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We did not build this place it is not ours a frozen vision a stifling void awaiting the angels of day break together find a round and fertile place full of quiet voices build softly a house grows from within tunnels lined with secret thoughts join chambers filled with light where we meet stars in their fullness no floors cut earth from sky mind from body. —Sim Van der Ryn, associate professor of architecture, University of California, Berkeley.
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When we first create a campus, it has a normal relationship with the city. Later, the surrounding area begins to decline, and even later, the completion of the decline is an irreversible trend. —C.A. Doxiadis, president of a consultant firm of development. at a conference of the American Council of Education.
Bloomington and I.U.symbiotic mutualism
Words by Ron Miller Pictures by Larry Lynch
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He may have been talking about any area adjacent to Indiana Avenue near the campus, or anywhere south of Atwater Avenue. Old homes, new apartments, and mixed land uses add to the sense of change in the neighborhoods. Bloomington, under the criteria used by geographer Chauncy Harris to classify cities by their dominant function, is a University Town. That means student enrollment equals at least 25% of the population of the city. Bloomington's population is more than 45,000 and the nine-month student enrollment is over 29,000 with the summer session figures roughly one-half that amount. Doxiadis says that a normal city pattern shows communications among people throughout the pattern. "But a specialized area, such as a university, breaks up the normal pattern of communications, both the physical pattern and the social pattern," he adds. "The boundary areas, therefore, lose importance and deteriorate." Allocation of resources between Bloomington and I.U. has created conflicts. City water lines cross changing political boundaries, forcing Bloomington to provide services to a wider area. Last spring, the Board of Trustees had to decide whether more money should be given to the Student Health Center for in-patient services or to Bloomington Hospital for more available bed space for I.U. students, faculty, and staff requiring intensive care. The money went to Bloomington Hospital, but the University community debated the wisdom of that decision. Curbing on the south side of Tenth Street from Woodlawn Avenue to the stretch by the New Library needs improvements. Technically, the city government is responsible for allocating the men to repair curbing. However, as one official in the Physical Plant has said, "If the University doesn't repair it, nothing will be done.
East Kirkwood with its specialty shops appears to survive economically becau .se of the student business in town. When the Main and Undergraduate Libraries were adjacent to Indiana Avenue and its intersection with East Kirkwood, students were always in the area entering the business corridor leading towards the town square. However, the business volume in this area may not be greatly affected by the changing pedestrian pattern. While students still have classes in the area by East Kirkwood, the campus buses will still stop by the entrance to that corridor. There is still the heavy (and growing) concentration of students in apartments in town. Besides, student shopping patterns are not likely to be radically changed simply because of the Library relocation.
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Bloomington is a part of Southern Indiana (spell that with a capital "S" for South)—where The Courier-Tribune runs color group shots of the Klan. Like most small midwestern towns, it's not a very good place to be if you're black or young. You can stand around, watch people running by in their white socks and greased-back hair. Any night at the Waffle House you sit and hear southern drawls of various types. Cars pass by long-haired students, and sounds of derision like "Freaks" or "Get a haircut - resound with more than a trace of hostility. It's like a scene from Easy Rider and you just wait for somebody to blast your Unamerican long hair from your head.
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"Man's entire organism was designed to move through the environment at less than five miles per hour," according to Edward T. Hall, an anthropologist. "Automobiles insulate men not only from environment, but from human contact as well. They permit only the most limited types of interaction, usually competitive, aggressive, and destructive." If you doubt that, drive through one of I.U.'s numerous four-way stops at rush hour. Besides the sheer volume of traffic, the number of cars with decals outnumbers the number Of university parking spaces available to them. A Spectator count of December, 1969, revealed that more than 10,888 decals had been sold for parking privileges in 7,494 spaces. With limited resources and little action in the building of University parking garages, we can anticipate with horror the opening of the Musical Arts Center, particularly for the first night of the Little Theatre. The Auditorium, the Arts Center, and the Library will share the same parking facilities. Everybody will have plenty of time to observe the physical features of the campus that night, because the cars won't be going as fast as five miles per hour.
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Joe College, as he liked to call himself, was smearing Butch Hair Wax on his flat-top as his eyes danced to a picture of the girl he was taking out that night. Bordered by gold, she stood proudly in her white bobbie socks and calf-breaking skirt and her newly-permanented hair. Joe thought about the coming evening—a movie at the Harris Grand followed by a pizza at Little Italy. Then, a goodnight kiss on the steps of Trees Center. Ah, Joe thought, it would be neat, daddy-o, neat. He even toyed with the idea of inviting her to Wells Quad for Sunday's long-awaited open house where he'd entertain her with some Big Bopper and Elvis Presley music on the hi-fi. Maybe, he thought, he'd even sneak a few kisses if the counselor wasn't patrolling the hall. This laughable bit of the now-altered past typifies the life of the Indiana University student, vintage 1960. That life style of but a decade past was bound and gagged by the conservative decade which preceded it; life, from sartorial grooming to places of rooming, was dull by present standards. Despite the liberalized rules in the University dormitories today. the 1970's promise to give rise not to more dormitories, but to more and improved apartment complexes, those elephantine and elegant units which now cover the Bloomington landscape. Bloomington landlords today estimate that nearly 80% of the 3,138 apartment units in town are occupied by students. With 29,308 students enrolled in the University this past semester and only 12,467 living in the greatly-improved dormitories, more than 16,000 students remain unaccounted for—that is, until you see the amoebic apartment complexes. There are 103 apartment complexes in Bloomington today, 84 of these have been built since 1961. The largest complex in 1961 was a four-unit affair which pales into insignificance when placed beside the gargantuan complexes of today. The appearance of apartments has enabled the City of Bloomington to collect nearly 25% more personal property tax (paid by the developers, not the tenants) for use in its school system and city services. And in Bloomington, as in many other cities across the country, the apartments have started the house-isnot-a-home craze; single-family dwellings have been nearly removed from the market by the presence of apartments. But even when high rents and dishwashing are considered, students still seem to be flocking to the apartment way of life. And as more students crowd into the University register, more apartments will be built for their convenience. It's a palpable change from Trees Center and Sunday open houses. But then. what ever happened to the Harris Grand and Little Italy?
