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Volume12 no. 2
Oct.16,1973
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Richmond Times
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CLUB NOTES
Sports Club
The Sport Club was designed for students who
wanted an outlet for their physical energies. Last
year it consisted of a Karate Club and a Basketball
Club, whivh was affiliated with the Brothers
Basketball league. This year our program will be
expanded to encompass other sports. Meetings are
held on Monday - 2:40-4:20 in Room 801.
I.E.E.E.
Topics to be discussed this month: 1) Project
proposals have not been forthcoming! Let's get
them in. 2) A talk on electronic music may be
arranged - if you like this" idea; tell us. 3) The
November film program must be arranged - what
do you want to see?
Meeting October 10 - Wed. - 4:30 P.M. Room- 5th
Floor Lounge.
Committee Of Majors
The Committee of Majors consists of students who
are either majoring in Afro-American and African
Studies or those taking elective courses. Our main
purposes are to develop a relationship with the
Staten Island community and to develop rapport
with the Afro-American Inst. We sponsor a
Community Center where we hold cultural events,
in addition, we have a film program, tutorial
program, workshops, and political activities which
meet the community's needs and our needs. Our
Community Center is usually open in the afternoons six days a week. Meetings of the Committee of Majors are held on Mondays in room 802
from 2:40 to 4:20.
Les Montage
Les Montage has renewed its account with Bebel
Inc., a film lab, and is investigating the possibility
of buying used editing equipment. As a club, Les
Montage usually doesn't sponsor activities, but
uses its money to ease production costs for
students doing independent study in film-making.
Music Society
Preparation for Concert, usually in May.
Rehearsals are held - Choral MW 6:30 - 8, Instrumental MW - 4:30 - 6. We could use more
people - anyone into recorjers, singing, anything.
We are classically-oriented (in the broad sense of
the term), and our instrumental rehearsalff involve
Renaissance a,d Medieval music. * Ensembles
also, independently of these scheduled rehearsals
are welcome to contribute anything they do - esp.
when it's music that would fit in with the type of
concerts we give. We also sponsored a rock concert
one year, (1971) and you should talk to us if you
have
something
rnind
* the Choral music spans in time the Renaissance
to the 20th Century.
Amistad
Amistad is a Black Political, Social, and cultural
organization formed in the interest of the Black
community of Richmond College and the
surrounding area. Our meetings are held on
Monday - 2:40 - 4:20 in Room 837.
January Grads
Richmond College
Gay Men*s Collective
Our first projevt this year will be to acquice a room
JANUARY GRADS MUST FILE YOUR or space, wliich we can "all our own. this room will
COADY CARD BEFORE OCTOBER 26, 1973. house our »Sc&ga/ library and it will be a place for
IF YOU ARE GRADUATING IN JUNE gay people to meti with cach other. The collective
needs to know all of our sisters and brothers at
LOOK FOR A JOB NOW!!!!
PROFESSIONAL
E N G I N E E R I N G Richmond. We are going to have an afternoon
social some time in October, the t-me and place
LICENSE EXAM.
THE DATES AND SAMPLE EXAMS OF THE will be posted on bulletins throughout the school.
NEW JERSEY P.E. EXAM WILL BE CIR- Come out.
CULATED AS SOON AS THEY ARE
RECEIVED.
G.R.E. FOR JUNE GRAD'S
NOTE THAT THE G.R.E.'S ARE BEING Guest ffpeakers: Possibly a trip to Washington, to
GIVEN ,ON DECEMBER. 8, 1973 AND ON view the Supreme Court. Dates to be announceb.
JANUARY 1973. See Ilene Singh for applications, We invite anyone interested in the Political Science
while there Ilene could help you out with grad Club, or anyone that has any ideas for a project for
the Political Science Club, to get in touch with the
school information.
If you are receiving financial aid G.R.E. Fee President of the Political Science Club.
Waivers are available from Chegyl O'Garrol Ed. Note: For information, on who the qres. of this
club is, contact Andrea Jay, Room 542.0
(Office of Student Affairs).
TUTOGS needed in Physical Sciences students Speakers and films on United Farm Workers amd
interested. pJease see Audrey Glynn in room 1-508. the Farah Workers Strike - Wednesday. October
10, 1973
Speakers on Attica Brothers Trials - End of Oct. 1st week in Nov.
Study Groups on Imperialism - One evening evecy
week.
Putting out and distributing A.B. newspaper Every month.
Selling books and pamphlets at literature table Several days each week.
Attending demonstration in Washington D.C. to
free Puerto Rican political prisoners - Oct. 31st.
Attica Brigade
Outdoor Club
oct. 13-14 - Canoeing and camping on Turtle
Island in Lake George. Oct. 16 - Club Meeting 5:00 P.M. outside Rm. 542 in Main Bldg. Oct. 21 Day hike on Breakneck Ridge. Contact Steve. Ed.
Note: For information, contact Andrea Jay Stud,
gov't., rm. 542.
Engineering Club
The deadline for filing for the Engineering
Pcoject contest was extenbed to OCTOBER 26,
1973.
PROFESSOR King is giving an innroduction to
the programming the h.P. 2100 Mini-Computer.
DURING the latter pact of October dates and
places will be posted. Everyone interested please
attend.
�Oct. 16, 1973
page 15
Richmond Times
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Contents
club notes
cuny under attack (cover story)
the chile forum
henry ebel refuses t3nure
united farm workers
editorial
letters
women's section
land of OS
forced sterilization
on tubal ligation
farah sweat shops
"sisters of mercy" reviewed
astrology
election news
photo contest
touster's task force
free classifieds
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cover: photograph of student tuition demonstration spring '73 led by
attica brigade, third world cuny coalition and richmond college committee to fight tuition and cutbacks.
photo: d.c. sheehan
Elections
Pre
Coming
�Richmond Timco
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CUNY
Under
Attack
Chile Forum
Held At
Richmond
By Ricky Veit
The students at CUNY are facing another attack on their right to go to sdhool. On CUNY
campuses the financial aid programs that many
students depend on are being cut back as much as
75 percent.
—At CCNY* three major financial aid
programs have been cut between 30 and 40 percent. Entering freshmen are not eligible for any aid
except the new Basic Educational Opportunity
GRANT (BEOG), which, if they did receive it.
would pay a maximum of only $450 a year.
—At Richmond College, financial aid programs
were cut 53 percent, although the number of
students applying for aid has increased. There has
been a cut of 85 percent (from $70,000 to $12,000)
in aid for veterans.
—At Manhattan Community College, the
various sources of financial aid have been cut from
30 to 75 percent. The amount each student can
earn on work-study has been reduced by $200-400
(maximum earning will be only about $700 per
year.) Entering freshmen will have lowest priority
for work-study programs; if they do recieve BEOG
grants, the most they can get is about $300 a year.
Theffe cutbacks are coming at a time when
students are already feeling the pinch because of
runaway inflation. Paying for food. rent, carfare
and books is going to be a constant day-to-day
problem. The hardest hit will be Third World and
working-class students who often depend on
financial aid and have no other source of ncome.
Many students will be forced to drop out and go to
work. Those of us who manage to stay in school
will find it harder to study , and get good grades
with the constant financial pressure.
These aid cuts affect all of us. They are an
attack on the right to a free higher education. But
we should be clear that the students who are being
pushed out are the Third World and workin-class
students who are here because of the fight for open
admissions. Since it began, the open admissions
program has been attacked from every level of city,
state and federal governments. Last year the attack came from the state level in the form of the
Keppel Commission. The report of the Commission (set up by Rockefeller) recommended,
among other things, an $8(X)-1,000 tuhion at
CUNY and the end to the guarantee of 4 years of
higher education. Because of the immediate
student reaction, that report was never passed as a
whole but the general plan to end open admissions
is still being tried bit by bit. For instance, this year
in addition to financial aid cuts, there were cuts in
the overall CUNY budget coming from the state
government. This will mean larger class sizes, less
remedial help and an all-around reduction in
services.
