Mr. Collins: (First let me write thank you for the kind words regarding the current economic situation in my home. I do appreciate it. Hopefully things will work out.)

Second, get your ass to Evergreen. Today at BHS we had career day! OH! TESC was there. As I surveyed the catalogue and yearned to 18 again so that I could go to Evergreen and stay there all four years instead of leaving after 5 quarters (what a fool I was to leave!) I saw a class and thought of you.


Paradise Outlaws: Kerouac, Bukowski and the Beats
Spring/Group Contract
Faculty: Bill Arney, Craig Carlson
Enrollment: 48
Prerequisites: This all-level program will offer appropriate support for sophomores or above ready to do advanced work.


Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Bukowski, Diane DiPrima, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and other Beat writers shared a unifying vision of a better future, of the possibilities for change in America. They are part of a libertarian tradition that envisages an ideal, however romantic and unattainable, of the individual embracing personal freedom while resisting institutional values. They were outlaws aiming for Paradise. The Beats shared a populist perspective, a view that art is unelitist, antihierarchical, egalitarian. They professed to learn more on the street than in the academy. They tried to be accessible and honest. They were more concerned with the rawness of experience than with trying to get into the museum of literary culture. Students will study Beat politics, fiction and poetry. We will examine American culture in the 1960s through the work of Robert Frank, Hunter S. Thompson and others. We will read William Blake, Howard Zinn and Paul Goodman, listen to a selection of 1960s jazz and rock 'n' roll, and read/hear a selection of Beat writing. We will follow Allen Ginsberg's advice: The method must be purest meat and no symbolic dressing, actual visions and actual prisons as seen then and now.
Credit awarded in literature*, American studies*, writing* and art*.
Total: 16 credits.
Program is preparatory for careers and future studies in literature, humanities, law school, nuclear physics, sociology, history, American studies and poetry.
This program is also listed in First-Year Programs.