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Apartments
Words by Rick Roth Pictures by Larry Lynch
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Residence Halls Be it ever so humble, there's no police like Holmes—James Joyce. Joyce's multiple pun fits residence hall living. There's no place policed quite like residence halls. Maids, janitors, and resident assistants keep a better watch on University property than it deserves (at least from a student viewpoint). Students need to perceive of their rooms as territory. That territory can satisfy the needs of security, identity, and stimulation that every person has. How can a student possess territory in his room when the rules say: "Thou shalt not move the furniture, thou shalt not put tacks on the wall"? Open visitation (called open guest hours by the Trustees for some strange moral reason) has helped make dorm rooms more like homes than barracks. It decreases general noise, profanity in the halls, and helps a student feel that his room is really his. In loco parentis has declined in housing policy at I.U. the last four years. But the residence halls are perceived by some students as physical embodiments of in loco parentis attitudes of some administrators. That perception results when the halls are recognized as something less than a learning center in higher education. There was a time when the effects of housing administration policy on students were not a worry to the University. That was when 90 per cent occupancy of the halls was automatic. Those people helped pay off the bonds on the structures. Now that crucial occupancy figure for self-supporting residence halls is not a certainty. Because of this, the University has been under great pressure to make the residence halls more liveable in order to insure their survival. We now have seven-day open visitation. The Inter-Residence Halls Association has pressured the dining halls into giving us more than one serving of dessert. But the world of the residence halls is still one you can pack up in a suitcase on weekends. It's still artificial and it's still not quite ours—to have and to hold.
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BEHOLD HOW GOOD AND HOW PLEASANT IT IS FOR BRETHREN TO DWELL TOGETHER IN UNITY. —Psalms. CXXXIII, 1
1969-70 was an eventful year for Greeks. They had four thousand undergraduate students living in their houses—a significant fact after almost two years have passed since the abolition of approved housing. Some older members of fraternities and sororities left their houses for the privacy of apartments. But most stayed. Rush went on as usual, or did it? Greek men and women more and more found prospective members asking peculiar questions. No longer was it only - How much does it cost to live in the house?" or "What's pledge training like?" Greeks responded with more rush parties,
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dances, and teas, and sometimes with answers. During a year of student boycotts and discussions of participatory democracy, fraternity and sorority members seemed in an ideal position to change their social and academic lives to fit a changing milieu of student opinion. This year Greeks started to ask themselves what being a member means. Were chapter meetings different? Did conversation at the dinner table change? Are we now what we have been? What will we be tomorrow?
A cursory examination of the expressed ideals of I.U.'s social fraternal organizations reveals a surprising consistency: to become an educated person. a lady, a gentlemen, a responsible citizen, a well-rounded person. Some Greeks wondered what their ideals really were They wondered about T.S. Eliot's words in "The Hollow Men": Between the idea and the reality Between the motion and the act Falls the Shadow
Other Greeks were unconcerned, contenting themselves to be part of "The Silent Majority." Or was it a majority? The fraternities once again took Little 500 honors. Everyone had dances. A few freshmen still wore their little green caps. Sororities cheered the fraternities on. And there was the usual hassle of fall teas and, of course, the Semester Break scramble. Fraternities and sororities combined forces on innumerable occasions for Homecoming, I.U. Sing, Little 500, and frequently for services to the campus and to Bloomington. 25
GRANT US BROTHERHOOD, NOT ONL Y FOR THIS DA Y BUT FOR ALL OUR YEARS— A BROTHERHOOD NOT OF WORDS BUT OF ACTS AND DEEDS. WE ARE ALL OF US CHILDREN OF EARTH—GRANT US THAT SIMPLE KNOWLEDGE. —Stephen Vincent Benet
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Some blacks find it easier to cope with living at I.U. Black students who attended integrated high schools or who lived in integrated communities seem to be able to adjust to the situation at Indiana University better than blacks who attended all-black high schools and who lived in all-black communities. A black freshman girl related the following events that happended to her during her first week at Indiana University. "I don't live in Indiana, so when I came to school, I didn't know anyone. I got to know some of the girls in the dorm. My roommate was white and we got along just fine. She and some of her friends were going to an all-campus dance on the weekend. They were really excited about going. All the girls on my floor were white except me, but there was one other black girl that I met at dinner who lived a couple of floors below me. "Anyway, my roommate invited me to go along with her and her friends to the dance, so I went. When I arrived at the dance, I heard the band playing some music that I'd never heard before and a white guy was standing in front of the band singing loudly and sounding very bad to me. I couldn't dance to the music, but that didn't matter since no one asked me to dance anyway—there weren't any blacks at this all-campus dance except for me." "I can understand why black kids wouldn't go there because blacks probably wouldn't be able to dance to the music that they were playing anyhow." Most blacks come from a different cultural background