Oct. 16, 1973
(This is the first part of a two-part article on the
.Chile Forum at Richmond)
AUTHOR'S NOTE: For ourselves we must very
clearly recognize the role U.S. imperialism played
in Chile and understand that it was not for mere
routine conferences that Ambassador Davis went
from Santiago to Washington back to Santiago
during the days right before the coup, nor that it
was mere coincidence that American naval ships
were immediately outside Chilean waters during
the coup, or that the only newspapers still
published in Chile are owned by an American who
"happens" to be vice-president of Pepsi-Cola, or
that the corporations that were kicked out of Chile
are now "considering" re-investing, or that....the
list could go on and on. Imperialism cannot afford
another defeat as was had at the hands of the
Vietnamese people and so we have Chile. But as
one worker expressed it - "They have only proved
to us who our real enemies are. It's going to be a
very long struggle, but the real fight is only
beginning now...so we shall all go back to work
like good boys, keep very quiet, and get ready for
the next time. And then we shall have our
revenge."
On Wednesday, September 26th a forum,
sponsored by Puerto Rican-Latin American
Studies, the Attica Brigade, and concerned
students and faculty, on the recent events in Chile
was held, at Richmond. Close to 200 students,
faculty and staff at Richmond viewed the film,
"Campamento" and heard three speakers: Dale
Johnson, and
Stephen Torgoff, a journalist.
The film was about one of the many camps of
homeless, unemployed or underemployed working
class and peasant people that fill the Latin
. The students of City University have a long
American landscape. This "campamento," was
history of fighting for the right of free open adnamed by its residents "Nueva Havana" and was
missions. Last spring was the start of a new
at work organizing its own community under the
movement to defend that right. The Third World
leadership of the MIR (a revolutionary Latin
CUNY Coalition led several actions of over a
American organization). They had taken over
thousand students in support of their four
unused land, built homes and developed their own
demands: 1) No tuition at CUNY; 2) End attacks
political and social institutions. Stephen Torgoff
on Open Admissions, 3) No cuts in SEEK, College
announced at the end of the film that since the
Discovery, and financial aid; 4) Expand Open
junta's takeover, "Nueva Havana" had been
Admissions, financial aid and special programs.
"bombed and bulldozed" and most of the
residents killed.
Dale Johnson stated that Chile was Latin
America's only real democracy with a functioning
The Attica Brigade believes that the way to constitutional, though bourgeois, order. Allende's
defend Open Admissions is the way it was won— election, he said, represented the aspirations of the
by mass militant student action like the CCNY workers and peasants and the reforms introduced
building t^eover last May. The fight for real open by Allende, modest but meaningful. In speaiking of
admissions will be a hard one but we can win it if the junta's takeover, he said that the application of
we unite and fightJback against every attack on our violence was unsurpassed in comparison with
right to education. We Want to unite with all other those in other countries in Latin America - e.g.
students who want to fight these cuts and defend 1,0(X) reported killed in the first 24 hours and
Cont. on pg. 15
open admissions.
Author's N o t e
�Oct. 16, 1973
Tenure Quotas
Henry Ebel
Refuses Tenure
To: Saul Touster. George Odian, Murshall Suther
From: Henry Ebe!
It is common knowledge by now that tenure
quotas will soon be imposed on all departments
and divisions within the Citv University of New
York.
The imposition of these quotas at Richmond
College will eftectively guarantee the fii-ing of a
large proportion of the nontenured faculty now
teaching at the College, and particularly of those
who have published relatively little in the way of
books and articles.
It is a mark of the rising tide of inhumanity in
the world today that this development can be
contemplated by our administrators with appartent equanimity. For those who came to Richmond College with the understanding that
publication was one route and one route only to
the achievement of tenure, the threat under which
they now live represents not only savage cruelty but
injustice and betrayal.
During the past academic year. I was recommended for tenure by the Division of Humanities,
and this recommendation was seconded by the
Personnel and Budget Committee of Richmond
College.
I cannot in good conscience permit myself to be
put into a position in which my personal benefit is
purchased at the price of suffering imposed on my
colleagues.
I hereby formally renounce all claim to tenure at
Richmond College.
I formally request that the Personnel and
Budget Committee of the Division of Humanities
rescind its recommendation that 1 be granted
tenure.
I formally request that a similar action be taken
by the Personnel and Budget Committee of the
College.
I formally request of President Touster that he
transmit no such recommendaHon to the Board of
Higher Education.
^
"
Henry Ebel
Associate Professor
of English .
Division of Humanities
Richmond Times
From Dan Kramer, Social Science
To: Bob Millman, Editor Richmond Times
HEre is why the imposition of tenure quotas by the
City University will result in the discharge in the
near future of many Richmond faculty.
Assume that the City University says that no
more than two-thirds of the faculty members in
any program can be tenured. Assume that in the
Sexology program at present 4 members stay at the
College for several years. The two who are not
tenured will be denied tenure. Under the present
rules of the Board of Higher Education (rules
common in most of the country), when a faculty
member is denied tenure, he or she must leave the
institution: it is normally not possible for such a
person to continue teaching on a year-to-year
basis.
page 15
How To
Help The
United Farm
Worker Union
By Ralph Palladino
The United Farm Workers Union has called
for a nation-wide boycott of all table grapes
and Gallo Wines. The Union points out that
Gallo makes such "pop" wines (directed at
students) as Boone's Farm, Ripple, Spanada and
Tyrolia, as well as their own brand-name wines.
Since last May, the UFWU has been at war with
the grape growers who enlisted the help of the
Teamster Union officials (not the rank-and-file
workers), the local California County Sheriff
departments, and the local courts. Two farm
workers were murdered, one by a sheriff deputy,
another by a "Teamster guard". Hundreds of farm
workers and supporters were jailed and beaten.
The courts ruled against the union on picketing
procedures. The growers hired scab workers to
replace the strikers.
The rank and file farm workers fought back
each attack, forcing Teamster Union President
Fitzsimmons to declare that his union would leave
the fields. The original court decisions against the
UFWU were reversed. The grape growers lost
millions of dollars as a result of the strike and
picketing as they were unable to find enough scabs
to break the strike.
Support was given for the farm workers by rankand-file workers from the United Auto Workers
Union, the International Longshoreman and
Warehouse Union, and Teamsters who denounced
their Union President Fitzsimmons for his attempted strike-breaking and colusion with the
grower management. Students, workers and
clergymen all joined the farm workers on the
picket lines in California and faced the threats of
beatings, jail, and death. The end result has been a
victory by the workers in their first battle against
the growers, and for their very survival as a union
and as human beings.
Anyone who has seen the living conditions that
farm workers are forced to endure would be sick to
their stomach. Large families are forced to live in
small, unlighted, dirty shacks with no running
water and no plumbing. They are forced to work
long hours with little pay. (Children are forced to
leave school and work the fields when they are
Cont. on p.11
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In case you haven't noticed, Richmond College is going through some
changes. Between a new administration and a non-quorumed RCA, and a
leftover student government, things are getting sticky. Add to this the growing
pains of a previously ineffective school newspaper, underfiinding, and a
criminally acquiescent student body: the tip of the iceberg becomes exposed.
There's a lot of news in this issue, but the logistics of magazine production
are staggering. To produce something mediocre requires time, strain and
energy. We want to produce something of quality and force, without burning
ourselves out entirely. So we need plenty: advice, criticism, encouragement,
and mostly HELP. The RICHMOND TIMES IS NOT A CLOSED "axegrinding" shop. It is hopefully growing into a flexible college-wide media. To
do that we have to get in touch with you. Don't be put off by fear of cliques, or
by self-doubt - WE NEED YOU. In our embryonic stage, there's no way we'll
get off the ground by ourselves. The possibilities are limitless.
