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While recently studying "13 ways of
looking through a pompous pedant or
perhaps it was "What Maisie Shew: Tales
of an Exhibitionist,' it was decided to
launch a random sampling. The Algernon
Merriwether Birdwell school of anemic
prose wanted to find out where Edward
Dahlberg fits in the groves of academe.
Two questions were used. Who is
Edward Dahlberg andor what do you
think of him? The shock of
nonrecognition hit us heavily. One
undergraduate thought awhile and then
gave this carefully considered answer:
"Well, Aparicio's aging but he's got a lot
of savvy. Even though Dahlberg had a
good season at Pittsfield, I don't think he
can beat out the old pro.'
Another student was confident
Dahlberg was a key figure in the Jewish
Defense League. Another opinion was
that "he's a good character actor who
deserves more recognition. Perhaps a
cameo part on "The Bold Ones" would
advance his career.
As was expected, the count was 1 5-0.
No one knew who Edward Dahlberg was
or we suspect, much cared. But friends,
Edward Dahlberg is a man of letters, not
a well-known or well-paid one, not one
who runs for mayor of New York or
covers the Ali-Frazier fight. And, we are
convinced, not a man of letters who is
normally taught in universities or
colleges. So far as we know, the elevation
of Edward Dahlberg isn't underway. It
probably hasn't even started.
When poet Jonathan Williams was here
last 'fall, he showed one slide of Edward
Dahlberg. He also showed some slides of
Herman Melville's grave, near a subway
and Gertrude Stein's grave, scrupulously
hidden from the public. Neglect has too
often been the lot of America's writers.
As we looked at the color frame of
Dahlberg. it wasn't apparent he had been
abused by the reading public. Standing
there, sporting tweeds and a military
mustache, he looked the picture of good
health. Perhaps Mr. Dahlberg has good
digestion, doesn't lie awake nights and
isn't overly concerned about his lack of
recognition.
Nevertheless, Edward Dahlberg's
writings deserve a close, fair-minded
reading. He deserves better standing than
to be thought of as Aparicio's
competition at shortstop. The intriguing
possibility exists that Dahlberg has been
consigned to relative oblivion because of
his j unconventional opinions. Mr.
Dahlberg's opinions , pack considerable
clout and are thoroughly disarming for
anyone steeped im . the i canonized
' American figures in "la vie litteraire.'V.L
hqMr. Dahlberg has attacked
'Heiningway, Faulkner, Eliot Pound,
: Edmund Wilson, practically everyone
dear to the heart of even a provincial
pedant. And of that towering edifice,
Joyce's "Ulysses." Dahlberg has written:
"The 'Ulysses' of James Joyce is the story
of the scatological sybarites of the
business world; it is a twenty-four hours'
journey through ordure; a street-urchin's
odyssey of a doddering phallus . . . There
is a labial failure in 'Ulysses' similar to the
confusion of tongues of the people in the
plains of Shinar; the noises in the belly in
the belly and the rasping and hawking of
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There you have it. Edward Dahlberg
doesn't gingerly go after great books or
the great men who wrote them. He is
outspoken. But he has never evidenced
any belief that some things are better left
unsaid. Edward Dahlbert has spent the
better part of his life saying the
unsayable. He has dedicated his literary
career to nay-saying. The rewards have
been small.
Born in 1900, Dahlberg's life has been
the antithesis of accepted routes for
American writers. Dahlberg emerged from
Kansas City. How remarkable it is then
that a writer from the Midwest, where
American pillars of wisdom are widely
held, has pilloried those same values.
Fatherless, Dahlberg remembered his
mother Lizzie in "Because I Was Flesh"
(1964), an autobiography more original,
striking and candid than any comparable
work. For Dahlberg, his mother
combined the qualities of all three Marys
in the New Testament. His triple image
could have seemed ludicrous. Dahlberg
redeemed it with typical ease. Finding
echoes of these three women in Lizzie's
life makes them Jive again for us.
