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Published by Students of New College, Sarasota, Florida April14, 1967 Sarazzone Wins Fulbright Grant to Spain She J oins This Select Gro up Members of the Cllarter Class of New College who have been selected as winners of 11 of the national graduate fellowships or for honorablemention in the competition. The various fellowShips won include WoodrowWilsonFoundation (WWF), National Science Foundation (NSF), Danforth Foundation (DF), and Fulbright Grant (FG). Students with their home towns, fields of study, and awards are: front row, left to right, Ray B. Enslow, Peoria, ill., philosophy, DF fellow; Dennis Kezar, Lawrence, Ind., philosophy, WWF Esther Lynn Barazzone has been notified she has won a Fulbright Grant for study abroad next year, bringing to 11 the total of national graduate fellowships awarded to members of the Class of '67. The grant includes round trip transportation to the host nation, allowances for living expenses, andeducationalcosts for one year. Esther will attend the University of Madrid in Spain where she will study medieval history. Esther Lynn is the second Fulbright winner in the graduating class. Neil Olsen earlier learned he had won a grant to study at the University of Manchester in England, where he will study mathematics. The scholarships provided for by the Fulbright-Hays Act are part of the educational and cultural exchange program of the Dept. of State. Each candidate was asked tooutlineastudy plan in his major field which he proposed to complete during his year abroad. Olsen has won a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellowship for study in thiscountry, inadditiontothe Fulbright award. Other New College seniors have won two Danforth Foundation Fellowships, four Woodrow Wilson F ellowships, and twoN ational Science Foundation Fellowships. fellow; Paul K. Hans:ma, Scottsdale, Ariz., physics, NSF fellow; Rachel Findley, LaGrange, Ill., mathematics, DF fellow; David N. Rollow, Chamblee, Ga. English, WWF fellow; Timothy Dunsworth, St. Louis Park, Minn., philosophy, WWF fellow. Back row, left to right, Thomas Bell, New Orleans, la., physics, NSF honorable mention; William Thurston, Silver Spring, Md., mathematics, WWF fellow; Neil Olsen, Cocoa Beach, Fla., mathematics, WWF andFGfellow; Henry Thomas, Columbus Ga. mathematics, WWF and NSF honorable mentions ;Raymond Bennett, Shady Side, Md., psychology, NSF fellow. Missing from photo, Esther Lynn Barazzone, Port Charlotte, Fla., history, FG fellow. lntervisitation Extended S ite Plan Concentrates F acil i t ies A long Axis Student residences, main library, and other major facilities on the Draft Card Burnin g Said Constitutional A Federal Appeals Court judge ruled this week the law prohibiting the buming of draft cards is unconstitutional and void. Justice Bailey Aldrich upheld the appeal of David Paul O'Brien, 22, of Framingham, Mass., who contended the public burning of his card was a lawful exercise of free speech. The mutilation or destruction of a draft card is a violation of an amendment to the Selective Ser vice Act. O'Brien had been sentenced to six years in prison for buming his draft card last year on the steps of the South Boston District Court. A UPI account of the case which appearedinthelocalpapersdid not say whether the State will appeal Aldrich's decision. Wives Will Host FPC Women's Club Wives of faculty and staff members ofN ew College will host a tea for the Women's Club of Florida Presbyterian College Wednesday, 1-4 pm. The tea follows a visit paid to Presbyterian's St. Petersburg campus by the New College group several months ago. Mrs. Neville Williams is chairman of the committee that is making arrangements for the tea and a tour of the campus for the visitors. West Campus will be concentrated along a North-South axis along the bayfront, according to a preliminary site plan developed by the project's architects. Lester Pancoast, chief architect for the West Campus, reported to a joint meeting of the faculty architectural committee, and student and administration representatives Wednesday his firm's concept of "high density construction" for the area. Both College Hall and the Sanford House will be retained, Pancoast said, and will form the southern end of the axis. North of College Hall, a classroom-dining-library complex is planned. Student residences will be clustered north of this complex. The architects agreed to develop two site plans for presentation to the full Board of Trustees next month, one based on a student enrollment of 800 ahd another on one of 1200. According to Assistant Dean Dr. Arthur Miller, "The idea is that it's easier