94t £ic4lpn nt 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Mich. Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan Editorials printed in The MAchiaon Doily exoress the individL opinions of the author This must be noted in ol reprint V. Despite the lack of publicity, the Panther trials go on' Fridoy, July 31, 1970 Fr~doy, July 31, 1970 THE MICHIGAN DAILY THE MICHIGAN DAILY By DEBRA THALI FRIDAY, JULY 3; 1970 News Phone: 764-4 Action not interest NEWSPAPERS around the country have b e e n g prominent play to various aspects of the pollution sis. Headlines such as "Sato plans action to meet p lion crisis in Japan," "Toronto's pollution is worst of{ mer," "New York declares pollution crisis," "Austra act on pollution after outcry over noxious Sydney sr and "Michigan gets law permitting anyone to sue pollution," appear daily in nearly every newspaper i country. A good deal of the interest in this area is undoul ly due to the demonstrations held last spring in conj tion with Earth Day. Obviously the Earth Day rhe has succeeded in bringing the issue to the forefront EARTH DAY, HOWEVER, has apparently failed ii more important task - that of prompting the lea ship of the country to take the necessary steps to save environment. Aside from token moves by the Nixon ministration and some state governments little has' accomplished. President Nixon refuses to spend little more than per cent of his budget on improving the nation's eco The amount of money spent in this area must not be ited by other considerations -- the environment is n place for penny-pinching. Several things can be done to begin to correct problem. One action might be the establishment of a inet department on the environment to coordinate war on pollution. Second, and more important, woul the appointment of an outspoken secretary to lead fight for the environment. Third and most impor would be a genuine commitment on the part of Presi Nixon to lead a national fight against pollution; i.e., just his rhetorical statements indicating verbal sup for efforts to save the environment. The Nixon administration, and for that matter rest of the country, must take action now - an envi mental Pearl Harbor may be closer than you think. -PHILIP HE NIGHT EDITOR: LINDSAY CHANEY Summer Editorial Staff ALEXA CANADY ........................................Co-Ed MARTIN HIRSCHMAN.....................................Co-Ed SHARON WEINER .. ................ . ..... Summer Supplement Ed SARA KRULWICH.......................................Photo Ed LEE KIRK ................... .................. Summer Sports S, NIGHT EDITORS: Rob Bier, Nadine Cohodas, Erika Hoff ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Bill Alterman, Lindsay Chaney, Hertz, Debra Thai Summer Business Staff IAN WRIGHT ...................................... Business Man PHYLLIS HURWITZ.. Display Advertisin RICHARD RADCLIFFE.........................Classified Adverti DAVID BELL .............................. ..... .. ... .Circulat ASSISTANTS: Debby Moore, Janet Engl, Andy Golding THE NEWS MEDIA, outside of u0l the underground papers, have S. been completely ignoring t h e trials of Black Panthers across the )552 country. These are the most im- portant political trials of our time - and although news of Charles Manson and John Norman Collins fills the front pages of most pa- pers, any mention of the Pan- thers is rarely to be found. Many excuses can be made for iving this, but that is what they are - a cri- excuses. A little digging turns up )Ollu- information that should be avail- SUM- able to everyone. sum- In New York City, the NY 21 ians gave just finished filing motions nog," at the end of their pre-trial. Judge over Murtagh will rule on them at the n the end of August. Jury selection will begin on September 8. One of the defendants, Michael bted- Tabor, was bailed out yesterday. unc- Although 21 Panthers were charg- Aoric ed with conspiracy to b o m b a number of New York buildings, in- cluding Macy's Department Store, only 16 have been captured. The n its remainder have successfully gone ader- underground. e the Six of the 16 are now out on S bail, which was set at a ridiculous 1ad- $100,000 each. Mrs. Afeni Shakur been was bailed out by a church group. Richard (Dharuba) Moore was freed mainly on money from Ab- 1 one bie Hoffman. An epilectic whose logy. trial was severed from the others, lim- Lee Barry, had his bail reduced to lot a $15 thousand and was freed by the Committee of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, Joan Bird was the freed by women across the coun- cab- try, especially the women of the the New York Women's Center. Ede thbe die (Jamal) Josephs, a juvenile, d be was also freed. the There are seven more Panthers 'tant in jail who are waiting to be bail- dent ed out - money is badly needed, not On the 28th and 29th of August, the Black Panther Party (BPP) tport will hold a People's Tribunal of the 21 on 125th St. in Harlem. The the people are invited. - Because the BPP believes in ron- trial by juries composed of peers, when t h e trial opens September 8Z instead of a demonstration, IRTZ there will be a Join the Jury Day. It hopes to prove that there is no way that a jury of peers for the Panthers can be found in Man- hattan. litor MEANWHILE, in New Haven, litor Conn., the trial of Lonnie McLu- itor cas goes into t h e second week. itor taff This trial is for allegedly kidnap- ping a n d conspiring to murder Phil Alex Rackley. All nine face this charge but Lonnie alone faces the charge of first degree murder; he will be tried for that, in another ager county, at the end of this trial. 