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©pinion
Freeing the Slaves
A slave mentality is not something one is born
with. Yet, Farber's picture of "The Student As
Nigger" is not far from reality.
We've all heard the complaints about the straight
rows of six desks in five rows of elementary school.
\ud the statistic that the average seventeen year old
IKIS spent over 17,000 watching T.V. surprises no one.
Most people are willing to admit that these long
doses of passivity training have contributed to the
alienation lleatli describes.
So why is it that when the chairs get moved into
a circle and a teacher substitutes the seminar for
traditional lectures, somehow there's not that much
difference? Students still approach the seminars
expecting to be taught, and faculty still Jind
themselves lecturing to fill the void.
If a seminar is not successful, it's probably because
the members don't realize that, in Farber's words,
"Education is not something that is done to
someone." Each participant is trying to educate the
others. It's like a lecture experience with fifteen
lecturers. In the same way that Fa/ber describes
niggers turning into charlies, participants become
Simon LeGrees looking for someone to oppress. The
slave mentality perpetuates itself, and education is still
something done to someone.
Castles Made of Sand
"Who Killed Cock Robin?
7' said the sparrow.
"Who saw him die?
V said the fly.
"All the birds of the air
Fell sighing and sobbing,
When they heard the bell toll
For poor Cock Robin."
-Mother Goose
Marilyn Monroe, Lenny Bruce, Brian Jones, Judy
Garland. Now there is a new addition to the list of
"stars" who are dead; possibly by their own hand.
Jimi Hendrix is dead of a barbituate overdose.
One thing is sure, whether we ever know the exact
circumstances or not. We helped kill them all just as
surely as if we inserted the needle or opened the pill
bottle ourselves. The power of the American masses
to dehumanize and force the stars they idolize into
molds the stars don't seem to fit, seems to be more
than even extraordinary people like Jimi Hendrix can
stand.
A perfect illustration of the decline of Hendrix as
a person while he rose as a star is evident in the
two movies he has appeared in. Compare the Hendrix
you see freaking, laughing, and ecstatic in Monteray
Pep with the Hendrix seen in Woodstock.
In Woodstock one can sense the frustration and
boredom of a person who has been wrenched from
his own dreams and forced to conform to the whims
of his audience.
Charges were made all during his career that he
was a "hype," a "hoax," or a "sex maniac," while
on the other hand, teenyboppers squealed for his
body gyrations and called him "the sexiest man in
rock." It always seemed to me that all he really
wanted to do was play freaky music and have a good
time on the stage.
If the public is not careful, it will kill rock the
way the analysists, overintellectualizers, and idolizers
killed jazz. We need to place less emphasis on the
people as people and concentrate on what they
produce as musicians. Listen again to Hendrix's most
intricate, lyrical, and best produced but yet most
underrated album, "Axis: Bold As Love." It is
regrettable, but this album was not the wild
machinegun licks and shrieks the masses craved.
Hendrix thus went on to become more and more of
a guitar virtuoso while he had to abandon his musical
creativity.
I think Hendrix was very aware of the reasons for
all this pressure and frustration but like so many of
the other "superstars" he was unable to cope with it.
He foretold his own end in "Axis."
"...And so castles made of sand
Slips into the sea,
Eventually." Ph u Edgerton
THE GUILFORDIAN
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This summer we read Abby II off man's book, REVOLUTION FOR THE HELL
OF IT. In the back was reprinted a pamphlet Hoffman had prepared of gurrilla
existance in the city he called Fuck the System." This pamphlet told of many
ways to get food, clothes, shelter, and aid at low or not cost and thus, he
hoped, help cripple the economy. It being that this is a Quaker school and we
have not decided whether "the system" itself is totally corrupt or whether simply
all the people in it are, we instead present a continuing series of tips on how to
live cheap and therefore,
Keep The System From Getting You
Food:
A good way to get cheap
bread and pastry is at a
surplus bakery outlet. There is
one on South Lee Street.