A word about our new and informative (?) "clubnotes page." Several of the
clubs listed in this issue were somewhat vague. The clubs that didn't submit a
list of activities were more vague. The point is that we the staff are stretching
our abilities to the utmost in trying to serve Richmond College as an effective
media. A warning to all clubs: IF YOU CAN'T SAY CLEARLY WHAT IT IS
YOU ARE DOING* MAYBE YOU'RE NOT DOING ANYTHING. AND
YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU'RE NOT DOING ANYTHING?
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Richmond
Times
editorial board:
editor-in-chief
managing editor
news editor
women's editor
copy editor
graphics editor
photography
secretary
What Did He mean
When He Said
Bob Millman
D.C. Sheehan
Eileen Odell
Laura Hobbs
Madeline Paladino
Keith BEcker
D.C. Sheehan
Madeline Paladino
staff:
Eric Bahrt, Paul Nelson, Pablo Suarez, John Martucci. Joe Caputi, John
Aneson, Deia Capella.
contributors:
Rickey Veit, Andrea Jay, P. Vega, M. Jefferson, R. Kornberg, Ralph
Palladino.
The RICHMOND TIMES is roughly a fortnightly newsmagazine and is
published by and for the students of Richmond College, located at 130
Stuyvesant Place, Staten Island, New York 10301. The opinions expressed in this newspaper are those of the individual writers and do not
necessarily reflect those of the editorial board or the college. Telephone:
212 443-6141. Circulation: 5,000.
System. I assumed, as I am sure other students still
assume, that Richmond's purpose was "to
educate"; that "to educate" was going to mean
something different to each and every member of
the Richmond community - students and faculty
alike. I assumed that this kind of diversity, particularly in a college, was not only O.K., but was
exactly what I was looking for. I was looking for a
place with a good faculty, a place where I could
"A coherent educational program...A Direction study at my own pace, where I could stop to exforRichmondasanupper division college..Thirdly plore somethinn if it interested me, or move into
they feel that the educational program that new areas in my case art history) if I felt the need. I
eveolved here has not yet cohered..We will not be found these qualities at Richmond. In this sense I
feel Richmond is, about all else, a very human
attracting any student in particular.."
—from "An Interview With president Saul inntitution.
Touster"
To make a long story short, I was happy here. I
Sept. 10, 1973. (Vol. 12 No. 1) studied a variety of subjects with the cooperation
As a former student and member of the and encouragement of the faculty. I was given the
Curriculum and Instruction Committee, I was opportunity to participate in the governing of the
bothered by the interview with President Touster school and a number of co-curricular activitiis. In
as repooted in the Richmond Times. Throughout addition, I feel "the experimental nature of the
the interview the new acting president mentioned school encourages the faculty to attack old
the lack of direction and the need for an problems in new ways. Most of the teachers I know
educational program. 1 think the last thing Rich- take advantage of the. audio-visual materials
mond College needs is a"a cohecent educational available and encouraae some practical approgram." But lit me digress for a moment to plication of what is being taught. More interdivisional courses seem to be offered now than
develop my point.
When I first became interested in coming to when I first came" "here.,
Richmond two years ago 1 wasn't particularly
The point is this. I don't think Richmond needs
interested in whether or not it had a "coherent an educational goal. It needs many goals and a
educational program" or whether it fit in well with variety of programs, some of wl^ich mn ,ot fit in
the master plan for the rest of the City University with others.
LEHERS
Oct. 16, 1973
I think what is meant by the Board of Higher
Education when they call for direction and
leadership is a tightening up on the freedoms that
Richmond students and faculty enjoy. I feel the
.Board might then be satisfied that the school is
running more smoothly, but I doubt that the
students will be satisfied.
I think that if President Touster is serious abut
improving the quality of education at Richmond,
he'll direct his energies towards improving on what
Richmond College is already, rather than searching for a new direction.
There are any number of things that need to be
done to improve Richmond. President Touster
might ask himself questions like the following:
1. Faculty - The true quality of any school is
dependent on its faculty. Althoijgh the faculty at
Richmond is by and large a good one, how could it
be improved upon? Also, how come there are no
student representatives on the Personnel and
Budget Committee - (see How The Personnel and
Budget Committee Runs Your Life - Richmond
Times - Sept. 10. '73)?
2. Improve Student Participation - What can be
done to improve student participation in student
government, student-faculty committees, and
other aspects of coleege life?
3. INew Campus - Richmond College is busting out
of St. George. What can be donn to get the South
Beach campus started?
4. The Budget Cutbacks - What can the
Cont. on pg. 15
�Oct. 16, 1973
Richmond Times
page 15
Cont. from p.6
president do to prevent any further cutbacks in
funding and financial assistance to students?
There are numerous other problems the new
administration can address itself to, but I don't
want to belabor the point.
I think students and faculty alike should be
suspect about what "a chherent educational
program" will really mean to Richmond College.
Richmond College should become a tool which the
students as well as the community can use to
develop their minds as they see fit. The administration should act to develop this kind of
atmosphere. The college thus may become an
experience to be enjoyed, not a frustrating maze to
be endured.
John S. Moller
278 Prescottt Ave.
Staten Island, N.Y.
more Letters
CALL ME MISTER
...and that's what he did, right there at the September meeting of the College Assembly with a
couple of hundred people looking on. As the
meeting progressed, he called other people
"Mister" as well - deans and full professors and
other rarefied types.
Now Mister wasn't his only option with us. For
example, he could have called me professor in
recognition of my tenacious longevity in the CUNY
system. He could have called me dean out of
deference to my former lofty estate. He could have
called me doctor in tribute to my triumph over
Columbia's academic obstacle course. He even
could have called me reverend in memory of my
shadowy past (and at the risk of getting rapped on
the knuckles). But no! He eschewed all of these
glittering and enticing titles and simply called me
Mister. Frankly, I was immensely pleased.
Titles are a drag and so are institutions that
make a big thing of titles. Titles tempt their
bearers to take themselves too seriously. They
tempt others to trade in this inflated currency
when dealing with title bearers. Titles come
between people and complicate the achievement of
frankness and friendship. It is hard to think of a
good reason why we should use titles in this
enlightened age, and since there are good reasons
why we shouldn't, maybe we should stop.
And so I was delighted that Mr. Touster called
me Mr. Chiles. I hope the practice spreads at
Richmond. To misquote the credo of an illustrious
American: I know not what course others may
take, but as for me: call me Mister or call me Bob.
Robert Chiles
Caueat Emplor!
Dear Times:
I took a course here in Spring '73 which was
preparation for the Orwellian year of 1984. The
course, "Human Beings in the Business World,"
taught by William Gellerman, is a manifestation
of the current trend to use the colleges to pacify
and manipulate working people, training
management personnel how to get more work from
their employees without conflict ,or improved
conditions.
Mr. Gellerman, a personnel-relations consultant
to firms in Manhattan, built his course around his
"professional" activities: gearing the students to
living without conflict in the business situation
without chanyiny it I iiis was accomplished by the
use oi very sophisncated encountcr-group
sessions in ilic clasM lom. At first, a yame of
"collective" setting oi priorities lor emergency
space-flight provisions ichccked against a NASA
computer's "correct" .inswer), wlileli ictl lo a
"collective" setting of our life's goals—at the
lowest common denominator, personal differences
thus being "incorrect". In later sessions, students
were encouraged to discuss their own work
problems. For instance, a student-worker might
describe how he felt alienated on the job. It would
then be shown that there was no real problem—
and he would be encouraged by the other students
led by Mr. Gellerman, to learn to live with the
situation, by examining his own psychological
failings and correcting them.
This was no game—students were required, for
credit, to keep real-life logs of their "successful"
pursuit of this readjustment. In one ease, a bank
dept. head was upset because his twenty subordinates were badly payed and overworked, and the
bank refused to give a raise or hire more workers.
After being assured that 't " -s iheir "choice" to
work there—after all. there are plenty of iiighpaying, easy jobs around—he was convinced that
he was neurotic to worry about them in the first
place. In another case, a woman who liked her
work—as shop steward in a college secretaries'
union—was persuaded that she was creating the
trouble at work (a contract fight, and opposing
racial and sexist job discrimination), due to a
dominating mother and/or infantile anti-authority
complex,—and was given an honors iroject to
"change herself—and breaV ih. "ion.
