis was ap¬proved by a thesis-approving committee who hadheads swollen enough to fill Mandel Hall. And theresults were distributed to academic journals andsubsequently picked up by the press. That’s wherethe recent articles have come from.BUT WHERE, you continue to ask, is the fun?Well, that's obvious. The fun, of course, is at Hap¬pyland, and if you ask Billy’s mother very nicely.I'm sure she’d be happy to take you along.The Chicago Maroon welcomes contributions tothe Viewpoints page from our readers. Submissionsshould be typed triple-spaced and submitted at leastthree days before desired date of publication TheMaroon reserves the right to edit submissions forclarity. Authors should leave their name and phonenumber with their work.NEWSDept of Education seeks $34 million funds recoveryTHE DEPARTMENT of Education’sOffice of Inspector General (OIG) hasquestioned or recommended for recov¬ery federal expenditures totaling $34million, after conducting audits duringa recent six-month period.In a report presented to Congress. In¬spector General James B. Thomas,Jr., also disclosed that investigationsof alleged criminal wrongdoing result¬ed in 68 indictments and 53 convictions.In addition, investigative activities re¬sulted in assessed fines and restitu¬tions of about $558,000.The report covers the period fromOct. 1, 1983 through March 31, 1984.Thomas said the Department is con¬tinuing to take action on recommenda¬tions contained in OIG audit reports.For example, the Department askedcontractors and grantees to returnover $22 million in unsupported or inap¬propriate costs.OTHER HIGHLIGHTS of the reportincluded the following:—an audit of regional service centersin one state identified $1.3 million in un¬allowable indirect cost claims. Of thetotal amount recommended for disal¬lowance, $854,000 consisted of chargesMaroon staff meetsTHE CHICAGO MAROON will hold astaff meeting Monday at 7 p.m. in theMaroon office. Room 303 of Ida NoyesHall. All interested in writing,photography, or production are en¬couraged to attend. improperly applied to pass-throughfunds and improperly computed indi¬rect cost rates. The audit also recom¬mended that the state establish andstrengthen its management and con¬trol procedures for Federal fundsawarded to the centers.—overpayments in the GuaranteedStudent Loan program declined fromover $51 million in 1982 to $1.2 millionduring a six-month period in 1983. Thisdecrease was a result of the programoffice’s implementation of the correc¬tive actions that were recommended ina previous audit.—AT THE CLOSE of the reportingperiod, 36 individuals had been indict¬ed and 15 convicted in connection witha scheme involving the filing of falseschool admission and loan documentsat four neighboring colleges. Local po¬lice, state bureaus of investigation, andmilitary police cooperated with theOIG in the investigation, which re¬vealed a large, loosely knit gang hadbeen systematically defrauding theGuarenteed Student Loan program.—the Civil Division of the US Depart¬ment of Justice in March, 1984, filed acivil suit against an institution for $1:6million. The filing was a result of ajoint OIG/FBI investigation which re¬vealed the institution's owner had filedfalse claims for student financial aidbetween 1976 and 1980. The owner hasbeen indicted but remains a fugitive.—during November, 1983. the ownerof a collection agency was indicted onmultiple counts of mail fraud and em¬bezzlement. A number of colleges hadThe Chicago MaroonThe Chicago Maroon is the official student newspaper of the Universityof Chicago. It is published on Fridays during the summer. 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IN 'PICK TRACY'74—Tb*> Chicago Maroon Fi kl«»y, July o, i»H4NEWSChablis and brie in Bridgeport?IVI-IPO’s reformers may endorse ‘Duh Mare’s’ sonBy Cliff GrammichTHE STATE CHAIRMAN of Il¬linois’s most prestigious reformorganization conceded last week thatGender gap aTHE GENDER GAP that hasplagued Ronald Reagan may in fact bea violence gap, according to an analy¬sis of poll results by Tom W. Smith, asenior study director at the NationalOpinion Research Center (NORC).“In large part this gap may comefrom underlying differences betweenmen and women (in attitudes) towardviolence and the use of force. Womenand men differ both in their use of vio¬lence and in their approval of violenceacross a wide range of social condi¬tions including foreign affairs, socialcontrol and law enforcement, and in¬terpersonal relations,” Smith wrote inthe spring issue of Public OpinionQuarterly.Smith analyzed poll results from 1936through 1983 on topics including inter¬national relations and war, nuclearwarfare and the military conflicts ofthe period; the death penalty, the useof force by police, and gun ownershipand control; the use of corporal punish¬ment by teachers and parents and theplace of physical conflict in other inter¬personal relations; and the portrayalof violent behavior on television.SMITH’S RESULTS indicated thatmen were more supportive thanwomen of the violent or forceful optionpresented in the polls in over 87 percentof the readings. In just over 5 percentof the cases did more women than men his organization may endorse the city’slast great boss’s son for the highestlaw-enforcement position in the coun¬ty.violence gapfavor the forceful response.The differences between men andwomen are moderately strong, averag¬ing over 9 percentage points and rang¬ing up to over 30 percentage pointsacross all topics. The differences arelargest on topics closely linked tomajor differences in the way men andwomen are socialized, including gunownership and control, hunting, andboxing. The differences are smalleston topics related to interpersonal rela¬tions, such as approval of hitting an¬other person in certain specified situa¬tions and the spanking of children.The differences between men andwomen tend to be larger when peopleare asked about the use of force or vio¬lence in grey areas.“GENDER DIFFERENCES on vio¬lence seem to decrease where a socialnorm exists and tend to increase in sit¬uations w'here society has not promul¬gated clear and established stan¬dards,” said Smith.The data suggest that women’s sup¬port for violence increases when it isused specifically in defense ofmembers of their sex, according toSmith. More men than women favorthe death penalty for all four groups ofcriminals asked about in the polls—murderers, traitors, hijackers, and ra¬pists—but the difference on rapists isless than half the magnitude of that forthe other three types. Saul Mendelson, state chairman forthe Independent Voters of Illinois-Independent Precinct Organization(IVMPO), said that in the wake of R.Eugene Pincham’s elevation to the Ap-PHOTO BY BILL WUDGECook County State's AttorneyRichard M. Daley may become therather unlikely beneficiary of anIVI-IPO endorsement,pellate Court and Lawrence Bloom’sendorsement of Richard M. Daley, IVImay also line up behind Daley.MANY LOCAL black activists wereconsidering a third local party ticket tochallenge Democratic incumbentState’s Attorney Daley and the rest ofthe Democrats’ county ticket. Pin-cham was to be the focus of such aticket as a state’s attorney candidateHis recent elevation to the Appellate Court, however, apparently took himout of the running.Bloom, the 5th Ward alderman whohad challenged Daley in the primary,recently discouraged a third party ef¬fort. He expressed fear that “thepresence of third party candidates onthe November ballot could diminishthe number of persons who vote for theDemocratic