https://archives.uwp.edu/files/original/5b030699c9b88f2a02b5e602909f665c.pdf d891a87e5a5f324220eb0caeca70cd07 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource University of Wisconsin - Parkside Ranger News Description An account of the resource Student newspaper of UW-Parkside Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document BARKSIDE i uy COLLEGIAN if Dedicate Campus April 19 to June 6 The University of Wisconsin-Parkside will hold a series of special events this spring centering around formal dedication of its new campus. An open house from noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday, April 19, will begin the series. Formal dedicatory events will include campus dedication and an open house with educational, civic and political leaders participating on Saturday, May 2; dedication of Tallent Hall on Saturday evening, May 2; and dedication of Greenquist Hall on Sunday afternoon, May Program for the Tallent dedication will feature Fredd Wayne as Benjamin Franklin in "Go Fly a Kite". The Greenquist dedication program will center on a performance by the Kenosha Symphony Orchestra with Carmen Vila, UWP artist-in-residence, as piano soloist. Parkside's first graduates will receive their degrees in commencement exercises at 2 p.m. on Saturday, June (>. The ceremonies will incorporate recognition of honor students and presentation of scholarships-and awards. A symposium on the bio-chemistry of brain and memory, which will attract an internationally known group of scientists and physicians, also will be held at Parkside May 24-2(i as one of the special Spring events commemorating the new campus' first year of operation. LaFollette Students Organized Here A Parkside Students for Doug LaFollette Committee has been organized at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. According to Lou Petts, co-chairman, the "purpose of the Committee is to support Doug LaFollette in the upcoming primary and Congressional elections." The co-chairmen of the Committee are Louis Petts, Sturtevant, and Perry Michalos, Kenosha. Other members include Jim Taube, Kenosha; Jacqueline Bernaechi, Kenosha; Sven Taffs, Wadsworth, 111.; and Margie Noer, Walworth. DORM TO OPEN HERE THIS FALL The Board of Directors of Towne Realty, Inc., is expected to give final approval on a move which will open Parkside's first residence hall to students next fall. Towne Realty, located in Milwaukee, will assume control of the Racine Motor Inn May 1. Dormitory space will be available for the 1970-71 school year, according to S. Daniel Tisberg, Towne president. Tishberg stressed that the facility will continue to operate mainly as a hotel, with the dormitory space being reconverted for hotel use during the summer months. The modern 191-room facility was originally known as the Racine Hotel, but was renamed Racine Motor Inn after extensive remodeling in 1968. It is located at 6th and Main streets The second, third and fourth floors of the seven story building will be converted into dormitory living areas with a capacity of approximately 220 in double-occupancy rooms. The dormitory, to be called "Ranger Hall", will operate as a separate unit, with its own private entrance (530 Lake Ave.) and elevator. Male and female students will be housed on separate floors. Parkside Chancellor Irvin G. Wyllie said that Ranger Hall provides an interim solution to the problem of how to accommodate resident students until private or public dormitories are available at the new site. "Dormitories are an integral part of our campus development plan," Wyllie said, "but we are some years Champion Runner Signs NEIGHBORHOOD CATCH — One of Parkside's athletic recruiting goals is to attract the cream of the Southeastern Wisconsin crop. The Rangers took a giant step in that direction Wednesday by signing Tim McGilsky, St. Catherine's High School track star, to a letter of intent. Beaming approval were Parkside coach Bob Lawson, left, and Tim's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. McGilsky of 2420 James Blvd. McGilsky was Wisconsin private school Class A cross country champion last fall. Ranger Hall away from having them at our new location. Meantime many of our students, like students everywhere, want a dormitory living experience, whether they live within commuting range or beyond." Wyllie said that UW-Parkside wanted to make it possible for young people in southeastern Wisconsin to complete their degrees here. "Many who might have finished with us transferred to other campuses in the past simply to be away from home and get the benefit of dormitory living," Wyllie declared. "That tendency has been particularly strong in Racine, but it has also run through the entire student body." Wyllie said that counselors, parents and prospective students from outlying communities within the campus service area, such as Burlington, Waukesha, Cudahy, Oak Creek, Union Grove, Delavan, Janesville and the south side of Milwaukee frequently raise the dormitory question, and that the biggest single obstacle to enrollments from those localities has been the unavailability of either public or private housing on or near the campus. Ranger Hall will solve that problem until permanent dormitories are available, he said. Under the new arrangement, students will be able to contract directly with Towne Realty for their room and board. Ranger Hall is University approved, which means that it meets all University standards for privately owned student residences. "The University will not manage the facility," Wyllie said, "but will cooperate with Towne Realty in the selection and training of the head resident and the resident assistants, and in the development of a total living and learning environment that will please students, parents and the community." Cost for room and board, which includes 20 meals per week, will be $990 per student for the academic year. Students will eat in a private dining area on the Lake Ave. level. Towne has made arrangements for free student parking in the city's lakefront lot across the street from the dormitory. Regular university bus service is available between the Racine campus, Parkside's main campus on Wood Road, and the Kenosha campus. Rooms will include private baths and individually controlled heat and air conditioning. In addition to lounge areas on each residence floor, a large lounge-recreation area adjoins the dining area. CSC GIVES VIEWS nl m/Arni^h The program of the CSC is in two parts. Part I comprises our demands respecting the internal structure and functioning of the University. In Part II, we present our demands for changing the relationship of the university to society. We see the reforms within the university as contributing to the larger fight by producing a democratic atmosphere in which a critical approach to society can be developed. Our demands are aimed mainly at the elimination of the authoritarian character of the university. This authoritarism is of a piece with the repressive mechanisms of the society at large. By striking at authoritarianism in the university, we take a step toward its elimination in the society. We teach people to be free. PART I: To Change The Internal Structure and Functioning of the University. 1. Democratize the University by instituting the governing of the University by students and faculty. The establishment of equal authority of students and faculty. Student-faculty discontent is not a result of a failure of communication, and its remedy is not a series of student-faculty committees for*" the purpose of talking about things. Student-faculty discontent arises from a conflict of interest. The administration requires the professor to do his research and to publish, but the student wants a more conscientious teacher. It is the rare situation when research and teaching are compatable with the basic teaching mission of the university, especially at an undergraduate four-year institution. The second conflict of interest arises because many professors like traditional teaching forms based upon imposed authority because they are efficient (from his perspective), and because they support his self-esteem and sense of security. Students want control over their own lives. They know that the existing system isn't a satisfactory frame in which to spend four, six or eight years devoted to learning. The CSC proposes equal voting power for students and faculty in the University. That power should be exercised in an assembly having all of the authority of the whole university. All faculty members should have a vote and students should have as many voting representatives as there are faculty members. The student body should freely decide how their representatives are to be chosen. The student representatives should be empowered to sit with the area caucuses (humanities, science and social sciences) as well. Physical Planning of the University at Parkside should also be a function of the Student-Faculty assembly. 2. Eliminate The Coercive Tool of Grading by Abolishing The Grading System and Substitute a Mutual Evaluation Process. Grades are the foremost weapon in the University arsenal. They discourage any student initiative, experimentation or questioning, and produce instead, docile consumers of facts, programmed periodically to regurgitate what the book or the professor says. Grades promote ruthless competition, cheating, plagiarism, and perhaps even worse, the subservient manner and mentality of the slave. The student often internalizes the grade as a measure of his own worth, a process so destructive as to create long waiting lists for university psychiatrists. Grades not only divert the energies of teachers from teaching to the devising and operating of elaborate systems of evaluation. The CSC shall issue a forthcoming pamphlet, which will present suggestions for alternate systems of evaluation. 3 Free Students From The Coercive Condition of Financial Insecurity By Providing Support For All Students hor The Duration of Their Education. The granting or withholding of financial support is another aspect of the coercive reward and punishment structure. Those who toe the line get the money. The CSC demands an end to the contradictions of a system in which a social task (i.e. being a student) is paid for with private funds. We demand guaranteed financial support for all students, to free students to learn and tc think. 4. Establish The Primacy Of Teaching In The University By Eliminating The Pressure To Publish And Instituting A Policy Of Hiring And Firing Teaching Faculty On The Basis Of Their Teaching. PART II: To Change The Relationship Of The University To Society. Our total vision of society necessarily brings us beyond the reform and democratization of the University. We feel our university can be the spearhead for a university-wide movement which will lead to faculty and students democratically reorganizing the university in which they work and live, and beginning to operate it for the benefit of the entire society. We do not mean that we desire the creation of a university-utopia, sheltered and detached from society. Instead, we call for the initiation of a long political struggle which will transform the University of Wisconsin-Parkside into a critical university, a center of learning in constant dialectical rapport with the society. We do not want a neutral university, but rather one which develops both critical thinking and fruitful activity. This transformation will not come about Blast . . . Counterblast Blast . . . This is being written for two reasons: to honor a colleague, and to state facts that, while painfully obvious, remain ineffectively articulated. Few of you may have heard that Jim Runge, the founding editor-in-chief of theCOLLEGIAN resigned last December and was replaced by Marc Colby, whose desire to attain that position had always been frightfully clear to the entire staff. It was this change in staff (accompanied by the resignations of Perry Michalos and myself) that accounts for the marked decline in quality of the latest editions of the COLLEGIAN. • You see, Jim's method of running the paper was to allow the page editors to do their work themselves, and to plan things in advance. When issues arose that we thought were of interest or concern to the students the information was carefully gathered and the whole story reconstructed and reviewed with a "jewelers eye", to borrow Mr. Buckley's phrase. No sensationalism was ever employed, much to Colby's dismay, as he frequently wrote 'burning editorials' that displayed the emotional stability and grammatical ability of an eighth grader. Everything about the paper was as close to professional as we could achieve, even the lay-out followed the example of such papers as the Manchester Guardian. All this has changed since Marc Colby has occupied the office of editor-in-chief. The quiet professionalism so characteristic of Jim Runge's reign has been replaced by the racous prattling of Quixote Colby and his rag-tab band. Under Colby's leadership the paper has increasingly shown that it represents the interests not of the students but only that of Marc Colby (I cite the example of the Playboy Club article). . Page editors are no longer free to run their pages as was the case under Jim Runge. More than once an editor has told me that they are not even told what will appear on their pages. I, in my former capacity as theatre critic had submitted reviews that were never printed, even though those reviews were a regular column. It is clearly evident that what Runge, Michalos and I had forseen has come to pass, Colby's megalomania is dominating the paper. Unfortunately there is nobody at this time that could assume the office of editorin-chief even if Colby were forced to resign. In other words, we are faced with only two choices, either allow the COLLEGIAN' to continue its decline and console ourselves with the fact that we still have a paper, or, find an alternative not only to the COLLEGIAN but also the the Committee, which I regard as being equally irresponsible. (signed) EdBorchardt . . . Counterblast This "Counterblast" is being written for two reasons: to honor a former colleague and to effectively articulate some painfully obvious facts. The credits on page four of this paper have consistently listed since last December that Marc Colby is the editor-in- • chief — which makes it obvious that Jim Runge had resigned. Jim did operate with "quiet professionalism" and he did "allow the page editors to do their work themselves." He was excellent as editorin-chief, but for personal reasons he resigned. And since he resigned in December that issue is old news. Marc ^olby was elected by the COLLEGIAN staff to be editor-in-chief. True, there is a lot of raucous prattling — just as there was last semester when Michalos and Borchardt were on the staff. True, Jim Runge employed no sensationalism — but you can't condemn someone who does as long as the sensationalizing doesn't grow out of proportion. (And remember that Marc printed a retraction to his bookstore blunder.) Now, Ed, you know as well as I do that any editor must carefully consider facts contained in a story for their validity. However, the fact is plainly obvious that we weren't and probably aren't so professional as to melodramatically reconstruct and review everything with Buckley's "jeweler's eye." Whether under Jim or Marc, the deadlines consistently seem to come faster than the stories. Which brings me to another glaring point you made: "It was this change in staff (accompanied by the resignations of Perry Michalos and myself) that accounts for the marked decline of the COLLEGIAN." Wowl If you people were such assets to the paper, why did you quit? What the paper needs is people to give