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V olume nine, number one

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TheNewjournal '' Volume nine, number one M.C. Panzer Editor in Chief Jonathan M. Winer Managing Editor Robert Liechty Executive Editor Marla Schay Designer Richard Andelman Pamela Steele Photography Editors Elizabeth Perle Production Editor Joseph C.F. Lufkin Advertising Manager Corby Seth Kummer King of Hearts Contributing Editors: Ron Roel, Stuart Rohrer, David Sleeper, Steven R. Weisman, Daniel Yergin Editorial Staff: Mariko Masuoka, Rebecca Jones, Eloise Sanholtz, Joyce Evans, Susan Halpern, Ruth Sohn, Liz Hecht, Jacob Epstein, Julia Preston, Corby Seth Kummer Photography Staff: W. Wilder Knight, Dan St~mberg Production Staff: Sandy Ackerman, Rosemary Bray, Bruce Murray, Dennis Sasha, Nancy Harris, Bill Jacobs, Stephanie Lukes Advertising Representatives: Barbara Cohen, Susan Halpern , John Kalisky, . Rami , Joshua Winer Cover design: Marla Schay The Nn.~ JmmotJI is published by The New Journal 1111 Yale.lnc . •by unnsement wilb the Yak Grlldwlk Prof~ssbtal ond is printed oa Ovonicle Prinrina Co. • North KaiiCtl. CT. Distributed free 10 the Yale community. For all ochen. subocrip6on . - $10.00 per year.

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-------------conanaent____________________ Ion-A modem dialogue Amateur romantics coming home to Cambridge England thumbed a ride from a beat up MG . " Don ' t mind the equipment, ifs just a project rm working on,·· the driver said.

"Oh. ·· Climbing in carefully one romantic guessed along. ''Are you an engineer?"' " I work with engineers. We've invented a machine that generates negative ions. It gives the air around a slight negative charge and has a strange effect on the people nearby.·· "Oh yeah?"' The driver nodded to their open dgarette packs. The romantics smiled and handed one over.

"Thank you. We found that a negative charge, a small one, makes people happy. At the office, when we tum on the machine secretaries start singing, people talk to one another, everybody smiles. lfs marvelous.

"And a slight positive charge enforces depression. You find positive charges near tall buildings surrounded by concrete where tires grind in the streets. They have done studies on people who work in sky scrapers. They aren't very happy.·· "So where do you find negative ions?·· "The ideal, natural, negatively charged spot is near a waterfall or stream where water flows over rocks.·· "You mean there's a chemical reason for liking waterfalls? ..

"It's all in the ions. Germans blame all kinds of things on a hot wind called das Fohn. Surgeons won't operate, committees won't meet , the crime rate goes up and suicides increase . That wind you see is full of positive ions.

The same wind in Africa is called the Sirocco. But we·ve got the cure, the Happy Box , a negative ion generator.·· .. and if you're feeling depressed-·· " But it's not perfected. That will take a lot of time and money ... ·· Missy Panzer claims this conversation really took place.

content~--------------------comment: an encounter, a ballad, a fable and a Beauty Contest

3 Fear and Loathing at the Yale Co-op why the workers at the store next door almost didn't work

Rebecca McCormick Dennis Shasha

6 The Toll Road To Total Freedom Nancy Harris Scientology: a.n awe inspiring act of creation that makes J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy Look like frozen food 12 one on one: short and to the point (as always); books.a movie, a poem.

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Wily George turns to his tunnel of night, His broad shoulders betray him no He 's the wizard renown, fright.

He knows life unsidedown.

He· s the Magi who in darkness sees light.

Nearing end Muse, but carry this note.

Tie these lyrics as a wheel of ten spokes.

I know George is rough, But remove biting guff, Which stabs beauty so strange and remote.

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Mail/fee mail The ballad of George True art which all minstrals mutter Finds gold inspiration in the gutter.

The Muse called Garbagia, Sotted drunk 's Beatrichia, Gives sparks to the words that I utter. o·er high thoughts my brain box has run, O ;.:!r the infinite like rays in the sun.

Yet it's no weary boast, To offer a toast, To George the magnificent Egg-man.

George served eggs in the college of Trumbell, Kept room in Calhoun, a large double.

But when stars cut the night, He was gone out of sight, J.le·s a rumble who funnels steam tunnels.

Twas love he could find underground, A love in the crisp air not found.

A love mightily blest, A love fonned in the quest, Of a sound sodden dank tunnel round.

An ideal , say some, must be pure; For pedestrians it's a Ford quite sure.

And Epicurians remark, A full banquet' s their ark; Dull bOors don't give grunts o·er their lure.

And George, well you know his pleasure.

Tis true it's a rather queer measure. ·· res not much, .. says he, Yet we·re all pleased to see, He's found substance in platonic treasure. .. Tis a rub,"· adds he, "by my grace, r· ve been scattered and bothered and By blue-suited guards, chased, Those flat-forehead nards: The distain, low cripples, of our race.

By my tup, aren't those words tOQ harsh? " Bless my gall, guess my temper wains Tis a pity to VJatch, sparse.

As they snap to the latch.

Damn them all , they bum red my arse.

''I'd like a new post office box, please,·· said Albert the postaphiliac as he took out the five dollars now necessary to support a junk habit he once satisfied for free. The money had been hard to come by, true, but Albert knew that very soon he would be receiving anew those familiar offers from magazines, catalogues, charities, and religious organizations, those bills from the local co-operative store and the telephone company, but most of all, those batches of gushing sentiment and practical hints on housekeeping that made up the voluminous letters of his most dearly beloved Allison.

Allison's letters were to the average letter what Niagra is to a leaky faucet.

She was brimming with words, sentences, paragraphs, histories, epics.

Once she took a roll of toilet paper and wrote on the entire length of it and mailed it. It took Albert amost a month to finish it.

But her messages had always made Albert happy and that was what counted,. not the number of words it took to do so.

So Albert laid down the money for the post office box and waited for the usual two to three day delay as he always had in the past. By the third day he was in agony, but finaJiy two letters came in. He ripped them open.

The first was made up to look like a telegram. It said, "You may have already won $1 0,000, · · and went on from there. Albert threw it away. He wasn't in the mood. The second one was pink. ''Thank god,·· he said. " It must be Allison ... But the letter was short, covering barely half of one page. " Dear Harold,·· it read. Tve been thinking an awful lot about what you said to me, and l"ve decided that you·re absolutely right about virginity and I'm sorry I put up such a fuss at the beach house, but really you weren ·r going about it very well. I hope you do better next time. Willingly yours, Bertha.·· "My name's not Harold;· Albert thought. "But who's Bertha? .. A (continued on page 15)

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Fear and Loathing at the Yale Co-op

by Rebecca McCormick and Dennis Shasha leases-made with three different nonYale landlords- which would expire in 1977 . At this time, Yale was having trouble finding tenants for the commerThe strike was set for Wednesday. cial space in the Stiles-Morse complex, On Tuesday, September 2, students and offered it to the Co-op. The lease jammed the Yale Co-op, eage~ to buy on the store property provides the only books without having to cross picket official connection between the Co-op lines. The stri~ke never took place, but and the university . last minute neg()(iations preventing its Still, the Co-op has always had a occurence culminated a series of events deep-seated spiritual connection with that effected a major change on the Yale, extending even to a Harvard-Yale structure of the store. rivalry. A 1960 Co-op newsletter Low patronage refunds, Co-op board defended the relatively small size of reorganization, and board member disYale's Co-op compared with Harvard's satisfaction with Willoughly, general by saying: "The membership of the manager of the Co-op, falling in rapid Haarvard Coop is large, but the average s uccession, have upset the store adminHarvard man is more reckless in istration 's stability . A multitude of expenditure than the average Yale .employee grievances set the stage for man ... " and created a union which was ready to The Co-op board appointed Charles call a strike four months after Willoughby to his post in 1951 . This being chartered. The Co-op's turbulent board in theory is the chief decisionrecent history is uniquely uncharactermaker of the enterprise, and represents istic of the store's past. the interests of al l Co-op members. (i.e. students, faculty , and non-faculty Yale The Co-op, originally the Yale staff, currently about 20,000 in all). But Cooperative Association, was incorduring most of the time since porated in I 892 with headquarters in Willoughby's appointment, the Co-op Connecticut Hall. By purchasing memboard did neither. Until the late 60's, bership, people in the Yale community became eligible for lower prices on the board rubber-stamped Wilbasic supplies. In the period from 1892 loughby 's decisions, according to some to 1929, the store moved from present board members.

