Bits and pieces Iay a1: By ERIC SCHOCH A HOMECOMING THEME of nostalgia for the thirties? Nostalgia for the thirties? Well, I guess the good people at UAC de- cided that if nostalgia was good one year (the fifties last year) it would be just as good the next. I personally find it hard to wax nostal- gia about the Great Depression, bank closings, Hoovervilles, Huey Long and people b e i n g shot at the end of dance marathons -' it would be wise to remember that people did not participate in grueling dance marathons for the fun of it, but because they desperately needed the money. For a true "trip back to the thirties", it would have been appropriate to set up, a mock bread line. But the object of nostalgia, of course, is to play up what was good about the past, and forget the bad. And the object of homecom- ing is to have fun, so I won't go on kicking what is down - no one showed up for the look-alike contest. WHAT IS DISTURBING is that organized nostalgia, whether it be the nationwide cele- bration of the fifties or a local look at the thirties, implies a strong need felt by many people to escape from the present. In the late sixties, a highly politicized stu- dent body found a homecoming complete with queens and tissue paper floats to be irrele- vant in light of the serious contemporary is- sues. That feeling is gone now, but the issues, such as racism, sexism, imperialism, misuse of government power and war, continue to fester. One suspects that people will get tired of this apathetic "breather" rather soon. * * * HOWEVER, FROM other quarters comes disagreement. One Howard Tolley, Jr., an assistant professor of political science at Wil- betforce University, conducted a survey of 2,677 children in grades three to eight in New York, New Jersey and Maryland, and has come up with some rather disturbing con- clusions. At the time these children were interviewed, Vietnam was still an abrasive and highly pub- licized issue. These children had lived their entire lives in a war environment. They were the first generation to have observed tele- vised combat. And they had been exposed to the anti-war movement in the schools during the sixties. Having lived in these situations, one might jump to the conclusion that these children would have fairly strong anti-war feelings. However, the survey results show pretty much the opposite. Almost all of the children thought war was bad, but 54 per cent agreed that war "is sometimes necessary." In addi- tion, fully a third of the children believe that war is good if it results in the defeat of communism. IT WOULD SEEM that the policy of detente has not trickled down very far into the general population. Tolley's study shows that media coverage has improved children's factual knowledge of Vietnam, but parents and teach- ers are a greater influence on their opinion. It appears that parents and teachers in this country are still teaching their children that war is inevitable and that war against com- munists is good, despite the threat of nuclear war, despite detente, and despite Vietnam. Tolley concludes that it is up to the nation's universities and colleges to foster a higher order of political and social orientation against war in their educational scheme, for by the 1980's these children will be adults. Some of them will be creating and implementing policy for this country. THIS NEED for universities to act is in direct contrast to the actions of the Univer- sity of Michigan. For years this university engaged in considerable classified research for the Department of Defense, adding much so- phistication to American weaponry used in Indochina, although such research has sup- posedly been drastically curtailed, especially with the disposal of Willow Run laboratories. In addition, in 1971 the University closed down the Center for Conflict Resolution, claiming lack of funds. There were those, how- ever, who felt that political considerations led to the decision to save money at the expense of the CCR, rather than some other programs. * * * DESPITE THE wishes of those who might like it to just "go away," the race issue con- tinues to fester in this country, as the recent murders and racial violence in Boston indi- cate. On Tuesday, Oct. 2, a young white woman was found in predominantly black Roxbury, having been burned to death by six youths. Her attackers had forced her to douse her- self with gasoline she was carrying back to her car, and then set her afire. Less than 48 hours later an elderly white man was killed near a housing project. There followed a series of racial clashes in Boston schools, with reports of groups of whites attacking black women. It is apparent that life in- city cores is not improving for blacks, despite the hapless efforts of anti-poverty programs of the John- son administration and the not-so-benign neglect of the Nixon administration. White America apparently hasn't learned that problems won't- go away if they are ig- nored. * * * THE BURNING of the young woman in Bos- ton has also raised another issue, that of vio- lence on television. Only a few days before the murder, the movie Fuzz was aired. In- cluded in this "incisive" view of cops are gangs of youths who roam about dousing drunks with gasoline and setting them afire. Any connection between the movie and the Boston murder? It certainly doesn't seem un- likely. But