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The Daily Collegian November 30, 1978 David Armstrong's American journal I.F. Stone: trailblazer with a weakness for Jefferson >t home the deep freeze sin hardened the land var in Korea seemed as it Califc i He w ing, obviously delighted that his audience had passed up an evening with a glamorous Hollywood star also visiting the campus to listen to a 70-year-old journalist The introduction by a young professor was long and lyrical Stone took off his lacket in the sweltering heat and prepared to speak The little man with the thick bifocals wrote and published IF Stone's Weekly (later Bi-Weekly) from 1953 to 1971 He worked solely from press accounts and government documents. done in respectable publications published a withering indictment ot fcdgar Hoover s then sacrosanct Mil In an essay he titled * The Negro t BI and Police Brutality,' Stone w "Pull. i-nseles a cold racial logic brutality ing that Ihe police are rarely punished and often promoted " Stone went on t< tie the high incidence of police assault-, on blacks to the rBI s failure t. Such commentary did not endear Stone to powerful bureaucrats Nor did Advice to freshmen: Losing your virginity tditor's note: Yesterday's 'Perversions" column dealt with advice to women on losing their virginity Today s column is addressed to freshmen who wish to lose theirs (Those who have never found it need read no fur ther) So you re finally ready to do it You ve decided to risk hell and purgatory and all those wonderful guilt feelings your parents carefully cultivated in you and (TA-DA!) lose your virginity Well, you may have noticed by now that it isn't that easy to lose your virtue as you thought-unless you have ham- sized biceps and a Stingray But if you ve decided not to wait for "Miss Right" to come along, and to just Jump on the sexual bandwagon with the first lass who comes along, then you probably don' t need my advice. but you' re gonna get it, anyway If you've never done it before, one of the first problems you' II run into will be the garment district That's right- Those brassieres are getting trickier every day, what with the triple-cross safety-hatchings and the combination locks What you probably need is some Co down to Veterans Thrift and pick out an assortment of about a half dozen bras (Wear a raincoat and a false mustache if you're afraid your reputation will be sullied) and spend a few hours in the locked bathroom practicing. Once you've figured out how to free the mythical orbs of the ages, you are ready at least to get ready to do it Tommy Woodayino of Baker Hall writes in to ask, *Where is the best place to lose your virginity?* Putting aside the obviou- idiocy of your question. Tommy, we'd suggest vou buy a good book on anatomy However, if you,meant to ask something like Harry Portioolis of Craves did ("What is the best environment in which to lose one's virginity?"), then I'd suggest A) Avoid the back seat of Stingrays and most foreign cars Not only is the locale unromantic-even if you park behind Fashion Fair when the moon is shining but it could lead to a slipped B) Unless you're really kinky, avoid places where the two of you might be intruded upon by a third party (E* Your mother yelling, "Harry, have you got a girl up there?' could lead to a Latin condition known as coitus Inter- C) At all cost, avoid areas bestrewn with poinson oak. red ants, cacti or Hell's Angels OK \ou've found the right environment, you know the combination to her bra; and you're ready to "take the plunge * "Is there anything else I should know?" asks Randy Pilsner of Commons Probably For one thing, those odd rubber things are not necessary if you're both virgins and she's taking birth control measures. If you've already purchased them, though, hang onto them until next summer They make great water balloons. Before popping the, uh, question, you will need to perform some foreplay- which, contrary to dorm rurrfers, does not involve checkers, golf, or two other people. See, foreplay is-well, first, you each get into bunny suits, cover the bedspread with margarine and- Tef a lonely calling ivism in the middle 1960 s Stone threw his support to the New left though his was qualified support He loved the antiwar energies of the young radicals, but loathed their vocal hatred of America Stone was no longer alone Time has not lessened Stone s own energies appreciably He writes tre quently for the New York Review of Books and is studying the ancient Creeks for a book he is writing on tree dom" Freedom has always been Stone's subject, as it was again in his Berkeley talk an appreciation ..i Thomas Jefferson Jefferson is a logical preoccupation for an American journalist, he was ou' foremost champion of a tree press after all 8ut Jefferson is a tricky model too, easily blown up larger than Stone fell into that trap with a treat ment of Jefferson that was as much an tiaue Cone were Jeffernson s faults chiefly his private accumulation of property-including human property as he publirally celebrated the common man. In his stead was an icon that issued high-minded statements about When members of the audience pointed out the apparent contradiction. Stone, who