Cont. on p.l4
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Richmond Times
Oct. 16, 1973
The Land
Of Os
YOU DON'T SAY...
"To men a man is but a mind. Who cares what face he carries
or what he wears? But woman's body is the woman.
—Ambrose Bierce
"The only allicance I would make with the Women's Liberation
Movement is in bed."
—Abbie Hoffman
Don't speculate—Speculum!
The last time / went to a gynecologist, it was for a severe infection. Upon examination, it was found that I had a cervical
prescribed with instruction to use it until I thought I was all better. I followed all of the doctor's instructions diligently, and
thought I'd have a look with my speculum, just to be sure. I discovered that I was on my way to recovery, but by no means was I
cured! My infection was still very much alive! I went back to using the medication, looked a week later, and found myself to be
normal again.
Had I been using my speculum on a regular basis, to begin with, my infection would never have been allowed to progress to
the severity that it did. Signs of infection can be seen early and attended to right away, by a doctor if necessary. After treatment
the treatment had been effective.
I don't want to give the impression that we think it's necessary to look at oneself every day in order to stay healthy. It's exof our bodies look like. Self awareness, and a healthy attitude towards our bodies helps keep them in good running order.
by laura hobbs
How To Use fl Speculum
Lubricate your speculum with the duckbill closed and the handle in an
upward position. Grasping it by the duckbills, gently insert it with the bills
closed into your vagina, as you would insert a tampon until the handle touches
or nearly touches the pubic area. It will probably be easier to insert the
speculum sideways and then turn the handle up. The picture shows the handle
pointing down but it is easier to operate with the handle up. If you experience
pain, you may need a smaller speculum so stop by and we will give you another
smaller-sized one.
Squeeze the handle together (this will open the speculum within your vagina).
Press down the part of the handle with the finger depression while pulling on
the longer handle. This will lock the speculum open. You can adjust the handle
to three positions.Try operating the speculum before inserting it so you can do it
with ease.
To see yourself, hold a mirror between your legs and direct the light towards
it. The light will reflect off the mirror into your vagina so that you can view your
cervix in the mirror. Do not be discouraged if you cannot see yonr cervix on
your first try. The speculum may have to be moved around or reinserted before
the cervix will pop into view. Having someone with you to tell you when it is in
view can be of great help. Many women have had to try several times before
they were successful. But they were always successful.
After viewing yourself, remove the speculum, still open, by slowly pulling it
straight out. Wash it with water and antiseptic soap and store in a clean place.
Reminder!
if you're looking for pregnancy tests, literature, speculums, a doctor, C.R.
group, books to read, women to meet, etc., etc., etc.; that's what we're here fori
�Oct. 16, 1973
Richmond Times
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Educational Self Help
Consciousness Raising Groups
Team To Appear
The famous Lolly and Jeanne Hirch. mother and daughter
Self-Help team, will highlight this day of learning and
celebration. Other events are in the planning stages and
possibly include the It's Alright To Be A Woman Theater, and
a dance. If you have talent, ideas or both, and would like to
share them with your sisters at Richmond join us in planning
for that day. ALL women are welcome at these FREE events.
Lending Library
We are in the process of compiling a lending library for your
reading pleasure and self awareness. Included will be copies of
Sisterhood I« Powerful, Abortion Rap, Lesbian Nation,
and the N.Y. Woman's Directory. Any suggestions or contributions *vill be gratefully accepted.
•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
; WOMEN'S SELF-HELP COLLECTIVE
SRoom 538
Telephone 273-0287
»We're open:
i M , T , T h 9 A.M. to 8 P.M.
•Wed. 9 A.M. to 6 P.M.
• Fri. 9 A.M. to 6 P.M.
Forced
Sterilization In
America
WOMEN'S CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING GROUPS
As thousands of women across the United States and the world have been
discovering, a consciousness-raising (C.R.) group can be an interesting,
meaningful and even life-changing experience. C.R. groups are now forming at
Richmond College for all women who wish to investigate what C.R. is all about.
Each group will consist of 8 or 10 women who will meet once a week, according
to what is convenient for them, to discuss whatever topics they consider
relevant to their lives.
For example, a group'sfirsttopic at their initial gathering might be based on
a question of autobiographical nature. The women, who may be acquaintances,
friends, or total strangers, will then each speak in turn for a few moments
telling the group where she is from, what she is currently doing, or whatever she
finds important in introducing herself. By the end of the first meeting,
members of the group will probably have an idea as to what topics could follow,
drawing ideas from the brief sketches of the lives of the women in the group.
This is not a therapy group; there is no leader and no shrink steering the
group. Each woman speaks as she wishes, adhering to each topic, each taking
her turn, exchanging her feelings, thoughts and opinions with the other women
in her group. All women, of whatever backgrounds, ages, sexual orientations,
financial situations, religions, political beliefs, marital status—ALL
WOMEN—are invited and urged to join. Joining a C.R. group could be an
important step for you.
For more information, and to sign up for a C.R. group, come by THE
WOMEN'S SELF-HELP CLINIC 130 Stuyvesant PI. RM. 538 or call 273-0287.
THE CONSCIOUSNESS YOU RAISE MAY BE YOUR OWN!!!
Klinger
By Marge Jefferson
REPRINTED FROM "TRIPLE JEOPARDY" NEWSPAPER OF THE
THIRD WORLD WOMAN ALLIANCE
That ovaries and uterii have been removed with a blitheness rarely accorded
diseased teeth these days is not a great surprise to black women. What was once
called our paranoia has become documented reality.
The case of Minnie and Mary Alice Relf, 14 and 12 years old, in Montgomery, Alabama is probaby the best-known. There are others, limited neither
by region nor by the absence of federal funds. A few examples.
(1) North Carolina. Nial Ruth Cox says that she was sterilized there in 1965 at
age 18, less than three months after the birth of her child. Her mother,
threatened with a cutoff in welfare payments, consented, believing that the
operation was "temporary." Ms. Cox, now a nurse's aide in Long Island, New
York, was classified by the physician as "a mentally defective Negro girl" and
told nothing.
In 1970, Ms. Cox was told by a gynecologist that she was sterile. The
American Civil Liberties Union is filing a suit on her behalf, to render North
Carolina law permitting sterilization of the "mentally defective" unconstitutional.
(2) Illinois. A 13-year old black girl — a runaway — was sent by the Illinois
Department of Children and Family Services to a Texas institution. There, in
January of 1972, a hysterectomy was performed on her during an "exploratory"
operation for a lump in her abdomen. She and her father were informed of this
fact six months later, though officials insist that they sought and obtained
"proper authorization" while she was under sedation on the operating table
presumably.
(3) Mississippi. A Health Services Evaluation Team from New York found that
a number of pregnant black women in the area were dissatisfied with the prenatal care offered by the county Comprehensive Health Services clinic.
When the team questioned these women further, they found that the clinic
made a practice of advising them to undergo sterilization immediately
following delivery if they wished to obtain pre-natal care.
(4) New York City. A black woman entered a well-known hospital to request
that her lUD (inter uterine device) be removed. The doctor in charge refused,
telling her that if he did so, she would only have more children. She complained
to a women's health consumer group which visited the hospital the next day.
Cont. on p.10
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Oct. 16, 1973
Forced
Sterilization
This operation involves the cutting of the abdomen. It is much more involved
with more risks than the other methods mentioned. Before surgery, the woman
is catheterized,passing a tube nto the bladder through which she will urinate.)
The tube may be removed the day of surgery or a few days later. A tube is
passed through the nose into the stomach to prevent the abdomen from
becoming bloated and will usually be removed after surgery. No food is eaten
before surgery and for a day or two afterwards. The woman is nourished by
feedings through the veins. The hospital stay is from two to three weeks
Cont.from p.9
depending on how well she is doing.
