The Law Reiitiaii

"■WM NEWSPAPER SECTION NEWSPAPER SOCIETY HISTORICAL »TÄTE 816 816 STREET STATE The Lawreiitiaii Volume 79 — Number Lawrence College, Appleton, Wis. Friday, February 26, 1960 Greeks Choose Officers Specio1 CoBV°Co,,ed Four of the sororities have secretary; Mary Kirkeby, cor elected their officers for 1960. responding secretary; Judy Those chosen by Pi Phi's include Knight Speaks In Convo; Reineman, social chairman; Jane Voss, president; Mary Mary Hallenbeck, rush chair Wilder. vice-president; rush man; Martha Valentine, treas co-chairmen, Barbie Richards urer; Karen Prahl, recorder- and Sue Herr; pledge trainer, historian; and Rita Vollman, Sees Problem, Implications Helen Edelhofer; recording sec scholarship chairman. These pressures make up the retary, Sue Mason, correspond Heading A Chi O for the com tone of our time, he said. ing secretary, Mary Helcher; ing year will be Nancy Van Met Frustrations, Fragmentation These two provided a back treasurer, Marian Beck; schol er, president; Kay Geiger, vice ground for the third pressure arship chairman, Buff Nelson; president; Barbie Stroud, pledge which is in the form of a local social co-chairmen, Ann Pais trainer; Mollie Peterson, treas At Root of Campus Incidents problem: "frenzied fragmenta ley and Sheila Moyle; and SEC urer, Yvonne Hacquet, assistant tion.” Dr. Knight said that all representative, Margot Ryan. treasurer; Cindy Barton, rush “The past three weeks I’ve gotten so complex a sense parts of the college are called The KD's elected Sally Sarius chairman; Cindy Barton and of things that are on the minds of some of you that I want upon to face and master more as president; Windy Windstrom, Margie Keefer, co - activities to start, at least, to talk about them today. 1 shall not fin than they can; that all are push vice president; Mary Hotson, chairmen; Janet Daum, histor ish all 1 have to say, but at least 1 can begin.'’ Thus Dr. ed and pulled, all are fragment secretary; Carol Oelke, treasur ian and publicity chairman; ed. All are faced with obliga er; Sue Smith as her assistant; Judy Williams, SEC representa Douglas M. Knight, president of the college, opened con vocation on Tuesday. tions that can neither be avoid Bev Ansink. rush chairman; tive; Sandy Kraft, correspond ed nor met. "You are not alone and Margie Carroll, editor. ing secretary; Margie Fulton, After stating emphatically that he was not going to in it," he continued, “but you Filling the AD Pi offices are recording secretary; Muriel dwell on the recent administrative decisions, Dr. Knight feel it most forcibly because Sandra Azzi, president; Sue Mongin, scholarship chairman; went on to say that “it was completely obvious from the you has just been thrust into and Jenny Bartlet and Terry Meier, vice president and pledge emotional response some of you had to them (the decis it.” trainer; Liz Morgan, recording Dotz, social co-chairmen. ions) that they themselves were not what was really both Introducing the third part of ering you.” He explained that he had begun to put together his talk, Or. Knight said, “Is it any wonder, given these forces, the pieces of all that he was hearing around the campus; that they show up in a civilized Concert Choir Presented from this picture, he proceeded to outline the three areas college community? The more he was going to deal with: what he saw here; what he concerned you are about your At Artist Series Feb. 29 thought it all meant; and what can be done about it. education the more important The second was that students people, but somehow there were they will appear at times.” lie* went on to emphasize that he The Lawrence College Concert choir, directed by La- did not understand just where waUs around you.” was going to work with the stu Vahn Maesch, will embark upon an extensive concert ap learning was going, that per Turning to an analysis of the pearance schedule Monday evening, February 29, at 8:15 haps it had “outstripped wis things h * saw here. Dr. Knight dents to find a solution to the problems facing Lawrence to dom.” Third, Lawrentians of to mentioned three possibilities in the Lawrence College Chapel. The program will feature day. He stressed that there can day were asking a different kind that could answer the qucsUon two commissioned works in their premiere performance, be no resentment; this would of question that their predeces of student body unrest: first, written especially for the Lawrence choir in celebration of be a luxury no one can afford. sors. more fundamental ques the students were just being dif “ Instead. I'd like to ask you V • . the Music-L)rama Festival Year. tions, and not discovering any ficult because they want things to trust me to work with you Missa Brevis by James Ming. Lawrence conservatory easy answers. easier; second, they