to shrink a college than to expand it. He said if the college were at an enrollment of 800, it could accomodate a gradual growth by working down from the 1200 student plan. The assembled group also approved a room configuration in the new residences which could be arranged so that a two-person room could be sub-divided into either two bedrooms plus bath, or one double bedroom plus bath and a living area. AccordingtoMiller, if the Trustees approve the plans next month at least one dorm building could be ready on the West Campus by September, 1969. For Current Study Period Intervisitationhours will terminate at 1 am every night for theremainder of the independent study period. The Council Wednesday passed a motion approving a message from the Student Executive Committee suggesting the hours change. The ruling affects weeknight hours, which are normally 11 pm. The terminating hour on Fridays and Saturdays are normally 1 am and thus are not affected. The study period officially ends a week from today. The motion as passed stresses that this action is not intended to serve as a precedent. "The SEC action is approved for the present independent study period, 11 the statement reads. "Such approval is in no sense a commit-P r otest, ment for approval of a similar action in the future (and) policy for action in the future (will) be determined only after additional action and study. According to Dean of Students RobertNorwine, a proposed calendar change to allow a fourth-year option will cause a situation wherein some students will be doing independent study while others would be doing regular coursework, and this might pose problems with enforcement of intervisitation. Norwine, faculty representatives Dr. Geo11ge Mayer and Mrs. Patricia Drabik, and student representatives Rick Stauffer and Bill Thursday voted for the current change. Faculty representative Dr. George Petrie voted against the change, while President John Elmendorf and NC Sty l e Recreation Co-ordinator Frank Meyer has instituted a number of regulations limiting the use of the Reception Center telephone. In protest of these "repulsive" rules, some students have taken to burning a copy of the regulations each night. Other subversive activities include changing Meyer's "Today" board in the Reception Center to read "Toady." Bill Clladwick, student in charge of the Center and the one getting the blame for these shenanigans, told The Catalyst, "This childish nonsense has got to stop. Vice President Paul Davis ab stained. Norwine Associates' Dinner Will Feature Panel A panel discussion on "The Contemporary College Student" will highlight a dinner meeting of the New College Associates Monday evening at 7:30 in College Hall. First-year students Kit Arbuckle andBeth Crosby, second-year students Dan Haggarty and Patricia Sanderson. and third-vear students Esther Lynn Barazzone and Dennis Kezarwillcomprisethe panel, and the discussion will be moderated by President John Elmendotf. The Associates, who consist of people who have pledged at least $1,000 per year for three years, will receive special membership plaques and library privilege cards at the dinner. More than 60 Associates and their guests are expected to show up for the dinner.

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Page 2 Editorial Love Is the Message "Please remember that our message is love." As many as 15 New College students may participate in a march for world peace tomorrow in St. Petersburg. About 150 are expected in all, and the organizers of the demon stration wam, "Our reception will be a cold one, and for this reason we suggest that only those of serious conviction attend." It will be strange to watch people calling anonymously fromofftothe side that peace marchers are cowards. Those who marched from Ft. Lauderdale to Miami found it worse than strange to be identified as "dirty fascist communists" who are afraid to fight. There were tales of vicious hoods waiting in ambush, ready to prove how cowardly and impotent the peaceniks are. It is somewhat disturbing to read the utter sincerity with which a citizen like Mrs. Harold Bruce of Sarasota writes that "It should also be college men's jobs" to maim and kill in a conflict they cannot justify. And, indeed, it is difficultto face a Veteran, crippled from a past combat in which he fought to insure his sons would not have to fight, and tell him there maybe better avenues to peace than war. The brave are those who will conquer fear and do what they feel is moral, what is right. Only crazy people would not experience terror at the thought of facing death on a muddy battlefield. The cowards, we agree, include some "peaceniks" who are