Connecticut Hall to High Street, to Elm Comprised mostly of Yale faculty and Street, and finaJiy to York Street. But in alumni, the board became something of the early 1950's, Co-op management an old Blue fraternity. It met three times was concerned about its York Street a year at Mory 's and accomplished

little. Students joined the board by nomination and remained through their college years. The board reserved the right to take them on or to appoint other "representatives .. as it chose.

In the early 60's, a special action of the board disallowed even these nominations. The rationale for this procedure seems to have been that the store was doing well , and there was no reason for non-managers to intrude with its management.

Willoughby's background might also have had something to do with the board 's behavior. Willoughby graduated from Yale in 1945, an undergraduate football star and a member of the then pres tigious St. Anthony Hall. After ending military service as a 1st Lieutenant, he joined Macy's training program, coming to the Co-op soon after.

Nevertheless, the halcyon days ended in the late 1960's when for a variety of reasons the Co-op's fortune took a tum for the worse. For instance, the May Day demonstrations and early student exodus left the Co-op with a month· s surplus student-oriented inventory.

In 1969, money returned to members as their patronage refund was $329,000; in 1971,$63,000. Recognizing a need for reform in the store's administrative procedures, elements within the board convinced the other members that board membership should be determined by elections; the first was held in 1973.

per year, while a small circle of management figures, Mr. Willoughby included, make salaries ran~ng from $20,000 to $35,000 a year. That such a discrepancy in pay should exist in a store that calls itself a co-op is abominable. ' • Wages were only part of the picture.

Some employees felt frustrated because, in the words of Wieben , the Co-op was " an inefficient , badly run operation," lacking a clear, coherent policy. " You really couldn't find out what the poli~y was • • said Susan Wong, now recording secr~tary of the union, because it varied " from department to department, from s upervisor to supervisor." Because there were too many supervisors for the number of employees, a worker could be reprimanded for incorrectly following a procedure that had never been sufficiently explained.

Related to this was the lack of a clear and impartial policy of promotion. ·'People would work for years and years ... and never get promo~ ." Wong explained, ··and then they ' d bring in someone from the outside.' ' Some employees claimed that there was . . deliberate discrimination on the bas1s of race and sex. According to the Co-op workers' newsletter. ''In the course book department, only women are hired for office worlc and only men are hired

for floor work. In reality ·these jobs may overlap quite a bit ... but the significant thing here is that women are paid less than men in this department due to rather arbitrary classifications ... In general, manageme!lt jobs were limited lO white men, while the majority of the employees were women of diverse ethnic origins.

Another central cause of discontent was the lack of job security and a grievance procedure. As long as there was no way to express complaints without fear of reprisals, workers felt , no changes could be make. 1be Yale students who formed the Yale Committee to Suppon the Co-op Workers group in February 1975 agreed: "What worker is going to push a grievance too hard in the face of management's unlimited right to fire her and replace her with one of New Haven's numerous unemployed?''

The union drive began when a group of workers, meeting infonnally at each other's homes, decided to ask the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (AFL-CIO) to help them build a union at the Yale Co-op. The umon, one of the two that organJZe retail clerks, sent Lany Magarik, a fuJI-time ACW A organizer, to advise the workers. The initial diffkulties were substantial. Many workers were apa-

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In November 1974 some employees at the Yale Co-op decided to or~anize a union local. GraduaJly their grievences had accumulated. Dissatisfaction centered around issues such as wages, supervisory policy. job classification and promotion, a grievence procedure and job security.

Wages at the Co-op were low , ranging from $2.15 to $4.40 per hour, according to Jan Wi~ben , now Vice-President of the union local. Approximately 60 out of the 150 employees earned less than $2.25 per hour. Cashiers and maintenance personel were the lowest. paid employees, and tended to be part-time or unskilled workers. But more experienced employees in higher positions frequently earned little moreas in the case of Helen Migliore, now President of the union local , who was earning $2.40 per hour after three years.

Dissatisfaction over wages was reinforced by the disparity between the salaries of an average employee and a supervisor·or manager. Jan Wieben wrote, in a letter to the Yale Daily News, " The vast majority of the workers make around and under $5,000

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which, besides generating far more paper work, has forced the Co-op to finance its customers during the weeks before being paid, without compensation. Third, the Co-op counted on two new colleges to support its expanded faci lities but these never materialized. · Interestingly, the Co-Op makes money on items that it sells as a department store, and loses money in services to members. For example, in 1973-74, the Co-op lost $100,000 on books, $40,000 on records, stationary, room fittings and related items and earned $209 ,000 on the store's top floor where it sells clothes, sports equipment, umbrellas and the like. Members generally buy That does not seem to have changed . books, records, stationary and so on, Most employees whom we talked to not top floor items. These figures said that they hadn"t seen Willoughby suggest that the store is run for its for a few months . His office is topomembers and supported by outsiders, graphically the highest in the Co-op, who receive no patronage refund for the located on the top of a two floor 60% of sales that they generate. stairway, giving some the impression Course books are the Co-op's biggest that he wants to place himself as far as money losers. Since pre-registration is possible from the general flow of the no longer required, the Co-op orders store' s employees. books by professor·s estimates. They However, some of the economic tend to overorder and the Co-op must problems of the Co-op are outside the then return surplus books.

Co-op's control. One is the general In 1973, for example, the Co-op economic condition of the country. purchased $900,000 worth of books Another is that since the "Fairness in before the fall semester and subsequentLending .. law, the store may no longer ly found a $300,000 surplus. On those give different patronage refund rates for books, the Co-op had to pay the freight people who charge their puiChases and both ways and, in some cases, to pay for those who pay cash. This has led to • the publishers for the privilege of returning the books. a much larger use of charge cards , The size of the board was reduced from

thirty to fifteen. For the first time, students were permitted to become members of the executive committee where most of the Board's decisions are made.

Current board members admit that after the onset of economic difficulties, some board members wanted to dismiss Willoughby. They noted that while the store's sales had increased six-fold since his appointment, the dollar value of the patronage refund remained the same or even decreased. Also, Willoughby did not have a reputation for mixing well with his employees.

The issue which most antagonized some members of the board to Willoughby was the Co-op's expansion.

They didn't believe the projections he made justified the move and until now they have been right. Although Co-op East generates slightly more than half of <he store's sales, its contribution to the store's profits is minimal. Moreover, the expansion into Co-op East costs the

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Co-op between 9. 75% and 13% annually in interest charges on the $200,000 loan which financed the expansion.

Although no one seems to have made an issue of it, some current bOard members note that t:1e Co-op has more supervisory people than it needs.

Wellsley Arnold, the Co-op's controller, affirms that there are approximately 30 (continued on page 14)

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The ACWA then asked the Co-op Corporation to recognize its status by OleaOS of a card check through an impartial third party. The Co-op refused, judging that it did not "believe that a majority of our employees would wish ~our union to represent them. ·' Many Board members felt that an election by secret ballot would be the most equitable way to decide the issue.

Union leaders later judged that ''a card-check recognition would have avoided the division, bitterness, disruption and delay of a typical management anti-union campaign . " Following this refusal, the ACWA petitioned the National Labor Relations Board, (NLRB) for a representative e lection, while the two parties agreed on the 6th of March as the election date.

Workers, union supporters and members of the Yale support group, during the period prior to the elections, held management responsible for a deliberate anti-union campaign. "We had 'captiv!! aud ience' meetings where the anti-union people would come to the fore and fire questions at us,·· one worker said.

Another referred to anti-union propaganda passed out and displayed on bulletin boards at the Co-op: "It was three pages of misleading questions like, 'Would you lose your personal freedom?" ' A third recalls, "People were told various things. One woman was told she surely would be fired if she joined the union. We never brought any cases, but we had a Jot of small instances that together made it like . . . we weren ' t proceeding completely freely. ·· This view was supported by the students in the YCSCW who observed conditions at the Co-op and wrote: "' We have found that discussions among workers have come to be conducted in a climate of fear . Employees have been

denied rightful benefits once management suspected their union sympathies.

