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Wright State University CORE Scholar The Guardian Student Newspaper Student Activities 10-6-1965 The Guardian, October 6, 1965 Wright State University Student Body Follow this and additional works at: https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/guardian Part of the Mass Communication Commons Repository Citation Wright State University Student Body (1965). The Guardian, October 6, 1965. : Wright State University. This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Activities at CORE Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Guardian Student Newspaper by an authorized administrator of CORE Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Guardian A DAYTON CAMPUS PUBLICATION VOLUME 2 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6. 1965 UL., -L. ^UJ J 4 - W lv"ll 4A*4v Mrrf -W- W*LV*_ tL. ikfXrw f»M—, *v*u tfy ^ V^4 *—Jj ^^WrHPT ,>*' • M*s* ,»> tL^ *txr« Atv^i* 4^*5 -L*r*d- a. wMfrTUn1 MR. KATZ ORIGINAL CRANE MANUSCRIPT Katz Publishes Book On Stephen Crane OXFORD STRING QUARTET Oxford Quartet By PORTER WU.IHH KM in January of 1967. This book Whalen, Wright Win Joseph Katz, English in- is to be a facsimile edition of To Perform flere structor at Dayton Campus, one of Crane's earliest works, The Oxford String Quartet, has recently completed work "Maggie; A Girl of the Streets" artists In residence at Miami New Name Nov. 5th on a new book titled "The (1893). "Maggie," said Katz, University, will present a con- ll< HAI.l KORAI "was again published, but in Sweet spoke for several min- Poems of Stephen Crane." The cert on Tuesday, October 12, In February ol 1965, Ohio utes, citing their reasons for work is to be published In an abbreviated and expurgated In the auditorium. The pro- state Senator Charles Whalen supporting he Southwestern November by Cooper Square form. This is the "Maggie" gram Initiates the 1965-66 (Rep-Dayton) conceived a bill Ohio name. Publishers, N.Y. read in literature courses. music season and will be the whose purpose was to make While in Columbus, the group "This is the first and most Hopefully, the 1893 facsimile first musical program to be the Dayton Campus an inde- was introduced to Representa- complete critical edition cf will help to recover a ne- presented in the new building. pendent university. The sena- glected American classic." tive Sam Hall (D-Dayton). any of Crane's worksy," Mr. tor organized a slxteen-mem- Months later, in July, Hall Katz sfid. "and will, 1 hope, Mr. Katz received his B.A. Well known on college cam- ber committee consisting of co-sponsored a bill introduced attract the attention of readers from Brooklyn College in 1958 puses all over the ountryand and his M.A. from New York prominent Daytcn are,! busi- in the Ohio House of Repre- and scholars to a neglected in many midwestern concert nessmen and educntors. sentatives by Charles Fry body of significant literature." University in 1962. He came halls, the string quartet can to Dayton Campus as a Whalen. a Professor of Eco- (Rep-Springfield). The Fry- The collection contains over boast both long life and su- nomics at the University of Hall bill, In sympathy with 130 poems, twc hort stories, member of the original faculty perior musical quality, its in September of 1964. Pres- