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The Pioneer Log: Lewis & Clark College's Student-Run Newspaper
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February 19, 1969 Volume 27, Number 27
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1969-02-19
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LC to ost Goo • Wl Envoys
The Aoyama Gaukin Umver
nty Orchestra's goodwill tour
or the northwest will include a
day at Lewis and Clark, tour
mg the c~mpus. talking with
nudfnls, vtsitmg classes and
&lYing a free concert
Under the direction of one or
Mr. Yoshiyuki Fujita, the 80
member orchestra is making
the tour under Lhe sponsorship
Of its college in Japan and the
bospitality of the college.;; it
\ISILS.
Their repertoire includes
traditiona l works of famous
composers and the music of
many contemporary Japanese
mus1cians. The orchestra, over
half a century old, has per
formed in more than 40 ctettes
In the US. They have worked
closely with many famous
American conductors, includ
111g Arthur F tedler and Eugene
Onnundy
The concert will be Thurs.
day, Feb. 20 at 8~45 p m. an
Fields Dining Room.
IR1\I Inter~iewer
Vi ,it~ LC Ft·iday
J.B Preston of IBM will he
Gn campus Friday to anter\'iew
students interested in positions
llith the company His visit.
origmally scheduled I a~ t
llonth, ,., as cancelled because
of snow
Preston, r rom the Port land
I'IJIIYI office, has poSitiOnS in the
"'\\dl aren for men and women
Jlterested in marketing or an
branch offtce admmlstratlon
He will also intcrvit•w science
::"la)ors for positions 10 re
l••.uch or engineering in other
areas and will give information
n dllta processing to anyone
llterested In the field.
Appointments with Preston
be made in the Placement
c. Student Drama Highlights
Ash Wednesday Service
A contemporary liturgical
drama, "Remember Man, You
Are Oust," will be presented at
a special Ash Wednesday ser
vice in the Agnes Flanagan
Chapel at 9 p.m. on Wednes
day, Feb 19
The drama is based on the
Lenten theme of man's pen
ance to God. It utilizes a full
c.rchestra and choir perform·
ing original compositions by
Lewis and Clark senior John
Kreitler, and a small drama
1 roupe presenting port tons of
biblical narrative mcluding the
PassiOn of Christ Sabine Jer
stnd and Annette Storms will
perform solos 'and Chaplain
Gordon Verplank will narrate.
Stan ( Iarke of the audio-visual
lab was consultant on special
effects.
John began planning the
four·part religious drama last
October to fulfill requirements
for three music seminars: his·
tory, orche..~tratton and compo-sation. The four parts include
an introduction with a tympa
ni solo by Gary Brown. the
Creation, the Fall and the Sal·
vation. The "Creation" was
composed over Christmas va
cation, John reports, and the
rest was composed during this
term.
Assisting in the production of
the drama was n drama teach
.:r at George Fox College, two
George Fox students and two
members of the Portland
Youth for Christ "New Amer
icans" drama troupe.
ltulian Center
Card~ A vail able
All students interested in
the activities of the Ameri
can Indian Arts and Crafts
Center may obtain member
ship cardc; at the information
desk in Templeton .
'No Exit" Rcadi.~d for Fivt~ Dav Run
The physical and subsequent
emottonal entrenchment of
three persons in a single room
for eterntty is Jean-Paul Sar·
tre's conception of hell in No
Exlt.
Student director Thom Cath· . . . cart. usmg amagmat1ve seat-
ing, set design and interpreta ·
tion, will produce th.: play for
audience agitauon on Jo"eb. 21,
22, 23, 28 and Mar. 1, at ~·30
p.m. in Fir Acres Theatre .
Rick Goodfellow, as Garcin,
portrays a man obsessed wtth •
his own frnilty -his lack or
courage.
Jnn Curothers. as Inez, re·
mand~ him that in hell there
as no escape from yourself .
1"hl•rc IS no future, onl)' end·
te .. s preJ>ent.
Mary Chastain plays Es·
telle, a superficial woman
from whom Garcin seeks ap·
pro\'al. She shows him, how
e,·er, that there is no longer
any hope of redemption .
The valet, Scott MU:">On, con·
nccts the other three with the
reality or the unimaganable . Blacks 'De--Humanized'
bv Pat Scanlon •
"The unfvcrs!Ues tn Amcncn
reflect all of the dogmn that
is in American life. One dog
matic strnnd is racism. Um
vcrsities in Americn are r:ac
isl.'' This, and a cry to stop
the "dc~humumwtion" or the
black man comprise the mes
sage delivered by bl.1ck pro
fessor John Stewurt of Fresno
State college last Wednestlny.
The tnlk was part of the SOFA
celebration or Black Ecstasy
Week.
Stating that "the institution
al process reflects the needs of
those who control it", Profes
sor Stewart claimed "the uni
versities arc controlled by cer
tain !actions 1n America, none
of which arc black."
As a result of this one-sided
control "American Institutions
are de-humanizing blacks"
remaking them in the image
of whnt the white world feels
they should be. Because of t.his
white manipulation Professor
Stewart revealed "On campus
we go through a process of
negating ourselves intellectual
ly and intellectually justifying
that negation" by subordinat·
ing the achievements or black
culture tO those of white CUI·
ture .
Universities operate on "a
system of privileges", with the
type of degree achieved deter
mining the extent or privelege
ia the outside environment and
professorial rank-determining
privilege within the unh·erslty.
To be included in this privelege
system "the black mnn is com
ing to take certain risks"-suc
cumbing to white expectations
O( what he Should be.
Because universatics uim ot
submerging the bluck sense or
identity by coercing the black
to comply to be included in the
system of privileges, some de
gree of control must be
achieved by Lhe blacks over
the university. Professor Stew·
art asserted this is necessary
because of the nature of the
educational s y s t em. for
"You're going to school-not to
get an educat.Jon but to get
programmed. It becomes very
important for you to have
some say in what this pro
gramming is like.''
Control of universities "to nn
appropriate extent" by the
black man is nlso necessary
because ''We can no longer
look to the Great White Fnther
to help us become full humnn
beings. The Great White Fa
ther docs not understand whnt
we need,"
Professor Stewart dismissed
the myth thnt universtties
would voluntnnly respond to
the block need to maintain n
distinctive identity. for "Sys
tems are as much concerned
with their survival as indivadu
al people nre. No system is go
ing 10 voluntarily say I'm bad,
do away with me."
If the system w11l not volun
tarily change. the blacks mus1
organaze arOund "common
goals and common problems''
and penetrate the whne power
structure to mitante rerorm.
Recognizing !hut nmong
blacks there are diverse per
spective~ and backgrounds pos
sibly detrimental to effective
orguniz:u tion, Professor Stew
urt nssened "The time ht•s
come when in the interests of
sunivnl we must give over
some mdividunl nutonomy in
lhe anterests or the welfare or
the group." Despite diversitie s
among blacks, the stmilority
tn the way all blocks are treat·
ed by whites necessitate s that
"We pay l~s nttenuon to our differences and more attention
to the simiJnrities."
Expanding his organizational
plea he stated orgamzataon is
vital "Not just for black people
but ror all people concerned
with preserving humanity."
After the initial step of or-
• • • • gantzatton n as necessary to
"Come in close proximity wilh
the power structurang anstltu
tions to make them responsive
to your needs." If all else fails,
Professor Stewart claimed,
Americans respond to loss or
property even more than loss or life and therefore "If you
want to get the exisUng power
structure to listen to you, tear
up the gold mines."
Admitting that because of n
"streak of complacency"
blacks have often stopped at
penetration of the white power
structure, he affirmed "After
penetration we must establish
ourselves."
Arter the blacks have "estab
lished themselves" reforms
can Uike place, nnd .. The Im
perative thing is creating a
program which you control.
which you admiatster, and
which suits your needs."
Professor Stewart is an Eng
lish professor at Fresno State
and a lecturer in Philosophy at
the University of California nt
Berkeley. He is also n noveliSt
and critic.
J D\ EDERRART, p,~ce C..o~
n-p~nlA&he. -m be in Tem
plf"tnn"• 1 •-e Roon1 lo IAlk •ith
inte~tf'd !!tod.-nll! tomufT'O..-,
fn•m 9 a.m. tc> .:; p.m. pp1lea·
tlnn fol'1n• uncJ infonnation nrn
u•aiiAiolc. Mw Eberhart '"ill
~h t' I be Pt~t't" Corp" t•IAt'•·mcnt
h~t to llO" IU<fl'nU 'fthO h11"'~
c •• m p I •·It'd the DJiflli.-,ation
funu•.
Students Asked to Pkk
Up Financial Aid Forms
All students washang to apply
for financial aid for 1969-·;o
arc requested to pick up their
appliattion forms immediately
in the Financial AJds Office,
the Manor.
music hour
Dennis Gano, organist, will
perform at tomorrow's music
hour. Gano is a junior ot Con
cordi.! High School and s-tudaes
under G<1le Enger of the mustc
departmenl .
The proernm includes three
J.S. Bach pieces: "Toccata and
Fugue in D Manor." "Sleepers
Wake! A Voice Cnllcth" and
"0 Man Bewr.ul Thy Gnevous
San."
Roundtng out the program
are Richard Pun•as' "Fantasy
on 'Ton-Y ·Botel,' " C e sa r
Franck's ''Paece Hertque,"
Messiaen's "Celest.lal Banquet"
and Louis Vaerne's "Carillon." • P:t 2
R ~.-.traint sked
To the COmmunity: . -Recent cv('nts an connecuon
wtth the Thcnter Department
have brought about serious and
trogtc confusion of the real is·
sues anvolvoo. 1 here ha,·e been
breeches of confidence of the
grnvcst c;ort. which violate not
only professional ethics but
otso fundamental stnndnrds of
decency nnd fa1r play. These
breeches of confidence on the
pnrt of both faculty and stu·
dents de5ei'\1C my personal cen·
sure an the strongest terms, as
they deserve censure from the
entire academic community ar
Lcw1s and Claric:-faculty, stu·
dent and staff.
The story in the Feb. 14 edi·
uon of The t..og hnd the effect
of further distorting the facts
of the sttu:uion, inviting bitter
ness and division within the
College which is needless and
must be avoided -at nll costs.
In the present chmute of high
feeling and confu!'ed informn·
uon. n is difficult at best-per·
hops impossible to separate r t from suspicion, rumor
from repOrt, stntemem from
anten m n manner which can
resolve the d1fiiculues finally
and completely '\\,th wisdom
and fairness to all parties con·
cerned. And nt this point nil
members or the Lewis nnd
Clnrk community must be con
cerned
For this reason. I nppE=al to
.all members of the College
Community to refrain from
further discussion of the s1tun·
tlon, Jn the Theater De
partment. The report of the
npprOpnate committee has
been received. Further hear ~
ings arc not contemplnted. The
m tter ·will not be discussed
publicly by any member of the
lldmmistratJve staff and l urge
all other members of the com
munity, whether or not direct·
ly mvolved In thts case. to ob
SCI'\ e the snme resumnts .
It is my hopt> that durrnr these next few months the
high fechng wBI SUbSJde. and
the essential, rele,•ant mterests
or the College and its constitu·
ent.s may be more properly
ensed and identifJed than
heretofore . It ss also to be
hoped that certain confusions
10 faculty and administrative
policy and procedures which
huve undoubtedly contribuLed
to the present diHtculty may
be isolated and resolved.
W1tb respect to the immedt·
ote quesuon or iaculty appoint·
ments for 1969-70, these orfen
difficult decistons are clearly
nsSJgned to the President of
the College I shall be com
mumcnting a finn! decision to
the princtpal parties in the The
ater Department within the
next fev.· days.
John R. Howard
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EDITOR Allee IJ. Chmtcnscn
Asst F..d
Mauagmg Ed.
Ad Mannccr
Advbor K•m Cuno
Julie Percell
r'hns lotiUer
c;ay JCJtkins (E'd. nocc -Prr,.ldcnc How·
~rd·s lcrrcr wos ~ubmlttcd
to th~ LOu "l'll pnst our
dendllne. Linda Drl\'J,.' let·
ter had nlrcadv been set In • type and dummied ln. Thnt
both ar~ being run -
\\hlrh is ob,loush• incon .. ls· • tent -was chus dfctnt('d
bv clrcum,tnnce .. be\ ond our • • control, Curiouscr and <'Uri·
ouser!)
RefJUi ~1u
To the Community:
A solemn requiem moss wUI
be cclehrated on Sundny in tile
chapel for the departed spirits
or Dr. Luther Jerstad. profes·
sor of theatre, Frnncisco Reyn·
ders. arnst tn residence in mi
me, and Leon Pike, tcchnicnl
dtrector. An accompanying
service will be held for the de·
parted soul of Fir Acrc.s Tht!u·
trt-nnd the drenms or the the
atre students.
The circumstnnccs sur·
roundtng t h c s e untimely
deaths have been miscon
strued, mismterpretcd, misrc·
presented nnd generally mis·
erably !led nbout. At the rc·
quest or the Log l hereby set
the records strnight.
The symptoms of the thea
tre department's illness be·
came ob,•ious when, during the
spring tenn of 1968, nn at
tempt was made by the de
partment and the Personnel
Advisory Committee to revive
the o11ing theatre and tnpc up
old wounds.
The compromise consi!;ted or
a division of powers and re
sponsibilities am\)ng the thea
tre staff. Fr.mcisco Reyndcrs
would be artist in residence in
mime, Leon Pike the technical
director. Dr, Luther Jer tad,
department chairman, and Dr.
\Villiam Iron. director of Fir
Acres Theatre. Eac.h man had
specific duties and respons1bil·
itics. The responstbiliues of
Iron consisted of budget form
ulation, and curriculum and
producuon planning. These re·
sponstbiUties are written clear·
ly and well known to the four
men. It was hoped tbnt through
c06pc.rnuon and this diviston of
responsibility, .a hnrmomou s
atmosphere might be restored
to the theatre.
Then cumc the summer Jer·
stnd, Reyndcrs, Ptke and some
20 students remained in the in
terim betwt.!en spring term and
the summer scsston to reno
vate Far Acres Theatre: They
patnted, paneled, cleaned and
decorated the old building,
worktng together m harmony
and mutual respect.
About this same Lime, Iron
begnn attempting to under ~
mine the program and the fu
ture of the theatre. Iron went
to Bend to work in summer
theatre; one of his actresses
broke a bone nnd I began rc
ceivtng phone calls. 1 he first
came from Dr. Iron h1msclf.
He asked thut 1 come to Bend
to replace the injured perform
er. I explained to htm that I
had been cast an "The F'nntas
ticks.'' He then Informed me
lhat the three other members
or the department were not
worth my time, thnt the thea
tre and the summer program
would be vastly inferior, and
that 1 would benefit far more
rrom a summer in his shows.
I refused to leave a part m
wh1ch I was nlrendy cast, but
receiYt.'<i ·two subsequent calls
from Mrs. Iron attempting.
even more causucally, to diS·
credit Fir Acres Summer The-PIO'\I ER lOG
•
un1
ntre and its three summer prO·
fessors.
The summer was idyllic,
without dispute or dishnr mo
ny. The three professors und
the summer students heg11n to
dream nbout a new thcaltl', n
larger stnff and o touring pro·
tc.;sional mmtc company. But
the department did more thon
dream: it began to ucl, to
make the drenms realities. At
the moment I nm writing th1s.
Luther Jerstad is in New York
Ctty talking wilh the Rockefel
ler Foundation and trying to
get the funds for the new then·
tre which Reyndcrs designed.
Reynders and the mime trOUJ?C
nrc booked to perform m
Washington nnd nrc planning
an overseas tour for fnll nnd
wmter. Th1s is more than vi·
sion. lt is vision coupled with
nerve and talent nnd cner·
g)'. . . . but back 10 our ~ick
theatre.
The end of summer term
• • came w1th no communtcatlons
from Dr. Iron. Jerstud then
·pent his vacation working on
o theatre budget and curricu·
lum-both of which Iron had
neglected to do. J know this is
true because I observed it.
Iron did not fulfill his depart·
mental responsibtlittes.
Fall semester opened with a
weekend ~howing of the "Fan·
tasticks." I wns again np·
proached by Iron, two weeks
before the scheduled produc·
tion, and asked to leave the
cust or the "Fnstasticks" to
plny a part in the Lake Oswe
go Community Theatre pro·
ducuon of "Comt.l Blow Your
Horn," I was told, when I rc·
minded Dr. Iron I)( the "Fan
tasticks," that "performers
have no responsibilities but to
themselves ." Iron also said
that the educution under his
direction would be \"aStlv su-• perior to any I could recei\'e
under the direction of the oth
er members of the department.
The atmosphere of harmony
and coopcrat ion nnticipatcd in
the sprtng was becommg more
and more smoggy. On the one
hnnd were the three professors
-Reynde rs, Pike and Jerstad
-who worked constantly with
the students and each other on
any show which happened to
be on the boards. Reynders
helped with the scenic paint·
mg for both Ptkc's and Jcr·
send's shows, Pike worked for
Jerslad and Jerstad helped in
the final rehearsals of Pike's
show They cooperated and
demonstrated to the students
how unegot1Sticnl theatre cnn
really be.
Iron, on the olher hand,
taught h1s classes each day
but was otherwise conspicuou s
ly absent from acuvit1es.
Neither did he assist in any
way in production preparations
for shows other Uum hts own
With the end of fall term
came a request from the Per·
sonnel Adv1sory Committee
that two member~ or the de
partment-the chairman and
one other member-evaluate
Jron, wtiose tenure was beln ~;
u:viewt:d. Jerstud took h1s po·
sition as cducotor and dt?part·
ment chalrmun seriously and
gave his evaluation . At th1s
point a member of the Person·
nel Advisory Committee told u
student, Steve Knox, that Jcr
s~1d was trying to fire I ron
und that perhaps n student pe
tition might be cin:ulnted In
favor of lr(ln,
This student and several oth
t:rs took thi& informntton to J.ynn Darroch. who hud been
shown Jcrstad's e\'aluution by
another Commtttcc member.
Dnrr(}('h then dri\ftcd ,, liicem·
ingly innocent petition saying
that Iron hnd contributed to
theatre. Steve Knox nnd Jona
Grucncnfclder. ulong with one
or two otht'r students, then cir
culntcd the petitson under the
fnlse pretenses of Iron's being
fared hy .lcrstnd without suffi
cient notice and being unable
ever to find work again. About
hnlf of the th!'ntre members
signed, not r«"nlizing thnt the
petition wns likely to be use~
falsly OS D preference teSll·
monial for Iron O\'er Jerstad.
Th~ committee then re·
viewed the case, but gave Jcr·
stnd no opportunity to prO\'C
his accusations, the ''trumped·
up charges." 1 was pan ot that
proof but was not called upon.
Then nfter the decision wn~
mndc by the Advisory Commit·
tee to ignore the ob,·ious truth
the Pioneer Log published a
story by Selvin Eisen that was
full of slander, one-sided opin·
10n nnd bold-faced lies. I am
speaking of lnst Friday's page
2 editorial in which Etsen, for
reasons known only to himself,
made Jcrstnd the snc.rificiol
lomb und Iron the poor, abused
hero of a situation which Eis·
en knows little, if Mythang,
about.
F.:iscn, In his opening state·
rnl'nt, claims thnt Jerstad at
tempted to "bully" the com
mittee to "satisfy his ego
drive." Jerstud presented to
the comnuttee an honest eval·
uution, at the committee's re·
quest, and tn keeping with his
principles us an educator and
department chairman. If this
cun be termed ''bullying" then
every chairman on campus
could be accused of the same
thing. As for the "ego drive,"
docs it really seem logical that
u mnn or Jerstnd's caliber,
who commands $2000 a week
ns n guest lecturer, would have
the need or the desire to play
small college ego games? Be
rcnsonablc , Mr. Eisen.
In the next paragraph Eisen
stntcd that the "personality
conflict existed only in the
mind of Jerstad.'' This state·
ml'nt is false. 'The conflict was
not one of personality but of
behavior from Iron which was
lrrt·ponsiblc and detrimental to
the department as a whole.
The conflict e xa sted between
tht• entire departme nt and
Iron, not b£•tw(•en Iron and
Jerstad.
In paragraph 3 Eisen says
thut Jerstad "convemently
structured Iron out of the de·
purtment " In fact Iron was
"conveniently structured into
the dcprtrlment" by virtue of
the comprom1se written in the
spring of 1968, Iron chose not
to fulfill the responsibilities of
thnt compromise .
I ngrcc, Mr. Eisen, thnt this
whole affair has been contus
Ing, But one thing is very
clt.u The charges against Iron
are not unjustified , You assert
thut Iron is a man of vision,
but what kind of Vts1on
prompts a man to discredH
and disrupt a theatre?
Iron hus been bu.,y, though.