Some have been followed to lunch, others have had their conversations eavesdropped, their jobs threatened.

Meanwhile, management has never informed employees of their legal right to a union.·· Many workers believed that these tactics were determined by guidelines presented to the board by the head of the Corporate Relations Committee , Georgia Nelson, in the presence of members of the YCSCW. Robert Sarason, member of the group, explained that the guidelines, which closely resembled those of an earlier campaign to oppose the unionization of Yale University employees, were basicaJJy a list of do's and don'ts in dealing with unions, and specified actions such as the "captive audience .. meetings complained of by some Co-op workers. Sarason went on to say that Georgia Nelson had "informed the board while the YCSCW was there that she had conferred with Leonard Marcus (Director of Employee Relations at Yale). When asked about this at the meeting she said that it was purely an advisory role and Leonard Marcus had no direct involvement. '' This brings up the question of the ties between the management of the Yale Co-op and Yale University, specifically in terms of the alleged anti-union drive .

Sarason told us that Larry Magar.ik, the union organizer, said that a closed meeting between Marcus and Willoughby had taken place, but stressed there is no proof of any formal or official connection between the University and the Co-op. Rather, he, along with the Co-op workers we talked with, emphasises the unofficial, informal links between the two: "Five members of the university administration , top, heavy administrative types, including the budget director, are on the Co-op Board. Also, in the bylaws of the Yale Co-op, it ways that if the Co-op goes out of business, its money will go to the university. We found it very interesting that Yale University was going to be the recipient and not the members or some other charitable organization . " It is largely because of this link , official or no, between the Yale Co-op and the Yale community, that the action of Yale students in the YCSCW and the Yale religious ministry had an effect.

The campus ministry issued a statement during the election campaign supporting the workers· right to a union. The student group initiated a number of actions during this period, which included a picket of a Board meeting on the 4th of February. and an appeal to the board to insure that the workers would not be intimidated .

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by Nancy Harris

1948-Pacific. A Japanese shell penetrates the hull of the Navy destroyer and explodes within four feet of Commander L. Ron Hubbard. He receives injuries for which he is officially pronounced dead over an eight minute period. Shell shocked, blind and paralyzed, he perfects the principles of what will become Scientology while miraculously effecting his own self-cure.

1975-New Haven. A small suite above the Church St. MacDonalds. A pleasant smi lin~ ~irl iumos to offer the guest book. The wall behind her is papered with hand scrawled "Success Stories.·· On the facing walt, near hts portratt in a yachtmg cap, hangs correspondence from Hubbard himself. He sends his congratulations to the newborn New Haven mission and teases, " have you pulled in any Yale boys yet?"

A world map bristles with pins designating the 40 major churches and 200 missions. Six people sit facing a blackboard in a crowded cubic le and listen to the free introductory lecture.

A bookseller aJ the N.Y. GJUJrdian' s office peddles the most basic of forty odd volumes.

Dianetics is the book thaJ most Scientologists claim revolutionized their lives.

N. Y .C., Martinique Hotel. An air of commerciality drapes the bleak and bustling second floor home of the Guardian·s Office, the main nerve of the New York operation. Eager receptionists hover around newcomers. Their smiles fade with suspicion at the sight of cameras. There are no photographs, no interviews granted by a scientologist without the OK from the Guardian's Office.

Scattered students of Scientology remain in the Academy during the lunch break , hunched in pairs over black consoles called E-meters. One clutches two tin cans, the other monitors the E-meter"s sweeping needle as his partner responds to questions about his headache. On long tables, little clay figures squat like bizarre Mayan idols, enigmaticaJiy labelled ''table,"· "chair, .. "reactive mind ,·· " Man becoming free.·· Uptown, New York. A chicly dressed twenty-ish crowd with name tags tacked to Diors circulates at a Celebrity Center party . The e lectric bass and stamping feet from the band upstairs filter down to the thickly carpeted office of the director. This is one of the two Scientology centers designed for special treatment of the elite. Stunning, elegant and poised, the directress turns to us. "I tried psychology , group gropes, primal scream, TM, Yoga, mind control, the academic route, ancient philosophers, the Bible, Christianity and drugs.

Scientology takes you further."

Such is Scientology today. The posters have invaded New Haven. They won "t harangue you, like Sun Myung Moon ·s disciples. Scientologists will tell you Scientology isn "t for everybody, only for those able to take the detailed path toward ful I personal realization and spiritual development-and who are willing to pay the $5,000 it costs to get there.

Run as a tightly organized, self-perpetuating, lucrative bureaucracy, the group has sustained accusations of racketeerism as well as quackery. Yet Scientology is expanding more rapidly than any other of the " modem" religions, claiming 10 million active members worldwide. And despite their reputation of hostile anti-press paranoia, most Scientologists interviewed, especially those who had reached higher levels of spiritual training, seemed, if naively unquestioning, intelligent, alert, cheerful, and embarrassingly cooperative. They believe.

In the church's rocky 25 year history , members of the group have been banned from England because, said British authorities, " The cult poses a potential menace to the well-being of its followers."· Scientologists have attempted to seek positions in Britain's NationaJ Association of Mental Health, have fought for ten years in U.S. courts against the t-ood and Drug Administration, and now continue to wage war against the AMA and psychiatric institutions, the CIA and Interpol , who condemn them as charljltans.

To understand Scientology, one must be familiar with Dianetics-"discovered" in 1948 by Lafayette Ronald Hubbard. In his 400 page best-seller, Dianetics, The Modern Science of Mental H~alth , Hubbard outlines his "science of the mind, ·· and claims "the hidden source of all psychosomatic ill and human aberration has been discovered and skills have been developed for their invariable cure.·· The basic principle of Dianetics is this: man is good. Our infinite potential, however, has been obscured by the accumulation of hidden injuries. Man has two minds, the analytical mind, a conscious center of awareness and identity; and the reactive mind, a repository of painful experiences. The analytical mind is an infallible computer which runs constantly, receiving and analyzing data, until the organism is knocked unconscious. Then the reactive mind comes

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Therapy begins as the aberree holds a pair of tin out to play. According to Hubbard's teachings, "If ever there were a devil, he designed the reactive mind, cans attached to an E-meter. The auditor, a trained the single source of all neuroses, psychoses, insanities, professional, asks the aberree a set of standard prescribed questions. The E-meter measures changes in war and psychosomatic illnesses.·· When our analytical minds are on the blink, the reactive mind, a electrical skin ·resistance, much like a simple lie moronic tape recorder of each perception connected detector. Scientologists describe the meter as a with the traumatic event, becomes a storehouse of "space-age confessional aid, a sensitive electronic ·'pain and painful emotion·· that is resubmerged when instrument designed to reflect, mirror-like, the Spirit's consciousness is regained. These recordings are -hidden tensional wounds and encumbrances.'' Accortermed, in the Scientological argot, as engrams: the ding to Dianetic theory, mental thought -has electrical permanent trace left by a stimulus on the protoplasm . charge . Release of painful experience discharges It remains in our reactive bank as recorded pictures jagged bolts of electricity, causing the E-meter needle just below our awareness. to twitch violently. Areas of painful emotion, literally, The following is a typical example, taken from "emotionally charged," are detected quickly by the Dianetics, of how the engram affects our lives: E-meter, and the needle will float free in easy strokes A woman is knocked down by a blow, when the engram has finally been released. Release of rendered unconscious. She.is kicked and an engram has been described by scientologists as a told she is a faker, that she is no good, that sensation of vast relief, often accompanied by she is always changing her mind. A chair is uncontrollable laughter. overturned ... a faucet is running in the kitchen...

The religion of Scientology expands dianetic The engram would contain every possible perception principles to deal with man as a "being· ' or spiritual occurring without her knowledge during unconscious agent, whose optimum expression is infinite creativity, ness. In the react1ve mmd: · · ability and awareness. This realized being is called a the pain of the kick equals the pain of the " thetan, · · who, at the highest possible disclosed level blow equals the overturning chair equals has transcended not only his matter, energy, the passing car equals the faucet... space-time body, but has full control of this life and Later, this engram may be " keyed-in .. by any one or all previous ones as well. He has unlimited capacity combination of the above actions, activating the · for accomplishment now that the theta blocking_ engram and resulting in inexplicable pain or neurosis. limitations have been removed.

