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Police subpoena library records
1• n Hendricks investigation

Did Jodi Foster and Taxi Driver in- checked out the book. Arndus'.y ac--
spire John Hinkley to shoot Presi- knowledged that the names of several
dent Reagan? Did Twinkies and Coca people came to the police's attention.
Cola drive Dan White to gun down the
Mayor of San Francisco? It appeared to the Post reporter who

Did David Hendricks, the Bloomington interviewed Dozier that the State's
man charged in the ax murders of his
wife and children, get some ideas Attorney was willing to change the
for the crime from a book he checked
out of the library? Apparently the_ request so that it asked only for the
Bloomington police thought it was
possible. The Post Amerikan has records of a specific person. Amdur-
learned that during the investigation
of the Hendricks' case the police sky confirmed that the library made
subpoenaed circulation records from
the Bloomington Public Library to no effort to negotiate, even informally,
determine if Hendricks had read a
book called Fatal Vision. about the terms of the subpoena. The

According to Saul Amdursky, director director said he talked to the law-
of the Bloomington library, the police
presented him with "a properly secured yers--who represent the State and
subpoena" and he turned over the
circulation records requested, after the City, not the library board--and
talking with the State Library in
Springfield (which is under the Secre- found out that "the requestinq author-
tary of State's Office) and the City
Attorney. ities were within the law." And that

Director Amdursky confirmed that the was that. fact raises the most serious objection
book police were interested in was
Fatal Vision by Joe McGinniss. Amdur- to the whole business of searching
sky also confirmed that the police
asked for a list of everyone who had Although Amdursky said "We were not library records: it's bogus. What
checked out the book. going to release records if we did a person checks out of a library is

Fatal Vision is the nonfiction account not have to," he also admitted that nobody else's business and it doesn't
of the case of Dr. Jeffrey McDonald,
the ex-Green Beret who was arrested the attorneys he consulted advised prove a thing about the person's
and convicted of the brutal slayings against fighting the subpoena in character, behavior, or anything else.
of his wife and two young daughters-- court. It doesn't even prove that the
9 years after the murders were comit-
ted. The book came out in the fall person has read the book.
of 1983, not too much befcre the
Hendricks killings occurred on Bloom- Second, it became clear to the Post
ington's east side.
Amerikan reporters who investigated Director Amdursky told the Post that
Striking parallels the incident that the library could his library keeps circulation records
have objected to the broad nature of
The parallels between the McDonald the request--but didn't. State's aQOUt 15 months. An informed source
case and the Hendricks case are Attorney Ron Dozier told the Post, told us that the Normal Public Library
striking, especially if you want to "They can move to quash the subpoena keeps its records for several years.
if they think it's too broad." Dozier But once a book has been returned,
believe that David Hendricks is didn't even know that the library had why keep the records at all?
guilty of killing his wife and kids. complied. Amdursky indicated that when the
Librarian Amdursky refused to confirm compertization of the circulation
that the police discovered what they
were looking for--presumably, whether process is complete no one will know
David Hendricks had checked out Fatal
Vision. who checked out a book once it has

Several disturbing points surfaced in No effort been returned.
the Post's probe of this matter.
Tom Eimermann of the American Civil Saul Amdursky said that he has heard
First, the police did not confine Liberties Union said he wished that of other cases of police checking
their request to the records of the library had moved to quash the library records. The FBI got records
specific individuals (Hendricks or subpoena. Eimermann pointed out that from John Hinkley's hometown library
anyone else they may have suspected). "searches" like this one raise impor- in Colorado, for instance. In an-
They went on a "fishing expedition" tant civil liberties questions that other case the Post has heard about,
for the names of anybody who had need to be decided in court. the police decided that a crime they
were investigating had something to do
An Illinois law which became effective with witchcraft or the occult, so they
Jan. 1, 1984, requires that the in- went to the local library to see who
formation contained in the registra- had recently checked out books on the
tion and circulation records of subject of witchcraft.·
libraries be kept confidential. But
the new law (Public Act 83-179) con- You can see how dangerous this
tains an exception "pursuant to a approach to criminal investigation
court order." It's good to have a is: people are incriminated by
law like this one on the books; but what they read (or check out).
if libraries don't fight subpoenas
that are too broad or otherwise un- Police should be discouraged from
reasonable, the legislation doesn't using this meaningless procedure.
provide much protection for a citi- It is a clear threat to privacy and
zen's private reading tastes. individual liberty. Librarians,
library boards, library associations,
It's bogus and the ACLU should take a strong
stand that keeps the cops out of
the libraries and preserves our
right to read what we want.

The Hendricks case shows th~t police --Ferdydurke, Mark Silverstein
can find out who reads what just Ly
asking for the information. This

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Twinkie killer released Post-Amerikan Feb., 1984 5

Dan White is· out and not sorry

On November 27, 1978, Dan White, hall and staged a riot that left days, buttons with that slogan
a former San Francisco supervisor. 61 police officers injured and caused began to appear on lapels through-
loaded his .38 Smith-Wesson, $1 million in damage. The anger has out the city's gay sections.
crawled through a window in city . not gone away.
hall, slipped through a back door The Committee Against Survival of
in the mayor's office, and shot "For many of us, when Harvey got Dan White issued a press release
Mayor George Moscone twice in the elected, it represented the first six months ago, offering $85,000
chest and two more times in the time that we felt we had won," .says to the person who offs White. The
ear. The Irish Catholic Vietnam Bill Kraus, one of San Francisco's "Dan White Hit Squad" has become
paratrooper-turned-cop-turned- most prominent gay activists. another favorite label for angry
fireman then reloaded his pistol v:ith "Against all the odds, we had gay men in northern California.
wooden-tipped, dum-dum bullets finally won. Then, we had it taken
and walked across city hall to blow away from us in the most brutal But concealment for Dan White may
holes in the skull of Supervisor fashion."
Harvey Milk, White's bitter opponent not be too hard. When he faced trial,
and the country's first openly gay Change the law
city official. his friends and sympathizers ·
Five years, one month, and ten days The Dan White case prompted the
later--on Jan. 6, 1984--White walked California legislature to rewrite reportedly raised $100,000 to finance
out of Soledad Prison and went into the state's criminal code, unani-
hiding in Los Angeles to serve out mously voting to abolish the his defense. Enough fans exist to
his one-year parole term. "diminished capacity" defense which
His release has caused outrage in won White's manslaughter verdict. provide White with some hideaway
California and elsewpere across the The legislature also increased the
nation, especially among gay folk penalties for voluntary manslaughter. far from the gay community's vows of
who feel that White killed Harvey
Milk because the assassin hated There were a number of attempts to vengeance.
homosexuals and that the jury's own keep Dan White in jail. Gay people
anti-gay feelings allowed them to petitioned to have his parole date Few who are familiar with White
let White get away with murder. revoked. Then an attorney for the believe that he feels sorry for
Milk estate requested that the what he did on November 27, 1978.
Twi nkie defense federal government try White for "He has to understand that he blew
violating Milk and Moscone's civil it. I don't think he understands
At White's trial, a parade of rights. that," says Ray Sloan, the man who
psychiatrists told the largely managed White's 1977 campaign for
white, working-class, Catholic This last move, far-fetched as it the board of supervisors. Friends
jury--from which gays had been was, picked up support from Mayor say that White has yet to demon-
excluded--that White was simply not Dianne Feinstein, U.S. Senator strate any regret or remorse over
capable of committing cold-blooded Alan Cranston, a unanimous board of the killings.
murder, although he confessed to supervisors, and both the city's
the shootings. One psychiatrist congresswomen. Even California's The Dan White case seems far from
theorized that White's "diminished Republican governor, George over. A friend of White's, who
capacity" may have been the result Deukemejian, joined the chorus, asked not to be named, said: "I
of too much junk food, notably saying that "justice was net ade- think the worst is yet to come. I
Twinkies, Coca-Cola, and potato quately served" by White's five think Dar. will always be incar-
chips. This became known as the year sentence. But the federal cerated somewhat."
"Twinkie Defense." governmer:t decided such a prosecution
The jury said the killings were wasn't legally possible. --Ferdydurke
voluntary manslaughter, not first-
degree murder, as the prosecution Gay revenge? Sources: Randy Shilts, "The Case
argued. Tht j~dge sentenc~d That Won•t Go Away," The New York
Now that White is out on parolE.,
White to the T-aximum term, ::re there ~s much talk of reveng2 and Native, 16 January 1984; Bay Area
retribution. When a crowd of 5,000 Reporter, Jan. 12, 1984.
sentence which expired Jan. v. carried candles past city hall in
The night of the verdict ar: angry San Francisco to observe the fifth
crowd of 10,000 gays stormed city anniversary of the two slayings in
November, hundreds started shouting~
FINES GAY ENTERTAINMEN "Off White, off White." Within
IN CENTRAL \LLINOIS
Gays protest White's release
OPEN NIGHTLY 'TIL +A.M.
PRESENT THIS AD AT THE BAR Anger over Dan White's short prison written for the occasion, "Danny Boy."
FOR A DRINK. LIMIT ONE' PER sentence still runs high in San Fran-
cisco. On the day of White's release, It was a ballad of Dan White's Fcorrimmoe~e
CUSTOMER PER NIGHT the city held two protest rallies-- life in prison, and release.
4,000 San Franciscans gathered down- than ~2 minutes, the crowd sang the
town at midday, and 9,000 turned out
for the evening rally on Castro refraln: "Oh, Danny Boy--where you
Street.
gonna go? Someone's gonna find ya,
The two gatherings sent an ominous
message to White: the state may have wherever you go."
forgiven him, but the people of his
home town damn him forever. The coordinator of the January 6

Sister Boom-Boom, the most publicized protests described the evening rally
member of the Sisters of Perpetual as "a celebration." He added: "Dan
Indulgence, was the keynote speaker
at both rallies. Waving a Twinkie in White failed. When he shot George and
the air and then taking a bite, Boom- Harv~y, he was aiming at the Gay and
Boom recited from the Book of Dan:
"Take this and eat, for it is my Lesblan movement. He missed--we've
defense. And of this ye shall receive
come out of this even stronger and
not life, but 5 to 9, with time off more unified,"

for good behavior." --Bay Area Reporter,
January 12, 1984

Sister Boom-Boom also said out loud
what many protestors were thinking:
"Yesterday was the last day Dan White
could spend knowing he would live
through the day. Today Dan White
begins a life sentence--and I'm sorry
to say it won't be.· a very long one. "

Sensing this mood of vengeance in the
crowd, attorney Mary Dunlop, another
rally speaker, warned the protestors:
"We demean ourselves and we become our
own enemies when we expect to avenge
this wrong by killing the killer."

Despite the angry tone of the midday
protest, there were no confrontations
with the police. The evening rally

on Castro was lighter, with musicians
and entertainers added to the roster
of speakers.

Singer-songwriter Blackberri moved
through the crowd with a number

Miscellaneous outrages
you may have missed

compiled by Mark Silverstein

Murdoch acquires Post·Amerikan

There'll be some changes in the for- Hho's nuking who. Bland economic --------------
mat of this paper now that millionaire forecasts are as dead as last week's
publisher Rupert Murdoch has bought marine. County Board
it for an undisclosed sum rumored to muzzles public
be as high as three figures. "Headlines . . . you gotta grab the
eye. You guys are way too downbeat. A new state law requires that county
Murdoch himself could not be reached Look at this cover: nice graphic, boards permit members of the public
because he was busy selecting the if you biz it up a bit with some to comment or ask questions at ~ounty
"Babe of the Week" photo for the Times color, but the head is nowhere-- board meetings. The law permits
of London, but a spokesperson for him "Revenge of the Cabbage Patch Kids." the county boards to restrict the
said that the Post Amerik~n needed a I mean, c'mon! For something like public's right "subject to reasonable
number of style changes. this you need what we call a nut- constraints."
grabber: "Tots Slash Dozens in Toy The McLean County Board spelled out
"First off," said the spokesperson, Orgy." See what I mean? Now that'll those "reasonable constraints" at
"more color. Lots more. Purple sell papers." its mid-January meeting.
lettering will really grab the eye.
And pies, tons of pies. Something to Post Amerikan staffers Ferdydurke,
hold the interest. We plan to run a Phoebe Caufield, and Marshall Law,
shot of a naked narc, full front, picketing outside the paper's main
every month, plus a Ms. Demeanor on office, told this reporter that they
page 2. were considering founding a rival
publication of their own.
"And the format has got to change.
No more of this wimpy cerebral junk. "We're not sure what to call it,"
If you're gonna talk politics, go said Phoebe. "Maybe the Pre-
for it! Print the ballsy stuff. Determined."
Believe me, economic forecasts Jon't
go over. Dirt sells, man! Your "Or the Post Bail," said Ferdy.
average Joe Liberal wants to know
--Scaramouche

Members of the public wishing to

address the McLean County Board must
submit a written request five days
before a board meeting, according to
the new policy.

