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Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 11-23-1960 The aB tes Student - volume 87 number 09 - November 23, 1960 Bates College Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 87 number 09 - November 23, 1960" (1960). The Bates Student. 1359. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/1359 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at SCARAB. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aB tes Student by an authorized administrator of SCARAB. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Hates Student Vol. LXXXVII, No. 9 BATES COLLEGE. LEWISTON. MAINE, NOVEMBER 23, 1960 By Subscription McReynoids Explains\ Journalists Interview Present Day Pacifism This Friday at 7:30 p. m. in the Filene Room. David Mc- Douglas In Program Keynolds will speak on the topic. "Non-Violence in a Violent World." He has been brought to the campus by a group of On Monday, November 28, at 8 p. m., in the Bates Chapel, students interested in studying the pacifist movement. SEAM Elects the Bates College Concert and Lecture Series will present a McReynoids, field secretary for* panel program in which Senator Paul H. Douglas of Illinois the War Rcsisters League, visit- Wesley Club at Providence, Drury, Kalber and three Washington newspaper correspondents, Kenneth ed several New England campus- Rhode Island, speaking under G. Crawford, Newsweek Magazine Bureau Chief and Senior es in early October, meeting Members of the Student Edu- sponsorship of Brown Young cation Association of Maine stud- Editor for National Affairs; Neal Stanford, Christian Science i specially with student groups Friends to students from Brown interested in peace education and ied proposed changes in the Monitor Diplomatic Correspondent, and John C. Metcalfe, University, Pembroke College, state minimum salary schedule action. After attending the CPU- and Rhode Island School of De- News Analyst and author of "Portraits," the Chicago Sun- for teachers at a meeting Satur- SPU conference at Mount Holy- sign. Times feature which appears daily in 125 newspapers, will day at the headquarters of the oke College, he returned the be featured. • ' next week to speak at Putney McReynoids was active as an Maine Teachers Association in The program will cover the week has spent the last thirty Graduate School in Vermont, undergraduate in UCLA pro- Augusta. areas of greatest current news years covering news all over the Boston University School of tests against ROTC, and was la- Delegates to the SEAM meet- interest in both world and na- world. After the outbreak of Technology, and Harvard-Rad- ter chairman of the youth sec- ing from Bates were Sara Ault, tional affairs such as the recent World War II, Crawford went olifte. About 200 attended a tion of the Southwest area of Scott Alexander, Joyce Schilch- national election. The Washing- to North Africa as a war corres- Quincy House meeting at Har- the Fellowship of Reconciliation. er, Cynthia Kalber, and George ton correspondents in their in- pondent and worked on assign- vard on October 13. A conscientious objector, he has Drury. Two members of the del- terview of Sen. Douglas will Speaks In New England for several years served as edi- egation were appointed as state ments there, in the Middle East. raise pertinent and sometimes The following week, he spoke torial secretary of Liberation officers: George Drury as Vice- Italy, England and France delicate questions concerning at Amherst College and Mount magazine. Recently he has been President and Cynthia Kalber as through 1945. Since his return these areas of interest. At the Holyoke, where the faculty-stu- active in Civil Defense protests Secretary. to the United States he has been end of the formal presentation, dent discussion-action group of and Polaris Action. He also ran covering National Affairs in the the audience will be given the last year is being resumed, in the Democratic primaries Washington Bureau. opportunity to ask any questions hence to Smith College. On Oc- against Carmien DeSapio, losing Freshmen Elect which they may have for Sen. John C. Metcalfe of the Chi- tober 20 he addressed the John by a small margin. Douglas or the correspondents. cago Sun-Times Syndicate has Stu-C And Class had a long and distinguished Gives Douglas's Background career as a Washington news Officers Today Sen. Douglas is a well known Snow Discusses Ballads, analyst and lecturer. Mr. Met- On Wednesday, November 16, political figure to most Ameri- calfe has lectured throughout, from 10:00-2:00 Frosh primary cans. He spent his boyhood on a this country and Europe on the Reads Poetry Selections elections were held in Chase Maine farm and in 1913 graduat- basic problems of American for- Hall. The elections were for both ed from Bowdoin