searching blindly for a way out, but those who go off to war and do not question their commitment, blindly obeying because they are afraid their consciences will object, might also properly bear the title "cowards." Violence can sometimes be the easy way out. But name-calling accomplishes nothing. The message is love, even if some aren't quite ready to accept it. Letter The Catalyst April 14, 1967 'Pill Poppers' Can Extra Study Time Purchase (ACP)--For the price of a quarter, a number of University of Redlands (Calif. ) students were able to purchase extra study time during For Exams final exams recently, the Redlands Bulldog reports. How? By using "pep pills. The universityhasneverbeen no-tedfor extenxive use of benzedrine or dexedrine, the newspaper reports, but in recent months "pillpopping" has quietly come into style. The dominant reason appearsto be the need for study time and powers of concentration during exam periods. Student Defends Conscientious Objection Says one student: "I just didn't have enough time. When I was offered thechan To the Editor: Conscientious obJection to war has been much discussed on this campus recently, so I would like to take the copportunity to clear up somesimple misconceptions about this issue, and to offer some personal opinions on the side. I direct my remarks particularly to two items appearing in last week's Catalyst: an article titled "CO Draft Exemptions Called Undem ocratic," and the letter from Mrs. Harold 0. Bruce of Sarasota. To begin with, it is a mistake, and a common one, to speak of "CO draft exemptions" and "CO deferments." There are no such things. Conscientious objectors are drafted. I am not referring to those obvious cases in which the Selective SeNice System fails to be convinced that a man is legally qualified for CO status. I mean thatmenwhoare legally granted a CO classification (either 1-0 or l-AO) are drafted to seNe their country for two years: if they receive the l-AO classification, then they are drafted into the military but seNe only in non-combatant capacities (U!ually in the medical corps, and if they are granted the 1-0 status, then they are drafted to do two years of civilian seiVice usually in h"'pitals, I believe.) Lack of understanding on this point often leads people to call conscientious obJectors "draft dodgers." Admittedly there are very many Member Associated Collegiate Prua Vol. 3, Number 30 Aprill4, 1967 Published weekly bystudentsatNew College (exceptfor threeweeksfrom mid-December thto1J8b the first week in Janwuy and six weeks in July and August). Subscriptions: $5.00 per year (43 bsues) or 1St per copy. Address subscription orders, change of dress notices and undeliverable copies to: The Catalyst/ New College/ Post Office Box 1898/Sa.rasota, Florida 33578. Application to mall at second-class postage rates pendJng at Sarasota, Florida. TeL 355-5406. Editor ....... KenJi Qd.a Assoc. Editor .......... Laurie Paulson Business ....... George Finkle Production ..... Steve Orlofsky Circulation ..... Dale Hickam Controller ............ Edna Walker Photography ............... Dave Tekler Staff: Kit Arbuckle, Betsy Ash, hving Benoist, Claudia Blair, Mary Blakeley, Carol Ann Childress, Glenda Cimino, Allan Jaworski, Pearl Lefkovlts, Jet Lowe, ToD) Maoteuffel, Abby Mise mer, Kay Moller, Mary Lou Phillips, Shelley S c b ll c k er, Katie SD)ith, Cheryl White. ways to avoid being drafted, and those ways that are legal are often ca ed deferments." One may legallydodge the draft by becoming, among other things, a student, a minister, thirty-five years old, or a Congressman. (Sow said that Congressmen, since they write the laws that defer Congressmen, are involved in a conflict of interest. On the contrary, I cannot imagine a nicer dovetailing of interests.) But the fact remains that it is not possible to dodge the draft by virtue of the CO classification. Another misconception is implicit in Mrs. Bruce's characterization of conscientious objectors as men who "don't want to defend our coUDtry," presumably because they refuse to engage in war. There are many things that could be said in response to this, but I'll be content to make the following comments: 1) It seems to me that to defend one's country is to make it safe; but surely Mrs. Bruce does not mean to imply that our coUDtry is only safe when we are engaged in war. On the contrary, wars are extraordinarily dansterous affairsespecially defensive wars-and therefore the best way to protect our coUDtry is to prevent wars, not to engage in them. It is probably this preventative effort that Mrs. Bruce had in mind when she wrote of "defending our country." But if this is what she meant, then she would find few people more anxious to defend our country than conscientious objectors. 