nominee for President,”and thus enhance the re-electionchances of Ronald Reagan.Although Bloom recognized he had“criticized certain policies of the in¬cumbent, I never questioned his in¬tegrity.” He added that “w’hile there isroom for improvement in the State’sAttorney’s office, the changes aremuch more likely to come fromRichard Daley than from (Republicancandidate) Richard Brzeczek.”MENDELSON SAID IVI’s choice “isclearly endorsing Daley or no action.”He claimed Brzeczek, the city policesuperintendent under Jane Byrne, is a“reactionary” who will not likely gainthe liberal group’s support.'IVI ENDORSED Bernard Carey,Daley’s 1980 Republican opponent forstate’s attorney, in the previous elec¬tion. In the 1983 mayoral primary, IVIbacked Harold Washington over Daleyand incumbent Mayor Byrne. IVI en¬dorsed Bloom over Daley in this year’sprimary. The reform group also hadmany battles with Daley’s father, thelate Mayor Richard J Daley.Mendelson said IVI has “plenty ofspecific criticisms” of Daley’s currenttenure, but may “recognize he’s done afairly good job, and has made somegood appointments.”Mendelson added that IVI may backthe Republican candidates for the CookCounty Board of (Taxi Appeals andRecorder of Deeds.HYDE PARKCharming, vintage buildingin East Hyde Park now hasa limited selection of lake,and park view apartments.Situated near I.C., we offerStudios, 1 & 2 bedroomunits with heat included!University of Chicagostudents, staff, amare offered a ten percentdiscount. 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James Cronin ofthe University of Chicago and ValFitch of Princeton were awarded the1980 Nobel Prize in Physics for theirwork. Two major theories have sincedeveloped to explain the occurrenceand implications of this phenomenon.Neither of the theories, however, isbacked by extensive empirical data;the recent research conducted at the Uof C threatens to prove the theorieswrong.Physicist Bruce Winstein, Cronin'scollaborator on the new experiments,explained that CP violation is a smallbut real asymmetry, or imbalance, in some of the fundamental laws of na¬ture. CP stands for Charge conjugationand Parity inversion symmetry. Al¬though these terms are fraught withmeaning to the physicists, in lay terms,CP helps explain the consistency of na¬ture. More specifically, U of C physicalscience writer Larry Arbeiter statesthat CP “means that at the subatomiclevel, nature does not prefer matter toantimatter and does not prefer thattime flow in one direction rather thanthe other.”EVIDENTLY CP does not apply tothe world of large objects, which ap¬parently always consist of matter, andwhich age and never become younger.In the sub-atomic world, however, thelaws of nature do not differentiate be¬tween particles and anti-particles.Thus, according to Arbeiter. any trans¬formation of particles are as likely toIRS nabs refunds for loansTHE HOUSE and Senate haveadopted a proposal to offset the taxrefunds of those who default on debts tothe Federal government, includingdefaulted student loans. The proposalis part oi The Deficit Reduction Act of1984, which both houses approved June27.The provision, first proposed by USSen. Charles H. Percy.(R.-Ill.), is ex¬pected to collect S800 million in the firsttwo vears it is fullv implemented in1986.The federal government is currentlyowed $44 billion in defaulted debts, ac¬cording to Percy. Percy aide MarthaEickhof said $11.2 billion of these debtsare loans, and $3.6 billion of thedefaulted loans are student loans.THE PROVISION requires the Inter¬nal Revenue Service (IRS) to con¬fiscate the tax refund of anyone whohas defaulted on a debt to the federalgovernment. Federal law formerlyprohibited the offsetting of tax refundsto collect non-tax debts. US Sen. Charles Percy (R-lll.) is asponsor of an initiative to recoupdefaulted loans by offsetting taxrefunds. occur as its reverse.Prior to 1964, physicists believed thatthe interaction between subatomic par¬ticles always results in the conserva¬tion of CP. But Cronin and Fitch dis¬covered a particle called K mesonwhich does not follow CP conservation.In other words, this particle, K meson,unlike all other particles known to be inexistence, violates the Charge-ParityLaw.The task of Cronin, Winstein. andtheir colleagues for the last three yearshas been to understand why naturepermits this exception to conservationlaws which otherwise absolutely andunyieldingly govern all reactions byother particles. The researchers firstattempted to distinguish between themajor theories on CP violation.THE FIRST THEORY, Arbeiterstates, “predicts that CP violationarises naturally from the interactionbetween the fundamental quarks thatmake up most matter.” This conditioncalled the “standard model” predictsthat most CP violation is affected bythe contact between K mesons andtheir anti-particles. But approximately one percent of the CP violation stemssolely from the K meson. The secondtheory is that CP violation is onlybrought about through the mixing ofthe K mesons and their anti-particles.The U of C scientists goal was to findevidence of this one percent direct CPviolation arising solely from the Kmeson particles.In explaining the results of the ex¬periments, Winstein said, “What wefound is explained most easily if thereis no direct CP violation. But becauseof uncertainties in both the experimentand in the theories, it just might also beconsistent with the standard model.”Nevertheless, Chicago physicistRobert Sachs stressed the importanceof this experiment “in that any directCP violation must be extremelysmall—probably less than most peopleexpected from the standard model.”To better analyze CP violation, Win¬stein and his colleagues have designeda new experiment which should mea¬sure any CP violation five times moreaccurately than in their present experi¬ment.Bornholdt new special asstLAURA BORNHOLDT, Vice-Presi¬dent for Education of the Lilly Endow¬ment, will join the University in Sep¬tember Special Assistant to thePresident.University President Hanna Graysaid Bornholdt will review, in consulta¬tion with a faculty committee to be ap¬pointed, the University’s programs andactivities that affect public education,and develop future plans in this area.She will work with faculty members instructuring academic and researchprograms for outside support fromlocal, regional, and national founda¬tions.In addition. Bornholdt will assist fac¬ulty members on other special proj¬ects. including academic symposia,and play a key role in planning for the University’s centennial.BORNHOLDT JOINED the Lilly En¬dowment in 1973 and was named Vice-President for Education in 1976. Priorto 1973, she was Vice-President of theDanforth Foundation, with responsibil¬ity for the Danforth Workshop on Liber¬al Arts Education and for explorationof grants made in the field of higher ed¬ucation.She has taught history at Smith, theUniversity of Pennsylvania, and Wel¬lesley. She was Dean of Women atPennsylvania and Dean of the Collegeat Sarah Lawrence and Wellesley.She received a BA and an MA fromSmith, and a PhD from Yale, with afield specialization in the history of USforeign policy.IM SoftballScheduled Games,July 6-13(All games held atStagg Field)Co-ed M-W-F LeagueJuly 6B.S. Hitters vs. Agora (6:40 p.m.)Visitors vs. Naughty Sweeties(6:40 p.m.).July 9Scott Tissue vs. B.S. Hitters (5:30p.m.)Visitors vs. The Complete GreekTragedy (5:30 p.m.)Whaling Whales vs Agora (6:40p.m.)July 11Scott Tissue vs. The CompleteGreek Tragedy (5:30 p.m.)Agora vs. Naughty Sweeties (6:40p.m.)Visitors vs. Whaling