us constructive advice — your pure Tom Rosandich ... An Idealist There are athletic directors and then there is Thomas P. Rosandich of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Rosandich, 37, a tall, dark and handsome type who bears a slight resemblance to movie idol Paul Newman, is a breed all unto himself. Of Croation descent, Rosandich is an idealist, an iconoclast if you will, who doesn't believe in scholarships and is trying to build an ambitious sports program at Wisconsin's newest four year university on an entirely new concept. "The key to our athletic program is participation," said Rosandich. "If we can get 60 Softball teams here, it's better than one baseball team." At the moment, Parkside doesn't have a baseball squad but it does feature eight varsity sports — corss country, soccer, basketball, fencing, wrestling, track, tennis and golf — whose teams work out in four different communities and 19 different sites. The Rangers have no athletic facilities of their own to speak of. "We don't have major and minor sports," Rosandich says rather proudly. All our teams have equality. What we have is fall, winter and spring teams. Who's to say a fencer doesn't work as hard as a basketball player? We've gone for sports with an Olympic or club concept where we can get tremendous participation. Our sports are open to both men and women. Last year we had a gal letter in fencing and we have an excellent sophomore coed in track (Mary Libal of Green Bay) who was runner-up a year ago in the 400 meters of the national AAU meet." Parkside has no plans to field a football team. "Everyone wants to know why we don't have a football team," says Rosandich. "We just can't afford it. Ohio State, which has led the nation in football attendance for 12 straight years and grosses $4.4 million at the gate each year, ended up last year $250,000 in the hole! When that happens, you have a problem." overnight, but will rather be the result of a continually changing balance of forces, not only on the campus, but also in the state at large. The demands listed below will be fought for in the spirit of revolutionary reformism; we will neither be bought off nor contented by the conquest of all or some of them. They will only be utilized as stepping stones from which to launch new and more far-reaching demands. They are not traditional in that we do not ask them as a favor from an institution, we must assert our right to carry them out on the principle that it is we who constitute the university. In this spirit, the CSC, in addition to its demands for change in the internal structure and functioning of the university, pledges its support for the following program: 1. Democratize The Composition Of The University With Regard To The Black, Mexican-American, Poor And Working Class Population. a. There must be minority group enrollment (Black, Mexican-American, etc.) at least equal to the local proportion of these groups in the community population. b. The university must also actively recruit students from all poverty areas and from working class areas. c. Establish summer school clinics for these students in order to compensate for inferior educations. d. Expand the curriculum to include history and culture of ethnic minorities. 2. Utilize The Resources Of The University For Progressive Ends. a. Establish a positive program of technical and pedagogical aid to the community in the area of control of environmental pollution. b. The physical planning of the university should be a "model" of ecological consideration. negativism isn't furthering anything Don't fool yourself, no one on this staff belongs to a "rag-tag" band. We're aware of both the shortcomings and the improvements of the COLLEGIAN. (signed) Margie Noer Rosandich is a fascinating individual and just talking to him is an experience in itself. His personality is overwhelming. He delights in spicing his talk with a series of homilies. A few examples: "Sports is the last bastion of discipline. It's the one area where you can still talk to a boy about how he dresses and wears his hair." "I guess when you see two of the Beatles get their hair cut, maybe there's hope." "The mind controls the body." "If you don't have discipline, you don't have anything. "I don't believe in scholarships. That's where intercollegiate athletic programs are in trouble. College recruiters are nothing but flesh buyers." Rosandich's background is a varied one. Already, he's done more than most coaches do in two or three lifetimes. A graduate of LaCrosse State University where he was an outstanding athlete and captained the track and football teams, Rosandich served as an officer in the Marines and founded the Quantico Relays. At Quantico, Rosandich coached famed miler Wes Santee. He has topred 45 countries as a goodwill sports ambassador for the State Department. Rosandich took the Malaysian, Indonesian and Panama track teams to three successive Olympics. When he was in Indonesia, his assistant was Emile Zapotek, the Ezech track star and only man to win three Olympic gold medals in distance events. Why did he take the Parkside job? "It's because he got $40,000 a year," Walt Schirer, Parkside sports publicity chief, joked. "It sure as hell wasn't for money," Tom shot back. "I was challenged. The chancellor (Irvin G. Wyllie) challenged me. I had an opportunity to take a raw piece of ground in the middle of the country and be able to develop a total sports program. It was a chance of a lifetime. One of the greatest things we have at Parkside is 700 acres of landBuilding a staff, facilities and concept isn't easy but it's exciting. Our future is unlimited because of where we sit. Our growth rate is faster than any other university in the state. By the year 2000 we should have 25,000 students. I'm an idealist and I have a bunch of idealists coaching here. Lawson didn't come here for money." Lawson is Bob Lawson, the Parkside track coachrwho came here after serving as Iowa State track coach for seven years. Connie Petersen Faculty Profile: Morton Nachlas "I take a classical approach to education. I think the major idea of education is to teach you to think for yourself. This is to enable the individual to deal with life," says Dr. Morton Nachlas, associate professor of sociology at Parkside. Nachlas feels that "education is mixed up." Speaking as a sociology instructor, he says, "We have to help students think for themselves. The students must be able to know how to approach problems that society itself can't solve." According to Nachlas, in the field of sociology general answers to problems are seldom defined. In his class, marriage and the family, the students learn about the problems involved, look at the ways various societies have attempted to solve these problems, and discuss which are best for the stabilization of society and the well-being of the individual. He says, "We deal with us, the most interesting things in the world. We have to discuss." This is true in social counseling also: "As a counselor, students bring personal problems to me. In counseling we don't tell people what to do, we listen. On personal problems, you can help them draw up a list of pro and cons but you can't tell them what to do." Concerning counseling, Nachlas feels that society controls a person's attitudes and ideas and he tries to show the student this so that he can understand himself. He says, "In counseling we try to approach the basic attitudes and ideas. This bothers the student who has been raised in a specific way." Speaking to the student in general, he says, "I think I know you, you have a right to your way of thinking. I try to let students say what they want to say. We all want to be listened to. This is my belief in the dignity of man and respect for the individual." Society to Present French Film The Parkside Film Society will present "L'lmmortell", a French movie written and directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet. The film will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 10, in Room 103, G reenquist Hall. Robbe-Grillet, famous for his influence on the "new novel", which avoids the familiar psychological presentation -of characters and which follows a moviecamera style of narration, also wrote the screenplay for the widely acclaimed film, "Last Year at Marienbad". Admission to "L' Immortell" is free, and the film is open to all Parkside students, faculty and staff, as well as persons outside the University. Nachlas, a "great believer in faculty and student rights," says, "I wish we could end the grading system, but we have to live with it. The university world is not ready to accept a straight pass-fail." A solution he offers is "a written evaluation (which) would be better, but this won't work in larger schools." An alternate solution which Nachlas feels is better than the present grading system is now in use by Carroll College and others. This is what he calls a "four-one-four" course. It involves taking four courses which are completed by Christmas vacation. Then doing an intensive independent study in one course over vacation. And lastly finishing with four courses for the rest of the year. Nachlas was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to a "typical, middle class family." He says that the family was a medical one; he broke family tradition by not going into medicine. Nachlas has four official degrees in the areas of history, literature, languages, philosophy, theology, curriculum of education, anthropology and sociology. He is head of the sociology department in the division of social science. Talk-In: Youth and University "Are Today's Youth Misunderstood?" and "The Role and Relevance of the American University" will be topics of discussion on WLIP's "College Talk-In" April 11 and April 18, respectively. James R. Brokaw, assistant professor of psychology at Parkside, will moderate the discussion on today's youth. Panelists will include four Racine students: Joan Cosford, a special student in sociology active in Racine's Project Breakthrough and Racine County's Community Action Program; Jeanne Popovich, Dean's List sophomore in modern American society with a specialization in elementary education; Leon Miller, Dean's List freshmen in physics; and Randall Salkowski, Dean's List sophomore in sociology and psychology and past president of the Racine YMCA Young Adult's Club. Walter Graffin, assistant professor of English at Parkside, will moderate the discussion on the relevance of the American university. Panelists will include senior Patricia Nemeth of Salem and junior Jacquelyn Wasiak of Racine, who both are Dean's List .English majors who plan to teach and married students with children; and Kenoshans John Koloen, senior in English, editor of the Nickel Bag, Parkside's literary magazine, former UWP student senator, and political Waste . . . To you is yours To me is mine He bricks and builds Within and without And in most ideals Doing with doubt She p lays and prays And listens to blues And in that moment She no longer can choose But then once again A time has changed A child is born And the cycle is sustained A circle of 0's And the wastes of WASTE. Tom Lucas Open Rehearsal The New York Camerata chamber trio, affiliate artists of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, will play an open rehearsal at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, April 8, in the Kenosha Campus Fine Arts Room. Members of the trio are Charles Forbes, cello; Tony Pagano, flute; and Glenn Jacobson, piano. Remember, if you are average you are just as close to the bottom as you are to the top! activist, and Frank J. Niccolai, sophomore in English and member of the Star Boys, Kenosha rock combo. "College Talk-In" is heard Saturdays at 10:35 a.m. on WLIP-fm (95.1) and is hosted by News Director Jim Bradley. Pre-Meds Meet The Parkside Pre-meds will hold their next meeting on Wednesday, April 8, at 7:30 p.m. The place of the meeting will be room 228, Greenquist Hall. The topic of the night will be the training of a surgeon, with the speaker being Donald R. Burke, M.D., a surgeon from Racine. The Pre-meds also are preparing their library display, April 9, which will be on Micro-Biology as it. is related to foods. All interested students are invited to attend the meeting. c NOW • T'S THE haparral FOR YOUNG ADULTS Under New Management TOP BEER BOTTLE BEER 50c PITCHERS $1.70 OPEN MON thru SAT* 7:30 P.M. - 12:45 A.M. SUNDAY 2 P.M. - 12:45 A.M. NEWLY REMODELED 2 Miles South of Highway 50 West Frontage Road of 1-94 COMPUTE-A-DATE Wisconsin's largest computer dating service. Write: 312 E. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, Wis. 53202 Call 414-271-8311 (24-hr. answering service) "TO FIND THE PERFECT DATE OR MATE" the ^SSund EDITORIALS Administrative Suppression It is now being clearly demonstrated that the students of this university are indeed capable of concern and that they are no g g continue to passively follow the memoranda and directives o higher-ups in Tallent Hall. . We are disturbed about the Cacs situation. We cannot understand this school's reasoning that the holding of a Ph.D. is any assurance of capability in the classroom, and we cannot understana why a man who is entirely capable of instructing the lower level, if no upper level, areas of math is being fired from this university. On t e other hand, we can understand the mistaken intention of building a university around the number of Ph.D.'s in order to create a talse atmosphere of prestige. . . We don't like this, because it means that administrators are playing around with the quality of our education and it is a quality education that we are here for and not for the building of a Reputation on the mud-flats of Parkside. The students are mad, and they get madder every time the office of Student Affairs tries to muscle in on student government. The Campus Coordinating Committee had it all set up — all that was necessary was to write a constitution, ratify it, and elect representatives. Then, when CCC's work went against the wishes of the Dean of Students, Allen Dearborn, there he was, at the next meeting and, along with the rest of his people, tried to change all the previously completed work. Now there is even plans for an "exile" government should administrative fingers get in too deep. It is time for Chancellor Wyllie to come out of his office and talk and listen to the students whom he serves — not one of the "blue ribbon" panels that Student Affairs sets up, but the student sitting in the lounge or walking in a hallway. The fact that Parkside is spread between two cities points up the necessity of an organized student body. We look to the current student strike at Essex Junior College, a predominantly commuter college in Baltimore, as an example of this type of thought. They Can Kill The News Early this fall Newsweek magazine ran a cover story on the new quiet on college campuses. Following a near orgy of coverage of campus disruption last year, Newsweek editors decided that relative calm in the nation's universities was worthy of note. In addition, they felt that colleges were embarking on a new period of relative tranquility, with SDS'ers and "crazies" being abandoned by the great silent majority of college students. As with all media created myths, their analysis was not correct — a s incorrect as the media's overblown analysis of the disturbances last year. What is significant, however, is that now as we are coming to the final months of the college year, universities around the country are beginning to erupt and the media is saying virtually nothing. This news blackout of caippus disruptions does not surprise us. Campus action has grown from the relatively innocuous stage of two day building takeovers to prolonged, often violent student police confrontations. Sniper fire, molotov cocktails and extensive trashing has already occurred at Santa Barbara and at Buffalo. Student demands have broadened away from ones designed to bring student power and the purification of the University. Now, previously secret University military involvement and exploitative business ventures near University sites have come under severe attack. In short media barons on Madison Avenue and Rockefeller Center are finding things too hot to handle. The only explanation they can offer is one that they are afraid to make. The campuses are in a state of crisis unparalleled since the Free Speech Movement started in 1964. Polarization has become so intense that relatively minor spark on any one of dozens of campuses around the country could start a serious and dangerous disruption. There is another reason for the blackout as well. The media is hoping that if they ignore all the trouble it will go away. This is not being done as innocently as last year's Chicago Tribune attempt to black out all protest coverage for one day. Our knowledge of the news is controlled by the media. As of now, other than Newsreel or Liberation News Service there is no good extensive national communications network for college campuses. Broadcast executives and newspaper editors, despite their public bravado have been completely intimidated by assaults from Spiro Agnew and John Mitchell. The airwaves are controlled by the federal government, and vital information can be turned on or off by the federal government at will. The effect*of the blackout is both insidious and dangerous. Public acceptance of such media techniques can serve only to fortify the already overpowerful hands of the professional media — hands that unfortunately are becoming joined with those of the Nixon administration. — from Daily Cardinal PARKSIDE COLLEGIAN i r Volume I — N o. 10 6 April 1970 Marc Colby Editor-in-Chief * Margie Noer Associate Editor Connie Petersen Feature Editor Helen Schumacher Sports Editor John Jollcoeur Business Manager j Sven TaJfs Advertising Manager Nell Haglov Chief Photographer ' ' ] ' ' Mr. John Pesta Advisor. Published every two weeks by t he students of the University of Wlsconsinu .