2) Nor is the real question whether we want war or peace--no sane person wants war--but rather which techniques are most likely to succeed in securing a just peace. In this respect pacifists are sometimes guilty of a serious misconception themselves: they occasionally convince themselves that everyone wm is not a pacifist wants to fight wars. This is as groundless as Mrs. Bruce 1 s belief that CO's do not want to defend their COWltry. 3) Having agreed that we all want a just peace, however, there still remains considerable dUference of opinion as to the best way to secure it. Most people believe that one way is to prepareforwar; this opinion is not shared by conscientious objectors. CO's tend to believe that the only very likely result of warpreparations--orof "preventa tive wars" like the one in Vietnam --iswar. Warsbaveawayofbreeding more wars, rather than peace {as in the 20th century, for example); and weapons, once built, have a habit of getting used sooner or later. 4) Bu venthosewho ommend deterrence as one method of d!fense do not believe that it is the method. Certainly they advocate political, economic, and dijiomat ic efforts to prevent war too. Pac ifists quite agree; in fact, they often suggest that if we devoted as much effort and money and discipline to these other methods as we do to military preparations, we never need the milita-y methods. Pacifists will commonly recommend another method of defense as well, called "non-violent resistance. This method has been shown to be effective in certain situations, and it JUSt might be effective on a national scale if anyone ever thought to try it. Of course, it would require at least as much courage, dedication, and organization as military efforts, and there is considerable difference of opinion as towhetherthe risks would be lesser or greater than those of war. But the point I am making, at any rate, is that "defense" is not by any means synonymous with "preparation for war." 5) One must also consider what it means to secure a" j.lst peace. The simple absence of war is not necessarily a very noble ideal--although I suppose it must be at least a part of any ideal which is very noble. After all, we could secure the absence of war simply by surrendering to any evil that threatens us. Per haps some people would recommend such a thing, but I doubt that many conscientioU! obJectors v.ould be among them. However, surrender and war need not be the only altern.atives; ordinarily incredible blUDdering and are required to get oneself into such a hopeless position. The solution to these problems is not a large army, but intelligence and good will, and a willingness to try new approaches to old problems. 6} A just peace, then, must embody certain high principles if it is to be worth having. And all along we've really been discussing the defense of principles as well as the defense of people and property. America, after all, is more than just a nice stretch of territory with a bunch of people living on it. It is also a set of values and ideals. Now how does one defend a principle? There are many ways, no doubt, but the first and most essential way is to live up to it. For those who take literally the principle "Thou shalt not kill, this requires conscientious objection to war. Many other remarks really need to be made. For example, the existence of nuclear we po throws the whole question of conscientious objection into a new light, since there is simply no such thing as military defense from an atomic attack. And the moral and practical problems involved in the relationship between means and ends would require several volumes to adequately discuss. The purpose of the above remarks, however, is simply toshow that the issue of conscientious objection does not divide be tween those who would defend our country and those who would not. lhfortunatelyit is really much mae complex than that, and it involves honest differences of opinion which will not be settled by mistrusting each other's courage or patriotism. I might also briefly reply to Mr. Seidman's charge that conscientious objection is undemocratic. In a certain sense, a rather indirect sense, he is quite right. The no tion that individuals should have certain inalienable rights which may not be abrogated under any circumstances, nom atter how people v.ould like to abrogate them, is, in Mr. Seidman's words, a "profoUDdly undemocratic" sentiment. The entire Bill of Rights is an affront to the concept of maJority rule. It is also one of the most valuable elements of the American heritage. If Mr. Seidman would prefer a society in which every individual were bound to do everything the majority might like him to do, then it is no wonder that Mr. Seidman is unhappy. This principle of individual autonomy is quite scandalously violated by military conscription, it seems to me, and the pill is not made much easier to swallow by the limited provisions for conscientious objectors (who, as I mentioned, are drafted anyway). That the draft constitutes a case of involuntary servitude is hardly open to doubt, despite the Supreme Court's decision that the necessity of raising an army makes it all right. But since Mr. Seidman apparentlv does not approve of indivi