Dahlberg, like Jesus, is sure he alone
truly possesses his mother. So she is Mary
the Virgin Mother. She becomes Mary the
Magdalene as the author watches her run
through a rapid succession of suitors who
have sex with her. Perhaps the most
difficult Mary to re-create is the sister of
Lazarus. But once again, Dahlberg
emerges triumphant. She is Lazarus' sister
because Dahlberg's adolescent memories
of Lizzie Dahlberg make her his sister. As
he wanders through American as a young
man, he is dead, like Lazarus, until he
makes the pilgrimage home to his mother.
Working in 'New York in the 1920s,
Dahlberg met Sherwood Anderson and
Theodore Dreiser. When he is dancing
lyrically over literary orthodoxy's grave,
Dahlberg recalls Anderson and Dreiser
with some fondness. Yet, for Dreiser, the
praise is qualified. These two writers
knew Edward Dahlberg when he was only
beginning to develop his unique prose
style.
Dahlberg's first book, "Bottom Dogs,"
appeared in 1921. It won the author only
small recognition. D.H. Lawrence wrote a
strident, tepid introduction to "Bottom'
Dogs" and Dahlberg's career was
launched.
Lawrence said: 'The style seems to me
excellent. Fitting the matter. It is sheer
bottom-dog style, the bottom-dog mind
expressing itself direct, almost as if it
barked. That directness, that
unsentimental and non-dramatized
thoroughness of setting down .the
under-dog mind surpasses anythmg I
know. I don't want to read any more
books like this. But I am glad to have
read this one, just to know what is the
last word in repulsiven consciousness,
consciousness in a state of repulsion. It
helps one to understand the world, and
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follow out the
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being."
Lawrence used "Bottom Dogs" as the
focus for a diatribe against the rot in
American society. Which is unfortunate.
Lawrence could have used the space to
good advantage if he had written about
Lorry, the anti-hero of "Bottom Dogs."
Lorry bums around-Salt Lake City,
Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
In LA, Lorry comes to live at the
Y.M.CA. Down and out at the Y, Lorrie
is captured with seift, accurate
impressions. And there is "The After
Bible Coffee Class," a scenario whose
cockeyed lunacy strikes us as eminently
right for Dahlberg's purposes.
If -men are really the substance from
which dreams are made, then what sort of
bizarre dreams might an imagination
make out of the characters who people
Dahlberg's sordid, soiled world?
Existence wasn't so pretty in
Dahlberg's early novels. His tragic view of
existence was popular among the left's
literati in the 1930's. Dahlberg halped
organize and participated in the first
American Writers Congress held in 1935.
Dahlberg felt in the 1930's and
undoubtedly feels now that the times are
out of joint.
Modern American life seems to appall
Dahlberg. It's for this reason, if no other,
saves one the
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IUNC Class today: "How to Fight
Male Chauvinist Pigs." (Dr. Joan Joesting,
929-1475, 8 p.m. in Cobb Dorm Lobby
by piano . . . "techniques in combatting
sexism will be discussed.'
There will be an open meeting of the .
Peoples Peace Treaty Coalition tonight at--.-7
at the Student Union in room 205 and .
-SLMR.
Alpha Epsilon Delta will meet Monday
night, March 15, in room 106 of the Basic
Medical Sciences Building. Any AED
member interested in attending the
Southeastern Regional Conference in
Biloxi, Miss, from March 26 to March 28
may call Jay Pringle at 933-4725 for
further details.
Tonight at the Newman Center, a
lecture on 'Trends and directions of
today's church" will be given by Dr. Don
Staib, Superintendent of Catholic
Schools of the Raleigh diocease at 8. All
are invited. - - - -.
A dramatic reading ; ofc Antoine de
Saint Exupery's -'The Little Prince'-will
be given Monday, March 22 at 8 p.m. -
Professor Clifford Quails of the
University of New Mexico will speak on
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that he should be read by students and
their mentors. Dahlberg reverences his
literary forbears, castigates a number of
kis contemporaries and is more closely
skin to Thoreau than any American
writing today. Dahlberg's anger at
modern life hasn't dimmed with years. If
anything, the anger come to full
fruition with the bitter lessons of
experience.
In "Can These Bones Live" Dahlberg
"wrote an essay entitled "Thoreau vs.