Hubbard claims he fell into the intriguing notion of In the case of this woman, while running the faucet she may hear a passing car, and will suddenly develop past lives accidently, through extensive empirical stomach pains and the sensation that she is no good. experimentation. During dianetic counselling he Even if a person has never been unconscious, noticed that recollections of birth and pre-natal knocked-out, blacked out, or under amnesia (sleep engrams did not produce relief in some patients . A does not count), he may still have a rich bank man's throat pain persisted. In exasperation, Hubbard of engrams. Do not forget the womb. According to asked, " Well , do you remember something earlier? ..

Hubbard, it is a turbulent place. From the moment of the man screamed "Yes! yes! .. He described a throat conception , our cells are capable of recording attack by a tiger in the year 8 B.C. Scientologists toy engrams, even though the embryo hasn't the slightest with the theory that maladies like arthritis may be approximation of a nervous system. Pre-natal engrams compounded injury to one part of the body over many are easily acquired: " Mama sneezes, baby gets lifetimes. knocked ' unconscious.· Mama runs lightly into a table Even beginners have vivid past life recall. "The and baby gets its head shoved in. Mama has mind is composed of a series of uneraseable pictures, constipation and baby, in the anxious effort, gets explains one woman, making a model with thumbtacks squashed. Papa becomes passionate, and baby has the and paper clips (a dianetic technique towards sensation of being put into a running washing machine. understanding abstract concepts). "Past lives can be a Mama gets hysterical, baby gets an engram. Papa hits very delicate subject. To be laughed at could cause an Mama, baby gets an engram ... ·· adverse effect.·· However, she wouldn't mind In his dianetic examples, when Hubbard's women divulging her experience as an American Indian , are not the frequent objects of beating, especially because she "really dug it.·· She also rememben; when pregnant , they are attempting abortions with sliding out of the birth canal, and being blinded by kni!!in~ needl_es: . . . lights. Another scientologist relates running into It_ IS a scientific fa~t that ~rtion attem_pts are the Napoleon, Christ and Moses in other lives. Hubbard most Important ~act?r m aberratl?n. The child on . pinpointed his person and place for every lifetime and whom the abortton IS attempted IS condemned to hve then led an archeological expedition to uncover his with people ~e reactively knows to be_ murden:rs ... A then undiscovered Greek home towns. Those at the large proport1on of allegedly. feeble-mmded children h.1ghes t 1eve1 m · Sc1en · to 1ogy, OT VII (operat.mg the tan, hose bort1on cases, w are actually attempted a engrams bo . . .

7 1eves 1 a ve c 1ear) have ..w hoi e trac k re 1ease, •• placed them m fear, paralys1s or regress1ve led d f · " B ·· palsy ... How many billions are spent on institutions for know ge an co~~1 0 every exls~enc~. u~, _ the insane and criminal because of attempted abortion says one VII, m _te~s of the big picture, It done by some sex-blocked mother to whom children ~comes !nconsequenhal.

Labeled clay models are the Scientologist' s tool for · · · · f · Accordmg to one OT VII there may be as many as are a curse ... phys1olog1cal exam mat JOn o anyone w1th ., d. d ha H bb d h • d reed conceptualizing abstractions and hurdling the ··bar· . . ·' 5 un ISC1ose new 1eve1s t t u ar asn t ec such a blockage w1ll demonstrate a phys1cal both bee the • · d r ., . and riers to learning.'' · land .. yet, ause y re not rea y .or unve1 mg de rangement o f t he gemta11a or g s... be .. . • he " c tJ th a1· · · cause 1t s too 1one1y at t top. urren y ere .

W 1thout re 1zmg 1t, these engrams accumu1ate.

• , . th U S d d th d 1 4 000 · 1 ed b he · h .. be , • are , c ears m e . . an un er a ousan R estlmu at y t env1ronment, t ey a rrate our OT VII' ld ·de behavior, mind and body. Eyeglasses and the common s wor WI · cold are as much the mark of the aberree as violent Courses, the backbone of the religion, are taught in schizophrenia. Any individual , however, may free designated academies. One in southern California is themselves of engrams to become a "clear," enjoying actually accredited. An initiate goes at his own speed greater health and higher I.Q. through a packet of books and materials, his progress

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is self-monitored by a check sheet. People study in pairs to reinforce the concepts before the final test.

100% is the only passing grade.

Scientology requires assimilation of hundreds of pages of complicated philosophy and speciaJized jargon . For maximum absorbtion, Hubbard devised techniques to overcome "barriers in learning.·· The first barrier is "lack of mass ..- a confusing abstraction of subject matter that brings on physical pain, pressure and t.eadache while studying. Students must work out aJl new concepts in clay, creating "mental pictures with ' mass.·· They are aJso aided by demo kits, collections of paper clips and erasers, to physically grapple with new concepts. The most emphasized study block IS the m1sunders.t00d word. This poses a very real danger in the daily life of Scientologists. Many of those interviewed occasionally referred to a dictionary during the course of normaJ conversation.

Scientology claims to enhance any world religion.

Ministers, who wear roman collars, dispense dianetic theory and therapy rather than ritual. What then, puts the church in the church of Scientology? Aside from its tax exempt status, granted by a United States district court in l972, acknowledging the cult ac; a religious institution, the church comes from the traditional meaning of the word religion as "wisdom.·· Scientology (scio: to know, logos; thought- the art of knowing how to know) is described as a "pan-denominational applied religious philosophy which contains a remarkable system of effective · techniques . . . ·· It· s hard to separate the rei igion from the organization.

They feed on each other. Everything in Scientology has been explicitly diagrammed by Hubbard. The administrative strengths and financiaJ success of the missions hinges on what Scientologists refer to as the ··org Board.·· The Guardian's office sports an Org Board easily the size of a door, compactly plastered

with all the officiaJ titles of every staff position, from book packer to director. There are seven divisions, twenty-one departments, all spiraling stepwise up to source: L. Ron Hubbard. Many scientologists remarked that "if the New York City government had an Org Board there would be no more confusio n.·· Spiritual growth is attain~d in two channels, one of which is the processing route, where the devotee actually takes courses in an academy and works toward clear. One can also train to become an a~ditor, a skill which is valuable to the church. Students can finance courses while under contract to the church. A certain number of work hours pays for their training.

Breaking the contract incurs a $5000 penalty. Salarie!> are based on productivity and training experience to prevent "high officials soaking the underlings,·· says Joyce Gaines, Assistant Director of Public Relations at the New York Guardian·s office.

Scientology aims to build a civilization without criminaJity, insanity or war. Decreasing the number of severely aberrated persons involves special programs oriented towards aJcohol and drug abusers. Narconon, a nationaJly instituted drug program for the purpose of prevention of drug abuse, related criminaJity and rehabilitation, uses dianetic communication techniques.

They boast 85 percent success with prison graduates remaining trouble free, at least during parole period.

Except for a defamatory report, written by the head of the California Department of HeaJth, the program has been recognized as socially beneficial by several towns in California and Louisiana, and Mayor Moon Landrieu of New Orleans declared a "Narconon Week" last January.

The first Dynamic principle of existence is : SurvivaL And the church has managed fairly well to metamorphose any public threats to their survival into speciaJ investigation projects and Jaw suits. In recent years, Scientology has filed over one hundred libel suits here and in England against AMA, Fairchild Publications, Delacorte Press, Washington Post,

The E-mDI!r is the crux of Diant!tic therapy. Operating liu a simp~ lie-detector, say the £-meter helps detect engrams, hidden mental recordings of pain, and aid in their physical release. Before auditing, those with serious physical illness must first consult a mLdical doctor, but headaches and colds have been known to disappear during an auditing session .

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And just who is L. Ron Hubbard? He should be recognized as an undisputed expert on the art of bureaucracy and closed systems. Starting with Dianetics, he has published over five million words on the s ubject in over forty titles. T his includes a 577 page dictionary 9f specialized terms, as well as a $300 set, Organization Executive Course. World operations are handled from his 320 foot yacht, Apollo, in the middle of the Medite rranean.

Even if half the stories about him were taJse, he would still remain one of the fascinating .characters of modem society. Born Lafayette Ronald Hubbard in Tilden Nebraska, 1911 his first claim to fame was his ability to ride horse-back before he could walk. He has some engineering background a nd holds a PhD from the now defunc t Sequoia University in California.

