ences at the MLA’s 111th conference inrnChicago. The LU session, “Tall in thernStall: Exploring Transgressivc SexualrnSites,” was far and away the best attendedrnat the convention. Hector Mondo-rnBizarro, in “Psychic Charges from the IntersectingrnPublic and Private ZonesrnWithin the Stalls of Institutional Men’srnRoom,” explained how the magnetizingrnpvdl of the dangers lurking behindrnthe toilet stall door led to homophobicrnanticommunism and Proposition 13.rnAlthough Oscar Odsodd was unable tornattend owing to a painful accident incurredrnduring an intimate celebration ofrndiversity at the University of SouthrnDakota College of Agriculture’s BoinernResearch Center, his “Barn Buns: OhrnWbwBrown Cow!” was read b- ProfessorrnPiustranostrano to a spirited response.rnOdsodd’s paper, which problematizedrnheterospecies sexual difference, continuedrnhis exploration of themes adumbratedrnat last year’s session.rnLeading off the session entitledrn”Transgressions for the Twenty-first Century:rnGreat Leaps Forward,” LlT’s ElizabethrnBurke-Hare delivered “At the JeffreyrnDahmcr Delicatessen: A Study ofrnthe Anthropophagian Aesthetic in ContemporaryrnCulture.” This paper exploredrnthe sometimes gruesome interplayrnbetween life and art, between actualrnanthropophagia and textual anthropophagia.rnRather than exclude cannibalismrnfrom critical consideration by dismissingrnit as a mere crime, Burke-Harernurged her audience to ponder the killercannibal’srnartistic role—and their ownrnexperience as witnesses, vicarious consumers,rnor voveurs.rnProfessor Harry Clibb chairmammaledrna well-attended afternoon sessionrnon “Discourse Liberation: OvercomingrnFirst Amendment Barriers,” and LU’srnElektra Hardwiteh presented “FreernSpeech and Hate Silence,” a review ofrnstrategies for dealing with yawning,rnslumping, snoring, shuffling, doodling,rndiddling, grimacing, groaning, horseracernhandicapping, and comic-bookrnreading in the classroom by sexist-racisthomophobic-rnreactionary undergraduaternelements determined to underminernPostmodernist discourse by disruptivernapathy. Her paper ended at 9:30, when arngraduate student in the front row hadrnsome kind of fit and the entire audiencernescaped in the confusion.rnAn LU graduate student, J.F. Bodley,rnreceived the MLA “Postmod Bod DoorrnPrize” for a paper entitled “The Embodimentrnof the ‘Indian’ Body within thernBodv of Texts concerning Captive WhiternBodies: Engendering the American Selfrnas the Body of (Dis)Embodied Alterity.”rnThe judges felt the title of Bodies’s paperrnembodied this vear’s theme—thernEmbodiment of the Bodv—more profuselvrnthan any other at the convention.rnThe MLA Central Control Commissionrndid, however, revoke ProfessorrnGeorge S. Stodgett’s lifetime membershiprnand forbid his attendance at all futurernMLA functions. Stodgett was overheardrndescribing the graduate studentsrnat the Convention as “the unemplovablernin pursuit of the unintelligible.” ThernCCC pronounced this kind of insensiti’-rnitv intolerable. Stodgett’s colleaguesrn(who ha’e been encouraging him to retirernsince 1979) were almost unanimousrnin endorsing the revocation.rnIt should also be noted that Henryrn”Huckleberr'” Slagg, a hobo stranded inrnKafka, South Dakota, when the old MudrnButte, White Owl, and Wanblee Railroadrnfailed in 1935, passed away at thernbeginning of Ma, regretted by all at LU.rnHenry Slagg first attracted the attentionrnand s mpathv of the Lagado communitvrnduring the Decade of Creed. As thernonly year-round, full-time, long-servicerncertified Homeless Person in the city ofrnKafka—or within a ISO-mile radius ofrnLagado University—he came to assumerna pivotal role in eery one of thernmarches, vigils, rallies, sit-ins, sit-outs,rnsit-downs, and sit-ups held by YouthrnAgainst War, Fascism and I lomelcssncss,rnthe LU Coalition for the Homeless,rnand Advocates for the Homeless inrnAmerica.rnMany departments at Lagado utilizedrnSlagg as a valuable resourcemammal—rnhe figured in at least a dozen dissertationsrnby Ph.D. candidates in SociologwrnPsychology, and Anthropology—butrn”Huck” will always be remembered withrnspecial fondness in the English Department.rnBetween 1985 and 1992 he appearedrnin half the papers turned in byrnthe students in Harry Clibb’s “Literaturesrnof the American Experience.” ArnLUNexis survey reveals that Slagg recursrn13,033 times in creatic writing papersrnby LU students during the seven-year period.rnHe was also the subject of threernpublished poems by the faculty.rnIn 1992 “IIuck”‘declared that he wasrntoo old to continue, nailed a mailbox uprnin front of the old MBWO&’W caboosernthat sheltered him, and announced hisrnretirement from the homeless profession.rnIt need hardly be said that everyone inrnthe Ejiglish Department respected I lenryrnSlagg’s wishes. In any case, homelessnessrnis an 80’s kind of thing, and mostrnmembers of the Lagado communityrnagreed that it was time to move on to thernconcerns of the 90’s.rnJohn N. Frary is a professor of history atrnMiddlesex County College in Edison,rnNew jersey.rnLetter FromrnInner Israelrnby Jacob NeusneirnOur Free, Christian LandrnSt. Petersburg—^A while back, s nagoguernmembers and civil rights groups picketedrnthe Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church inrnFort Lauderdale, when the Coral RidgernMinistries held a conference on “ReclaimingrnAmerica for Christ.” The localrnnewspaper reported, “Thousands ofrnChristian activists from across the nationrndiscussed such topics as, ‘reclaiming thernpublic schools,’ ‘battle for our children’srnsouls,’ ‘winning the new civil war:rnrecapturing America’s values,’ and ‘whyrnliberals win and what we can do aboutrnit.'”rnWhen Jews picket Christians, onernthing is clear: this is a free country! Notrnonly is everyone free to say what hernwants, but the smallest minorities speakrnwith the loudest voices. That meansrnthey are not afraid.rnIn Germany recently, a court inrnBavaria said crucifixes could not hang onrnclassroom walls in public schools. Thernorganized German )e\’ish comniunit ofrnsome 55,000 maintained absolute andrntotal silence. Not a single Jew said whatrneveryone (including ten million Muslims)rnwas thinking: that this proes Germanyrnis not a free country. Public opinionrnwill not tolerate difference when itrncomes to what really matters. But, as wernlearned in Fort Lauderdale, America isrndifferent.rnThe protesters in Florida objected onrn36/CHRONICLESrnrnrn