He serves on the Personnel Ad·
visory Committee. as chnirmnn
of the Committee on Commit·
tees, ond is president or the
American Association of Uni·
verslly Professors (AAUP) for
l.cwis and Clark, Should the
students choose to protest the Ftbru.tr 18, 196~
unethical behavior of the Per·
:-;onnc:>l Adv1sory C ommutee,
they would have to take their
compl.llnt to the C ommittue on
Committees Curious. .
May I suggest to you, fellow
studl'nts, that .1 great deal
more thnn l.uthcr Jt!rstud and
William Iron is at stuke in this
disputt>. Prc.sidt!nt lloward hos
been pluccd in n very difficult
posi uon. II he dismisses Iron
on tho bnsis of fnctunl evalun·
tions but agamst the rccom.
mendotion of the Personnel
Ad\'ISory Committee, he Will
be culled a dictator by the fa.
culty members who oppose
him.
H. on the other hand, Prcsl·
dent Howard is forced to re
hire Iron, knowing that he is
uncooperative Howard's pro.
lcssionnl ethics are al stake
In essence, Howard loses either
wny, Might it be poss1blc to
dismiss the Personnel Adv1 ;ory
Committee on grounds of un.
cthicnl behnvaor and free How
ard to make an unprcssurcd
decision?
So here we .1rc, with Jerstnd,
Reynders and Pike planning to
resign rather thnn work anoth·
cr year with un uncooperati\'e
man who undermines the work
of the theatre. Fifty-four
drama majors arc left with no
departmen t, no dreams and no
future at Lewis and Clark.
Linda Dnvis
In vita tion
Mr. Larkin Kallher,
The letter I wrote in response
to Mr Bekowics arttcle 'Ghost
House" was wr1ttcn with the
utmost sincertty and con·
vic.t1on My remarks were
carefully considered to insure
what was printed was what I
believed to be vahd At pre ·ent
I am not ready to chan~c 1nd
am willing to defend whnt I
wrote.
In many respects, Mr. Kali·
her, l found your article to be
sporadic ("shots in the dark")
and lacking in constructive nr·
gument. When I read the f1rst
paragraph of your article, I
prepared myself for an ensu·
ing examination of my argu·
ments and their relationship to
Mr. Bekowtes' comments: I
was expecting to find out why
my analysis was not vahd,
J was disappointed, Mr Kali
her because lhnt dtd not occur.
You took my statemenlS out or
context and from these st:1te
ments raised new questions:
this was done under a \'eil of
implied rei utation Generally
speaking, J find your com·
ments not taking issue with mY
arguments, and those com·
ments mude were either vnlid
or invalid .
Since you did make com·
ments nnd took the time to do
so. 1 thought It only proper and
worthwhile to take up your
"challenge" and answer it as
constructively and hone"t ly as
possible. Unfortunately my uc·
aminntion ran mto too many
pages, at would have been un·
fair of me to ask the Log to
prmt it I am willtnR, therefore ,
to d1scuss over 11 cup of coffee.
with you, Mr Knlther, and or
any other interested party, wh)'
I feel your comments were ir·
relevant and either valid or in·
vahd I hnve choo;en tht... mcth·
od of reply because I felt
I could not have done JUStice
to your letter in the short sp.tcc
allotted in the Log.
Respectfully.
Mike Groves frbrunr }' I
L. .
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h~ Ric
The Uvtr
at Reed Col
caused quIt
Tht> wee~
handling pul
rormances <
the Oregonll
and '"' ted I nteatre pro
Portland's
had heard c
theY going
clothes?'' ht
it Is the on
girl~ from
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doubts, Mah
curious Port
r.essed Th
staging or '
According
materanl, "
the most rl
and controv~
Theatre's pr
ctls the m
sponse. 'Par1
described as
Ire."
On stage.
ly bcca~e 1
cast stnppec
kini tops f(
some audien
ped nlt01!tht
Mahar w
nare betwet
spectators. 1
r~ndmg j ts v
v.hile the a
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their v1ew \'
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among the 1
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mg and talk
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meant interr
to ~ telephO!
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by K:lr
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the beggars1 and cripple<1
In Conce1 • Anow by ~
beggars 1 b1
!ached to a
boys, ages s
walk up to
side, pulling
pitifully A~
shoe-shine b~
turns using.
Two of th
of a sort. •
over.large ar
time hnnd-r
who have c
no mirror, I
the money i
cheese and
rettes. In thE
ly mornings
sleeping on
front of th, l9G9 -
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r~tONEER LOG Page 3
~LivingT eatre Strives or Innovation, ewForms
by Rick Goodfellow
The Lh•in~ Theatre played
at Reed College last week und
diU~cd quite a stir,
The week before, someone
hJ!ndlinr publicity for the per
rormam rs culled Ted Muhar.
the Ore~o nlnn' s Drama Editor.
1J1d In • cd him to '>CC a Living
Theatre production.
Portland's only druma critic
bad hcnrd of the group. "Arc
they going to take off their
clothes?'' he nskcd. "I guess
it is the only way to tell the
glrlo; from the boys."
Despite h i s preconceived
doubts, Mnhur joined the 1.200
curious Portlander~ who wit
nmed Thursday e" ening's
stagang of "Paradise Now,"
Ar.cording to promottonal
matcrtnl. · 'Paradise Now' is
the most radtcal, ~ensational
1nd controver;aal of the Living
Theatre's productions. and eli·
ells the most audience re·
spansc. 'Paradise Now' as best
described as coopcratavc thea
tre.''
On stage, cooperation quick
ly bt'Came evident when the
cast stripped to loincloth<; (bi
kanl tops for the ladtes) and
some nudacnce members strip·
ped oltogther
Mnhur watched arguments
nare between performers and
spectators. The audience began
fmdlng its way onto the stage
while the cast spelled out the
words 'Anarchy' and "Para·
disc'' with thetr bodies. As he fir.st thought he might,
Mahar took an unrnvomblc
v!ew or "Paradise Now.'' So
dtd much of the rest of the
nudaence. But this didn't mukc
the slightest difference to lhc
performers .
Billed a-; a "radical theutre
rcperatory company," the l.tv
ing rheatre recei\'es such dl·
vided response from full houses
everywhere Since its mccp·
tion, the company hns nlways
exposed the newest wranklcs or
shock theatre, to the extent
that the Living Theatre has be·
come almost synonymous with
a nude performance. But tht•
differences between the Living
Theatre and a more convcn·
tional troupe are more than
skin deep.
The group sees itself as nn
information source for a paci·
fist revolution . Co-founder Jud·
ith Beck says, "We believe in
non violent change. For us,
there Is no contradiction be·
tween pacirism and revolu
tion."
Every Living Theatre pro·
duction pleads a case for the
audience to make ttsel( free.
This approach is a mnjor rea·
son for the group's stormy
past.
Julian Beck and Judith Ma·
lina (now Mrs. Beck) formed
the Living Theatre in the win·
ter of 1946·47. Their ideal was
a theatre combining music,
dance, painting and poetry in
a form placing 'liJ these ele·
ments on stage so they would
'We believe in non-violent change. For
us, there is no contradiction between
pacifism and revolution.'
From then on, in Mahar's lose their indJvadunl tdentity
view. "The most sagnificant in" and be seen as a whole, single
terchange was a shouting art form
match between the audience But. Beck says, "You stnrt
members on stage and those out to build o temple, you end
or stage who could not see up gathering sticks for a hut."
what was happening because Gatherin~ sticks for a new
their view was blocked " art takes tame. It wasn't until
Mahar sat still as the cast 1951 that the Living Theutrc
!orgot the stage and walked produced its first play, "Doc-
among the audience, engaging tor Faustus L ghts the Lights,"
1n freewheeling conversation . by Gertrude Stean. who devout·
Aater two hours the wander- ly maintained that the English
mg and talking continued. but language was inadequate. and
Mahar sensed that the intensi· ~aid so in her play. Few peo
ty was falhng Hopang this ple came. and fewer under·
meant intermassion, he walked stood what they saw.
10 n telephone and dictated has On the bill with "Doctor
review or the performance raustus" rhat season wa!' Ken·
The piece appeared next morn neth Rexroth's "Beyond the
tng Mountams" and Paul Good-man's "Faustina." AH three
plnys :~re in verse- sndication
of the Living Theatre's passion
for poetry- nnd the first of a
dozen verse plays it's done
stncc.
Durang ats performances at
Cherry Lune Theatre the
group did poorly ut the box of·
fice, und the five man compa·
ny w.ts dissatisfied with ils
performance The Uvtng Thea·
trc could find few plays h felt
were worth production .
"Our first statement said
something nbout encouraging
the poets to write for the the·
ntrc by providing them a stage
where thc1r plays could be
prOduced," Beck recalls. "The
poetry we wanted had not yet
been written and still has not
been written. The stage 1s still
there."
Opening dates for the com-evolved an approach to per·
forming unlike that or any oth·
er American nctlng company.
Everyone Celt better for it.
The techniques brought as·
toonding results: when the
troup-: did plays that included
plays-within-the-play, such as
"MHny Loves," ''The Connec
tion'' nnd "Tonight We Im·
provisc," people cam~ to the
box office demanding their
money bnck because they hnd
pnid to sec a finished show,
not u bunch of people tulklng
and rehearsing .
In 1961 or 62. Beck isn't sure
which, a newspaper phoned
and asked for concise state
ment or the goals of the Living
Theatre.
Beck's first reply was, "Call
back in five minutes." His sec-
• • ond, "To ancrcase consc1ous
awareness, to stress the sac-Upon release, the troupe reor
ganized and left for Europe.
During this self-imposed ex•lc
lls present repertoire wns de
veloped.
It Includes the three pJayll
done in PorUond : "Mysteries
and Smaller Pieces," a series
or scenes and actions from past
l.lving Thentre productions
plus incense-burning, yogn ex
ercises, a raga. rreeo~form
mind·body games ond a dem·
onstration of the Theatre of
Cruelty.
"Antigone," is n Judith Beck
tmnslation of Brecht's vers1on
of Hoelderlin' s adaptation of
the Sophocles tragedy. Jack
Kroll of Newsweek says the
prOduction "drives both class•·
cists and Brechuans crazy."
Goals-'To increase conscious awareness,
to stress the sacredness of life, to break
down the walls.' ''Pan:.dlse Now," is n play
that relies upon audience·pcr·
former confrontation nnd olms
for peaceful revolution in the
hearL
Early last year the Living
Theatre chose to return to the
United States. It has toured its
nev.· repertoire since then This
visit to Portland was its first
performance in the Northwest. pany's first shows had to be
moved back -an admission
that work was not going well.