than whites. While blacks have been exposed to symphony, opera, rock concerts, poetry reading, and other things that white middle class values have taught to be cultural, they usually don't really enjoy such. The new black awareness has made blacks more conscious of their heritage. They enjoy black music that holds a message for black people told in black rhythmic ways and interpreted by their contemporaries with whom they can relate. Black students enjoy poetry by LeRoi Jones, Don Lee, and Sonia Sanchez. This poetry with its harsh and profane rhetoric does not meet the approval of middle class white society. For blacks it is a reality that most other poetry they have studied lacks. Black students enjoy black rock artists with the "black sound." They generally don't enjoy white groups, although large numbers of blacks reported that they did enjoy "The Beatles" and a few other white groups who have been able to assimilate the black sound and who
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"say something" in their songs. The black studies program proposed last year by black students would have come very close to offering blacks a field of study which was compatible with their past cultural experiences and which would have filled their present cultural needs and desires. Blacks felt that they could best plan the program and decide which of the black administrators and faculty members at I.U. who had worked with them could best coordinate the program with the interest of black students in mind. Blacks were not allowed by the university to choose the person who they felt would be the best Chancellor for the program. By not allowing blacks to run the program as promised, the university removed the power to conduct the program from blacks. Blacks students knew from previous experience that if they weren't allowed to make all decisions, they eventually wouldn't be allowed to make any of the decisions. As a result, the black studies program was abandoned by those black artists and poets and teachers who were to be hired by the university for the program at the recommendation that they do so by black students and faculty at Indiana University. To some people this position seemed to be a very obstinate and closed-minded attitude for blacks to take. But the black attitude was the result of previous experience, wherein compromise never gained them anything but weak promises and tokenism. Discrimination on this campus is not a very overt thing. A black has to be sensitive and aware to see it at all. People here cover up their hatred with smiles and negro history courses. It's not until you decide that you want to be able to get a degree in black studies run by blacks in a very non-white way that you see the smiles weaken. It took Sonia Sanchez's coming to read poetry to make me see what was behind those paper-mache smile. One student expressed his disgust with the events. "I sat next to one of my liberal-minded white friends and watched him squirm in his seat every time she said a word which he considered profane—just an expression of the poet's feelings. She said a lot of words like that. But he couldn't even accept her as a poet. She was too real for him." Why do black students go to college anyway? And why don't they go to all black colleges if they have so many problems at I.U.? The goal of getting a high paying job and buying a beautiful home and a big car and being a member of an elite social group is no longer the dream of most black college students.
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"Twenty years of schoolin and they put you on the day shift." —Bob Dylan "Fortunately and happily, I shall be here for two more years of study. All my life has been spent in school and it makes me quite depressed to think that someday I will have to leave this pleasant environment with so many excellent people. The outside world seems so uninteresting; people are such vegetables; they do the most boring things and lead the most trivial lives.'' "As far as the state of Indiana is concerned, I.U. is a vocational-technical school whose sole purpose is to turn out over five thousand people a year with pieces of paper certifying their ability to fit into the middle class muddle." "Indiana is not so much a state as a state of mind—primitive." "Go to school, get your computer cards, and exist." "You learn to read and write and spell your name and find out in the end it's all the same."—Spirit.
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A four-point student puts down his books for the night and lights up a joint before going to sleep. A group of tipsy couples at a fraternity party gather in a student's room to pass around a water pipe. A local businessman enjoys smoking grass after dinner. A Bloomington school teacher keeps a stalk of marijuana in her closet and smokes a pipeful while grading papers. The situations described above are real; the people are real; and the marijuana is real. Drugs have become a very real part of Bloomington's university community and the I.U. experience. But for students arrested on drug charges, the prospect of long prison sentences is also very real. In fiscal 1968-69, 19 students were apprehended in busts. Some caught both barrels of "justice" as students were subject to both University and State and Federal action. But even these risks do not deter users. Captain Robert Dillon, Safety Division, said that although there is no statistical evidence, "Drug use is on the upswing on campus." With the increased demand for drugs, the market in Bloomington has mushroomed. Despite President Nixon's, "Operation Intercept" in September, I.U. students enjoyed a harvest of Korean, Mexican, and Indiana grass. And despite Art Linkletter's scare tactics. local dealers offered Mescaline and LSD at history's lowest prices. The bulk of I.U's academic involvement in the drug question has been carried by Alfred Lindesmith, professor of sociology and a leading authority on drug use. He suggests that drug use be treated as an illness or social problem rather than as a crime.