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April 14, 1967 The Catalyst Catalyst Interview Hopkins Tells Why He 'Got Off the Ship' This is the concluding installment of a two-part interview with Assistant Professor of Biology Thomas Hopkins, who is leaving New College shortly for a position at the University of West Florida in Pensacola. Part I appeared last week. Q: You've spoken of a communications gap between faculty and students. How do you propose we go about closing this gap? A: I feel that we could establish much better communications if the students had within the area of each major division some sort of 1 o un g e or facilities where they could spend their free time between classes and read and study. I specifically proposed that we purchase inexpensive bungalow type b u il d in g s which later on could be used for student residences or for the intensive study project kind of thing. I think they could have been used in a wide variety of ways, but these buildings could have been set up, say, one in the area of social sciences and one in the areaofnatural sciences,where the faculty wouldnot be sitting in their offices cloistered with their books and their academic gowns and what have you and hiding behind their examination p:pers, but where they could go to a comer,so to speak, to meet w1th and get to know the students and vice versa. I see the vestiges of a very structured community in which the students are the enlisted men, the fa culty are the officers, and the administration is the Pentagon .... It bothers me a great deal that the faculty is not more outgoing to the students .... Q: What happens once the 'barriers of formality' have been broken down? A : I said to some students and some colleagues sometime before the All-College Conference that I felt what the college needed was Friday-night Forum each month to be turned over to a student panel to debate some major issue bugging the students or b u g gin g the faculty .... (One month) the faculty, if t h e y v e got something they want to bring up like student non-attendance at seminars, 1 e t them air their opinions as to why they think it's valid for students to attend seminars, not just scream blatanly, the students aren't coming to my c 1 ass The students don't know what they can get out of a seminar (1) if they don't go, and (2) if they're not told in some meaningful way. But simply to be stated they don't come means nothing to them. They want things explained to them. I want things explained to me. I don't think there's enough of this kind of freewheeling discussion going on .... Free-wheeling discussion frequently gets cut off. To go one step further with regard to my Friday night suggestion, I propose that at the end of the meeting, if possible, some resolution b e draw n up which would act as a guideline until that issue was brought up at a Forum one or two years later by a new class that simply didn' t feel that the guidelines set for the class that was operating at that time are reallyvalid in the new society. It allows you to make your guidelines flexible, and I feel this g oes a l on g with the original goals of the college: to tailor our college to the students which are coming in and not simply set up a group of Ten Commandments that they will abide by from here on. As I say, they have done this, and they have simply another Harvard or another Swarthmore, and I can hardly find that as being innovative. Q: Have you any crit i c isms o f the students? A: I don't agree with the students on some things. In criticism of the s t u dents, I think one of the greatest problems is that students lack any semblance of self-discipline; there are many who came here with a semblance of self-discipline and have lost it and this is tragic. Q: What do you mean by 'selfdisciplin e'? A: The ability to say to oneself, I have a responsibility to learn. I have a responsibility to leam this material because this is what I'm interested in. Students profess to be interested in something and yet they simply don't