like racism, media violence is an issue which gets a lot of publicity and argument for a while, then dies down, a victim of the gen- eral public's (and media's) short attention span. * * * STUDENT GOVERNMENT Council met for the first time in its expanded version 1 a s t Thursday night, and it is obvious that back biting has returned. Spurred on by an overwhelming mandate of some 950 valid student votes, most members feel that their primary responsibility is to put their political enemy and Council President Lee Gill to the test of a campus recall vote. That's all SGC needs, another election. By GLORIA JANE SMITH John Mayall has been called the "Pied Piper of two generations of musicians" - an observation that is not often argued. During the past ten years, his London-originated blues band has been in constant fluctuation (with personnel changes as often as every three months). Numerous members that have come and gone include some of the best musicians in the bWsiness . . . names 1 i k e Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce (Cream); Mick Taylor (Rolling Stones); Peter Green (Fleetwood Mac) and Jon Mark and Johnny Almond (Mark-Almond). "I choose compatible musicians Iing in order to create something . . . my bands have always been a very free vehicle for people to just ex- press themselves," explained the 40-year-old artist in a private in- terview before his recent perform- ance at Detroit's Masonic Audi- torium. "If everything is impro- vised, there's a limitation on how far things can go . . . the longer ARTS3 ofRh you stay together, the nearer you get to stagnation." ' "You express yourself . . . you do something . . . it's an outlet," he said rather definitively, as if there were no other possible way to explain the successful efforts of more than 30 musicians who have recdrded with him on well over a dozen albums. Current personnel include Fred- dy Robinson (guitar); Victor Gas- kin (string bass); Keef Hartley (drums); Blue Mitchell (trumpet) and Red Holloway (saxophone and flute). An unimposing yet striking man, Mayall is tall and lean with should- er-length hair, and he wears mounds of turquoise and silver jewelry (New Mexican Navajo). In conversation, he is a seemingly tranquil person -his voice is quiet and his words direct. On stage, he ignites at the keys of his electriz piano with his harp around his neck and creates some preiv mean, pretty volatile blues. He, purchased his first - electric guitar for $25 in Tokyo while on leave from service duty in Korea. After the war, he went to college and then to work for an advertising firm in his Manchester hometown. In 1963 he moved to London ind began to build a following for his group - the Bluesbreakers. In those early days, 10 years ago, Mayall says he thought it would "be a miracle if I staved in business another week." He wasstill juggling his music with full-time work in graphic design, this time for a London advertising firm. "Music was always there - so was art - but you could earn a living at art and not the other." Now, he listens to those- early tapings with mixed feelings. "They sound archaic . . . funny . . . pret- ty embarrassing." On thegother hand, he finds it "very gra..fv- ing" to see himself "reach dif- ferent levels of maturity as time goes on." He has notably directed h-s bands through various phases, such as playing minus drums around 1969 and his more recent jazz-blues fusion. Adept at electric piano, guitar and harp, -John Mayall neither reads nor writes music. Becoming a musician has been for him a "process that evolves sort of na- turally if you're doing what you want to do.. ." Today, he is a stylized artist and the composer of 90 per cent of the material recorded on his albums "Things that shaped my style were mixtures of everything I ever heard . . . could be anything from Ravel's Bolero to any kind of music." He says it's for "other people to work out technical or artistic comparisons." Inside the musician looms a mel- low human being who cites as oth- er interests simply a "love of life." He is a man who lives with a minimum of planned regularity. "To me, every day is different. If days turned out to be average, I'd be worried." He's the sort of person who says of Manchester and his present Los Angeles home "If I moved again, it would be to someplace else entirely . . . I imagine that seems to be the pattern of niy life . . ." For the past ten years, if not longer, there has been only one continuum for John Mayafl - his music . . . "Ive devoted my whole life to it." A H a r v a r d University representative will be on campus 24 October 1973 to discuss the Harvard MBA program. Students interested in discussing a career in administration should contact the Place- ment Office to arrange a time. tes r1 Daily Photo by KAREN KASMAUSKI The best in Blues with B. B. King presents B.B. King and Radio King and his Court of Rhythm with the Soulful Soulmates UAC-Daystar in Daystar's at Hill at 8, first concert of the year also for homecoming. for homecoming last night. Tonight Judy Collins performs TV highlights 6:30 56 Folk 1970 - 1970 Philadelphia Folk Festival with John Den- ver, Dave Bromberg, John Hartford, Dave Van Ronk, and Doc and Merle Watson 7:30 56 Masterpiece Theatre - "Clouds of Witness" - part 2 8 2 All in the Family 50 Harvest Festival-Della Reese and Burl Ives join the Rev. Oral Roberts in Oklahoma. 