You can buy fruit and
vegetables in season from
local farmers. Some are much
cheaper if you "pick your
own." Watch the classified
section of the paper. "Grow
you own." If you are here all
summer a few tomatoe plants
and a couple of rows of corn
and beans are not that hard
to do and can really pay off.
The pancake resturant at
Friendly Shopping Center has
a 49 cent breakfast special
which is big. Buckaroo Steak
Houses are cheap for steak.
Holiday Inn has a buffet
lunch where you can eat until
you fall over but it costs
$1.75. Starve yourself all
week and then you can
afford a gluttinous act. The
same goes for the fish house
past Guilford on Friendly
road. If you are really
hurtin', you can often beg
leftover food from big
restaurants at the day's end.
Clothing:
You can get used clothes
really cheap at the Salvation
Army and Goodwill stores
along South Flm Street. They
don't mind, if you look like
you need the stuff. I hey also
sometimes have furniture,
house furnishings, and really
wierd clothes.
Shelter:
You can almost always talk
someone at any college into
letting you sleep in their
room. It is wise to carry a
sleeping bag. You can also
sleep at the airport or at the
bus station if you can sleep
sitting up and you look like
you belong there. I here are a
few crash pads on Tate Street
that you might be taken into
if you look like people.
Furniture:
Hope Harbour on Walker
Avenue is a good place lor
used furniture and household
"A more substantial degree of democracy will become likely only when we
understand that political freedom is not merely a constitutional matter; it's also a
state of mind, which can be either nurtured or blighted in school."
Jerry Farber
stuff. A magazine called
Trading Post lists all kinds of
used furniture, cars, cameras
and stuff for sale or trade by
private citizens. It is available
at newsstands. If you are
really a scavanger, the city
dump is on Phillips Avenue
near WFMY-TV. There is a
landfill with bricks and
interesting junk on Lee Street
near 1-85.
Free Reading:
Don't forget the public
library in town on North
Greene Street near Friendly
Avenue. If you are sneaky
you can go into any
bookstore and read for a long
time before they run you
out.
Pf/ie Ctfuman
Rendition C
Vice President Ky,
protector of the liberties of
the Vietnamese (and
Cambodians) is coming to
America. He has a passport.
Has a visa.
Is he coining to talk to
the President about strategy?
Or money? Or weapons? Or
the war? How 'bout the Vice
President? (What a team
they'd make!) Maybe Melvin
baird? The State Department?
The UN? Of course not, silly
Rabbit. This man is too smart
and 100 busy to do any of
those things. He's coming to
speak at a "Win the War in
Southeast Asia" rally in
Washington, D.C.
Wait a minute. I thought
that the U.S. was
"Vietnamizing" the war. That
we were; getting out someday,
maybe, I hope. At least
before we start in Jordan.
Even the hardheads, I mean
hats, knew that, even if they
did mistake this policy as one
of the student's rather than
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1970
Legalities:
Heaven Forbid!!, but if
you get busted keep your
mouth shut except to call
American Civil Liberties Union
lawyer Norman B. Smith at
275-8552 or 274-8132
(home). Also you can call the
Legal Aid Foundation at
273-1856 for advice.
We hope to have more of
these tips in future issues,
and we want you to share
yours with us. Leave a note
for Jeanette Ebel, Editor, on
the mailstick and if we use
it, we will credit the tip to
you if you want.
ihe President's.
The Reverend Dr. Carl
Maclntire, the originator,
organizer, and mover behind
this rally also arranges lor
Christian anti-communist tours
of such favorite places as
South Africa. He expects
hundreds of thousands of
supporters to join him and
Ky in Washington next
month. They will probably
come. If those crazy
communist student leftists
(from William F. Buckley left)
show up to counter
demonstrate, he has promised
"open season."
Political Science
Department and John (Irice,
here is your facist speaker, if
you can gel him to come,
lie's as likely as Rubin, at
least, and probably more
acceptable to the community;
he's a preacher.
I wonder if Nixon will
watch a football game THIS
time; these people will be
voters.