College. He en- "As long as we stay close to the folk, as long as we listen eign policy and national affairs. class officers and Stu-C. tered the teaching profession He was formerly the Washing- and in 1925 became a Professor to the 'still sad music of humanity' and keep our roots in To qualify for the primaries, ton Diplomatic Correspondent the earth, our American art will have great worth," stated a student had to hand in, by of Economics at the University for Time Magazine and the New of Chicago. Douglas has served Professor Wilbert Snow during last Thursday night's part Tuesday noon, a petition signed York Herald Tribune and news in many capacities in both state if the Bates College Concert and Lecture Series. Introduced by twenty members of his class. analyst for Worldwide Press This made his name eligible for :.i;d national government. Service. by Professor Robert Berkelman, the former Bowdoin Eng- the primary ballot. In November of 1948. Douglas lish professor and Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut de- Nominations Include was elected fo the United States Cites Stanford's Experience veloped his topic: "American Life As Revealed In Ameri- Those who were nominated for Senate with a plurality of \i a! Stanford of the Christian i an Ballads." office are: 407.000 votes, and re-elected in Science Monitor is a veteran created and spread them un- Stu-C 1954, and again in 1960. In the news correspondent who for a Defining ballads as "songs that written, from mouth to moufh. Scott Alexander Senate, he has been active on number of years has been cover- pring spontaneous from the peo- The speaker noted that ballads Clifford Goodall the Banking and Currency Com- ing the Washington diplomatic ple and that deal, sometimes 1 are found in places removed Douglas Wakeficld mittee and the Labor and Public and economic scene for Monitor. comically, sometimes tragically, from industrial development, Class of 1964 Nominations for Welfare Committee. He has appeared many times on with themes of broken love, dis- places not only in the South, but Office Crawford Covers National Affairs "Meet the Press" and many other aster, murder, festivalsi and re- also in Maine, Vermont, southern President Kenneth Crawford of News- well known news programs. ligious holidays," Snow re- Indiana, and the West. Stephen Barron marked that these folk songs Stuart Field "tell a story, pleasing to all Notes Ballad Themes. Types Philip King people." While many of Ameri- That some of our American V-President Coram Exhibits Olsen ca's early settlers regarded bal- ballads parallel themes of the William Gardiner lads as "songs of the devil," Ap- old world can be seen in the Patricia Parsons International Collection palachian folk in West Virginia, songs about Jesse James which William Young Xorth Carolina, and Tennessee are similar to the Robin Hood "The Little International Exhibition" loaned by the Olsen Secretary ballads. This theme of glorify- Marion Day foundation is presently on display at Coram .Library. This ing the outlaw in'folk material Kathleen Pease exhibition, comproising a very small selection of current "comes from a certain sympathy Sandra Prohl European and American paintings, attempts to give a "flavor" Americans have for the under- Treasurer of the creative work on both sides of the Atlantic. dog." Snow illustrated his point Ralph Bartholomew by citing the ballad singer Lead- Linda Gramatky Includes Works Of Both French and Brtish painters, and belly, who popularized "Good- John Schatz The American section includes one of Germany's "purged" art- night. Irene" and who was par- The final elections will be held artists who are natives of the ists now a resident of Italy. doned from one prison sentence today at the same time. United States and Canada and The present collection includes by the Governor of Texas, and Basaldclla Afro's Paessaggli later from another sentence by several who, born elsewhere, Rosso, Kit Barker's Red Nude, have chosen this hemisphere as the Governor of Louisiana. Physics Lecture Eduard Bargheer's The Three "Western cowboy songs are Everyone interested in FI their permanent home. The Eu- Musicians, Albert Burri's College popular today," continued the BER OPTICS is cordially in ropean group includes Italian, (Continued on page three) speaker, "because they appeal to vited by the Physics Collo the young people of America quium to a demonstrated lee who have clothed the cowboy iure by Dr. Richard Wood OC Songfest Notice with romance." The interest in cock of the American Opli Tonight at 8:00 p.m., the GARNET is still interested tall, exaggerated, idealized tales cal Company, Friday evening Outing Club will hold a in student writings to be con- is epitomized in Paul Bunyan, at 7:30 p.m. in Chase Hall. songfest in the basement be- sidered for publication.