attend. And not only do they not attend, there are any number of known specific cases I could mention where although the student has assured you that. he is in fact reading on the outs1de, he has not been reading on the outside. Just what he does with his time I don't know. It's his time he can do anything he wants to it. I'm simply stating that it's my o pinion that there arc some elements of self-destruction in the system. At a Friday night Forum this could be dwelled on to some extent, and could be put in students' minds so they can recognize what they are doing to themselves. I think that they are not a w are of just how little they do attend or how little they are learning until that I at a 1 day when some measurement of their learning is asked
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Page 4 The Catalyst April14, 1967 More Conversaciones ear n i n g About Simon Bolivar By GLENDA CIMINO Setting: the l obby of the Hotel Cordillera; a taxi; and the house and grounds of Simon Bolivar, Bogota Time: midmorning; conversation: Spanish and English Persons: New College S, B, andG; and a Venezuelan businessman, Sr. Cadas. (at the hotel desk) S: Digame, porfavor, is the hotel restaurant open yet? Clerk: No, it is still closed this morning. G: Well, we should go out to have breakfast, anyway. We haven't seen much of the city. Sr. Caldas: (at desk) How long have you been here? B: about three days now. Sr. C. Well, there is much to see Sr. C: Well, there is much to see in Bogota. Do you know the salt mines, where the miners built a cathedral entirely of salt? And the funicolar--the lift to the top of the mountain, overlooking the city? Ah--and La Bomba, the discotheque, where the boys wear their hair to long--(but I do not like to see this--} G: no--butwehave seen the Plaza of Simon Bolivar, and-Sr. C: But have you seen the house of Bolivar? S, B, G: No, we haven't. Sr. C: Come with me--l am going near there now. I will take you. G: Wonderfully! S: But I think we should have breakfast first--G: We can eat later. Let's go. Sr. C: (raising his arm and extending two fingers) Taxi! G: How much is the taxi? Sr. C: Do not worry about it. I will pay for it. ****** S: Are you from Bogota? Sr. C: No, I'm from Caracas, Ven ezuela. But I have been many times in Bogota. Where are you from? G: Sarah' s from illinois. Beais from Michigan, and I am from Georgia. B: Have you ever been in the states? Sr. C: Oh, yes, many times. I have been in Florida, in Chicago in Francisco. I have lived many years in New York. In the states I was very disappointed at how little people knew about my country. In New York, when I said I was from Caracas, Venezuela, people would say, "oh, do you own a farm?"--And in Miami--in Miami, people would also ask my home. When I said Venezuela, they asked, "that's near Argentina isn't it?" Do you have any how far Venezuela is from Argentina? Ididnotknow what to think. --Look, here we are. His house is Students To Enter Sandcastle Contest Three two-man teams of New College students have signed to compete in what is billed as the world's first annual championship sand castle building contest. Limited to people 18 years or older, the competition is scheduled for 4 pm tomorrow at the Sheraton Sandcastle on Lido Beach. Prizes include government bonds, plaques and a grand prize of an all expenses-paid holiday at the Shel' aton Sandcastle resort. The New College entrants are: Larry Alexander andN ancy Redick Bruce Guild and Karle Prendergast' and Bill Nunez and Ken Pfeffers. SAIASOTA CYCLE lr KEY SHOP s.w.s.r....t. ... lm 1117 SNte Street Wild life from Every continent at atthefoot of this mountain, Men serrate. -G:What is that white building at the top? Sr. C: It is a famous chm-ch the Iglesia de Monserrate. At Easter, manypeoplewatkup the mountain as a promesa--a promise to God. S: It is like a pilgraimage. Sr C: A pilgrimage, yes. Some people go up on their knees. (Entering the house through an archway) Thestyleofthe house is Colonial, with the courtyard inside. Up there, on the hill, is a private study of Bolivar's. G: Did Bolivar live here with his family? Sr. C: No. He lived alone. He was a very important man. G: How long did he live here? Sr. C: Aboutfive years. Look, in this room you can see pictures of him. And here are the names of some of the famous battles that he led. There are letters he wrote, and his uniform. As you can see, he was a very short man. But he was a magnificent statesman, as well as a brave soldier. Over there is a paintingofBolivaronhisdeathbed. Do you know what his last wordswere? "lfmy death contributes to the cessation of division and the consolidation of our union, I will lower myself peacefully into my grave. 