Contemporary America." "7 aid en" is
. . . the secular bible of our ethics. What
it hints of how to resist evil, society,
patriotism, poverty and war we dare no
core neglect. How to resist? Therein lie
all the morals and all the terror of this
"world." Elsewhere in the essay, Dahlberg
opined, "When Thoreau said that the
mass of men lead lives of quiet
desperation he read the funerary lines of
Western man." Mr. Dahlberg concludes
that we desperately need "Walden"
today, that its lore should be tucked
away in the interstices of our hearts.
The same is absolutely true of any one
of Edward Dahlberg's books. He is the
quintessential American author. And he is
acutely, frightfully relevant. Why he isn't
being taught or discussed or argued about
eludes me. It may be because he doesn't
belong to the literary Establishment and
hasn't walked away with any major
literary laurels. Mr. Dahlberg is concerned
with the body. He is concerned with his
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student" this afternoon at 4 in 265
Phillips Hall.
t Professor Quails is spending the
. present academic year on sabbatical leave
with the Statistics Department of UNC at
, .Chapel Hill. Professor Quails obtained his
Ph.D. at the University of California,
-Riverside, in 1967, and since then has
';been on the faculty of th University of
'New Mexico. His partiular research
interest is in the stud' of Gaussian
processes and crossing proems.
Tea and coffee will be served at 3:30
in 277 Phillips Lounge, Phillips Hall.
Everyone is cordially invited.
The History Student Association will
:hbld a meeting for all interested persons
fon Wednesday, March 17 at 7:30 p.m. in
Room 112, Saunders Hall. New officers
will be elected and the future of the
Association will be discussed. All history
majors are especially urged to attend.
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By talking with students I have discovered the problems and issues students are most concerned with and which of these problems can be
solved with practical solutions.s. These are the issues I have found to be most on the students minds. I conclude that this can safely be
called "our platform.
ACADEMIC REFORM. Pass-fdl courses should be extended to courses in one's major. Students should also be offered the option to take a
course again that he has previously failed and thus remove the failure completely from his record. This would not punish freshmen and
others who have done poorly to begin with but now have a desire to learn and improve. Students should also be allowed to drop courses any
time until the last week in the semester, regardless of his grade in that class, without it penalizing him.
STUDENT LEGAL COUNSEL. This would allow students the right to legal counsel in major legal difficulties and would be invaluable
. especially to students involved with violations of drug laws. As the first candidate to advocate full time legal counsel, I believe that the first
step in making this a reality would be for me to give my $1,650 salary as student body president toward this important student need.
A NEW AND PRACTICAL BUS SYSTEM. The governor of one south campus dorm calculated that many students on South Campus spend
approximately $90 per year to ride the bus. While this figure may be somewhat high, it is still an added expense burden to those students
forced to live on south campus. Ideally, the University should fulfill this service but the chances for this prospect are remote. A more
practical solution would be sell students a ticket for $5 which would permit them to use the bus system at any time during the year. The
bus should alter its routes to include two trips up torn and to Eastgate Shopping Center per hour. A direct result would be lower prices at
the center for students. The bus should also operate until women's closing hours.
EXPANDED PARKING FACILITIES. There is no need to require students to register cars when the University canno guarantee them a
parking space. Expansion of parking facilities on south campus through use of registration fees would give students in apartments and
fraternities a parking place and they could then ride the bus to and from class.
STUDENT CONSUMER PROTECTION AGENCY. This agency should constantly compare prices in Chapel Hill with those of merchants in
10-15 towns across the state in order to bring Chapel Hill prices in line with competition throughout the state. The results of this weekly
study would be published in the Daily Tar Heel showing which three merchants were most exploiting students and which three merchants
were giving students the better bargains. The threat of boycott and the reward of increased trade to Chapel Hill businesses would result
lower prices for all students.
STUDENT UNION SHOULD STAY OPEN ALL NIGHT. This would create a much needed study area when the library closes and as a late
night social center. The student information desk could remain open all night More telephones should be installed to relieve congested
information lines.
