Post Mortem on Houses Summer Seminars Stitute of Paper Chemistry Briggs, Cooke, East, and Ray Students Present Seemed to Agree Students
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Everyone would held at Bjorklunden Michelle McMahon suggested students next year in order to prefer that the houses remain that the houses be renovated as Twelve one-week seminars, in In addition to seminar sessions, eliminate a $25,000 per year loss open, and everyone agreed that apartments and rented to subjects ranging from art and activities for each week will in from last year's $650,000 budget student views should have been students allowed to live off Viking sagas to jazz, will be of clude visits to other well-known deficit and to fill dorms to capacity. solicited before the decision to A change in their functions will ac campus. Although possibly fered this summer at Lawrence Door County places of interest, close the houses was reached; company the closing of the houses, discriminatory to poorer University’s 325-acre estate in such as The Ridges, Cave Point, many believe that a forum could the most likely ones being these: students, such a plan would keep Door County. Washington and Rock Islands, have been held last term. Raymond will be refurbished, in the houses part of the University The seminars will be held and art galleries. Discussion separated into cluding the addition of a new in and provide ample “off campus” between June 15 and Sept. 6 at There will also be opportunities consideration of financial con terior staircase, to house the Office housing. Bjorklunden, just south of for hiking the wooded trails and cerns and consideration of social of Campus Life. East and Cooke Wrolstad explained that ten Baileys Harbor. They will be visiting the tiny chapel for which concerns. In the midst of student houses will be remodeled and years ago the administration conducted by professors from the estate has become known. discussion and complaint from rented. Briggs will be remodeled reaffirmed that Lawrence should Lawrence’s Appleton campus, by Fashioned after a Norwegian both perspectives, Taylor and and used as Conservatory practice remain a residential campus. He two Lawrence alumni and by a stavkirke, or wood church, the studios or rented. Wilson House, Wrolstad reiterated University said Ormsby and Sage were faculty member of the University chapel was constructed by the vacated by the Office of Campus policy. remodeled to recapture their of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Boyntons and local craftsmen Life, will be sold. charm and provide quads as The program is open to all during the nine summers from alternatives to single and double interested persons age 18 and 1939 to 1947. Murals with religious rooms. He added that Kohler was over. The m axim um number of motifs, painted by Mrs. Boynton, built at added expense to provide participants for each one-week adorn the walls, and a white oak low occupancy floors and session will be 14. baptismal font, a crucifix, and irregular walls as another The cost of the program covers pew ends craved by Mr. and Mrs. alternative to ordinary housing. housing, meals, and instruction. Boynton enhance the interior. Student comments on the social Participants will be housed in the The Bjorklunden Seminars, an implications of closing the houses main lodge or in the building that experience in liberal studies, will were often directed at Wrolstad was used as a studio by Winifred begin June 15 with a session on and Taylor. Small House Rep. Boynton, who, with her husband, Nature and Divinity in Biblical Kurt Wittenberg noted that Donald, willed their estate to and Greek Mythology, led by women will have no alternative to Lawrence in the 1960s. Lawrence Leonard L. Thompson, associate dorms after the small houses are assumed the responsibility of professor of religion at closed & fewer students will be caring for the buildings and Lawrence. Participants will read allowed to live off campiis (as has property after Mrs. Boynton died and examine short texts from the been proposed for next year). in May, 1974. Bible and Greek religion that The only alternative for men will be fraternity houses. Bad enough EAST HOUSE - finally gone. Photo: Arnold Lau for either sex, the situation will be more blatantly discriminatory Many suggestions were made At an LUCC Forum last against women than it is now, to save money in other areas so Friday, approximately 75 said Wittenberg. The attrition that the houses could stay open. students, Vice Presidents Dan rate may increase and Besides proposals to increase the Taylor (Campus Life) and prospective freshmen and efficiency of the houses, students Marwin Wrolstad (Business transfers may be lost when recommended cutbacks in other Affairs) and Professor of dorms and fraternity houses are areas. Colman Rep. Bill Chemistry Robert Rosenberg the only housing