The group felt better once
Hugh Auden's "The Age of
Anxiety" opened. The rehear
sals had stretched out over a
year before performance. Cri·
tics took nouce, but the audi·
cnce was still unenthusiastic .
Then, in 1954, a fire iospec·
tor closed the Cherry Lane
The Laving Tht:ntre moved to
a loft above I OOth Street, New
York. B u i I d i n g inspec
tors closed it. The troupe
moved on to 14th Street, where
experiments continued and the
company began to grow. Plays
by Picasso, Racine, Pound.
Fredencks and Brecht brought
u greater response.
Money was still a problem,
however. Just to see what
would happen, advertising \\ilS
dropped, critics were no long·
er invated and no admtssion
was charged. Voluntary contri·
butions from the audience av
eraged 59 cents per person.
As techniques for bill-paying
e\'olved, so did those for per
forming. Plays were no longer
completely shaped by a direc
tor. The cast and director talk·
ed out the ideas that went into
o production . A set was never
desagned until the play was
nearly ready to open. And
somehow, sometime. there redn~s -of lire, to break down
the walls."
In 1964, the Internal Revenue
Service closed the Living The·
atre. Beck hnd either failed ur
refused to withold income tax
from the actor's salartcs.
Despatc padlocked doors,
Beck scheduled n perform
ance. Audaence ond actors en
tered the theatre through the
skylights. Half wny through
Kenneth Brown's "The Brig,"
the police arrived.
The entire cast was arrested. No one is sure how the Liv
ing Theatre breaks down \\'tills.
but apparenUy it does. A Wls·
consin manister asked the
troupe to perform for h1s con·
gregation. He was glad to have
performances at services. he
said. so long as no one took
their clothes orr. The Living
Threalre didn't. but seven
members of the congregation
did.
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In Concepcton 1 came to
know by sight the regulor
beg~ars. I became secretly at·
!ached to a ~roup o! about ten
boys, ages si~ to twelve They
Walk up to people or trot ulon~
side, pullang sleeves or starang • P•llfully Amon~ them IS a
dtoe-shine box whach they take
turns using.
Two of the boys have !oohoes
or a sort Their clothes are
O\ler· large and about twelveth
Ume hand-me downs. Those
who hove cut th~lr hair had
no mirror, I'm sure At noon
the money as pooled to buy
cheese and bread ancJ caga
rettes. In the evenings or ear·
I}' mornings. one sees them
sleeping on the concrete in
front of tht• church, in the bandstand. or who know!-.
where
One evening I walked from
a movie theater intu the freez
ing night air, nnd ran all the
way home to keep warm. The
thought of my six blunkets was
hea' en. As I rounded the lust • comer, t nearly collided wath
an old man s1ttmg on the corn·
cr sleeping. 1 felt so terrible be·
cause I had awakened him
and now he'd feel the cold I
wanted to let him 1nsade the
door below where it was wurm·
cr It took me a long time to
get to sleep.
In Santiago the beg~ars huvc
their regulur sites On Merced
as the lady with two children.
On EstadOs corner arc the
bland man and lady who take
turns, the two singang ladies,
and during Christmas the San
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who walk from person to per·
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plcn for money.
A few people wander about
the entire city. At a fair of • • Chalean nrt, I heard mustc an
the distance and hurried over.
An old man stoOd playing an
accordian . A young boy danced
nbout to manipulate a cord
connecting shoe and drumstick.
which beat the drum on his
back A. smaller child collected
money. 1 hey were not lhe pte·
turesque littk musicinns you
see in the mov1es. These
people weren't en)oymg them
selves.
The question you .tsk your
self is -what to do? Is it
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once an u while, ruther than
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Jack Des Bouillons, editor
li111 Hope for Pla)7l)ff'-
R t11ai11 ; Tl1ree Ga111 s L ft
b Mike Pt-zcl
Lewl nd Cl rk connected
on It first C\ en shots In the
" ond half, then held off 1
Wlllamcnc surcc late an the
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Prtdn) mght at Jnck_Son High
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Wath thrc games rc.mninmg,
Ute Pioneers nO\'f are in !:Ole
po ses ton of second place nnd
still hB\:C lnmt hopes of n post·
se..1!:0n pin) off berth
L<ed by sophomore Bob l un
dohl, Wsllnmettc jumped out to
o quack lead and awned u se'
en pomt mnrgm for muc.h or
the early morn~ts or the
game
Then Coach Dean Semperl
ins rtcd gu rd Mnrk Men:r.e
mto the line-up and ''Mouse"
ot the P1onecr offense movmg
W h J1 n Pertl3r connecting
tht> ut tde and Menze
ddmg three bucket • LC
erased the deficit to gnm a 4i-
41 holft1mc mnrgln
Arter the mtemu!;slon the
P1onecrs looked Hke thev were -gom~ to run away from the
Be rctlts
Howe,er, nt the mtdwav • point of the hnlf, Wallamctte
stnncd roll~ wh1ch came n.;
cJo e n two points.
Ttm Wnght cnme ali\'C nnd
droppe-d an three sLra1ght h:tsk
cts to protect the LC Jeud
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L b \ 1 HI)>""
Robert Montgomery Bird'
The Gkldlator, •• o drnmn tell
tn • the tory of Sp3rtncus'
llw~ rebclllon 1n 73 B C.
a tnn t Rome opened Frida\
t Portl nd St te Universaty
Produ«>d by the Amencan
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The play has been en Ued
·the story or Te\olution m
Amenca buth todoy and at th
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the cam~ came '' ith r" c mm
UlCS 11cm mans when \Vrighl
\\Us cnllcd for n personal foul.
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caus~ referee Nick Scholnln
to charge o tcchn1cnl foul on
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For Willnmettc , Dnvc Steen
massed the one-nnd one chnncc.
while I unduhl f iled 10 convert
the tt chnacal
TI1e Bcarcats hnd possession
or the bnll. but missed the
shot, so mstend of n po s1blc
one pOIDl deficit, I C wns still
up by stx ond Y. idt'ncd the
margin to eight the n~t ume
down the court
W1llnmctlc nc\:Cr cnme clos
cr ns Re · Hend cnnned caght
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to assure the wan
111roughout the gomc the nc
uon under the boards was
rough ond in n couple of situn·
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Whn.t made the gnmc furious
\\US the fact that lhc referees
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more so for the vi 1L1ng Bcnr·
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Willnmcttc did not hnvc n
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a hnlf mtnutt.:S left 1n the r,amt::
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Linfield on Fndny and Sotur
duy.
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Conrcrence stnnclmgs
w I.
Linfield ------14 I
Lewis and Clark -• JO 5
Pnctftc l.uthcran --9 6
Willameue -~--9 7
College of ldnho --·-5 10
Whatmnn --------5 12
Pacific ----------2 13 A strom:~ pcrfonnoncc b)' the
LC swtmnung team enabled
tl1c P1onccrs to funsh second
in the Lewis nnd Clark lnvitu·
tlonal Relays Snturdny nfter
noon.
Thl' Pomplln swim test was
won by Southern Oregon wh1ch
powered its wny to an lmpres
lvc victory
1 he Rnidcrs cl1alkcd up 172
pomts whtle the Pioneers totnl
cd 1•10
Wlllnmettc took thtrd wllh
136 pt>ants, followed by Port·
lund Slate and Oregon College,
hoth with 120 poants.
SOC C3pturcd oil bul two rc·
Juy e' cnts to walk O\\ ny from
thu field. nnd dcmonstrnte wh,>
It 1s tht• clef ending Dtstrlct. IJ
champion.
The bottle for second place
wns close. but n scr1es of sec ond place flntshes for LC gn,e
thnL spot to the Pioneers
I C hod a chuncc to lake SOC
m the 200 yard medley rc.la)
and held the lend unttl Bob
Hunt of SOC took Lhc lend With
a powerful brc.tSlstrokc an \h,.
third leg of the relny to beat
the Pioneers
On Friday, LC hosted a dUJI
meet ognlnst OCE in the
Pamplin pool
The men were bcnten b)' 1
\\'Ide mnr,:~in, 6 ·•I·L while th
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Vol \.'<.VII. '\lo 27 Pon land, OJ cgon Tuc~day. FdmJar y 18, 19b9
LC to ost Goo • Wl Envoys
The Aoyama Gaukin Umver
nty Orchestra's goodwill tour
or the northwest will include a
day at Lewis and Clark, tour
mg the c~mpus. talking with
nudfnls, vtsitmg classes and
&lYing a free concert
Under the direction of one or
Mr. Yoshiyuki Fujita, the 80
member orchestra is making
the tour under Lhe sponsorship
Of its college in Japan and the
bospitality of the college.;; it
\ISILS.
Their repertoire includes
traditiona l works of famous
composers and the music of
many contemporary Japanese
mus1cians. The orchestra, over
half a century old, has per
formed in more than 40 ctettes
In the US. They have worked
closely with many famous
American conductors, includ
111g Arthur F tedler and Eugene
Onnundy
The concert will be Thurs.
day, Feb. 20 at 8~45 p m. an
Fields Dining Room.
IR1\I Inter~iewer
Vi ,it~ LC Ft·iday
J.B Preston of IBM will he
Gn campus Friday to anter\'iew
students interested in positions
llith the company His visit.
origmally scheduled I a~ t
llonth, ,., as cancelled because
of snow
Preston, r rom the Port land
I'IJIIYI office, has poSitiOnS in the
"'\\dl aren for men and women
Jlterested in marketing or an
branch offtce admmlstratlon
He will also intcrvit•w science
::"la)ors for positions 10 re
l••.uch or engineering in other
areas and will give information
n dllta processing to anyone
llterested In the field.
Appointments with Preston
be made in the Placement
c. Student Drama Highlights
Ash Wednesday Service
A contemporary liturgical
drama, "Remember Man, You
Are Oust," will be presented at
a special Ash Wednesday ser
vice in the Agnes Flanagan
Chapel at 9 p.m. on Wednes
day, Feb 19
The drama is based on the
Lenten theme of man's pen
ance to God. It utilizes a full
c.rchestra and choir perform·
ing original compositions by
Lewis and Clark senior John
Kreitler, and a small drama
1 roupe presenting port tons of
biblical narrative mcluding the
PassiOn of Christ Sabine Jer
stnd and Annette Storms will
perform solos 'and Chaplain
Gordon Verplank will narrate.
Stan ( Iarke of the audio-visual
lab was consultant on special
effects.
John began planning the
four·part religious drama last
October to fulfill requirements
for three music seminars: his·
tory, orche..~tratton and compo-sation. The four parts include
an introduction with a tympa
ni solo by Gary Brown. the
Creation, the Fall and the Sal·
vation. The "Creation" was
composed over Christmas va
cation, John reports, and the
rest was composed during this
term.