'g ne Even though the nine face the ion same charges, they are being tried separately. One of the women, Frances Car- ter is now out on bail. She is the first person in Connecticut to be allowed bail while being tried for a capital offense. However, while she was still in jail, the pregnant woman was forced to have h e r baby in jail under armed guards. Another woman, Rose Smith, also was forced to have her baby in jail under horrible conditions. She is still there. Margaret Hudgins is now suf- fering from severe arthritis.. Fin- gers so swollen t h a t she can't braidsher hair, knit, or write. El- bows with knobs on them, that ooze mucas when it is d a m p. Knees swollen, in constant pain. There is a possibility that she has cancer. She is receiving no medi- cation, no physical therapy, no exercise, poor diet. She may be irreversibly crippled for life, that is, if she lives. Requests to allow a doctor of her choice to see her have been denied by prison offi- cials. THE TRIAL OF Lonnie McLu- cas marks the beginning of the trial of the New Haven 9 -- 8 members of the New Haven Pan- thers and BPP Chairman Bobby Seale. The defendants In both N e w Haven and New York have al- ready spent more than a year in jail. Harrassment has been going on inside the prisons. New Summer is a relatively slack period for the publication of quality paperbacks, yet a num- ber of seemingly interesting and important new and re-issues have come out in the past few months. Of those to have reach- ed our desk, the following seem most pertinent. For all of the paper wasted (and trees destroyed) to trans- mit second-hand opinions on the uses and abuses of psychedelic drugs, few publications bother to deal with an exploration of two factors of the drug experience paperback Chemicals of a different na- ture are considered in two "Ralph Nader Study Group Re- ports" just published by Gross- man. The famed Nader's Raiders have attacked the Food and Drug Administration to show how that organization has de- ceived consumers and concealed important information - (.95c); another book entitled The Na- der Report on Vanishing Air deals with the Government's failure to face the problems of the destruction of earth's life- sustaining atmosphere. (.95c). Eldridge Cleaver BPP Minister of Iniformation To do anything, it is necessary to know what is happening and to care. Go to t h e trials, demand that the news media cover the news. century. Collier Books hav published a relatively earl ument, Benjamin Brawl Social History of the Ami Negro, first published in 1$2.95) Browley, who Black historian and teac English with degrees from house College, Universi Chicago, and Harvard, se goals for his book: it i titled "A History of the Problem in the United including A History and of the Republic of Liberia. -Another book on Negr tory of unusual interest is ard M. Brotz's The Black of Harlem. Schocken, Brotz deals with Harlem's gregation of Comman Keepers, under Black Wentworth Matthew in 1920's, a group which sou the myth of an Ethiopiai brew origin, a solutionib problems of Black identity Two new anthologies of writing seem a cut abov normal: one is Soulseript, lection of Afro-America] etry, edited. by Juneic which gathers the well-k Brooks, Hughes, Hayden, Wright) and the less freq encountered. (Doubleday, Twelve short stories by, A writers have been collecte introduced by Charles L and published by Collier1 ($1.50). Collier's African/A ican Library is, by the probably the best sustaine lishing venture in Afro-A can writing. It would bei to mention here another a ogy entitled New African1 ature and the Arts, ande by playwrite Joseph O Although the book comesl cover only (Crowell, $8.95 paku's collection include says, poetry, short stories, ma and film criticism, and dance criticism, and les on African art; D Johnson, a professor of E at the University, has botl etry and a short story i: collection. Three new publicationsi field of music are esp welcome in paperback ed Norton has brought outs ed writings by Charles which include his "Essay fore a Sonata" (a verbal a da to his Concord So "Some 'Quarter-tone' Ir sions," and other essays directed to the cultural/ cal scene of his d a y. ($ Arnold Schoenberg's tren Fundamentals of Musical position, edited by G e picks ve also Strang and Leonard Stein, has y doc- been re-issued by St. Martin's ey's A Press in a handsome paperback erican filled with musical examples. 1921. Though perhaps not for the be- was a ginner, Schoenberg's exegeses her of are not really that difficult and More- are usually quite illuminating, ty of especially since samples f r o m t wide scores are so abundantly provid- s sub- ed. Many of Schoenberg's more Negro general comments provide fod- States der for the amateur aesthetic- Study ian, such as: "The concept that music expresses something is o his- generally accepted. However, How- chess does not tell stories." k Jews > C '' " ': ..-". .... rMIr LX f 1F 1\ic STSOU66 S, IOf,66f 6V6W1GG1A tOAFAC- YOU 66fIT O6P. AlTL71F~r SON? I I "tX 66T A)O A01PCZW kt}~X 666 POUCC M TOAt.