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  • Page 4 CAROLINIAN OUTLOOK By Jay Gertz Plastic People ipiis column is not a criticism of this campus alone. It is not a criticism of the nation. It is a fact Our country is filled with a majority of plastic people. (The Mothers of Invention point this fact out in their song "Plastic People," found on their album, ■Absolutely Free.") Plastic people are found in the younger generation, the working class, the senior citizen group, the white collar class and the ruling hierarchy of our government Plastic people are people that suppress their emotions. They are afraid to laugh aloud when a humorous situation occurs. Instead, they snicker silently or make a snide comment that it was not really funny. When sorrow strikes or a truly beautiful song is heard or a heart-rending drama ends, plastic people refuse to cry. Men believe crying to be un- masculine and conceal their tears for fear of being called queer. Girls will cry more freely, but many times hide their emotions because crying is childish. Plastic people exploit love for the sake of sex. Morals are at such a low that it takes no effort to say, "I love you," in exchange for an evening of sensual pleasure. When con~ fronted with the sunburst of true love, they are afraid to display affection in public and afraid to admit their state of love. True love and sexual pleasures are natural when united, but they are delicate situations. Only in the hands of plastic people are they destroyed and made evil. Persons in love may want to keep their love quiet and private, but love is an independent emotion and its beauty should be shouted to the world. Love is contagious, and the world lacks it sadly. Plastic people do not think for themselves, but let others of the same type mold their ideas. In the field of racial discrimination, for example, Democracy Course Offered SPARTANBURG, S. C. ~ An Institute on Constitutional Democracy and Totalitarianism is being offered to area qualified teachers by the Master of Arts in Teaching Department at Converse College. Designed for all qualified teachers, the Institute will be directed by Dr. William T. Nichols, Converse associate professor of political science and chairman of the department Six graduate or undergraduate credits will be awarded by the MAT department upon completion of the course which will run for five weeks, June 10- July 12. plastic people are worried about speaking in favor of the Black cause, for fear of losing racist friends. The racist "friends" would shun them and cast silent daggers at their backs. These "friends" are not worth the energy of talking sincerely and intelligently to in the first place. The leaders of our country persuade us with their forked, plastic tongues to bring us to their support Then they hamstring the nation with an unconstitutional war, "There are men who run our country, There are men that try to think, And they're all made out of plastic, When they melt they start to stink." (Mothers of Invention) Plastic people build their lives with false ideas, artificial morals and make-believe actions. But these people seem to make our nation secure. They cover the independent and liberal people with a Daycron blanket, but these non-plastic people create sparks which are beginning to burn. There are some FREE people. They dare to live life to the fullest. They think, laugh, cry and love. They do all this and stay within the bounds of most laws. Plastic people need no laws for they are insecure outside of their realm of plasticity. FREE people dare to assert themselves. "Plastic people. . .you think we're talkin' 'bout someone else. But you're wrongl" (Mothers of Invention) I'm not talking about someone else. I'm talking about me. I am talking about you! THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN Olympics Set For Saturday By SHIRLEY ANDREWS Alpha Phi Omega Service Fraternity is sponsoring the Third Annual Cullowhee Olympics to be held Saturday, May 4. This event will take place on the Reid physical education field between 9 a.m. and 12 noon Saturday. All fraternities, sororities, intramural teams, clubs, dorm groups, etc., are invited to compete. Scoring is based on a 5-3-1 point system. First place winner receives fivepoints;second place, three points, and third place, one point The first competitive event will be the women's jack race. A total of four women, forming two teams, compete from each group. They will race four laps, each lap consisting of 25 yards. First on the agenda for the men is the Volkswagon Tote. There will be no limit for participants in this competition. An entering group must rua to the car, pile in, start the car, drive a designated distance, jump out and carry the car ten yards, get in again, and drive the car back into a box. The group using the least amount of time to complete this will win. Other events for the women include a pole climb with either one or two participants; an egg toss, two participants; tricycle race, one participant, and a tug-o-war with 12 participants. Completing the competitive list of events for men will be a four legged race with three entries from each group, a chariot race with nine entries, an egg toss with two entries, and a tug-o-war with 12 entries. Trophies and awards will be given in the men's and women's divisions. These will be presented during the Honors and Awards Day, May 8. -utsaay.TM ^'1968 Kerouac s Latest Book Not Up To 'Beat' Par CANDIES, COSMETICS, SCHOOL SUPPLIES Next To First Union Bank STOVALL'S 5-N>-25< STORE We Give 5-&H Creen Stimqi COGDILL MOTOR CO. Your Chrysler, Plymouth, Dodge and Dodge Truck Dealer SeeThe New 68's Complete Body Shop Sylva. N. c. Cetit Mupkiut umi Pietut THE BOOK STORE CARDS, GIFTS, ART SUPPLIES Btllmuk Cut* ft 586-2486 Some books should be reviewed only because people are going to be talking about them, and the public should be spared the chore of reading them. Jack Kerouac's new novel. Vanity of Dulouz, unfortunately meets all the standards for this type of review. It is, above all, boring. The petulant voice of the older Kerouac goes on and on, demanding that we listen to him reminisce, insisting that we attend to the merest trivia of his experience, replete with resentment of today's "Mandala Mosaic Mesh- ed-Up world." The mood of the book is not helped by his having chosen to write about his early youth—the freshness and vividness of On the Road have no place here. The main character of the novel is Duluoz, a young man so poorly defined as a char= acter that he can be under~ stood only in identifying him as Kerouac, who aids the reader in that assumption by referring to Duluoz several times as "Kerouac-Duluoz." Thus, since anv understanding of Duluoz must be extrapolated from what we know of the later Kerouac. The book, although sold as a novel, becomes the story of Kerouac's younger life. It deals with three episodes, his career in football, his experiences during the war, and his involvement in a well-known murder case which occurred at Columbia University after the war. It should perhaps be mentioned that there are thir» teen "books" in the novel, a number which may be guessed to be of significance because the "book" divisions seem arbitrary, at best The story of Duluo7» , ball career is told with* °?to tore of sheer nostalgia "Ux" ^If.indulgent boastfuW3*1 series of personal tifUr?' a' against a background of t* sentment at coaches, therL and toe public for Du&f^' ure to become a Prof?.*- football player, fe1 petulance of passages like ^l now, being all discouraged th great starters of the u>^ the heroes, had to rest ItS' that fiasco in Connecticut , I was left with a bunch , second-string kids to face Nas hua . .in the raining Jf and, as I say, it was an example of how they were treating me' do not serve to reveal anythiL in the character of Dulu^ they seem only to point ud » meanness in the author. Duluoz in the war is Httip better. His experiences f0 ! low a pattern that has h*L told by Kerouac before-drink ing, whoring, wandering, and boredom. u The final section deals with Kerouac's involvement in a murder, and it is here that the personality of the author overwhelms any pretence at maintaining the structure oi the novel. It is Kerouac himself who relishes his involvement both vicariously and as a witness in the muder of an older homosexual by the youne man whom he has followed and attempted to seduce for years Despite his own involvement' or perhaps because of it, Kerouac seems to have little knowledge of the character of the young man, and that little is not communicated tothe reader. CONTINUED Page 8 . . . .
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