is ordinarily an affable man, grew testy To a woman who >m of holding up a templar of human ,>ped, "Your ques tion isn t worthy of a history under graduate ' The woman, who appeared r<> be m her forties sat down, humil- I ater Stone softened his stand, e«plaining that Jefferson, born into a slaveholding society, must be judged as a product of his time He might have mentioned that there was another Thomas ol his time-Paine-who forth rightly comdemned slavery and had .xiasion to discuss the matter with his tnend Jefferson. But Stone was of a mind tn9 exalt Jefferson, not examine him and the moment passed. Ihe point is important because it establishes limits to Jefferson's-and Stone s -vision Stone, who so ably dissects the underside of the American mytn in much ot his writing, is in some ways a sentimentalist about America In this he is more of a political liberal than the radical firebrand his critics, .•ption I managed to corner him by the i otfee and brownies to ask what he thought ot the alternative press. In his reply he returned to the subject of sla- 'It took an alternative press to press the issue of slavery.' he said 'William I loyd Garrison had to start his own paper In the 1960 s, lots of kids did the same It was not an underground press but an open alternative press, thank Cod " The alternative press spoke out against the war, but it got lost in the drug culture • he continued. "How can we aplaud newspapers that spread drug use among kids? You know, no one cheered the British when they flooded China with opium in the 18 «) s " Stone s analogy took me by surprise i had never thought of alternative Journalists as imperialists, nor could I recall a paper that advocated the use of addictive hard drugs Before I could reply, a . ircle of questioners and well-wishers lightened around the old reporter. Some of Stone s words left -tie puz- /led and uneasy Meeting people you've admired from afar will do that to you But it meeting and hearing Stone was less than I had hoped for, it in these times of celebrity journalism and consumer guides to narcissism, Stone s passion for dirt-under-the-fln- gernails reporting is a necessary Corrective Those who would go beyond him are m his debt. He showed the Applications now available Applications for either La Voi de Aztlan or Uhuru reporters or photographers for the Spring 1979 semester may be obtained at The Daily Collegian office in the Keats Campus Bldg LA Vez de Aztlan is designed to serve the needs of the campus Chicano community. Uhuru is designed to serve the needs of the campus black com Both publications publish approx imately 12 editions apiece per year. There are five paid reporter/photographer openings on each of the minority publications. The paid staff members recieve stipends of $10 per issue. All staff interviews with be conducted and appointments will be made by the editors of the respective publications, who will be silected by the CSUF Median Councitk Tuesday, Dec. 12. Two sharp quakes rock Mexico City MEXICO CITY - Two sharp earthquakes rocked Mexico City yesterday, collapsing buildings and killing an undetermined number of people, fire officials said. The quake rocked buildings throughout the center of the city and fire officials said 'several* buildings had collapsed and some people were dead but they had no casualty figures The University of California eismo- graphic center said a quake measuring 7 9 on the open-ended Richter scale and was likely centered just off the West Coast of central Mexico. Firemen said at least five buildings completely collapsed in various parts of the capital A fire otticial said there were Known dead and injured but had no official Two buildings In the twaitky Pelance section swayed so much that they collided. Dozens of ambulancjt raced down faseo de la ReformaaBexico City's main thoroughfare, witnVirens scream- Thousands of panicky workers streamed into the streets of the capital as skyscrapers swayed and windows shattered. The quakes knocked out electrical power supply in the city of Puebla, TOO miles southeast of the capital. The quake was the strongest felt in Mexico City since a 1957 quake which killed 54 people. Tne first quake hit at 2:55 p.m. EST and lasted more than two minutes. A second, weaker quake followed five minutes late?. UPI Mexico City bureau chief Jack Virtue was talking on the telephone to UPI world headquarters in Mew York when the first quake hit. It knocked him . completely out of his chair and shattered three windows in the UPI office. 'This is the 11th floor and we're swaying like crazy,* he said. The worst quake in Mexican history was on Aug. 28. 1973 when 527 were killed in rural areas In the state of Vera Cruz. An hour after the initial two quakes, yet another aftershock shook the city Wiretap I visalia - United Airlines said today it plans to ask the Civil Aeronautics Board this week for permission to stop service to Visalia and Merced June 9 because the operations are losing United spokesman Irv Cuevas said the company also would ask to discontinue service to two cities in the South- tOKYO - Chinese Vice Chairman i >-ng Hsiao-ping Mid he would like to .sit the United States but not as long is the Nationalist Chinese have an embassy in Washington, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported from Teng also confirmed the Chinese i ommunist Party was in session to dis- • uss important problems but stressed 'here was no change in the statu*"of 'op level leaders, according to a Japanese dispatch, from the Chinese i i>.t.ii KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia • Hundreds more Vietnamese refugees dipped past naval and police patrols ■ -Hi smashed their boats on Malaysia's < ampus Crusade < ampus Crusade for Christ is bold- "K a free dinner for International -i.