- ITh; YVO) CST AF'Ahp you TM TW A* that originally excited users most : the aesthetic and relig- ious. One exceptioncis Miserable Miracle by the French poet and painter Henri Michaux. Mich- aux records in this City Lights book ($1.95) his experience with mescaline and the effect of these experiences on his art; examples of Michaux's drawings are included. Another explorer into the realms of chemical-in- duced changes of consciousness is America's own guru, Allen Ginsberg, and Ginsberg's In- dian Journals-a collection of the poet/seer/politician-of-ex- perience's jottings from his wanderings through India in 1962-63-have just been pub- lished by City Lights ($3.00). The man who coined the term "psychedelic" was the scientist Dr. Humphry Osmond; Osmond and Bernard Aaronson have just published.an anthology entitled Psychedelics: The Uses and Im- plications of Hallucinogenic Drugs (Anchor $2.45). Judging from the table of contents, this book would seem to be far above the usual collection of repetitive articles. Included, for example, is an excerpt from Walter N. Pahnke's doctoral thesis at Har- vard, an important study that has not received sufficient at- tention now that the drug issue has been so thoroughly politi- cized. Pahnke's thesis for the Harvard Divinity School dealt with a double-blind experiment on divinity students who were fed either a hallucinogenic drug or a placebo; ensuing "religious experiences" were then qualita- tively analyzed. Osmond and Aaronson have also included sections on non-drug analogues to the psychedelic state, the sociology of psychedelics, and anthropological considerations; an extensive bibliography is supplied. Today's Writers.. . Richard Edwards is Professor of Chinese Art History and Chairman of the History of Art Department at the University. Laurence Coven is working to- ward his Master's degree in English literature. R.A.P. edits the Books Page. SF. themes beyond human ken tI Lois and Stephen Rose, THE SHATTERED RING, John Knox Press, $3.50. By LAURENCE COVEN Science fiction, as a genre, has constantly suffered from a dearth of good critical analysis. Lois and Stephen Rose attempt to fill part of the void with The Shattered Ring, subtitled "Sci- ence Fiction and the Quest for Meaning." Although well-written, concise (only 123 pages), and well-documented, the book lacks the status and the sense of im- portance good criticism must maintain. The Roses do discuss several vital themes SF often develops:; the nature of man, environment and Nature and their relation- ship to man's eventual success or inevitable destruction, and man's conception of history and time. Although each of these themes really deserves its own volume, the Roses rush through them in short chapters dotted with quotes and references to substantiate their views. Un- fortunately, what they say is very little. Often, an interesting subject appears only to be gone before one has reached any un- derstanding of what the authors think. The dilemma of man's domi- nation of nature or his return to it receives the most atten- tion. The Roses demonstrate clearly, with well-chosen ex- amples, how a great deal of SF has been concerned with this problem. Especially interesting are their views on Heinlein, the great champion of controlled environment. The Roses percep- tively point out that a typical Heinlein society, in which even human breeding comes under rigid controls, though supposed- ly executed for the good of man, soon develops into an aristo- cratic "elitism" in which one man's or one group's idea of goodness becomes forcefully im- posed on all. Any theory opposed to Hein- lein's of dominating control, the authors say, results in total sub- missiveness to nature, or, if theologically inclined, to God or the gods. The only real critical blast of the book centers on :C. S. Lewis's triology - Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength. The authors view. Lewis's idea of a planet populated by an unfallen race who have never known sin and who constantly pray to and adore their god, as a simplistic, immature study of man's strug- gle with evil. The Roses reject Lewis's assumption "that never to have fallen is the equivalent of redemption." Unfortunately, this excellent example of critical insight is rare in the book, Even the dis- Like the subject of drugs, the more important subject of Negro history and culture has g o a d e d publishers to new heights of repetition and irrele- vancy. Some books, often re- issues, do however make valu- able contributions to our understanding of the Black ex- perience, past and present. M.I.T. Press has re-issued a study, edited by W. E. B. Du- Bois, entitled The Negro Ameri- can Family ($2.95). The special fascination of this study is that it was executed in 1909 and 1910 for Atlanta University and is a d e t a i1e d examination of the home life, family pattern, and economic situation of Negro Americans at the turn of the cussion of man and nature falls short of any real comprehen- siveness when one considers all the variations on this theme that SF encompasses; the Roses are content to mention only the extremes. Other chapters, especially one concerning time, contain little discussion or insight into the goals, successes, or failures that SF has produced, nor do they mark any trends that might in- dicate in which direction SF is headed. The book deteriorates into a series of quoted exmaples chosen rather arbitrarily and to no particular end other than to reveal how well-read the au- thors are. The failure of The Shattertd Ring to reach a respectable level of analysis can be attrib- uted more to technical causes than to lack of ability. Lois and Stephen Rose are obviously very knowledgeable, and, when they work hard enough, can produce a stimulating discussion on im- portant thematic aspects of SF, but trouble develops simply be- cause they attempt to discuss too many major themes. The at- tempt to pack a universe if SF into this asteroid of a book re- sults only in helter-skelter .:nen- tionings of ideas, books, authors, and page numbers that has about as much consistency as the outer reaches of the Crab Nebula. WI VO l0 X6 rIF l3P POVERTY AW RACI'M.A c. .. 7 .!: , ": *. - - '"" __ L0°f4ATS IT C-00J6 TO & AtMARCfiY o zR 'R6ScN . p* K? , r / ...-- 1Z . . . ,. .-. ~ u _ n __ _ .,....