8:30 7 Six Million Dollar Man - Lee Majors stars as a super-human 9 4 Movie - "The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid" with Cliff Robertson and Robert Duvall. 9:30 56 Bill Cosby on Prejudice - a grim satiric monologue. 11 50 Movie - "The Wasp Woman" 56 Birth and Death of a Star - drama of a star's life cycle. 11:30 2 Movie - "Genghis Khan" with Omar Sharif, Stephen Boyd, James Mason, and Telly Sava- las, 7 Movie - "36 Hours" - melodra- ma about a 1944 German plot to make an American reveal plans of the invasion. 1:30 2 Movie - "Torture Ship" t Movie - "Code Name: Red Roses" - war movie. RELIABLE ABORTION SERVICE Clinic in Mich -1 to 24bweek' pregnancies terminated by li- censed obstetrician gynecolo- gist. Quick services will be or- ranged Low rates. CALL COLLECT (216) 281-6060. 24 HOUR SERVICE Attention Grad* Stude'nts Take a more active role in your student government Rackham Student Government is announc- ing the formation of Committees for Grad- uate Affairs. THESE COMMITTEES INCLUDE: I i Eighty-three years of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan MOVIE-UAC presents Black Pirate, Son of the Shiek, Metro- polis, The Original Adventures of Tarzan, and Eternal Tramp tonight in Markley at 7, 9; Cinema II shows Hus- ton's Across the Pacific tonight and Marker's Le Joli Mai tomorrow night in Aud. A at 7, 9; Cinema Guild plays The Spider Strategm tonight and tomorrow at Arch. Aud. at 7, 9:05; Mediatrics presents Angels with Dirty Faces and Kid Galahad at 7, 9:30 tonight in Nat. Sci. Aud.; India Stu- dents Assoc. presents Sipp's Seeta Aur Geeta in Aud. E of P&A at 3, 6:30 tomorrow. DRAMA-The Braided Theatre presents Journey through Time and Space tomorrow at Power Center at 8. MUSIC-Ark presents Bob Gibson tonight and tomorrow at 8:30; Bonaparte's Retreat presents the Oakridge Ram- blers tonight at 8:30; UAC-Daystar presents Judy Collins in concert at Hill at 8 tonight; Musical Society presents Ballet West, USA with William F. Christensen as choreog- rapher tonight in Power at 8 and tomorrow Julian Bream plays guitar and lute at Hill at 2:30. MUSIC SCHOOL-Sterns Collection Concert tomorrow in Cady Music Rm. at 8. Communications Women Foreign Students Univ Program Planning n in the versity Read and Use Daily Classifieds For further information contact Rackham Stu- dent Government, or call 763-0109 Elections Finance Teaching & Teaching Fellows 420 Maynard St, Ann Arbor, Mi. 48104 News Phone: 764-0552 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1973 A HOMECOMING SPECIAL TONI TE ONLY! KID GALLAHAD w EDWARD G. ROBINSON and BETTE DAVIS AND ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES w JAMES CAGNEY, HUMPHREY BOGART, and the BOWERY BOYS 7:00 and 9:30 $1.00-N-t. Sci. Aud. Branding a man for life THE NIXON administration has made much of the valor and patriotism of Vietnam veterans. In fact, the President's firm resistance to even the most limited form of amnesty for draft evaders is us- ually predicated on the argument that such a pardon would demean those who did fight in the Indochina war. Often these Nixon arguments have been rendered almost laughable, however, by an unpublicized and little-known Depart- ment of Defense listing of "SPNs"-sepa- ration program number designators. These SPNs which are listed on a vet- eran's discharge form, may serve to dis- qualify a former serviceman from em- ployment. Among the various tags SPNs can label an individual with are "unfitness-un- sanitary habits," "marginal producer," "interest of national security," "sexual deviate," and "nonsupport of depen- dents." WILLIAM PRANKRATIUS, an authority on the classification system, has said that "virtually every large corporation in America has access" to at least earlier ver- sions of the codes, which were revised about a year ago. Even gn honorable discharge can in- clude a bad SPN designator. One veter- him having seen his SPN, found out from Pankratius that his number meant a dis- charge for "disloyal or subversive security program." It seems that he had received anti-war literature in the mail. SPN designations are not the only mark that can brand a veteran, making employment and life in general difficult. There is also the discharge itself. During unofficial hearings in Washing- ton Thursday, 22-year-old Dwight Green testified that his undesirable - not dis- honorable - discharge had resulted in his being denied unemployment benefits, V. A. benefits and a decent job. Green and others said that it was their opposi- tion to the war and racism in the armed forces which had earned them their un- favorable discharge treatment. THIS HARASSMENT of political dissi- dents and nonconformists within Army ranks makes a mockery of the Nixon administration's laudatory procla- mations of our troops issued with such gusto early this year. It is further evidence of the repressive way in which. the government continues to treat those whom it considers a moral or political threat. Rep. Edward Koch (D-N.Y.) .has in- tU oduced legislation which would reduce 4 A MUST FOR ALL SERIOUS MOVIEGOERS. Donald J. Mayerson, Cue Magazine. AN INCREDIBLE FEAT. A HEROIC FILM. -Liz Smith, Cosmopolitan Produced by Stan Marguies Executive Producer: David L. Wolper - Original Music by Henry Mancini [An;ginalSound TracaP _}meyiUA---eco-s] 'I ;: - ;;.