Twice Hubbard was pronounced dead, though he has apparently refused to believe it. Ouring World War II he served in the navy, and is allegedly the direct inspiration for the character Mister Roberts. He is also the first person to release mankind's "granddaddy engram,·· inc urred by the human race .. many, many centuries ago, probably in the form of a supersonic shot in the forehead, chest and stomach , incapacitating and reduc ing the s ize and function of the pineal gland.·· Hubbard supports his multimillionaire status on royalties and family inheritance. He gets no money from the church, and in fact, loaned the Organization 13 million dollars of his own. 10 percent of Scientology's intake goes to the mother church in England and the rest is held in a reserve account.

His written output is prodigious. Bes ides the five million words on Scientology, (many written at lightening pace on a special typewriter with keys for small words) he has chumed out over 15 million Holding two tin electrodes. 1M aberree faces his words of science fiction , screenplays, fiction and auditor, a trained professional, who monitors his westerns. He is a certified contributor to over 90 responses on tM E-meter. national magazines under pennames: Rene Lafayette, London Sunday Times, two members of British Tom Esterbrook, El Ron, Captain B .A. Northrup, Parliament, Tower Publis hing, and Dell Publishing.

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When questioned about Scientology's plethora of He has also been an explorer, undertaking an law suits, Gaines' voice, usually soft and helpful , Alaskan and Caribbean expedition unde r the flag of acqu ired a hard edge. " I wouldn't be averse to suin_g New York Explorers club, and a third expedition in for libel. We're the most ethical organization I know 1966 to study Mediterranean archeology. Before of and I would get mad if somebody deliberately tried the age of twenty four, he worked as a radio crooner, to tum folks away.'· newspaper reporter gold miner a nd movie director. He In a n exclusive interview in Freedom, a magazine was a stunt pilot. ''Whenever two or three pilots are published by the Churc h , Hubbard stated: "Violent attack makes the subject that is under attack KNOWN . gathered together around," records an aviation magazine, " ... you'll probably hear the name of Ron I have learned that whenever Scientology has been Hubbard mentioned, accompanied by s uch adjectives anacked in the past, its growth rate ha.' accelerated.·· The medical claims of Scientology are under fire by as 'crazy,' 'wild' and 'dizzy.' The flaming haired pilot hit the city like a tornado a few years ago and made both medical and psychiatric institutions for women scream, and strong men weep by his aerial .. flirting with tragedy by putting relatively untrained antics. He just dared the ground to come up and get counselors behind E-meters and encouraging them to him ." delve into the unconscious of idealistic recruits. " In Hubbard claims to have begun definitive research retaliation, the Scientologists have leveled charges of into bas ic axioms of dianetics in 1938, though some health racketeerism and attempt to link mental believe it was act ually in 1947, the time of his injury. programs to Facsism and Communism. Headlines for He published Dianetics in 1950, and founded the the last half year of Freedom have dealt, almost c hurc h of Scientology in 1952. Another book was exclusively, with psychiatric ethics, focusing on the published at this time, though its release was withheld. atrocities of shock treatment, lobotomy, illegal According to the story in the July 1952 issue of incarceration . S tories claim to have uncovered Science Fiction Advertiser.. Hubbard related that he evidence of illegal LSD use by psychiatric institutes had been pronounced dead for ei~ht minutes after his and evidence that actress Frances Farmer was navy inJury, a nd during that time, ''received a ··experimented on in a state mental hospital in the tremendous inspiration, a great Message" which he 1940's." must impart to others ... He sat at his typewriter for s ix In the same Freedom interview, Hubbard responds aays ana mgnls ana nommg carne out-then Excaliber to psychiatry: ·'Psychiatry has been dying for many e merged. Excaliber contains the basic metaphysical years. It has become a lost cause. Its credibility was secrets of the universe. Dianetics is based on one blown by its very poor results , its exorbitant prices c hapter of Excaliber:• and its fasci st tactics used atainst any individual or " Whe n four of the first fifteen people who read group w ho dared to compete in this field. In 1950 I E.xcaliber went in sane," says the Science Fiction Advertiser, " Mr. Hubbard withdrew it and place it in was astounded at the barbaric means used in a vault where it remains until now. Copies are released psychiatry in the name of "help'" and "healing .. only o n sworn statement to not permit other readers to which were more Dark Age brutality than was read it. It contains data not to be rele:~c:ed during._Mr. associated with b lood letting."

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Church Disciples Helen Gettman is a blond stylish English woman in her early 40's. She is an OT VII and the executive director of the penthouse West End Avenue Mission .

She started Scientology in 1966 though she had heard of it 4 years before but "wouldn't touch it because I had confused it with psychiatry.'' Previously she worked as a secretary, florist, and a poodle clipper.

Her mother exckli~Md, •'Oh no, not so~Mthing else!:'

Helen Geltman Miss Simpson, like many Scientologists interviewed' turned on to Scientology after reading Dianetics. She found that the book answered all her questions: •'Why can't I expand? Why can't I have a successful relationship with a man? Why is there war? What is cancer? Why do I have a college education and end up r.s a typist? Why has God never helped?"

As an OT VII, Miss Simpson has discovered the reasons the ••self' does not always operate at optimum capacity, explaining that "Scientology only removes that which is suppressive to your own expansion, then there is no limit to what can be done . Acccmplish~Mnt is infinite. It differs from mysticism in having an actual technology."

Tom Descher, for~Mr rock musician, current Celebrity Center official, commented that the levels had appealed to him, the fact that there was a step-by-step approach to Nirvana. "/ had goals," he continued, " I knew I was looking for freedom and ability, and I knew it was attainable but I didn't know how to get there from where I was. I was very skeptical about the whole thing , then the counselor told me I didn' t have to believe any of it. That's what sold 1M.'' Luis Sroybnik, successful president of two flourishing chemical firms, could have retired wealthy at age fifty. After half a century he wanted to examine his goals and decide on the next step. Excited by the preliminary courses, he applied for Flag, the program on Hubbard's yacht, took a mini-student course, and as a result, decided he didn't want to retire and would instead devote the principles of Scientological organization to running his firm . He hasn't quite yet instituted an Org board, but now he ·'picks people for their enthusiasm .·· " I felt fulfilled and physically able before Scientology, but I just felt like doing more. I wasn't frustrated but/ didn' t know what else to do. Now, I keep on wondering how much better can I feel?''

Joyce Gaines is a grade 0 class I auditor as well as working at the Guardian ' s offlCe. She used to be a chemical engineering major at Villanova . By her senior year, her life had dissolved. "/felt totally lost. my body was destroyed by four years of drugs, I was miserable, unhappy.'· A friend turned her on to the Dianetics and now it is her life. She is a mother and holds a position of tremendous responsibility within the organization. "I feel/ can crMte the type of life I want, I've got self-confidence and trust."

Darby Simpson concludes. ' 'Scientology is not for everybody. We are not interested in the lower echelons. Dianetics is a present to those who arealready making it and want to know if there is something else going on. It's to make the able more able," she cast a quick glance. •'Able doesn't ~Man more successful. Look it up in the dictionary, able means wanting to handle problems. Success, well, success is defined by th~ standards of society... ••

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lJut now her mother is also a scientologtst. Geltman fondly kisses her three year old boy. explaining that she underwent special processing during her pregnancy, and that now motherhood contains no shouting or yelling, "/was much too severely aberrated to have a child previously." Marlcie is already a ~Mmber of the church, having given his consent at the age of 2 1/2. Nonverbal processing can include pets as well as toddlers, and Mrs . Geltman has processed her poodle. She considers Scientology as a way of life, but also as. her profession, " /don't work in Scientology to earn a living, Money is an energy flow but is not the important aspect. Some people spend 6 or 7 thousand doUars on a car, but what do they have? If they spent the same amount on themselves, they quadruple the worth. The song always goes through my head, 'On a Clear f!ay You Can See Forever, '" she contin~s. "Being clear is like standing on a mountain. There is nothing, no mass, around you. You feel causative and of use to others. Physically I'm in better shape, I upset my doctor with my perfect eyesight, and just had a wonderful experience with natural childbirth using no drugs.''

Mrs. Geltman' s husband is a millionaire who used to finance the Newport Jazz festivals. He also is OT VII and an intimate friend of Hubbard. She has never met Hubbard but corresponds twice a week.