^ Kpnosha Wisconsin, 53140. Opinions expressed in editorials, Parkside, Kwoeha, wisco ^ thoseofTHE COLLEGIAN staff, the University of Wisconsin -Parkside, its faculty, administrators, or students. LETTERS to th e editor . To the Editor: Last month's Collegian editorial congratulating the CCC for its patience must have been written by a mental deficient or by someone with a poor sense of humor. For several months now, a good many students have been working with this 'patient' group, and waiting for them to come up with the promised results.' After another month of inactivity, the CCC has taken a giant leap forward and appointed a committee to conduct an election of delegates to a constitutional congress. At this congress, a constitution will be drawn up, and will include Students ARE Disturbed procedures for the election of a student senate. While this furious inactivity was taking place, a large number of the students who were involved in the efforts until now met with the idea of doing what the CCC has been unable or unwilling to do. Just prior to this meeting it was learned that the above-mentioned committee had finally been appointed. It was decided at the meeting to support the committee's efforts, so long as the efforts were being made. If the committee is capable of anything more than rhetoric, details of the elections should be made public by mid-week. To the Editor: I was shocked to learn of the dismissal of Professor Cacs. I personally feel that he was "a fine instructor and a credit to the Parkside teaching staff. Doesn't the administration realize that a teacher doesn't need a Ph.D to be a good teacher. Prof. Cacs came across to the students. He was able to put his material across in a way that many of our Ph.D's fail to do. If we at Parkside lose this man, in my estimation we will be losing a big portion of our math department and a fine man. I think that our illustrious administration ought to get its head examined. Norman Pietras To the Editor: Never was I more outraged than when I read the front page article in your last edition. I was so incensed at the attempted dismissal of Prof. Cacs by Acting Dean Harlow Mills, that I immediately formulated and started into circulation 20 copies of a petition protesting this rash action. Also on the morrow I do intend to start circulation of other petitions nominating Professor Cacs as teacher of the year. In all my twenty-one years, in nine different schools, as a,civilian and through the Navy, I have never met a better instructor than Salimons Cacs. I call on the students of Parksidn to circulate petitions and write letters to Acting Dean Mills and his superiors protesting this flagrant violation of the best interests of the students of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Kenneth R. Konkol Collegian Classified Ads FOR SALE - 1967 Buick Riveria, Full Power, Elec. Windows, Factory Air Cond., Low Mileage, Excellent Condition. Ext 258. After 5:00 — 654-9545. To the Editor: It is necessary to state in the first place that I have had no personal contact with Mr. Cacs, the math instructor who has currently lost his job (cf. "The Parkside Collegian", March 23, 1970). However, in regard to certain professors with whom I have had personal academic contact, I feel I must speak up. It is beyond me where the idea emerged that a doctorate candidacy automatically engenders one with complete academic ability. Simply through personal experience many good students can testify to the inability of many doctors to communicate any facet of knowledge. Is our "university" looking for status or is our "university" seeking to become a healthy center of academic inquiry? It seems that Parkside is making the same mistake that our society has made, by placing high premiums on apparent status. Mr. Cacs' case cannot go by unnoticed if only in consideration for other talented teachers who may not ever receive a piece of paper to testify to an ability which can only be acclaimed by one's students. I nominate him for teacher of the year! A Concerned Student The CSC (Concerned Students Coalition) will be having a meeting Wednesday at 4 p.m. in Room 100, Racine Campus. The CSC will be discussing the issue of Student Government. FOR SALE — Pontiac GTO Convertible 1966, full power, factory air, bucket seats and floor console, automatic. Excellent condition. 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EFFECTS ON AN IMALS "The already noted pollution disasters demonstrated that extreme urban pollution was no better for animals than for people. In Donore, 1 out of 5 canaries and 1 out of 6 dogs were sickened. Cattle, sheep, horses and swine were not — at least not significantly. Less detailed information exists about the Meuse Valley incident, but it is known that cattle became sick and that some had to be slaughtered. In London, during its 1952 episode, a cattle show happened to be in progress, and of the 350 cattle being exhibited there, 52 became seriously ill. Five died, and 9 had to be killed. The sheep and swine that were also on display were not evidently affected. Nor was any special illness noted in the horses stationed at barracks or used by the British Railways. At the zoo, on the other hand, cases of bronchitis and pneumonia climbed. "There are grim rewards, too, for grazing near certain of cilivization's servants. During the accident at Poza Rica, Mexico, involving the escape of hydrogen sulfide gas, unknown numbers of canaries, chickens, geese, ducks, cattle, pigs and dogs were made ill. All the canaries and many other birds and animals died. "Through the years, animals have paid for men's advances. In Montana, in 1902, the copper smelter at Anaconda provided a fatal meal of arsenic on grass to large numbers of cattle, horses and sheep. Fifteen miles from the smelter, where 3,500 sheep grazed, 625 of them died. And too far away from the smelter to be directly affected, horses met death from the tainted hay. "In Sweden in 1954, a steel plant spread molybdenum poisoning to many of the cattle grazing half a mile away. And in Germany, in 1955, cattle and horses grazed within 3 miles of 2 lead and zinc foundries; many of the animals grew so lame that they had to be slaughtered. "In addition to smelters and foundries of copper, lead and zinc, many other industries, like aluminum and fertilizer factories, can poison the grasses that farm animals graze upon. "Fluorine is an ever-present danger, mostly to cattle and sheep. In fact, it was about the time that the fluoride-producing fertilizer and aluminum industries were developing in this country that livestock fluorosis first displayed itself. "Most of the original contaminators are controlled now, but the number of possible sources has increased, so violations and accidents remain part of the perilous life that livestock leads. As late as 1967, the federal government had to step in to make a Montana phosphate producer control the fluoride emissions that were endangering not only livestock but human health, plants, and other property. "Fluorides are a special menace to livestock, even when they are not to people, because certain of the plants used for fodder have the ability to store the fluorides they take in. Thus, the plants build up far greater concentrations than would remain deposited on their surfaces, and they accomplish this without harm to themselves and with no external indications of their contents. When these plants become a meal for forageconsuming animals, the enormous overdose of fluoride can be devastating. First, the animal's teeth become mottled. Then, as they feed further on this insidious food, they lose weight, give less milk, and grow more slowly. Eventually, spurs grow on their bones, and they become so crippled that they have to be killed. "Partly because the food animals eat, partly because air pollution's effects on them are easier to verify in the laboratory, we know that contaminated air not only can cripple and kill animals of various kinds but can produce other more subtle consequences. It can cause some to yield a smaller number of eggs, others to beget fewer young or produce less milk, and still others to grow a thinner coat of wool. "Progress demands unexpected tolls of the agricultural way of life. EFFECTS O N VE GETATION "Even more rapidly than livestock, vegetation can announce the presence of pollution. Indeed, so clear is the message that many industries now use ornamental greenery on their premises to aid in controlling their own emissions. Since the shrubbery evinces effects more readily than people do, it is conceivable that people may be spared at least some injury. "On the other hand, such hopes could be idle. In many an area where crops have been destroyed by pollution, the farmers have thrown up their hands and sold out to real estate developers. Now children, instead of spinach, take their chances with the poisonous air. "Vegetation can respond with enormous sensitivity to pollution in the air. It is possible to tell by examining certain plants which noxious materials were present, when, and in what concentration. "From Sulfur Dioxide. Several pollutants stand out for the ferocity of t heir attack. One is sulfur dioxide. In fact, until the recent proliferation of industries, serious foliage destruction was due primarily to this gas. Early in the century, around copper smelters at Anaconda, Montana, and Ducktown, Tennessee, sulfur dioxide fumes used to drift for miles and leave in their wake, barren, gullied deserts. "Controls have pared down somewhat the force of sulfur dioxide. But many large ore smelters — of copper, iron, zinc and other metals — still send out huge amounts of the gas, since its major source, fossil fuel combustion, remains part of the smelting process. "Sulfur dioxide enters a growing plant through the stomata, the tiny openings on the underside of th e leaf, as carbon dioxide does. The injury it causes may show up as markings along the edges or between the veins of the leaf. The damaged area usually appears driefi and bleached white or ivory color. "Sulfur dioxide seems to undergo a swift chemical change in the leaf and if the exposure is low and brief, plant development may be only temporarily inhibited. On the other hand, a long period of s ublethal concentrations may result in chronically injured areas that never recover. And at higher concentrations the plant cells die, the tissues between the veins collapse, and the leaf slowly takes on the typical scars of sulfur dioxide. "Different species and varieties within a species may vary considerably in their susceptibility to sulfur dioxide, primarily because of their differing rates of absorption. Plants with thin leaves, such as alfalfa, barley, cotton and grapes, usually suffer most. Plants with fleshy leaves or needles, such as citrus and pine, tend to be resistant except when the leaves are newly formed. "One benefit has emerged from the gloom, anyway. It has been found that nontoxic concentrations of sulfur dioxide lessen oxidant damage. Higher concentrations, curiously, do not seem to have this protective effect. "Another sulfur compound, sulfuric acid aerosol, appears to be harmful only in the vicinity of factories that emit sulfur. There vegetation may be damaged by large droplets, which pockmark the upper surface of leaves. Table beets and swiss chard are particularly sensitive. From Fluorides. Fluoride is another deadly enemy of vegetable life. Aluminum, brick, ceramic, chemical and fertilizer industries as well as glassworks, smelters and steel mills may all release fluorides. "Fluoride, too, enters the leaf through the hospitable stomata. From there it movqs to the edges and tip of the leaf. The body "of the leaf, although it may continue to absorb low concentrations of fluoride, remains relatively unharmed, while lethal amounts of the substance pile up at the edges. Continued exposure spreads the killing inward from the edge and tip. Leaves exposed to fluoride generally have burnt, dried-out edges, with a narrowt reddish-brown line of dead tissue distinctly marking off the healthy part of the plant. "Though all farming sous contain appreciable amounts of fluoride, plants take up little from the soil. When plants contain more than a few parts per million of fluoride, it can be assumed that polluted air supplied it. . "Hydrofluoric acid, not surprisingly, follows a different pattern from fluoride gases. Minute amounts of the acid can spot corn leaves and make gladioli tips turn white or yellow. "Gladiolus, prune, apricot and peach plants are so sensitive to fluorides that they are injured by extremely low concentrations. Other plants less sensitive but still susceptible to fluoride damage include sweet potato, corn qnd conifers. (Conifers are shrubs and trees that bear cones -«• as pines, for example.) "From Photochemical Smog. Smog is a relatively recent hazard to vegetation, but hazard it most certainly is, producing both visible and invisible injury. When a sensitive plant confronts this unholy mixture, the plant's leaves react. The stomata, the leaf openings through which a plant must draw life-giving carbon dioxide, close up. Even when concentrations do not cause irreversible outward damage, chronic exposure to smog appears to slow down the growth of many plants. Seedlings are especially susceptible. "Two different injury syndromes have been identified as smog damage. One, caused by ozone, affects the upper surface of t he leaf; the other, probably caused