11 Beautiful, is it not? S, B, G: Yes, it is. B : It sounds very sincere. G: Bolivar is about the most important figure in South American history, isn't he? And many people are visiting here. Sr. C: Yes--people come from all of South America to see his house. He was a remarkable man. He crossed the Andes on foot and by horseback. That in itself is re markable. I have flo wn over the Andes many times and wondered h o w he was able to d o it. G: Ihavereadthat the Andes have some o f the roughest terrain in the w orld. He must hav e been very determined. Sr. C : O h yes, very determined. He wanted to unify South Americ a In the states, everyone studies George Washington. Of course, he was a great man, but he only liberated one country. Bolivar liberated five--Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. G: Yes, that is true. Sr. C: Here are the flags of the five countries he live rated.--I must go now. Can you girls get back to the hotels by yourselves? G, B, S: Yes, thank you. Thank you very much. Sr. C: It was my pleasure. May youhave a pleasant stay in Bogota. Setting: Downtown Cali, Colombia Time: late afternoon; the conversation: English and Spanish Persons: G. and Dr. Felipe Kohn, a Venezuelan expert in Public Health. G: Look, here is another libreria-book store. This is one thing that is impressive in Cali, in Bogota, and Medellin, the number of book stores with not only many Spanish books, but also translations of good American and European writers--COCKTAILS AT 3428 No Trail 355-3446 4 F INE DOMESTIC AND Introduction: To A Bi-Cultural Friend Your world envelopes me, without accepting me c.lassifies me, without knowing me, Fmds my name strange, laughs at my mistakes, Expects me to know what it has always known, Sees in me not what is like, but what is different. The words which whirl into my mind are not words to you, And your words stumble, awkward, on my tongue. But you have been in my world, as I am now in yours. You accept me, without enveloping me, You know me, without classifying me You practice my name until you say it well You explain to me my mistakes, You kno":" I will not what you have always known, You see m me not what IS fore1gn, but what is human. And, as my culture blends with yours, The strange becomes the familiar, the familiar strange, until we know That what we've always known is not the truth, That our separate words are not the real names That the things that made us different were not the things that made us right. I will not try to make you what I am And you will not try to make me wh;t you are--But we will know each other, and thus We both will become different. like Huxley and Satre. In Guatemala, I felt I was stepping into a literary vacuum. There were few books available, and those were hard to find. Here, I feel more as if I've stepped into an ongoing literary tradition. Look--this book store,.like several others I've seen, has several books on Bolivar. Dr. K: Yes. Do you know about him? G : More than I did when I got here. I visited the house where he lived in Bog ota. Dr. K: He was a Venezuelan, y o u know. G: Yes. --But tell me, why did Bolivar live alone in Bogota? Dr K: Oh, but he did not liv e alone. Wh o told you that? G : A Venezuelan our grou p met in Bog ota. Dr. K: That is surprising, that he did not tell you the truth. G: What d o you mean? W as he married, after all? Dr. K: Yes, Bolivar did marry once, when he w;as about 2 0 But his wife died, and he never married again. He did fall in love, though--with an Ec uadorian. I think her name was Manuelita Saens, though I may be wrong. She was married already, to a British ambassador. But she met Bolivar and apparently fell in love with him. He asked her to come away and live with him. So, she left her husband, and she and Bolivar went to live in Bogota, which was then one of the most conservative cities in the world located in what is still ( I think) one o f the most conservativ e countries in the world. They lived there together, but they never married. I t was quite a s candal. Of c ours e Bolivan was a very important man, and he t oo k Manuelita with him on social occasions. Memb e rs of the highest society, whatever they may have thought privately, were p ractically f orced t o accept her socially. G: At any rate, h e did not liv e alone. Dr K: N o t at all. G: Perhaps our Venezuelan guide thought it was inappropriate t o tell y oung tourists that; o r mayb e the fact was s omething h e could n o t bring himself to associate with a person as important as Bolivar was. Dr. K: That may be so. I d o n o t know. 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