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The Nixon administration appeared to recognize the arguments of Lindesmith and others like him when it proposed last fall that penalties for possession of any drug be lowered. This enlightened approach may save the sons and daughters of many Hoosiers from the stigma of an arrest record or a jail sentence. Austin Parker, psychiatric social worker at the Student Health Center, said, "Users of mind expanding drugs who have come to see me are basically healthy people working out the developmental task of adulthood, which is intimacy and closeness with other human beings." Like their parents, the student drug user will probably get a good job, raise a family. and become a productive member of society. But in place of his parent's five o'clock martini, he will substitute a joint of marijuana. Our parents realized all too painfully that the alcohol prohibition of the 1920's could not be enforced and caused more harm to society than good. It is all too ironic that they support the same sort of repression that they rebelled against forty years ago. As drug use continues to spread and as users become a part of the electorate, legalization of at least marijuana is only a matter of time. As the older generation realizes that putting young people in jail can only serve to weaken society, an enlightened attitude will evolve. The average I.U. student is virtually indistinguishable from the average student drug user. The vast majority of student users enjoy "turning on and tuning in," but few have any intention of "dropping out." But society's standard on drugs seems to be "Because we cannot prove it is not harmless, it should be illegal." You can keep arsenic in your cabinet but not grass. Meanwhile, thousands of young people will face life with arrest records and will sacrifice a portion of their lives for an experience no more harmful than gin and tonic.
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Styles change. More correctly, there are no styles any more. Hopefully, most students have stopped worrying about how people dress, whether guys look like girls or all dress alike (unisex look) and have started thinking about people. It's what's on the inside that counts. But what's on the inside? Is the New Morality really new or is it merely the rephrasing and re-emergence of an ancient way of thinking about good, evil, and indifference? Examine the
quote from "Hair" and you'll find that it's not really much different from the morality of your mom and dad. The gap in morality is not over hurting people. The question is, "What does hurt people?" The New Morality says that it's not premarital sex or marijuana. What hurts is stereotyping people—forgetting that they are individuals. So the New Morality really translates into "Love thy neighbor as thyself," and that's some pretty old advice.
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Governor Whitcomb It is apparent that Governor Edgar D. Whitcomb's relationship with I.U. students has not been overly joyful. Perhaps he irritated some students with his campaign promise to "clean up I.U.," not exactly endearing himself to students, and perhaps he is also a convenient scapegoat for problems that have no one source and no single person to blame. In all fairness to the Governor, he did recommend larger appropriations for the University—those were cut by the legislature—and he did veto a bill which would have prohibited single students from voting in their university communities. But he also charged that outside agitators were responsible for the uproar over the fee increase. More importantly, his administration seems to exude a lack of color and an abundance of moral dogmatism that is unsettling. Whitcomb has been plagued by a break with Otis Bowen, Republican majority leader of the State House of Representatives. The Governor did regret the size of the fee increase. "I never intended, nor would I have authorized, such increases in tuition as were established," he said. But his failure to suggest tax reform and improved funding of the state educational system portends that we may pass through the whole problem again during the next legislative session. Although the Governor has been criticized for a lack of concern for students, he points proudly to his record for student financial aid. "We have been able to provide 40% more scholarship grants and 60% more scholarship loans through the State Scholarship Commission. In addition to this, a business task force helped 20,000 students find summer employment." The Governor is hoping to triple that figure in the summer of 1970. However, it is interesting to contrast the above figure with a note last year from the State Scholarship Commission. The Commission pointed out with regret to all state aid recipients that, owing to a slash in funds, it would have to decrease aid and lower the number of scholarships awarded. The Governor showed wisdom in not speaking to the students who marched on the Capitol last spring. He would have been booed and heckled unmercifully. The crowd was there to dramatize its complaint, but not really to talk. All in all, it seems that the Governor's problem is merely the dilemma of the politician—how to be all things to all people. Since there are more middleaged, middle-class voters than there are students and faculty, we can never hope to have a "blue ribbon" government by our standards. Pity the poor politician. Pity the poor student.
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Thousands of people do not a movement make nor students in search of a holiday, a boycott. The 1969 spring boycott was the boycott pretending not to be. It involved thousands of people utilizing the class cutting for varied interests. The prelude was several large rallies, culminating in the rally in the New Fieldhouse with approximately 10,000 students participating. There, speakers for students presented four demands: (1) An immediate rescission of the fee increase; (2) A graduated fee rate by 1970; (3) No fees by 1972; and (4) Student voice and power on budgetting committees. The administration responded as haphazardly as students demanded. It refused to release an itemized breakdown of the budget and refused to denounce the Governor's charge that outside agitators were responsible for any kind of unrest on campus. (The Governor's charge seemed to imply that I.U. students were too dumb to know when they were being screwed.) The boycott was haphazard. It began in the interests of preventing violence by channelling student frustration into a more innocuous form. The first two days were highly successful in emptying classrooms. But representives of various interests held meeting after confused meeting calling themselves the Campus Caucus and accomplished little more than dividing each other. Student Government lost much of its leadership credibility as members of the left charged Student Body President Paul Helmke with being "wishywashy" and serving the interests of the administration and not the students. The last few days of the boycott tapered off as more and more students gave up and went back to classes after a beautiful march down campus and a rally of 10,000 in Dunn Meadow where fighting ended a pretense of harmony. Very few students were naive enough to believe that the boycott would achieve its avowed purpose of getting fees rescinded. However, many student leaders were optimistic that it did stimulate communication between students and between students and faculty in the free universities. Faculty members went to the people. Many for the first time in their stay at the university visited dormitories. When the library was hit by arson a second time, critics of the boycott seized on that as evidence that the boycott was not peaceful. However, the person accused of the crime turned out not to be a student at all. Administrators kept patting their children on the head and telling them how nice and non-violent the protest was However as Joel Allen said, "It was the longest peaceful, non-violent, useless protest in the history of campus movements." 51
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It is stultifying to celebrate rebels of the past while repressing those of the present. —Henry Steele Commager
Student Government Is Not Very Sexy Anymore
It's a good thing the Student Senate has no power. Any legislative body that can soundly defeat a motion 24 to 8 and five minutes later with much chaos and no discussion reverse that decision 16 to 14 is not to be trusted. The Student Supreme Court is no better. Through its muddling helped along heroically by the Student Election Commission, the class of 1970 was forced to troop to the polls twice to decide who got to pick the spot for the class tree. According to its own constitution, the senate has the power to amend its constitution, to approve appointments by the student body president, to levy and spend a 50( per student per semester assessment, to hold elections and referenda, and to express its opinion on any other matter. In essence then, the senate has the power to regulate itself and the power to whine. The popular belief that the function of administrators is to screw over students is not necessarily true. Administrators may be blind, stupid, biased, inept, misinformed, uniformed, or incapable of comprehending what students want. But it is sick to believe they get some sadistic pleasure from thwarting us. True revolutionaries among us will point out that there is no real student government. This is an adjustment to the system we find ourselves in with the army in Indianapolis, the state police on Fee Lane, and with Joseph Lee Sutton in Bryan Hall. We are not likely to be able to change the situation for the better through revolution. We are presented, then, with three paths: apathy, revolution with the certainty of defeat and repression, and reform with admittedly limited possibilities. That's the way it is in 1970.