by PAN, damages the lower. "Ozone's damage is called grape stipple or weather fleck. The gas makes the upper surface of the leaf appear splotched or stippled. The tissues of s ome of the spots collapse if the concentration of ozone are high enough. "Ozone is probably also responsible for the streaks on the leaves of cereal crops, the burning of the tips of white pine seedlings (known as emergence tipburn), and the milkwhite spots of various sizes on many vegetables. "PAN — or perhaps an unidentified component of smog — makes the underside of leaves of susceptible plants — citrus trees in particular — t urn silver or bronze. Doses too low to cause irreversible damage will make the underside of the leaf seem temporarily watersoaked. "While ozone appears to be most responsible for smog damage in the eastern part of the United States, in southern California PAN appears to play the larger role. This may be because less oxidant is required to damage plants in a humid climate, and the East is far more humid than the Far West. Or it may be because tobacco, which is especially sensitive to ozone, is raised in the East and makes ozone's effects seem greater. "From Ethylene. Another plantdamaging product of automotive exhaust is the gaseous hydrocarbon ethylene, one of th e olefin series. (Actually ethylene is a common by-product of m any of industry's chemical processes, but the major source is the automobile.) Not only does ethylene take part in the photochemical smog process, it is a villain in its own right. In concentrations as small as a few parts per billion, it causes orchid sepals (the green, surrounding leaves of the blossom) to wither. It harms other flowers, too. It interferes with the opening of carnation blossoms and causes snapdragon flowers to drop off. Furthermore, only slightly higher concentrations of ethylene retard the growth of tomatoes. "Extent of the Damage. Research into vegetation damage has given us much information — almost all of it discouraging. Not the least disheartening are surveys of the extent of the damage. New Jersey, for example, has reported that the sources of contamination are so plentiful in and around the state that tobacco plants placed in 14 different locations showed ozone injury at every site. And other surveys indicate that specific pollutants may injure vegetation as much as 100 miles away. "Still to be discovered, in years to come, is how air pollution affects the growth, yield, nutritional quality, and survival itself of the crops we now depend on for our food and our pleasure. EFFECTS QN M ATERIALS "We are accustomed to corrosion and erosion — i ron has rusted before our eyes all of our lives. We may even enjoy it, as when the edges of a less than first-rate statue have been smoothed over by time. But air pollution's whirlwind destruction of the products of this and earlier civilizations leaves us breathless and bereft. "Steel, iron, zinc, brass, copper, nickel, lead and tin all corrode faster in urban industrial areas. Studies have shown that copper and aluminum corrode 5 times as fast in polluted atmosphere as in clear air, iron corrodes 6 times as fast, and steel 30 times as fast! "And not surprisingly, the degree of deterioration is roughly proportional to the amount of pollutant present. "Pollution's effects on stone are n< happier than those on metals. New York City, for example, is being eaten away by its atmosphere. Its brownstone townhouses are flaking off, its marble ornamentation is crumbling. Cleopatra's Needle has suffered more in the time — less than 100 y ears — it has spend behind the Metropolitan Museum than it did in 3,000 y ears in the Egyptian desert. "Every guardian of our cultural heritage has been forcibly made aware of the hostility of the inheriting present. Books are particularly vulnerable. Sulfur dioxide is absorbed by the paper of their pages, and then, when moisture is present, this compound turns to sulfuric acid and makes the paper brittle. Nor are books' covers invulnerable. Sulfuric acid also saps the strength of leather so that it eventually disintegrates. It is no wonder that New York's Metropolitan Museum library must budget $12,000 a year for air filters. "Sulfur oxides also attack marble and other limestones, roofing slate and mortar, changing them to substances that can be leached away by rain. Carbon dioxide has a similar effect. "Oxides of nitrogen and ozone contribute to the business of destruction, as well. Nitrogen oxides can destroy paint pigments and bleach dyed fabrics. Ozone, too, can fade and weaken fabrics. It also dries out rubber and makes it so brittle that the slightest stretching cracks it. (Continued on Page 6) Open Saturdays 9 A.M. to Noon For Your Convenience American State Bank FREE CHECK! NG ACCOUNTS TO STUDENTS AND RETIREES 3928 Sixtieth Street Kenosha • QUALITY . L • SATISFACTION "^DllP • SAVINGS P'*1 ' L ALWAYS Irock & For You and Your Car BILL'S DEEP ROCK SER VICE STATION 2305 Racine 634-9328 POLLUTION KILLS Continued r 'In addition to harming paper and leather, sulfuric acid aerosols weaken both natural and synthetic fibers, so that silk, cotton and wool deteriorate and nylon stockings spring runs. Furthermore, house exteriors covered with lead-based paints can be badly discolored with a single exposure to hydrogen sulfide. Indeed, experts point out that any sulfur oxide control at all would lessen the damage to metals, stone statuary, buildings, paper, leather, textiles and paint. EFFECTS ON VISIBILITY "With so many dramatic effects to worry about, it is no surprise that reduced visibility arouses little indignation. Lethargy abounds on the part of private citizens as well as officials while a shroud of pollution draws closer and the sun becomes a pale blob in a gray sky. "Whether one notes or ignores it, however, a problem exists. "The major cause of the shutting out of the visible world is particulate matter, especially the small particles, the aerosols. Besides directly dimming the view, aerosols increase the frequency and density of fog, encourage cloud formation, and can bring on showers in urban areas. "But nitrogen dioxide also contributes to lowering visibility distance. For two reasons: (1) it is a yellow-brown gas, and substantial concentrations of it can all by themselves reduce visibility; and (2) it contributes to the photochemical smog reaction and the formation of aerosols wherever hydrocarbons are oxidized by sunlight. "Even back in 1946 a survey showed that on almost half the days of the year reduced visibility was a problem for Newark Airport — which is surrounded by a profusion of industrial plants. The number of hours during which visibility was cut to 6 miles or less from smoke — with or without other obstructions — totaled 4,359. "Flying is the most obvious victim of reduced visibility. But modern high-speed highways hold perils from the same cause. Air pollution with fog blacked out the New Jersey Turnpike 23 times in the single year of 1965. "Dense smoke close to the road can bring on a sudden, startled braking by a motorist and pile up a string of accordionpleated cars behind him. A burning dump caused this to happen in Los Angeles, and a similar pile-up occurred recently in Pennsylvania because of a smoldering culm pile. (Culm piles consist of unusable coal screenings. A chance match or spontaneous combustion often initiates a slow, flameless burning that is close to impossible to put out.) ECONOMIC EFFECTS "It is obvious that our nation suffers profound economic losses from dirty air. But no study has attempted to compute them all in any detail. It is difficult — and expensive — to ascertain the amount in dollars, even for destruction that is visible to the eye and for which repairs lighten the pocketbook. "The federal government gives the estimated annual cost of air pollution in the billions, something oh the order of $65 for each person in the United States. National per capita figures, covering such disparate conditions as are found in this country, present a distorted-picture. Some people live in quite pure air, and air pollution may cost them less than that amount; for others, it costs more. Nevertheless, the price of pollution is paid by everyone, directly or indirectly. Even those people who live in mountain aeries buy products that are produced elsewhere and affected by contaminated air. Eventually, any losses by a producer of consumer goods are passed on to the consumer. "Higher costs of plants for the windowsill and meat for the table reflect the farmer's decreased productivity. The National Air Pollution Control Administration estimates the nation's annual agricultural loss to be $500 million — about $325 million in crop damage and $175 million in livestock. "Delicate instruments to explore space or to advance communications — many of which we pay for with our taxes — mirror in their price the increased cost of more expensive, corrosion-resistant materials and the research to develop them. So do telephone bills and automobile prices. Even cigarette sales silently pass on the charges for dirty air. "The people who live in polluted areas, of course, bear not only these burdens but others as well. They must keep clean and in good repair their bodies, clothes, homes and commercial establishments. The additional costs of pollution for them include the maintenance and more frequent replacement of masonry, house furnishings, clothing, automobiles, and the painted and metal surfaces of buildings. They pay in extra beauty care, higher medical bills, and lowered property values. The annual national loss in property values alone because of air pollution is estimated to be $200 million. "A 1960 study gives a good idea of some of the air pollution costs to a family: "The investigators chose Steubenville, Ohio, a heavily industrialized town, and Uniontown, Pennsylvania, where the inhabitants breathe relatively clean air. Both towns were otherwise similar. "The surveyors questioned a representative sample from each town on specific expenditures that might differ with local conditions. Because the items questioned were limited, the per capita annual cost can be only a small part of the total cost of air pollution to urban-based individuals. Nevertheless, it is startlingly high. "The researchers subtracted the amounts spent in clean Uniontown from what was spent in dirty Stuebenville, within the four general categories of their inquiry, and arrived at a total per capita cost of $84 for the privilege of living in a badly polluted community. "How does this compare with the cost of pollution control? "Los Angeles County has had the most experience with control and the most thorough air pollution control program. Its cost for the 10-year period ending in 1964 was approximately $3 per capita per year, a figure that includes industry's direct expenditures for control as well as those borne by the taxpayers to establish and maintain the county control program. "Three dollars for control; $84-plus for pollution. We pay a great deal for something we don't want. THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS "Dollars are important, of course. So are buildings and clothing and crops. But let's not be caught in the trap of weighing the dollar cost of control against the dollar cost of pollution. "For air pollution threatens not only man's wallet and his health. Air pollution erodes his soul. Every mountain blacked out by pollution, every flower withered by smog, every sweet-smelling countryside poisoned by foul odors destroys a bit of man's union with nature and leaves his spirit diminished by the loss. "The costs of pollution, then, are high; the effects, grave; the danger, present." Dichlorous Vaponar And the No-pest Strip In recent months health department across the country, including the U. ^ Public Health Service, have released important information on Shell Cbemica! Company's "No-Pest" insecticide stops. Dichlorvos Vapona R, the active ingredient, when combined with a special resin slowly vaporizes from the strips to kill insects which encounter its poisonous cloud. When it was proved that the strips actually interfered with a nerve enzymd of humans exposed in closed rooms, the IJ s. Department of Agriculture ordered Shell to put on the box-label the words, "Do not use in nurseries or rooms where infants, ill or aged persons are confined." Shell deliberately has delayed compliance with the order, and the federal government has not acted to enforce its own rule. It is readily apparent that such a warning would affect sales of the product. On September 11, 1969, the U. S. Department of Agriculture's Pesticide Division informed the registrants of the "No-Pest" strips that the use of such strips near food will result in residues in that food and that the following warning must appear on the label: "Do not use in kitchens, restaurants, or areas where food is prepared or served." Shell Chemical, of course, has found a way to get arouna uie enforcement of the label regulation. They filed a petition with the U. S. Food and Drug Administration to request a tolerance for the chemical in food (allowing a certain amount to be eaten by people) and while the petition is being "studied", they can continue to sell the product to an uninformed and convenience-oriented public. Many scientists as well as federal, state and local health departments advise against the use of Vapona R in homes and public places. Consumer Reports strongly advises against the use of such strips. They are not allowed ^o be used at all in North Carolina and many states and local governments have some restrictions. Just .as in the case of the Federal Government, the state public health department has no regulatory authority over the use of pesticides; such powers have been reserved for the Agriculture Department. This department has the power to do what is logically right and necessary - that is, to withdraw the- privilege for Shell to market its product until the issues of its safety in nurseries, kitchens and restaurants are resolved. At the very least, the public should be informed, so that they can choose to avoid the poison Pollution: Air, Land, Water Three nationally-known crusaders for environmental preservation will keynote an all-day citizen's workshop titled "Pollution: Air-Land-Water" on Friday, April 17, at the University of WisconsinParkside (Wood Rd., Kenosha). The speakers are Ian McHarg, University of Pennsylvania ecologist and an expert on land use and regional planning; Bertram W. Carnow, M. D., professor of preventive medicine and health at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and a specialist on the relationships between air pollution and health; and David W. Brower, president of Friends of the Earth, an international politically active conservation organization, and director of the John Muir Institute, which is devoted to environmental research and education. The three will speak during the morning session, which begins with registration at 8 a.m. in Greenquist Hall and includes an introductory message at 8:45 by Parkside Chancellor Irvin G. Wyllie. More Misuse of Land Being Planned We are paying dearly for the benefits we reap from today's high standard of living. We might well be pushing this world to an uninhabitable cinder with our present political system, and by a technology and economic way of life that continually devises more efficient ways to exploit our land and resources for profit. In the exploitation of our land and resources there can be no true profit. Can polluted air and water, depleted resources and over-loaded nervous systems be considered any sort of beneficial profit? We must make the changes necessary to prevent the present "foul and move-on" way of life from continuing. Man, in