Assisting in the production of
the drama was n drama teach
.:r at George Fox College, two
George Fox students and two
members of the Portland
Youth for Christ "New Amer
icans" drama troupe.
ltulian Center
Card~ A vail able
All students interested in
the activities of the Ameri
can Indian Arts and Crafts
Center may obtain member
ship cardc; at the information
desk in Templeton .
'No Exit" Rcadi.~d for Fivt~ Dav Run
The physical and subsequent
emottonal entrenchment of
three persons in a single room
for eterntty is Jean-Paul Sar·
tre's conception of hell in No
Exlt.
Student director Thom Cath· . . . cart. usmg amagmat1ve seat-
ing, set design and interpreta ·
tion, will produce th.: play for
audience agitauon on Jo"eb. 21,
22, 23, 28 and Mar. 1, at ~·30
p.m. in Fir Acres Theatre .
Rick Goodfellow, as Garcin,
portrays a man obsessed wtth •
his own frnilty -his lack or
courage.
Jnn Curothers. as Inez, re·
mand~ him that in hell there
as no escape from yourself .
1"hl•rc IS no future, onl)' end·
te .. s preJ>ent.
Mary Chastain plays Es·
telle, a superficial woman
from whom Garcin seeks ap·
pro\'al. She shows him, how
e,·er, that there is no longer
any hope of redemption .
The valet, Scott MU:">On, con·
nccts the other three with the
reality or the unimaganable . Blacks 'De--Humanized'
bv Pat Scanlon •
"The unfvcrs!Ues tn Amcncn
reflect all of the dogmn that
is in American life. One dog
matic strnnd is racism. Um
vcrsities in Americn are r:ac
isl.'' This, and a cry to stop
the "dc~humumwtion" or the
black man comprise the mes
sage delivered by bl.1ck pro
fessor John Stewurt of Fresno
State college last Wednestlny.
The tnlk was part of the SOFA
celebration or Black Ecstasy
Week.
Stating that "the institution
al process reflects the needs of
those who control it", Profes
sor Stewart claimed "the uni
versities arc controlled by cer
tain !actions 1n America, none
of which arc black."
As a result of this one-sided
control "American Institutions
are de-humanizing blacks"
remaking them in the image
of whnt the white world feels
they should be. Because of t.his
white manipulation Professor
Stewart revealed "On campus
we go through a process of
negating ourselves intellectual
ly and intellectually justifying
that negation" by subordinat·
ing the achievements or black
culture tO those of white CUI·
ture .
Universities operate on "a
system of privileges", with the
type of degree achieved deter
mining the extent or privelege
ia the outside environment and
professorial rank-determining
privilege within the unh·erslty.
To be included in this privelege
system "the black mnn is com
ing to take certain risks"-suc
cumbing to white expectations
O( what he Should be.
Because universatics uim ot
submerging the bluck sense or
identity by coercing the black
to comply to be included in the
system of privileges, some de
gree of control must be
achieved by Lhe blacks over
the university. Professor Stew·
art asserted this is necessary
because of the nature of the
educational s y s t em. for
"You're going to school-not to
get an educat.Jon but to get
programmed. It becomes very
important for you to have
some say in what this pro
gramming is like.''
Control of universities "to nn
appropriate extent" by the
black man is nlso necessary
because ''We can no longer
look to the Great White Fnther
to help us become full humnn
beings. The Great White Fa
ther docs not understand whnt
we need,"
Professor Stewart dismissed
the myth thnt universtties
would voluntnnly respond to
the block need to maintain n
distinctive identity. for "Sys
tems are as much concerned
with their survival as indivadu
al people nre. No system is go
ing 10 voluntarily say I'm bad,
do away with me."
If the system w11l not volun
tarily change. the blacks mus1
organaze arOund "common
goals and common problems''
and penetrate the whne power
structure to mitante rerorm.
Recognizing !hut nmong
blacks there are diverse per
spective~ and backgrounds pos
sibly detrimental to effective
orguniz:u tion, Professor Stew
urt nssened "The time ht•s
come when in the interests of
sunivnl we must give over
some mdividunl nutonomy in
lhe anterests or the welfare or
the group." Despite diversitie s
among blacks, the stmilority
tn the way all blocks are treat·
ed by whites necessitate s that
"We pay l~s nttenuon to our differences and more attention
to the simiJnrities."
Expanding his organizational
plea he stated orgamzataon is
vital "Not just for black people
but ror all people concerned
with preserving humanity."
After the initial step of or-
• • • • gantzatton n as necessary to
"Come in close proximity wilh
the power structurang anstltu
tions to make them responsive
to your needs." If all else fails,
Professor Stewart claimed,
Americans respond to loss or
property even more than loss or life and therefore "If you
want to get the exisUng power
structure to listen to you, tear
up the gold mines."
Admitting that because of n
"streak of complacency"
blacks have often stopped at
penetration of the white power
structure, he affirmed "After
penetration we must establish
ourselves."
Arter the blacks have "estab
lished themselves" reforms
can Uike place, nnd .. The Im
perative thing is creating a
program which you control.
which you admiatster, and
which suits your needs."
Professor Stewart is an Eng
lish professor at Fresno State
and a lecturer in Philosophy at
the University of California nt
Berkeley. He is also n noveliSt
and critic.
J D\ EDERRART, p,~ce C..o~
n-p~nlA&he. -m be in Tem
plf"tnn"• 1 •-e Roon1 lo IAlk •ith
inte~tf'd !!tod.-nll! tomufT'O..-,
fn•m 9 a.m. tc> .:; p.m. pp1lea·
tlnn fol'1n• uncJ infonnation nrn
u•aiiAiolc. Mw Eberhart '"ill
~h t' I be Pt~t't" Corp" t•IAt'•·mcnt
h~t to llO" IU<fl'nU 'fthO h11"'~
c •• m p I •·It'd the DJiflli.-,ation
funu•.
Students Asked to Pkk
Up Financial Aid Forms
All students washang to apply
for financial aid for 1969-·;o
arc requested to pick up their
appliattion forms immediately
in the Financial AJds Office,
the Manor.
music hour
Dennis Gano, organist, will
perform at tomorrow's music
hour. Gano is a junior ot Con
cordi.! High School and s-tudaes
under G<1le Enger of the mustc
departmenl .
The proernm includes three
J.S. Bach pieces: "Toccata and
Fugue in D Manor." "Sleepers
Wake! A Voice Cnllcth" and
"0 Man Bewr.ul Thy Gnevous
San."
Roundtng out the program
are Richard Pun•as' "Fantasy
on 'Ton-Y ·Botel,' " C e sa r
Franck's ''Paece Hertque,"
Messiaen's "Celest.lal Banquet"
and Louis Vaerne's "Carillon." • P:t 2
R ~.-.traint sked
To the COmmunity: . -Recent cv('nts an connecuon
wtth the Thcnter Department
have brought about serious and
trogtc confusion of the real is·
sues anvolvoo. 1 here ha,·e been
breeches of confidence of the
grnvcst c;ort. which violate not
only professional ethics but
otso fundamental stnndnrds of
decency nnd fa1r play. These
breeches of confidence on the
pnrt of both faculty and stu·
dents de5ei'\1C my personal cen·
sure an the strongest terms, as
they deserve censure from the
entire academic community ar
Lcw1s and Claric:-faculty, stu·
dent and staff.
The story in the Feb. 14 edi·
uon of The t..og hnd the effect
of further distorting the facts
of the sttu:uion, inviting bitter
ness and division within the
College which is needless and
must be avoided -at nll costs.
In the present chmute of high
feeling and confu!'ed informn·
uon. n is difficult at best-per·
hops impossible to separate r t from suspicion, rumor
from repOrt, stntemem from
anten m n manner which can
resolve the d1fiiculues finally
and completely '\\,th wisdom
and fairness to all parties con·
cerned. And nt this point nil
members or the Lewis nnd
Clnrk community must be con
cerned
For this reason. I nppE=al to
.all members of the College
Community to refrain from
further discussion of the s1tun·
tlon, Jn the Theater De
partment. The report of the
npprOpnate committee has
been received. Further hear ~
ings arc not contemplnted. The
m tter ·will not be discussed
publicly by any member of the
lldmmistratJve staff and l urge
all other members of the com
munity, whether or not direct·
ly mvolved In thts case. to ob
SCI'\ e the snme resumnts .
It is my hopt> that durrnr these next few months the
high fechng wBI SUbSJde. and
the essential, rele,•ant mterests
or the College and its constitu·
ent.s may be more properly
ensed and identifJed than
heretofore . It ss also to be
hoped that certain confusions
10 faculty and administrative
policy and procedures which
huve undoubtedly contribuLed
to the present diHtculty may
be isolated and resolved.
W1tb respect to the immedt·
ote quesuon or iaculty appoint·
ments for 1969-70, these orfen
difficult decistons are clearly
nsSJgned to the President of
the College I shall be com
mumcnting a finn! decision to
the princtpal parties in the The
ater Department within the
next fev.· days.
John R. Howard
pioneer log
Offlellll publicalton of lha asso
caau:'d Studcnu; of Le\\'1.5 and
Clark Colleg••, 0615 S.W. Pala·
tine 11111 Rd., Portland, Ore.
97219. Publish••d twice weekly
durinc th~· acndPmic year by
Gann Publishing Co.. Second
class post.nr,f• pn1d at Portland,
Ore.
EDITOR Allee IJ. Chmtcnscn
Asst F..d
Mauagmg Ed.
Ad Mannccr
Advbor K•m Cuno
Julie Percell
r'hns lotiUer
c;ay JCJtkins (E'd. nocc -Prr,.ldcnc How·
~rd·s lcrrcr wos ~ubmlttcd
to th~ LOu "l'll pnst our
dendllne. Linda Drl\'J,.' let·
ter had nlrcadv been set In • type and dummied ln. Thnt
both ar~ being run -
\\hlrh is ob,loush• incon .. ls· • tent -was chus dfctnt('d
bv clrcum,tnnce .. be\ ond our • • control, Curiouscr and <'Uri·
ouser!)
RefJUi ~1u
To the Community:
A solemn requiem moss wUI
be cclehrated on Sundny in tile
chapel for the departed spirits
or Dr. Luther Jerstad. profes·
sor of theatre, Frnncisco Reyn·
ders. arnst tn residence in mi
me, and Leon Pike, tcchnicnl
dtrector. An accompanying
service will be held for the de·
parted soul of Fir Acrc.s Tht!u·
trt-nnd the drenms or the the
atre students.