They found the administration anxious to accommodate, (the woman in In all the methods mentioned, there is no way of becoming able to have
question had her lUD removed), lest the incident result in adverse publicity. children again except possibly with the tubal ligation method. The chances of
(5) Georgia. Two health trainees were engaged in conversation with a county having children again is 50/50 afiter the tubes are re-connected by having
Health Department Director. He illustrated his points with folksy maxims and another operation. The chances usually depend on how long the tubes have
anecdotes. They were charmed until, without a change in tone, he remarked, been tied. If it was a recent operation, the woman's chances are better than if
"Yes, we got to keep the poor white trash and the niggers from reproducing — she had the operation many years before.
Emotional Upset
that's what family planning's all about."
That such operations take place in federally-funded clinics is grim but not All these methods, depending on the reasons for having them performed, can
shocking. We know that OEO guidelines on sterilization lay in a dusty be extremely emotionally upsetting for a woman. It is even worse when she is
warehouse for months. We also know that even with operative guidelines, victimized by a racist society and she is sterilized without her knowledge and
HEW's record on enforcing what it doesn't care to enforce, (e.g. school she finds out too late. The procedures all require signed permission before the
operations can be performed, but often women do not understand that the
desegregation), is unimpressive.
On the state level, it is the old story. Laws advocating sterilization of the operation is irreversible or they are forced into having the operation by
poor or the "mentally defective" have been on the books in a number of states, economic and social peessures which leave the woman no choice in the matter.
A woman should be completely informed and aware of the consequences of
(22 according to the ACLU) since the 1800's.
On the local level, it is terrifying. Consider the doctor who informed a submitting to a sterilization procedure. She has the right to demand that a
number of women patients that they had cancer, performed hysterectomies, doctor and nurse give her a total picture of why the procedure is necessary and
what is involved.
and used the money earned to finance a spanking new clinic.
Thus, health care can become a political and social weapon of abuse. And The decision of submitting to one of these operations, ifthe decision is left up
operations, such as abortion, that are a woman's right beyond the law, are used to the individual, can be a life changing decision one way or the other. It is
worth it to think on it as long as necessary so that it does not jeopardize the
to humiliate and punish her. One could label this biomedical warfare.
woman's life, happiness and that of others.
Clearly, one has to be
(a) a woman
(b) black
(c) poor
(d) all of the above
Tubal Ligation
By PRISCILLA VEGA
Tubal ligation is done to prevent the female from having children if she
suffers from conditions such as heart disease, chronic high b l ( ^ pressure, and
chronic kidney disease. Also if the woman has Had two or more Caesarian
sections where the woman gives birth by surgically cutting the abdomen then
the womb. These conditions create great stress on the woman and may cost her
her life is she adds the stress ofpregnancy.However, some women are forced to
undergo tubal ligation for social and political reasons rather than medical
reasons and have had this operation without knowing the type of operation they
were having or its consequences.
Hysterectomy is Most Serious
The most serious sterilization procedure is the hysterectomy. In this
procedure, the womb is removed. The tubes and ovaries may also be removed,
too. The presence of tumors, whether cancerous or not, is a common cause of
the operation, but it can be done to prevent children for the same reasons as the
tubal ligation. An additional reason may be untreated pelvic inflammatory
disease.
This disease is caused by organisms which enter the body through the vagina
and spread throughout the womb, tubes and the general area. The same
organisms which cause venereal disease may in addition resuU in pelvic inflammatory disease. If this condition goes untreated it can lead to scar tissue
forming in the tubes which can lead further into tubal pregnancy if there is no
room for the eggs to pass. If the scarred tissue is more serious, the tissues may
stick to each other and become adhesions which will eventually lead to the
necessity of having an hysterectomy.
Stump
gap
stump
H. Retraction
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Richmond Times
Oct. 16, 1973
non-unionized workers. The issue of run-away
shops is an international one. As workers in
northern United States have become more and
more unionized, industry has literally "run-away"
In 1%9 Farah workers began to organize a to non-unionized areas of the South, where pay
union and in 1970 the cutters voted to affiliate with averages $1.70 an hour and abroad to Puerto Rico,
the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union. Willie the Phillipines and Hong Kong, where the scale is
Farah, the owner of the company, not only refused 11 cents or 14 cents an hour. This means mass
to recognize the union, but began intimidating unemployment (especially among Blacks, Puerto
workers who had not yet joined the union and Ricans and women) in the North and keeps wages
Firing those who did. Instead of stopping the union low everywhere. The success of the Farah strike is
drive, these moves only angered workers until a blow at this -- drying up the cheap source of
finally in May of 1972 a walkout started in the San labor in the South, encouraging the development
Antonio, Texas plant and spread to other plants in of unions in areas without them and better
Texas and New Mexico. Farah has used a variety protecting the jobs of those in the,,North.
of methods to smash the strike ranging from
issuing guns and unmuzzled dogs tO; plant guards
to police brutality and mass arrests to court injunctions to getting the government to grant $100
million for the Cotton Industry of America to'
Cont. from p.5
more Than 3 , 0 0 0 Workers . . . Rlmost flll Chlcano Women
What does all this mean for students? Students
have played important roles in other strike supports, such as the United Farm Workers. We can
help publicize the strike and the boycott at our
schools. We can help educate people through
picket lines and leafletting at stores that still Farah
pants, getting consumers at these stores to join the
More than 3,000 workers - almost all Chicano
women (Mexican-American) - are standing firm
in a 16 month-old battle with American imperialism. These women are fighting for higher
pay and the r4ght to unionization; and against the
rotten conditions confronting most workers today.
They are resisting the union-busting tactics of the
pvernment and its police and are fighting in the
interests of all workers, here and abroad.
At the Farah Manufacturing Co. plants, pay
starts at $1.70 an hour and goes up no higher than
$2.20 an hour and that only after 20 years. There
are no maternity benefits -- if a woman takes a
maternity leave she loses all her seniority and
starts back at the bottom of the pay scale. Farah's
medical insurance plan pays only $14 a day and in
the 50 years of the existence of the retirement plan
no one has collected - they are either fired or
forced to quit before retirement. There are no
grievance procedures and the production quota
per worker is so high (for a belt worker, a
minimum of 5 behs a minute and more than 6 a
minute for a pay raise) it's impossible for anyone to
reach or maintain it.
advertise Farah pants and to actually buy Farah
pants for aal military personnel. Refusing to be
intimidated by these measures, the workers stayed
out and began to draw support from other unions,
especially on a rank and file level, and from
community groups and students throughout the
nation. A national boycott of Farah Pants has been
successful in getting department stores to
discontinue selling the pants which has cut into
Farah's sales and profits to the tune of $30 million.
There are several other major issues involved in
the struggle of the Farah workers - 1) national and
racial discrimination, 2) women's oppression and
3) run-away shops. As Chicanos and women,
victims of a double discrimination, Farah workers
share with Black and other Third World people
the lowest paying, most tedious and degrading jobs
this system has to offer. They serve as a vast
reserve force of cheap labor, to be used as a threat
against white, male unionized workers in order to
keep their demands at a minimum. But the Farah
strike makes clear the common interests of white
and Third World, male and female, unionized and
picket lines and leafletting at stores that sell
Farah pants, getting consumers at these stores to
join the boycott. Finally, we can take even bolder
action to make sure that scab pants aren't sold TAKE THE SLACKS OFF THE RACKS!
If interested in working around support for farah
strikers, contact the Attica Brigade, room 540.
�Oct. 16, 1973
Richmond Timco
"^nencan^nfenorjywlnlerp?^
Plan($l(X) for each IQ point below 100), and generally encouraging academics,
professionals and the public at large to join him in restoring credibility to Nazi
eugenics theories. (The Nazis, incidentally, got their "scientific" principles
from a movement begun in the US and England. Read Racism, Intelligence
and the Working Class, by PLP, for the history of this movement and a
thorough discrediting of its arguments.)
Shockley's point of view is quite specific:
.".r;Jature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable
predictions of their adaptability to intellectually rewarding and effective lives
may be made and profitably used by the pragmatic man in the street...For low
IQ populations, each 1% of Caucasian ancestry raises IQ by one point."