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Sutton anticipates few major changes in the university. "As in space navigation," Sutton said, "slight changes over a long period of time produce maximum effect." One thing he would like to see is a "rededication to teaching" and a change from research. "There is something to the concept of a professional faculty," the President said. Thirty-seven pounds trimmer than he started out, President Sutton says the greatest challenge for him in his first year of the presidency was the personal problem of "adjusting to the fact that I'm now a public figure. When you become a public figure your private life tends to vanish, and I have a penchant for being very blunt," he smiled. "Now I have to watch what I say and how I say it."
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The Spirit of Dunn Meadow People got to come together not just out of fear Where do we go from here? Chicago The tribe is reborn. We are not waiting for the Revolution. It is here. Dunn Meadow is a symbol of the Revolution of Life Styles. It is the communal ground and ancestral home for the young. It is I.U.'s continuing Woodstock. In Dunn Meadow, people run wild and go crazy in the spring, in all of the good weather and some of the bad. In Dunn Meadow there is no saturating up-tightness, only the warmth that comes from the closeness of the earth, the blueness of the sky, and the oneness of people being happy. We all want to escape to a Dunn Meadow of the mind. Everyone needs to carry spare happiness with him. People need to run wild and go crazy in all of the world. Dunn Meadow is the spirit of freedom. Some people say that youth has lost its heroes. We are all heroes. Every man striving and yearning to be free is a hero. It's good to run barefoot through the grass. It's good to feel free always and run barefoot mentally through life. It's good to be young and it's good to be a little crazy.
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What was the sound heard when the Big Race was over and the last rider pedaled across the finish line? Was it a cry of victory or a sigh of relief? Or was it just the wind ripping through the red plastic wrapper on the fence around the old Stadium? Despite all the rumors, there was no staged disruption of the 1969 Little 500 Weekend. The only intruders were the rain and the cold, and for some reason, all of the safety patrolmen in Bloomington weren't able to keep out those two outside agitators. The race itself wasn't as exciting as the Kentucky Derby or the Big 500, and therefore the Governor did not make the trip to the University. After the fifty-fifth lap, half of the shivering audience decided to boycott the contest without even taking a vote. After losing four million dollars in state appropriations, the University needed a few winners around just to keep up student morale. The ATO's won the bicycle race. Delgado II won the tricycle race. Comedian George Kirby won when he offered to do a benefit show to help the University through its hard times.
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Fortunately?, in the midst of the unrest and confusion of spring. there were things (An appropriate word, there wasn't much entertainment, just things) like Archie Bell and the Drells and Tony Bennett to soothe our troubled minds. What relief we felt when the Crimson football team beat the Cream 35-22, diverting our thoughts from tuition hikes to forward passes and Pasadena. And how we rejoiced when we learned that the race had not been postponed, that we would be able to sit on damp bleachers and watch 132 young men battle in the ordeal of wind and water—what better way to celebrate the bright future of our Alma Mater? Before the weekend began, we were warned by the I.U. Foundation that trouble during Little 500 could cost the University millions of dollars, and we asked ourselves: "Who would want to deprive the University of all that money?" So we behaved, and some even proved loyalty by going to the fashion show and the ice cream social. On the day of the race, some students wrote a letter to the Daily Student attacking Little 500 as an "absurd activity." But then we thought of the $15,000 in scholarship money and wondered if maybe we shouldn't have 266 Little 500's each year, so we could make up for the slash in the University budget. But who would blow up all those balloons? The campus was sick in May of 1969 and Little 500 was like a dose of castor oil. For many students it was a wonderful relief; for others it was a little hard to swallow.