Whales (6:40p.m.)July 13The Complete Greek Tragedy vs.Naughty Sweeties (5:30 p.m.)Whaling Whales vs. B.S. Hitters(5:30 p.m.)Visitors vs. Agora (5:30 p.m.)Men’s M-W-F LeagueJuly 6Flaccid Toys vs. Penguins (5:30p.m.)Famous Military vs. Team Huber(5:30 p.m.)July 9Penguins vs. Fat City 9 (5:30p.m.)Famous Military vs. Flaccid Toys(6:40 p.m.)6—The Chicago Maroon FH/jay July G 1984 SPORTSScrewballs vs. See Your Food (6:40p.m.)July 11Famous Military vs. Team Huber(5:30 p.m.)Flaccid Toys vs. Penguins (5:30p.m.)See Your Food vs. Fat City 9 (6:40p.m.)July 13Fat City 9 vs. Team Huber (6:40p.m.)Famous Military vs. See YourFood (6:40 p.m.)Co-ed T-Th-F LeagueJuly 10Trilobites vs. Ruby’s Reds (5:30p.m.)American Planning vs. Astrocites(6:40 p.m.)July 12American Planning vs. Trilobites(5:30 p.m.)Penguins vs. Ruby’s Reds (6:40p.m.) Results through July 4Co-ed M-W-F LeagueNaughty Sweeties 8, Scott Tissue2Agora 12, The Complete GreekTragedy 2B.S. Hitters 15, Visitors 5Whaling Whales 17, Scott Tissue 2Visitors 13, The Complete GreekTragedy 2Naughty Sweeties 10, B.S. Hitters10Whaling Whales 11, The CompleteGreek Tragedy 8Agora 9, Scott Tissue 1Men’s M-W-F LeagueFat City Nine 9, Screwballs 8Flaccid Toys 28, Team Huber 2Famous Military 7, Penguins 5Team Huber 28, Penguins 21Famous Military 6, Screwballs 2See Your Food 13, Flaccid Toys 2Fat City Nine 12, See Your Food11See Your Food 22. Penguins 3Screwballs 15, Team Huber 9Flaccid Toys 12, Fat City Nine 2 Goons 7, Metal Shear 6Stat’s Rats by forfeit over LineShotsMedici 25, Bovver Boys 5PHOTO BY ROBIN TOTMANMegan Storing pitches for ScottTissue against the Agora.Men’s T-Th-F LeagueJuly 6Stat’s Rats vs. Goons of Summer(5:30 p.m.)Fujita’s Front vs. Bovver Boys(6:40 p.m.)July 10Medici vs. Goons of Summer (5:30p.m.)Metal Shear vs. Bovver Boys (6:40p.m.)July 12Bovver Boys vs. Line Shots (5:30p.m.)Fujita’s Front vs. Metal Shear(6:40 p.m.)Medici vs. Stat’s Rats (6:40 p.m.)Schedules subject to change. Co-ed T-Th-F LeagueAmerican Planning 29, Trilobites3Penguins 17, Ruby’s Reds 7Penguins 29, Trilobites 2Astrocytes 23, Ruby’s Reds 7American Planning 8, Penguins 6American Planning 8, Penguins 4Astrocytes 27, Trilobites 0Men’s T-Th-F LeagueMedici 19, Line Shots 13Stat’s Rats 10, Bovver Boys 10, tieFujita’s Front 7, Goons of Summer6Goons of Summer 9, Line Shots 8Medici 15, Metal Shear 4Stat’s Rats 13, Fujita’s Front 3Metal Shear 22, Fujita’s Front 12Bovver Boys 11, Line Shots 8Medici 21, Stat’s Rats 9 Softball leagueentries soughtThe Recreational Sports Departmentis taking applications for a secondsummer softball league. Play willbegin July 15 with an 8 game season.The season will culminate withplayoffs beginning August 12.Games will be at either 5:30 p.m. or6:30 p.m. weekday evenings, on theMidway. There will be both men’s andco-ed games in either M-W-F or T-Th-Fleagues. Entry fee is $80 per team, andall entries must be in by Wednesday at3 p.m.For further information, call 962-9557between 12:15 and 3:15 p.m. on week¬days. Teams may play both in the ex¬isting Stagg Field League and the newMidway League.CLASSIFIEDStion. Call 962 75919-5.WANT TO LEARNTO USE COMPUTERS?ATTEND THE COMPUTATION CENTERCLASSES FOR SUMMER QUARTER. TheComputation Center is once again offering aseries of free non-credit seminars on computing topics for the University communityduring summer quarter. These classes beginJuly 2 and continue through July 27.A schedule and description of these seminarsand courses is available from the Center at thefollowing locations: Usite Business Office(Wieboldf 310), from 9:00 to 4:00, MondayFriday; Main Business Office (Merriam 164,1313 E. 60th), from 8:30to4:30, Monday Fridayand at the Staff Office Building (5737 S. University), 8:30 to 5:00, Monday Friday. Copies ofthe schedule may also be obtained from theSocial Science Advisor in Pick 123, the Program Advisor at Usiteand the Terminal Attendant at UsireThe seminars offer introductions and overviews to topics of general computing interest:computer concepts, and computerized textprocessing, and microcomputing Ourseminars also discuss how to use specific software on the DEC 20 computer: introduction tothe DEC 20's, the MUSE word processingsystems and SED full screen text editingFinally, the seminars discuss specific softwareavailable on the IBM computer system: theMVS operating system, Superwylbur, theACF2 security program, and IBM text processing (TREATISE, SCRIPT, GML) Fox Trot, and many more popular styles.Tuesdays beginning July 10, 7-8:30 p.m. $25.Sign up in room 210, Ida Noyes Hall.LIVE MUSICAl the INTERNATIONAL COFFEEHOUSE byKRISTIN ERICKSON and others Friday July69pm 1 am. FREE ADMISSION Open Mic per¬formers welcome.INTERNATIONALCOFFEEHOUSEAt I House 1414 E 59th St. with live entertainment by KRISTIN ERICKSON and others andcomplimentary refreshments FREE ADMISSION. Friday July 6 9 00pm 1:00am. Performers welcomeMACINTOSH USERS!Feel alone in your new world? Come to the firstMac User's Group meeting, Thursday July 19,12 noon, Ryerson 251.PREGNANT?UNDECIDED?_____Consider all the options. Wart *o talk? CallJennifer—947 0667—any timeRAVINIA TICKETSLawn seat admission tickets, good for anyshow at Ravinia available in SAO, room 210,Ida Noyes Hall.CLASSIFIEDADVERTISINGClassified advertising in the Chicago Maroon is$2 for the first line and $1 for each additionalline. Lines are 45 characters long INCLUDINGspaces and punctuation. Special headings are20 character lines at $2 per line. Ads are not ac¬cepted over the phone, and they must be paidin advance. 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Co-op at 55th & SouthShore Drive $49,500The Chicago Maroon—Friday, July 6, 1984—7460•410 wrtinunezA/iyltbat The University of ChicagoThe Chicago EnsembleJuly 13: Varied chamberworks, classical and popularvocal selections.July 14: Baroque music.Highland Park StringsJuly 20: Music for stringorchestra by Bach, Mozart,Vivaldi, Barber, and Elgar.Francis Akos, music director.Sheffield WindsJuly 21: Music by J. C.Bach, D’lndy, Mozart,Beethoven, and others.Princess IdaGilbert & Sullivan OperaCompanyJuly 27 & 28: A seasonedcast performs with fullorchestra. Chicago Brass QuintetAugust 3 & 4: Music of fourcenturies for brass ensemble.Two Gentlemen of VeronaShakespeare TheatreCompany of ChicagoAugust 9, 10, & 11:A complete staging with acircus accent.Sasha DaltonAugust 16 & 18: Jazz andblues with the CorkyMcClerkin Quartet.Holt UnlimitedAugust 17: Jazz withdrummer Red Holt.8 pm Hutchinson Court1 5706 S. University AvenueRain: Mandel Hall, adjacent to the CourtTickets^ 753-4472 Picnic dinner: 493-2808Free parkingSAO’S SUMMER ON THE QUADSFILMS:Friday, July 6 - Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy (with Woody Allen, Mia Farrow) 7 8c 9 p.m.Saturday, July 7 ~ Reds (with Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson) 7:30 p.m.Wednesday, July 11 •• How To Marry A Millionaire (with Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall) 8 p.m.Friday, July 13 ~ Alien (with Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt) 7 8c 9:15 p.m.Saturday, July 14 - The French Lieutenant’s Woman (with Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons) 7 8c 9:15 p.m.All films shown in air-conditioned Quantrell Auditorium, 2nd Floor, Cobb Hall.Admission: $2.50NOONTIME CONCERTS:Friday, July 6 - The Steve & Leo Show (Comedy 8c Improvisation)Wednesday, July 11 *• West Indian Folk Dance Company (African dance)Friday, July 13 *• Samhradh (Traditional Irish Music)All concerts take place in Hutch Court (in case of rain, Reynolds Club