this highly technical society, has not been able to keep in sight the value of good agricultural lands. The most valuable soils for agriculture have almost traditionally been the sites of cities and suburbs with little forethought given to the long-range effects of despoiling these rich lands. We must now think of saving the few agricultural areas left from the "earth movers of progress". Plans for a race track are presently being considered. The site of this proposed track would be a 300 acre area of agricultural land south of highway 20 and Interstate 94. Several southeastern Wisconsin businessmen have come •forward with seemingly strong economic arguments for the race track. However, most of the arguments lack any consideration for the ecology of the area and the long-range effects of this site. These men are not thinking in the correct prospective of true social worth. More must be considered than just money. Aside from ruining the valuable land upon which it would be built, increasing pollution of the ground water, and more damage to Racine's already low water table, this race track will ultimately mean the enlargement of already congested highways. Highways mean increased runoff from the paved area and further erosion'of surrounding lands. These consequences plus the cost of addiUonal police and fire protection, costs of garbage pick-up and crop damage due to pollution of ground water and air must be considered before we accept any talk of economic gain. The race track has also been credited as the hum of a new recreational area However, we must consider the spokes of this recreational wheel. In existence now or in the development stage are three parks in the immediate area of the track These parks include a 66 acre community park; Ives Grove Links a 191 acre community park; and a 4 acre wayside park. None of these sites is more than one and three-quarter miles west of the race track site. These parks and the track are not of computable usage and the parks will suffer considerably every time there is a race. The environment of these parks will ultimately be one of noise and excessive amounts of trash If you wish to protest the construction of this race track, write to your countv supervisor and tell him that you are IT* * misUse the ^nd. You can find out who your county supervisor is by calling the Racine Public LiSy In addition to his morning talk, McHarg also will present a free public lecture at 8 p.m. in Horlick High School Little Theater, Racine. The afternoon session will be devoted to small group workshops and will include general interest topics such as land use, automobile pollution, population, air pollution and health, the ecological crisis, legal aspects of air pollution, economics of pollution and thermonuclear pollution along with more locally-oriented workshops on Lake Michigan, Racine air, the Root River Plan and local land use planning. Persons wishing to attend the workshops must register in advance by writing "Pollution: Air-Land-Water", Post Office Box 502, Racine, WI 53401. A $2 fee includes registration and lunch. The workshop sessions and McHarg's evening lecture are sponsored by the Junior League of Racine, the Racine League of Women Voters and the University of Wisconsin-Parkside Lecture and Fine Arts Committee. Cooperating groups are the American Association of University Women, Hoy Nature Club, the Johnson Foundation, Prairie School, Racine Area Coalition for Clean Air, Racine Committee for a Natural Environment, Racine Junior Women's Club, Racine Unified School District No. 1, Root River Restoration Council and University Extension. The workshop will be the first in a series of events at Parkside planned in anticipation of observance of Earth Day, April 22, when environmental problems will be the focus of special programs on most of the nation's major campuses. The programs will include community presentations and participation in area high schools' "environmental studies days'' in addition to on-campus activities. ajor Work has begun on an interdisciplinary ecology major here at Parkside. This may be one of the first colleges to offer such a program. Including natural science, social science and the humanities, this major will provide a broad and rich background in the area of ecology. Such an approach will equip students with the necessary perspective and skills needed to cope with the tremendously complex environmental problems facing modern society. Petitions urging implementation of this program are being circulated by the Students For A Better Environment. A tentative curriculum plan is presently being prepared for approval by students and submission to the Regents and the Coordinating Council in Higher Eudcatiom Numerous citizen groups have pledged support of this program. The ecology major draws on the flexibility and academic innovations basic to Parkside's philosophy. Being bo"1 relevant and contemporary, the program is designed to meet the tremendous interest in ecology on the part of the students. FOUR CHANGES I. POPULATION The Condition Position: Man is but a part of the fabric of life — dep endent on the whole fabric for his very existence. As the most highly developed tool-using animal, he must recognize that the unknown evolutionary destinies of other life forms are to be respected, and act as gentle steward of the earth's community of being. Situation: There are now too many human beings, and the problem is growing rapidly worse. It is potentially disastrous not only for the human race but for most other life forms. Goal: The goal would be half of the present world population, or less. ACTION Social-political: First, a massive effort to convince the governments and leaders of the world that the problem is severe. And that all talk about raising foodproduction — well intentioned as it is — simply puts off the only real solution: reduce population. Demand immediate participation by all countries in programs to legalize abortion, encourage vasectomy and sterilization (provided by free clinics) — free insertion of intrauterine loops — try to correct traditional cultural attitudes that tend to force women into childbearing — remove income tax deductions for more than two children above a specified income level, and scale it so that lower income families are forced to be careful too — or pay families to limit their number. Take a vigorous stand against the policy of the right-wing in the .Catholic hierarchy and any other institutions that exercise an irresponsible social force in regard to this question; oppose and correct simple-minded boosterism that equates population growth with continuing prosperity. Work ceaselessly to hav? all political questions be seen in the light of this prime problem. The community: Explore other social structures and marriage forms, such as group marriage and polyandrous marriage, which provide family life but may produce less children. Share the pleasure of raising children widely, so that all need not directly reproduce to enter into this basic human experience. We must hope that no one woman would give birth to more than one child, during this period of crisis. Adopt children. Let reverence for life and reverence for the feminine mean also a reverence for other species, and future human lives, most of which are threatened. Our own heads: "I am a child of a ll life, and all living beings are my brothers and sisters, my children and grandchildren. And there is a child within me waiting to be brought to birth, the baby of a new and wiser self." Love, love-making, a man and woman together, seen as the vehicle of mutual realization, where the creation of new selves and a new world of being is as important as reproducing our kind. II POLLUTION The Condition Position: Pollution is of two types. One sort results from an excess of some fairly ordinary substance — smoke, or solid waste — which cannot be absorbed or transmuted rapidly enough to offset its introduction into the environment, thus causing changes the great cycle is not prepared for. (All organisms have wastes and by-products, and these are indeed part of the total biosphere: energy is passed along the line and refracted in various ways, "the rainbow body". This is cycling, not pollution.) The other sort is powerful modern chemicals and poisons, products of re cent technology, which the biosphere is totally unprepared for. Such is DDT and similar chlorinated hydrocarbons — nuclear testing fallout and nuclear waste — poison gas, germ and virus storage and leakage by the military; and chemicals which are put into food, whose long-range effects on human beings have not been properly tested. Situation: The human race in the last century has allowed its production and scattering of wastes, by-products, and various chemicals ,to become excessive. Pollution is directly harming life on the planet: which is to say, ruining the environment for humanity itself. We are fouling our air and water, and living in noise and filth that no "animal" would tolerate, while advertising and politicians fry to tell us "we've never had it so good. The dependence of the modern governments on this kind of untruth leads 0 shameful mind-pollution: mass media and most school education. Goal: Clean air, clean, clear-running 1 wers, the presence of Pelican and Osprey and Gray Whale in our lives; salmon and trout in our streams; unmuddied language and good dreams. ACTION Social-Political: Effective International legislation banning DDT and related poisons — with no fooling around. The collusion of certain scientists with the pesticide industry and agri-business in trying to block this legislation must be brought out in the open. Strong penalties for water and air pollution by industries — "Pollution is. somebody's profit." Phase out the internal combustion engine and fossil fuel use in general — mo re research on non-polluting energy sources; solar energy; the tides. No more jridding the public about atomic waste disposal: it's impossible to do it safely, and nuclearpower generated electricity cannot be seriously planned for as it stands now. Stop all germ and chemical warfare research and experimentation; work toward a hopefully safe disposal of the present staggering and stupid stockpiles of HBombs, cobalt gunk, germ and poison tanks and cans. Laws and sanctions against wasteful use of paper, etc., which adds to the solid waste of cities — d evelop methods of re-cycling solid urban waste. Re-cycling should be the basic prinicple behind all waste-disposal thinking. Thus, all bottles should be re-usable; old cans should make more cans; old newspapers back into newsprint again. Stronger controls and" research on chemicals in foods. A shift toward a more varied and sensitive type of agriculture (more small scale and subsistence farming) would eliminate much of th e call for blanket use of pesticides. The community: DDT and such: don't use them. Air pollution: useless cars. Cars pollute the air, and one or two people riding lonely in a huge car is an insult to intelligence and the Earth. Share rides, legalize hitch-hiking, and build hitch-hiker waiting stations along the highways. Also — a step toward the new world — walk more; look for the best routes through beautiful countryside for long-distance walking trips: San Francisco to Los Angeles down the Coast Range, for example. Learn how to* use your own manure as fertilizer if you're in the country — as the far East has done for centuries. There's a way, and it's safe. Solid waste: boycott bulky wasteful Sunday papers which use up trees. It's all just advertising anyway, which is artificially inducing more mindless consumption. Refuse paper bags at the store. Organize Park and Street clean-up festivals. Don't work in any way for or with an industry which pollutes, and don't be drafted into the military. Don't waste. (A monk and an old master were once walking in the mountains. They noticed a little hut upstream. The monk said, "A wise hermit must live there." — the master said, "That's no wise hermit, you see that lettuce leaf floating down the Stream, he's a Waster." Just then the old man came running down the hill with his beard flying and caught the floating lettuce leaf.) Carry your own jug to the winery and have it filled from the barrel. Our own heads: Part of t he trouble with talking about DDT is that the use of it is not just a practical device, it's almost an establishment religion. There is something in western culture that wants to totally wipe out creepy-crawlies, and feels repugnance for _ toadstools and snakes. This is fear of one's own deepest natural inner-self wilderness areas, and the answer is, relax. Relax around bugs, snakes, and your own hairy dreams. Again, farmers can and should share their crop with a certain percentage of buglife as "paying their dues" - Thoreau says 'How then can the harvest fail? Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds? It matters little comparatively whether the fields fill the farmers' barns. The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or not and finish his labor with every day, relinquish all claim to the produce of his fields, and sacrificing in his mind not oidy his first but his last fruits also. In the realm of thought, inner experience, consciousness, as in the outward realm of interconnection, there is a difference between balanced cycle and the excess which cannot be handled. When the balance is right, the mind recycles from highest illuminations to the stillness of dreamless sleep; the alchemical "transmutation." III. CONSUMPTION The Condition Position: Everything that lives eats food, and is food in turn. This complicated animal, man, rests on a vast and delicate pyramid of energy-transformations. To grossly use more than you need to destroy is biologically unsound. Most of the production and consumption of modern societies is not necessury or conducive to spiritual and cultural growth, let alone survival; and is behind much greed and envy, age-old causes of social and international discord. Situation: Man's careless use of "resources" and his total dependence on certain substances such as fossil fuels (which are being exhausted, slowly but certainly), are having harmful effects on all the other members of t he life-network. The complexity of modern technology renders, whole populations vulnerable to the deadly consequences of the loss of any one key resource. Instead of i ndependence we have over-dependence on life-giving substances such as water, which we squander. Many species of animals and birds have become extinct in the service of fashion fads — or fertilizer — or industrial oil — the soil is being used up; in fact mankind has become a locust-like blight on the planet that will leave a bare cupboard for its own children — all the while in a kind of Addict's Dream of affluence, comfort, eternal progress — using the great achievements of science to produce software and swill. Goal: Balance, harmony, humility, growth which is a mutual growth with Redwood and Quail (would yoii want your child to grow up without ever hearing a wild bird?) — to be a good member of the great community of living creatures. True affluence is not needing anything. ACTION Social-political: It must be demonstrated ceaselessly that a continually "growing economy" is no longer healthy, but a Cancer. And that the criminal waste which is allowed in the name of competition — especially that ultimate in wasteful, needless competition, hot wars and cold wars with "communism" (or "capitalism") — m ust be halted totally with ferocious energy and decision. Economics must be seen as a small sub-branch of Ecology, and production - distribution - consumption handled by companies or unions with the same elegance and spareness