FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1968
Hairy Advice:
The Strength;
By G. W. HENNINGER
Professor of Music
Even though the Long Hair Cult, on this
and other campuses, as well as across tire
land, is bound to have its hangers-on, not to,
mention those who will join anything, it is
still to ( be seriously reckoned with. Some of
the kids arc sincere; they have guts, and they
may still produce a creative minority of a
kind that tottering civilizations periodically
need to get back on their feet.
What difference does it make that hair,
beards, beads, sandals, etc., take the place of
words? It is after all a valid protest move
ment (Martin Luther would like it), and it
is completely legal within the framework of
our Constitution.
It proves that
rugged individu
alism is not dead,
ev e n though
some of their
strength has to
come from sheer
numbers.
Now who is
to evaluate such
a cult? Surely
not every Tom,
Dick and Hairy.
It is a job for ex
perts like barb
ers and patriots
on the one hand,
and psychoanal
ysts and theolog
ians on the other
(whatever their po
be).
The barbers, to begin with, have a valid
case. They need customers, and that’s that.
But aside from payment for services, they
inhairit the hair itself. And since hair is used
in mattresses, for brushes and for bomb
sights, etc. the fringe benefits are not to be
sneezed at. It's like taking a ham to a butch
er, asking him to cut off a slice, paying him
for the service, and leaving the slice with
him. Not bad, from the butcher’s point of
view.
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ints of disagreement may
Rasputin,' the Hairy Monk
The patriots have even a stronger case,
but they must back it up with their know
ledge of history. The Russian Czars, as most
historians know, ruled by divine right (they
themselves said so), and yet the last one,
Nicholas, came to grief. Ironically enough,
this was at the hands of another divine: Ras
putin, the hairy monk.
It seems that the Royal pair had a son
(intended hair to the throne) who suffered
from hemophilia, a rare blood disease. When
the Empress was convinced of the monk’s
strange healing powers, he had it made in
Letters: Riots, Litterhugs and Sculpture
On Civil War Number Two
TO THE EDITOR: Having supported the
cause of civil rights in America for some five
years, both actively and passively, I am
somewhat disturbed, to say the least, with
the occurrences in our cities in the last few
years, specifically dating from the summer of
1965.
I read yesterday’s ' Collegian editorial
with mixed emotions. It is my belief that the
absolute worst thing that could ever happen
to the cause of the Negro is the rioting that
has taken place. It is fact that a smaller, per
centage of Americans favor open housing
now than three years ago, when the riots
began. The riots must be stopped, or the
Negro in America will soon regress to his
status of 100 years ago. Even the most radi
cal Black Power advocate must admit that he
is better off now than he was then.
Now then, solutions. A professional police
force is sorely needed in the cities of this
country, one with superior training and back
ground in all aspects of its task. (Already I
can hear my detractors cry of a future coup
d'etat by my pro force. This is not necessary.)
A 22-year-old kid in blue, faced with a 6'3"
Negro with a stick, will shoot him. Self-de
fense, perhaps, but entirely unnecessary.
Look at the list of riot-torn cities in
America. Philadelphia and New York are
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the Royal household. But he took to politics,
and then there was trouble.
Even though he was a true patriot, and
in his own foolish way worked for the fath
erland (or was it Mother Russia?) he made
his share of enemies. So, for the good of Rus
sia. he had to be disposed of. Assassins under
took this noble task. (The word comes from
the Moslems, who ate hashish before doing
their work in the Crusades.) The killers plied
Rasputin with poisoned cakes, then poisoned
wine. That failing, they used a rubber club,
then bullets. That failing, he was shoved
under the ice in the Neva River, and died
by drowning!
Scriptures Prove It
There can be no mystery about the man’s
strength. It must have lain in his hair, as can
be proved by quoting scripture. But .since
some of the blame for the fall of the Czarist
regime and the 1917 Revolution devolved on
the monk’s head, it would, seem that long
haired healers can be as dangerous as their
assassins. Imagine this country full of dis
putin’ Rasputins!
Now take the view of the Freudians and
theologians. Freud held that hair-amputation,
as well as eye-gouging or blindness, were
castration and emasculating symbols. He got
his idea from the Oedipus legend and from
the story about Samson and Deljah. The im
plications are obvious: hang onto your hair
actually as well as symbolically.
