Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 1978 The aB tes Student - volume 105 number 10 - Short term edition Bates College Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 105 number 10 - Short term edition" (1978). The Bates Student. 1775. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/1775 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]. VOLUME 105, NUMBER 10 SHORT TERM EDITION ESTABLISHED 1873 Educational Policy The following Is a series of cation has reaffirmed a two- excerpts from an EPC | Education- semester requirement, with mod- al Policy Committee | report to the ifications of the present arrange- faculty: ments. In the words of the The Committee on Educa- Department members, "...we tional Policy wishes to provide the believe that the students at Bates Faculty and interested students College should be exposed to with an intcrmim report on its physical education by means of a review of baccalaureate degree one-year requirement. To not requirements. By providing the require this experience is to report at this time, the Committee ignore the values and content of hopes to encourage wider inform- the program and to decrease the al discussions about the issues value of the student's overall involved. The basic issues focus experience at Bates." on the Committee's feeling that "We subscribe to the defini- present distribution requirements tion of a physically educated do not meet legitimate general person as one who has knowledge education goals long associated and skills of his/her body and with the College's purpose and how it works. Our program is now frequently reaffirmed within designed to: (1) instruct students the Faculty. in various lifetime physical/re- During this short term the creative activities to the extent Committee hopes to learn of areas that through gains in knowledge of support and of constructive and skills they may make inform- Thomas Hedley Reynolds criticism of this review. Further ed choices for pursuit in leisure work will continue through sum- time, and (2) offer students a mer months. In the fall, the basic understanding of the cardio- Message From The President Committee will begin to narrow- vascular and muscular systems of down the issues with an eye With the end of the academic throughout the country. Next year honorary degree from Williams the body. How they relate to toward Faculty legislation. year approaching. I would like to those of you who return may College at its commencement on exercise, and how lifetime activity The present baccalaureate take this opportunity to wish each participate in this discussion as Sunday, June 4. relates to physical and psycho- degree course requirements, and every one of you the very best the Bates faculty begins consider- Recipient of a Ph.D. and M.A. logical health." other than the major programs now and in the years ahead. ing the recommendations of its in history at Columbia The Department's suggested are: (1) the two-course require- To the seniors who will be Education Policy Committee. University, Dr. Reynolds is a requirement could move the act- ment in physical education, and graduating June 5. my strongest Remember always that the 1942 graduate of Williams. ivities out from the category of (2) the "distributional require- congratulations. I trust that you process of learning is a never During WW II he served as a "courses." The Committee has ments." will feel a certain sense of pride ending one among educated peo- tank unit commander in North not yet formally considered the when you receive your diploma, ple. This summer many of you Africa and Italy, earning the I. The Physical Education Department's recommendation. Requirement. After careful study, and rightfully so. for earning your will hold jobs and some of you Bronze Star and French Croix 2. The Distributional Re- bachelor's degree should be may vacation, but there is no de Guerre with Silver Star. the Department of Physical Edu- Continued on Page 22 viewed as one of the most need to stop learning. Sometimes After serving on active duty in important stepping stones in a life those things experienced outside the Army, Dr. Reynolds taught of promise. the classroom mean new things as at Hunter College and served as Capital Campaign To the juniors and sophomores they are perceived in the light of staff historian for the American who have successfully completed new knowledge. Red Cross in Washington, D.C. Ready To Launch another year at Bates, may I Have a good summer and come He joined the history depart- commend you on a job well done. back to us in the fall ready to ment at Middlebury College in The Student has been authoritively informed that the public announcement of the College's long-awaited Capital Campaign We look forward to your return challenge your teachers into 1949, becoming head of the will take place on Saturday noon, June 10th, at the Alumni and to sharing with you the giving you their very best. department in 1957 and dean of excitement of your culminating the college in 1964. He has been Reunion lunch. It is understood that this will be a four year effort to raise the largest sum in Bates' history. The major purposes will years. Thomas Hedley Reynolds president of Bates since 1967 And to those of you who have and holds other honorary be: Scholarship and faculty endowment, computers and finished your first year at the (Note: Thomas Hedley degrees from the University of scientific equipment, as well as new arts and athletic buildings college, good work. The past year Reynolds, president of Bates Maine at Orono, Bowdoin and and the expansion of the library. (For further details, see page 12.) probably has been one of change College, will receive an Colby colleges.) for many of you, and now that you have come through it all. take time to reflect not only on what you have gained but on the Reorganization Of Dean's Office A Success possibilities which lie ahead. Commenting that although the trative structure of the College teresting, new approaches to limited number of dormitories or All of you have made a very summer months will afford the should be organized to be pre- problem resolution, and a houses, usually geographically wise decision, I believe, to pursue opportunity for a more reflective pared to respond to the whole healthy, productive level of defined. This allowed each dean a liberal arts education. It is and careful evaluation of the student, i.e.. the student in the morale." Most importantly, it an opportunity to get better highly unlikely that society will effectiveness of the reorganiza- academic, residential and extra- allowed a student to have acquainted with the residents of become less complex, and it is tion of the Office of the Dean of curricular contexts. Therefore, all academic, residential and per- their area. It also afforded the essential that we have individuals the College this year. Dean of the deans shared responsibility sonal problems be addressed in opportunity for more frequent who know how to tackle problems Carignan said that it was his and decision-making in each of one office, thereby alleviating the and effective communication with from various perspectives, not sense that "The reorganization these areas. This required inten- need to bounce from one office to the proctors in the area. just narrowly defined points of was a step in the right direction in sive and open dialogue among the another. Dean Carignan concluded that view. the effort to respond more ef- deans. Dean Carignan com- Another element in the re- "The year has been a very good It is refreshing to note the ficiently to student needs." mented "The open dialogue with- organization was the introduction one. Deans Spence and Reese resurgence of curriculum debates The reorganization was based in the office contributed to con- of the area dean concept. This have added important strengths taking place on campuses on the principle that the adminis- census, the emergence of in- meant that each dean dealt with a Continued on Page 24 2 THE BATES STUDENT EDITORIAL Faculty Changes In an effort to inform the institutions, national meetings, Science) and Werner Deiman student body of the changes in and other colleges and (English) for the winter "the Hates faculty for the universities. The Mellon Fellows semester and short term, and; As the school year draws to a close, it seems ap- upcoming year, the Student for the 1978 197(1 school year Kobin Brooks (Mathematics) for propriate not to reflect on what the past has already spoke to Dean of the Faculty will be Geoffrey Law (History). the fall semester. brought, but on what the future may hold. Bates Carl Strauh. In addition to the Carl Schwinn (Economics), and The remainder of the faculty College is, at this point in time, undergoing what twenty-three either temporary Richard Williamson (French). members not returning for all appear to be major changes. This issue of the Student or permanent changes, next There has been only one or part of next year are a* reflects that change and attempts to share the many year will bring a net addition of retirement from the Hates follows: Leaves of Abscence - activities of the College with the entire Bates family. It two members to the faculty. faculty this year. Professor Ross Cummins (Education), is the purpose of the editors not just to inform, but to These additions will be made in Robert Kingsbury (Physics) has Eric Robinson (Mathematics), the Psychology and Music chosen to retire after fourteen and Nancy Lee (Art) for the full encourage interested individuals to respond to the Departments.