Sex Torture-Boards and the Law

...He is currently Special Assistant to Senator Buckley...

...As irrelevant as serious philosophy and high principle seem to be for politics, they play the crucial role in motivating the most successful campaign supporters...

...ca merman, lunatics, tourists, professors-the typical campus crowd--several thousand of them, filling Sproul Plaza from Bancroft Way to the Kumquat Grove, milled around waiting for Cleaver...

...John R. Coyne, Jr., 1970 From Newman's idea of a university to the Berkeley uprisings of the late nineteensixties is little more than a hundred years-and little less than catastrophic If there is anyone disciplined and concerned enough to write history one hundred years from now, John Coyne's Tne Kumquat Statement will serve as an excellent source--indeed, perhaps the best source-The Kumquat Statement by John R. Coyne, Jr...

...It is the place for great preachers, great orators, great nobles, great statesmen...in which inquiry is pushed forward and discoveries verified and perfected and rashness rendered innocuous...

...So who says New York is in the grip of terror9 0 Arnold Steinberg, former editor of THE NEW GUARD, the national magazine of Young Americans for Freedon, served as press secretary during the Buckley campaign...

...If there is a message in all this it would seem to be that we need to educate our policemen I must admit that it is a source of great disappointment to me though Since I will have children in school in a few years I was sort of looking forward to helping with the homework...

...Students, ex-students, nonstudents, dogs, New Leftists, hippies...

...Cowles, 5.95...

...Sex Torture Boards and the Law By Michael McCollum The forces of progressive education received a devastating blow recently in Indianapolis, Indiana when the puritanical police force arrested a Mr X (we do not want to give the man any more publicity) and charged him with kidnapping and assault and battery with intent to commit sodomy Mr X is presently Director of News Services in the Indiana State Teachers Association Previous to this he worked in Public Relations with the Indiana Democratic State Central Committee At one time he also worked as a TV news reporter The police apparently went into action after hearing a complaint filed by one of Mr X's recent house guests, a young Federal Job Corpsmen who shall remain anonymous The Corpsman claimed that he was visiting the local Greyhound bus station when he was approached by Mr...

...But with the New Math, Freedom Schools, and now this, I am afraid I won't be of much help I guess I'll just have to sit back and be satisfied that at least my child is receiving the benefits of a progressive education that was never available to me O Michael McCollunt is a Senior in the Indiana University School of $usiness and research assistant in I. U.'s Kinsey Institute...

...Meanwhile the Democratic Party is said to be furious, charging that the whole raid was an attempt by the Republican Administration in Indianapolis to uncover party secrets The Indiana State Teachers Associatioi has made no formal comment An insider reports that several members still don't endorse such teaching aids and hale spiked every attempt to reach a co'isensus Mr X's future seems rather uncertain ct the present The John Birch Society is said to control the PTA's in Indiana and he might have to throw himself on the services of some big Eastern lawyer like Herr Kunstler At any rate Mr X is sure to get many offers from TV networks, book publishers and movie makers Maybe the party will even take him back Since he is so interested in the educational process he is more likely to take to the lecture circuit and possibly do a series of essays on radical education for the New York He% iew of Books...

...X and invited to his home for a beer The Corpsman drank the beer in the company of Mr X and a friend described as "about 6'2" and 220 pounds " When he got up to leave, however, the two men grabbed him, chained him to the basement staircase, stripped him, photographed him in the nude and molested him After spending the weekend as Mr X's "guest," he managed to escape and went to the police Being the curious brutes that they are, the police decided to visit Mr X and observe his hospitality suite for themselves (I think it is safe to assume that they went in force as this wasn't the kind of case in which police customarily send an undercover man ) While searching the premises they found such modern conveniences as a "sex torture board," complete with leather and spikes, pulleytype belts and heavy chains with locks They also discovered four boxes of nude photos of men being tortured and committing lewd acts (party contributors no doubt), a sack of heavy chains, locks and a tube containing a red liquid marked "Vampire Blood " (And we thought Republicans practiced the "politics of tear ") By the middle of the week Mr X surrendered himself at the police headquarters protesting that he was not guilty because of "extenuating circumstances " It seems he was merely trying to teach his unfortunate guest to read Said Mr X, "The boy cannot read nor write and I felt sorry for him You can ask him-if I did not spend Sunday trying to teach him to read " A sex torture board may indeed be a source of considerable motivation to most people but the police still insisted that the whole affair amounted to attempted sodomy and even hinted that more charges may be forthcoming' (Having no formal training in progressive education I feel unqualified to pass judgment on Mr X's technique but I will say that I am glad to have obtained my education in one of Indiana's famed little red schoolhouses Regardless of how one views the affair, it would seem apparent that the Job Corpsman did indeed receive quite an illuminating education and as the liberals have long told us that's all that really Our Western Fruits "...a university is a place of con-course, whither students come from every quarter for every kind of knowledge...

...John Henry Newman, 1856 Many classes didn't meet and those that did were sparsely attended, mostly by people who insisted that the professors talk about racism...

...That someone who never held elective office was elected United States Senator from New York testifies to the growing wisdom of voters The farther from government, the more likely is someone to have that healthy skepticism of new government programs which never solve problems, but only aggravate them and create new ones...

...street people, bums, Berkeley high schoolers, perverts, pickpockets, TV matters The young man is now back at his Training Center, and it is rumored that he told Mr X before leaving that he dust dreaded those multiplication tables...

...The Alternative January, 1971 14 Buckley, the -well-heeled potential contributors who lacked faith in the campaign and refused to support it, these memories persist--because the most cynical and skeptical suddenly become friends once the votes are counted Lacking grace or integrity, they would never acknowledge their pragmatic acts of sabotage, nor the helping hand they might have offered when the going was tough for the candidate and his campaign These people may leave later if the going gets tough, but one candidate, Jim Buckley, won without them, and in spite of them In a very real and tangible way, measured by vote totals on the television screen election night and confirmed by his certification of election, Jim Buckley reaffirms the traditional American drive and spirit...