Darby Simpson is a striking young woman. She used to be a soap opera actress and stockbroker. Now she heads the New York Celebrity Center, the othu is in Los Angeles, having risen to the level of OT VII in a year and a half. . .

A Celebrity Center is designed to process celebrities and professionals whose schedules are not accomotklted by normal processing missions. They service such notables as Stan and Chick Corea, Karen Black, football player John Brodie, The Incredible String Band,andfour or five other top names whom the Church will not disclose as protection of privacy.

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There is much that is awe-inspiring about Scientology: the enormity of its corporate structure, the breadth of disciplines explored, the minuteness of detail in explaining every conceivable physical or metaphysical phenomenon. Placebo or not, many of the dianetic techniques seem to have therapeutic value, not only to those helplessly flounderin~ but also to

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those happily functioning. Although ruhng echelons remain a mystery, on the franchised church level the administration is dedicated, sincere and ethical. No matter now fascinating, however, Scientology still reads like good science fiction. This is a case of a

Nancy Harris is a sophmore in Davenport College and her favorite record is not ·'Stairway to Heaven.··

constructive system evolved from some very bizarre precepts in the guise of a scientific, technological approach to cosmic truth.

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one Elizabeth Taylor Grows Up

There are worse ways. to spend six hours on a Greyhound bus, but I honestly can't recommend that you run out right now and buy £Iizabeth before the bookstores close. For $1 .95 it's a pretty good buy- 32 pages of photographs, and a hefty 607 pages of biographicaJ information including a detailed appendix of all her films and a

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14 page index so you can look up your favorite parts.

In fact Elizabeth is satisfying escapist readtng. While the mov1e fan magazine subject matter is on the trashy side, it's well written enough to be a guiltless experience. We are assembled here to learn the Truth about Elizabeth Taylor, though one is tempted to say this glowing account of the life and career of ' Mother Courage' perhaps omits details contrary to the thesis. lt's difficult to imagine what Shep..._ pard left out, since there's a wealth of trivia on every page. Everyone is named and identified, for instance the actresses who stood in for her in nude scenes and her c urrent pets and their names. The author also pays careful attention to numerological details. You find out how much everything cost; her jewelry collection and charitable contributions are treated in detail, as is the budget for Cleopatra, just to prove once and for all

that that disaster was not Ms. Taylor's fault.

You think she's had a cushy life'?

You think you've got problems?

Elizabeth Taylor should just have your problems. So maybe no one ever applie!> superlatives like 'most beautiful woman in the world' to me. At least they don't call me " the only known survivor of a particularly virulent strain of staphylococcus pneumonia.'' And if my boyfriend's in Baltimore, well, romances survive ~rse obstacles. For instance, while CleojJatra was plunging 20th Century Fox millions of dollars into debt , Elizabeth fell deeply in love with Richard Burton , and their scandalous affair was "the greatest single news event of 1962 throughout the world,·· denounced by the Vatican and several U.S. congressmen. Now, how would you like that? Well , the Burtons are jus1 folks like you and me. and they jusl wanted to be left alone to enjoy the

Island . Seaside resort merchants could not make up their minds whether JAWS was helping or hurting business, and Martha's Vineyard natives don ' t like Americans anyway. The film's ad logo I I I I I • I I I • I I turned out to be a natural for political cartoonists, so much so that Universal The first clue to the madness wa!> ran a Sunday TirMs ad composed of Time's cover story (6/23), billed as some of the better ones.

••·JAWS' On Film and Other Summer Everybody tried to cash in. Suddenly, T .V. nature shows like Wild Kingdom Thrillers." "Other Summer Thrillers" turned out to be a small box at the and LorM Greene's Last of the Dogfood bottom of a page as if Time forgot about s prouted sharks lurking in their promo'em too. You could attribute this article ttonal ttlm and title credits. Tile New to a "slow news week," but when the York Aquarium and other museums film opened a few days later the media advertised special hours and lec~ures to see you-know-who. True Facts shark went berserk with the biggest binge of free publicity since V-J Day. Broadcasts books ran ads looking for business the swam with reports on JAWS reactions, way chess sets had during the Fischerimpact interviews, effect on the beach Spassky match. Philippe Cousteau, (son population in or out of the water, of Jacques), guested the Tonight Show merchandisers with "clever" tie-ins, pooh-poohing the film' s naturalist value, and National History Museums. Robert but plainly sounding just jealous.

Shaw did his best to dump on the movie Predictably , Universal unleashed the a few days before it came out, on The soundtrack album, the cocktail napkins, Tonight Show. He was tired and drunk, etc .• and two books on the making of and John Davidson, the guest host, is the film appeared. (Except for screensuch a jerk that I can't blame Shaw for

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I • I I I • I I I I I I The trouble with a media phenomenon that stays big more than a month is that you begin to yearn for the time when it will become nostalgic. Were everybody's Brando-Godfather imitations that funny? Whether you liked it or not (and you are really running out of excuses not to have seen it by now), .

JAWS was big news this summer. The resulting national shark fever isn't nearly as endearing a fad as Beatlemania or Davy Crockett coonskin-caps.

But that goddamn shark don't know zippo-scratch about going away.

Now don't get me wrong. I liked JAWS . Thought it did pretty well what it set out to do, a first class example of the Scare-Me-To-Death-1-Love-Jt genre.

In act, it tickles me the way some people say they didn't like it because they .. knew it wasn't reaL" (Never mind that Ron and Valerie Taylor, who shot the live shark footage, had some trouble tellifts their stuff apart from the GenenJ Mows venion). 1 don't tnast pcopk wbo look b lhc wires. ·They . often fU1n our flO have defective ~ . of imap.aion ..... !My keep ~ : ··an ~ filA. The t.cst cump1e o1 tbi$ occurred willa • friead .. n. ~ v~ tJfSW'ad.. . . - . c~~e cyclops ~- ·u, lblll·s ., rate. · · • said. w.edrinc a one-eyed onnac monster with scales, a hom in his forehead and the lqs of a Come on! Are you ltiddins?

So JAWS was Alice in WOI'tdvland Mens T1te 71ai"8 (Frotr~ AIIOIIter World),and a belJ of a lot of fun for a heU of a lot of people. But this movie didn't end in tbe thealer.

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A lot of this media-mania watching can be fun, getting into the philosophy of which national nerves the movie has touched, and why. But when you open a closet or the refrigerator door and thai huge reptilian paw lunges at you, it 's time to get some sleep.

So you tum out the light, but the sheets feel like two slices of bread, and you're in the mustard, when that damn thumping theme music starts up again , and the French hom beckons, and it 's ou1 there, waiting for you.

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same kinds of things we do-'Just pottering around, going for a walk together, taking the dogs out. ' " It's easy to read this book for laughs, since the author's passion for minu1ia has led him to include some absurd homey anecdotes. For instance, on page 528, you can read about how they occasionally "go out to a local pub for a meal, and during the evening might tap each other lightly under the table to the opening bars of Beethoven 's Fifth Symphony" (da-da-da-DA).

The careful records of names, numbers, and aU phases of Elizabeth's behavior have a curious air of scientific authority. What do these facts add up to? Well , I'll tell you, Elizabeth Taylor may be the most beautiful woman in the world and the most relentlessly publicized personality in show business, bul she's also a very nice person.

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good old boy from lovely, semi-Dallas, Fort Worth, Texas. The main character, and narrator, in Dead Solid Perfect is Kenny Puckett, Billy Clyde's uncle.

Kenny is a professional golfer. He is not a Jack Nicklaus, nor a Lee Trevino against whom he competes in the largest professional golf tournament in the country . But Kenny is competent enough to keep himself rolling in Lincoln Continentals, good scotch, and good drugs, not to mention the little lovelies who follow professional athelletes all over the country like their cousins in the entertainment tield . The outstanding feature of Jenkins' women is that they are all as sexually adept and open-minded as any middle-aged frustrated ex-athelete would like them to be.

The story of Dead Solid Perfect centers around Kenny Puckett's participation in the biggest tournament in the country with frequent sojourns into his extreme) ly humorous and bizarre childhood in Fort Worth and the Southwestern environs.