North Lounge)12.00 noon -1:00 p.m. Free!DISCOUNT TICKETS:Lawn seat admission tickets available for RAVINIA. $4.50. Good for any show!It’s “University of Chicago Night’’ at the play “SHEAR MADNESS’’ Thursday, July 26th.Tickets: $10.Tickets available in SAO, room 210 Ida Noyes Hall.July 6, 1984 • 17th YearELVIS AS COMMODITYthe opiate of the masses but little did heknow that , a society would exist thatwould produce only opiates. Who needsBig Brother when we can imprison our¬selves? And who better to represent ourcause than Elvis himself, the King of thepeanut-butter and banana sandwich, aonce revolutionary figure declawed andhomogenized, driven nearly comatose bya consumption-mad society.Albert Goldman, in his well-researchedbut severely prejudicial biography onElvis, did make several noteworthy com¬ments on Elvis and the American myth.While Goldman's smug pseudo-intellectual-ism is not only unfair but borders on racismconcerning the south, Goldman was able tosee the intense symbiotic relationship be¬tween Elvis and the American public. Whileminimizing the man’s music and its enor¬mous contribution to the development ofrock ‘n’ roll, he was able to pinpoint thenature of this mass infatuation. The Kingwas no nickname happened across bychance. Elvis is American royalty. Herewas a man who lived the life of a King,who was doted on every minute of his lifeby his bodyguards, who was isolated in anincredibly tacky American palace calledGraceland and who adorned his body in or¬nate robes accentuated with gaudily jew¬eled belts. And like many kings previousto him, Elvis was a leader who coasted onhis earlier acheievements. content to letthe past carry him through.Every day of the year thousands makethe trek to Mecca-Graceland to experiencethat transcendental feeling of being in thepresence of something greater than theirown lives. In Elvis, Americans have found atrue man of the people A man who repre¬sented our glorious achievements and ourall-too-unglorious excesses. An artistwhose creative period ended three shortyears after its birth, he continued to per¬form to an always captive audience. Sixyears after Elvis' death his legacy contin¬ues to be gobbled up by his legion of fans.The legend, like the man, is mass con¬sumed. Fans wait in lines to buy Elvisjeans, Elvis lamps, and even Elvis wine. Hismyth will continue for as long as Ameri¬cans will drink Cokes and eat at McDon¬alds.Elvis is the ultimate extension of Ameri¬ca's infatuation with the trash aesthetic.As a result, people who should know bet¬ter (myself included) don't. Elvis legiti¬mizes all our guilty pleasures. In apprecia¬tion, we respond by elevating thisgyrating hillbilly to mythic proportions.R.I.P Elvis.Treat me like a foolTreat me mean and cruelBut love meBreak my faithful heartTear it all apartBut love meby Renee Marie SarackiThis August will mark the sixth anniver¬sary of the passing of an American King.Elvis Aron Presley, croaked in his john. Aman grotesquely obese with a face to an¬swer all society’s downer drop-outs. Andstill Presley is America’s greatest culturalproduct, a man who exemplified that un¬iquely American taste for the spectacularand the putrid at the same time. Only acountry that could produce a TennesseeWilliams, a Samuel Fuller, and a JoeMcCarthy could produce an Elvis.It is a truly peculiar institution, that sortof mass infatuation with the superblybeautiful and supremely tacky. America'sdeification of The King tells one just howseriously America takes its cultural icons.Elvis himself embodied these two irrecon¬cilable contraditions all the way to his per¬verse and comical death five years ago.As with all truly controversial figures, itis extremely difficult to find anythingwritten on Presley that is neither worth¬less hero worshipping nor self-righteouslambasting, negating everything the manever stood for. When dealing with some¬one who was as paradoxical as Presleywas, a balanced viewpoint is not only de-sireable but mandatory. Just look at theradical changes that this man’s otherwisestable personality went through during his20 years of fame.In 1956, Elvis was our nation’s anathe¬ma, an outrageous hellcat, shockingmothers and all decent folk. In 1968 Elviswas to become a personal friend of Rich¬ard Nixon’s during his glorious reign inpower. Nixon even went so far in hisfriendship with Elvis as to award him andhis Memphis Mafiamen with sheriff'sbadges for their outstanding work in thefight against drug abuse.From the early fifties up until his indoc¬trination into the Army in 1957, Elviscreated a sound that is unique, a soundthat embodies those three words: Rockand Roll. Those lips, those hips. What morecould one ask for? This fantastically cre¬ative period ended soon after ColonelTom’s incredibly dehumanizing and de-mystifing management reduced Elvis toraw jellyfish. Bvis eventually wound upwarbling scholock bordering on muzak(saved only by the remnants of a once su¬ perb voice) in seedy Vegas.Finally, the most grotesque and charac¬teristically American transformation oc¬curred. Once an awkwardly shy, insecuremama’s boy, Elvis became the ultimateconsumer, and finally the ultimate victim.Hyped by a somewhat undeserved masscultural adulation, the once insecure boybecomes the dangerous paranoid, suspi¬cious and excessive in his detachment fromsociety. Elvis was the logical extension ofthe American dream and all its deliriousconsequences.Part of that American dream began longago and far away in Sam Phillips’ Sun Stu¬dios in Memphis That's Alright Mama,three simple words, had an impact on pop¬ular music which cannot be equalled. Sud¬denly America's young men and womenbecame aware of the basically sexualthrust in rhythmic music. The beat movedthem and they never wanted to stop after¬ward. Gone were the tears our chastedaughters shed when Johnnie Ray sang hispathetic ballads; in their place was anewly appreciated sexuality. It was aglorious liberation from the chastity beltof bourgeois American morals.Of course, Black America had known andmoved to that sound centuries ago but noBlack artist at the time could have had the media and the all-important radio supportthat even poor white trash like Elvis AronPresley had. In a society so sexually re¬pressed as to make that supremely uglyvirgin, Doris Day, a mass cultural icon, ittook a hip, white kid with overactive bodymovements and a voice as unabashedlyerotic as the sirens to awaken MiddleAmerica to a new found public sexuality.In many respects, Elvis is our nation’sonly truly Dionysian cultural hero. A manwhose only goal was to satiate his enor¬mous appetite with earthly pleasures soonbecame a victim of his own primitivism.Reduced by his sheer physicality to anobese monster, Elvis became the finalwaste product.Elvis Presley's rise and fall can be seenas a metaphor which closely parallels ournation's development in the late 20th cen¬tury. Junk food, downers, TV. and hand¬guns become our era’s trademarks. We areliterally a nation of junkies, desperate forany sort of instant gratification. Is it anywonder that a man whose whole life re¬volved around these mass cultural sym¬bols should become one himself? Coca-ColaDevil Dogs and Elvis — what more can oneask for, except maybe for some Darvon,Demerol, Percodan, etc. Just to blur thoseharsh edges, of course. You know the kind,the edges that make living in these timesso unbearable. Marx once called religionDear Grey City Journal,I like your neivspaper verymuch, even though I do notunderstand the name or whatraise-en-scene is. 