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The basketball game between I.U. and Kentucky on December 12, 1969, was to have been the opening event in the Assembly Hall. However. the game was played in Kentucky as I.U. tried to prepare the new 17,000-seat arena for events by December 1, 1970. Students objected to the structure because the student fees used to build the hall could have been used for either academic programs or academic construction. Student Body President Guy Loftman during his term of office in 1967-68 was a strong opponent to the proposal. However, the Trustees unanimously approved the $12.6 million project. I.U. has legal bonding authority to construct cultural, recreational, and athletic facilities from an Indiana law passed in 1929. "It is impossible to build any building with which everyone will agree," said James Jordan, assistant to the President for University Relations, to students in the fall of 1967 questioning the Trustees' action. He might have added that it is impossible for the I.U. community to agree on campus planning activities. Of course, planning mistakes are not easily corrected. This year a new stairway in Ballantine Hall on the north side of the building was opened. The stairs go up to the fourth floor and include a new ground floor 78
entrance, which was vitally needed because much of Ballantine's traffic uses the north doors. Universities have obligations when departments receive grants from foundations. Sometimes the resulting obligations include construction of additions to buildings. For example, a science development grant from the National Science Foundation gave the physics department new men and equipment. To house the treasure, a new $1.5 million addition to Swain Hall is being built. I.U., like any other college or university, needs to make sure that accepting grants doesn't mean constant shifts in academic priorities and the University budget. Much remodeling and construction is starting in this University sesquicentennial year. A 600-car parking garage on the north side of Atwater Street between Woodlawn Avenue and Faculty Drive has been started. The Student Building now houses sequicentennial exhibits and the University Museum, and Sycamore Hall was also remodeled for additional office space. Work on the Glenn Black Laboratory of Archaeology, Hoosier Heritage Hall and the Fine Arts Pavilion will start within the year. Ideas are being formulated for the opening next winter of the Musical Arts Center. 79
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Bloomington Indiana: MUSIC CAPITAL OF THE WORLD! (per capita basis). More performances, more musicians-in-residence (per capita) than New York, London, Paris. or Vienna itself! Harold C. Schonberg begins a New York Times story: "In conservatories from Leningrad and Moscow to Juilliard, Curtis, and Indiana . . ." and he
means us! because we're big. Turn to the arts section of the Sunday Times, see a half-dozen advertisements announcing recitals by I. U. faculty artists. The Big Time Boys, and they live and teach here. Wow!!
The Bloomington university is a viable explosion of musical activity. Everything from medieval and Renaissance music to the now! sonics of Dave Baker's jazz experience. It's all an experience. Almost 600 concerts on campus a year Up to eight recitals a night. Special lectures, too. OPERA POWER!!! Symbolized by the massive, lurking hulk of the ever-growing Musical Arts Center. which will house a 1,500-seat auditorium and the second largest stage in the U.S., I.U. opera department is The opera school
of the New World. Until the new opera palace is ready, productions continue in the intimate comfort of the U-School Auditorium. Every Saturday Night. Students and faculty, working arm-in-arm, mounting masterpieces like Tosca, A Masked Ball, and The Valkyrie. THE VALKYRIE!!! One of the most difficult, stupendous works in the entire literature! And we did it! Unknown works, too, like Rossini's early Love on Trial and Handel's draft-dodging Deidamia. AND ALL IN ENGLISH!!! And all done in loving technicolor. Concerts, usually free, by those same great faculty artists who knock-out the New York City cognoscenti. Pianists like Jorge Bolet, Sidney Foster, Tong II Han, Menahem Pressler, Roman Rudnytsky, Gyorgy Sebok, Abbey Simon. The Berkshire Quartet, zipping through all 16 Beethoven string quartets. Cellist Janos Starker, who tackled the five Beethoven cello sonatas this season. Violist William Primrose. Violinist Josef Gin gold. Half the good ol' NBC Symphony, also on the faculty. And avant-garde composer Janis Xenakis, whose name inspired Paris student rebels. And so on. And too freakin' many orchestras and ensembles. Like the crack I.U. Phil-
harmonic, which, with characteristic aplomb, conquered the Mahler 5th. How many other schools can claim that??? BUT BREAK OUT OF PROVINCIALISM!!! Big big international artists hit Bloomington, adding to our all-too busy musical life. Vital. Like the witty, lively, exciting Stuttgart Ballet. The Chicago Symphony, headed by superman Georg Solti. Sviatoslav Richter or the Casadesus family. piano giants. The Zurich Chamber Orchestra. Voices like Gerard Sou-
zay and Shirley Verrett. The Pittsburgh Symphony. Preservation Hall Jazz. And many many more. For those not into classical, the pickings are much slimmer. But the IMU Pop Concerts take up some of the slack with stuff like Blood, Sweat, and Tears. Dionne Warwick, The Temptations, Jefferson Airplane. Et Cetera. Too much! Too freakin' much!!! Get high on music and never spend a dime!!! Spend some money and have an even better time!!! Just try to find time to study, in Bloomington's musical hothouse!