A$ for the future, Shockley would haave us believe that although "eugenics is
a shunned word because it was a feature of Hitlerism...the lesson of Nazi history
is not that eugenics is intolerable."
The Nazis themselves credited their ability to carry out their social and
military programs (from sterilization laws to 20 million dead) to twelve years of
unopposed teaching of such notions in the German universities. - So far our
neo-Nazis-Shockley, Jensen, Herrnstein, etal.- have had some trouble doing
thef same:'they've been disproven and censured by professional colleagues,
op|j)osed every time they've tried to speak in public,—students at Stamford were
evdn able to force a reluctant administration to cancel Shockley's eugenics
course there. But they—-and more importantly, their main backers, who now
amount exactly to the "liberal" ruling class of this country—have not given up.
Their theories in every field are being played up more than ever in the rulingclass-press: theN. Y. Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Fortune, and so on
are full of this crap. When Shockley was prevented by thousands of students
from speaking anywhere on the West Coast, the bosses obligingly gave him
endless time in protected TV studios to make sure that the message got out.
This movement is so crucial that even super-liberals like Birenbaum, recently
hoping to disguise himself as a disciple of Chairman Mao, are willing to risk
their images to legitimize it—much like the Fourth of July kissing match
The Progressive Labor Party and its newspaper, Challenge, are dedicated to
between Kennedy and Wallace.
the U.S. working class and the working class of the entire world—black, brown,
Nor is this still an academic question. Drugs are already being given to
white, red and yellow.
The only way our class can ever have a decent life is by overthrowing the thousands of school-children, and facilities built for lobotomizing prison and
bosses' governments and establishing the DICTATORSHIP OF THE ghetto rebels, based on "new" medical "theories" that attribute rebelliousness,
WORKING CLASS, a system in which the workers rule and the bosses are not to the system and the lives it makes us live, but to organic brain syndromes
with new Greek names. (During slavery the same "science" used Latin teroutlawed.
WHEN this is done, we can build a new society, with no exploitation of man minology.) Bills to sterilize welfare mothers have been proposed in several
by man, a society in which working people collectively own the factories and states, with quotes from Jensen to support them. Fifteen years of giving
hepatitis to kids at Willowbrook, for which Saul Krugman the experimenter got
farms: a society of socialism.
Until this is done, the bosses will continue to hold the trump card: their a "Doctor of the Year" award, were justified on the grounds that "they'll get it
armies, police, and courts. The reforms we win in day-to-day struggles will be anyway". Every college budget cut is backed up by "proof that the students
cut out — mostly working class — can't learn anyway, and anti-bussing
whittled away.
Progressive Labor Party members dedicate themselves to serve the people by movements by white parents are encouraged by "expert" opinions on "tipping"
guiding them to working-class revolution; by building deep ties among the balances and such drivel. And Edward Banfield, "Unheavenly City" author
and former Nixon urban expert, helps law-and-order Mayor Rizzo make
mass of working people in their day-to-day battles; by learning to apply Ae
Philadelphia just that, with endless newspaper articles academically justifying
revolutionary science of Marxism-Leninism—proven in decades of world-wide
all of Rizzo's cut-throat policies.
struggle—to the particular conditions of industrial America.
The ruling class is weak now, after years of futile war in Asia, loss of public
Our newspaper. Challenge, strives to present the unconditional truth of
confidence, increasing militance in schools, factories and ghettos, and the rise
class struggle so our class can learn from experience how to win.
of new and powerful competitors abroad. They know that racism is the crux of
their system—not only for the more than $30 billion extra profits it nets them
yearly, but even more for its uses in pitting workers and students, here and
abroad, against each other, rather than against the rulers and their system.
ROAD TO REVOLUTION: Paul Nelson, Progressive Labor Party
And they are moving heaven and earth to build racism throughout the country.
"...THE LESSON OF NAZI HISTORY..."
We, as communists, agree that racism—or the fight against it—is the crucial
SICK SHOCKLEY COMING TO SICC
one: not only to stop fascism, and win some reforms for our own benefit, but
THROW THIS RACIST OUT
The first column here got some good criticisms: that it didn't explain what for us to win once and for all - to destroy this whole system and replace it with
the PLP is, or why communists see racism as the most crucial idea for workers one run by working people - socialism.
The "Conclusion" of the Racism pamphlet poses the question squarely:
and students to tight, or bow it relates to concrete problems, especially locally.
"So what do we do about a group of lying and dishonest professors claiming
As for what the PLP is, the enclosed box will appear in future columns.
On the other points, to our aid comes William Birenbaum, noted liberal that black people are genetically inferior to whites? Do we sit around and
president of Staten Island Community College, a national spokesman in the lament the passing of the Great Society that never existed? Form a commune in
field of pacifying students. Fresh from a fishy trip to China, from which he Vermont? Move to Alaska? Or do we enter into a long, hard batttle to defeat
excluded even friends of PL, he's been announcing far and wide that he too has the ideas and influence of these racist scholars and their billionaire bosses over
the minds of millions of workers and students?"
a working-class college, and aims to serve the people. How?
We in the Progressive Labor Party—and a growing number of others, in and
By inviting to speak at SICC on November 21—and paying with student
f^'nds, for those interested in "free" speech—one of the most notorious out of the universities—have made our decision, to make the defeat of racism
our number one priority at this time. And the movement is growing.
'emic Nazis in the US. William Shockley, that is.
Hockley is a raving racist billed as a scientist (he won a Nobel TNT Prize for
Cont. on pg. 15
invc^.ting transistors), who has run around for years claiming that blacks are
P8ge12
Road To Revolution
�Oct. 16, 1973
Richmond Times
9:00 PM presages Spring, so certain human events
follow through with planetary configurations. For
a concrete example: every 20 years since 1860, a
president has been elected who was destined to die
in office. Lincoln, 1860, Garfield, 1880, McKinley,
By John Martucci
1900, Wilson, 1920, FDR, 1940, Kennedy. i%o.
(J«t, hopefully, of a series]
Consequently, an adverse relationship between
Jupiter and Saturn has occured during those
At the very mention of the word "horoscope," periods when the above were in office. The
the Horoscope section of your favorite newspaper problem with this theory is the very shaky
is probably the first thing that comes to mind. assumption that human events occur in a regular
Unfortunately, this cheapening of an ancient art pattern. This does not mean, however that the time
(or science, more on this distinction later) forms intervals between events is always the same - it
the basis of general opinion concerning its validity. could be five years, then ten years, then a month,
Too many people are under the mistaken im- then five years, ten years, and a month again - in
pression that, according to Astrology, p u r s i ^ is other words, a pattern. Still the assumption is
the sole determiner of. your personality. This is questionable.
only partly true.
There is also the "Cosmic Ray" theory. This
Your "sign" is the position of the Sun in the very plainly states that as there are emanations
zodiac at the time of your birth. The Sun enters the from the sun such as alpha, beta and Gamma rays;
sign of Aries on the First day of Spring, or the there is reason to believe that the planets also
Vernal Equinox (when day and night are exactly either emanate these rays or refiect them fi-om the
equal in length). As a matter of fact, it is only Sun. Then an imprint is "Electromagnetically"
because the 1st day of spring has come that the sun impressed upon the brain of the infant. From the
is said to be in Aries. Officially, the 1st day of way I worded this theory, you might have gathered
Spring is said to be March 21, but astronomically that I don't go for this theory.
speaking, the arrival of the Earth at the point of
Anyway, whichever theory holds, both must
equinox can occur a day early or late. The main stand up to the following test: Do two people born
point is, however, that the Sun appears to move at exactly the same time and place lead the same
through the zodiac, and the significance of the lives? King George II was born at the same time as
Sun's position is not in the stars that are light years a "lowly artisan," throughout their lives they got
away, but in the Sun's position in relation to the sick on the same days, of the same illnesses,
Farth. The stars are merely a background against married on the same day, the "artisan" was given
wnicii the movement of the planets (including the an important position on the day of George's
Sun and Moon) can be observed. Thus, if the Sun coronation, and they died on. the same day. To
appears to be "in Aries" at the time of your birth, follow up on this- fascinating subject, I would
you are said to be an Aries.
strongly recommend Joseph Goodavage's
But there are many more factors in your per- Astrology: The Space Age Science, from which
sonality than your Sun si^. (Isn't that a grea!t the above anecdote was taken.
relief?) There are the positions of all the other
To follow up on Astrology in General, I
planets to be considered, including the Moon. recommend Davison; Astrology, and Mayor,
There is your ascendant to consider. (Your Teach Yourself Astrology.
ascendant is the zodiac constellation that was
rising at the time of your birth - stars rise and set REVIEW
too!) There are the planetary positions in relation
to each other and in relation to your ascendant to
consider. The former are called "aspects" and the
latter, the "houses" of the planets.