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Washington St. Free.MUSICEddie Burns & Eddie Taylor: Two bluesveterans playing together for thefirst time. July 6 at the Jazz RecordMart, 11 W. Grand, 5:00 p.m., free.“The flea circus from echo point ceme¬tery” by The Oxygen Jukebox, amodern music ensemble. July 6 and7 at 8 p.m. Randolph Street Gallery,756 North Milwaukee, S3.00.Chicago Symphony Orchestra performsCharles Ives' seminal Symphony No.2, also Sibelius' Violin Concerto in DMinor. July 7, at the Ravinia Festi¬val, 782-9696FILMMidsummer Night’s Sex Comedy(Woody Allen, 1982) A modern daypastoral romp, with Mia Farrow.SOQ Films, Friday, July 6, 7 & 9 p.m.Cobb Hall, $2.50Reds (Warren Beatty, 1980) Beattyand Diane Keaton raise the kitschlove story to the level of historicalreference. Also starring the RussianRevolution. SOQ Films, Saturday,July 7, 7:30 p.m. Cobb Hall, $2 50.The Tin Drum (Volker Schlondorff,1979) Based on Gunther Grass’santi-political novel of the samename and faithful to its fragmented,free-association style, The Tin Drum,traces the history of Germany fromthe beginning of the century to thepresent day by following the for¬tunes of its uniquely talented childhero, Oskar Metzareth, whose smallsize enables him to see beneath thesurface of things and to expose thehypocrisy and deceit of human af¬fairs. Sunday, July 8 at 8:00 p.m. In¬ternational House. $2 —BinnyCherayilDark Victory (Edmund Goulding. 1939)With Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart.DANCEMaking Dances: Charlie Vernon willprovide "pieces rich with humor";Carol Bobrow’s Hiroshima Trilogywill be presented, with an ensuingdiscussion of how she as a choreo¬grapher shapes her ideas into soundand vision: and Jan Erkert will pres¬ent two excerpts from her The Danc¬ing Wu Li Masters, which, I assureyou. can't be beat for sheer enter¬tainment. July 6 and 7 at 8:30, atMoMmg Dance and Arts center.1034 W Barry. Admission is $5; forreservations call 472-9894 — JRIndonesian Dance Performance Stu¬dents of the Jakarta Institute ofArts School of Dance perform dances DOC Films, Tuesday, July 10, 8 p.mCobb Hall, $2.50How To Marry A Millionaire (Jean Negu-lesco. 1953.) SOQ Films, Wednesday,July 11. 8 p.m. Cobb Hall, $2.50.Johnny Belinda (Jean Negulesco, 1948)Jane Wyman gave the performanceof her career in this touching, bitter¬sweet tale (and you thought shecould only play the bitchy Angela onFalcon Crest1.). Wyman is Belinda, adeaf-mute who grows up in a poorNova Scotia fishing village, whereshe is regarded as an unteachableidiot. Enter a young doctor (LewAyres) who befriends an-i teachersher, slowly coaxing her into society.But Belinda's entry into society ex¬poses her to the uglier side of manas well. She is raped by a young ruf¬fian, bears his son, and must strug¬gle to keep her child Throughout all,Jane Wyman gives a stunning per¬formance, lifting what could be anordinary melodrama into a stirringportrayal of the Innocent learningto survive in a sometimes enchant¬ing, sometimes bruta* world. Tfv)Ughshe does not say a word, her face ra¬diates a sweetness *hat immediate,ly endears her to us and rivets ourattention to her story. Wyman cap¬tured the Best Actress Oscar for herefforts. Thurs., July 12 at 8:30, LSF,Law School Aud. —GMTHEATERShepard, Mamet, Januszewski (Or Sam‘n Dave and Me) An intimate eveningof monologues and storytelling,comprised of three one-acts: ex¬cerpts from Motet Chronicles by SamShepard: All Men Are Whores byDavid Mamet; and Family Jewels byCeleste Januszewski. PerformancesThur-Sun at 8pm thru Aug 12. Tick¬ets are $7-$9. The Huron Theater,1608 N. Wells 266-7055.Fool For Love and Cowboy Mouth bySam Shepard. These plays are beingproduced concurrently but separate¬ly by that rising star of Chicago the¬ater, the Steppenwolf Theatre Com¬pany. Steppenwolf has beenrecently featured in Vogue and theNew York Times, and Shepard’swork has achieved widespread re¬cent critical acclaim. Fool For Loveruns Tuesday thru Friday at 8:00,Saturday at 6:00 and 9:00, and Sun¬day at 3:00. Cowboy Mouth runs Fri¬day at 10:30, Saturday at 11:30,and Sunday and Monday at 8:00Tickets for Fool For Love are $11.50-$15.00; Tickets for Cowboy Mouthare $4.00. Steppenwolf is at 2851N. Halsted.ARTLight of Asia: The Buddha Sakyamuni inAsian Art, an exhibit launched Satur¬day with hardly any publicity at theArt Institute. The show brings to¬gether a full range of Buddhist artand is worth seeing for students ofart history, and for those interestedin the art and cultures of South AsiaIt is noteworthy that placed next toone another in the exhibit hall areimages of the Buddha from culturesas varied as those of Nepal andJapan, Iran and Burma Among themore than one hundred works of artare fat porcelain household Bud¬dhas from China, a florid tapestry ofthe Buddha throned in heaven fromNepal, an extremely human ema¬ciated Buddha carved in wood byJapanese Zen Buddhists, and twomonumental, otherworldly bronzetemple Buddhas from Cambodia.The only thing that unites theseworks aside from their artistic andhistorical importance is their sub¬ject; and thus they provide an op¬portunity seldom seen in art muse¬ums for the cross-cultural study ofAsian art. Through August 26 at theArt Institute; admission discretion¬ary. — 71Black Folk Art: This show features workby 20 Black American artists fromrural areas, and, as the catalogueputs it, "In grouping these artistsunder the rubrics of “black" and"folk", curators Jane Livingston andJohn Beardsley open up a Pandora'sbox of aesthetic discourse This isvery true, the work ranges from thetechnically limited and psychotic(Sister Gertrude Morgan) to the bril¬liant and very modern (Bill Traylor).Perhaps the most intriguing work in the show is a portion of a workcalled Throne of the Third Heaven ofthe Nation's Millenium General As¬sembly by James Hampton. Thework, the artist’s only work, foundin his garage after his deah, is anenormous throne and altar made ofcardboard covered in silver andgold foil. It is intricate, moving, andbeautiful. Virtually all of the workinspires wonder at the diversity andoriginality of the human creative im¬pulse It is regrettable tha the FieldMuseum could not devote morespace to the exhibition, since it israther exhausting to try to absorball this vibrant work packed ratherdensely into a single room. Conver¬sely, I was glad to seen enough workby each artist to get a real feelingfor their differences and commonali¬ties. There are great works at thisshow, and if you need further incen¬tive, there are some good stonecutprints by Eskimos in a nearby hall.Well worth the trip. Thru July 15 atthe Field Museum, Roosevelt Rd andLake Shore Drive —SBContemporary Italian Masters is the firstmajor group exhibition in Chicago ofcontemporary Italian artists SandroChia. Francesco Clemente. EnzoCucci,Mario Merz. and Mimmo Paladino.This is a very exciting show featur¬ing work of a high calibur, and co¬sponsored by the University of Chi¬cago's own Renaissance Society. Atthe Cultural Center, 78 E Washing¬ton St. Mon-Thur 9-7, Fri 9-6 Free.Giuseppe Penone: Works of the con¬temporary Italian sculptor Penoneare notable for non-traditional ma¬terials and approaches; the artistwill be drawing on the walls of themuseum during the show At the Mu¬seum of Contemporary Art, 237 EOntario, 280-2660New Views of Italian Art Today: The firstChicago exhibition of (still more)major Italian artists. Domenico Bian-chi, Bruno Ceccobelli, Gianni Dessi.Guiseppe Gallo, and Roberto PaceThrough Aug 22 at Marianne DesonGallery, 340 W Huron, Tu-Fri 11-5. 