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GLENDA MILLER INTERIM EDITOR JIM FARRELL ART FRANK MGN. ED. AD MANAGER EDITORIALS Deathandboredom Aggression-man's inhumanity to man-is often a product to boredom some experts are concluding. When the unemployment rate grows, sociologists In England say, the wife beatings Increase. Why? Boredom. Hostility. Frustration. Last week a clean-cut Missouri boy made a mistake. He tried to steal the last exam which might gain him entrance to the Air Force Academy. Since he's always been a good boy, he was probably scared and ran when an officer called for him to halt. He knew he was wrong. He was buried the day he was supposed to take that test. Ruling: justifiable homicide. There were ironic parallels between that boy's death and those of students at Kent State and Jackson State, where some of the dead were innocent bystanders involved in no acts against others. What causes these episodes? Why are we so quick with the weaponry? We are a sick, sick society, says world renowned psychoanalyst Eric Fromm. That idea is not new, of course: Jesus had some things to say about It too. But some of the scientific explanations are, and If they apply to individuals perhaps they also may apply to our society as a whole. Dr. Fromm outlined his theories of aggression in the Feb. 27 New York Times. He said that boredom is our sickness, not any of the other things on which we blame our ills. We are into a new, more naked kind of aggression, ironically the product of one of the world's most civilized societies. Work bores both the blue collar and the white collar worker because it so often does not seem meaningful, he wrote. So, commodities are sold to help relax, but that only brings on a different type of boredom. Drugs are not our crisis.Drunkards are not our dilemma. According to Fromm, the very structure and function of our society will have to change. He wrote: "Man is a passionate being in need of stimulation; he tolerates boredom badly and if he cannot take a genuine interest in life, his boredom will force him to seek it in a perverted way of destruction . . . both among the affluent and the poor.'' And so, violence is not packed in a hardhat's lunchbox, nor is it hidden in a hippie's high. Violence, it sometimes seems, is built into the fabric of the kind of society we have made. Why else do we have boys shot while trying to steal an examination? The Charlotte Observer Foard deserves credit Richiand County Solicitor John W. Foard, in his concern for the welfare of young persons who commit minor offenses against the law, has devised a new plan which is presently being considered by Washington officials and which will involve federal funds. Foard's plan is revolutionary and will be a pilot program in this state to be initiated first in Richland County. Called the Pretrial Intervention program, Foard proposes to help young persons between the ages of 16 and 25 who are charged with violating minor laws and committing misdemeanors. The program involves counseling and psychological help for persons who have no previous criminal record and who meet the age qualifications. Under this plan young persons will not receive criminal records which will follow them for the rest of their lives for a ''mistake'' committed in their youths. Although student opinion is generally anti-Solicitor Foard It is time students and the public in general recognize Foard's concern with problems facing them and acknowledge his efforts to Improve conditions In our community and society. Today revisited Some po By JOHN GASH Associate Editor I will not bore you with more analysis of the New Hampshire primary except to say that Muskie will have about 58 per cent of the votes and Nixon will have about 70 per cent. (At the time this was written, the results were not known.) Watching the results will be some governor in the South. Or some senator in the Midwest. Or some black woman in New York. People should be watching these people because these are the people who will benefit by the nomination of the winner of the primaries. These are the people who could be the next vice president. I know it is early for speculation, but the conventions are just right around the corner. And who are the vice presidential candidates? It all depends who wins the nomination. If a New Englander wins the nomination, then the vice president probably would have to be a Midwestern or a Southerner. If a middle of the roader wins, then it would be nice to have either a woman or a black (sorry about that, Ed) to "balance" the ticket. The best vice-presidential candidate would be Shirley The watermark Scarf up By BOB CRAFT Feature Editor The Allman Brothers Band has released a new. album entitled "Eat a Peach" and it's terrific. It's a double album and it con tains all the things the Allman Brothers do well, renditions of old blues songs, their own -material, and superb interesting jams, plus some new material that includes acoustic work. The first side of the album is all new material written by Gregg Allman and Dicky Betts. This is litical dar Chisholm. Of course, if one were really out to balance a ticket, she would work ideally on a Wallace Chisholm ticket. Wallace with all the racists and Chisholm the blacks, women and liberals. Of course, they would have to run on separate but equal tickets. Now, seriously, I do think Chisholm would be the best vice president candidate. But, with whom would she run? Muskie? Nope, Ed has said that a black vice president would mean certain defeat. But one must wonder about that statement. As Julian Bond recently said, it's not whether America is ready for a black vice president but whether they are ready for a Polish-American president. How about McGovern? Nope, also. Too much liberalism on that ticket. Anyway, McGovern will never get the nomination, which is quite unfortunate because McGovern is the best candidate for the presidency. Well, looks like Shirley won't make it with the two major Democratic candidates. But she isn't the only possible vice presidential candidate. Reuben Askew, Florida governor, would balance the ticket because he is from the South and he is also a liberal, a good qualification ac 'Eat a PE the only side of the album on which Duane Allman's work doesn't appear and while Betts' guitar is extremely competent, he can't replace Duane Allman. The first cut on the album is "Ain't Wastin' Time No More," a song written by Gregg in which he uses a piano instead of the organ. It's a rocking bluesy type tune (if there is such a thing) that starts everything off right. Then comes the next number, an instrumental written by Dicky Betts, entitled "Les Brers in 'A' khorses cording to so-called experts. Askew is presently risking his political neck because he has come out in favor of busing in a very antibusing state. He has a lot of guts and that's rare in the world of the present-day political world. There have also been whisperings that South Carolina's own Fritz Hollings may be a choice. He is from the South and occasionally liberal. Warren Magnuson, an obscure but popular senator from Washington state, could be the darkhorse of the group. All can didates, however, are darkhorses at this stage of the game. Of course anything is possible. There were even rumors floating in 1968 that Robert McNair, then South Carolina governor, was a possible vice presidential candidate for Hubert Humphrey. Remember McNair? He was the one who got on television and said that no pol)ce had raided the dorms during the riots. And he was the one who was so "popular" for his stance concerning the Orangeburg massacre. Yes, almost anybody could be considered for the vice presidency. But it sure would be nice to have Chisholm up there instead of Spouting Spiro. .ach' soon minor." It begins with sustained mysterious chords and then like "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed", another song by Betts, the tone of the piece changes abruptly. Berry Oakley starts working the bass into a fast run and the entire tempo of the piece picks up and runs until finally the sustained chords return to end it. The final cut on the first side is "Melissa" by Gregg Allman. On this cut, Gregg Allman plays acoustic guitar, organ, piano and does the vocal. (Ah, the wonders of multi track recording) "Melissa" is a quiet, beautiful love song, that is almost worth the price of ad mission alone. The third side of the album contains more tracks from the Fillmore East, three of them, the only real blemish on them being the smartasses in the audience yelling at the stage. The fourth cut is another number by Dicky Betts entitled "Blue Sky" on which he does the vocal. "Blue Sky" is a pleasant happy vocal with the refrain "You're my blue sky-You're my sunny day--Don't you know it makes me high-When you turn your love my way." The last cut is an acoustic in strumental duet between Duane Allman and Dicky Betts written by Duane entitled "Little Martha." 'Sides two and four of "Eat a Peach" is a thirty five minute jam entitled "Mountain Jam." For all' of you people who won dered what the next song the AlIman Brothers went into after the twenty-five minute "Whipping Post" on the Fillmore East Album, this is it. You can line up the three discs and listen straight through from the screams of the audience "Whipping Post, Whipping Post" and a slightly annoyed Gregg Allman trying to announce the (('onnuen nnon pa 3)