To add to the complication, a "horoscope," - the
By Richard Kornberg
true meaning of which is: a setting down of all the
information already mentioned in the form of a
"Sisters of Mercy" recently opened at the
celestial "map" - can be "progressed." Theatre De Lys in Greenwich Village. It is
"Progressing" a horoscope is charting the described as a musical journey into the words of
"native's" (subject of the horoscope) life, year by Leonard Cohen and it is a trip, that for the most
year, by means too complex to discuss within the part, should be avoided.
scope of this article.
It is possible that some people -- essentially
The next question to consider is: how the those already committed to the Cohen brand
relationship between the planets and human of poetry - will find much to like in this ninety
affairs is established. In short, "How does it minute excursion. For me, it was rough sailing.
Work?" There's a theory for every astrologer.
While comparisons are not always fair, a
Fortunately, there's a way to approach this similarity of intention between this and "Jacques
question in spite of this fact. The Theories fall into Brel's Alive and Well and Living in Paris," comes
two basic categories; the Synchronicity theory and to mind. Both are essentially night club acts being
the Cosmic Ray theory.
performed by small, vocally sound, casts, in front
The "Synchronicity" theory (I am adapting it of unnecessary sets, in the less than intimate
from Jung's coining of the term) says that human surroundings of a legitimate theatre. While they
events occur according to a pattern. The planets' exclusively feature the works of their respective
movements are determined as well. Hence if a composers, only "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well"
human event repeats itself every certain amount of succeeds as a total entity, rich musically as well as
years with any regularity, a corresponding dramatically.
astrological event occurs with the same frequency,
Possibly the fauh lies with the conception itself.
and just as the appearance of Gemini overliead at Using Cohen's thoughts as a bridge between the
page 15
Nutshell flstrologj^
Sisters Of merci^
musical numbers does not provide a satisfactory
binding, with most of the random musings
distinctly working against the mood of the songs
about to be heard.
The only topic seemingly on Cohen's mind is the
female body and we grow, increasingly weary
toward his frustrations. The sensitivity associated
with an aching crotch becomes as intolerable to an
audience as it is to the bearer, since the audience is
forced to sit and listen to the wailings of this selfcentered chauvinist pig. Women, especially fifteen
years old are simply objects to fondle, and Cohen's
words become as limp as ...
While his songs do raise above the afore
mentioned impotency. they tend to have a
sameness that does not make for a satisfying
prograa. There are thankfully, some haunting
exceptions to this rule with Gale Garnett's (of
We'll Sing in the Sunshine fame) rendition of One
of Us Cannot Be Wrong being the evening's
highlights. The gospel spirit of "Diamonds In The
Mind" and the beauty of the ever popular
"Suzanne" also hit their mark. But three songs do
not make an evening.
After sitting through this diatribe audiences are
entitled to scream for mercy. And as for our sisters
" You've come a long way baby - something that
Leonard Cohen does not appreciate. But he seems
to have spent all his time appreciating himself.
riipipipipipipipipipipipipipipipip
A few words are in order about Sylvia Miles'
play, "Nellie O'Toole & Co.." now playing at the
Theatre Four on West 55th Street.
Liberation is also the topic of Peter Keveson's
interesting play. But in this case it is more a drama
of the mind.
Ms.. Miles portrays a woman who has seemingly
succeeded in her goals. She is a successful advertising executive with a beautiful home and
money to burn. But her life is just a bit more
complex and she is forced into a "Games People
Play" existence.
The acting is first-rate, with the performance of
Sylvia Miles and Stefan Gierasch adding meat to
the bones of this evocative drama.
�page 14
cont from p7 Sti|| mofe Letteis
Also, we had to act out skits in class to farther
this perverted line of thinking. In one we had to
play a foreman (AO pejrsnading an assembly
worker (Joe) to work overfiit* On the weekend for
the benefit of the big boss (Mister XI) At first Joe
was adverse to this, because it was his eighteenth
wedding anniversary, and he'd made special plans
with his wife. But by this time the "Als** had no
qualms—they were even creative in their persuasion—and the "Joes" had mainly been trained
to accept the overtime. Mr. Gellerman was very
happy with the result of the skit. I was outraged.
The material handed out in class backed this up
"intellectually"—mainly current articles from
Business Weeli, Psychology Today, Business
ind Finance, and such periodicals. They explained new techniques for "humanizing" work—
to get greater productivity, less absenteeism, and
less conflict from the "hired help" all around,
What this really meant was described by one
article as KITA—a "kick in the ass", or mental
and physical coercion and trickery. Another article
explained that new methods were necessary
because the workers already had all they wanted or
needed: fantastically high pay, job security, cozy
working conditions, and fringe benefits "beyond
the wildest welfare state dreams"! One of the two
"texts" for the course was Robert Townsend's Up
the Organization. In general, the material could
prove nothing but damaging and misleading to
workers or students, giving us a distorted view of
real life, and training us to manipulate each other
and blame ourselves for our discontents.
At a time when workers are fighting their sense
af alienation on the job—and increasingly worse
pay, inllation, working conditions and lack of
jobs—I consider this course to be an example of
the insidious manipulation fostered by the new
"psychotherapists"of management.
I think the course and Mr. Gellerman should be
removed from the roster at Richmond—it has no
place ..ere, except to hurt us. I would be interested
in other students' opinions on manipulative
courses, and how to fight them, especially
psychology.
[Editor's Note: The author has given us material
from the course to back up his claims, but wishes
to remain anonymous for now, for good reasons.
We print such a long letter, not only because the
course seems horrible in itself, but because it
seems to indicate the direction in which
"education" in New York is moving. Is this what
the Keppel Commission means by gearing college
to the "needs of the business community"? We
invite students and faculty—and the Curriculum
md Instruction and P&B Committees—to write to
us, and take action!
STATIM-ISLAUD
Richmond Times
Chile
5,000 dead processed in one Santiage hospital
alone. He termed the coup "facist...reminiscent of
Nazi Germany" and "totally counterrevolutionary." He termed democratic socialism a
failure and the moment of truth to be faced is that
"social justice cannot be achieved through
peacefal, democratic means" - big business and
those in privileged positions will not aalow it.
Stephen Torgoff called it a joke to believe that
United States was not involved in the coup with
one yilion dollars having been invested by the
United States, largely by the Rockefeller (Chilean
corporations). Morgan and Mellon (Chilean mines)
interests. He revealed that Augustine Edwards, an
American, who owns the only newspapers still
permitted to publish in Chile is vice-president of
Pepsi-Cola, which not only provides drink foo
members of the "Pepsi generation" in Chile but
provides for its beer and fruit juice drinkers as
well. He also revealed that in spite of large areas of
good farmlands (major portions of which were
owned by Ralston-Purina), food had to be imported. The economic emphasis was on mining
coal and copper for exportation to the U.S. Would
American imperialist interests really allow all that
to go down the drain? He called the period from
Allende's election to the coup""a special kind of
democracy," essentially reformist but one that
provided the conditions under which people like
those in the "Campamento Nueva Havana" could
organize themselves. But, he also said that those
conditions were not enough. No effort was made to
Club Notes
ON THE PLANNING BOARD
1. A plan has been submitted to the Engineering
Society for Tutoring groups. SINCE, in our experience as engineering students, tutoring is better
done in a group level rather than in an individual
level.
