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Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 5-4-1960 The aB tes Student - volume 86 number 22 - May 4, 1960 Bates College Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 86 number 22 - May 4, 1960" (1960). The Bates Student. 1345. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/1345 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]. 7 Hates Stuunt Vol. LXXXVI, No. 22 BATES COLLEGE, LEWISTON, MAINE, MAY 4, 1960 By Subscription StudentGroupObtains "\fcLIl DQ KaitlV) Talks Permission To Solicit "We have been given permission by the Extracurricular About Nearby Stars Activities Committee to solicit funds as part of an attempt to inform the Bates community of the issues involved in the The understanding of the stars nearest to the earth was protest against segregation," David Jackson '61 announced the general subject of a lecture given by Dr. Peter Van de last Saturday. Kamp, Monday evening, May 2, in the Filene Room. Dr. cause of human justice." They A member of a spontaneous Van de Kamp is director of the observatory at Swarthmore are also planning to invite two College and is a well-known authority in his field. campus group which is con- speakers to the Bates campus cerned with the recent student The "nearer stars" are studied who will discuss different as- given as 2 times 10:,;| grams, or protests against segregation in pects of segregation. because they are the easiest to n observe and also because the approximately 4.4 times 10 " the South, Jackson said that in Urges Student Support "nearer stars" provide astronom- pounds. The heavier and larger response to a financial request "Besides encouraging the ers with the most accurate in- I a star is- ,hl' greater is its mag- from the National Association for southern students' cause, our formation. Dr. Van de Kamp took j nitu?c- ^Dr; Van ,dc. Kamp also emphasized the fact that while the Advancement of Colored group's basic purpose is keep- all the stars within a sixteen we may think of the stars as be- People, the group will soon be- ing the issues before the public light year radius of the earth as and attempting to circulate per- a representative group of stars ing in a fixed position, if we gin to send two-man delegations tinate facts about these issues in and explained how he would go were able to look at the sky to each room on campus for the 100.000 years from now. the sky : the community." Jackson urged about determining their size, purpose of giving students in- that "anyone who is genuinely weight and magnitude. would look quite different. interested in the nature of this formation about the problem and Differ By Magnitude Cites Motion suggesting ways in which they problem may contact either me, Dr. Van de Kamp illustrated John Lawton, Peter Bertocci, Dr. Van de Kamp arranged can give support to protesting these stars, approximately fifty- the motion of stars by showing Frederik Rusch, or Patricia diagrams of Ross 614, a small students. Holderith for more information." five in number, according to their magnitude. It was discovered star that has been traced over a Earn Money For Aid that there are three stars bright- period of time with a "long fo- With the co-operation of Rev- er and larger than the sun, but cus" telescope and photography erend William Flynn '59, secre- Men's Council Selects because of their greater distance plates. By use of lantern slides tary of the Androscoggin Pas- from the earth, they appear these diagrams were shown on tor's Union, and interested Bates smaller and dimmer. the screen at the front of the faculty members, students will room, and the path of the star Proctors For 1960-61 Dr. Van de Kamp explained was seen. Dr. Van de Kamp con- be able to obtain work. Money the means of weighing a star, received from these work proj- To the Men's Assembly: cluded his lecture by explaining something which does not seem that in 1954 the star Ross 614 was ects and from campus solicita- The 1960-61 Men's Student Council has just completed one feasible at first glance. However, tion will go to the Legal Defense instrumental in determining star cf its most time-consuming annual responsibilities, recom- by noting the gravitational effect and Educational Fund, "Com-1 motion, but by 1960 this has al- mittee 100" of the NAACP It! men°atlon °f a slate of proctors for the men's dormitories, a star on another body, one can determine a star's weight. The ready been superceded by other. will be used for both the de- After spending three weeks interviewing the more than weight of the sun, a star, was j then unknown, stars. fense of over 1400 students who thirty men who applied for proctorship positions and dis- are facing legal charges for their cussing each candidacy, the Council chose these men with action in protesting against seg- the approval of the Dean of Men as proctors for the 1960-61 regation, and for scholarship aid Davis Releases Plans to those who have been dismissed academic year (an asterisk indicates a reappointment): West from their schools and are seek- Parker, *James Keenan and *J. Timothy Devlin; East Parker, ing education elsewhere. *James Carignan and Johnnie Follett; Smith South, David For Spring Weekend Recently, the campus group Lougee and Carl Peterson; Smith Middle, John Allen and Charles Davis '61, chairman of the Chase Hall Dance Com- has shown a film, "Crisis in Levit- Thornton Cherot; Smith North, Dewitt Randall and William town," in the Filene Room and mittee, has announced that, "last Friday, April 29, a general Wheeler; Roger Williams, Richard Ellis and Edmund Wil- has placed a notice in two Lew- plan for a Spring Weekend (May 20-22) in juxtaposition with son; John Bertram Upper, Arthur Jenks and *David Boone; iston newspapers regretting the the Ivy Dance and the Popham Beach Outing, was passed and John Bertram Lower, *Malcolm Johnson. city's refusal to allow solicita- by the Extracurricular Activities Committee." tion on Lewiston streets, and de- Forms Committees Council and chairman of the Cites Events claring their intent to "use all Since its taking office at the The Chase Hall Dance Com- Freshman Orientation Commit- This plan calls for such events means available to encourage the end of spring vacation, the mittee is directing this plan, and tee, to discuss the role of the as a Jazz Concert on the library Council has also been occupied while many details and techni- Student Council and proctors in steps, with a jazz band on Fri- with setting up its committees calities must be worked out, and Freshman Week, the Big Brother day night, May 20, and an Stred Requests and getting them into operation minor changes may have to be program, and freshman rules Open House at Thorncrag with with the intention that much of made, in general the schedule preparatory to a re-evaluation the Deansmen, Saturday after- Cooperation On the routine business can be will be as stated above. Further of its freshman activities pro- noon, May 21. In case of rain, handled by them, leaving the details will be supplied within gram by the whole Council. Af- both of these events will take Campus Pictuie whole group free to discuss and the next three weeks. ter the final death of Mayoralty place in Chase Hall. Added act upon new issues and general Anyone who is interested in Mr. Frank Stred of the Alum- for this year, the Mayoralty events will be a campus-com- problems. After a conference of working on this weekend and in ni Office has requested the co- Committee was converted into a munity art show featuring local the whole Council and Director furthering social activities at operation of all students, facul- Mayoralty Weekend Committee of Dining Halls Wayne Steele to amateur artists and students, and | Bates is invited to come to the ty, administration and campus with the purpose of looking for coed dining for most of the , bring out facts and feelings from weekly Chase Hall Dance Com- staffs in taking the all-campus some way to make that time one weekend. student and administrative view- mittee meeting, Mondays at 4:15 picture on Garcelon Field, of social relaxation. With the points about the food at Bates Notes Sponsors p. m. in Room 5, Hathorn. Wednesday. May 11. This pic- willingness of the Chase Hall and changes which might be Completely frec_ to the stu- ture will be taken immediately Dance Committee to sponsor a made, the Food and Smoker dents, this plan will be possible after 9:00 a.m. and will be used series of activities for that PROGRAM NOTE Committee is meeting biweekly through the united effort of the for Alumni Office purposes. weekend, its primary purpose with Mr. Steele to discuss din- Christian Association, the Stu- Campus Forum will dis- There will be no Chapel program was achieved. dent Council, the Student Gov- cuss the Southern sit-in on this day. Student and staff ing problems which come to its attention. The Chase Hall Com- Reports New Committee ernment, and the Chase Hall movement to end racial prej- promptness and consideration The Council has one new Dance Committee.