The Revolution
Redefined
This is the first generatiai I ever heard of in the history of
mankind that won a revoluti(Mi, toppled the government, over
threw the tyrant, and went to go drink beer and play frisbee. We
need to redefine vihat being spiritual means, and what
revolutionary means.
Revolutionary does not mean going out in the street and
hassling some poor cop w^o’s making six hundred dollars a
month, and he isn’t the one doing it to you anyway. What’s reaUy
revolutionary is to grow your own food, taking the food out of the
profit system. Deliver your own babies, instead of paying a
thousand dollars a whack at a hospital every time you have a
baby. Learn how to fix things instead of joining in the black box
economy. The art of fixing things is almost lost in this country.
You take something in to be fixed and they replace several parts
including the one that was broken, at a high price, and they junk
the rest of it.
Get outside that system. If you’re in the kind of economy
■jrtiere you’re holding a lot of paper, w^en it faUs apart you’re
going to be stuck with this bundi of paper whidi is highly
inedible. But if you’re working at a level wliere what you’re
holding when it comes apart is beans, it doesn’t matter if you
can’t sell them. You can always eat them. Spend your money on
some used farm equipment and some land.
I look at this depression very optimistically. I think it’s going
to bring about reforms that could not have been brought about
by any demonstrations. I think it’s going to bring about the old
ideals of sharing and cooperation v^ch could never have been
brought about by talking or by force, but which are going to be
brought about the hard way: by the raw economy of the
situation. The main thing is for us to be sure, while all this goes
down, that everybody gets fed and nobody really gets hunt.
Don’t spend a lot of money on minor junk. I think we should all
give up drinking booze and smoking cigarettes. Not only is that
stuff not good for you, but half the money you spend on it goes to
the government to build more weapons and have more wars;
and the other half goes to the support of the national breweries
and tobacco corporations - which are not exactly the most
revolutiffliary outfits. Did you ever hear of a really forward-
looking, compassionate booze company?
There is a prevailing viewpoint that says it’s okay for one per
son to be richer than a small country w*ile a third of the people
in the world starve to death. “Just because this is the prevailing
viewpoint doesn’t prevent if from being bizarre.”
It is not revolutiwiary to hang out on welfare. Did you know
that eighty per cent of toe money collected in taxes comes from
the wage-eamers, since rich folks and big businessmen have
such good lawyers that they don’t have to pay taxes. So when
you’re running on welfare, you’re running on the energy of truck
drivers, taxi drivers, ditch diggers, and folks Uke that.
A revolution is not about hurting people. A revolution is about
making changes. Hie question is, do you want to fight, or do you
want to make changes.. And if you can diange it without
fighting, “how groovy.” It really beats fighting.
-Stephen Gaskin
1976 The Farm News Service
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Joel Oppenheimer
EDITORIAL
Thanks, Joel
“The Lance” thanks Joel Oppenheimer for coming here and
sharing himself with us during Winter Term. We hope the
college will continue to support the January Writer-In-
Residence position for the opportunity it offers student writers
to exchange ideas with a full-time professional writer, and for
the enjoyment and insights that the entire community gains
from their readings, workshops, and everyday impromptu
discussions.
We wish Joel a speedy healing of his thumb, which he
broke in a recent ice skating fall, and hope that he, Nathaniel,
and Lemuel will come back and visit us often. Thanks to “The
Caim” and the Assemblies and Public Events Committee for
making their visit here possible.
We Goofed!
The LANCE apologizes for the stupid error in last week’s issue
regarding our new Assistant Dean of Residential Life Robert
Dame. His last name is Danoe, not Dane as we incorrectly put.
Also, Curtis Wall’s name should have appeared in place of Qoil
Spann’s in the list of cross country players who finished in the
top five in the Dixie Conference meet. Ita that same article Jack
Hoge’s name should have read Jacob Houge.
that
To the Editor:
Though I grant
students should be
aware of the Senate’s aeti*
and further granrthJt
Dean of Students was direcj
involved in the Senate
recent reorganization of ft.
Judicial I someho
bristle at Dean Santa Maria!
haste to pubUcize the decision
herself. The Senate itseH
should inform us of its at
tions; failure to do so demon
strates an important ab
dication of responsibiUty, But
the Dean has also acted
irresponsibly; when the ad
ministration sees fit to usurp
even the least consequential
of student functions
sometiiing has obviously gone
wrong.
Admittedly, the matter is a
minor one, but the precedent
it could establish disturbs me.
In the future, I hope to seethe
Senate speak for itself.
Stuart Swain
(Editor’s note: Perhaps some
of the blame lies with me.
Senate Vice-President Donald
McKenzie gave me the
memorandum written by
Dean Santa-Maria coneeming
the judicial reorganization,
and said 1 may want to pass
the news on to the student
body in any form I wished to,
I decided to simply run the
entire memorandum in tlie
form of a letter, instead of ex
cerpting the news of the
reorganization as a separate
article. The memorandum
was written by Dean Santa-
Maria “To All Students” and
had been posted on the
bulletin board outside the
cafeteria for some time. But
Donald, by passing the
memorandum on to me, was
trying to inform the students
of the news.)
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