Show y Monday April Page 2 1 1974 i editorial comment ft The criminal in uniform The peace officer has long been portrayed asTKe stalwart citizen of America friend to children and dogs protector of the innocent defender of peace and order Today however the image of the man in uniform is under fire and the bullets are coming from various exposes of widespread police and military corruption This week's Time magazine describes a series of articles in the Indianapolis "Star" which alleges that many officers in that city "are involved in prostitution both as paid 'protectors' and nonpaying patrons Police shakedowns of drug pushers and users are 'a way of life' in the Indianapolis underworld Some policemen regularly traffic in stolen Transcendental course Editor Student Life This quarter the Free University will offer a couse “Transcendentalism” entitled for which I have been designated coordinator Although the participants will decide the exact course content the current title does not accurately reflect that “Transcendentalism” content usually connotes a literary philosophy associated with Emerson Thoreau and Whitman courses dealing with this subject are offered regularly at USU There is however no formal treatment of the transcendent field since its nature is experiential not philosophical and the only satisfactory approaches derive from Eastern schools such as Yoga Vedanta Zen or Sufism The ccftnmon premise of these activities remains intuitive (not intellectual) and the approaches involve practicing techniques much more than “logic” as it is narrowly construed in the West These methods lead to the experience of and stabilization in conconsciousness pure wihout an object or sciousness absolute being Our course of study will explore how one achieves this status the nature of the experience and practical results For these reasons I invite any goods" Though they may be new to Indianapolis these revelations aren't new to us We've heard them before in the Knapp Commission Report on which the movie "Serpico" was based The Knapp Commission found that a large numberof New York City police were "on the take" accepting bribes from a few dollars a week to many thousands of dollars weekly The military is no more immune than the police Few can forget pictures from Vietnam of American soldiers torturing helpless Vietnamese prisoners The My Lai massacre is no less forgettable nor are the reports of heavy drug use among American soJdiers in Vietnam On Friday four years after the incident a federal grand jury indicted one present and seven former members of the Ohio National Guard for their involvement in the Kent State shootings An Ohio grand jury had previously absolved the guardsmen of all blame Only strong protests from the dead student's parents brought the case under question again These events indicate that men in uniform are as human as the rest of us and are equally subject to corruption Traditionally when there is trouble for example when a policeman kills an alleged criminal we tend to accept the policeman's explanation at face value We submit that peace officers be fried just as extensively in these cases as would be a person who shoots and kills a policeman Support your local sheriff but make sure he's doing his job right individuals having knowledge of such techniques to contribute to this course Appropriate areas include at least the following: to the transcendent (karate hatha yoga breathing "exercises” mantra or mandala meditation use of Koans) paths Brent Harker editor exspontaneous personal periences scientific studies evocation in art literature and nature and origin of poetics in education language utility and appreciating the environment the list grows easily Anyone interested in attending or in making contributions is welcome to propose alternatives and methods of teaching for our activities depend entirely on your wishes My personal goal is that participants emerge from the course with a clear understanding of the value these traditional psychologies of being lend to personal development The class will meet Tuesdays 7:30 pm in Business Bldg 319 Staff Brent Harker Editor-in-chi- ef Patricia Woodbury Managing Editor Corol Harmer News editor Kristy Larsen copy editor Steve Snow Bveinew Manager Kn p0$0ra Sport Edita Rose Editorial Assistant Sandy Hendricks: Assistant Randy Sports Editor Jodeane Albright Editorial Assistant James Hargrove unanimously to reject a proposal to have a class on socialism among their spring offerings (they also unanimously rejected one on bartending) According to one of the students on the board Rolfe Kerr and LeRoy Dennis-t- he two administrators on the board-to- ok the lead in persuading the Policy Board to avoid controversy The Free University exhibit in the UC basement claims that the “Free University Will Free You” I think the Free University will have to be freed before it can free us c I c Dayne Goodwin 529-56-40- 15 Bookstore rip-o- ff 1 Editor Student Life agree wholehartedly with your most recent editorial “A double-edge- d Sword” The time is right for not only the bookstore to review its book selling and buying practices but the time is also right for instructors to review their class requirements when selecting texts I - In the past four years I have attended classes where an exd book was pensive required After attending the class I tried to sell it back to the bookstore they refused it because the insturctor that was to teach that class next quarter was using another text What a sucker-stu- ck with a bran-ne(and ex And hasn’t this book pensive) happened just once or only to hurd-boun- w me afe going to If instructors 't require a certain text for their classes then they should make sure that that particular text will be used again and again Some of the classes that I have taken use the same book again and again But more often than not the bookstore will not buy the book back unless the class if 1 i sV offered the following quarter Sometimes I have waited as long as a year to try and sell a book i - back At the end of this school year I will graduate But I’ll be stuck with books I can’t sell back until even if I were in the area (which is doubtful) and I’ll have a good collection of useless brand-nebooks that I couldn’t sell even if I were here I wonder if ths library takes donations? To the bookstore and i fT ‘75 517-52-12- 40 v w Senior writers: Pauline Summers Dennis Frantzen Richard Brady Lois Walters Jerry Overson Bound university Becky Gillette Lynn Lanier Editor: Features writer: Linda Backstrom Entertainment writer Susan Arrington The tI YOU? six-memb- Policy Board er Free University voted of the Dennis K Frantzen 327-42-13- 63 Photographers: Tony Collis Richard Albright Business office: Steve Snow Steve Leggett Steve Theurer T Debbie Drage id i ' i - ' 4 V ' w r f ' |