This means members of the public must
submit their requests to speak even
before the agenda for the meeting
has been published.

Former County Board member Wayne

Holmes took issue with the board's

decision. "You are in contempt, not

in compliance of the new state law,"

he told the County Board, according

to a Pantagraph article.
Pantagraph gets high(er) .......- - - - - -.....
Group urges
Life in the With a small two-column ad in its
subsidized lane Sunday Jan. 15 edition, the Daily ..
Pantagraph notified its readers that
the price of home delivery would tips to police
increase immediately from $2.75 to
A local group is urging citizens
$3.25 for each two-week period.
The opening of K's Merchandise to phone in anonymous tips to
Mart in October drew a substantial To help gain acceptance of the police to report suspected drunken
amount of additional traffic to price increase, the Pantagraph drivers, according to a mid-
the intersection of College ·continued its traditional. - · December Pantagraph article.
Avenue and Veteran's Parkway. manipulation of public sympathy
Accidents increased. for those young overworked news- Carroll Oien, President of the
Alliance Against Intoxicated

Authorities took quick action. paper carriers. Motorists, said the police can
By early December, they agreed to keep the source of their tips
build a left-turn lane for Veteran's "As a direct result of this rate anonymous.
change the carrier delivering your
Parkway. .Pantagraph ... will receive more "The ultimate objective," the

The City of Normal will pay $10,000. profit," the announcement read. Pantagraph quoted Oien, "is to make
The Illinois Dept. of Transportation it socially unacceptable to drink
will pay $25,000. Somehow the paper forgot to and drive in McLean County."
mention that the carriers will

K's Merchandise Mart pays nothing. receive only 12¢ of the 50¢ The anonymous· ·tip set-up could tempt
increase. potential saboteurs of the program

to phone in "tips" on their favorite

politicians or business executives

as they leave evening meetings. (But

who would ever suggest that?)

Oien believes that people drive while
drunk or stoned simply because they

are not afraid of getting caught.

But some people drive because there
aren't many transportation alterna-
tives to use while they're out
partying.

105 Broadway • Normal The Bloomington City Council issues
liquor licenses to outlying bars
which require driving, while denying
licenses tc neighborhood bars or

downtown bars which would serve the

social classes within walking dis-
tance of downtown.

We teach. you· to ..play, @PITAR Maybe Oien's group could push for
late-night hus service to night spot
the~ft ·sel-l _lou the right guitar. ~lD areas. With the savings in insurance
pay-outs, reduced police and court
time, and less strain on jail

facilities, a bussed drinker might

even be cheaper than a busted drinker.

7

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Post-Amerikan Feb., 1984 8

Liquor ,commission
show their class

A couple of recent actions by obvious "close association" with If that turns out to be the case,
Bloomington's City Council and , Craig. would surely be the fault of the
Liquor Commission provide further
evidence of what ~eems a disturbing The commission made a feeble attempt owners. City government watchers
trend of class discrimination in to justify its earlier inaction by
applying the city codes. saying it had to wait until Craig's know well that to play fast and
loose.with the reactionary council
To begin with, the Liquor conviction exhausted appeals. The majority is political suicide.
Commission is now attempting--
nearly one year after the fact--to licenses of both Bacon and Casey Regardless of the council's mOtives
undo the discrimination it was Jones--both owners of working-class with this license, the peculiar
guilty of in cases involving a taverns--were yanked even before condition that would not be applied
black, working-class tavern and a they had a chance to appeal. to an east-side business represents
white, trendy one. discriminatory law making.

Robert Bacon, owner of the defunct --Holden Bernice
Ace High Lounge, and Michael Craig,
managing partner of Shakey Jake's, 527 N. MAIN
were both arrested, convicted and BLOOMINGTON
sentenced for dealing cocaine
around Christmas of 1982. 829-7760

Bacon is a black man who ran a multi- JANUARY
colored club that catered primarily '
to blacks. Following his sentencing, Wed. 25 $1.01 cover, pitchers,
the Liquor Commission revoked his KooL. R,Abyr drinks. 7-9 p.m.
license; the action was in accor- Should we suppose it is coincidence
dance with city codes prohibiting that Shakey Jake's was a white Thur. 26 1440 Nuwavelength
convicted felons from owning one. upper-middle class place that
Craig's license was not immediately catered chiefly to young pre~ welcomes "hard-core
revoked. fessionals, lawyers and the like? "!:;st.t/EfJ.IICllfFNf'SJ:J. ~N£"
power tra...,sh5 "pecl.o't.l~..j...be
The commission then placed an unpre- Perhaps. But a review of any
cedented four-month moratorium on number of commission license hearing aio.
any new license for that location. will reveal the class consciousness
In the words of Assistant Corpora- at work. Time and again applicants 1Fri. 27 ,fllriE ?'#E J/lfOKE~s
tion Counsel Paxton Bowers, the are asked what kind of clientele
intent was to "clear the place they will attract, including the Sat. 28 AI<.
out." occupations and INCOME brackets.
'FEBRUARY
Following that, Bacon's former The second case in point involves the
common-law wife, Annabelle Grimm, application of Twyla's Rumor, Inc., Weq. 1 'UubfV,II( I(~ bar boogie
was refused a license to re-open the for a license to operate the former
place because of her "close HiDeHo on North Main Street. Thur. 2 irtV'i~ible.
association with (Bacon)."
The record is also clear on the Fri. 3 ~J-IE J<JND
The rationale is a weak one at prejudice held by both the commis-
best, for how much should one be sion and the City Council toward with special guest The Strand
responsible for the past sins of persons who frequent that part of
one's pals? town. Although few if any of the /HE SHEIKSWed. 8 Miller Hi-Life Rock Network
members of either body have ever been presents:
Although the move seemed to violate inside the Metropole or the Polar
the civil rights of.Ms. Grimm, who Lounge in recent history, they will Thur. 9 WMLA 93 FM welcomes
incidentally had broken ties with speak at length of the sinful
decadence that supposedly takes place C2)~tJ~
Bacon, a case could be made for the there regularly. JNCK$with special guest ?oRK{ ~L
commission's proper use of
licensing discretion. After denying several legitimate Fri • 10 tYJt.k(l.. jordan L ~
requests to open clubs downtown,
That case falls on its face, however, the council finally approved a rockaf11a·t·l~s
when considering the lack of action restaurant license for Twyla's
in response to Michael Craig's Rumor. Thur. 16
conviction.
But there's a catch. After their Fri. 17
The Post Arnerikan learned that tired slanders about downtown patrons
when Liquor Commissioner Richard creating some kind of "skid row" Sat. 18
Buchanan and Bowers were asked about effect, the council members put an
that later, they responded only unprecedented condition on the ._w_e_d_._ _2_z--------~~~~oD~~c£.D. . . . . . . . ._ .
that they had no idea Craig was license: the city will audit the
involved in the operation of Shakey books after 90 days to see if indeed Thur. 23 <tO B£
Jake's. it is functioninng as a restaurant.
Fri. 24'
Never mind that the Pantagraph's The code says that more than 50
business story on the bar's opening percent of sales must come from Sat.
listed Craig as the man in charge; or something other than alcohol.
that anyone with a sense of downtown While that is clearly spelled out, EVERY WED. & THURS .. *
night scene knew Craig was the boss the city has never in recent years
and in fact the place carried his $1 COVER 'TIL 8
own nickname. At the very least, conducted an audit of a new business $1 50 PITCHERS 7-9
one wonders what kind of job the to determine if it complies.
Liquor Commission is doing if it -
does not know who is running the Perhaps it is also coincidence that
places it licenses. the business, which recently opened * Except-concert nights
after changing its name to Butch
After some "investigation" the Gardens, is an unabashed gay bar. LISTEN FOR MANY OF THESE
commission finally determined that ARTISTS ON "THE NEW WAVELENGTH"
Craig was indeed a partner. It The early indications are the place
will now probably give owner Terry will be hard pressed to meet the 1440 AM WRBA 1-6 pm WEEKDAYS
Shanahan a reprimand or fine in council'~ directive, because i t
connection with re-opening the place neither advertises itself as nor
as Studebaker's--after Craig is purports in any conventional way
gone. (As this is written, the to be a restaurant.
commissioners had not yet ruled in
Shanahan's hearing on charges that
he deceived them by failing to
disclose that Craig was a partner).

The logical assumption is that the
license should have been revoked
at the same time Bacon's was. The
question of Craig's ownership was
moot: if Ms. Grimm was denied a
license because of her association
with Bacon, then Shanahan should
have been shut down because of his

Post-Amerikan Feb. 1984 9

Tougher laws for drunk drivers

the slightest suspicion of drunk license, he or she will receive a
driving. Many of these cases are plea- minimum sentence of seven days in jail
bargained with the State's Attorney, or 30 days of community service.
but even first offenders will probably
have to pay a $300 fine plus court Police, prosecutors, and judges in
¥cLean County 1are getting tougher
costs of $50, and complete .an alcohol · with DUI defendants, and judges are
assessment program at the Lighthouse revoking licenses more frequently.
in Bloomington, which costs $250. The
first offender probably will also be Court supervision sentences are now
under court supervision for 12 months. required to be reported to the sec-
retary of State. This new law helps
Citizens groups have put pressure on During the 1983 session, the Illinois any court keep track of DUI offenders.
police, prosecutors, judges and leg- legislature passed several bills con- If someone is placed on court super-
islators to get tougher with drunk cerning DUI that went into effect Jan. vision in Chicago, for example, McLean
drivers. Readers should be aware of 1, 1984. The most drastic of the new County will be able to find out about
the new tougher attitudes and laws that laws requires that upon a second con- it.
are now in effect. viction on a DUI charge, the driver
will spend two days in jail or do 10 The court may sentence a DUI offender
"P' olice in McLean County are making many days of community service. In the to court supervision only once in a
more arrests for driving under the past, the sentence for the second five-year period. In the past, a DUI
influence (DUI). Police are stopping conviction has often been license sus- offender may have gotten two periods
the driver for DUI if they have even pension or revocation, plus a large of court supervision in a row.
fine. Under the new law, the driver
who receives a second DUI conviction Post Arnerikan readers should be aware
will probably go to jail. There will that the likelihood of getting
be no court supervision for second-time arrested for DUI has increased and the
offenders. sentencing has gotteo stiffer.

Another new law requires that if a A. Barrister
person's license is revoked for a DUI
charge, and that person is later
caught for driving on that revoked

Project Vote holds registration drive

Frightened by the nuclear sword, or threatened with one, you are side, trying to find unregistered
dangling a pushbutton away? Angry involved. If you've felt the cold voters and sign them up.
a_bout your job that suddenly dis- breath of the military draft or the
appeared? Concerned because the scoc~­ chilling numb of the nuclear threat, And on Saturday, Jan. 28, from 10 a.m.
shovel and oil well artis~s have been you are involved. If you've worried to 2 p.m., both a county and a city
let loose on the landscape? Worried that young Americans will soon be registrar will be available at the
that next time you go to apply for food Laborers' Hall, R.R. 3 (behind
stamps, they really will ask for an dodging bullets in Central America, Howard Johnson's, on Cabintown Road).
ounce of your flesh? you are involved.
.-·f
All of the above can be ascribed to Registering to vote is an easy process:
those fearless individuals in Wash- if you're downtown, from 8 a.m. to ~ ·~
ington and Springfield that some of 4:30 p.m. on any weekday, take five
us entrust our lives, possible deaths minutes and go to the County Court- ~ i
and well-being with--politicians. house. Registration takes all of 5 ~ ~ ~,~
minutes. If you're a Normal or a ~~~
Some of us, because only some of McLean County resident, you go to
us bother to registe~ and vote, ex- the County Clerk's office on the north .'tl
end of the lst floor; if you are a
ercise the one group power we have Bloomington resident, you go to the
over these well-oiled individuals. city election ~ommission on the 3rd
floor.
So register and vote. If you've
If you will be 18 by March 20, the moved in the past year, changed your
day of the Illinois primary, you are name, or allowed your registration to
eligible. The only other requirement lapse through inactivity, register
is that you are an American citizen
and have not been convicted of a major again.
felony. Tuesday, Feb. 21, is the
last day you can register before the Don't sit on the sidelines in 1984.
March 20th primary. Registration
opens again on March 26 and will stay Politics is going to be the biggest
open through October. show'in town; it will beat the
Olympics, movies, the World Series,
McLean County Project Vote, a coali- or the Super Bowl. Politics is going
tion of labor, social service, to be everybody's topic. Be involved,
,..10men's, and minority and senior and be involved in your own future.
organizations, will be conducting a
door-to-door registration campaign Register and vote.
on Bloomington's west side, beginning
Feb. 4. Each weekend, volunteers For more information on Project Vote,
will sweep door to door on the west
call 828-4368.

