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'Take It Easy
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good faith and really held
nothing personal against their
men, the women adopted a
policy of "nigger nobility." By
acting on grounds of virtue and
generosity, they defeated
themselves, because, according
to Ms. Kennedy, nobody who
has the power today cares about
"all that good stuff. Asking for
freedom is not the same as not
needing alimony. House work is
the only work I know of, not
counting slavery, that is not
paid, and it's also probably the
only work today that ever gets
noticed when it's not done."
When she began to consider
the means by which women may
throw off the pall of guilt, her
analysis expanded even further
into sabotage against the system
as a whole. If she wants to
frustrate the system, any woman
must first take stock of her
power, and Ms. Kennedy
outlined three powers allotted to
any outgroup: body power,
political power, and dollar
power. The first she shrugged off
as part of the masochistic trip,
and the second she labelled an
empty gesture of "choosing
pigocrats from the two or three
choices they give you." The
crucial power is in the dollar,
and women, as the consumers of
the nation, have the ability to
wage all-out economic guerrilla
warfare. "In New York, every
month we hold boycotts, only
we don't call them boycotts
anymore, because that's too
masculine. We thought about
girlcotts, but that wouldn't do,
and we didn't like womancott
either, so we finally decided on
apres-cotts," apres because the
actions are strictly retaliatory.
"Everybody is gonna' have
something to do in '72 ... Get
your little heads together, play
the most diabolical tricks you
can. Peace vigils have had it. The
masochistic trip is not needed. I
definitely do not dig the
Kamikaze contingent . . . Why,
it's gonna be an utter, absolute
gas of a year! You just want to
let them know that they aren't
sacred . . . Take it easy, but take
it!"
Florynce Kennedy is a
well-known radical lawyer in
New York City. She is currently
involved in bringing suit against
the Catholic Church for its
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been involved in both the black
and feminist movements. She is
director of Media Workshop and
also of Consumer Information
Service in the City. In addition
to her other activities, she has
taught a course on
"Institutionalized Oppression"
at Alternate U. in New York.
She has written two books and
contributed to the anthology
Sisterhood is Powerful.
New Program
At Roosovelt U.
Chicago, 111. - (1.P.) -
Students at Roosevelt University
are looking into the future as
part of a special innovative
seminar. Entitled "Visions of the
Future," the seminar, which was
developed at the request of
students and planned with their
assistance, is being offered for
the first time.
It is part of Roosevelt's new
Innovative Studies Program, an
experimental program designed
as an alternative to the
traditional methods and
curricula of education.
Because the Innovative
Studies Program emphasizes
self-directed learning, the
student will receive credit for
this course by creating a project
that defines his own vision of
the future.
The Heart of.the Innovative
Studies Program is the core
sequence of four courses
required of all students electing
the program. These courses,
which will be team-taught by
two faculty members, are
seminars which introduce the
student to the major fields of
study: humanities, social
sciences and natural sciences.
The first of the four core
courses, "Introduction to
Learning," designed to help the
student develop a philosophical
basis for his own approach to
learning, will be offered during
the Spring 1972 semester.
In addition to these courses,
the program will include
interdisciplinary seminars, such
as the one on the future. These
THE GUILFORDIAN
Prison Life Related
"You don't understand what
it is to lose your freedom. And
even if a man gets outta them
walls, he's still gotta duck and
dodge the man and them
hounds. There's no place for a
man to run."
These words are from Don
Bryan, an inmate at the
McLeansville Diagnostic Center
who came with two
other prisoners, Floyd Jenkins
and Harold Wilson, to the Union
Lounge Monday, December 6, to
are designed so that students can
pursue specific problems in
depth and are open to all
undergraduate students,
regardless of whether they are
enrolled in the Innovative
Studies Program.
Beginning next spring, 30
students in good standing
who have accumulated fewer
than 30 hours of credits will be
admitted to the program each
semester. Admittance is based
on an essay and interview.
"Participants in the program
will not be chosen on the basis
of their previous academic
records, but rather on their
seriousness of intent, intellectual
competence and awareness of
the issues relevant to the
program and themselves,"
Professor Norman Leer,
coordinator of the program,
advised.
Because a major goal of the
program is that courses should
be generated through close
interaction of faculty and
students, a committee of faculty
and students will govern the
program.
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speak to interested students
about some of the problems of
prisoners and correctional
institutions.
The three were brought to
Guilford by Richard "Shark"
DeKoyer who is presently doing
field work with the N.C.
Department of Corrections at
that institution.
Bryan, who qualified his
remarks with "Whatever I say is
me," spoke of the boredom that
plagues prisoners. "It's the same
old same old," Bryan said
describing their lives in which
prisoners work five days a week
and other than that, "having
nothing to do but lay around in
the dormitories with a few
games."
He issued pleas to those on
the outside to sponsor prisoners,
to take them out to see their
girlfriends or just walk around
downtown or on a campus, or to
visit, "sit down and talk and
maybe bring a few records."
Bryan pointed to prison
officials as being one of the
greatest deterents to satisfactory
living conditions for prisoners.
He described them as people
who mostly have only high
school diplomas and who tend
to resent any "interference,"
like programs to tutor or
sponsor prisoners.
He stated that most officials
aren't aware of the true feeling
of the inmates: "They don't
even try to figure out what goes
on in a man's head." Bryan said
the officials saw their role as one
of a custodian who has final say
in all matters.
Bryan spoke in broader terms
of readjusting to society after
release from prison. "They keep
asking if you're rehabilitated, if
you're ready for society, but
man, I wanna know is society
ready for me? What you mean
by rehabilitation? Carry yourself
in a correct manner? That's not
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my definition. You make it
sound like what I did, what I
used to do, I'm learning to do
better. You really wanna know
if I've got reform."
Bryan went on to discuss the
problems involved with
readjusting to society. "Even
when we get out, it's society
that fucks us all. If a crime
happens in the neighborhood
where an ex-inmate is living, he
is immediately suspect and if his
case goes up, even if he is
acquitted, his parole officer is
waiting to drag him back to
prison."
"Society, the reason I say
they're not ready for us, is it's
always my fault, it's never his
fault, the man's fault," Bryan
said.
Bryan described several
programs which are now in
effect concerning prisoners. The
prison has a contract with the
state to have 45 prisoners out
working in road crews every day.
A law was passed, Bryan said,
stating that as of July of 1972,
this road quota is to be
abolished, but a clause was
added stipulating that if it isn't
feasible to abolish it, it needn't
be abolished.
Work releases are available to
25 inmates. These are paid
positions in skilled work, Bryan
stated, adding that each job is
checked for possible
discrimination. In addition to
anything which would improve
understanding between inmates
and officers, Bryan mentioned
programs which would be of
interest to prisoners.
Bryan stated the need of
prisoners for some outlet for
creativity and special talents. He
called the existing program for
Adult Basic Education a larce
and expounded the need for
helter programs in this area.
Prisoners also need a place to
be alone together, he added,
stating that the only place they
now have is the corner of a
fence.
Currently the prison has a
library which consists of one
eight foot book case with three
shelves of books like Black
Beauty with an average level of
achievment of 4th or sth grade.
Bryan said there is presently a
book drive on at UNC-G which
would add to their library.
The prisoners would also
appreciate the contribution ol
games for inmates to play.
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