one sees in nature. Soil banks; open space; phase out logging in most areas. "Lightweight dome and honeycomb structures in line with the architectural principles of nature." "We shouldnt use wood for housing because trees are too important." Protection for all predators and varmints, "Support your right to arm bears". Damn the International Whaling Commission which is selling out the last of o ur precious, wise whales! Absolutely no further development of roads and concessions in National Parks and Wilderness Areas; build auto campgrounds in the least desirable areas. Plan consumer boycotts in response to dishonest and unnecessary products. Radical Co-ops. Politically, blast both "Communist" and "Capitalist" myths of p rogress, and all crude notions of conquering or controlling nature. The community: Sharing and creating, the inherent aptness of communal life — where large tools are owed jointly and used efficiently. The p*ower of renunciation: If enough Americans refused to buy a new car for one given year it would permanently alter the American economy. Recycling clothes and equipment. Support handicrafts — gardening, home skills, midwifery, herbs — all the things that can make us independent, beautiful and whole. Learn to break the habit of unnecessary possessions — a monkey on everybody's back — But avoid a self-abnegating antijoyous self-righteousness. Simplicity is light, carefree, neat and loving — not a self-punishing ascetic trip. (The great Chinese poet Tu Fu said "The ideas of a poet should be noble and simple."). Don't shoot a deer if you don't know how to use all the meat and preserve that which you can't eat, to tan the hide and use the leather — u se it all, with gratitude, right down to the sinew and hooves. Simplicity and mindfulness in diet is a starting point for many people. Our own heads: It is hard to even begin to gauge how much a complication of possessions, the notions of "my and mine", stand between us and a true, clear, liberated way of seeing the world. To live lightly on the earth, to be aware and alive, to be free of e gotism, to be in contact with plants and animals, starts with simple concrete acts. The inner principle is the insight that we are inter-dependent energy-fields of great potential wisdom and compassion — expressed in each person is a superb mind, a handsome and complex body, and the almost magical capacity of language. To these potentials and capacities, "owning things" can add nothing of a uthenticity. "Clad in the sky, with the earth for a pillow." IV. TRANSFORMATION The Condition Position: Everyone is the result of four forces —the conditions of this knownuniverse (matter-energy forms and ceaseless change); the biology of his species; his individual genetic heritage; and the culture he's born into. Within this web of forces there are certain spaces and loops' which allow total freedom and illumination. The gradual exploration of some of these spaces is "evolution" and, for human cultures, what "history" could be. We have it within our deepest powers not only to change our "selves" but to change our culture. If a man is to remain on earth he must transform the fivemillenia long urbanizing civilization tradition into a new ecologically-sensitive harmony-oriented wild-minded scientificspiritual culture. "Wildness is the state of complete awareness. That's why we need it." Situation: Civilization, which has made us so successful a species, has overshot itself and now threatens us with its inertia. There is some evidence that civilized life isn't good for the human gene pool. To achieve the Changes we must change the very foundations of our society and our minds. Goal: Nothing short of total transformation will do much good. What we envision is a planet on which the human population lives harmoniously and dynamically by employing a sophisticated and unobtrusive technology in a world environment which is "left natural". Specific points in this vision: • A h ealthy and spare population of all races, much less in number than today. • Cultural and individual pluralism, unified by a type of world tribal council. Division by natural and cultural boundaries rather than arbitrary political boundaries. • A technology of communication, education and quiet transportation, landuse being sensitive to the properties of each region. Allowing, thus, the Bison to return to much of the high plains. Careful but intensive agriculture in the great alluvial valleys; deserts left wild for those who would trot in them. Computer technicians who run the plant part of the year and walk along with the Elk in their migrations during the rest. • A basic cultural outlook and social organization that inhibits power and property-seeking while encouraging exploration and challenge in things like music, meditation, mathematics, mountaineering, magic, and all other ways of authentic being-in-the-world. Women totally free and equal. A ne w kind of fa mily — r esponsible, but more festive and relaxed — i s implicit. ACTION Social-political: It seems evident that there are throughout the world certain social and religious forces which have worked through history toward an ecologically and culturally enlightened state of affairs. 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Our community: New schools, new classes, walking in the woods and cleaning up the streets. Find psychological techniques for creating an awareness of "self" which includes the social and natural environment. "Consideration of what specific language forms — symbolic systems — and social institutions constitute obstacles to ecological awareness." Without falling into a facile interpretation of McLuhan, we can hope to use the media. Let no one be ignorant of the facts of biology and related disciplines; bring up our children as part of the wild-life. Some communities can establish themselves in backwater rural areas and flourish — others maintain themselves in urban centers, and the two types work together — a two-way flow of experience, people, money and homegrown vegetables. Ultimately cities will exist only as joyous tribal gatherings and fairs, to dissolve after a few weeks. Investigating new life-styles is our work, as is the exploration of Ways to explore our inner realms — with the known dangers of crashing that go with such. We should work with political-minded people where it helps, hoping to enlarge their vision, and with people of all varieties of politics or Pollution Awards thought at whatever point they become aware of environmental urgencies. Master the archaic and the primitive as models of basic nature-related cultures — as well as the most imaginative extensions of science — and build a community where these two vectors cross. Our own heads: Is where it starts. Knowing that we are the first human beings in history to have all of man's culture and previous experience available to our study, and being free enough to the weight of traditional cultures to seek out a larger identity. — The first members of a civilized society since the early Neolithic to wish to look clearly into the eyes of the wild and see our self-hood, our family, there. We have these advantages to set off the obvious disadvantages of being as screwed up as we are — which gives us a fair chance to penetrate into some of the riddles of ourselves and the universe, and to go beyond the idea of "man's survival" or "the survival of the biosphere" and to draw our strength from the realization that at the heart of things is some kind of serene and ecstatic process which is actually beyond qualities and certainly beyond birth-and-death. "No need to survive!" "In the fires that destroy the universe at the end of the kalpa, what survives?" - "The iron tree blooms in the void!" Knowing that nothing need be done, is where we begin to move from. The Parkside Students for a Better Environment have cited the following to receive pollution awards for their outstanding contributions to the degradation of our environment: To the Wisconsin Electric Power Company goes the Air Pollution Award. The WEPC (which spends about 3 million dollars on advertising their monopolized product) spews 8,000 t ons of particulates and 24,000 tons of sulfur dioxide into the air — truly in the name of public service. To the Public Service Commission goes the Consumer Pollution Award. The PSC recently granted the WEPC a rate increase to guarantee the shareholders their 11 per cent profits and also guarantees no immediate action towards cleaning up their stacks. Many complaints were registered with the Commission about Oak Creek's pollution. However, the Commission didn't feel that it was within their jurisdiction to consider such arguments when considering the rate increase. c T ° 5? U,„ S. Army CorPs of Engineers goes the Water Pollution Awards The Corps has analyzed 1,830,000 cubic harbor dredgings as unpolluted and will dump it back into Lake Michigan. Thus we award them on their continuing display of engineering in contribution to the death of Lake Michigan. To the Wisconsin International Speedway, Inc., goes the Land Pollution Award. They have proposed this track in the name of economic growth but are mistaken if they use the almighty dollar sign as a symbol of progress. To the University of Wisconsin goes the Mind Pollution Award. Their obvious emphasis on the superficial, such as having a roster of Ph. D-holding professors rather than a faculty of good educators, clearly shows that their interest is not in the minds of the students. Thus we award the University of Wisconsin the Mind Pollution Award for their efforts to give us an outstandingly irrelevant education. Rehearse for the Apocalypse time to start hoarding. Start buying things you'll need after the Fall on credit - after the collapse no one will bother with collecting debts. While on the subject: start thinking about creative new uses for money since its present function will soon end. Remember, paper - particularly tissue - will be in short supply. Think about creative new uses for other potentially obsolete things like electric can openers, televisions, brassieres, toilets, alarm clocks, automobiles, etc. Accustom yourself to human body odor. Now is the time to learn a trade for the future - practice making arrowheads and other implements out of stone. Advanced students should start experimenting with bronze. * For those of you who are investment minded, buy land, but you'd better leave enough bread to also buy a small arsenal to defend your property with * Remember Victory Gardens? Plant your Survival Garden now I Better quit smoking - or rip off a tobacco warehouse. Stockpile useful items like matches, safety pins, thread and needles, condoms, etc. * Learn how to shoot a bow and arrow. * Start preparing for the fashions of the future. You girls might take a hint from the-heroines of monster films and start tearing your clothing in tasteful but strategically located tatters in order to create the Fay Wray look of tomorrow. Those less frivolous minded among you should start cultivating your body hair. (Remember a naked ape is a cold ape) * You housewives had better learn how to maim and kill with a vegematic. " Finally everyone should buy a boy scout manual - or in lieu of that, buy a boy scout. SO IN FACING THE WORLD OF TOMORROW REMEMBER: BUILD FOR THE FUTURE AND CONTEMPLATE SUICIDE. rroa ChlciBO ^ Better start preparing your pallette and stomach for the fare of the 80's: Mix detergent with everything you eat and drink. There's already quite a bit but there will be a lot more in the future. * Learn how to digest grass and other common plants. * Start fattening your dog, cat, parakeet and guppies for the main course of the future. Appreciating that most services and products will disappear over the next ten to twenty years, we suggest this little dry run: Turn off your gas Turn off your water Turn off your telephone Turn off your heat Turn off your electricity Sit n&ked on the floor and repeat this chant: PROGRESS IS OUR MOST IMPORTANT PRODUCT PROGRESS IS OUR... And as the final crisis approaches there's no better YES FOLKS! FIRST ON YOUR BLOCK TO EXPERIENCE THE ECOLOGICAL DISASTER. WHY WAIT TILL 1980? DON'T LET THE FUTURE TAKE YOU BY SURPRISE. PREPARE NOW TOR THE END OF CIVILIZATION. REHEARSE FOR THE- APOCALYPSE HERE ARE A FEW SUGGESTIONS: a taste for grubs and insects - your anweren't too proud to lift a rock for their dinner. Practice starving. Every night before bedtime drink a glass of industrial and organic waste on the rocks (with mixer if you prefer). « EDAY APRIL 22 Does environment pollution cause cancer? Scientists have linked environmental pollution with the formation of a scries of chemical compounds found to cause cancer in a wide range of organs of various species. Dr. Samuel Epstein of the Harvard Medical School Department of Pathology explained the composition of nitrosamines and their carcinogenic effects in the January Nature. Nitrosamines are compounds of nitries and amines. Nitrites readily form Packwood's bills hit population rise Senator Bob Packwood (R-Oregon) introduced Tuesday two bills which address problems created by an overpopulatcd environment. One measure would limit to three the number of children per family who may be declared as personal tax exemptions. The second proposal would legalize abortion in the District of Columbia. Packwood's first measure (S. 3501) would affect only those children born on or after January 1, 1973. A family's first child would qualify as a $1000 personal tax exemption. A second child would qualify as a $750 exemption, and the third child as a $500 exemption. Families already having three or more children before January 1. 1973, would receive the regular allowance of $750 for each "Shild. Families with less than three children would receive an additional $250 credit since the first child would qualify as a $1000 deduction. The legislation to legalize abortion (S. 3502) is intended to reduce unwanted pregnancies. The bill stipulates that an abortion must be performed by a licensed physician. The woman must have the consent of her husband if she is married and living with him. An abortion will be permitted without the husband's consent if the pregnancy resulted from rape, or if the pregnancy is endangering the woman's life or health. Consent of the parent or legal guardtan is required if the woman is unmarried and under 18 years of age. The tax measure will enter Senator Russell Long's Finance Committee. The abortion bill has been assigned to the District of Columbia Committee, chaired hy Sen. oJseph Tydings. Hearings on them have not been scheduled. Report from nitrates, which are frequently found in air and water polluted by agricultural processes, and industrial and human wastes. The incidence of amines does not appear to be affected by pollution processes. According to a Public Health Service study to be published early in April, water supplies across the country are heavily contaminated with nitrates. Over 70 water supplies are contaminated with over 45 parts per million (ppm) nitrates in California, including the Los Angeles -basin. The Health Service recommends a maximum level of 45 ppm. Twenty-one water supplies in Iowa, 14 in South Dakota, 34 in Kansas, 15 in Washington, 26 in Oklahoma, and 14 in Texas are contaminated. Dr. L. D. Ferguson, zoologist at Mississippi State University, reports that in Neshoba County in Mississippi patterns of nitrate fertilizer being leached from the soil vary according to changes in water table levels. Effects of leaching appear in areas of heavy agriculture such as the San Joaquin Valley in California, where levels of 90 ppm are commonplace and levels of several hundred ppm have been observed. Peoria, Illinois, and other cities experience spring peaks of nitrate levels influenced by regional interactions of agricultural, industrial and municipal pollution. Nitrates are highly soluble and cannot be removed by primary or secondary water treatment. Public Health Service standards for nitrates are not based on the cancerproducing effects of nitrites, but rather on the effect of nitrates on infants. Nitrate intake in infants has been linked to methemoglobinemia or infant cyanosis (a depiction of blood oxygen often resulting in brain damage or death). Infants may absorb nitrates through water or milk (both human and cow milk). Nitrosamines can be formed from amines in cigarette smoke and airborne nitrites so that cancerous substances might generate directly in the lung tissue. According to Vic Kley, Environmental Action research coordinator, this mechanism may in part explain the high incidence of lung cancer among smokers in polluted cities. Dr. Epstein notes that nitrate accumulation in plants and forage is enhanced by the use of 2,4-D, a common herbicide itself implicated in the production of birth defects. Plants which may be unusually high in nitrites include all green vegetables like spinach, celery and green salad. Storing of such vegetables permits baterial reduction of nitrates to nitrites. Eco tax hints Environmental Action Now has organizations on 2.000 high school campuses. 