--MgM

Four years ago, a has-been actor be- Diesel DickS
came President of the United States,
because barely 50% of the American ******************** TRUCKS &
people bothered to go to the polls; CARS
the new President soon claimed an We specialize
overwhelming mandate from about 26% r************
of the American people--the majority in diesel car
having sat by the sidelines and let FOREIGN &
the parade pass them by. repair DOMESTIC

Politics is no easy thing; it's easy ** * * ** * * ** ** ** * * * * * *
to complain that there is no choice,
because often there is no real choice; 508 N. MADISON ST. 9:00-5:30 828-1714
it's easy to complain about big
money, because big money does have a
chokehold on the democratic process.

But all of this can change if common
people bother to get involved, bother
to take one day every year or two and
let their voice be heard.

There are all kinds of excuses: "I
don't want to get involved" is
probably the favorite. But if you've
stood in a cheese line some time in
the past three years, you are involved.
If you've been given a lay-off notice,

Hendricks case revelations
upset Dozier

The famous loose lips belonging to By the time the grand jury indicted prosecutor's case look bad, which
State's Attorney Ron Dozier started Hendricks in late December, the most might anger the State's Attorney, but
flapping uncontrollably again in damaging evidence against Hendricks isn't grounds for a change of venue.
late December. known to the public was only this:
laboratory analyses of the children's 0
There had been a Pantaqraph article stomach contents suggest they were rl
which displeased the State's Attorney. killed at a time when, according to
His tongue gyrated wildly against his Hendricks' story, he was still at home. '<:!'
teeth, lips and upper palate. At the
same time, his lungs expelled air, and Prosecutors and police had linked co
words spilled out. their silence about the case to an
anticipated motion for a change of r"l'
Apparently operating independently venue. Too much prejudicial publi-
of rational control, the State's city would give defendant David
Attorney's mouth spluttered threats Hendricks grounds for getting the
of reprisals against the Pantagraph. trial moved to another county.
It mumbled vague hints of imaginary
prosecutions. It uttered slanderous Krebs' article revealed that the
characterizations of a Pantagraph grand jury vote to indict Hendricks
reporter. It filled the airwaves had not been unanimous. Two grand
(thanks to WJBC) with illogical, un- jurors were quoted saying the state's
supported statements. case was weak.

Observers of Ron Dozier's years in Dozier was furious. Second, Dozier later admitted to the
public office have seen this wild- Post-Amerikan that the law is unclear
mouth syndrome before. Some thought Unwritten rules about whether grand jurors are bound
he was finally getting it under con- to silence even after the grand jury
trol. This article would cost the taxpayers has adjourned. He plans to write
money, Dozier fumed, because it would the Attorney General for a legal
A relapse make it more likely that the trial opinion.
would be moved. It was illegal for
But Emile Krebs' Dec. 29 story about the grand jurors to talk about their Third, the list of grand jurors'
the Hendricks murder case triggered deliberations, Dozier declared, and names is public record.
Dozier's relapse. unethical for that "conniving" report-
er to ask them questions. Dozier de- Finally, any "unwritten rules" which
Krebs did something Dozier did not clared he would find out just how exchange a certain level of Pantagraph
like. She interviewed some of the Krebs managed to get a list of the self-censorship in return for the
grand jurors who had heard the evi- grand jurors' names. The Pantagraph State's Attorney's cooperation (when
dence against David Hendricks. had violated "unwritten rules" he wants to cooperate) deserve to be
governing relations with his office. broken.· Emile Krebs and the Panta-
From the time Hendricks' wife and Dozier threatened to stop cooperating graph deserve credit for breaking
three children were found axed to with the Pantagraph, and said he would them.
death Nov. 8 in their affluent east talk to newpaper higher-ups about
Bloomington home, investigating au- Krebs' reporti'lg. By threatening to muzzle reporters
thorities have released very few with a private conference with Pan-
details. Police did not decide to First of all, trials are moved because tag~aph higher-ups, by complaining
arrest David Hendricks until a of publicity prejudicial to the de- about violations of these alleged
month later. fendant. 'hrebs' article made the tacit understandings, Dozier seems
to be throwing his weight around,
endangering press freedom.

[JJ]f?~~§ ~00000~ 'ij'C[p{P(i But a competent wielder of power
'NELL, IT'S ALL O\I£R <c:lT L£A5T FOR tiDW~~) would muzzle the press privately.
By making these threats and charges
Rn~ltJ ''W~[ASlLLY" PL~~ HAS Ot.lt.E MoRE in public, Dozier is simply dis-
playing a curious and pitiful loss
WON t-IE~ PlAt~ 0._, RAblo wR9A'5 wA\l£LEtJ&TH! of control.
A.t'\. RA)Io'S FDRfMO~ T ''NE"'-' wA"E" !)HDW 1-fAS A
Dozier got a better hold of himself
NEW Ll:ASE OrV llFE TttA!IlkS "To T~-tE lODD-PLUS later in the day. Instead of calling
L-lS1'EtJtRS \J\otD. AtJ~wERf]) Ro'SltJ'S HAPHA2A Emile Krebs "conniving," he told a
LY ~~SSEMINATE~ SUQ~£~! Pantagraph interviewer that the grand
fo~ \ttOSE YOU \o.#HO lOOk THE TIME To jurors had been taken unfair advan-
tage of by "skillful and persistent
Flll A SUR"E'r', BELOW ARe Ttff ToP t£N reporters."
&~IVRE 5. <FRO/"\ A Ll5T OF 1~: 1U& bfi'L, ~H?
TttA"T Y~, "Ttt"£ ''Nfw wAVE LEI\JG'Tw" FAN, 'N~ttJ1' The grand jurors "may have said more
than they intended td," Dozier told
\o H~A~ MOR£ OF~ the Pantagraph.

fMJFETE'1E~ \IOTE-]) FOR.. He should know.
EQuAtL\'!

--Mark Silverstein

Waiting for a sign

What it didn't allow were signs

expressing political opinions or
Two Normal residents with the sup- beliefs that are not the subject
port of the American Civil Liber- of an upcoming election. One of the
- - - - - - - T o P TEN~!! ties Union, recently won a suit
residents, for instance, wanted to
against the town of Normal. Now
l.'R£GGAE ,,,~8L1fC'\ put up signs supporting the nuclear
they can put up whatever signs
l..PUN]( freeze.•

'3. SI'Y.TIE~S they want in their front yards.

~- R~}(A'ilLl..Y {,G'\ Last year Normal instituted a Chief U.S. District Judge agreed
Sign Code Ordinance, which
S. 'LOGAt.. MU'Z.lk E.l" with the plaintiffs that the Normal
limited the size, content, and
"· SkA (")S EI\RLlER FO~I"1 Of' REGGJ\E) fJ13 duration of signs displayed in sign code violated the First and
'1. Pos'! PuAJ)( Po$J1'I"E 5~S' the town. It permitted people to
put up temporary signs about Fourteenth amendments. In his
&.FvtJI< ~12 candidates or issues which were
C\. FR.oTo ~lc' COl..l> G-ARAG£ t.f\tJbS January 17 decision, he wrote that

THE t..1\<'C) "Above all else, the First Amend-

10. ~"\IAN'r C'No~JOV$ }J'O!S£.''!!) ment protects expression on political
issues of the day."

the subject of·a scheduled elec-

tion, and it allowed for rental, The Town of Normal may no longer en-
sale, and holiday signs. force its Sign Code.

--Phoebe Caulfield

Post activitiesFeb., 1984 11

U . N . · A m e r i k a nAmerikan

So now our dauntless leadership have it, is contrary to on tall bridges.
decided to get out of UNESCO, taking by Jeanne Kirkpatrick & Co.
25% of the budget with them. They're ever happened to rolling up one's Far from believing that the United
also screaming to get the U.N. out of sleeves and getting to work on a Nations is a powerless puppet of the
the U.S., and even that we shouldn't problem? err:erg ing nations, I vie•¥ it as the
belong to it at all. only hope of sanity in the world. It
I have more than a suspicion that our is currently fashionable to label this
This smacks of the kid who takes his respected President doesn't give a view "political naivete" or hatred
football home because the other guys damn what the rest of the world thinks. of warfare, etc. On the contrary, it
are winning. Apparently the U.N. is A near-unanimous General Assembly is fairly sophisticated, if one takes
only a worthwhile organization as long censure for the rape of Grenada caused the broad view that if everyone is
as it does what it is told. There are Reagan to say: "It didn't upset my ganging up on the U.S., then there
enough Third World nations now to breakfast at all." He's so intent must be some reason. It's crazy to
form a solidly superior voting bloc on his simple-minded crusade against write off the rest of the world with
against the West's excesses, and the "the focus of ultimate evil" (i.e., a gesture and a cry of "censure this,
present administration doesn't like Russia, if you haven't heard) that bozos!" Whenever the U.S.S.R. does
it one bit. Its answer is to quit, he's forgotten about all the other it, we jump on them with both f'eet.
to bail out. countries of the world. Now that the shoe is on the proverbial
other foot, it's time to look inward.
The Reaganites have invested very The Third World of today is the breed-
heavily in an image of old-style, ing ground of tomorrow's major powers. Maybe the Third World is mad as hell
macho, John \tlayne Amerika, an image Islam has been the ascendent culture and doesn't want to take it anymore,
they're destroying with this U.N. since the 7th century, and its momen- so to speak. I can't think why.
business. Things aren't going the way tum grows daily. Ignoring it--to say We've made a habit of hypocrisy. We
t:;ey' d like, so they want to cut and nothing of Africa--in favor ot con- war on left-wing dictatorships while
run. Corruption is allegedly rampant frontation with one nation and one supporting right-wing fascists every
in UNESCO. Even assuming that it is, system is a suicidal policy. One- bit as bad. We scream for free trade
and that the power of the Third World track minds eventually derail, usually while complaining about foreign com-
isn't the real problem, why dump it? petitors. We give lip service t~
human rights while giving arms to mass
The preservation of a world-wide edu- murderers. Maybe a little consis-
cational, scientific, and cultural tency is all the world asks. All I
organization is surely worthwhile. ask is that we listen.
Destroying it, instead of reforming
--Scaramouche

Computer predicts dangers in nuke launch

Surprisingly unpleasant results were and that the mean time to resolve a ~··
recently obtained by students in an false alarm is 7 minutes.
advanced computer simulation class at launch-on-warning policy is 7 minutes,
Illinois State University in Normal, NORAD data sho~ors that false alarms then we have no more than a 5% prob-
Illinois, when they were asked in a are occurring at a rate of 239 per ability of surviving more than 5 days
take-home final examination to predict year, and are increasing 32.4% without the onset of accidental
the most probable course of events annually. With a confidence level of nuclear war. If the mean time to
following implementation of a "launch- 95%, the students concluded that acci- resolve false alarms is 1.5 minutes
on-warning" policy by both the Soviets dental nuclear war can be expected (admittedly optimistic considering
and the Americans. within 3 days of the start of a the data), then we have no more than
launch-on-warning policy, given the a 5% probability of surviving launch-
"Launch-on-warning" means that a re- assumptions. on-warning more than 210 days before
taliatory strike will be auto- accidental nuclear war.
matically carried out if one side's Crissey also examined the effect of
computerized warning system decides only one side using a launch-on-warn- The inescapable conclusion is that
that the other side is beg-inning ing.policy, and found, as expected, there is no launch-on-warning policy
a nuclear first strike. In other that it is more dangerous for both that can expect to avoid for more
words, if one side is put into a "use sides to use the policy than for than a year self-activation of the
them or lose them" situation, that just one side. world'' s nuclear weapons syster~.. The
side will "use them" rather than "lose Soviet Union on ~1ay 17 announced that
them" to incoming missiles. The results are these: If the mean it would adopt launch-on-warning
time to resolve false alarms under a if the U.S. deployed Pershing II
Seniors and graduate students in missiles in Europe. The first
Dr. -Brian Crissey's Discrete System Pershing II missiles are now oper-
Simulation class (Applied Computer ational in West Germany.
Science 344) put together the fre-
quency of false alarms and the launch- --Brian Criss
on-warning policy. The false alarm
statistics carne from the North Ameri-
can Air Defense System (NORAD).

Under a "launch-on-warning" policy,
accidental nuclear war will begin
when the time required to resolve a
false alarm exceeds the time needed
for enemy missiles to strike their
targets. This is the "use them or
lose them" point.