choices for most Burrington used ice cream voiced their views on the decision students. The decreased scoops as an example of money to close the small houses. enrollment would, if serious waste. He showed that Downer enough, offset the savings gained LUCC President Fritsche could have bought 64 scoops from from closing the houses. Many opened the meeting by asking Gimbels for the price of the six it people were concerned that participants to accept the Ad- currently uses. On a somwehat selling Wilson House would also minstration’s decision and to larger scale, another student seriously detract from the concentrate their suggestions on suggested moving the Office of University’s character. policy for two years from now Campus Life and the Sampson The decision to close the houses and later. No proposals were House administrators to a dorm, will stand though discussion of 1 ' fv *> f V * drawn up after the meeting, but perhaps Brokaw, to fill space. the matter will probably continue administrators finally heard Remaining dorm rooms could at all levels throughout the rest of THE LAWRENCE PROPERTY at Bjorklunden. student reaction to the issue. All house Fox Valley Tech and In the year. Ariel photo relate divinity and nature. Prof. Azzi on mergers and public policy This seminar and 11 others cover a broad spectrum of human by Bob Appleyard Azzi’s Main Hall Alumni Forum stantially . lessen competition and in industries characterized experience. The other sessions, their leaders and the dates are: Restrictive policies followed by address Tuesday, entitled or . might tend to create a by relatively slow growth. the courts, the Federal Trade “Conglomerate Mergers and monopoly.” Under the guise of Smaller firms, at a lower level of *Regional Historic Writing for Commission and the Antitrust Public Policy.” this law, according to Mr. Azzi, production, would have relatively Community Service and for Fun, Division of the United States Mr. Azzi said that restrictions the FTC and and Antitrust high average costs and, June 22-28, led by Marguerite Department of Justice with on conglomerate mergers are Division have succeeded in therefore, greater incentive to Schumann, a Lawrence graduate respect to corporate without demonstrated economic halting mergers regardless of grow through mergers. Firms in and now editor of the North conglomerates, “when . or political justification and that their effect on market power. industries with relatively slow Carolina University Gazette and Mergers among large and the National Humanities Center vigorously applied”, have most conglomerate mergers growth would turn more diverse companies have been Newsletter. Participants will learn represented “unwarranted in represent voluntary and frequently to merger as a form of enjoined where no increase in how to do research on and to record trusions into private tran mutually beneficial transactions growth because increases in between citizens party to the market power could be shown to and interpret a community's past sactions.” Further, according to productive capacity would be less for lay-level publications. merger which impose no costs, be a result of the proposed Cory Azzi, Assoc. Prof. of likely to be absorbed by the *The God Within - Are You Really political or economic, to those not merger and smaller firms have Economics, these policies “are slowly growing market. In fact, Special? June 29July 5, led by party to the merger. been allowed to merge where the not made in ignorance, they are Mr. Azzi says, the facts Nicholas C. Maravolo, associate result was to reduce competition made with prejudice.” These The Celler-Kefauver Act demonstrate that most mergers professor of biology at Lawrence. in order to enhance the deficient remarks were made in Professor prohibits mergers that “sub- take place among larger firms in The book, “The God Within, ” by cash flow of one or the other of rapid growth industries. Rene Dubos and the surroundings the formerly competing firms. If mergers were intended to at Bjorklunden will be the basis of Anderson, Schlesinger here This, Mr. Azzi said, demonstrates reduce competition, one would discussion of the question phrased the prejudice of our policies; also expect to find them more in the seminar title. large, diversified firms are to be frequently in slow growth in At invitations from the LU invitations from Public Policy prevented and smaller firms are dustries. In rapidly growing Public Policy Program, any Program Director Asst. Prof. of to be preserved regardless of number of presidential hopefuls Government Jeffrey Miller. Mr. conditions of market com cont. page 4 may be visiting the Lawrence Miller said he would especially petition. campus by the end of the term in like to bring California Governor The most frequently cited anticipation of the Wisconsin Jerry Brown here, and that Vice- explanation for corporate primary April 1.