were found objectionable, he said he had not
seen the copy and didn't know, Moore said
"the Administration found the for-letter words
in the first issue of Veritas offensive and
obscene*" Moore was dismissed and Jordan
reaffirmed that both he and the Administration
felt that these words were obscene and
offense*
The prosecution did not even attempt to prove
that the four had written articles containing
what they call obscene words, nor dad he show
there was a publisher, while the charge was
ungentlemanly eonduct for writing and/or
publishing material containing obscene words,*
Nor did he show that these were/6bscene words.
The most he proved was that the Administration
thought they were,
"Guilty as charged." The verdict was not
reached on the b^sis of anything that was
said during the trial. It only had to be
established that the Administration thought
the words were obscene* In the public's
eye they had made a very big scene over
these four who had printed words in the news
paper, and for them to be completely
exonerated (even in the face the soundest
evidence) would cause the College t6 Lose
face* Guilty as charged because to a bunch of
milk toasts, the mast immediate authority
reigns over their minds.
Sc^H
For some mysterious reason it ap
pears to have become common knowledge
that writers are outcast characters,
sometimes ahead of their age, sometimes
behind, but always (or so it seems) at
variance with the standards and propri
eties of the present. In the last five
years the outstanding notorious scribes
are those who have banded into small
groups in order to put into print their
relatively unpopular and generally rad
ical expositions under the dramatic no
menclature of the UNDERGROUND PRESS.
In view of the fact that these contemp
orary controversials are currently ma
king big excitement in the local area,
it could prove valuable tc at least
briefly review, in an ethical tone, -
some of their historic predecessors,
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY - At 18 he ran 'i
away with and married a sixteen-jiear
old girl. The two spent two years wan
dering around the British Isles. Sir
ing of his wife, Shelley ran off with
another young lady, Shelley apparently
felt no sense of guilt for his deser
tion and bigamy, for he felt that "co
habitation without love is immoral."
His first wife drowned herself two
yeat^s later, in a seizure of melancholy(
Shelley's unorthodox life cetainly must
havw alienated many of his countrymen,
but it was his writings that drew the
most abuse. He was regarded by the pub*
lie as well as by his family as an a-
theist, a revolutionary, and much of
his work was considered obscene.
WALT WHITMAN - In expressing those
things which most impressed him as
beautiful. Whitman worte some of Amer
ica's first verse. It is interesting
to note however that his sensuous poe
try offended a large majority of his
contemporaries, who considered such
works as "Children of Adam" in LEAVES
OF GRASS to be grotesquely obscene.
D.H. LAWRENCE - It might be said that
Ltiwrence was the first of all writers
to deal franHicywith sexual intercourse
in a blunt but superbly touching style,
elevating the concept of physical re
lations. To theppabiicvwhich received
his novels he was considered to be a
scandalous figure who work was degen
erating from respectabie to vulgar.
His .novel L»DY CHATTERLY'S LOVER was
unprecedented in the field of serious
literature in it content and style.
The furor with which it was received
has not totally died out.
Gertrude Stein, and^^her circle 'Of
cd«Tr,#«M
All
\«>i^creic Yjkuv
All jocks are
bad, all heads are
(Stood or all jocks
are good, all
heads are bad
sounds like a pre
mise from a first
grade reader. None
the less it's an
assumption readilj/
agreed on from
members of both
the right and the
left.
Only the nar
row minded or a
fool would actual
ly believe the
above first sen
tence! however^ too
often it is a
stumbling block
which is never
crossed. The stu
dents and the ad
ministration of
Elon College be
cause of their
rigid student
classification
have attempted to
place everyone
into different
factions. If a
student associ
ates with a
"group",then it
is assumed that
he bears the chas^'
acteristics of
that "group".
Therefore it is
impossible for a
student to have
ideas other than
those identified
With his "group".
A jock wV’o
thinks all lonp^-
hairs are commu
nist revolution
aries, constantly
stoned and worth
less to society
is no better than
the pseudo-hippy
who wears his
COWT- p5
We live in a world of sex and
politics. Some of the most con"vin“
cing present-day interpretations
(for what interpretations are worth)
are to be found in ConceDtual Art.
Yoko Ono, a self-proclaimed guru of
this art form, credits herself with
the founding of this cuiythough
there is question as to her respon
sibility assumed.
Ever since grade-B movie.actors
have been playing politico, we find
dramatic multi-media theatres show
ing a dubious combination of poli--
tics and art. The most logical
media forms to artfully deal with
this new theatre of the absured are
the ones that artfully deal in the
promotion- of making sense out of
the show - "young", "hip", "smart"
magazin»s. Though my purpose here
is to merely create a Conceptual
Art, and not to advertise, for the
purpose of this criticism, maga-'
zines such as "Aspen",. "Avant Gar
de", and "Rolling Stone", have^
been involved most actively in this
Conceptual Art,
All Conceptual Artists are ae^-
ually, laymen, for to be expert^ is
to be Concieved Art itself, as in
the case of Yoko Ono, Conceptual
Artists are those who concieve what
ever it may be - the concept at
any given time and place. fam
iliarity with horses I feel will
justify my attempt to expand your
mind to the level of realization
that Conceptual Art is like the
American sport horseracing. These
days most anyone can race a horse
and everyone should take a ride oc-
cassionally on some form of concep
tual horse.
Like racing forms in horseracingi
take ? ride on these totally rele
vant and related "inside tips" on
some seemingly irrelevant phrases,
words, and concepts which may help
to provide you with some Conceptual
Art I
. The London Forecast
• Colorado Ski Slopes
. Rare Earth Catalogues
• Kings-as in King Bees, Spades,
Hearts, or the remaining Kings
cowr. p, IX