Nine independent, correctly structured
models were created, and a total of
1212 simulations into the future were
carried out. The assumptions were
that both sides use a "launch-on-
warning" policy, that missiles like
the Pershing II arrive at their tar-
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Post-Amerikan Feb., 1984 12

New covert narc force

A new. undercover narcotics enforcement clandestine photographers also took a Aper said his agents will be able to
squad began making headlines--and toll on MEG's reputation. Director act on the Narcotics Profits Forfei-
arrests--in the last months of the Jerry LaGrow's fanatical passion for ture Act, which provides for confi-
year. secrecy verged on clinical paranoia: to scating a defendant's assets if agents
thwart photographers, he ordered his can prove they came from drug-dealing
The new narc unit is responsible for agents to wear ski masks while walking profits. Aper said his men have
12 arrests and "the seizure of a public streets. Yet despite MEG's additional training for gathering the
large quantity of drugs, including 22 overdone precautions, photos of the sort of evidence required ..
pounds of high-grade marijuana, valued unit's agents continued to show up in
at $44,000 and cocaine and LSD valued the Post-Amerikan. The narc squad's The MEG unit supposedly underwent that
together at more than $5,000," top informant--a veteran of five years sort of training in 1982, when the
according to a Pantagraph article. with .MEG--turned double agent, feeding profits seizure law was passed.
crucial information to the underground Although lawmakers envisioned millions
The narc team, in operation since opposition. of dollars pouring into the public
August, 1983, is called the Zone 6 treasury, the Peoria-based MEG unit
Major Crimes Task Force. It is run by The greatest blow to the narcs' has not initiated even one case under
the Illinois Department of Law inflated sense of professional self- the law, at least not in McLean
Enforcement's Division of Criminal importance came when a late-night raid county.
Investigation (DCI) and headquartered of the agency's garbage yielded copies
at the DCI office, 808 El Dorado Road of extremely sensitive files that Snitches
in Bloomington. Director LaGrow had neglected to run
through his shredding machine. The MEG Like MEG, the DCI Task Force will
The DCI is the successor to the old unit became a laughingstock among law depend on informers to introduce
Illinois Bureau of Investigation (IBI). enforcement circles all over the state. agents into a drug-buying situation.
Many former IBI agents now work for The actions of these untrained non-
DCI, which has always done some under- So when I asked Floyd Aper, the new police "special employees" was the
cover narcotics investigations. But a DCI Task Force's Supervisor of Special source of much of the criticism
new era began in August, when the DCI Agents, if his group was going to be leveled at MEG. Informers often con-
incorporated full-time officers from different from MEG, he responded with tinued their illegal drug dealings
other police agencies into this special an emphatic "yes." while setting up people less active in
covert operations task force. the drug world.
Money
The McLean County Sheriff's Department Acting out of desperation, fear, greed
and both the Normal and Bloomington The primary difference Aper cited was or anger, informers are often manipu-
police departments contribute an "We're going after the people with
officer to work full time in the new money. Our concern is the person
unit. Bloomington withdrew from the making a profit, as opposed to the
controversial Peoria-based MEG street level dealer."
undercover narc squad in order to join
the DCI. MEG no longer operates in
McLean County.

Different from MEG

The Peoria-based MEG unit had been
frequently criticized for its unethical
and sometimes illegal tactics. Even
among law enforcement circles, MEG was
sometimes looked down upon for its
concentration on buying only small
quantities of illegal drugs (often
merely marijuana) from young, small-
time dealers, many of whom were not
even profiteering.

Years of relentless attacks from Post-
Amerikan investigative reporters and

Drug defendants turn into snitches

The new DCI Task Force has persuaded usual quantity purchased, plus names
several of its investigative targets of six alleged regular cocaine buyers.
to "flip" -- give incriminating McCuen has been promised that his coc-
statements against others. Some of aine sale charge will be lowered to
DCI's defendants have agreed to provide possession, and that he will get pro-
court testimony against their former bation.
associates. Some have even become
official Confidential Sources (inform- Rodney Daugherty was nailed for selling Walter Neikirk, a Watterson Towers
ers) who introduce DCI agents to ~ oz. of cocaine to the DCI, and he resident at the time of his cocaine
unsuspecting acquaintances. subsequently_became a Confidential delivery arrest, named the alleged
Source. source of his supply, court records
DCI seems more succesful at "flipping" say.
than the MEG unit which operated in Brad Roland and Greg McCuen, roommates
McLean County in earlier years. Todd Ledbetter named two sources of
at 210 s. State St., both named their drugs. He declined to provide further
Here are some of the names of DCI information·, court files say, when DCI
defendants who have cooperated in source to DCI agents after their could not furnish an adequate guaran-
one way or another. All information arrests. McCuen has already testified tee of Ledbetter's safety.
comes from McLean County court files. before a grand jury. McCuen appar-
ently took his cooperation very Court files also mention three more
John Meredith worked for DCI as a seriously: he even provided the DCI Confidential Sources, identified only
Confidential Source. He set up Dwight with a list of customers who allegedly by their numbers. If anyone has
Hansen and Richard Wachholz, who were made regular purchases at the State St. information on the identities of DCI's
busted for selling_cocaine to the DCI. house. The court file contains the Confidential Sources, they should call
Hansen and Wachholz in turn provided names of a half dozen alleged regular the Post Amerikan. These bashful
enough evidence to bust their own marijuana customers, along with the boosters of law enforcement deserve a
source, John Brown. After his arrest, bit of public recognition.
John Brown named his own cocaine
source, his step-brother in Denver. M.S.
But Brown was "reluctant to testify"
against his step-brother, court files
said.

Feb., 1984 13

begins local roundups

lative, unpredictable, untru-stworthy .
,Of the drug cases dismissed for entrap-

~ent, most can be blamed on the actions

of informers. In three separate cases
in-the Bloomington area, angry MEG
informants set up their former lovers
for a drug bust.

The Illinois Law Enforcement Commission
(ILEC) was shocked at the indiscrimi-
nate use of in_formers in MEG's early
years: ILEC drafted a set of guide-
lines designed to curb the worst
abuses and forced MEG units to agree
to abide by them. Though violations
still occurred, the ILEC guidelines
served as a model outlining what was
OK and not OK.in a cpyert narc agency's
use of snitches.

,No such guidelines bind the DCI Task
Force, according to Agent Supervisor
Aper. "We just evaluate everything on
a case-py-case bas:ls," he said. Aper
said he would not necessarily _rule out
using a woman as a Confidential Source
to set up her husband.

Will obey law ABOVE: _'I'he DCI covert task force operates out of an office at 808 El Dorado.

But Aper did say his agents will obey fessional" than MEG~ I ' l l just say lifting lists of names .and telephone
the law. "We will not use any drugs they are more dangerous. 'numbers from houses they search.
or make any deliveries I " he said .. "We
will comply with all Illinois statutes. Moving up the ladder The DCI task force so far seems to be
It is impermissible for an officer to much more persuasive than MEG in con-
break the law while working." The DCI task force seems more inter- vincing defendants to "flip" --- name
ested in "moving up the ladder" of their sources and cooperate.
such a policy, if actually put into
practice, will further differentiate drug distribution, investigating the The testimony of such cooperating _
source of the person they are b,uying former dealers, plus a few details of
the new task force from its pred- from, and then po::;sibly investigating indirect circumstantial evidence, is
ecessor. MEG a~ents sometimes enhanced that person's source. MEG's extra enough to indict someone "higher up"
their undercove~ identities by driving surveillance often involved merely on a drug conspiracy charge, even if
with open liquor and sampling drugs .. - having a second agent observe the site the narcs do not have an actual hand-
Although no pro~ecutor ever took act1.onJ of a drug purchase, noting the times to-hand drug delivery.
MEG agents occa~ionally delivered small the agent buying the drugs entered and
quantities of drugs to,_preserve their left. In contrast, the task force Some of the task force's defendants
surveillance has sometimes involved who have chosen to assist in such
"credibility" in a tight spot. . following the drug seller both before drug conspiracy prosecutions are named-
and after the sale, thus obtaining in an adjoining article.
After reading dourt files of all the circumstantial clues about where the
drugs came from and where the money Mark Silverstein
cases the new task force has initiated was taken. The DCI task force seems
more interested in-writing down license
dsoifffaerr~ncI ec an see another significant numbers, tracing car-registra~ionsi and
from the MEG.unit: the DCI

task force is more thorough. People

who favor enforcing tf\.e. drug laws

might call the task fqrce more "pro-·

Beware nosy neighbors

A mere telephone call from a nosy -- evidence for DCI to arrest the occu-
neighbor can get undercover narcotics '- pants of 210 S. State.. (Their arrest
agents· spying on your house, accord- occurred after an acquai~tance brought
ing. to McLean County Court records. ---.~ Special Agent Steve Evans into the
The nosy neighbor may be transformed . house to buy cocaine.)
into a new c.ategory of law enforce:r,
the "citize.n informant." But it is chilling to realize that
having a lot of visitorswho don't
Brad Roiand and Greg Mccuen, both of stay long is enough to bring surveil-
210 s. State St., were busted by the lance by secret police agents
DCI task force. in a late September furtively recording license plate
raid. numbers.

DCI's interest in Roland and McCuen's One of my roommates was a low-level
house first occurred on -August 25, supervisor during the 1980 census.•
court records say, when a suspicious Each of the dozen or so door-to-door
neighbor called police. workers under him-would have to make
frequent visits to our house to pick
Joe carroll, of 1125 E. Olive, told Next day, DCI files say, an agent was up or drop off forms. They never
police that he suspected drus dealing stationed in a parked car, watching stayed long.
was occurring _at the State St. house. the house. He claimed to see. someone
He said that several different people exit, hand a clear plastic bag to \
would' frequently arrive around 4:30, someone waiting in· a car, then depart_
stay only a short time, and leave. in another car. The license numbers If we'd had one of those Neighborhood
·of the two cars and the names of the Watch programs in operation at the
When DCI interviewed Carroll about h;i.s people .to whom they-are registered are time, I wonder if our census workers
observations, carroll invited DCI to in DCI files. would have wound up in government
cross the street to 1126 E. Olive, files as possible drug fiends?
where he suggested the agents could get Neither Carroll's information nor the
a better view of 210 S. State. outside surveillance provided enough M.S.

Post-Amerikan Feb., 1984 14

'

1984 theme of IWU art show

The theme of technology and its growth similarity to the role of technology /
in society's consciousness to arr.almost today. Gary Justis uses large kinetic
religious significance is the theme structures to depict classical themes, instead a depiction of a human quality.
which draws strikingly different works creating living, breathing pre£:!ences As the bow mechanism tries over and
together in a current IWU art show. with the most inorganic means over to string the arrow, as is its
As Orwell did in his novel of the same. imaginable. Even within the four works function, it is unable to reach it.,
name, the "19 8 4" shO\'! examines the in this show he has investigated
powerful position that ultra-tech has- different levels of these ·ideas. One, It is a quivering entity, frustrated
in the subconsc,ious· .of modern humanity. Athena, depicts the figure and its at its own ineptitude. This piece
These artists make individual statements fluttering heart. The complexity of seeks more of the universal emotional
about the juxtaposition of this, as well as the other works, is quality of classical id~als than a
mechanization with humanity-. bo.th visual and intellectual, and the direct narrative.
premise of classism is es~ential to~
The artist whose work is least the understanding of it. Gary Justis Unlike the other two sculptures, The
impressive is Janet Cooling, reputedly is sincere in his use of this ideology, Gates of Hell is a very direct r.ein-
a well-known artist in New York. although the· manner in which he uses it terpretation of sculpture by Rodin.
Although some of her paintings deal would seem to violate every principle In it Justis tries. to capture the
with technological imagery, they are of the ancient Greek and Roman rules. movement and formal quality of the
not terribly fresh. I would, in fact, So, 'to come to terms with this appar- original Gates of Hell., using his
speculate that they were chosen more ent contradiction, ·one must accept this vocabulary~plastic, metal, and
for their common size and ease of as ''updated" classicism and seek the lights.· This piece is the least
beauty of essential form that.is successful of the four, not-carrying
present in these shiny, clattering,
wire-propelled machines.~·

Justis' personal background as a life-
long gadget-maker and present position
as a technician and teacher at the
Museum of Science and Industry have
quite logically led him to appr~ciate
the beauty of function. So it is

fitting that he, a twentieth century
technician/sculptor, establishes a link
between the disciplines of classicism ,
and modern technology. In Athena,
the suggestion of human form is reduced
· to a few simplified shapes.· The human

ppocess of identification by assoc-
iation clurifies the figurative con-
text of the machine, and the presence
of the mavin~ object in the positio~
of the heart reinforces this. One
aspec~ of the mechanization of these
objects which .seems at;ypical is the
nakedness of the motors and wires,

which emphasizes their skeletal look.

shipping than for their appropriate~ In Apollo: the Resurrection of off the same level of complexity and
ness to this show: The idea of juxta- Dionysos the figure of Apollo has seeming almost cluttered with non-
posing nature images .with ~ittle nuke become more a tnach.ine than a figurative functional wires.
plants is reminiscent of something suggestion and is contrasted with the
you'd see done photographically·for twisted organic form that represents The figure in the upper portion,
the cover of Time or Life, or a Mobil Dionysos. Thispiece involves the derived from one of three in Rodin's
Chemical Ad. But the fact that some· viewer in the ra.ther unsettling pre-; version, reflects a light ·with his
are so much better than others suggests sence of the foot pedal which one must face, perhaps light from the fire of·
that Cooling knows how to use. these muster the nerve to push. The the inferno. BUt there is no heavy
devices more successfully; resulting activity is equally unsettling, presence to the structure or the
The two sculptors in the show., though, as the large machine bizarrely tickles figure, and not enough going on to
have delved more imaginatively into the the genitalia of this rather grot- activate the whole thing. But, as a
question of science as a social power. esque little corpse. Justis described whole, what Justis has assembled here
Both make the association with it. as Apollo saying, "Come on, let's are some of the more intriguing
religion's role in the past and its party, " to the dead spirit of the party. sculptures to pass through Bloomington
in quite a while.
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THE WORLD'S NATURAL RESOURCES In contrast to the large, almost
ARE LIMITED; SAVE THEM SO THAT threatening presences of Justis' work,
FUTURE GENERATIONS WON'T GO TO the sculptures of Michael Greene are
WAR OVER DWINDLING SUPPLIES. small and toylike. This unthreatening,
familiar quality is a device used to
0PERAT 10 N point out the growing evidence of
RE-CYCLE Orwell's prophecy as reality. To
Michael Greene, science has grown to
McLean County's only not-for- possess all the mystery and power that
profit full-service community superstition and religion once held
recycling center for society.

