Brown and White Vol. 80 no. 49

              lehigh university brown and white v<rt 80 - no 49 bethlehem pa tuesday april 22 1969 866-033 — lowenstein leads new politicians by jim mcgee allard k ix>wenstein democratic rep resentative of the fifth congressional district iu nassau comity new york and a loader of the new left will speak friday night of houseparty aprii 25 at 7:80 p.m lowenstein lead the dump johnson movement through 1967-68 and persuaded sen eugene mccarthy to run for president when robert kennedy was afraid to take iw aie|f niutu 1111^,111 na.tr imjuieu 111s political career he organized the coali tion for an open convention in chicago in order to solidify anti humphrey sentiment ' it was lowenstein who attempted to intercept the students moving toward the radical left as a result of their growing frustration over the war in vietnam and channel that dissent through legitimate political means although he won wide support anxmg students he was unable to win over the radical left who considered him part of the establishment bis fidlh in the system his refusal to endorse a fourth party and finally his late endorsement of hubert humphrey have turned off a number of the radical left harper's wrote in december 1968 al lowenstein whom the establishment press is billing as the founder of the new politics is in fact the ideal spokesman for tine new politicians he is bright enough and brave enough to communicate with the dissident groups us contemporaries fear and enough of a master of manipulation and persuasion to keep raany of tttt dissenters l&siite the framewortf of conventional politics he is a man who tries to work within the system without the support of the system lowenstein was bright enough to skip sev»r«i mn «* school so that he entered the university of north carolina at chapel hill as a 16-year-old freshman he got involved in tn civil rights movement there and it was in an effort to prepare himself against threatened physical violence that he learned to wrestle he still wrestles frequently in 1961 he taught and served as assistant dean at stanford he left after siding with the students over a demonstration on student power he went from there to the university of north carolina where he taught political science for two years he resigned after a clash with state authorities over his civil rights activities lownnsteln served as president of the national student association ins a he was the test president of the organiza tion before it became involved with the cia the dump johnson movement formally began with lowenstein*s speech at the nsa national convention in august 1967 after that lowenstein scoured the country trying to establish a solid base in each state against johnson and to encourage someone to run against htm for the nomination he supported mccarthy but became disillusioned with his aloofness as the convention approached allard k lowenstein reading chanting highlight weekend 6v jdnn w«*^t^^hs clanging ms finger cymbals and squmslng a harmonium altefi ctastorg coasted bmw krishna to an ewßoiiro that included curiosity mlri bond sapmsttestss iri sora entranced ttstemrs hit nrtotlty mtlwri ml early ha sunday v*miur . he opened wtth a sort of footnote at the beginning a chant in sinn japasaasj and the english translation his friend peter orlovsky intoned the mantra with ma and played the harmonium next blake was tone in chant little i rob and tte chimney sweeper from songs of innocence ginsberg then traced ms poetry from nuufuhmf ffttra l»w ttp te niiyiflihßbjd works as rwram tfawtf ifm hi strokad ms beard constantly as ha read from ms boo ifcm tan to ms battered agirtiiim a aaau etothbac for more recent poems prom sunflower sutra 1 walhad on the banks of the ttacaa banana dock and at down under the huge shod of a southern pacific locomotive to look at the sunset over the bos house mils and cry jack karouac sat beside me on a busted rusty iron pole companion we thought th saint thoughts of the sooty bleak and blue and sad-eyed smjflomdsd by the fsjrm steel roots of trees of machinery the oily water on the river mirrored the rod sky sun sank on top of final frisco peaks no fish in that stream no hermit in those mounts jost ourselvts rheumy-eyed and hungp—r like old bums on the ri verbank tired and wily look at the sunflower ha said there was a dead gray shadow . against the sky big as a man sitting dry on top of a pile of ancient sawdust £* i rushed up enchanted it was my first sunflower msmofujs of blake my vis tons harlem . . we're not our skin of grtme we're not our dread bleak dusty imagatoss locomotlvß we're all beautiful golden sunflower inside we're blessed by our own seed and golden hairy naked accomplishment bodies growing into mad black formal sun flowers in the sunset spied on by our eyes under the shadow of the mad locomotive ri verbank sunset prtsco wily tincan evening sitdown vision tmis is south mountain b * w " wib " butt t(b*v photo by mwdonald erdi's requiem performed friday night in grace ha :. the performance as judged very successful by many observers see related story on page 9 arcadia passes new hp rule this spring fraternities will be able to decide individually whether or not to house women guests over houseparty weekend the new regulation is the result of a motion passed by arcadia march 26 which was brought before the student life committee at its last meeting the arcadia motion if passed in its entirely by student life would have abolished hour restrictions for all parties during the weekend eliminated curfews for women guests in public areas and allowed bouses to decide whether or not to hire a chape rone regardless of whether dates were being housed for the weekend at the time the motion was passed kurt leaker chairman of arcadia social codes committee expressed doubt as to the approval by student life of the chaptrone provision preston parr dean of student life was also worried about administration problems and possible law suits in case of accidents that could arise out of the absence of chaperones the action taken by student life means that fraternities now have the option of housing women with a chaperons or housing men without a chaperons parties have to nd at 2 a.m and all people not designated as overnight guests must be out of the house by 2:30 a.m according to parr the curfews wore kept because of student argument against student life having the power to determine public and private areas we are not ready at this ti me to allow overnight privileges in private rooms this is what would occur in th absence of definition of public and private areas of a house regulations concerning bill passe and plnkerton guards will be in effect as in past years sm ginsberg page t