For (he benefit of non-Bible scholars, the
story of Sam and Del is told in Judges. Sam
(the story goes) had long hair, great strength,
and a weakness for Del. She belonged to a
tribe that was an enemy of Sam’s, the Phi
listines. They hired her to entrap him. and
she was resorted to the standard formula:
eros. He outsmarted her at first, but she un
did him. “See here, Sam”, she says, “I love
you. You owe me an explanation of the source
of your strength.” “It’s muh hair, Del honey”,
he says. So when he is asleep, she de-hairs
him. and his strength goes with it. Here is
where the Philistines (that breed in every
age that is always sticking its nose where it
doesn’t belong) took over and blinded Sam.
The rest is not important, but the moral is
clear, and provides a slogan for our creative
minority: Strength Through Hair!
Theologians Should Agree
Now what about the theologians? It’s ob
vious that they are morally obligated to fall
in line and give support. After all, they have
used the Sam and Del story for centuries, as
well as the one about little David bringing
Goliath low. The moral is the same: Keep
the Strength, Baby.
It also suggests that if anything is to be
amputated, it is not hair, but some Philistine
noses. Anyone disagree?
conspicuous in their absence. Both have util
ized riot prevention and control courses, and,
under fine police leadership, have avoided
The Great American Holocaust.
Chicago’s Mayor Daley has the right idea,
but it is now too late to tell his poorly-trained
police to shoot anyone who lights a fire. This
will perhst)s be a deterrent, but, as in the
case of capital punishment, it is highly doubt
ful. Daley has the right idea because he feels
this will end the riots. The sentiment is cor
rect. Arsonists cannot be tolerated, -and no
matter how innocent the 12-year old Negro
with the Molotov Cocktail is, he .is more
guilty than the six month old baby, be she
white or black, who dies in her cradle as a
result of his actions.
I sadly foresee a return to the posse,
Twentieth Century style, this summer it con
ditions do not change. I’m afraid carloads of
whites with shotguns will add to the toll of
death. This will be the barbaric, uneducated
answer to a barbaric, uneducated effort to
gain equality, and the first step to Civil War
11,
Keith Bates '7l
Every Litter Bit Hurts
TO THE EDITOR: An early spring has turn
ed the campus into a bower of loveliness. An
aura of misty green covers all growing things.
Blossoms from shrub and bulb cast pools of
Jump to
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA
By LAURA WERTHEIMER
Collegian Staff Writer
God, if there is a God, please bless Professor Laurence
H. Lattman. There IS a Professor Lattman. He teaches
geomorphology and fun, not necessarily in that order, and
yesterday he made the best suggestion of the year about
the Undergraduate Student Government problem.
We do have a USG problem. Everybody agrees we
ought to have USG, but nobody, including the candidates
and especially the student body, seems to know what
it’s for.
Jim Womer promised us almost everything, and Jon
Fox was only slightly more reticent. The dullest student
realized that neither Fox nor Womer had the slightest
possibility of securing off-campus living for women stu
dents.
And the interesting thing is that, prior to Lattman’s
letter to the Collegian yesterday, nobody could pin down
the problem. We were muddling. Mostly, people blamed
fate. “Student Government has a bad ‘karma’—maybe it
will be better in the next life, but now, man, it’s not good ,
for a whole heck of a lot.”
Professor of Education
Art for Students' Sake?
TO THE EDITOR: Well, here at “Walker
University,” it seems that a sum of money fjhdfafig
was used to purchased “nothing.” To my
amazement I was informed that the so-called si%!§/JStvA
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'Why Not Ask?'
Then came Lattman. With the bright burning torch of
academic truth-seeking in one hand, the lamp of com
mon sense in the other, and one foot on the state of New
Jersey (on general principles), he shed light all over the
situation and photosynthesized a solution.
“Specifically, what are USG’s position and rights in
relation to the University Senate and the Administration?”
Lattman asked.
Who knows? Obviously not the presidential candidates
—certainly not the student body. Maybe not even the Ad
ministration. But in view of the increasing clamor about
“student rights,” it might be a good idea if we all knew.
Lei's ask. If the Administration has no concrete defi
nition, let’s form a bipartisan committee and write one.
If students decide they deserve a wider range of responsi
bility than they are granted, they have a specific problem
to tackle.
But to complain about restrictions when we aren’t
even aware of what they are is childish. And as professor
Lattman said. “Why not ask?”
color in many a nook and corner.
