This item is a collection of letters to the editor published in the Los Angeles Times reacting to Brando’s refusal of the Oscar and Littlefeather’s statement. The letters are authored by Robert S. Birchard, Thomas L. Gillette, Mrs. John E. Grauman, and Suzanne Lego. The statements written by Birchard and Grauman express distaste for Brando's unwillingness to give his statement in person, instead sending "a woman to do a man's job," as well as his use of the Oscars as a political platform. On the other side of the debate, Gillette compares the audience's "puny response" to the "greatness" of Brando, and Lego calls out the "small-mindedness and bigotry in America" displayed by presenters Raquel Welch and Clint Eastwood in their responses to Brando and Littlefeather.
"Nason and Co. Produce Bellyache" is a letter to the editor of the Carletonian written by student J. R. Long. The letter details Long's grievances with the administration regarding the issue of coed dorms, and advocates for a destigmatization of sex on campus.
This is a photograph of President Poskanzer, the president of Carleton College, during the pandemic. He is taking a picture with Careton's sketch comedy troupe, Lenny Dee, which unfortunately no longer exists on campus. The President and the students are all seen wearing masks, as this was their first time acting in the theater since the start of the pandemic.
He starts this letter by saying he called them on the phone yesterday. They decided the day and time they would call each other every week. He writes about the cost of the phone call which leads him to talk about the prices of other products in Kazakhstan. He writes about the town he’s in, Kapchagay, the Soviet buildings, and the effect of the Soviets leaving the town seven years prior. He writes about the food he’s eaten, living with his host family, and learning Russian and Kazakh.
He starts this letter by saying he was without electricity for 18 days, but he spent a week of that time away visiting a friend. He says he is going to move to a warmer apartment and make a serious effort to get a phone. He’s thinking about how to get email; he will either buy it himself or try to get his school to buy it. He says the school probably should not get email because they do not have the money; they need chalk-boards more than email, and he would most likely be the only person using it. He also has the goal to get a piano once he moves into a new apartment.
He’s training people at his school on how to use the computer. He says it’s easy to give computer lessons, but difficult to give computer lessons in Russian. He’s being tutored in Russian twice a week. He talks about his town’s English Olympiad, which is a leftover academic competition from the Soviet era. He is teaching the English Teachers’ Association how to write to international organizations for books. Then, he plans on teaching how to write a grant for an English-Russian typewriter and copier machine that can be used to write worksheets and tests rather than writing them by hand.
He includes pictures of the day he was signed in as a volunteer from the summer in Kapchagay. One is with his host family, and the other is with his friends and their host mothers.
This collection of drawings from Gilman's personal collection explore themes of depression, death and motherhood. Although Gilman never officially published these works, her personal drawings offer an insight into her mind that many other, more edited works, cannot. Given that these drawings have no official context, one can read their own interpretations into each one.