The circumstnnccs sur·
roundtng t h c s e untimely
deaths have been miscon
strued, mismterpretcd, misrc·
presented nnd generally mis·
erably !led nbout. At the rc·
quest or the Log l hereby set
the records strnight.
The symptoms of the thea
tre department's illness be·
came ob,•ious when, during the
spring tenn of 1968, nn at
tempt was made by the de
partment and the Personnel
Advisory Committee to revive
the o11ing theatre and tnpc up
old wounds.
The compromise consi!;ted or
a division of powers and re
sponsibilities am\)ng the thea
tre staff. Fr.mcisco Reyndcrs
would be artist in residence in
mime, Leon Pike the technical
director. Dr, Luther Jer tad,
department chairman, and Dr.
\Villiam Iron. director of Fir
Acres Theatre. Eac.h man had
specific duties and respons1bil·
itics. The responstbiliues of
Iron consisted of budget form
ulation, and curriculum and
producuon planning. These re·
sponstbiUties are written clear·
ly and well known to the four
men. It was hoped tbnt through
c06pc.rnuon and this diviston of
responsibility, .a hnrmomou s
atmosphere might be restored
to the theatre.
Then cumc the summer Jer·
stnd, Reyndcrs, Ptke and some
20 students remained in the in
terim betwt.!en spring term and
the summer scsston to reno
vate Far Acres Theatre: They
patnted, paneled, cleaned and
decorated the old building,
worktng together m harmony
and mutual respect.
About this same Lime, Iron
begnn attempting to under ~
mine the program and the fu
ture of the theatre. Iron went
to Bend to work in summer
theatre; one of his actresses
broke a bone nnd I began rc
ceivtng phone calls. 1 he first
came from Dr. Iron h1msclf.
He asked thut 1 come to Bend
to replace the injured perform
er. I explained to htm that I
had been cast an "The F'nntas
ticks.'' He then Informed me
lhat the three other members
or the department were not
worth my time, thnt the thea
tre and the summer program
would be vastly inferior, and
that 1 would benefit far more
rrom a summer in his shows.
I refused to leave a part m
wh1ch I was nlrendy cast, but
receiYt.'<i ·two subsequent calls
from Mrs. Iron attempting.
even more causucally, to diS·
credit Fir Acres Summer The-PIO'\I ER lOG
•
un1
ntre and its three summer prO·
fessors.
The summer was idyllic,
without dispute or dishnr mo
ny. The three professors und
the summer students heg11n to
dream nbout a new thcaltl', n
larger stnff and o touring pro·
tc.;sional mmtc company. But
the department did more thon
dream: it began to ucl, to
make the drenms realities. At
the moment I nm writing th1s.
Luther Jerstad is in New York
Ctty talking wilh the Rockefel
ler Foundation and trying to
get the funds for the new then·
tre which Reyndcrs designed.
Reynders and the mime trOUJ?C
nrc booked to perform m
Washington nnd nrc planning
an overseas tour for fnll nnd
wmter. Th1s is more than vi·
sion. lt is vision coupled with
nerve and talent nnd cner·
g)'. . . . but back 10 our ~ick
theatre.
The end of summer term
• • came w1th no communtcatlons
from Dr. Iron. Jerstud then
·pent his vacation working on
o theatre budget and curricu·
lum-both of which Iron had
neglected to do. J know this is
true because I observed it.
Iron did not fulfill his depart·
mental responsibtlittes.
Fall semester opened with a
weekend ~howing of the "Fan·
tasticks." I wns again np·
proached by Iron, two weeks
before the scheduled produc·
tion, and asked to leave the
cust or the "Fnstasticks" to
plny a part in the Lake Oswe
go Community Theatre pro·
ducuon of "Comt.l Blow Your
Horn," I was told, when I rc·
minded Dr. Iron I)( the "Fan
tasticks," that "performers
have no responsibilities but to
themselves ." Iron also said
that the educution under his
direction would be \"aStlv su-• perior to any I could recei\'e
under the direction of the oth
er members of the department.
The atmosphere of harmony
and coopcrat ion nnticipatcd in
the sprtng was becommg more
and more smoggy. On the one
hnnd were the three professors
-Reynde rs, Pike and Jerstad
-who worked constantly with
the students and each other on
any show which happened to
be on the boards. Reynders
helped with the scenic paint·
mg for both Ptkc's and Jcr·
send's shows, Pike worked for
Jerslad and Jerstad helped in
the final rehearsals of Pike's
show They cooperated and
demonstrated to the students
how unegot1Sticnl theatre cnn
really be.
Iron, on the olher hand,
taught h1s classes each day
but was otherwise conspicuou s
ly absent from acuvit1es.
Neither did he assist in any
way in production preparations
for shows other Uum hts own
With the end of fall term
came a request from the Per·
sonnel Adv1sory Committee
that two member~ or the de
partment-the chairman and
one other member-evaluate
Jron, wtiose tenure was beln ~;
u:viewt:d. Jerstud took h1s po·
sition as cducotor and dt?part·
ment chalrmun seriously and
gave his evaluation . At th1s
point a member of the Person·
nel Advisory Committee told u
student, Steve Knox, that Jcr
s~1d was trying to fire I ron
und that perhaps n student pe
tition might be cin:ulnted In
favor of lr(ln,
This student and several oth
t:rs took thi& informntton to J.ynn Darroch. who hud been
shown Jcrstad's e\'aluution by
another Commtttcc member.
Dnrr(}('h then dri\ftcd ,, liicem·
ingly innocent petition saying
that Iron hnd contributed to
theatre. Steve Knox nnd Jona
Grucncnfclder. ulong with one
or two otht'r students, then cir
culntcd the petitson under the
fnlse pretenses of Iron's being
fared hy .lcrstnd without suffi
cient notice and being unable
ever to find work again. About
hnlf of the th!'ntre members
signed, not r«"nlizing thnt the
petition wns likely to be use~
falsly OS D preference teSll·
monial for Iron O\'er Jerstad.
Th~ committee then re·
viewed the case, but gave Jcr·
stnd no opportunity to prO\'C
his accusations, the ''trumped·
up charges." 1 was pan ot that
proof but was not called upon.
Then nfter the decision wn~
mndc by the Advisory Commit·
tee to ignore the ob,·ious truth
the Pioneer Log published a
story by Selvin Eisen that was
full of slander, one-sided opin·
10n nnd bold-faced lies. I am
speaking of lnst Friday's page
2 editorial in which Etsen, for
reasons known only to himself,
made Jcrstnd the snc.rificiol
lomb und Iron the poor, abused
hero of a situation which Eis·
en knows little, if Mythang,
about.
F.:iscn, In his opening state·
rnl'nt, claims thnt Jerstad at
tempted to "bully" the com
mittee to "satisfy his ego
drive." Jerstud presented to
the comnuttee an honest eval·
uution, at the committee's re·
quest, and tn keeping with his
principles us an educator and
department chairman. If this
cun be termed ''bullying" then
every chairman on campus
could be accused of the same
thing. As for the "ego drive,"
docs it really seem logical that
u mnn or Jerstnd's caliber,
who commands $2000 a week
ns n guest lecturer, would have
the need or the desire to play
small college ego games? Be
rcnsonablc , Mr. Eisen.
In the next paragraph Eisen
stntcd that the "personality
conflict existed only in the
mind of Jerstad.'' This state·
ml'nt is false. 'The conflict was
not one of personality but of
behavior from Iron which was
lrrt·ponsiblc and detrimental to
the department as a whole.
The conflict e xa sted between
tht• entire departme nt and
Iron, not b£•tw(•en Iron and
Jerstad.
In paragraph 3 Eisen says
thut Jerstad "convemently
structured Iron out of the de·
purtment " In fact Iron was
"conveniently structured into
the dcprtrlment" by virtue of
the comprom1se written in the
spring of 1968, Iron chose not
to fulfill the responsibilities of
thnt compromise .
I ngrcc, Mr. Eisen, thnt this
whole affair has been contus
Ing, But one thing is very
clt.u The charges against Iron
are not unjustified , You assert
thut Iron is a man of vision,
but what kind of Vts1on
prompts a man to discredH
and disrupt a theatre?
Iron hus been bu.,y, though.
He serves on the Personnel Ad·
visory Committee. as chnirmnn
of the Committee on Commit·
tees, ond is president or the
American Association of Uni·
verslly Professors (AAUP) for
l.cwis and Clark, Should the
students choose to protest the Ftbru.tr 18, 196~
unethical behavior of the Per·
:-;onnc:>l Adv1sory C ommutee,
they would have to take their
compl.llnt to the C ommittue on
Committees Curious. .
May I suggest to you, fellow
studl'nts, that .1 great deal
more thnn l.uthcr Jt!rstud and
William Iron is at stuke in this
disputt>. Prc.sidt!nt lloward hos
been pluccd in n very difficult
posi uon. II he dismisses Iron
on tho bnsis of fnctunl evalun·
tions but agamst the rccom.
mendotion of the Personnel
Ad\'ISory Committee, he Will
be culled a dictator by the fa.
culty members who oppose
him.
H. on the other hand, Prcsl·
dent Howard is forced to re
hire Iron, knowing that he is
uncooperative Howard's pro.
lcssionnl ethics are al stake
In essence, Howard loses either
wny, Might it be poss1blc to
dismiss the Personnel Adv1 ;ory
Committee on grounds of un.
cthicnl behnvaor and free How
ard to make an unprcssurcd
decision?
So here we .1rc, with Jerstnd,
Reynders and Pike planning to
resign rather thnn work anoth·
cr year with un uncooperati\'e
man who undermines the work
of the theatre. Fifty-four
drama majors arc left with no
departmen t, no dreams and no
future at Lewis and Clark.
Linda Dnvis
In vita tion
Mr. Larkin Kallher,
The letter I wrote in response
to Mr Bekowics arttcle 'Ghost
House" was wr1ttcn with the
utmost sincertty and con·
vic.t1on My remarks were
carefully considered to insure
what was printed was what I
believed to be vahd At pre ·ent
I am not ready to chan~c 1nd
am willing to defend whnt I
wrote.
In many respects, Mr. Kali·
her, l found your article to be
sporadic ("shots in the dark")
and lacking in constructive nr·
gument. When I read the f1rst
paragraph of your article, I
prepared myself for an ensu·
ing examination of my argu·
ments and their relationship to
Mr. Bekowtes' comments: I
was expecting to find out why
my analysis was not vahd,
J was disappointed, Mr Kali
her because lhnt dtd not occur.
