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Editor's note: Though "Joe"
has not made it to Lincoln yet,
it is showing in Omaha. Sooner
or later it will be shown in
Lincoln.
By COLLEGIATE PRESS
SERVICE
Hippies strolling on the fringe
of the victory rally generated
several scuffles. One occurred
when construction workers
grabbed a Vietcong flag that
the hippies were carrying and
ran with it. Several counter
demonstrators caught up with
the workers, resulting In a brief
fist fight that was broken up by
the police.
NEW YORK TIMES, article
on Washington Oct. 3 Victory
Rally
None of us like being beat on
the head or kicked in the ass.
Nor do we get any great sense
of joy or identity or resolution
being categorically labeled
"hippie" or "dirty hippie."
We distain and fear flag
wavers and their righteousness.
In fact, we mock their flag
ridden cars and label them
Middle Americans, Silent Ma
jority, right-wing freaks with
the same venom they direct
toward us, our life-style, and
our too-often poorly-defined or
non-existent politics.
"Joe" is the prototypical
man we've been groomed to
hate. And we, the media billed
student hippie revolutionary
generation, forced into assum
ing the role on the opposite end
of the societal pole, are the
logical recipients of his hatred.
Hard hats and hippies, Middle
America and the youth culture:
we've read of the confronta
tions time after time. And,
though few have noticed, both
sides continually respond as the
media and the administration
bid them to. They march for
victory with Reverend
Mclntyre,- we respond with a
counter-demo for peace and an
end to US imperialism. The gap
widens, the hatred and fear
deepens, and the extremes
which exist only to serve the
ends of the Mitchells, Agnews
and Nixons grow ever more ir
reconcilable. In "Joe" the youth culture
audience o f many-shaded
political persuasions is
challenged to understand the
psyche of a right-wing
vigilante, to grapple with his
meaningless life, which he ad
mits is "a crock of shit," to g.jt
insiJe his hatred, examine his
gui, confront the strength of his
anger, and then, admit that he
is at teast as oppressed and
controlled by a mechanistic,
dehumanizing society as
we.
We meet Joe raving drunk in
a New York bar, demanding
that THEY all be shot. By the
film's end he has completed the
act several times in a mad
rampage through a commune
outside the city.
The cultural extremes act out
the inevitable conclusion o f
their inevitable confrontation.
Swept along in their slush is the
liberal father-turned-killer of
his own "hippie" daughter. A
man is not allowed to straddle
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the middle in times of polarity:
he must choose his monster
and act.
"Joe" examines burtally and
brilliantly the human beings on
both edges of this media-gap-trap
and their combined effects
upon those confused, sad other
human beings attempting to
cling to the diminishing middle
ground. We are forced to make
the fine distinction between
monster and enemy; and force
ed to the conclusion that Joe is
not the enemy, that the real
enemy has made monsters of
us all.
Going many, many levels
beyond the "Easy Rider"
mentality, "Joe" leaves us
feeling more than a little
unclean, yet with a choice. Will
it be despair or understand
ding.
We can either retreat into
increased paranoia, or see the
Joes and Fred Comptons as
monsters created by this
society, as men more oppressed
than we, reject the non-think
reactions the media and Agnew
would have us take, and accept
the responsibility of this
realization. "Joe" is not an
easy film.
Nine campus police
added to force
"In order to operate more
efficiently," the campus police
force has been increased by
nine men in the past six
months, said Gale Gade, cam
pus security chief.
Gade, who has been at NU
for almost two years, explained
that the force had been un
derstaffed. He cited efficiency
rather than increased campus
security as the reason for the
rise in force size.
The new men will enforce
parking regulations and will
work in cruiser and building
patrols. Gade said. Building
patrols "see that the building is
secure after closing time," he
explained.
Due to recent bombings
throughout the country, Gade
said that every U.S. University
is concerned about what could
happen to their buildings.
"We don't want to take it for
granted that we won't have a
bombing," he added.
The campus has been "real
quiet" since last spring, Gade
noted, with the only notable
student incident occurring off
campus Nov. 24. He referred to
the march organized by the
Free Speech Movement on the
State Selective Service Office
to protest the renewed bombing
of North Vietnam.
Although the march began on
14th and R St., Gade said, it
was a "city problem." and only
campus policemen were in the
area.
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THE NEBRASKAN
MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1970