STUDENT GOVERNMENT RENTALS. Last year Student Government made $2,500 profit on refrigerator rentals. I believe Student
Government should lower the rental price to students so that we serve rather tha n exploit students. More refrigerators should be made
available to students along with television sets. If students would like to purchase these units, the rental price should be applied toward the
purchase price.
REFRIGERATOR QUOTAS. The University should remove the quotas for refrigerators since they require less electricity than a light bulb.
The University has feared the the refrigerators would increase the number of hotplates and this would prevent an electrical problem. Thus,
instead of rewiring the older dorms at considerable expense and time, the University could save much time and money by installing just one
kitchen unit on every floor.
UNIVERSITY HOUSING POLICY. The University should not require any student to live in any dorm after the first semester of the
freshman year. If students wer allowed to decide their own visitation rules, paint their room walls as they wished, etc. then I believe more
students would choose to live in the less expensive dorms and the need to live in dorms would be non-existant Room rent prices should be
set according to operating costs for each individual dorm. Thus, students would be rewarded for taking extra care of their floors and living
units.
MARRIED STUDENT HOUSING. The University should bufld more apartments for marriied students as this is a vital need. The costs could
be more than repaid through rent payments.
TICKET DISTRIBUTION. The students should be given priority over alumni for football and basketball events. At the recent ACC
Tournament, all of the tickets allocated to UNC were given to the Ram's Club thus preventing any students from receiving them.
GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDENT GOVERNMENT. This organization should receive allocations directly from the University
and not have to petition undergraduate student government which is rightfully theirs.
DECENTRALIZATION. I believe that if Student Government is to survive, much of its power must be given back to the residence colleges.
The resident colleges should make their own decisions and spend their portion of student fees to better suit the needs of students. Residence
college programs administered on a local level can provide greater service than a more powerful central organization which has often in the
past been politically oriented. . .
STUDENT GOVERNMENT REVISIONS. I will give each student a copy of the Student Government Constitution and budget so students
can see where and how their money is being spent. A limit for campaign expenditures should be established to any student to run for
pus office regardless of his financial station. A full disclosure of money spent on campus campaign would be in order.
Many student presidents in the past have appointed their advisors and cabinet from those who helped them gain die office. Many times
these students tended to be from a limited spectrum of the student body (Morehead and Richardson Fellows). tthUe it is important to have
the advice of this vitally important segment of the student body, it is essential to have students from many different backgrounds and
interests in order to solve the problems of all the students. Every position which is to be filled by appointment wCl be open to any student
through interviews if I am elected. ... , . M . j .v . -..
These student issues and problems I believe may be solved with efficient an d practical alternatives. If elected, it is to these ends that I wul
dedicate my time and efforts. These problems can only be solved with your help, co-operation and ideas and for these I will be eternally
Jhave learned in the past weeks of this campaign that the major problem facint student government has been its inability to
communicate 'with students. Students have not brought their problems to Student Government in the past and they probably will continue
in this trend. Therefore, if I am elected I will visit every dorm on campus once a month to seek out the problems, issues, and questions
which the students are facing. Only through seekmg questions can we find answers. t , 4
We do not have to buy General Motors stock in order to creat an 'issue or find a cause. Enough of these now exist here. If elected, we
will first devote our attention to UNC students and their needs.
In closing, as a gesture to students weary of seeing our smiling faces at 8 o'clock in the mormng, I promise to remove my cairspan
.rs from the classrooms and dormitories immediately after the election.
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is like to be alive
in a modern world that often blots out
genuine feeling.
His interest in the body is graphically
Illustrated in two books, "The Sorrows of
Priapus" and 'The Carnal Myth." His
sharp criticism of other writers has been
voiced in lectures here and there and in
essays like "Moby Dick: A Hamitic
Drea." He casts verbal shafts at modern
life in a score of novels and in his letters
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trrrred. He borrowed "After intercourse
erery aninul is depressed" from medieval
Europe. Edward Dahlberg's serVilty is
so modern others look like
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belongs in the hands of every
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reader
wnose senses haven't been blunted. He
rightfully belongs to any consideration
under the rubric, "Major American
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