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A day in the life of Mark Spitz
This space was to have been reserved for an interview with Mark Spitz, telling what an unusual person he is. But, as luck would have it, Spitz is not so unusual. As a matter of fact. he's pretty much of a decent sort—not at all the way Sports Illustrated portrayed the "brash" high school youngster from Santa Clara, Calif. One important thing must be noted—Mark Spitz is not just an athlete. He doesn't spend eight hours a day in the swimming pool, screw off at night, sleep through his classes in the morning, and return to practice at Royer to start the cycle again. Pre-dent majors can't afford such frivolities. Instead, Spitz finds himself concerned about a 10:30 test (so much so that he missed our first interview session), spends roughly two and a half hours swimming (but "it all adds up to about four hours a day, when you include time for changing clothes and recovering from practice," said Mark). Spitz also has other interests and considers photography sort of "my second love." He owns a Canon FT, a 35 mm. His third love is, maybe, girls. But the Olympian finds he has no special significance in their minds. "They usually don't know who I am," Spitz says, apparently unbothered by the comparatively low amount of publicity swimmers receive. Yet, on a national scale, the name "Spitz" is magic—and to some—disappointment in his '68 Olympic showing—if you can call two "relay" gold medals "disappointing." But if people had any doubts about Mark's swimming skill. they were laid aside after the 1969 NCAA meet held in Bloomington. Spitz won three of the 18 events. Some credit might be given to Coach "Doc" Counsilman here. After all, he was the primary factor in Mark's decision to attend I.U. About Doc, Mark says, "Doc—as a person—he's the greatest.-
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Richard M. Nixon was castigated for various things during 1969, one of which seems so unimportant in comparison with poverty, racism, and war, that it almost is ludicrous to mention it here. Tricky Dick decided to award a trophy to the number one team in college football at the end of the Texas-Arkansas game in December. Consequently, he was blasted by Penn State, Missouri, and Ohio State buffs who made a national issue out of the plea that they should be topranked. What this means is that football has become an integral American institution. Richard the President has become a national symbol of the typical grandstand buff, taking his weekend football serious and his beer on tap. Thus, I.U. football arose out of the doldrums in 1967 under the guidance of John Pont to practically wipe basketball off the map. Students, once apathetic when it came to dropping by the New Stadium (why don't they get a name for it?) now flock to see the glamour boys, i.e. the Gonsos, the Isenbargers, and the Butchers, and forget about the Saturday afternoon roller derby, a once-strong competitor. But the problems which arose from the walkout of the black players are still inherent in the system, and what will happen in the new Pont era without the B-I-G backfield is still another question.
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About an hour had passed. Purdue had won, 44-21. Coach John Pont sat quietly on a table while Joseph Sutton stayed off to the side, waiting for Pont to finish with three straggling reporters in the coach's dressing room. Finally. it was all over. Pont took a last sip of Coke, then turned to President Sutton and said, "Sorry I kept you waiting, Joe." Sutton grinned, then sheepishly said, "Great, John," as the two friends embraced. It was an emotional moment. It was an emotional year It was time for reflection. On Tuesday, November 5, all 14 black football players were missing from practice. The next day ten of them decided to forego the rest of the 1969 season, five seniors their I.U. careers. A list of eight grievances was handed to the football coaches along with a statement by the black players, part of which read: "Our decision was from 14 (players) and not a few individuals who weren't getting enough playing time. The 14 of us felt as though we weren't being treated as men. This was our concern. We felt that we had to bring this to the attention of the coaching staff." Probably the one statement to be remembered from the disagreement was from John Pont. The I.U. head coach. who had recruited all 14 black players, said, "For the blacks, the grievances are real and they are deeply concerned. To them it is not imagined." However, much of the "white" campus was disillusioned by the sudden move. For the blacks it was a challenge to the system that had an adverse effect on the rest of the season. Heavily favored over Iowa and Northwestern, the Hoosiers dropped both games. They then lost to Purdue.
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But, out of the 1969 season did come John Isenbarger, a year before crippled and on crutches. "Iso" gained 1,052 yards in Big Ten competition not only to lead the conference. but to gain the second highest amount in Big Ten history. About the Muncie senior, Pont said, "Get all the superlatives you can out of the dictionary, then put them in a story about him. Someone will call and say he's not that good. Have him call me—I'll say he is." The Hoosiers were 4-6, a disappointing season for most. But the innocuousy of I.U. football is in the past with the emergence of the "individual" Pont likes to recruit. As Pont put it, "I want to thank the seniors. It all boils down to this— they've created an interest in the football program."
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Basketball It's probably too bad that I.U.'s basketball team plays on a wooden court rather than on paper. Because on the latter they are great. The team, unhampered by injuries, has 20-pointa-game scorers in Joe Cooke, Ken Johnson, Joby Wright, and Jim "Bubbles" Harris. Also, Johnson was among the top rebounders in the nation last year and Wright looked like one in the preseason. But, teams do not live on paper alone. Plagued by floor errors, a rag-tag defense, and innocuous shooting, the Hoosiers appeared on their way toward the bottom of the Big Ten for the third year in a row. With Jerry Oliver, assistant coach, taking the helm from ailing Lou Watson, the Hoosiers still could not get going—something that was prophesized when the varsity (sans McGinnis and Downing) was outclassed by the freshmen in preseason play. So, attendance has dwindled considerably in the New Fieldhouse and thoughts creep to next year when probably the finest freshman ball club in a decade takes the floor.