850 college campuses, and 2 military hoses planning for April 22. M TUM&S The cartoon pictured on the front of the newsletter and the one above have been made into posters for distribution. They are both 17" x 22"; "Population Explosion" is black and white, and "The Thinker" is black and white with a magenta border. Price units for both are as follows: 4 posters—S2.00; 24 posters— $12.00; 50 posters—$20.00; 100 posters—$35.00. The posters will be shipped in units only. They can be purchased in quantity from Creative Concepts, Inc., 5400 Pooks Hill Rd., Bethesda, Md. 20014. Please include a check or money order—the price of mailing is covered. Any individual suffering personal damage due to a "casualty" may deduct the resulting costs from his tax return. The IRS definition of "casualty" includes several natural and man-made environmental disturbances and may be extended to include others. Oil spills like the ones that occur off the California coast, earthquakes caused by dams which create hazardous strains on the geological framework of the earth, red tides caused by eutrophication of the oceans and estuaries, death of animals or property loss due to sonic booms or excessive noise and damage to trees and shrubs due to inversions that cause deadly rises in air pollution levels may all be deductible. Personal or business casualties are deductible if they meet the "casualty" criteria. A casualty is defined by the IRS as the complete or partial destruction of property resulting from an identifiable event of a sudden, unexpected or unusual nature. A personal casualty is deductible to the extent that it exceeds $100. A business casualty, held for the protection of income, is deductible in full. Any medical costs incurred for prcTlie button pictured above can be purchased by groups in quantity from the Edward Horn Company, 6738 Old York Road, Philadelphia, Pa. 19126 (phone 215-549-7200) at the following prices: 500 at $35, 1000 at $50, 2500 at $40 per 1000, or 10,000 at $30 per 1000. Each person ordering should specify how the buttons should be shipped (parcel post, air freight or other). All buttons will be send C.O.D. It is black with green lettering. vention or treatment of air-pollution aggravated diseases (emphysema, lung cancer, respiratory ailments, etc.) are normally deductible to the extent that they exceed 3% of the total annual income. Also covered might be impaired hearing, nervous conditions, fetal complications, mental disorders, etc., that a doctor attributes to excessive noise levels on or off the job. Riparian (multiple) owners of bodies of water such as streams and lakes may be able to deduct costs or collect damages if an upstream owner has polluted the strcum and impairs the downstream owner's use of it. The law is unclear here and needs to be tested in actual court Legal areas affected by pollution must be further defined, explored and tested. It has been suggested that one or more law schools set up a research project and publish material explaining the existing laws and legal possibilities. Increase in pollution of air, water and land will probably create more and more disturbances that must be dealt with by the IRS and the courts. Action notes Students at the University of California at Berkeley are planning a twomonth march from Berkeley to Los Angeles to dramatize their concern with environmental problems. The march will begin on March 21 and proceed to Sacramento and then to Los Angeles, where it will end in late May, Members of Ecology Action, a Berkeley environment organization, want to expand the emphasis of April 22 to include the Vietnam War and the forced consumption of worthless goods. They also want to pressure federal officials into supporting the expanded teach-in. Students feel that if they refuse support, the government will be exposing itself as oblivious to pressing concerns. Students at Cornell College in Iowa have found that "Intermedia Art" and environmental teach-ins naturally integrate. Happenings, environments, and assemblages arc being planned as part of April 22 at the liberal arts school. Among projects under consideration arc a roomful of pollution, a casket with a garbage-sculpted human form holding flowers, and tape recordings warning of pollutants hidden under food in the school cafeteria. Students will also be directed outdoors to an area of the campus where groups will discuss problems of the Age of the Eco-Catastrophe. Earlier in the year, a group staged a Breathe-In, practising virtually silent breathing for an afternoon in hopes they could establish respiratory contact with the tree under which they gathered. Late in March the school plans a population symposium. Black Survival in St, Louis, Illinois, is holding a planning meeting March 3 to discuss ways of making the community aware of environmental problems. Tentatively the group is considering street theater and other programs which will use local talent. An environmental action group in Starkville, Miss, is presenting a 15-minute weekly radio program on environmental issues which relate to a predominantly rural aarea. Assistance in the programming is coming from students at Mississippi State University, Northwestern University has recorded proceedings of their January 23 TeachOut on film, video tape, audio tape, and in print. All available material may be purchased; 16mm film can be rented. Contact Project Survival, Cresap Hall, Northwestern University, Evanston, III. 60201 for further information. Parkside Shows the Packers How If the Pack is back, Parkside will deserve a share of the glory. The Green Bay Packers are showing considerable interest in Parkside's weight lifting program. Three members of Wisconsin's favorite football team were in town this week, talking about how a weight program could help the Packers. Assistant coach Zeke Bratkowski, firststring guard Bill Lueck and trainer Dom Gentile talked with Parkside athletic director Tom Rosandich, weight coach Paul Ward and track coach Bob Lawson. Next week Rosandich, Ward and Lawson will travel to Green Bay to tell other Packers' coaches about the new university's weight lifting program. + + + Many, of the Packers work with weights during the off season, but it's a different story from August to January. The Packers have a weight room, but it sits idle during the football season. If the Packers adopt a weight-lifting program — and it appears likely they will — Parkside could play a major role in helping design it. Rosandich, Ward and Lawson recently wrote a book on track training methods, The American Training Pattern. They believe many of the book's concepts are readily transferrable to pro football. Ward, who once played pro football with the Bears and Lions, spent time at a blackboard Tuesday afternoon, outlining for Bratkowski, Lueck and Gentile a weight-lifting program the Packers might adapt. + + + Bratkdwski, 38, retired as a player last season, but still runs five miles a day. Lueck, the Packers' No. 1 draft choice from Arizona in 1968, is sold on the value of weight-lifting. The 6'3", 235 pound youngster beat Bob Hyland out of an offensive guard spot last season. Lueck looks like he's been lifting weights since grade school. His neck, twice the size of most men's, doesn't look inappropriate with his squarely-shaped body. Gentile, whose first cousin is married to Rosandich, would also like to see the Wrestler Scores in Nationals Freshman Jeff Jenkins scored Parkside's first point ever in the recent NAIA wrestling championships by winning a 10-0 decision over a Northland wrestler before bowing out in the second round to his opponent from WSU-Oshkosh. Bill Benkstein looked like he was on his way to a win over a seeded wrestler from Bemidji State before he slipped up and was pinned for the first time in his career. Ninety-seven schools from throughout Packers put in a mandatory weight-lifting plan. 4- + + Many of the younger members of the Packers lifted weights in college, but it might take some strong salesmanship to convince players who've been around a while of the value of weights. Gentile sounds like the perfect salesman. "Speed and stamina come from strength, and lifting weights can provide that strength," Gentile said. Gentile feels weights can add longevity to a player's career by eliminating certain injuries and postponing body deterioration, Many professional teams, the Packers included, are just beginning to realize their training programs are outdated. They believe weight-lifting — something most haven't tried before — can help update their in-season training. Gentile is sure a weight-lifting program could help provide the Packers strength when they need it most — late in the season. Only a few years ago, pro coaches discouraged weight-lifting, Gentile said, figuring their players might get too flabby. Now those coaches realize they were wrong, the Packer trainer added. + + Gentile is sure it wasn't just coincidence the Packers had only two major injuries last season — Jim Flanigan's broken arm and Bart Starr's shoulder separation. The Packers did more running last season (longer wind sprints, for instance), and Gentile believes this helped the Green Bay team stave off fatigue. "And fatigue is the No. 1 reason for injuries because fatigue produces decreased alertness," Gentile said. Gentile is convinced the Packers can keep injuries down by incorporating weight-lifting into their training program. And Parkside is convinced its weight program doesn't have to take a back seat to any. the nation competed in the tournament at Superior. The University of Nebraska at Omaha was the tourney winner with Adams State of Colorado second. The top Wisconsin school was River Falls in the 12th slot. Anderson* Second in Epee Clark Anderson finished second in the Epee at the Chicagoland Open Tourney witty a 19-4 record The winner was Dan Cantallion of N.Y., a member of the U. S. Olympic team. The Rangers' other entry was John Hanzalik, who took fourth among the 50 competitors with a 13-10 slate. ... ,. .... PARKSIDE COACHES PRESENT TRAINING PROGRAM FOR PACKERS - Left to right, Tom Rosandich, Athletic Director, Paul Ward, P. E Coordinator, and Bob Lawson, Track Coach, who recently authored the book American Training Patterns, have outlined a total training program for the Green Bay Packers. The program called for year-round training with a balance between running and weight training. Olympic Coach Discusses an Alpine Sport Ski jogging is just the thing to keep in shape — ju st ask members of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside athletic staff. Ranger coaches usually jog on skis three or four miles every noon hour. And they have plenty of room to operate since the most striking feature of the new UW-Parkside campus is acres and acres of land. Caught in a cross country ski pose were from left to right, track coach Bob Lawson, physical education coordinator Paul Ward, intramural director Vic Godfrey and soccer coach Jim Gibson — Milwaukee Sentinal photo. As sports heroes, Ralph Wakely and John Arensbeck are not household words, but they represented the United States in the last Olympics. Their coach, Sven Johanson, was in Kenosha visiting Parkside. Sven anc Parkside's Athletic Director, Tom Rosandich, are old friends. Rosandich hosted the Olympic Biathlon team at his Sports Village in northern Wisconsin prior to the Grenoble games. Johanson's sport is the biathlon — a term so rare that even Webster's Unabridged neglects to include it in the listings. Johanson, a blond, blue-eyed Swede with a Scandanavian accent to match his first name (Sven), is coach of the United States Biathlon team. Biathlon is a combination of crosscountry skiing and target shooting. Two gold medals are awarded, one for a 20- kilometer individual trek, the other for a relay team, in the winter Olympics. "It is a tougher sport than any other," Johanson maintains. He is an American citizen now, but he competed in the biathlon for the Swedish Olympic team. At one time Johanson was the Swedish national champ in six endurance sports from cross-country skiing and speed skating to bicycle racing and speed walking. For exercise last week he ran from Racine Case high school to the lake and back — ran, not jogged — a distance of about 12 miles. "I'm 45 years old now," he said. "But I'm still in pretty fair shape." Johanson's headquarters for the biathlon team is one of the few places in the United States where there's enough snow — Anchorage, Alaska. Most of his students are servicemen who can spend their hitch as volunteers for the biathlon team. Skiing or shooting experience is helpful, but not necessary. "In endurance sports the will to train is the most important think," Johanson said. He has 19 men now working out on gymnastics and weight-lifting in addition to skiing and shooting as they prepare for the 1970 Olympics. A biathlon skier starts out with a rifle slung on his back and 40 rounds of ammunition. He propels himself across the snow with ski poles, using his arms and legs in a rhythmic, flowing motion. Every four kilometers (a little over two miles) he stops to shoot at a bull s eye target. Poor marksmanship penalized by either adding a few minutes to the competitor s time or a few hundred football0 r wC0UT" ThG target is about a shooter. 