-dents at CSUF at the Caw-pus Bap- "st church between Shaw arid Cettys- >urg on Maple. The dinner will be on Dec t from '■<» to 8:30. All I " eastern beaches so they wouldn't be sent back to sea, police said today The flood of new arrivals swelled the population of the country's refugee camps tojnore than 42,500 and Home Affairs Minister Chazaii Shade appealed to the United States to open its shores to the 'boat people ' In Washington, Attorney General Griffin Bell asked Congress to raise the quota of Indochinese refugee* by 22,000 to ease the crisis. WASHINGTON - Some foods would have to stop being advertised as "natural 'and other products touted as low- fat health aids would have to also preach good rtutrition under a new Federal Trade Commission staff "-reposal. 'I be allowed la aae al The gallery la apart Monday through Friday. • a.m. to 5 p.m., 7 to 9 p.m. and Sunday 1 to • p.m. The exhibit wlllbeondTez4ayttirreughDec.11. Photo by DAN FORBES although stores and shop* etajW stall use that phrase - because the term is too arbitrary to be meaningful, the staff Mirror Salon Headllaer Center Virmt * Bn^tow E-res Mom thro 1 FINANCIAL AIDS WORKSHOPS •1979-80 SAAC forms and hints 12/3 12/7 12/11 12/12 2/12 2/13 12/J* 12/1* s 12/20 1/» 1/30 11am 12noon 12:30 pm
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Title | 1978_11 The Daily Collegian November 1978 |
Alternative Title | Daily Collegian (California State University, Fresno) |
Publisher | Associated Students of Fresno State, Fresno, Calif. |
Publication Date | 1978 |
Description | Daily (except weekends) during the school year. Microfilm. Palo Alto, Calif. : BMI Library Microfilms, 1986- microfilm reels ; 35 mm. Vol.1, no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- |
Subject | California State University, Fresno -- Periodicals. |
Contributors | Assocated Students of Fresno State. |
Coverage | Vol.1, no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- to present |
Format | Microfilm reels, 35 mm. |
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Title | November 30, 1978, Page 4-5 |
Alternative Title | Daily Collegian (California State University, Fresno) |
Publisher | Associated Students of Fresno State, Fresno, Calif. |
Publication Date | 1978 |
Description | Daily (except weekends) during the school year. Microfilm. Palo Alto, Calif. : BMI Library Microfilms, 1986- microfilm reels ; 35 mm. Vol.1, no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- |
Subject | California State University, Fresno -- Periodicals. |
Contributors | Assocated Students of Fresno State. |
Coverage | Vol.1, no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- to present |
Format | Microfilm reels, 35 mm. |
Technical Information | Scanned at 600 dpi; TIFF; Microfilm ScanPro 2000 "E-image data" |
Language | eng |
Full-Text-Search | The Daily Collegian November 30, 1978 David Armstrong's American journal I.F. Stone: trailblazer with a weakness for Jefferson >t home the deep freeze sin hardened the land var in Korea seemed as it Califc i He w ing, obviously delighted that his audience had passed up an evening with a glamorous Hollywood star also visiting the campus to listen to a 70-year-old journalist The introduction by a young professor was long and lyrical Stone took off his lacket in the sweltering heat and prepared to speak The little man with the thick bifocals wrote and published IF Stone's Weekly (later Bi-Weekly) from 1953 to 1971 He worked solely from press accounts and government documents. done in respectable publications published a withering indictment ot fcdgar Hoover s then sacrosanct Mil In an essay he titled * The Negro t BI and Police Brutality,' Stone w "Pull. i-nseles a cold racial logic brutality ing that Ihe police are rarely punished and often promoted " Stone went on t< tie the high incidence of police assault-, on blacks to the rBI s failure t. Such commentary did not endear Stone to powerful bureaucrats Nor did Advice to freshmen: Losing your virginity tditor's note: Yesterday's 'Perversions" column dealt with advice to women on losing their virginity Today s column is addressed to freshmen who wish to lose theirs (Those who have never found it need read no fur ther) So you re finally ready to do it You ve decided to risk hell and purgatory and all those wonderful guilt feelings your parents carefully cultivated in you and (TA-DA!) lose your virginity Well, you may have noticed by now that it isn't that easy to lose your virtue as you thought-unless you have ham- sized biceps and a Stingray But if you ve decided not to wait for "Miss Right" to come along, and to just Jump on the