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Other groups are afraid of them because of their powers, and see them as "witch doctors." Dr. Drennan said the study of dreams is "fun and fascinating," and one should recognize it as a possibility to understand per sonality dynamics, and a means of possible treatment. He suggests several books: Ultra State of Consciousness, by Charles Tart; The Hypnotic Investigation of Dreams, by Moss, and It's Hap pening by Simmons. Bell E New SI * Genuine Lei * Fly Navy B * AndMany 1 "MOE: Headquartei Anyl Corner Lady am Kathy Jennings Jennings candidate for secretary Kathy Jennings, an English major and a native of Greenville, S.C., announced her candidacy for the office of Secretary of the Student Body today. Miss Jennings is presently serving as Sophomore Class Secretary and as Senator from Sims Dorm. During her freshman year. she was Secretary of the Freshman Class which organized the project, "Carolina Cares." This project, continued by the Sophomore Class and now an annual happening at Carolina, collected over $15,000 worth of goods for underpriviledged children in the Columbia area this past Christmas. She said that she hopes to expand this project even more to include the entire student body. At Carolina, Miss Jennings, is Vice-Chairman of the Ring Committee and of the Senate Academic Affairs Committee. She has also served in the AWS House of Representatives, as a freshman orientation counselor and as a delegate to the South Carolina State Student Legislature. ottoms. Ripment >'i Corduroy Bells !ue Bells 'lore LEVYS -s For Most hing ad Assembly Sts. Michener The tragedy of Kent State University was a mixture of ''accidents" and miscalculations. coupled with deliberate attempts by student and professional revolutionaries to destroy the university, according to Pulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener. Michener has written a massive interpretive study of the events that culminated in the killing of four Kent State students last May. In "Kent State-Campus Under Fire." Michener traces the origins and development of conflicts between Kent State students and the town; he describes the riots of Friday and Saturday, May 1 and 2, and the burning of the ROTC building; and he discusses the chance circumstances that resulted in some of the fateful decisions made that weekend. One surprise of the weekend was the total absence of black students from the rioting, Michener says. Black students had been pressing their own grievances at Kent, and Measurement of your mind by Mensa When your mother told the neighbors how smart you were, did you believe her'? If you are prepared to risk your delusions of grandeur, you may measure your mind by contacting Mensa. An international organization, Mensa draws its membership from the top two percent of the worlds "brains". The rating is done by two tests. The first intellignece exam is mailed to Mensa, which sends it to consultants in New York City for grading. It you score highly enough on the first test, a second supervised test is arranged. The cost for the tests is $4.50 and $6.50. but may be waived if there is financial difficulty. , All results are confidential. For further information, contact Mensa Miami. 400 N.W. 9th Ave., Miami, Fla. 33128. ONsiE AIRNA PICTURE!"" NOW PLAYING SHOWSJ 1-3-5 jJC~ K A RE W ECMESL SOB MA on Kent most observers thought that they would be behind any trouble that' weekend." he writes. But black student leaders had decided against taking part. Rudy Perry. a black student. explained why: "We know that when a white man has a gun and sees a black, he gets up tight he has a compulsion to shoot. And the black man gets shot. Michener gives good marks to Kent State of'ficials for their handling of student protests prior to the tragic weekend. He notes. for example. that in 1969 when radical leader Rick Erickson led a rally that ended in brawling with university police, he and five others were arrested and tried, four of them spending six months in jail. ''The administration did everything that it conceivably could to discipline the individual SDS iStudents for a Democratic Society) members who had resorted to violence. and it took the further step of banishing the SDS itself from the campus," Michener writes. In fact, he says. "the history of Kent State during 1968-69 is a record of the unswerving, often brilliant efforts of the university" to contain the attacks emanating from communal houses used as headquarters by radical leaders. One of the most notorious of these houses was Kent's grim -Haunted House." which served as the model for the setting of the Alfred Hitchcock horror film. -Psycho." In 1968. Michener reports. the house "became the local center for SDS." According to one student who lived there. "Some days there would be 30 people staying there. Some of the kids are now on the 'Wanted' lists of the FBI." This is among a number of factors which answer the question of whether outside agitators played a role in the events of Kent State. Michener reports that visitors to the Haunted House and other Kent communes included such revolutionaries as Ber nardine Dohrn and Mark Rudd. both now under indictment in bomb plots, and Terry Robbins. a member of SDS's Weatherman OHN SCHUSECK N'ABC-TV WPRILY 1-GENE SH'AUT1 WNBC-TV I IHLO ROI NCOCL.S..ON AF SO - OYCE. - ....8086 AAFE LSON.-. N$CH ARD E R e... .....,.Oe-ERSCNGEIOER .....,. State taction. who is believed to have been killed in the bomb explosion last year in a Greenwich Village, N Y. townhouse. "As these dedicated revolutionaries passed through Kent. for the first time in its history the stolid university rang to the cries of student demon strations." Michener writes. Another outsider who played a role in fueling conflict between community and campus at Kent was Yippie leader Jerry Rubin. who spoke to some 2000 Kent State students in April. Among his in Ilammatory comments were these "The most oppressed people in this country are not the blacks. not the poor. but the white middle class. They don't have anything to stand up and fight against. We will have to invent new laws to break." The Yippie leader added this challenge: 'The first part of the Yippie program is to kill your parents. And I mean that quite literally. Our parents are our first oppressors. Michener notes that the 28,000 white middle-class citizens of the town "played as important a role as the students themselves" in the riot -torn weekend. At Kent. the usual "town-vs. -gown" hostilities were aggravated by a singular feature: the main tracks of the Erie 9 L.ackawanna railroad run smack through the center of town. Massive traffic jams occure when trains go by. The "townies" blame the students for the jams ("If there weren't so many damned students there wouldn't be so many cars."> and the students reciprocate ("If the damned town would build a bridge over the railroad tracks. the jams wouldn't happen.". When trouble started on Friday night. Michener notes. an off-duty patrolman who was moonlighting as a watchman in a local bar issued a "Signal 25" - a call which summons all off-duty police of licers to the station. Mayor LeRoy Sat rom was called and drove to the scene of the riot. North Water St reet. a block in the center of town where a number of sleazy bars are congregaied. W%hen Mayor Satrom arrived, he ''read the riot act " - an action which not if ies those assembled that they are acting unlawfully and must disperse. This incident represented the first official act by the town against the students and. says Micrhener, "changed the complexion of that night's ac tiv'ities." At that point, arrests of st udents began. Earlier. Mayor Satrom had notified Governor Rhodes's office by telephone that Kent police might need National Guard assistance. But before matters could get out of hand, another accident took place - this time a benign one. An electrical repairman near the riot scene was on a ladder fixing a triffic signal. when a car careened into his truck. knocking the ladder away and leaving the repairman hanging from the light. Suddenly, says Michener, everyone's attention was on the man dangling in the air. Cops and kids joined in setting up rescue teams. and when the repairman was finally hauled to safety. a student recalled. "we heard more cheering than we do at