3 ^ 3Way from the "To aim a rifle after skiing two miles takes great mental concentration," Johanson said. "Sometimes your whole body is shaking." The biathlon requires the highest physical fittness rating of any sport, according to people who make charts on these things. A slow pulse rale - something that can be acquired by getting in good shape — is important. "But you will never find a biathlon skier who isn't highly intelligent," Johanson said. "The rigorous training schedules require a dedicated mind." There are no cheering crowds in gaudy stadiums to watch cross-country skiers. So far, none has been sought to sign a bonus contract. "Self-satisfaction is the motive for cross-country skiing," Johanson said. Johanson predicts that cross-country skiing might catch on like jogging did, although at the moment it is an almost unknown sport. "Alpine (downhill) skiing is going over big; but you can do cross-country skiing anywhere there is snow; you don't have to drive to a hill," he said. "And you don't have to pay $10 so you can freeze to death while riding to the top of the hill on a lift." Parkside developed skiing trails around its campus before the snow melted. They will be converted now to jogging trails. The skis used for cross-country are lighter and narrower than Alpine skis. In Sweden Johanson once won a crosscountry marathon that had 8.000 competitors at the start. "I learned to ski when I was two or three years old." he said. "My father was a competitive skier, too." But he is running into frustrations as the U. S. Olympic coach. "1 can only keep the men three years, but it takes five or six years of training to compete on the international level," he said. The only hope for the U.S.A. ' n endurance sports would be subsidies for the athletes, he thinks. "For a three hour race you must train for six hours," he said "Nobody can afford to do that." His efforts to convince people on the "upper level politically" haven't been successful. Ski Team Finished Sixth The Ranger Ski team finished commendable sixth in the final rankings c the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Sh Association. The championship cup was won by WSl LaCrosse by a narrow margin over UN Madison. Third place was held by tn Milwaukee School of Engineerinf Weightliffing a Sport One of the new sports at Parkside is the Weight, Lifting team. Weight lifting can be defined as competitive lifting where an individual strives to life as much as possible on specific lifts. There are two types or forms of . competition, the power lift and the Olympic lift. The power lift involves much strength and relatively little skill and consists of the bench press, squat and dead lift. The Olympic lift involves strength, skill, power and agility and consists of the press, snatch and clean and jerk. In competition, the lifter is given three attempts for each lift, nine lifts in all. His score is based upon his best lift in each category added together. There are nine classes in competitive lifting. On Parkside's team we have: 114 lb. - Mark Granger 123 lb. - Mark Granger 132 lb. - J im Shuemate 148 lb. - Jim Ballard and Joe Sielski 165 lb. - Tom Yore 181 lb. - Marty Johnson 198 lb. - Jim DeBerge 242 lb. - Leonard Palmer Super Heavy - Leonard Palmer There is no intercollegiate competition so the team enters AAU and Open meets. In Sheboygan at the State Power Championship, Mark Granger took second in the 123 lb., Jim Sheumate and Leonard Palmer placed third in the 165 lb., and Super Heavy classes respectively. Weightlifters Compete Mark Granger (123) led the Ranger contingent in the recent state power-lift meet at Sheboygan last Saturday. Granger finished second in his class with school records in the following lifts: Squat (250), Deadlift (320) and total of 740. Joe Sielski and Leonard Palmer took thirds in their respective divisions. Sielski (165) either broke or tied school records in all events. Bench press-285, Squat-305, DL450 and a total of 1040. A FORMER MARINE CAPTAIN, HE ALSO SERVED IN THE PEACE / CORPS AS A PHYSICAL TRAINING INSTRUCTOR (I962--64J The team is coached by Paul Ward. Coach Ward has done some lifting in competition but used ii mostly to supplement his training for pro-football when he played with the Detroit Lions and the Chicago Bears. He also collaborated with Tom Rosandich, Director of Athletics, and Bob Lawson, Cross-country and Track coach, in writing a book titled American Training Patterns used for the Weight lifting class. In addition to this, Coach Ward designed some of the equipment seen in the weight training room. Weight training, on the other hand, is defined as exercising with weights to develop strength in the muscles of the body. The weight room is open to any student, male or female, who wishes to use the facilities to get into condition. Coach Ward will help in designing an individual program to fit the needs of the person. Men can use it to develop and strengthen the body and women to contour, mold and shape. The idea of weight training brings thoughts of Muscle Beach. Well, this isn't the case. All types of athletes use these methods to train. Swimmers, golfers, tennis players, and track men use it to strengthen muscles and also prevent injuries. Weights are often used as a means of Physical Therapy. The muscles developed as a result of weight training, contrary to some beliefs, do not revert to fat when the training ends. If the caloric Ute LEADER DOWNTOWN/KENOSHA ELMWOOD PLAZA/RACINE AN UNDEFEATED N.MEXICO STATE H.S-WRESTLING CHAMPI ON, VERN ATTENDED THE UNIV. OF NEW MEXICO ON A 4-yR WRESTLING SCHOLARSHIP U.W.-PARKSIDE'S PERSONABLE, YOUNG HEAD WRESTLING CO ACM AMO DIRECTOR intake is watched, there is little chance of that happening. Weight training follows the program initiated by our athletic department in relation to lifetime sports. According to Coach Ward. Parkside has the best weight room in Wisconsin. A few of the Green Bay Packers have been to the weight room, Zeke Bratkowski for one. The room has been built for the use of the students and is open at very convenient hours. Stop in and talk to Coach. You may feel better for doing so. Palmer, competing in the Super Hwt. class had a BP of 350, Squat of 460 and a DL of 575 for a 1360 total. Jim Ballard was fourth in the 165 class with a total of 955 pounds. Tom Yore was fourth at 181 with a total of 1080 ( SR) and a DL of 420 for another school record. Jim Deberge set a school record in the 242 pound class. Jim Schumate placed fifth at 148 with a total of 885. Club Notes Ski Rangers met March 20 to select officers and plan programs. Skiing is not the only area of interest. They will sponsor a car rally in the near future and there seems to be interest in sailing. People interested in sailing should contact the Office of Athletics as soon as possible. Judo club will meet every Monday at 2 p.m. This club is in the process of organization, with a dozen members already signed up. Karate enthusiasts also should attend these practices until their own club is organized. 'k/ Undtpttu J /At •IH»H/T»> /HI INSURANCE FIRE AUTO LIFE LIABILITY THEFT „ BONDS BUSINESS ACCIDENT HOSPITALIZATION MARINE HOUSEHOLD Long Haul Coverages COLLISION AND BOBTAIL INDIVIDUAL AND FLEET PLANS LIABILITY-WORKMAN'S COMPCARGO DON SPARKS INSURANCE AGENCY 657-5156 5904 39th AVE. The Wide, Wild World Of New Film Is Coming ••••• • • in :\ :"YT i \ Coach Vera Martinez, whose grapplers have just finished a winning season, will retire after one year as a Parkside coach. He now will continue as the Director of Auxiliary Enterprises. A graduate of the University of New Mexico, Martinez this year sent two of his wrestlers to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics championships. A DISTINGUISHED SERIES OF 3 FILM PROGRAMS featuring LONDON POP JAPANESE DADA SAN FRANCISCO PSYCHEDELIC LATERNA MA6/KA First U.S. showings of 26 of the world's riiost outstanding creative short films, from 9 countries. Black comedy and drama of the absurd v . . . continental wit and • ' lyrical humanism . . . animation and collage graphics . . . electronic color and surreal sound . . . science-fiction fantasy and documentary realism. .AsJ — -7\ ——- —-—^ 1 > —* the P°sS 1 bi,ilieThe° show- Tb® , interest'"! ' * iss lpnts.-- ,heD thi^s the' 1 iS»- '"'" ' vinc^SES Program 1: Friday, April 10, Saturday, April 11; Program 2: Friday, April 17, Saturday, April 18; Program 3: Frkb" April 24, Saturday, April 25. Exclusive Area Engagement Watch your mail for details and ticket ^ information. r The University of ' Wisconsin-Parkside STUDENT AC TIVITIF/ Your Complete "On Campus" Book and Supply Center UNIVERSITY BOOK STORES RACINE PARKSIDE KENOSHA USB RECORD SALE Top Records - Top Price - 'Til Easter mm Carthage College Presents 'Celebration' April 22-26 A 17-member cast has been selected and initial rehearsals are underway lor the Carthage Theatre Department's 1970 musical production, 'Celebration', which will be presented April 22-26 in Wartburg Auditorium. 'Celebration' is the creation of playwright Tom Jones and composer Harvey Schmidt, the same team that did The Fantasticks', which begins its 11th year off Broadway in May and has been seen all over the world. Schmidt also scored the musical 'I Do! I Do!', which ran a year and a half on Broadway, a year on the road and is now being made into a movie. 'Celebration' is a musical comedy but also a ritual. Its theme depicts the ancient battle of the forces of corruption being challenged by the purity of youth amidst a New Year's Eve setting. There are no .truly popular numbers in the musical, except for the title song. Celebration, which pulls the audience back into the prehistoric, religious origins of the theater. It serves as a reminder of how early man stifled ancient fears by clustering around warm fires and perfecting imaginative rites to scare away the winter and celebrate the renewal of life (spring). 'Celebration' then unfolds as a unique and provocative New Year's Eve morality play. The play's hero is an orphan who meets a band of revelers, is befriended by a rogue and falls in love with an attractive fallen angel in the retinue of a filthy rich tycoon. Evenutally the orphan wins his angel and, in a ritual battle, the New Year slays the Old Year. The tycoon dies, and the cycle of the seasons keeps spinning. Frank Maxwell of Kenosha, Wis., has been cast in the role of the 'orphan', and Marnette Roth of Neenah, Wis., is the 'fallen angel'. The 'rich tycoon' will be played by Bruce Steinway of Northbrook, 111. Handling the fourth major role as 'Potemkin', the rougish ringmaster, is Rich Humphreys of River Grove, 111. He probably has the best part in the musical. 'Potemkin' is a brilliant combination of bluster and guilt and a real drop-out from humanity. He would have no trouble fitting into the 'hippie' segment of today's younger generation. Other cast members include Margaret Schmidt, Chicago, 111.; Pat Stewart, LaGrange Park, 111.; Heidi Hermansen, Fremont, Neb.; Cynthia Mercati, Chicago; Laura Nelson, Mt. Prospect, 111.; Rhonda Sprecher, Pardeeville, Wis.; Donald Smith, Kenosha; Russell Fear, Chicago; Bob Zdenek, Evergreen Park, 11.; ArnoldThode, Davenport, Iowa; Gary Voss, Park Ridge, 111. ; Randy Gullickson, Brookfield, Wis.; and James Reemtsma, Davenport, Iowa. Several Carthage students also will perform in a group called the 'Revelers'. They are not the chorus people we usually associate with in a regular musical comedy. They rehearse with the play s socalled 'principals' and are continually involved in what is going on. From the very beginning, they know the nature oi the ritual on stage in which they are to participate as they are instrumental in helping to create the 'illusions needed to tell the 'story'. . Tickets for Carthage's 1970 musical show may be difficult to obtain for the Saturday and Sunday (April 25-26) evening and matinee performances. Those dates fall on Carthage's 17th annual 'Parents Weekend' when around 1,000 visitors are expected on campus. Curtain times for all five days of the musical: Wednesday and Thufsday (April 22-23), 7:30 p.m.; Friday, April 24), 8:15 p.m.; Saturday (April 25), 2:30 p.m. and 8:15 p.m.; Sunday (April 26), 2:30 p.m. All tickets for the musical are being sold on a reserved seat basis and will sell for $2.75 each. Ticket prices are up a quarter on all plays at Carthage this season because of a new state tax. Advance ticket reservations may be made by calling the Carthage College switchboard operator, or by sending a check or money order to Dr. T. Shandy Holland, play director and head of the Speech and Theater Department at Carthage. Kinetic Art Films Here This Month "... a th r e e - d a y minifestival . . . from innovative film makers around the world . .. a brilliant assemblage of short creative films," says Louise Sweeney of The Christian Science Monitor. He is referring to a unique series of three film programs which will be presented at Parkside during the month of April. The three programs of "The Kinetic Art" present a diverse group of 26 animated, experimental pop, documentary and dramatic short films by film makers from around the world. It is a collection of films that serves as a traveling gallery show for sixteen leading film makers from Europe, Japan and the United States. The films were gathered from a dozen recent festivals including Mannheim, Oberhausen, Cannes and Venice . . . from Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Germany, Yugoslavia, Italy, Japan, England and the United States . . . from master film makers and from young unknowns. "The Kinetic Art" is being shown throughout the United States and Canada following the enthusiastically received World Premiere in July, 1968, at New York City's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in Philharmonic Hall. The dates at Parkside are: Program One, April 10 and 11; Program Two, April 17 and 18; Program Three, April 24 and 25. Friday programs will be held in the Racine Campus Badger Room; Saturday ssss you'll like them more a C0UP'<* f ,j after you've seen them when some of the symbolism has become clearer Th not the kind of film that you walk out theater and leave behind. The color imagery that accompanies the symbolism will provoke your preemptions in both black aind jh.Ue^nd technicolor. The use of col°r n t>11 tltese films is an additive to meaning, lather than an eye pleasing means of conveying One can appreciate both the artistry and the technique with which these fiirns have been composed, even if eomplete understanding is too much work for a two hour sitting." Poetry Contest The subject is love. The medium is poetry. And the prizes are diamonds Orange Blossom, the nation s leading creator of diamond rings, is announcing its first annual national poetry contest, open to all individuals between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one. "This contest is an effort by Orange Blossom to encourage the creative talents of young people in the field of poetry, fur too often neglected in national competition," said Carl Bross, the firm s general manager. "We feel this is the best possible way to produce an awareness of a new generation's emotions and abilities.' Contest entries will be judged by a prominent panel of poetry experts, including singer-composer Glenn Yarbrough. Michael Mesic, editor of Poetry magazine, and Marsha Lee Masters, poetry editor of the Chicago Tribune and daughter of poet Edgar Lee Masters. Orange Blossom will present specially designed diamond .pendants to the five first award winners. A series of merit commendations also will be given to runners-up. Each entrant may submit up to five poems, a total of 200 lines in length. Each poem will be judged separately on its own literary merits, with individual authorship and originality being stressed. Complete contest rules and entry blanks are available at more than 2,000 jewelry stores across the United States and Canada. Closing date for entries is May 15. Winners will be informed on or before August Murphy to Exhibit In M ilwaukee A member of the art faculty at th University of Wisconsin-Parkside, j0u C Satre Murphy, will be represented in th", Wisconsin Designer-Craftsman Show March 26 through April 26 at th Milwaukee Art Center. Murphy display a sculptured bowl and a porcelain wall plaque. Murphy and his wife. Helen Bitar, a|so will have a joint show on three weekends from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. beginning May9-in at the Eighth Avenue Gallery in Kenosha Murphy will show a series of porcelain pieces accented in gold. His wife will be represented by slitchery, macrame and tie-dye. Both Murphy and his wife are alumni o[ the University of Montana and were represented in the Montana Craftsmen Exhibit earlier this year at the Smithsonian Institution. Washington. 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