1100 W. Market While Justis is a technician, producing
large effects, Greene is a crafts-
829--0691 person,. creating neatly organized and
untouchable "mini-towns." These towns,
We acceptnewspapers, tin cans; with their id,entical little houses,
glass containers, aluminum, inevitably center on some object of
corrugated cardboard and office technology. But the role these
paper. devices play in these towns is left
ambiguous--are they controlled gods,
·benevolent appliances, or Big Brother
himself?

(CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE)

·Owens, of course Post-Amerikan Feb,, 1984 15-

1984 art (cont.) Back to the nursery

In one piece, El Dorado, the streets We've had the "electronic sweatshop" Employees are also not allowed to talk
are paved with gold, yet they're and the "bacon sweatshop" in our to e<?.ch other; they can make· comments
hooked up to a big electrical switch. continuing series on employers in to .a supervisor.... "provided they are
The question is whether the switch is ~loomington/Normal. But the biggest made in the proper manner of respect."
to protect the gold. for the people to sweatshop in town may be the "shrub Bowing .first would be a good ideap
enjoy, or to electrocute them, and who sweatshop"--Owens Nursery. They fire especially if you want to avoid
controls the switch? Greene is a more people than George Steinbrenner. "assignment in the cold storage plants"
collector of small objects and If employees at State Farm stay for --the Owens Nursery version of. Siberia
asserts the preciousness of each JO years, down at Owens Nursery they
little symbol of science with the stay for JO minutes--hardly the ideal "Sorry. Doc, I can't pay yoU. l.slowed down
loving preparation of their · career path. Do you love plants and like you told me-arid lost my job."
environments. trees? want to work with them?
Then go to camp, not owens Nursery. from which some have never returned.
His more recent works, such as The Let's say you need a job desperately, Also, it's agood idea to dress warmly,
Reflecting Pool, seem to have what can you expect? but travel lightp as there are no
broadened to make more of a social employee lockers to keep valuables or
·statement, in this case about educa- For one thing P you will work for . an extra sweater in.
tion. In this town, a central 'pool' minimum wage arid be expected to work If you are a new employee you should
is actually a huge chalkboard, and all 40 hours per week without benefits: read carefully the "Day Crew Company
the houses are covered with chalkboard there is no sick pay or vacation pay. Rules and Regulations" to get into the
material. This piece is the hardest You are not allowed to wear gloves spirit ,of things:
one not to touch, with pieces of chalk even though you may be handling rose ":15. CLOSING DOORS- Whenthe employee
lying there. But the mystery of the bushes. There are informal quotas. is the last one out of the door he
town and the question.of)Nho has the Employees are expected to label and should close the door behind him."
authority to move and cause things are wrap JOO trees per hour. Timekeepers "21. Always have a pen or pencil
too powerful. keep track of every employeeis produc- available."
tion, and it is posted daily like Good ideal Then you can write down
Between the sculptures of Greene and racing results. what it's really like to work at Owens
Justis, a defin~te feeling of paranoia Nursery.
is bound to creep up on any visitor to Even going to the bathroom can be a --Jane G.
this show. These works don't just sit problem. A recent employee was denied
there and express themselves a raise because, "You go to the ·
innocuously. They definitely evnke
the tone of .the 20th century psyche. bathroom twice a day." It seems that
Perhaps .that's part of the reason
Cooling's nuke plants seem obvious and bladder control is one of the ways to
weak in comparison. get ahead at owens. Another is to
get in the good graces of your super-
So, if you get a chance, you might visor. This is not always easy.
want to stop by the Illinois Wesleyan Supervisors tend to treat crew mem-
Art Galleries. As well as the "1984" bers like children who can't be
show, in the Merwin·Gallery, there is trusted to wrap a tree without help.
a student painting show. in ·the Wakely
Gallery. As; a whole, the exhibit Working conditions are some of
shows just how much diversity of · the worst in Bloomington/Normal. Em-.
thought an.d style can occur on even ployees work in a large room which
the small closed-campus of wesleyan. gets filthy during the day. There is
And you can bet that Big Brother is no cafeteria or employee lounge.
watching .there. Employees can't receive telephone
ca:J_ls even in emergencies. If they
--siobhan McKennah want to make a call they must do it at
break time on the business phone wnile
the office manager watches. There is
no pay phone for employees.

You can help
this_ machine.

Or you can
turn the page.

As you may have noticed, time has
been hard on those once-bright,
friendly red boxes that sell the
Post Amerikan on street corners.
'People who lose their quarters are
sometimes not kind, either. And
winter cold adds another freezing
blow to an already traumatized
organism.

For,just pennies a day, you can pro_.
vide a machine with new plexiglass,
sturdy legs, some much-needed nuts
and bolts, and maybe even a little
paint.

Or you can let them rust.

Think about it.

--Sally Struthers

.o Yes,. I" d like to adopt a ~
mach~ne. I'm sending $ to
help pay for the bare necessities of
life on the streets.

Post-PJ!Ierikan Feb., 1984 16

Recognizing the Vatican

Holy See·saw I "their Catholic brethren," the
Protestants haven't forgiven Rome
At first glance the recent be certain the Catholics don't. The for the Inquisition, the Thirty
restoration of full d~plomatic action may get fast and furious, parti- Years War, and all its other past
relations with the Vatican seemed cularly since Reagan has nominated his abuses. It wasn't so long ago that
to me to be an outrage. But the old buddy William Wilson as ambassa- John Kennedy caught hell, if you'll
longer I think about it, the better pardon the expression, for supposedly
I like it. dor. Wilson has been the unofficial planning to let the Vatican run the
representative to the Vatican since country. People who think like
It is, of course, a stupefyingly this now have great political power
gross violation of the church/state 1981, but a California real estate under Reagan, and he may hear them
separation principle, despite what developer is not my first choice loud and clear in the near future.
the State Department says to the for diplomatic service. Reagan seems
contrary: "For a long time we have
recognized the Holy See as having an to enjoy making ambassadors out of
international personality separate the unqualified. I once watched
from the church." What papal bull! John Gavin, ambassador to Mexico,
One hundred eight acres of downtown
Rome does not a nation make. perform the entire first act of All of this delights the liberal
Equus with his fly open. Hard to atheist in me. Wi'th the Fundamental-
With such a premise as this we would take such a man seriously for ists seeing that Reagan is only a
be forced to recognize portions of high office. But then, the man who politician, not their personal savior,
Constantinople, Jerusalem, Mecca, and and with some sniping between the
New Delhi as sovereign states, as n?minated him has had his political major religious orders, perhaps
well as anyplace else with a church z1.pper down for three years now.
headquarters. Why don't we send an
Ambassador to Lynchburg, Virginia to The Protestant citizenry may turn prayer in schools and book banning
His Highness Jerry Falwell? Can you up in force for the hearings, which and anti-abortion crusades will lose
see him there, surrounded by Swiss brings me to my first point: the a little steam.
Guards, saying, "You may kiss the
ring"·? non-Catholic electorate, specifically So let's hear it for Ron Reagan--
the Fundamentalists. Reagan had the best election-year weapon we
them eating out of his hand before liberals have. All we need is
this, but now they may take a few enough rope.
pecks at his exposed flesh as

well. For all their talk about --Scaramouche

Diplomatic genuflecting to a
religious "nation" misses the entire
point of what makes a place and a
people into a country. It isn't the
tiny size in square miles and
population that causes me to reject
the Vatican's claim to statehood,
but the fact that recognizing it
constitutes a sort of double
representation of worldwide Catholic
interests.

Who are John Paul's true subjects,
the people he actually rules from
the Holy See? Not the 5,000 syco-
phants surrounding him in Vatican
City, but the millions of Roman
Catholics in the other nations of
the world are his constituents. They
already have diplomatic ties with
us through their civil governments,
so they now have twice as much
leverage for their interests as

anyone else.

This should not be construed as an BE A STAR
indictment of John Paul II. He
certainly has a better civil rights in your own Post-Amerikan T-shirt!
record than Reagan, who is only
embracing him as a 1984 "elect-me"
ploy and doesn't mind admitting it.
JP's a little stiff on the moral
issues, but he does bust his hot
cross buns for the little people--
as long as they're little Catholic
people. You'd have a hard time
finding a better-educated ruler,
that's for sure. But let's face the
facts: he doesn't operate a nation;
he operates a church. And the U.S.
shouldn't be sending ambassadors to
a church.

So why uid I say earlier that I've
come to support this spectacularly
unconstitutional move? Because I
think it will eventually benefit
liberals and cause Reagan more
problems than he's likely to solve.

Anything a politician does solely Turn heads
to gather votes from one segment as you walk
of the electorate has two drawbacks: down the street!
it's bound to irritate the opponents
of that segment, and it's usually r-----CLIP-N-SEND•-----~
not as well-thought-out as it would
be in a less pressure-filled year. 1 YES, I crave the fame and glory 1
Let's take the latter first. 1 a ~ost-Amerikan T-shirt will I
I ~r1.ng me! I can't live without I
No doubt an appeal to millions of
Catholic voters was hypnotically 1.t. In fact I'll just die if I'
attractive to Reagan, but I'm not I can't have a Post T-shirt! I
sure he's considered all of the I -.:;:nclosed is my check for $6. 00, I
possible ramifications of this I Thank you. You've made my life I
presumed easy fix. It will focus 1 worth living again. 1
attention on controversial religious
issues, .which the Democrats will enjoy I Circle Size S M L XL I
enjoy playing with, if they can get
off one another's necks for ten I II
minutes. 1 Noome

It may be beneficial to some degree 1 Address. I
in drawing attention away from other II
aspects of Reagan's disastrous I '\Jity, State, Zip I
foreign policy, but the forum for I Clip-n-send to Post-Amerikan, P.O. I
this attention will be the Senate, I Box 3452, Bloomington, IL 61701. 1
which has to confirm the ambassa-
dorial appointment. The Republicans
may control the Senate, but you can

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More poor kids, Post-Amerikan Feb., 1984 17

more infant deaths

The number of children living in nonwhite and low income groups. for every 1000 live births in 1981
poverty across Amerika has risen more to 9 in 1982. But for nonwhites,
sharply than at any time since The CDF report says: "Of 33 states the rate rose from 17.3 in 1981 to
statistics were collected, according reporting prenatal care data for 18.2 in 1982.
to the Children's Defense Fund (CDF). all women, 26 states showed increased
About 3.1 million children have fallen percentages of women receiving late Federal officials deny these findings,
into poverty since 1979--a 31% or no prenatal care in 1982 over but the government does not have
increase. preceding years." Also, between data by race on infant mortality
1981 and 1982, death rates for all for any year since 1980, when the
Even among white families (three times infants increased in 11 states--for rate was 21.4 for blacks and 11
less likely to be poor than black white infants in 9 states and for for whites. The black rate was
families), child poverty is higher nonwhite infants in 13 states. nearly double the white rate in
than any time since 1965, said the each year from 1977 to 1980.
CDF report. In·a separate report, another non-
profit advocacy group, the Food Copies of the Children's Defense
The CDF blames the Reagan admini- Research and Action Center, said Fund report are available from
stration's budget cuts and social there appeared to be a growing the fund at 122 C Street Northwest,
policies. Expenditures on social gap between the infant mortality Washington, D.C. 20001. The cost
services for children declined at rates for blacks and whites. is $9.95.
least 13% from 1981 to 1983--from
$707.2 million to $618.4 million. In New York State, which leads the --Ferdydurke
country in the percentage of non-
"America's children are in trouble," white women receiving late or no Scurces: USA Today, New York
says the CDF. "American children prenatal care, the rate had risen ~imes, both Ja~, 1984.
are more likely today to suffer death to 21.3%, nearly double the nat~onal
and sickness, hunger and cold, abuse average for nonwhite women.
and neglect ••• than three years
ago." In Maryland, the white infant
mortality rate declined from 10.6
Spokespeople for the Department of
Health and Human Services have de~
clined comment on the Defense Fund
report.