787-0005Artemisia: Ten Years: 75 past and pres¬ent members exhibit in this tenth an¬niversary celebration of thewomen's cooperative gallery. Tues-Sat, 11-5 at Artemisia 9 West Hub¬bard.No Noose Is Good Noose: In addition tothe title piece by Kay Rosen, worksby Jim Brinsfield, Sarah Charles-worth. Bruce Clearfield, Janet Cool¬ing. John Glascock. Sherrie Levineand Richard Prince will be exhibitedat Feature. 340 W Huron, throughAug 11, Tues-Sat 11-5:30.751-1720.Sosaku Hanga: The title of the exhibitmeans "creative printed picturesand is a term used for prints pro¬duced by artists who have involvedthemseJves personally in everyphase of the printmaking processSuch works, by contemporary Japa¬nese artists, will be exhibitedthrough July 31 at the Printers RowGallery, 725 S Dearborn;786-9000Projects: World's Fairs, Waterfronts.Parks, and Plazas: Christo. Claes Ol¬denburg, and many, many more ar¬tists display their plans to invadeour space. Through July 31 at theRhona Hoffman Gallery, 215 W Su¬perior, 951-8828Graceland and the South: Photographsby William Eggleston: These colorphotos are not nearly as bad as theysound; the photos of the South arequiet ethereal little scenes that oneseems to remember having seen outof the car window on a road trip withmom and dad That's kind of pleas¬ant The road trip motif carries overto the photographs of Graceland,which looks like it was always atourist attraction and never a homeThe most interesting part of my visitwas watching the movement and re¬sponses of a group on a museumtour, hanging on to each Greenber-gian criticism the curator uttered, asreverent as if they were tourists inGraceland itself. At the Art Insti¬tute, Michigan at Adams. 443-3625.admission discretionary. —SBWilliam EgglestonGrey City Journal 6 July 84Staff. Brian Campbell, Paul Crayton, Jesse Halvorsen, Louis Kaplan, Mi¬chael Kotze, Tom Lyons, Rainer Mack, Jeff Makos, Nadine McGann,Dennis Miser, John Probes, Juanita Roche, Kim Shively, Johanna Stoy-va, William Weaver, Ken Wissoker.Production: Stephanie Bacon, Paul Crayton.Editor. Stephanie Bacon - A, -)A A'/A ■ > oi-;ivy v - r, A A''': -At: -L>r '< w - »VL'y~VA a C'STHE GREY CITY JOURNAL—FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1984—3DO they have drunch IN Memphiswa m-' -m*- mmJiUt \0>r .<:%.■.mm 3l^ales Agmmi-■- h • ' » * •.IN AND FOR THE consideration of three dollars ($3 OCV the rec£ifl-® » &of which is hereby acknowledged, the party of the first 'part.GRACELAND GIFT SHOP, the officially authorized gift representativeof GRACELAND DIVISION OF ELVIS PRES] fY ENT1hereinafter referred to as the seller, and the part\ of thehereinafter referred I > asfollowing terms and conditions:I THE SELLER AGREES to sell and t|buy for the sum of three dollars (S3.00) one packet ofearth, attached herein, from the estate of ELVIS A.PRESLEY known as GRACELAND \ocated in the cityof MEMPHIS, AND THE STATE OF TENNESSEE.II THE SELLER HEREBY certifies the earth contained inthe said attached packet as being one and the same asremoved from GRACELAND, home of the said ELVISA. PRESLEY, in the city and state aforesaid.Ill THE PARTIES HEREIN expressly denounce all claimsor warranties not specifically contained in this agree¬ment, and further expressly acknowledge that this agree¬ment is not a contract for the sale of real estate or a deedto real estate.WITNESS THE EXECUTION on this the. day of_the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and inGRACELAND GIET SHOP -SELLER-BUYERISSUE N- 001305HOME OF ELVIS A. PRESLEY aS’'OUp/va, 5472 s 1A SUNDAY ONE PMPhotos : “Popsie”THE ELVIS THEORYby Paul CraytonI have always considered Elvis Presleythe King of Rock and Roll and the ultimatesymbol of pop/rock and roll culture Butpopular opinion has it that Elvis was anobese drug addict who could not handle hisown stardom and hence, died an embar¬rassment to himself and his fans. Wellaware of this common perception of Elvisand unwilling to accept the popular under¬standing of his downfall and subsequentdeath, I have devised my own theory as tothe history of Elvis. Based on articles inthe World Weekly News, evidence concern¬ing the history of Jim Morrison, and myown investigations, my theory state?Elvis, upon leaving the United State? in1957 for a stint in the armed forces, nevermade it to his destination in Germanv, in¬stead, Elvis, his military plane arid itscrew were lost somewhere off the westcoast of Africa The U.S. military, seeingtheir blunder, acted quickly and talked abashful G.l. from Kentucky into posing asElvis Presley. This mock Elvis who bore astriking resemblance to The King, wasdrilled by government experts to talk,dance, sing, act, and eat like Elvis Presley.While the Elvis impersonator was marry¬ing Priscilla, making movies in Hollywoodand becoming a fat Las Vegas showman,the real Elvis was alive and well, living asa recluse as documented in the WorldWeekly News in such articles as “Elvis Re¬turns to Graceland,” “I saw Elvis at the K-Mart," and “Elvis lives in Africa with JimMorrison." Last summer I spoke to thereal Elvis and thereby proved my theoryand countless articles attesting to the factthat Elvis The King, is still alive. It all began on August 15. 1983 whenmy rock and roll band put a classified inthe newspaper advertising for a saxa-phone player, in order to add more soundto our three piece group. The advertise¬ment read: Rock and roll band looking foryoung sax player with 50'3, rockabilly in¬fluence. After two weeks without a re¬sponse, we had almost given up, until oneday I received a strange phone call from adesperate man. In a slow southern accentlie explained his situation.“My name is Brad", he said quietly, “Iam an Elvis impersonator and I'm in deeptrouble. Well, I’ve got two gigs lined upfor this weekend, but my band skippedout on me. I hear ya’II have a little groupthere and was wondering if you could playfor me Friday and Saturday."We talked on and I learned that Bradhad seen our ad in the newspaper and, inhis predicament, decided to give us a call.Brad said that if he could not appear thisweekend it would be very difficult to getengagements in the future, therefore hewould give us a large percentage of his in¬take. Though I was still skeptical whetherthis Elvis impersonator was for real, I de¬cided that it couldn’t hurt to at least prac¬tice with him. The next day, August 16.1983, my band and I arranged to meetwith Brad, the Elvis impersonator.All day we waited in nervous anticipa¬tion of meeting and practicing with theElvis impersonator. Then at 4:00 p.m., aweathered old white Cadillac rolled up toour practice site, and out of it stepped abeing whose image is as clear to me now,as that incredible day almost one yearago. That being was Brad; even fromacross the street it was apparent that he had a disturbing likeness to Elvis himself.He was a pudgy man in his late forties; hewore designer jeans, a printed button-down shirt with a big collar, and two ringson each finger. One might have thoughtthat Brad was The King reincarnated, ex¬cept that his mysterious beard and tintedsunglasses obscured the features of hisplump face.“Howdy, my name is Brad." he saidcheerfully.“I've never seen Elvis with a beard be¬fore," I joked.