LOFTMAN AS A MAN OF HONOUR
Nathan, George
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...loftman as a man of honour BY George Nathan After reviewing a shameful year in which, at pupil senate, barbarians slobbered sleazy canards and the student body president comported himself with all the tact and intelligence of Attila, a sentient man cannot help but wince at seeing PRP's results, loftman promised to liberate students but instead has isolated them from administrators, state legislators, and the citizenry who must feel that "from McCormick's Creek in the north to the reservoir in the south an iron curtain has descended around Bloomington...
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...Surely in seeking happy dispatch, he will not neglect to take his wife along—if only to aid in Lady Bird's national beautification program...
...Thus suicide emerges as the ultimate form of liberation and is, for him, inexorably logical...
...If loftman were intelligent enough to look gleefully on the continuing absurdities of mankind, I could understand his desire to stumble on through life, but his actions have shown him so ineffably stupid as to be an honorable man . . . and an honorable man, in his situation, can only turn to hari-kari...
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...Then it is agreed, guy r. loftman's last act on terra firma will represent, for him, the Mt...
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...Citizens have withdrawn over $500,000 in partrimony, the legislature has dangerously condensed our budget, and the administration, experiencing the dulcet diplomacy of PRP, has repudiated support of practically all campus organizations...
...Though not wishing to importune in advocating any of the necessary utensils, The Alternative will delightedly supply loftman with ropes, poisons, knives, tweezers, or any other requisite equipment...
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...Denying unfettered access to the Union Building, use of free campus mailings, university accounts, and university supplies, the administration, always chary of the problem of registering shifty organizations, has refused to recognize any organizations...
...Everest in logic, liberation, and honor...
...3 IS THE NEW LEFT NEW...
...6 For one as confident of his monopolistic grasp on logic and as ritualistically obsessed with liberation as loftman, suicide must commend itself as the obvious denouement...
...However we would rather not give him a gunhe is too apt to miss his brain...
...Such results suggest but one logical resort for loftman— suicide...
...And then too, he could' make his final act doubly honorable by liberating from this world his colleagues in PRP, especially mark oring who has become of late an especial nuisance...
Vol. 1 • April 1968 • No. 5