According to the report:

--One in five children--13.1 million
--is poor. The poverty standard is
an annual income of $9,900 for a
family of four.

--32 states provide child-care
services to fewer children today than
in 1981.

--Some 2.4 million children live
in families with yearly incomes
under $3,000.

The CDF also reports a marked decrease
in early prenatal care for pregnant
women over the last three years.

This erosion of prenatal care is
reflected in an increased infant
mortality rate, especially among

Hi·tech babies in Bloomington-Normal

Women should know that local most births? As a respected lay only be hurt or hindered. Home has
Caesarean rates are estimated midwife once said,"our bodies are always been the traditional, right
(by several medical people) to made to give birth," We are the place for birth--and still is for
end result of millions of years of most of the world's people. The
be around 25% of total births. our ancestors' bodies giving birth earth's vast majority· have been
successfully. Isn't it likely that birthed naturally at home, and pro-
One obstetrician brags that his our bodies, if fairly well cared for, bably with "t.raditional birth atten-
are just as strong and capable of dants," who act as midwives .•
rate is J5%· Those women who do gracefully and rightly birthing,
without a lot of extra help or anx- In Bloomington-Normal, too, the home
manage not to have Caesarean opera- ious monitoring? is much more likely to be the place
tions will very likelya get episi- where women are freer to birth with-
otomies, have drugs to start and/or' Hospitals, birthing rooms, clinics, out a lot of interference to the
speed up labor and birth, be re- birth centers, home--all have their natural process. Of course, a small
stricted in positions for labour place in the circle of resources number of women (most childbirth re-
and birth, receive little or no women can call upon when birthing.
nourishment except maybe intra- Ideally each has its own functions formers say about 5%) do require close
venously, and have electric fetal and will not try to do what it
monitors. doesn't really do well; for in such watching or very prudent intervention,
misdirec.tion the birth process can which probably means using a doctor
Are all these drugs, devices, and and hospital. Such institutions and
doctors really necessary, or do their professionals can then use
local women simply not see that their emergency technology to relieve
minimal technology is best for the dis-ease, and that is what they
do best.

1 out of 4 girls and What Can A Parent Do? t It is not good for them to approach
1 out of 6 boys will be almost all births on this level
sexually abused by the time Planned Parenthood of Mid Central Illinois'
they enter high school. OK/NOT OK TOUCHES Program t however. Brokaw and St. Joe's should
1 out of every 10 families t look to home birth to learn much about
is an incest family. has helped hundreds of parents and other
adults protect the children they care about rehumanizing and detechnologizing
their way of birth for the many women
from sexual abuse. who still birth within their walls.
' Until local women more and more find
Call 827-8025 now to register yourself ' confidence in their own bodies to
and/or your children for the next session
t give birth successfully without a
on Feb. lst, 7-8:30 P.M. at lot of interference, there will still
Bloomington Public Library. be many who birth in their•"hi-tech"

Featuring .in the young t way.
children's groups, Suggested Readinga Silent Knifea
Ori and Kon,
the OK BEARS. t Caesarean Prevention and Vaginal
Birth af~er Caesarean, Nancy
Wa~ner Cohen

t --S.F.

True Later, the three nuns and Jean are and didn't show it at all. It showed
confessions· talking. Melissa's character sounds the women's ambulance being stopped
as if she were almost grateful for the at the fatal roadblock. The four
too war when she came to El Salvador, turned with the same this-is-it look.
close because it gave her "so much to do." Melissa had a line of dialogue in-
for spired no doubt by the presentiment
comfort But later, she says, she realized that she was shortly to become a
that the value of the experience famous martyr.
When I was four years old I almost came from something a little closer
drowned. I struggled, but I knew it to the nun's selfless commitment. Cut to the disinterment and the in-
would be all over soon. vestigation, interspersed with a
The deaths of the four were handled series of vignettes in which each
When I was five, I told my grand- with amazing taste, for TV. I had of the four women appears and explains
parents I wanted to be a missionary. hoped at least to be spared graphic or tries to explain, her particular
They informed me that savages cut v~olence. But NBC went one better mission. The younger the woman, the
up missionaries and ate them. I more esoteric the speech. Jean, as
cried and gave it up. the youngest, gives a hokey little
sermon about the Lord, laughs crazily,
At six, I asked my mother why my then looks embarrassed. She screws
grandparents couldn't go to heaven up, in fact, as one will on important
just because they weren't Catholic. occasions. Yet the sticky-sweetness
She thought that was a good question. of -her character is countered "by t:'le
balls of what th~ rea~ woMan did.
At 11, my father was driving me to the
orthodontist and the car hit a patch The show's political potential was
of ice on an overpass. My father watered to blandness. What marginal
shouted "hang on!" as we started to statements it could have made about
spin. I thought we were going to be the role of the U.S. in propagating
killed. I closed my eyes, grabbed El Salvador's war were blurry to the
a handle on the dash and felt ready. point of complete obscurity. It was
I was surprised when nothing happened. an opportunity ignored, to put it
kindly. Nevertheless, I think in the
At 23, I had a similar experience fu~ure an onrush of girls and young -
driving a friend on a narrow county women will line up to be martyrs,
highway in the rain when the car especially if they can do so without
slipped off the pavement. I fought getting their hair messed up. Melissa
the wheel, lost control, and saw the Gilbert as Jean Donovan will replace
headlights of an oncoming car. I had Nadia Commenici as the role model for
a flash of recongition--"so this is 12-year-olds.
how it ends."
What was NBC trying to do besides
jerk tears? We may never know. I
really got the feeling that someone
,remotely connected with reality was
a consultant On the script--at least
we finally got a kick-ass TV heroine
who wore glasses.

At 24 I saw myself in a mirror on TV. --Imogene Blackstone
As a child I yearned for identity in

TV. But they didn't make movies for

pre-Feminist little girls, and cer-
tainly not about them. I quit TV

almost completely in 1981.

Yet I was a perfect mark for "Concerns

of the Heart" which aired Dec. 4 on 'Something About Amelia'
NBC, starring Melissa Gilbert of
"Little House on the Prairie" fame.

"Concerns" was about Jean Donovan, a opens discussion

lay worker, who together with Ita Ford ABC's airing of "Something about Some of these that bear emphasizing
and Maura Clarke, Maryknoll nuns, and include the following: incest -
Dorothy Kazel, an Ursuline nun, was Amelia," the made-for-tv movie about occurs in all racial, ethnic,
raped and murdered by soldiers in El father-daughter incest was both socio-economic, and geographical
Salvador Dec. 2, 1980. Five national well-intentioned and gutsy. Many groups; incest is far more complex
guardsmen charged with the murders portions of the film may have been than the sexual acts involved;
still have not been brought to trial. less than honest--usually too pretty--
but given what the run-of-the-mill

The hack/genius network writers' por- tv audience can realistically be incest is deeply tied to strong
expected to handle and ABC's stated cultural norms and values; treating
trayal of Donovan as a guilty, messed- goals of increasing public awareness incest is at least as hard as
up rich kid was awe-inspiring. How and discussion about incest, this por- getting people to believe that it
trayal seemed justified to me. The could happen to them; it's so hard
did they KNOW what she went through? real picutre is often so unpretty not to be angry or sad or afraid.
The friend whose TV I commandeered that it would very probably
and I wondered, watching Melissa contribute--even more than ignorance Some other issues I wish to add to
run here and there, comforting and does--to the b~rying of heads and the the above list include: the
salving the wounded civilians after keeping of this important subject out importance the reactions of those
battle.

of day-to-day discussions. -around the child/victim play in

The film has also provided an op- the style and level of coping the
portunity for experts and ordinary child/victim can or will have; the
folks to add their own comments strong evidence of a circular
to the discussion of the subject. relationship between the self-esteem
of the abuser, the abused, and the

victimization; and the existence of

other than male-adult and female-

child incestuous dyads with some

evidence that although the other

Rape Crisis Center three combinations are far less
common, they have the potential to

be even more damaging due to

of Mclean County socio-cultural norm; it's not
necessary to get rid of all the
anger, fear, and sadness to be

able to help.