Jenkin's greatest gift is his sense of humor. Whether he is discussing any of a number of sexual encounters, or Puckett's second wife's lung cancer (referred to as ' the Big C.'), the author lets no scene pass without evoking laughter from his reader. Those who bear the largest brunt of Jenkins' satire are the men of ' big bidness', the oil multi-millionairs whose greed and racism results in misunderstanding and exploiting the atheletes they own.

However, the atheletes themselves receive little less of the author's good-natured derogation. Fortunately .

Jenkins is not above satirizing his own chauvinism , his own mindless Jove for man-on-man competition, and his lust for the good life. In a sense, the author enjoys the best of both worlds; as in Semi-Tough . the hero lifts himself above >the people around him , comes our the unquestioned victor and reaps more than his share of the spoils.

Dead Solid Perfect , and Semi-Tough before it, arrive at an opportune time.

The literary spons enthusiast soon tires of the spate of sports essays which gn1ced the newsstand s in the late sixties and early seventies on the hypocrisy and dehumanizing aspects of football and baseball. Books such as Gary Shaw's Meat on the Hoof, and Dave Meggsey's Out ofTheir League, poorly written by ex-atheletes, soon outstayed their welcome wtth thetr lack of humor and tendency to over emphasize their message. Now, at a time when professional sports continues to e njoy the undivided attention of a growing public, but a public that demands more sophisticated writing, and a reaJistic perspective, Dan Je nkins' book will satisfy almost anyone. Obscene to the limits of good taste and sparing no one's sacred values, Dead Solid Perfect is an unquaJified success.

Peter R ichmond

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In Memory of Tim Horton, Defenseman for the Buffalo Sabres, Dead, at 40, in an Auto Wreck Switch Bitch is four taJes in the spare style that marks Dahl. The best of the stories rely on twisted plot and the twtsted character of Uncle Oswald, a " totaJiy unmoral man" who breeds spiders, collects Chinese porcelain and does his best not to waste his singular ability to hypnotize women with words. ·'The Visitor" and .. Bitch " comes from his memoirs (28 vol.) beside which "Casanova's Memoirs read like a parish magazine.·' For Oswald and for Dahl sex is scientific object. Lovemaking is surgery. Experiments are performed first with the osci llator then with the high-speed centrifuge. We are reminded that gin inflames the uterus

and that cigarettes are an anti-aphrodisiac. Dahl is less exciting and less artful than erotic writers like William Kotzwinkle. Only the first and the best tale in Switch Bitch is quite so creepy as fans of the Master of Nastiness may desire. Oswald, absent from the weaker middle stories, returns in the last (which must not be read before the first) where President Roosevelt is menaced by a perfume that sets back human sex habits half a million years. Hopefully Dahl remembers his promise to publ ish at least one more episode from Uncle Oswald's journal.

Bill Jacobs

yet all covet. In our society, sex is no longer the taboo subject of discussion, the world beyond is rarely taken seriously, the lust for "power-which is the ability to bring about o ur desires-is all we have left .... We believe in ambition as we one believed in salvation .

The author relates various stories of celebrities (ostensibly those who have reached the goal of power), the games and exerciseswhich they mustplay and perform in order to remain among the Plagerizing The Prince swiftest, and the symbols of power which they so flaunt. · ' lllere was a sameness to these Power! deals at length with the (powerful] men .... They ate in the same amportance, trappings and advantages of restaurants, wore the same suits, wore power in our lives, but it is doubtful Gucci loafers.·· Zan Tho mpson that anyone who has this book will actually be any closer to that elusive The crowded cubicles of Cross goal.

The type of clothes o ne wears, the Campus Library and the swiftly-paced set of hi!-. jaw. or the look in his eye are walk of so many Yale students are all crucial in the fame of competition of surely indicative of more than a pursuit which Korda writes. Such information of high grades or the release of anxieties. According to Michael Korda, can provide a reader with choice items o f trivia, but will not appreciably help the motivation for all of o ur sweat and the serious power- hunter. Indeed, it is our effort is linked with our search for difficult to read Power! with the proper power. Power! How to Use It, How to respect that Korda would wish us to Ger lt, is a collection of common-sense observations that spring from one initial have . Tht!-. can be illustrated by a glance at the book·s chapter heading!>: premise: "No matter who you are, the .. Power Means Love:· .. Maybe I'm a basic truth is that your interests are Weakling.·· .. Gossip Power..... Mo ney nobody e lse'!. concern , your gain is and Sex are Force!-- Too Unruly For inevitably someone else's loss, your ReaMm.·· ··Foot Power.·· and ··A fail ure is someone else's victory ...

Gold-Plated Thermos is a Man 's Best To Korda, a New York publisher and Friend. ·· The contents of the chapters the author of a work on the psychology are generally as amusing and ridiculous of male chauvinism, power is at once as their titles. the motivating force in a man·!. life and This is a book for those who scorn an amusing game of Machiavellian power rather than embrace it. Korda politics. It is one we play constantly and has, perhaps unintentionally, written a fiercely, one which affects our deaJings far more effective critique of society·s misdirected values than he has of how with those we command, serve and to win power and influence. love.

Korda's belief that power is a force in Robert Benjamin which few acknowledge and interest,

He went faster and faster but he couldn ' t go any further in the e nchantment of looking forward.

He began to substitute remembering for seeing and people pretended to age.

They stopped without any cause.

Only he stayed young, living in a mean and childlike world playing games and having to argue.

Perhaps he was supposed to die young but avoided death by acci~ent and lived in a world where nothing could change for him. a shadow followed him , a failure that started to stick .

Life never became an effort, but he did begin to feel foolish.

Inside the car he spun and hit the passive objects that would kill him . At first he hit them harder than they hit him. And then he kind of slept.

The police found themselves talking to him.

Even dead he seemed large and friendJy. But there was no more action green in his body.

Things stopped moving easily around him. His coat seemed to cause discomfort.

He had sought discussions but he reveived only this g narled grace, caged in an agonizing vehicle.

William L. Morris

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(continued from page 4) management-level employees out of a total work force of under 200. Arnold points out that these 30 are necessary for a store the Co-op's size, though the same number would also be able to manage a substantially larger store.

Some note that several managers spend their time domg work that floor personnel could do, even though their salaries range from two to five times that of most floor personnel.

The roles the Co-op management, Board , and university administration played in the ~nion pre-election canpaign are difficult to establish for sure.

A few facts are available. The law firm that the Co-op used to deal with the union is Yale's law firm. The Co-op union suggested this as one piece of evidence of th¢ University's involvement in management's effort to prevent formation of the union. A board member noted that there are only two law firms in New Haven big enough to handle the Co-op's needs. The Co-op happens to use the same on Yale uses, he continued, as does the local utility company.

Peter Halsey , assistent to the University Secretary Henry Chauncy, denies official university administration involvment in Co-op affairs. He admits, however, that university offiCials who are on the board might use their offices to help the Co-op in incidental ways.

Georgia Nelson, dean of Yale College and a Co-op board member, did obtain

some anti-union literature that the university had used when the Yale Non-Faculty Action Committee (YNFAC) tried to form a union in 1971.

She insists, however, that anyone could have obtained that literature and that the board subsequently decided not to use most of it anyway.

The Yale administrator most persistently mentioned by union members as having had a significant role in trying to prevent the formation of the union is Leonard Marcus, director of the University's employee relations department.

This is significant. Marcus is the University's expert on unions. Pro-union and anti-union people alike recognize his handling of the 197 1 YNFAC campaign as so skillful that any role he might have played in the pre-election campaign at the Co-op would have greatly effected the election's outcome.

How might Marcus have influenced events at the Co-op? In an earlier, unrelated union campaign , a group of non-faculty workers at the medical school came together to deal with one common grievance. They got a few concessions from the University, but felt they were being ignored. They decided to try forming a union to force the University to recognize them . The union was to comprise virtually all clerical and technical employees of the University.

Yale sent its employees letters which encouraged fear of union dependability: .. The union may make promises, but is

not obliged to keep them;·' fear of lost independence: " How does the majority view individual initiative;" and fear of not being rewarded for achievements: .. Would you prefer to be promoted on the basis of your ability or your seniority?" These questions came from ~arcu s's booklet. Besides writing the booklet, Marcus orchestrated the University's campaign. The union ended up receiving less than one third of the 1916 votes cast.

Marcus denies helping the Co-op in any direct way. Several board members denied having dealt with Marcus, as did Willoughby , although he said that he and Marcus are friends. Willoughby, Assistant Dean Nelson, and the Union all have copies of Marcus· booklet.