were “ex faculty member, is written for mixed choir and brass en actly, completely and locally and the faculty in finding some means of serenity in the midst right—and some feel that this semble. Mr. Ming has composed this mass with unique of these problems that nope of is the right answer; third, that uses of dissonances and the unusual accompaniment of the us can ignore.” the things hit upon were "some brass ensemble. Psalm 136 by William R. Ward is written T1IE DIRECTION thing far more difficult than for mixed chorus with a piano duet accompaniment. Pian you know . that it has local The first area he talked about ists are Jill Grande and Carol Kade. forms and implications which specifically was the academic life. He said that it cannot be Two Settings for Advent: we must deal with; but that it is basically a national difficulty made easier, that ithis is not Gird Yourself with Laments* what the students want. Rather tHOVi and The Itesert Shall Re or complex of difficulties.” He emphasized the necessity of it is necessary to find meaning joice by Frank Pooler, will be Dance Festival in the course work that is de performed by the Lawrence seeing the magnitude of the problem before attempting to manded of each student. Singers in the second perform Second, social customs and solve «t. ance of these works. As com Held Tonight mores cannot be completely World and national tensions missioned works, they were pre The W RA will present its an inherent in present-day society thrown aside, he* continued, but miered earlier this year by the nual Folk Dance Festival to "are exerting the most serious they can be reviewed to find a Lawrence Singers. night at 7:30 in the Campus and at times destructive kind common solution that would be The program shall include the Gym. Five sororities will pre of pressure on us all,” he con “creatively useful.” following selections: sent authentic folk dances of tinued. He divided the pressure He stressed the third point, many nations wearing as nearly that answers will not come if I into three categories. as possible the national costume the students merely wait for God Is With Us Katalsky in which each dance is perform THREE CATEGORIES them to come “You cannot Nancy Marsh, soloist ed. First was educational pres wait, you cannot be passive,” Adoramus Te Clement sure -which is being exerted on he emphasized. "If you your Sicut Cervus Palestrina The Delta Gammas are per all phases of the college by tele selves will work with us toward Hodie Christus natus est forming an Indian ritual fire vision. newspapers, and maga finding answers to your ques .................Poulenc dance. The Phi Phis will do a Fourth, because the students zine articles. This pressure fo tions, we can get somewhere.” pickaninny dance from the Amer were feeling “all frustrated, in cuses on the reverence for Student responsibility, along II ican South. The Alpha Chis will a box." making violent out marks both before students en with the rest of the college, will Echo Song Lasso present a modem Greek dance. bursts and judgments as a meth ter college and as they attempt For Double Chorus An American Indian dance is od of releasing tensions. Fifth play an important part in find to establish themselves in a job. ing answers to questions and Pater Noster Stravinsky the choice of the K D ’s and the impersonality has become a by “ If we work together we can problems, he said. The Lord's Prayer Thetas will do an Israeli horah. word to many, seen in every perhaps surmount these pres ('onrluding the talk, l>r. Ave Marie Bruckner phase of the college. He ex sures. but we cannot escape Knight stated that "what we “Halleluia.” Etude for Chorus plained that the reasoning be them.” face, after all, is milling that —Latvian hind such a judgment was that The second pressure was in can be resolved by a speech. arr. by Sergei “since you were feeling baffled Encampment the form of world and national We arc* talking about the fabric and thwarted, there must be III tension. He said that everyone of the college on the* one hand, impersonality behind it.” Two Settings for Advent knew of the struggle with Rus and the basic issues of our Frank Pooler Meeting To Be Linked with impersonality was sia. World revolution has terri world on the other . It is our Gird Yourself for Lamentations the sixth thing Dr. Knight saw: fying implications, he contin Job to get the two together.” The Desert Shall Rejoice a definite feeling that those in ued: population boom, national He promised support where Missa Brevis (first performance» Held Tuesday authority in the college do not ist push, use of force, colonial the students deserve it, and James Ming understand the students; that countries becoming free.

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