WE'RE A NON-PROFIT VOLUNTEER GROUP WHOSE MAIN PURPOSE IS TO It is my strong hope that Amelia
OFFER ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT TO VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT will be a beginning. Consider this
AND THEIR FRIENDS AND FAMILIES. article my persona~ plea to all
FEMALE VOLUNTEERS ANSWER OUR CALLS, BUT BOTH MALE AND FEMALE POST readers to stand psycho-
VOLUNTEERS ARE AVAILABLE FOR CRISIS ASSISTANCE, INFORMATION logically, and if you can,
AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS. physically with others who are
working hard to help society face
If you want to talk to one of us this wrenching problem. At the
very least, learn how you can help
Call PATH 827·4005 those who you come in contact with
sexual abuse. Call the Rape Crisis
and ask for the Center (827-4005) or Planned Parent-
hood (827-8025).
~~~>SSSS'SS!iR~oQe Crisis Center
--Susan Strand

send items to Amerikan Almanak, P.O. Box 3452, Bloomington.

Mon. Jan. 23 Compiled by Holly and friends.
* Lecture, "Science and the Bomb,"
first of a series of Preventing Post-Amerikan
Nuclear Apocalypse~ Peoria's
Bradley Univ., Jobst 102, 7:30pm., Feb., 1984 19
for info. call l-676-7611, ext.
564. Tues. Feb 14
* Film "West Side Story" ISU
Tues. Jan. 24 Union Film Board $1, 6 &
* Film, ''Rebecca," ISU' s Union Film 8:15 p.m.
Board, ISU's Student Center, 6 &
Wed. Feb. 15
8: 15 pm, $1. 00.
* Music, Stevie Ray Vaughan
Wed. Jan. 25 (former guitarist for David
*Gay People's Alliance, 112 Fair- Bowie) and Double Trouble,
child Hall, ISU, 8 pm, Practice ISU Auditorium, for ticket
Speaker's Bureau. info call ISU's auditorium
* Good day to send off for a sub- box·office.
scription to the Post-Amerikan.
Keep warm, and improve cardio- * Gay Peoples Alliance meeting,
pulminary response by jogging 112 Fairchild Hall, ISU, 8 p.m.
daily to the mailbox awaiting Lesbian and feminist issues.
your first issue.
Feb 16
Thurs. Jan. 26 *Film "Mr. Mom" ISU's Capen
* Music, The Replacements, at
Mosey's. Opening for them is the Cinema, 7 & 10 p.m. $1.50.

homegrown diaTribe. *Deadline for next issue
* Film, "Cool Hand Luke," ISU' s of Post Amerikan. Keep
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Fri. Jan. 27 Sat. Feb. 4 Fri. Feb. 17
* Music, Art Thieme and Bruce * Film, "Lady Sings the Blues" * Film "Mr. Mom" ISU' s Capen
Roper, local folk musicians, New ISU's Capen Cinema 7 & 10 p.m. Cinema, 7 & 10 p.m. $1.50.
Friends of Old Time Music, ISU's $1.50.
Prairie Room, 8 pm, $1.00. * Operation Recycle warehouse Sat. Feb. 18
* Film, "Butch Cassidy and the Sun- open, 9 a.m.--12 noon to * Theatre, "The Dining Room"
dance Kid," ISU' s Capen Theatre, bring aluminum and glass 8 p.m. Call IWU theatre box
(other recyclables accep- office for tickets.
7 & 10 pm, $1.50. ted). * Film, "Trading Places" ISU' s
Capen Cinema 7 & 10 p.m. $1.50.
Sat. Jan. 28 Sun. Feb. 5
* Film, "Arthur," ISU' s Old Main * Nuclear Freeze coalition Meeting Sun. Feb. 19
Room, 8:30 pm, FREE. 8 p.m. All are welcome. * Theatre, "The Dining Room
* Film, "Butch Cassidy and the Sun- 304 S. Evans, Bloomington. 8 p.m. Call IWU theatre box
dance Kid," Capen, 7 & 10 pm, * "Lady Sings the Blues" ISU' s office for tickets.
Capen Cinema, 2 & 7 p.m. $1.50. * Film "Trading Places" ISU's
$L50. Capen Cinema 2 & 7 p.m. $1.50.
* county and city registrar avail- Mon. Feb. 6
*Amnesty International Meeting, Tues. Feb. 21
able at Laborers' Hall, R.R. 3, 8 p.m. Seminar Room at ISU's *Film, "Duck Soup" ISU Union
Bloomington, for voter registra- Walker Hall. film board $1.
* Last day to register to vote
tion. Tues. Feb. 7 in Illinois primary.
* Film "Rebel Without a Cause"
Sun. Jan. 29 ISU's Film Board $1, 6 & 8:15 Wed. Feb. 22
*Music, ISU's Symphonic Band, ISU's p.m. * Gay Peoples Alliance, Fair-
Braden Auditorium, 8 pm. child Hall, ISU, 8 p.m.
* Film, "Butch Cassidy and the Sun- Wed~ Feb. 8 "Legal Rights of Gay People,"
dance Kid," Capen, 2 & 7 pm, * Music, ISU Symphony, 8 p.m. speakers from Criminal Justice
ISU's Braden Auditorium Department.
$1.50. * Gay Peoples Alliance meeting,
401 Stevenson Hall, ISU, 8 p.m. Thur. Feb. 23
Mon. Jan. 30 Discussion of relationships. * Film, "Body Heat" ISU' s Capen
* Peace and Justice Coalition Cinema, 7 & 10 p.m. $1.50.
Meeting, Newman Center, 8 pm. Thur. Feb 9
* Lecture, "Doctrines of War and * "10", ISU' s Capen Cinema, 7 &. Fri. & Sat. Feb. 24 & 25.
Peace," Preventing Nuclear 10 p.m. $1.50. * Film, "American Gigolo," ISU's
Apocalypse series, Peoria's Capen Cinema 7 & 10 p.m. $1.50.
Bradley Univ., Student Center Fri. Feb. 10
Room 107, 7:30pm, for info. * Film "Continental Divide" ISU's
call l-676-7611, ext. 564. Capen Cinema 7 & 10 p.m. $1.50.

Tues. Jan. 31 Sat. Feb. 11
*Film, "Love and Death," ISU's * "Continental Divide" ISU's
Union Film Board, 6 & 8:15 pm, Capen Cinema, 7 & 10 p.m. $1.50.
$1. 00. * Operation Recycle warehouse,

Wed. Feb. l 1100 w. Market, open 9 a.m.
* Gay People's Alliance, 112
Fairchild Hall, 8 pm, Discussion to noon.
of "coming out."
* Today is a great day to "Adopt a Mon. Feb. 13
Congressperson." Why not write * Peace and Justice Coalition
to some of your favorite folks in Meeting, 8 p.m. Newman Center.
office and share some wisdom with * Lecture "Arms Race and the
them'? Economy" Peoria's Bradley
University's Student Center,
Thur. Feb. 2 Room 107, 7:30p.m. For more
* Music, Buddy Guy & Junior Wells information call 676-7611,
Blues, 8 p.m. $2, ISU's Prairie ext 564.
Room Room
* Film, "Mohogany1" ISU' s Capen
Cinema, 7 & 10 p.m. $1.50

Fri. Feb. 3 ISU's
*Film, "Lady Sings the Blues"
Capen Cinema, 7 & 10 p.m.
$1.50.

L~ <!tnmmunif!J ~ems

Keep up the Rape Crisis Support group visits
great work gay prisoners
Center Training
Dear Post Amerikan: . Members of the Illinois Gay &
The Rape Crisis Center of McLean -Lesbian Task Force visited Divis-
I am writing to say keep up the great County will hold a training session
work. for new volunteers on Saturday, ion V of the Cook County Jail,
February 25 and Sunday, February 26. in Chicago, on December 1.3, 198).
Post Amerikan Reader Cook County Jail is the only
The location and times of the correctional institution in the
Hostages need training will be announced later. State of Illinois that has a
correspondence gay tier, and the committee was
The Rape Crisis Center is an all- able to speak to gay prisoners and
we got some much-appreciated suppor- volunteer organization of women and ask them about their specific
tive notes from Illinois prisoners men who deal with the problems of problems.
last month. They'd like to get some rape and sexual assault in this
letters from Post readers. Send community through counseling the Superintendent Roy H. Patrick
your priceless prose to: victims and their families, speaking told the members of the committee
about rape and sexual assault through- that he would be willing for the
James DiGiacomo out the community, and providing team to help prison officials
A-71417 information to any and all interested address the needs of the gay
Box 711 persons. prisoners in his charge.
Menard, IL 62259
The training session is free of It is the aim of the IGLTF to
Walter Lamacki charge and is open to any interested educate prison officials, the gay
N-20717 women and men. For more information community, and others as to the
Box 711 call PATH at 827-4005 and ask for special problems faced by gay and
Menard, IL 62259 the Rape Crisis Center. lesbian prisoners in Illinois.
The IGLTF committee will c~ntinue
Gail Osmon to monitor conditions in Illinois
N-38057 prisons and jails, in conjunction
centralia, IL 62801 with the John Howard Association and
the Illinois Jails and Prison
David Richards Project.
N-16254
Box 711 Recycle dates set
Menard, IL 62259
Dates for recycle drives have now
Operation Recycle needs recyclers been set through the summer. All
recycle drives are held from 9 a.m.
Operation Recycle is looking for new for spring. - .3 p.m. at the Sears Eastland
recyclers. Many people don't recycle parking lot and the ISU Turner Hall
because they believe one or more myths .3· "Saving glass is too complicated lot. Newspapers, tin cans, glass
because it must be color sorted and and aluminum are collected. Dates
about recycling. These myths are: have labels removed." Operation are: January 14, February 25, March
Recycle accepts mixed colors of .31. May 12, June 2.3, August 4.
i. "My little bit of paper • glass, etc. • glass and labels do not have to be
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Protect neighborhood stores-boycott Cub Foods

Despite its slick tv ads and big Although Cub has hired 350 new -
announcements, the opening of the new workers, don't think that those
Cub Foods store on the eastside hasn't workers are enjoying a 40-hour week.
been smooth.
Instead, Cub, like most retailers, is
The new warehouse store, which following the new plan in employee
promises great savings, has been relations--short hours, no benefits.
picketed 'round the clock by members Few Cub workers are getting 40 hours
of the United Food and Commercial per week, most are between 20 and 30
Workers, protesting the store's non- hours. This way, the company has
union basis. And a handicapped fewer obligations, particularly in
individual also picketed because the the benefits area. But imagine
store didn't have parking places for surviving on minimum wage working less
the handicapped. than 30 hours per week, no longer
eligible for food stamps or other
This man, in a wheelchair, was treated assistance--a blueprint example of the
quite rudely by the new store's Reagan recovery.
security guards.

Despite these protests, Cub with its Plus, if we all keep scrambling out
promise of big savings has still drawn Veteran's Parkway to save that elusive
dollar or two, there won't be anything
crowds. else left of central area businesses.

But any Bloomington resident, My grocery preference has always been
particularly a west-sider, wou~d do
the Kroger store on North Main. The
better to stop and think twice before
shopping Cub. The success of Cub store is union; the clerks are
Foods is only going to accelerate
friendly, relaxed, confident. The
Bloomington's eastward drift, harming
businesses that are accessible to store is well-stocked, though without
the "boutique grocery" items--delis,
west-siders. cosmetics, bakeries--that grace the

fancy east-side stores. It's just

The union members are picketing· your basic supermarket, and a good

because clerks and employees at -cne place not only to buy food, but to
also see your friends and neighbors,
new Cub store don't enjoy the benefit and get to know the clerks by name and
of a union contract. Instead of
shopping at Cub, the UFCW members urge face.

consumers to patronize Kroger stores, The same is true with the Eisner store
Eastgate IGA, and Eagle Foods, which
all display the union label. on South Main, and Stan's Super-Valu

For a worker, a union contract can on South Main in Normal. All three
mean a big difference. Everyone
immediately thinks of higher wages, of these stores are neighborhood
but there are other, perhaps more institutions. Because of their
important benefits: locations, they are accessible to low-
income, elderly west-side and central
area residents. For many people,
these stores are accessible on foot.

With a union contract, there is a Nothing on the east-side is accessible

grievance procedure--you are not by foot. If you don't have bumpers,

totally at the mercy of the boss. two headlights, and four tires, forget
going anywhere. And even if you have
There's a seniority system, so that East Empire. It seems the tension
after you've put a few years in at the wheels, you are not going to have a ~evel, like the income level,
store, you can have better hours. And relaxing trip to the store anytime you 1nc:eases from west to east, and
there are protections like health, have to drive Veteran's Parkway or pol~te, easy-going drivers get
welfare, and pension plans. · trampled over there.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ So help_kee~ some sense of neighbor-
hood al1ve 1n Bloomington-Normal
. tNews flashes will undoubtedly appear Let's not get swallowed by the n~wness
t • • soon. For example, MORE BODIES FOUND-· and po~ished image of the look-a-like
east-s1de. Tt•s a hollow delusion,
MASS SLAYING SUSPECTED and NUCLEAR the lobotomy McDonaldization of
Amerika that has already killed too
Up 1n L1ghts f·WAR DECLARED--OFFICIALS SAY DON'T much of this country.

f PANIC. Sav~ at least a little corner of
6 su:ely ?ne of the most enlight- san~ty. You have to spend some
dollars to survive, so spend them on
' en~ng s~gns of progress in the t~e w~st-side, in the central business
d1st:1ct--and keep at least a human
fcommunity lately has been the marg~n to our lives in Reagan's
Amer1ka.
Pantagra~h's.lig~ted ~essage ·

t tboard, w~th ~ts ~mpos~ng view
over Madison street.
one can only speculate on what
devastating effect. the ability
to simultaneously broadcast the
latest figures on unemployment

and corn prices will have on the

competition.
f tNow it is possible, while
driving past at a high rate

of ~pee~p pursuing your many

f fobl~gat~ons, ·to catch the time
and temperature--information that
probably at some point will take

t precedence over the color of the

t stop light at Washington.
A newspaper whose professed goal
is to.give the readers what they
want can certainly use the cred-
ibility of self-pr0motion on
the Bijou.

6 The tiJ:1e and temperature are "
dispersed at carefully timed

i' i~terva~s betwe~n messages about
B1ll Fl~ck, rec~pes, and classifieds.

i' ~urely such an "electronic newspaper"
~s one of the most valuable--and
- - - - - - - - - - - - t' elegant-~assets _of The Pantagraph..

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an expanded produce section, to serve

Bloomington, Ill. 61701 you better.

COMMON GR?UND now offers you the opportunity to cut food
and v1tam1~ costs by 10%. You may obtain your 10% discount
club card 1n the following two ways:

(1) You may purchase a discount card for a yearly fee of $10
(2) You may earn a free discount card by accumulating $50 •
wort~ of CO~ON GROUND sales receipts. Simply save your
rece1pts unt1~ you have a total of $50, at which time we will
present you w1th a FREE 10% discount caxd good for one year.

Once you have _your discount card, simply present it at the
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Post-Amerikan Feb., 1984 22

Reagan lied about Grenada invasion plan

The Reagan administration has
claimed that it did not contemplate
its invasion of Grenada until Prime
Minister Mauric8 Bishop was killed
on October 19·

But several weeks before Bishop's.
murder, the Special Army Ranger Unit
that parachuted into Point Salines
airstrip on Grenada practiced by
"assaulting" the airport of Ephrata,
a remote farming community in eastern
Washington State.

Between September 2J and October 2,
Port of Ephrata records show, three
long runways at Ephrata Municipal
Airport were reserved for use by the
2nd Batallion Rangers, 75th Infantry
Division, one of the two elite Ranger
units which played crucial roles in
the October 25 invasion.

Floyd Exeter, manager of the Port of
Ephrata which runs the airport,
says the Army told him that some
personnel would be brought in as
"aggressors."

"They were also going to 'capture' a Don Beckley, former Port of Ephrata were clearing the runway in
certain building at the airport Grenada of oostructions so C-1JO's
and possibly liberate some people manager, says Rangers have used the could land," he says. "That was the
inside. We turned all the lights off, same sort of thing they did in
made it as dark as possible for them, airport only once beforea they Ephrata."

and after these exercises there p rfatecrticue.ds. an assaul t on the runway --People's World,