It has been proposed that a tutor shall be obtained by a student applying through the Society,
which then will check the ability of the student
from the faculty. If excepted, the tutor will receive
a group of students, which will meet once or twice
a week for an hour.
The tutor will be compensated at a rate per hour
per student. This rate is pending until the society
can obtain proper funding and student interest.
2. A Christmas party to be held before wintei
recess. All members interested in a party, please
see Ted.
NOTES
The Engineering Society would like to give their
thanks to Andrea Jay and Janet McLeod for their
great cooperation during the summer months in
helping out the Society.
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.The Graduate History Club, though financially
msn & womm
Graduate Historic Club
11-7 daily
ICC STIiyVKSAMT •>!..
embarrassed, is still alive and kicking, meeting
regularly on Tuesdays at 6:15, Room 500
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reform the Army which has always represented the
Chilean ruling class. The largest single party of
Allende's popular unity coalition, the Communist
Party, supposedly representing the working class,
actually agreed to things like the gun control lawwhich was used by the military as an excuse for
daaly raids on factories in search of guns during
the last weeks before the coup. In the final analysis
it is the Chilean people who count and "have
everything to win and nothing to lose by driving
the imperialists out."
Note: The second part on The Chile Forum will be
on the speech given by Jaime Puyana.
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Our disappearing budget (see last Times) was
discussed at the latest meeting; it seems another
$10,000 or so has been dispensed since we were
told there was "no money left" for us.* We
decided to raise more hell, and check into the
possibility of separate funding and programs for
graduate students. (GS's pay some 38% of all
student fees-and get about nothing from them
now).
Enthusiastic support for joint party with the
faculty later this month, and for future expedition
to Winterthur, Delaware (main site of
memorabilia of last Revolution, collected by Tories
of next-the DuPonts).
If interested in the club, history, MA or grad
problems.-or anything but palm-reading-please
contact Mike Fogarty in Room 811, or Paul Nelson
at 'ZTS-aSlO.
Ed. Note: There seems to be a confusion here
between student gov't, which allocates budgets,
and RCA which allocated the above memtioned
$10,000.
The Graduate History Club was
organized late last spring after I.C.A.C. had
already allocated all student gov't, funds. RCA is
a separate funding organization.
�Richmond Times
Oct. 16, 1973
Cont. from pg. 12
everyone concerned to a planning conference at NYU, November 17-18, to
develop
overally strategy for fighting racism in the schools. The SICC
student governmentlias formed its own committee on.racism, headed by PL'er
Joan Bodden, to organize teach-ins and investigate racism at the school. The
first order of business will be to give Shockley,. and his sponsor Birenbaum, a
warm reception in November—a slow bonfire, perhaps.
Here at Richmond we should begin organizing our own movement against
racism, tying it to the school cutbacks, lack of jobs, and other conditions we are
all affected by. Our plans now are:
'
—Regular meetings at the Times office (Room 539) every Wednesday at 3
o'clock.
^
—An open forum on racism and Richmond College for Wedfffesday, Oct. 24.,
—Build for the CAR conference at NYU, November 17-18.
—And join with students and faculty at SICC to kick Nazi Shockley and his
genocidal ideas into the ground, November 21. NO FREE SPEECH FOR
RACISTS!
Everyone interested in learning more about this, and helping build the
movement against racism, please get in touch with us at the Times office, or
call me at 273-3510.
The Richmond Times-'
sponsor^ Photography
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continuesDeadline is Oct. 30-In
case you missed our first
edition, the rules are:
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2. All photos must be
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ir'xl4" in size!
3. All photos must be
relevant to student life at
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4. You must be a
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to enter.
What's in it fbr you?
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page 15
Dear Students:
We STRIVE for student POWER and WHAT HAPPENS??? It never
fails. When Student Elections Come Around
THERE'S NOBODY VOTING!!!
So we BEG AND PLEAD AND ENTICE you to run and then what happens?
THERE'S NOBODY VOTING!!!
And when the president finally approves our 99th election, What happens? THOSE ELECTED DON'T SHOW UP AT THEIR respective
COMMITTEES!!
Enough of the absurdities. It's time for a change. |Got any spare
changes?}
WE NEED HONEST PEOPLE TO RUN FOR POSITIONS ON
STUDENT GOVERNMENT, STUDENT FACULTY COMMITTEES,
AND RCA POSITIONS. Anyone who is a matriculated Richmond
College student pays an activity fee and is automatically a member of
Richmond College Association. Write-ins allowed!
Engineering Contest
OCTOBER IS ELECTION MONTH
ELECTIONS OCTOBER 23-26th
CONSIDER RICHMOND COLLEGE A GOOD POLLING PLACE
EXPOSE YOURSELF IN THE RICHMOND TIMES
1) The Project must be in the engineering field.
2) The project may be submitted by one or more students. All students who
enter must be registered at Richmond College.
3) The project outline must be handed in by Oct. 26, 1973 to the engineering
society mail box next to room 542.
4) A maximum of fifty dollars will be funded to each project accepted. A
minimum of six projects will be sponsored.
5) Prizes will be awarded to the top three winners.
6) The project can be used as I.E.E.E. papers or can be used as independent
study credit on instructor approval
Co-sponsored by the
I.E.E.E.
And Engineering Society
�Richmond Times
page16
Oct. 16, 1973
I do not underestimate the time required of those serving on the Task
Forces, but cannot help but feel that the significance of this endeavor, by
which the character and future of the College w i l l be largely determined, w i l l
move faculty, students and staff to participate.
I would, therefore, ask that
those willing to serve volunteer or nominate those whom they believe can contribute
to the work.
You might indicate the areas of your special interests.
I w i l l also
be consulting with the Divisional Chairpersons and Deans to .«?erure nominees and
assure the appointment of balanced and capable Task Forces.
Please indicate your
willingness to serve or address nominations or other communications to Professor Blei,
The Planning Office, Room-925, (Telephone Extension 3 and 4) ~ no later than
Thursday, October 18th.
Touster
Acting President
If Groucho Could Do It,
So Could You,
Spend A Night Rt The Opera
WHEN? SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1973
(approximately 5 - 1 1 P.M.)
WHAT? 1/RIGOLETTO by Guiseppe Verdi, one
of the best-loved operas of all times. Especially
recommended for those of you who normally
shy away from opera and ohter "serious"
music. Opera lovers welcome too, though! 2/
Social hour and dinner at Lincoln Center, prior to
opera.
PRICE? $4.25 per ticket. Dinners: $2.50 - 3.75
TRANSPORTATION: We are going to charter a
bus for those who buy their tickets immediately.
The cost is $2.75 each (round trip).
WHO? A limited number of tickets are available
for members of the Richmond College Community, their spouses and their friends.
HOW? Bring or mail your check (for opera and
bus tickets) to:
Ms. Grace Carter
Cultural Affairs Office
Richmond College (Street Level)
Make c h e c k s payable to: " T H E A T R E
PARTY".
(You pay for your own dinner & refreshments at
Lincoln Center).
This should provide a congenial setting for
bringing students, faculty and staff and their
relatives and friends from the community together
for an enjoyable experience. Come join us, but H-UR-R-Y!!!("First come, first serve"). And do bring
him/her/them along!!
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FOR SALE: Pilot stereo pre-amp and amplifier $60; Miracord turntable XS $25; AM-FM tuner
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util. Call 727-6000, ext. 103 (10AM-4:30PM) Ask
for Jim. Or 8-9AM, 5PM-12PM call 442-5247.
Apt. is on same block as school.
APT. TO SHARE: Looking for responsible human
person to share my large 5-room apt. Plenty of
space and privacy. Location - Stapleton. Call 720- ,
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HONEST HARDWORKING YOUNG WOMAN
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