You took my statemenlS out or
context and from these st:1te
ments raised new questions:
this was done under a \'eil of
implied rei utation Generally
speaking, J find your com·
ments not taking issue with mY
arguments, and those com·
ments mude were either vnlid
or invalid .
Since you did make com·
ments nnd took the time to do
so. 1 thought It only proper and
worthwhile to take up your
"challenge" and answer it as
constructively and hone"t ly as
possible. Unfortunately my uc·
aminntion ran mto too many
pages, at would have been un·
fair of me to ask the Log to
prmt it I am willtnR, therefore ,
to d1scuss over 11 cup of coffee.
with you, Mr Knlther, and or
any other interested party, wh)'
I feel your comments were ir·
relevant and either valid or in·
vahd I hnve choo;en tht... mcth·
od of reply because I felt
I could not have done JUStice
to your letter in the short sp.tcc
allotted in the Log.
Respectfully.
Mike Groves frbrunr }' I
L. .
I lVl
h~ Ric
The Uvtr
at Reed Col
caused quIt
Tht> wee~
handling pul
rormances <
the Oregonll
and '"' ted I nteatre pro
Portland's
had heard c
theY going
clothes?'' ht
it Is the on
girl~ from
Ot!sp!tc 1
doubts, Mah
curious Port
r.essed Th
staging or '
According
materanl, "
the most rl
and controv~
Theatre's pr
ctls the m
sponse. 'Par1
described as
Ire."
On stage.
ly bcca~e 1
cast stnppec
kini tops f(
some audien
ped nlt01!tht
Mahar w
nare betwet
spectators. 1
r~ndmg j ts v
v.hile the a
words "Ana
dise·· wrth
'We
us, t
From the1
vte"' "The r
terchange
match betw
members or
or stage w~
whal was I
their v1ew \'
Mahar sal
forgot the s
among the 1
In freewheel
After two
mg and talk
Mahar sense
ty was fa~
meant interr
to ~ telephO!
fe\'U w or I
The p1ece a~
~ng I
Chil~
by K:lr
LC Ovl
A s1ght or
to but can
the beggars1 and cripple<1
In Conce1 • Anow by ~
beggars 1 b1
!ached to a
boys, ages s
walk up to
side, pulling
pitifully A~
shoe-shine b~
turns using.
Two of th
of a sort. •
over.large ar
time hnnd-r
who have c
no mirror, I
the money i
cheese and
rettes. In thE
ly mornings
sleeping on
front of th, l9G9 -
Per.
ttce,
their
con
llow
deal
and
this
has
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Iron
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pOse
rest.
re·
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pro.
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lther e to
ory
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four
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lhost I the
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and
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r~tONEER LOG Page 3
~LivingT eatre Strives or Innovation, ewForms
by Rick Goodfellow
The Lh•in~ Theatre played
at Reed College last week und
diU~cd quite a stir,
The week before, someone
hJ!ndlinr publicity for the per
rormam rs culled Ted Muhar.
the Ore~o nlnn' s Drama Editor.
1J1d In • cd him to '>CC a Living
Theatre production.
Portland's only druma critic
bad hcnrd of the group. "Arc
they going to take off their
clothes?'' he nskcd. "I guess
it is the only way to tell the
glrlo; from the boys."
Despite h i s preconceived
doubts, Mnhur joined the 1.200
curious Portlander~ who wit
nmed Thursday e" ening's
stagang of "Paradise Now,"
Ar.cording to promottonal
matcrtnl. · 'Paradise Now' is
the most radtcal, ~ensational
1nd controver;aal of the Living
Theatre's productions. and eli·
ells the most audience re·
spansc. 'Paradise Now' as best
described as coopcratavc thea
tre.''
On stage, cooperation quick
ly bt'Came evident when the
cast stripped to loincloth<; (bi
kanl tops for the ladtes) and
some nudacnce members strip·
ped oltogther
Mnhur watched arguments
nare between performers and
spectators. The audience began
fmdlng its way onto the stage
while the cast spelled out the
words 'Anarchy' and "Para·
disc'' with thetr bodies. As he fir.st thought he might,
Mahar took an unrnvomblc
v!ew or "Paradise Now.'' So
dtd much of the rest of the
nudaence. But this didn't mukc
the slightest difference to lhc
performers .
Billed a-; a "radical theutre
rcperatory company," the l.tv
ing rheatre recei\'es such dl·
vided response from full houses
everywhere Since its mccp·
tion, the company hns nlways
exposed the newest wranklcs or
shock theatre, to the extent
that the Living Theatre has be·
come almost synonymous with
a nude performance. But tht•
differences between the Living
Theatre and a more convcn·
tional troupe are more than
skin deep.
The group sees itself as nn
information source for a paci·
fist revolution . Co-founder Jud·
ith Beck says, "We believe in
non violent change. For us,
there Is no contradiction be·
tween pacirism and revolu
tion."
Every Living Theatre pro·
duction pleads a case for the
audience to make ttsel( free.
This approach is a mnjor rea·
son for the group's stormy
past.
Julian Beck and Judith Ma·
lina (now Mrs. Beck) formed
the Living Theatre in the win·
ter of 1946·47. Their ideal was
a theatre combining music,
dance, painting and poetry in
a form placing 'liJ these ele·
ments on stage so they would
'We believe in non-violent change. For
us, there is no contradiction between
pacifism and revolution.'
From then on, in Mahar's lose their indJvadunl tdentity
view. "The most sagnificant in" and be seen as a whole, single
terchange was a shouting art form
match between the audience But. Beck says, "You stnrt
members on stage and those out to build o temple, you end
or stage who could not see up gathering sticks for a hut."
what was happening because Gatherin~ sticks for a new
their view was blocked " art takes tame. It wasn't until
Mahar sat still as the cast 1951 that the Living Theutrc
!orgot the stage and walked produced its first play, "Doc-
among the audience, engaging tor Faustus L ghts the Lights,"
1n freewheeling conversation . by Gertrude Stean. who devout·
Aater two hours the wander- ly maintained that the English
mg and talking continued. but language was inadequate. and
Mahar sensed that the intensi· ~aid so in her play. Few peo
ty was falhng Hopang this ple came. and fewer under·
meant intermassion, he walked stood what they saw.
10 n telephone and dictated has On the bill with "Doctor
review or the performance raustus" rhat season wa!' Ken·
The piece appeared next morn neth Rexroth's "Beyond the
tng Mountams" and Paul Good-man's "Faustina." AH three
plnys :~re in verse- sndication
of the Living Theatre's passion
for poetry- nnd the first of a
dozen verse plays it's done
stncc.
Durang ats performances at
Cherry Lune Theatre the
group did poorly ut the box of·
fice, und the five man compa·
ny w.ts dissatisfied with ils
performance The Uvtng Thea·
trc could find few plays h felt
were worth production .
"Our first statement said
something nbout encouraging
the poets to write for the the·
ntrc by providing them a stage
where thc1r plays could be
prOduced," Beck recalls. "The
poetry we wanted had not yet
been written and still has not
been written. The stage 1s still
there."
Opening dates for the com-evolved an approach to per·
forming unlike that or any oth·
er American nctlng company.
Everyone Celt better for it.
The techniques brought as·
toonding results: when the
troup-: did plays that included
plays-within-the-play, such as
"MHny Loves," ''The Connec
tion'' nnd "Tonight We Im·
provisc," people cam~ to the
box office demanding their
money bnck because they hnd
pnid to sec a finished show,
not u bunch of people tulklng
and rehearsing .
In 1961 or 62. Beck isn't sure
which, a newspaper phoned
and asked for concise state
ment or the goals of the Living
Theatre.
Beck's first reply was, "Call
back in five minutes." His sec-
• • ond, "To ancrcase consc1ous
awareness, to stress the sac-Upon release, the troupe reor
ganized and left for Europe.
During this self-imposed ex•lc
lls present repertoire wns de
veloped.
It Includes the three pJayll
done in PorUond : "Mysteries
and Smaller Pieces," a series
or scenes and actions from past
l.lving Thentre productions
plus incense-burning, yogn ex
ercises, a raga. rreeo~form
mind·body games ond a dem·
onstration of the Theatre of
Cruelty.
"Antigone," is n Judith Beck
tmnslation of Brecht's vers1on
of Hoelderlin' s adaptation of
the Sophocles tragedy. Jack
Kroll of Newsweek says the
prOduction "drives both class•·
cists and Brechuans crazy."
Goals-'To increase conscious awareness,
to stress the sacredness of life, to break
down the walls.' ''Pan:.dlse Now," is n play
that relies upon audience·pcr·
former confrontation nnd olms
for peaceful revolution in the
hearL
Early last year the Living
Theatre chose to return to the
United States. It has toured its
nev.· repertoire since then This
visit to Portland was its first
performance in the Northwest. pany's first shows had to be
moved back -an admission
that work was not going well.
The group felt better once
Hugh Auden's "The Age of
Anxiety" opened. The rehear
sals had stretched out over a
year before performance. Cri·
tics took nouce, but the audi·
cnce was still unenthusiastic .
Then, in 1954, a fire iospec·
tor closed the Cherry Lane
The Laving Tht:ntre moved to
a loft above I OOth Street, New
York. B u i I d i n g inspec
tors closed it. The troupe
moved on to 14th Street, where
experiments continued and the
company began to grow. Plays
by Picasso, Racine, Pound.
Fredencks and Brecht brought
u greater response.
Money was still a problem,
however. Just to see what
would happen, advertising \\ilS
dropped, critics were no long·
er invated and no admtssion
was charged. Voluntary contri·
butions from the audience av
eraged 59 cents per person.
As techniques for bill-paying
e\'olved, so did those for per
forming. Plays were no longer
completely shaped by a direc
tor. The cast and director talk·
ed out the ideas that went into
o production . A set was never
desagned until the play was
nearly ready to open. And
somehow, sometime. there redn~s -of lire, to break down
the walls."
In 1964, the Internal Revenue
Service closed the Living The·
atre. Beck hnd either failed ur
refused to withold income tax
from the actor's salartcs.
Despatc padlocked doors,
Beck scheduled n perform
ance. Audaence ond actors en
tered the theatre through the
skylights. Half wny through
Kenneth Brown's "The Brig,"
the police arrived.
The entire cast was arrested. No one is sure how the Liv
ing Theatre breaks down \\'tills.
but apparenUy it does. A Wls·
consin manister asked the
troupe to perform for h1s con·
gregation. He was glad to have
performances at services. he
said. so long as no one took
their clothes orr. The Living
Threalre didn't. but seven
members of the congregation
did.