would be a lot of spent cartridges a hostages were taken in 12 Nov 198J (Thanx to Northwest
and used smoke grenade canisters all
over the place." Iran. Passage

Beckley says the pieces came to-
gether for him "when I heard they

Troops invade Angel· Island

on veteran's Day, November 11, about November 11 was a brilliantly sunny Liberatipn forces pose, with colors
100 people from various progressive day, sandwiched between two giant flying high, beside landmark on
groups staged a guerrilla theater storms. We held a news conference at strategically critical Angel Island.
spectacle at San Francisco's Aquatic 10 a.m. and encouraged the media to
Park: the invasion of an island in ask questions. To all of them we Photo: Jack Davis
the center of San Francisco Bay. answered: "That's classified. Pub-
The event satirized the invasion of licity would endanger the safety of "I assume you are all ~ out there.
Grenada, the news blackout, and U.S. our troops." Win this one for the Gipper! Are you
militarism in general. you ready to die for freedom?"
We did a minor media blitz, so we had But we did offer some justification: 11 Yes! 11
tv and radio coverage, along with the --To protect Amerikan interests; "Are you ready to go any place to die
newspapers. Our press release read: --The island occupies a strategic lo- no matter how small or insignificant?"
"The invasion is being planned with cation on the sea-route to the Rich- 11 Yes! 11
the usual 'absence of intelligence,' mond oil refinery; "Are you ready to die on Granola, er,
according to a high-ranking official --Reports indicate that Cuban troops Granada?"
who wished to remain anonymous. Al- · have been sighted in the area--a mili- "Yes!"
though the press is encouraged to tary buildup? a terrorist training "Lebanon?"
cover this action, they. are advised base?
that the military will retain com- --We will defend the lives and honor "Yes! 11
plete control at all times." of Amerikan deer;
--Other Bay Area communities (Tiburon, "Angel Island?"
*** Sausalito, Oakland) informally re-
quested U.S. intervention in Angel IIYes! ,,
Poofter in tutu masquerading as a man Island.
tries on life jacket before invading She worked the troops into a frenzy.
Angel Island. At 10:30 a.m. the troops marched
Photo: Jack Davis forward to be reviewed, whistling Longinotti passed his football to 80-
''The Colonel Bogey March" (from The year-old Walt Stack, a member of the
_ Bridge £!::!. the River Kwai). Enola Communist Party for 50 years. Walt led
Gay (an anti-nuclear faggot affinity the charge, and the troops hit the
group) were the cheerleaders with beach while Valkyrie music from Apoca-
·lots of pompons; they sang cheers with ~ Now blared from huge speakers.
synchronized body movements: "Push They paddled out in a flotilla of rafts
·'em back, push 'em back, waaaaay back." to the fishing boat waiting to trans-
port them to the island, but after a
Rick Longinotti, the troop's command- while they paddled back.
ing officer reviewed his soldiers,
carrying a football. While he put So the cheerleaders bearing a Faggot
them through their paces, they sang Liberation Army flag, along with a
responses to his song: newsperson and a few others, paddled
out to the boat, sailed to the island,
I don't know but I've been told, completed the mission, and had a picnic.
Co~unists should not grow old.
we should kill them when they're --Robert Gluck

young;
That's how freedom can be won.

He urged his troops to sock it to the
quarterback in Moscow, then they sang
"Be all you can be/ You can be it in
the army."

Meanwhile protestors with signs and
leaflets shouted from the sidelines,
"U.S. out of Angel Island!" and "Stop

u.s. Intervention!"

Dana Block, a woman in Four Star
General drag, delivered an oration:

When the door's open Post-American Feb., 1984 23

Water Department enters

Bloomington homes unasked

According to the policy of the Bloom- card asking me to read the meter invasion of customers' privacy, the
ington water department, meter readers myself. water department's entry policy is a
also potentially dangerous to the
will sometimes enter customers' homes But the Bloomington resident who meter readers.
without their consent or knowledge. called the Post-Amerikan says he was
never told that he could keep the Even a meter reader yelling "Meter
Judy Whikehart, Supervisor of water department out simply by asking. Reader!" at top volume would be
Accounting in the water collections "They just told me to lock my doors," unheard by someone taking a shower.
department at city hall, confirmed What if a particularly nervous
• resident, stepping out of the shower,
that this is indeed water department heard a complete stranger on the
policy. basement stair? Would some residents
reach for their handy shotguns?
A Bloomington resident hadcontacted
the Post-Amerikan after learning that "That's a pretty far-out instance,"
Whikehart pooh-poohed. "We've still
a water meter reader had entered his got the same three meter readers we've
had for years. None of them has been
house when no one was at home. The , shot yet."
outraged customer had telephoned city
hall, only to learn that the water

department had this policy:

A meter reader will knock first. If he said. Police spying
there is no answer, the meter reader
will try the door. If it is unlocked, Not in ordinance Although Section 43 doesn't say what
the meter reader is authorized to Whikehart wants it to, it is still
To back up her claim that the water somewhat bothersome. It says the
enter the premises and take a reading. department's entry policy is spelled Water Director and his officers "shall
out in a Bloomington ordinance, Ms. be qualified as Police Officers in
Whikehart claimed that the policy was Whikehart even sent me a copy with a accordance with the provision of this
authorized in the ordinance which cover letter pointing out the relevant Code and other ordinances of the City."
governs operations of the water sections.
department. She sent me a copy, with What does this mean if a water meter
But no person even minimally literate reader sees evidence of a crime while
a letter pointing out the sections in the law could agree with her , sneaking around someone's empty house?
which supposedly authorize the meter interpretation. What if·a meter reader spotted
readers' entry.
For example, Whikehart's cover letter
However, Tom Eimermann of the American to me says, "Section K indicates that
meters will be easily accessible to
Civil Liberties Union strongly the Meter Reader, A door left
unlocked by the owner is giving the
disagreed with Whikehart's interpreta- reader easy access to the meter."
tion. "There is absolutely nothing
Actually, Section K is part of a
there to provide a basis for city series of paragraphs laying out exact
plumbing specifications for mains,
employees to come walking in your taps, cocks, and their locations and
spacing. Section K says, "All water
house just because the door is meters shall be so located that they
will be easily accessible to the Meter
unlocked," Eimermann told the Post- Reader." The rest of Section K
Amerikan. ---- details very specific requirements for
outside meters.
Notification

Unwanted entries by water meter
readers are probably more common than
many realize, since most of the
incidents go unnoticed. The person
who called the Post-Amerikan seems to
scrutinize his water bill more
closely, perhaps, than o~hers. He
noticed he was billed for an "actual"
reading (instead of "estimated") on a
day he remembered he was not at home.

In a sleepy serene community like Section K is telling plumbers what to evidence of marijuana smoking, a
Bloomington, many residents leave do with water meters. It means don't "crime" almost half the population is
install the meter so the dial is regularly guilty of?
their doors unlocked with little fear facing a brick wall; it means don't
that unwanted strangers will be install a meter inside a staircase. I'm not being quite as paranoid as it
It is not authorization for meter seems. Undercover narcotics agents
wandering in. Many would be outraged readers to enter homes. have already realized the valuable
to learn that they are monthly victims intelligence gathering opportunities
of city-sponsored trespassers. In her letter to me, Whikehart also in meter-reading. A particularly
says that Section 43 of the ordinance notorious narc squad in Madison,
Ms. Whikehart told the Post-Amerikan "addresses the police powers for the Wisconsin, several years ago had one
that people who don't want meter read- Director of Water or any officer he of its operatives working as a meter
ers entering their unlocked homes can may designate for enforcing the reader for the gas company in order
simply notify the water department. ordinances. The meter readers act as to gain access to people's houses.
"Once, we write it on your meter card, officers designated by the Director
then they won't come in," she said. of Water." But even if water meter readers are
just minding their own business,
How do Bloomington residents even know Big deal. Section 43 says the writing consumption figures in note-
they have this option? Director of Water shall enforce the books, they still have no business
ordinance, and the water meter readers being in someone's home without the
"When the meter readers come in and can help. So if a meter reader spots resident's consent ~r knowledge.
you call and complain, that's when you an illegal connection, or finds a
find out," Whikehart explained. plumber using pipe that's not Anyone who doesn't want such entries
standard, they can do something about to continue should call 828-7361 and
In other words, the city will enter it. It doesn't mean they can enter ask for the water department. Tell
your house every month when you are homes without permission to read the them you don't want anyone entering
meter, just as it doesn't mean they your home, even if it is unlocked.
not home until you happen to find out can enter homes without permission to
about it. Then if you get it together inspect the plumbing. If the water department insists on
to complain, they will stop. continuing their questionable entries,
Tom Eimermann of the ACLU was sure they should at least send a letter to
Maybe. that the ordinance didn't say what all Bloomington residents informing
Whikehart said it did. But, I asked them that these uninvited entries are
It did work for me. Shortly after I Eimermann, what if the ordinance taking place.
moved into my present home several actually did say water meter readers
years ago, I caught a water meter could enter if a door were unlocked? But you can bet that won't happen.
reader entering my house through an Would that be constitutional?
unlocked basement entrance. I didn't --Mark Silverstein
realize at the time he was following Eimermann didn't have cases right at
water department policy--I just his fingertips, but he said his gut
thought the department must have had reaction was no. He said he could not
a voluntary arrangement with the imagine a court upholding the inter-
previous resident. But after I raised pretation that an unlocked door was
hell, something must have been written 'an open invitation to enter.
down, because it's never happened
again. If I'm not home, they leave a Dangerous

In addition to being an unwarranted,
unnecessary, and possibly illegal

Locked 1• n the electronic sweatshop

Is processing data as unhealthful as are told that if they can stay awake As 9 to 5: The Working Woman's Guide
processing bacon? At Sugar Creek for 30 years at the terminal, they to Office Survival points out, scien-
Packing Company you can lose a limb. might make a living wage. Indeed, tific research on health hazards in
At IAA, State Farm, Bloomington State Farm has developed propaganda ·computer work is still not complete,
F~deral, ISU, you only lose your to an art form. If there were other but there are some disturbing
m~nd--for less money and no union corporations in town that paid 1984 findings:
protection. The automated office is (not 1954) competitive salaries for ----Reports of miscarriages by female
the newest factory in town to use office work, would State Farm look
robots--the human kind. But unless so good to us? VDT operators caused by the small
women clerical employees organize doses of radiation emitted by the
and educate a basically male cor- When Hi-Tech does arrive in B/N it machine.
porate structure (hopefully this will may mean low pay for many women or ----A Canadian task force recommends
change in the future) about the pro- permanent unemployment as voice- operators only work a total of
blem~ we face as VDT (Video Display activated computers make data entry five hours, with a fifteen minute
Term~nal) operators, we will be toil- or word processing obsolete. With break every two hours.
ing i~ electronic sweatshops for lower advances in software, future computer ----Check the ventilation system in
pay and even less dignity than we had programmers may have the same status your office, the modern workplace
as simple secretaries. as typists. So, yes, a lucky few will is filled with toxic fumes.
clean up the big bucks in the future.
Luckily, there is a new book that can If you feel your office is becoming
help. It is called 9 to 5: The Work- How long will working women in Bloom- an electronic sweatshop. Talk to your
ing Woman's Guide to-Oifice Survival ington/Normal, many of them supporting fellow workers and organize. Working
(Penguin Books, $5~5) written by children and paying for day care out women have the right to a job with
Ellen Cassedy and Karen Nussbaum, ~f their own pockets, sit passively dignity, respect, advancement oppor-
founders of 9 to 5, the National ~n front of a computer terminal making tunities, and with adequate corporate
Association of Working Women. less than $5 an hour wiile men are dav care. Because you wear 3 white
promoted to Systems Analysts at collar, don't settle for less money·
Many of us who have worked in word $50,000/year? A company like State for new skills. Men wear white
processing centers have experienced Farm keeps a Kremilin-lik~ silence collars too, but they expect high pay
severe eye strain and tremendous on salary differentials between and status as a reward for being a
stress. The authors point out that men and women. They say they don't professional. So should you.
according to a 1981 study by the discriminate against women, but won't
National Institute for Occupation publish a simple list showing male --Jane Gleisner
Safety and Health (NIOSH) VDT oper- and female salaries to prove it. The
ators have a stress level higher pictures of promoted executives and Source: 9 to 5, National Associ-
than air traffic controllers. Is underwriters in the Pantagraph all ation of Working Women
~his any wonder when your supervisor tend to be white, middle-aged males. 1224 Huron Road
~s a c~mputer that's always watching, It's hardly a scien~ific study, but Cleveland, OH 44115
rP-cord~ng how many lines or keystrokes the observance of everyday life has Phone: 216-566-9308
you produce. This, provides a wonder- taught women a lot about a Gender
f~l opportunity for the human super- Gap that was here long before Reagan,
v~sor to treat you more like a machine especially in Bloomington/Normal.
than you already are, posting the
winner of the "Line Count Contest"
and doubling the workload so manage-
ment will be impressed with the de-
partment's production. Guess who gets
the raise when production goes up?

Will you clean up learning word pro-
cessing? Yes, right after work. (If
you can see the dust after typing all
day.) You can clean up money-wise
better at the vacuum cleaner factory
than the banking/insurance factory.

While companies like State Farm suck
in (excuse the pun) millions, female
clericals sweep up the crumbs. They

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