Bui there are some students on campus
who resent this beauty and are determined to
mar it. They cast paper cups, cigarette butts,
candy wrappings indiscriminately as if they
were rose petals enhancing the landscape. I
saw two coeds, efficiently and effectively loil
etted and manicured, carelessly drop a used
Collegian on the lawn as they gaily walked
towards the library.
They were sufficiently close to a refuse
collector to fall over it. Almost at the same
instant a young man happily threw an empty
Coke tin into the lilac hedge’ that fronts the
new addition to Fattee.
Surely a college student should have
more sensitivity to his surroundings. An ed
ucated soul is one who comprehends some
order and purpose in his environment. To
thoughtlessly clutter this beautiful spring
campus with refuse and waste requires few
brains and less creativity.
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Johnson:
Speculation on the state of Lyndon
Johnson’s image in 1988 is rampant. How
will the historians depict this man who
has caused so much controversy—and
human suffering—in the last five years?
The Associated Press tells us that
24 of 40 editors polled at the annual
convention of the American Society of
Newspaper Editors believe history will
dub Johnson a “good president, and, if
he succeeds in
settling the ; ’
Vietnam war,
perhaps even a
great one.”
Arthur i
Schlesinger, Jr ?K !
and Arnold v.
Toynbee, two v
of ihe greai i
historians o f -
our time,;
would burn ,
iheir textbooks .
if ever Ameri-
cans so grossly
distorted his-
tory. Were it left to Schlesinger and
Toynbee, ihe Johnson era would be
filed in he same black folder with the
Civil War and the Great Depression.
In 1963, the future of America looked
bright. John Kennedy and his brilliant
White House staff had convinced Russia
and her allies that we were interested in
patching up old animosities. We had
faced the realities of the nuclear age
and abandoned for all time Joseph Mc-
Carthy and John Foster Dulles’ mili
tant, irrational anti-Communism.
We had finally discarded the messi
anic self-righteousness which was the
legacy of victory in World War 11. The
Kennedy government was the first in
our history to realize that the United
States can never mold the rest of the
world on its model and has no right to
try.
No one could foresee
bullet which blew apart
from West Halts to the patio area of Johns
ton Dining Hall in East Halls was purchased
by the University for $4OO. §
I would like to know who was respon- k a
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and for what reason it was purchased? I & TT | T' l T'i T T T T7'' T} 7 O 3
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Halls. With ohjects like that in East, we
don't need the fresh smell of cow manure
as we walk through East during these early
spring mornings ■
Since its founding, the “masterpiece” has
not only been verbally grossed-out but hast
also been physically attacked (although un-i
successfully). |
Therefore, in the future I feel that the*
students of East Halls should have more,
power in determining what should be done! 1
to improve (or ruin) the appearance of
their dorm areas. i
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John F. Kennedy's head would also shat
ter ihe tranquility of the world.
No one could foresee, as Lyndon
Johnson and his menagerie of Byrds
filed into the White House for the first
time, that this was a bloody landmark in
American history.
Johnson and his military advisers
have dragged us into a war 6,000 miles
from our shores—a war which cannot be
won, even with our awesome military
machine.
Johnson’s war has temporarily shat
tered all. hope for East-West Detente. It
has antagonized the Soviet Union, con
vinced them of our imperialistic designs
and thus launched a new phase in the
conventional and nuclear arms race,
bringing us perilously close to ther
monuclear war with Vienam’s fright
ened neighbor, China.
Johnson's domestic programs have
been well-conceived, well designed—and
subordinated to the war effort. While
our cities lay in smoldering ruins, our
country on the verge of racial civil war,
Johnson has continued to pour $3O bil
lion a year down the Asian rathole.
Johnson has finally realized the
futility and danger of his course in
Southeast Asia and has reluctantly de
cided to de-escalate. But the damage has
been done. If the war was settled tomor
row, the United States would have to
pour billions into Vietnam in order to
rebuild the 1 country our soldiers have
destroyed. .
And if the war stopped tomorrow,
the resultant economic dislocation would
probably cause a major recession.
Lyndon Johnson is a misguided man.
He has more thoroughly discredited the
office of the President of the United
States than any other leader in our his
tory.
If ever he is called great by the
American people, someone will have
successfully executed one of the greatest
hoaxes of all time.
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