sexual bandwagon with the first lass who comes along, then you probably don' t need my advice. but you' re gonna get it, anyway If you've never done it before, one of the first problems you' II run into will be the garment district That's right- Those brassieres are getting trickier every day, what with the triple-cross safety-hatchings and the combination locks What you probably need is some Co down to Veterans Thrift and pick out an assortment of about a half dozen bras (Wear a raincoat and a false mustache if you're afraid your reputation will be sullied) and spend a few hours in the locked bathroom practicing. Once you've figured out how to free the mythical orbs of the ages, you are ready at least to get ready to do it Tommy Woodayino of Baker Hall writes in to ask, *Where is the best place to lose your virginity?* Putting aside the obviou- idiocy of your question. Tommy, we'd suggest vou buy a good book on anatomy However, if you,meant to ask something like Harry Portioolis of Craves did ("What is the best environment in which to lose one's virginity?"), then I'd suggest A) Avoid the back seat of Stingrays and most foreign cars Not only is the locale unromantic-even if you park behind Fashion Fair when the moon is shining but it could lead to a slipped B) Unless you're really kinky, avoid places where the two of you might be intruded upon by a third party (E* Your mother yelling, "Harry, have you got a girl up there?' could lead to a Latin condition known as coitus Inter- C) At all cost, avoid areas bestrewn with poinson oak. red ants, cacti or Hell's Angels OK \ou've found the right environment, you know the combination to her bra; and you're ready to "take the plunge * "Is there anything else I should know?" asks Randy Pilsner of Commons Probably For one thing, those odd rubber things are not necessary if you're both virgins and she's taking birth control measures. If you've already purchased them, though, hang onto them until next summer They make great water balloons. Before popping the, uh, question, you will need to perform some foreplay- which, contrary to dorm rurrfers, does not involve checkers, golf, or two other people. See, foreplay is-well, first, you each get into bunny suits, cover the bedspread with margarine and- Tef a lonely calling ivism in the middle 1960 s Stone threw his support to the New left though his was qualified support He loved the antiwar energies of the young radicals, but loathed their vocal hatred of America Stone was no longer alone Time has not lessened Stone s own energies appreciably He writes tre quently for the New York Review of Books and is studying the ancient Creeks for a book he is writing on tree dom" Freedom has always been Stone's subject, as it was again in his Berkeley talk an appreciation ..i Thomas Jefferson Jefferson is a logical preoccupation for an American journalist, he was ou' foremost champion of a tree press after all 8ut Jefferson is a tricky model too, easily blown up larger than Stone fell into that trap with a treat ment of Jefferson that was as much an tiaue Cone were Jeffernson s faults chiefly his private accumulation of property-including human property as he publirally celebrated the common man. In his stead was an icon that issued high-minded statements about When members of the audience pointed out the apparent contradiction. Stone, who is ordinarily an affable man, grew testy To a woman who >m of holding up a templar of human ,>ped, "Your ques tion isn t worthy of a history under graduate ' The woman, who appeared r<> be m her forties sat down, humil- I ater Stone softened his stand, e«plaining that Jefferson, born into a slaveholding society, must be judged as a product of his time He might have mentioned that there was another Thomas ol his time-Paine-who forth rightly comdemned slavery and had .xiasion to discuss the matter with his tnend Jefferson. But Stone was of a mind tn9 exalt Jefferson, not examine him and the moment passed. Ihe point is important because it establishes limits to Jefferson's-and Stone s -vision Stone, who so ably dissects the underside of the American mytn in much ot his writing, is in some ways a sentimentalist about America In this he is more of a political liberal than the radical firebrand his critics, .•ption I managed to corner him by the i otfee and brownies to ask what he thought ot the alternative press. In his reply he returned to the subject of sla- 'It took an alternative press to press the issue of slavery.' he said 'William I loyd Garrison had to start his own paper In the 1960 s, lots of kids did the same It was not an underground press but an open alternative press, thank Cod " The alternative press spoke out against the war, but it got lost in the drug culture • he continued. "How can we aplaud newspapers that spread drug use among kids? You know, no one cheered the British when they flooded China with opium in the 18 «) s " Stone s analogy took me by surprise i had never thought of alternative Journalists as imperialists, nor could I recall a paper that advocated the use of addictive hard drugs Before I could reply, a . ircle of questioners and well-wishers lightened around the old reporter. Some of Stone s words left -tie puz- /led and uneasy Meeting people you've admired from afar will do that to you But it meeting and hearing Stone was less than I had hoped for, it in these times of celebrity journalism and consumer guides to narcissism, Stone s passion for dirt-under-the-fln- gernails reporting is a necessary Corrective Those who would go beyond him are m his debt. He showed the Applications now available Applications for either La Voi de Aztlan or Uhuru reporters or photographers for the Spring 1979 semester may be obtained at The Daily Collegian office in the Keats Campus Bldg LA Vez de Aztlan is designed to serve the needs of the campus Chicano community. Uhuru is designed to serve the needs of the campus black com Both publications publish approx imately 12 editions apiece per year. There are five paid reporter/photographer openings on each of the minority publications. The paid staff members recieve stipends of $10 per issue. All staff interviews with be conducted and appointments will be made by the editors of the respective publications, who will be silected by the CSUF Median Councitk Tuesday, Dec. 12. Two sharp quakes rock Mexico City MEXICO CITY - Two sharp earthquakes rocked Mexico City yesterday, collapsing buildings and killing an undetermined number of people, fire officials said. The quake rocked buildings throughout the center of the city and fire officials said 'several* buildings had collapsed and some people were dead but they had no casualty figures The University of California eismo- graphic center said a quake measuring 7 9 on the open-ended Richter scale and was likely centered just off the West Coast of central Mexico. Firemen said at least five buildings completely collapsed in various parts of the capital A fire otticial said there were Known dead and injured but had no official Two buildings In the twaitky Pelance section swayed so much that they collided. Dozens of ambulancjt raced down faseo de la ReformaaBexico City's main thoroughfare, witnVirens scream- Thousands of panicky workers streamed into the streets of the capital as skyscrapers swayed and windows shattered. The quakes knocked out electrical power supply in the city of Puebla, TOO miles southeast of the capital. The quake was the strongest felt in Mexico City since a 1957 quake which killed 54 people. Tne first quake hit at 2:55 p.m. EST and lasted more than two minutes. A second, weaker quake followed five minutes late?. UPI Mexico City bureau chief Jack Virtue was talking on the telephone to UPI world headquarters in Mew York when the first quake hit. It knocked him . completely out of his chair and shattered three windows in the UPI office. 'This is the 11th floor and we're swaying like crazy,* he said. The worst quake in Mexican history was on Aug. 28. 1973 when 527 were killed in rural areas In the state of Vera Cruz. An hour after the initial two quakes, yet another aftershock shook the city Wiretap I visalia - United Airlines said today it plans to ask the Civil Aeronautics Board this week for permission to stop service to Visalia and Merced June 9 because the operations are losing United spokesman Irv Cuevas said the company also would ask to discontinue service to two cities in the South- tOKYO - Chinese Vice Chairman i >-ng Hsiao-ping Mid he would like to .sit the United States but not as long is the Nationalist Chinese have an embassy in Washington, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported from Teng also confirmed the Chinese i ommunist Party was in session to dis- • uss important problems but stressed 'here was no change in the statu*"of 'op level leaders, according to a Japanese dispatch, from the Chinese i i>.t.ii KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia • Hundreds more Vietnamese refugees dipped past naval and police patrols ■ -Hi smashed their boats on Malaysia's < ampus Crusade < ampus Crusade for Christ is bold- "K a free dinner for International -i.-dents at CSUF at the Caw-pus Bap- "st church between Shaw arid Cettys- >urg on Maple. The dinner will be on Dec t from '■<» to 8:30. All I " eastern beaches so they wouldn't be sent back to sea, police said today The flood of new arrivals swelled the population of the country's refugee camps tojnore than 42,500 and Home Affairs Minister Chazaii Shade appealed to the United States to open its shores to the 'boat people ' In Washington, Attorney General Griffin Bell asked Congress to raise the quota of Indochinese refugee* by 22,000 to ease the crisis. WASHINGTON - Some foods would have to stop being advertised as "natural 'and other products touted as low- fat health aids would have to also preach good rtutrition under a new Federal Trade Commission staff "-reposal. 'I be allowed la aae al The gallery la apart Monday through Friday. • a.m. to 5 p.m., 7 to 9 p.m. and Sunday 1 to • p.m. The exhibit wlllbeondTez4ayttirreughDec.11. Photo by DAN FORBES although stores and shop* etajW stall use that phrase - because the term is too arbitrary to be meaningful, the staff Mirror Salon Headllaer Center Virmt * Bn^tow E-res Mom thro 1 FINANCIAL AIDS WORKSHOPS •1979-80 SAAC forms and hints 12/3 12/7 12/11 12/12 2/12 2/13 12/J* 12/1* s 12/20 1/» 1/30 11am 12noon 12:30 pm |