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The question is now "When will it end?"—I.U.'s dominance in swimming, that is. What is probably the strangest thing about it is that Indiana is the last place one would expect to find a tankful of fish. Then again, Green Bay ain't exactly the ideal spot to play football. Just take a guess at how many Hoosiers there are on I.U.'s 40-man swimming roster. 10? 15? 20? Try four. What has taken place in the United States is the greatest piece of subterfuge since Werner Von Braun decided to work for the U.S. missile program. I.U.'s James "Doc" Counsilman has raided California (Gary Hall. Mark Spitz), Illinois, Ohio, plus 11 other states, Canada, and Norway for the finest collection of swimmers in the world But swimming is not a spectator sport. It's one which I.U. students like to boast about, but not bother to see. Oh, the Michigan meet was sold out (I.U. smashed the Wolverines, 91-32), but all the other home meets draw no more than a 40-per cent crowd at Royer Pool. So, the swimmers must work in comparative anonymity until the Olympics roll around or the N.C.A.A. makes its way to Bloomington (as it did last year to sell-out crowds). But the "Doc" keeps hanging in there, trying not to embarrass Purdue (83-40) and other rivals. Just try to convince Spitz, Conelly, Baird, Southward, Hall, Horsley, Henry (the list is endless) not to.
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Some you win, some you lose... Face it. When it comes right down to the wire, the coaches are the ones who must bear the criticism in college athletics. Yet they are also first to receive the credit—and they get paid for what they do. Coaches have been under criticism lately, basically because they don't understand the "blacks." The I.U. football coaches came under fire earlier this year, yet the five underclassmen who could return for the 1970 season have. Each of them came to Coach Pont individually a few weeks after the 1969 season, expressing a desire to return to the football program. Their intention to rejoin the Hoosiers was not announced, however, until I.U. embarked on a conditioning program in mid-February. "All they said was they wanted to come back and play football," said Pont upon the blacks' return. Pont explained to each of the players that there would be no change in coaching policy, saying, "We've always coached individual football players and we will continue to do so in the future."
The head coach has stressed a one-to-one relationship between coach and player throughout his career. "We have to find out what makes them tick. Then we coach each player as we deem necessary to get him ready to help the team," said Pont. The situation in basketball is slightly different at I.U., where blacks compose the main body of the squad. So, when Lou Watson had to step down from his duties this past year because of a back ailment, it was only natural that Jerry Oliver, one-time coach from Indianapolis Washington, a mostly black high school, took over his job. But Oliver's trouble wasn't one of non-communication. It was one, rather, of lack of talent and an excellent freshman squad sitting in the background, waiting for next year. They had beaten the varsity earlier in the year, 86-84. Coach Oliver tried to stress fundamentals, especially after losing leading scorer Joe Cooke and center Mike Branaugh at the semester because of academic ineligibility. "We'll try our hardest," said Oliver, knowing the fans would eagerly heap criticism on the team, holding the '70-'71 crop with high expectations. But Coach Oliver could do virtually nothing but inspire his team to be gracious losers. A man who has had no trouble with losing is James "Doc" Counsilman, I.U. swimming coach. "Doc," a Ph.D., came to I.U. 12 years ago, and since 1961 his Hoosier teams have lost only two dual meets. The last loss was in 1966. In '68 and '69, I.U. finally broke a West Coast string to take the NCAA swim title, due mainly to Olympian Charlie Hickcox. How Doc does it is one of the modern marvels of coaching. Besides being an expert on swimming physiology, Doc is an expert on psychology. He makes his swimmers want to win—not for themselves, not for the team—but for jelly beans. 138
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Indiana University-150 years of "growth of understanding"
Words by Vicki Clark and Bob Scott Pictures by Larry Lynch
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In 1906, Burton Dorr Myers notes in his history of I.U. that he recommended to President Bryan and a meeting of department heads that the Junior prom be held in the student center. Myers recalled in 1937, "I can feel today ...the absolute silence with which my suggestion was received." Dancing at that time was considered very sinful by many churchmen. Only four or five years ago, pickets harassed the Progressive Reform Party speakers (the party was a radical-liberal student group) by parading in front of them with signs reading "Down with Communism." In the 50's the Young Socialist Alliance faced charges of subversion and attempts to overthrow the government. Those seemingly unrelated incidents offer some insights into the nature of the growth of the University. It suggests the changing nature of student priorities. It also suggests that people of the University community have been constantly engaged in enlarging their freedom of action and thought. From concern over dancing on campus students have advanced to pressing the Trustees for seven-day rather than three-day open visitation. And in spite of rhetoric, students seem more willing to accept each other's political differences as being natural and not as a question of absolute good and evil. Yippies and the Christian Scientists both have booths at the Activities Fair. Student Government sponsors the Anti-war moratoriums for the campus. Draft counselors offer legal alternatives to military service in their office in the Union Building just down the hall from the Student Committee for Victory in Vietnam. In 1897, the Arbutus carried a poem about the Spanish American War, written from an I.U. woman's point of view. She faced the prospect of the war with misgivings but valiantly sent her man off to fight. In the much more popular World War I students requested the establishment of a variety of military training programs. But no one should suggest that students today are totally unlike their predecessors. In 1895, women organized the Women's League whose purpose was "mutual helpfulness to complete the one-sided, self-centered life of the student who, buried in her books, loses sight of her splendid chance to cultivate her social being, to become interested in and alive to the persons about her." "To be alive to the persons about her"—To many students that is not merely a side issue of university life, it is the most important issue. It is the rationale that gives rise to sensitivity training, to the anti-war movement, to Women's Liberation. All of these movements (and others) are involved in understanding people both as individuals with individual needs and as members of a larger society. 143
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