How we serve
you completely at
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A saght one never gets used
to but can never dismbs, is
the beggars, young and old,
tnd cnppled
In Concepcton 1 came to
know by sight the regulor
beg~ars. I became secretly at·
!ached to a ~roup o! about ten
boys, ages si~ to twelve They
Walk up to people or trot ulon~
side, pullang sleeves or starang • P•llfully Amon~ them IS a
dtoe-shine box whach they take
turns using.
Two of the boys have !oohoes
or a sort Their clothes are
O\ler· large and about twelveth
Ume hand-me downs. Those
who hove cut th~lr hair had
no mirror, I'm sure At noon
the money as pooled to buy
cheese and bread ancJ caga
rettes. In the evenings or ear·
I}' mornings. one sees them
sleeping on the concrete in
front of tht• church, in the bandstand. or who know!-.
where
One evening I walked from
a movie theater intu the freez
ing night air, nnd ran all the
way home to keep warm. The
thought of my six blunkets was
hea' en. As I rounded the lust • comer, t nearly collided wath
an old man s1ttmg on the corn·
cr sleeping. 1 felt so terrible be·
cause I had awakened him
and now he'd feel the cold I
wanted to let him 1nsade the
door below where it was wurm·
cr It took me a long time to
get to sleep.
In Santiago the beg~ars huvc
their regulur sites On Merced
as the lady with two children.
On EstadOs corner arc the
bland man and lady who take
turns, the two singang ladies,
and during Christmas the San
ta. On Huerjancx is the \'iolln·
ast and ilurist. The list of reg·
ulurs is endless. Then there ure those old, legless, blind, de·
formt.-d. eyeless. or destitute
who walk from person to per·
son In the plaza, murmuring a
plcn for money.
A few people wander about
the entire city. At a fair of • • Chalean nrt, I heard mustc an
the distance and hurried over.
An old man stoOd playing an
accordian . A young boy danced
nbout to manipulate a cord
connecting shoe and drumstick.
which beat the drum on his
back A. smaller child collected
money. 1 hey were not lhe pte·
turesque littk musicinns you
see in the mov1es. These
people weren't en)oymg them
selves.
The question you .tsk your
self is -what to do? Is it
thut the Chilean~ hu\ e chosen
to pay a few c~ntisimos every
once an u while, ruther than
take: cnre of these people or,
better, take steps to pre\'ent
such conditions? Cooling System Service
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rotnu., a.ao• I' ION CER l OG I clll11,JJ) IR 1%9
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Cats Fall 92--79 pioneer sports
Jack Des Bouillons, editor
li111 Hope for Pla)7l)ff'-
R t11ai11 ; Tl1ree Ga111 s L ft
b Mike Pt-zcl
Lewl nd Cl rk connected
on It first C\ en shots In the
" ond half, then held off 1
Wlllamcnc surcc late an the
g me to t kc a 92·79 VICtOr)'
Prtdn) mght at Jnck_Son High
School.
Wath thrc games rc.mninmg,
Ute Pioneers nO\'f are in !:Ole
po ses ton of second place nnd
still hB\:C lnmt hopes of n post·
se..1!:0n pin) off berth
L<ed by sophomore Bob l un
dohl, Wsllnmettc jumped out to
o quack lead and awned u se'
en pomt mnrgm for muc.h or
the early morn~ts or the
game
Then Coach Dean Semperl
ins rtcd gu rd Mnrk Men:r.e
mto the line-up and ''Mouse"
ot the P1onecr offense movmg
W h J1 n Pertl3r connecting
tht> ut tde and Menze
ddmg three bucket • LC
erased the deficit to gnm a 4i-
41 holft1mc mnrgln
Arter the mtemu!;slon the
P1onecrs looked Hke thev were -gom~ to run away from the
Be rctlts
Howe,er, nt the mtdwav • point of the hnlf, Wallamctte
stnncd roll~ wh1ch came n.;
cJo e n two points.
Ttm Wnght cnme ali\'C nnd
droppe-d an three sLra1ght h:tsk
cts to protect the LC Jeud
·Tlu -Jadiator·
L b \ 1 HI)>""
Robert Montgomery Bird'
The Gkldlator, •• o drnmn tell
tn • the tory of Sp3rtncus'
llw~ rebclllon 1n 73 B C.
a tnn t Rome opened Frida\
t Portl nd St te Universaty
Produ«>d by the Amencan
Theater Company the pin)
\~Ill run through MarCh 1
The play has been en Ued
·the story or Te\olution m
Amenca buth todoy and at th
time ll w01s wrutcn" Bard
\HOle his drnma m J 83 J, the
yenr of Nat Turner's rebeUion
nd or the f1rst publication of
the abolitiOnist pap r "I'M Lib
c. tor.
TicketS nre nvnilnblc at the
box offJOC (226·7271, • 't )309)
or t Stevens nnd Son. Llovd
C nwr. Adult admas..-.ton as $4,
snsd nts' as S2 Pcrllnp" the turnmg point of
the cam~ came '' ith r" c mm
UlCS 11cm mans when \Vrighl
\\Us cnllcd for n personal foul.
ond nn ensuing argument
caus~ referee Nick Scholnln
to charge o tcchn1cnl foul on
Coach Sempcrt
For Willnmettc , Dnvc Steen
massed the one-nnd one chnncc.
while I unduhl f iled 10 convert
the tt chnacal
TI1e Bcarcats hnd possession
or the bnll. but missed the
shot, so mstend of n po s1blc
one pOIDl deficit, I C wns still
up by stx ond Y. idt'ncd the
margin to eight the n~t ume
down the court
W1llnmctlc nc\:Cr cnme clos
cr ns Re · Hend cnnned caght
potnt in the closln(; mmutcs
to assure the wan
111roughout the gomc the nc
uon under the boards was
rough ond in n couple of situn·
uons temper n red
Whn.t made the gnmc furious
\\US the fact that lhc referees
"ere lettmg o lot or things go.
more so for the vi 1L1ng Bcnr·
cat
Willnmcttc did not hnvc n
per onnl rout In the ccond hair
until there were only four nnd
a hnlf mtnutt.:S left 1n the r,amt::
Uut the l11onccrs, despite the
( \Orll m or the infroquent
whisllc•s, mnnagcd to bent Wll
lnmcttc con\•inclngly,
Opt)ra Wtn·J..-. .,1top
Offel't'rl in ,,,.;,a
The mus1c department has
nnnounc d nn opera workshop
to be offered ~prang tcm1 for .1
one-thard credit
The \\Orkshop-mu 1c 105-
will be held 7 to 9 p m m
E\ nn nudltortum Hunter
Moore, mstructor or \'Otce, Will
dtrect the workshop
According to Moore, the ob·
JCCll\ c of the eta s Is to lenm
coordlnotton bctw~e n basic
tagc tnO\ emen ts and mus1c.
As an oSSlgnmcnt, each stu
dent wall be ns 1gned n role in
n ccnc from the "stnnt.lard
opcrotac repertoire"
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through audtt1on ror further
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porlnnt he r,rnbbcd 18 re
bounds.
Pernnr topped nil !;cora
with 23 counters while Bend
tnlltcd 20 Tat1kers Place Seco11d
lt1 lnvitatiot1al Meet
For the Bcarcnts, John Bnrk
er, thrO\\ IDJ; in some Impossi
ble hook shots, canned 20
pomts while lundnhl hod l
with 12 rebounds .
Tont_ght. Lewis ond Clnrk
hosts Pnclfic In o r,amc ot
Hownrd Hall on thl' Universltv -of Portland campus, then
close.. conference ncuon wtlh
Linfield on Fndny and Sotur
duy.
The Wildcats gained the con·
fercnce championship on Satur
day by downing Whitman
Conrcrence stnnclmgs
w I.
Linfield ------14 I
Lewis and Clark -• JO 5
Pnctftc l.uthcran --9 6
Willameue -~--9 7
College of ldnho --·-5 10
Whatmnn --------5 12
Pacific ----------2 13 A strom:~ pcrfonnoncc b)' the
LC swtmnung team enabled
tl1c P1onccrs to funsh second
in the Lewis nnd Clark lnvitu·
tlonal Relays Snturdny nfter
noon.
Thl' Pomplln swim test was
won by Southern Oregon wh1ch
powered its wny to an lmpres
lvc victory
1 he Rnidcrs cl1alkcd up 172
pomts whtle the Pioneers totnl
cd 1•10
Wlllnmettc took thtrd wllh
136 pt>ants, followed by Port·
lund Slate and Oregon College,
hoth with 120 poants.
SOC C3pturcd oil bul two rc·
Juy e' cnts to walk O\\ ny from
thu field. nnd dcmonstrnte wh,>
It 1s tht• clef ending Dtstrlct. IJ
champion.
The bottle for second place
wns close. but n scr1es of sec ond place flntshes for LC gn,e
thnL spot to the Pioneers
I C hod a chuncc to lake SOC
m the 200 yard medley rc.la)
and held the lend unttl Bob
Hunt of SOC took Lhc lend With
a powerful brc.tSlstrokc an \h,.
third leg of the relny to beat
the Pioneers
On Friday, LC hosted a dUJI
meet ognlnst OCE in the
Pamplin pool
The men were bcnten b)' 1
\\'Ide mnr,:~in, 6 ·•I·L while th
\\01ncn c.rpturcd n 12·15 wtn
Nathan
Stubblelield
• IS on
his way!
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It sails to them and beyond.
Once again, begmning In October or 1969 the
World Campus Afloat program ot Chnpm~n
College and Assoc1ated Colleges and Untverslttes
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Into the world laboratory
In-port programs relevant to lully-accrcdlted
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of personal cxpcrtencc to formal learning
Classes are held six doys a week at sea
aboard the s.s Ryndam wh1ch has been equipped
wtth classrooms, lnboratorics, library, student
un1on, dmmg room and dorm•tor•os
. Chapman College now ts accepting apphca-
t•ons lor the Fall and Spnng semesters ollhc
1969·70 acadcmtc year Fall semesters depan
New York lor ports in Western Eu.opo nnd the
Mediterran ean, Africa and South Amcrtca, endtng
In los Angeles Spring semesters c~rcle tho
world from Los Angoles through tho Ouent, India
and South Afnca to Now York. Art student Losna Lesch ol Long Bonch
sketcl?os ruins ot onco-biJrtod c1ty during
World Campus Afloat v1slt ro Pompeii.
For. a catalog and other lntormat•on, complete and
ma11 the coupon below.
SAFETY INFORMATION : Tho s.s Ryndam,
reg1stered in The Netherlands, meets InternatiOnal
Salety Standards for new sh•ps developed m
1948 and meets 1966 lire snfety reqUirements.
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