“You never met this Elvis before.” hesaid with a smile.We talked a while and then proceededto practice. First we went over Elvis' bighits — Hound Dog. Heartbreak Hotel, Jail-house Rock, Don 't Be Cruet, etc., because itwas most important to get those right —then we moved on to the less popular hitssuch as Mystery Train, Love Me, Treat MeNice, and Little Sister. Our band was inawe of Brad's ability to emulate Elvis'voice and mannerisms. His almost perfectimitation of Elvis Presley brought upserious questions in my mind. Why wasBrad doing the small time Elvis imitatorcircuit when he could be making it big9After two more days of practice, it wasFriday and time to perform as the back upband to the Brad's Elvis show at a subur¬ban club I had never heard of before. Ourplan was to meet at the club because Bradwanted to go home and change into hisoutfit.It was then that I decided to confrontBrad, who had been cryptic ever since wemet. I asked him where he was from, whathe did for a living, and if Brad was his ac¬tual name. To my questions, Brad only shrugged his shoulder and grinned ner¬vously.We arrived at the Alibi Lounge at 6:00p.m. in order to set up and go on at 9:00.Though we had not set a specific time tomeet Brad at the club we assumed that hewould arrive between 7:00 and 8:00. Wewaited impatiently for him to come, but by10.00. an hour after we were supposed togo on, I had a suspicion that somethingwas wrong. Maybe my questions hadfrightened Brad; in any case we wouldnever see our mysterious friend again.As we drove back to Hyde Park thatsummer evening with a van full of equip¬ment, I finally reached a conclusion that Ihad guessed at earlier: that Brad wasElvis, not just an impersonator with astriking resemblance but Elvis, the King ofRock and Roll, himself impersonating animpersonator. Who else could sing TeddyBear with such style and meaning? Whoelse has such a charming uneven smle9No, not the overweight drug addict theU.S. government put in the missing Elvis'place, but Elvis Aron Presley himself. Itwas foolish of me not to notice it earlier;the events of August 15-18 worked per¬fectly to support my Elvis theory. The realElvis, after a few years lost m Africa, hadcome back to America and discovered thathe had been given up for dead and re¬placed by the government. He saw hisdouble destroyed by he ravages of Hol¬lywood and Las Vegas show business, andtaking the person he could have been asan exmaple of how not to live his life, hebecame a small time Elvis impersonator.Today, Elvis Aron Presley lives as a fugi¬tive running from town to town in fearthat his true identity will be revealed.THE GREY CITY JOURNAL—FRIDAY. JULY 6, 1984—5r isMalBEERSMOOSEHEADBEER $0396-12 oz. BOTTLES V BECKS6-12 oz. BOTTLESLIGHT6-16 oz. CANS MOLSONBEER, ALEGOLDEN6-12 oz. BOTTLES 3/ no3/$10BLATZ6-12 oz.CANS $159WINESSUN COUNTRYWINE COOLER $3494-12 oz. BOTTLES 20/20,WINE COOLER $2994-12 oz. BOTTLESFRANZIA WINES1.5 LITER DOPFF FRENCHALSACE750 ml. MOREAUCHABLIS750 ml.2/*5 $499 $529INGLENOOKWINES3.0 LITER CUVEE YVONROUGHE1.5 LITER NICOLASVOUVRAY750 ml.$6" *5" *4"CHAMPAGNESLA DOMAINECHAMPAIGNEX-DRY & BRUT750 ml. $399 750 ml. J. ROGETCHAMPAGNESA less $2.002/$5 REBATE2/*3TANQUERAYGIN750 ml. $849STOLICHAN A Y AVODKA80° 750 ml. $8"CANADIANMIST$499750 ml. 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Elvis wasactually 39 when he recorded his first sin¬gle.Elvis is actually alive and lining in hidingin Africa, with Jim Morrison, Who is also be¬lieved to be dead..Before Elvis died, he was so drugged outthat all he did was eat and sleep. Reported¬ly, his security guards would have to svehim from suffocation by lifting his head outof his food if he fell asleep while eating"The ghost of Elvis walks the streets ofTrenton, N.JIf you play the original single release ofLove Me Tender backwards, you will hearElvis reciting the prophecies of Nostrada¬mus Rick Springfield is actually Elvis reincarnated.The plane that Elvis was on when he Elvis had two tiling cabinets full ofjoined the Army never really did reach Dus- drugsseldorf, where he was allegedly stationedfor three years Elvis once flew to Colorado for a peanutoutter and jelly sandwichGraceland was built on an ancient Siouxburial ground, and that's why Elvis had badluck Elvis once fought his daughter for a pieceof cakeCompiled by Stephanie BaconElvis married Pris to piease his mom,who he loved more than anything in theworldElvis is still alive and occasionally reappears as an Elvis impersonatorTHE GREY CITY JOURNAL—FRIDAY, JULY 6, 19&4—7by William Weaverand Michael KotzeArt, of course, imitates life. And iife, ofcourse, imitates art. Often art imitatesart. Likewise life often imitates life. This isas it should be, particularly in the dogdays of summer; for each summer, thereemerges a work of art which perfectly em¬bodies the geist of its sun-dappled time —a work which not only ties together thedisparate threads of public consciousnessinto a harmonious whole, but actually in¬fluences that consciousness through its dy¬namically persuasive wholeness, its una¬nimity of purpose, and its powerfuladvertising campaign. One thinks of tnathomely little homonculus from anotherworld. E.T.; one thinks of the blond-manedSting moaning his way through last sum¬mer’s paranoid/protectionist crie de coeur“Every Breath You Take’’; one thinks ofIndiana Jones and Luke Skywalker andAnnie Lennox and all the celebrated com¬mercial/cultural figures that took a lightlysweating, communally air-conditionedpublic by storm in the weeks between Me¬morial and Labor days.What (or indeed who) will be this sum¬mer's galvanizing mass-media figure? In¬diana Jones? Certainly not, consideringthe awesome political incorrectness of hiscurrent temple adventure (see GJC, 6/82).Bruce Springsteen? One thinks not, de¬spite a hot single and a best selling album,since true cult consummation requires atrip to such suburban venues as the Rose-mont Horizon, a prospect likely to makeeven the most committed pop alcolyte hes¬itate. Who then? Who indeed.For the answer to this and other ques¬tions, one need only see RichardFleischer’s new film Conan the Destroyer,for it is plain to see that Summer 1984 ismade manifest in the hulking body-build¬er’s form of Arnold Schwarzenegger, onceagain portraying that muscular affirma¬tion of the life force, Conan the Barbarian.In dealing with such a film/phenomenon,the traditional review form seems to be in¬adequate; therefore we intend to take amore impressionistic approach in this arti¬cle, in the hope that through a profusion ofthoughts, details, and observations, thevast panorama will emerge, and the truthbe revealed.Integral to the Conan Weltanschauungare muscles.I see a glisteninga sinew of rockhardmusclea motion of slowlong-haired blood, ohrapture!musculaturepterodactyl.r The story of Conan the DestroyerConan, widely known as the greatest war¬rior in the land, is asked by a Queen to ac¬company her daughter on a quest for asacred treasure. Conan agrees, not know¬ing that the Queen plans to kill the Prin¬cess on her return, of that he himself maybe killed by the Queen’s evil henchmanBombatta (Wilt Chamberlain). On his wayto the wizard’s castle, where the treasureis reputedly held, Conan meets Zula (GraceJones) a striking warrior woman whoseprowess with a pointless stick rivalsConan’s more traditional sword and shieldmastery. Also in the questing party areAkiro. a wizard (Mako), and Malek, a jes¬ter/thief (Tracey Walker) who both fall alltoo often under the heading of “comic re¬lief.’’ The film’s extreme violence is under¬cut by the fact that all the victims are ei¬ther terrifying monsters or black-armoredwarriors with battle-axes, both represen¬tatives of groups that really have it com¬ing.Conan. Conan the Barbarian. Conan theEmbodiment of Bodies. Conan the Political¬ly Incorrect. Conan the Anatomically Cor¬rect. Conan the Destroyer. We like that.WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANSWhat are we waiting for. assembledin the public square?The barbarians are to arrivedtoday.Conan. The very meek quality of theword belies the institutional strength itpromotes through its capturing of Ameri¬ca’s imagination. Its Norse roots translateinto “Hearth’’ or “fire that bringswarmth.’’ The English is similar: the wordconnects “Co,” the prefex of sharing andcommunity, with “nan” the equivalent so¬cietal mother figure, one who wears whiteand takes care of the kids. Indeed, thetitles Conan the “Barbarian” and “Des¬troyer” are ironic but subtle slants attoday's motherhood values. Conan’s viewof motherhood (that the man should stayhome and take care of the children as wellas teach them how to hunt) is unfortunate¬ly absent from today’s oppressive ma¬triarchal society. Hence his caring sensibil¬ity is “barbarous,” a sad comment onwhat we consider to be “love.”Wilt Chamberlain. One of the greatestbasketball players o? all time is wastedby the producers and Conan, in that order.As an actor, he is tall. But do we see anyshots of him standing next to the otheractors to show how tall he is? No. Foul!Foul!Why don’t the worthy orators comeas usual 10 make their speeches, tohave their say? Because the barbarians are to ar¬rive today; and they get bored witheloquence and orations.Blood and breast epics have long beencriticized as sexist, rascist, and slimaballsof movies. But the new Conan The Des¬troyer reverses this trend, setting up theultimate dichotomy between the rulingand oppressive female classes and the uni¬versal working-class revolutionary hero,Conan. He perfectly represents the hulk¬ing virtuousity of the lumpen-proletariat,a man who justly and soddenly steals fromhis masters. The Matriarchal ruling clanmanipulates and tortures their subjects.Its evil sorceress (Sara Douglas), dressedin appropriate black leather, sends ourhero out to serve her ends and die. Deathsquad leaders have nothing on her: shewants to reincarnate a god who will de¬stroy her entire world.Does this sound like facism to you? Youbet your freeze button it does. The onlyother significant woman in the movie isGrace Jones, who gets rewarded for rob¬bing a village and killing and maimingseveral of its members. Only when shecomes in contact with the charismatic andsensitive revolutionary does she begin tofight on the right side of the issues. Ofcourse, her method of fighting hearkensback to her gender-oppressive identific-tion. she can only kill, not heal. Conan how¬ever, is a man of peace, aroused onlywhen his sense of justice perceives the ne¬cessity of the class war in front of him.When Douglas sends her daughter out to(let's be honest) seduce him, Conan re¬mains pure. Would Grace Jones (or Zula)do the same? From one of her “real life”songs;“Warm leatherettewarm leatherettemelts on your burning fleshrejection in a luminescent bashwarm leatherette (repeated)fear of petrol is in your eyesthe hand breaks, penetrates yourthighs”This vision of the world hurts people.Gosh. I mean really. But does Conan alsoturn his violent fantasies outward? No. Heworshios Crom like a banshee. And who isCrom? A god, who according to the deadsea scroll, has “a sensitivity and humanityfor a god, even surpassing the yet-to-be-born Eleanor Roosevelt.” Conan, swords¬man, labor organizer, and all-around goodguv.Q What do Conan the Barbarian, John theBaptist, and Minnie the Moocher have incommon?A. The same middle name.Mako. Veteran actor Mako portraysConan's wizard friend Akiro, in a perfor¬mance of rare perception, shameless mug¬ging, and bizarrely throaty sing-songvocal inflections. Also narrating the film,Mako’s delivery of such lines as “Let metell you of the days of high adventure!” islittle short of sublime.Conan the Barbarian vs. Conan The Des¬troyer: First of all the new one has a m .chcooler title * but the differences don’t endthere, no sir! The original Conan moviewas a much more serious affair, openingwith a quote from Nietzsche and endingwith the decapitation of James _arl Jones— the film was infused with the Californiasurfer/facist ideology of its oirector, JohnMilius. Not that C the B wasn’t a terrificmovie (it was), it’s just that many peoplefound it terribly offensive (fair enough).The new film, thankfully lacking in Milius’white/male supremicist subtext, replacesit with what the Beach Boys called “funfun fun.” We like this. *July Psychology Today “Mind Center¬fold” of Arnold Schwarzenegger as seenin his new movie Conan the Destroyer.Medulla Oblongata 24”Cranial Capacity 443”Frontal Lobes 16” apiece’Time needed to lobotomize: electrodes;64sec. magic sword: 1 sec. Turn on: Dr. (Benjamin) Spock, spear-hunt¬ing, mutually supporting relationships,the industrial labor movement, binding ar¬bitration.Turns offs: Being stereotyped as a primi¬tive madonna figure, people who don’t eatwhat they kill, facism, insincere people.World View: Conan’s ambition is to be kingof his own country. (But doesn't this con¬tradict his support of international labor?)Conan explains: “There are many contra¬dictions in life. But one must always betrue to oneself. I know that I have thepower, the training, and the overall sensi¬tivity to the plight of humanity to rule bet¬ter than some faceless democracy.” (“Butisn’t that power corrupting”?) “Not if youhave trained to be a philosopher king. Ilift several moral philosophies a day up tctheir proper heights. It has built up mycerebellum convolution percentage up byover 70%.” This is a man who (more thanSean Connery) will be king.Arnold on the David Letterman Show: Itwas terrible! Arnold wanted to talk abouthow Grace Jones kept injuring extras andgetting in trouble with the law while film¬ing in Mexico, but David kept needling Ar¬nold about his new U.S. citizenship, askinghim to name the three branches of govern¬ment, and generally making a pest of him¬self in time-honored Letterman style. Ar¬nold should've dealt with David as hedealt with the evil horned monster in thethrilling conclusion of his new film Conanthe Destroyer. We liked that.Write Your Own GCJ Conan review: Fillin the blanks with the politically correctwords and phrases provided — you'll soonend up with an authentic-sounding GCJ re¬view of the Summer’s most significant ar¬tistic expression/action hit!GCJ Review: The (1) of ArnoldSchwarzenegger’s performance asthe (2) Conan reinforces thefilm’s (3) . The presence of GraceJones in a supporting role can only point tothe filmmaker’s desires to come to termswith (4)Conan the Destroyer is certain¬ly (5) (6) (7)Choices:(1) a. third world awarenessb. feminist didacticismc. mis-en-scened. bulging pecs(2) a. Remarkably insensitiveb. Foucault-quotingc. internationally acclaimedd. barbarian/semiotician(3) a. Reaganite orientationb. phallocentricityc. new gay awarenessd. fin-de-siecle sensibilities(4) a. womenb. black peoplec. Allen Ginsberg's Howl(5) a. politically correctb. politically incorrectc. for the white wine and volvo setd. a film(6) a. andb. butc. yetd. and indeed(7) a. is at the Bergman Gallery throughNov. 11.b. better than the movie of HotelNew Hampshire.c. what a tidy litle film it is.Because night is here but the barbarianshave not home.Some people arrived from the frontiers,and they said that there are no longer anybarbarians.And now what shall become of us withoutany barbarians?Those people were a kind of solution.—C.V. Cavafy8—FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1984—THE GREY CITY JOURNAL