The Co-op board's and management's pre-election campaign was less polemic than Yale's 1971 campaign. Yale sent its employees twelve opinionated letters while the Co-op sent its employees only three, which e ncouraged employees to vote and explained the reasons the board had refused to accept the union's e ligibility on the basis of a union card check. In fact, in one letter, the board stated , " The board cannot be regarded as having taken any position [with respect to the formation of the unionj . ·· The board provided departmental meetings to encourage employees to ask questions about the union, but stopped having them after the first two resulted in distracting the workers from their work, because of the emotional issues

raised during those meetings, explained board member Nelson.

Some unio n members think that the university administration, the board, and the Co-op management all opposed formation of the Co-op umon. Possible motives for their opposition do suggest themselves.

The administration may have feared that successful unionization by Co-op workers would encourage Yale nonfaculty workers to try again. And indeed, non-faculty workers are doing just that.

The board may have feared that rising labor costs and a strong union might disrupt the store's operation (as it would have had the strike been called) and make the store lose money which it hasn't done yet. .

The management may have believed that its interests and authority were threatened by the existence of a union.

Some managers might have sensed a potential employment threat: afraid that as union member wages go up, the store will look for ways to economize and managers will be laid off.

All the same, the documentation and most verbal evidence available suggest that if these groups had such motives, they did not act. The workers have acted ... Workers have the choice, .. said a union representative, ·'of acting or being squashed."

Dennis Shasha is a junior in Eua Stiles College.

·•····································•····················································································•················•··············•···•·········•· (continued from page 4 ) for the union, with 132 out of 136 eligible voting, 70 voted for the union , 62 against. Lou Pellgrino later described the moment: "After we all voted by secret ballot, the NLRB agent started to count the votes. The intensitv of the moment could be felt and was expressed on the faces of alI who were present.

Management and their lawyer on one side of the room, the union reps and employees on the other side. As the vote tally was final ly separated into two piles, we were one vote short of a majority, because of seven challenged ballots. Management walked out with tears in their eyes, and we walked out a bit confused. Within an hour, though, it all. came clear: we would win. The only question was wh:!n?"

On 12 March , 1975. the management filed charges of unfair labor practice with the NLRB. It viewed the elections as unfair for several reasons, including the exclusion of an anti-union worker from meetings, and the preserJCe on the Board of a union employee. Union representatives replied that the board member had resigned his post in the union upon joining the Board, and that the employee had not been barred from meetings, and in fact had been allowed to speak at length.

When the Board met to discuss these chargeS Rabbi Arnold Wolf, of the

Yale Religious Ministry, rejected them At 7:30p.m. on 27 August, an as "trivial , dilatory and improbable," agreement was reached after last-minute and Robert Sarason, for the student concessions by the board, and a strike group, presented a petition with 1702 was averted. Why did management and signatures of Co-op members opposing the board change their position? The ~o-op workers ~e talked with feel that the Board's suit. The Board then 11 was th~ combmed effect of the threat decided to drop the charges, Georgia Nelson saying " I don't think they (the of_the.stnke ~.d the boycott. Jan objections) are strong."

Wet ben stated . that the threat of the At that time the main task of the boycott was maJOr. They felt that they union was to build up the momentum cou ld keep the store open. They felt that and unity of the movement in order to if they just had those cashiers they succeed in the negotiations. This was probably could make it run . But towards also the time that the most important the end they reali zed that workers they cases of intimidation against. the union never thought had the strength said, ·yes, they'd go on strike, said they'd go allegedly took place-the fmngs or lay-offs of pro-union workers. out.·· Negotiations began in June and What is the content of the agreement, continued over. the course of the and what is its significance for the summer, breakmg ~ff on 15. A.ugust, Co-op workers'? It contains several 1975, .when the umon negot1atmg • victories for the union, in particular a comm1ttee refused to accept the Co-op s raise of 2~ across the board immediately , and an additional 1 ~ on January 1 final offer of a one-year.contract, an open sho~, and ~ 15¢ ra1se. .

1976, and a wage reopener in one The umon dectded to hold a str1ke year's time. Minimum wage will be vote on 27 A~gu st, 1975, and. fully . r.tised by 1~ immediately, and by expected that 11 w<:>uld be earned out 1f another 1 ~ on January 1, 1976. no further concessao~ were made by .

The union did not entirely win on the management. The uruon woriced tobewm ques t.10 n o f the .. umon · s ho p. " All .k d over empIoyees to t he stn e, an gan ed t th t. f • • L and bo persons emp1oy a e 1me o .

1 1 to orglll'!aze P c~et tnes a ycott. ratification will be able to choose not to At the bme, many Yale faculty gave . . . their support to a petition affuming "the JOIO, bu! all future emplc~yees w1ll right of students to exercise the freedom automatt~ly become umon members of their conscience in boycocting the after a penod of 30 days. store."

A major victory is the institution of a

grievance procedure that involves the election of five shop stewards who will meet weekly with representatives of management in order to work out problems with general working conditions. Also, from now on store policies for check cashing, refunds, etc. will be written down and employees v will be clearly and correctly informed of them. Jury duty and overtime will be paid, and a health plan will be mtroduced.

On the whole, employees are satisfied with these results. " It is really going to change the face of the Co-op." says Jan Wieben . They feel that the new agreement will have a beneficial effect on the store 's operation in a general sense. Wieben says that " having a union at the Yale Co-op will improve service, improve the business, it will make them organize it better."

Union members are also pleased at the effect of the union on their personal relations. Susan Wong says " Now we're much better at working together" and Wieben adds that "in that sense a union is a humanizing influence. " They are also optimistic about the future of the union . Helen Migliore shares this •• optimism and sees the main priority for now as building a strong union local. " We'd like to win over the people who had not joined us ... It can only help them. it can't hurt them.·· Rebecca McCormick,'76 is a Poli-Sci major.

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(continueapom page 2) • perusal of the outside comer of the envelope proved she was writing from somewhere in Ploughkeepsie, New York and that Harold lived in the Bahamas. " I guess they must commute,·· thought our hero. " But how did the letter end up here?""

Albert ran back to his room and began composing a letter. He worked four hours beffore he hit on exactly what he wanted. When he did, the message was short and to the point.

"Dear Bertha, ·· it said. " How about this weekend?"· and he mailed it. For the rest of the day, he forgot to think about Alison.

But by the next day, when he"d received two more letters from Bertha, exhorting him in increasingly unreserved language to indulge in unrestrained acts . of legal and illegal passion, he began to wonder if Allison was really his one and 4 only. For Albert had never gotten such things through the mail before. And quickly, without realizing it, he began to fall in love.

He continued to write to Bertha, sending epistles no more reserved than hers, signing them Harold, giving them Harold"s return address. After two weeks, he could stand it no longer.

"Dear Bertha,· · he wrote. "I have a Harold. I am Albert. I have been writing these letters. My real address is not in the Grand Caymans but at 1000 B .C. Yale Station and I am madly in love with you-stupidly in Jove with you- tragically in love with you-and hope to hear from you soon. Passionately yours, Albert.·· He thrust the letter in the mail box and awaited the reply . Naturally, the next two days continued the red flood of passion from Bertha. But then lhere was a mysterious pause in her push.

Then a silence. An ominous breaking off.

For three weeks, Albert"s box remained empty. He wrote pained sad crazy letters to Allison. Then one day, a little brown envelope landed in the box, mailed from somewhere in the mysterious orient.

"What" s this?"· he cried, ripping it open.

"Dear Albert, .. it said. "Thank you.

You· ve provided me with the two most wonderful girls in the whole wide world . I would nave never met Allison without you-neither would I have had the courage to write what I presume you must have written Bertha. I appreciate it. I reallY. do. Harold .·· Albert stood stunned as a piece of green paper fluttered out from behind • the letter. He picked it up and stared at it, uncomprehendingly. Then he noticed a P.S. on the letter. " P.s.;· the letter read. "To show you my appreciation , I enclose this $10,000 check.·· And he looked at the check and right there at the top was

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Harold"s Bahamas address, and his Arabian address, and his Arizona address and above that it read Harold and then it read Hughes .

"Gee, .. said Albert. " I guess I won "t be getting any more mail for a while.·· Jonathan M . Winer

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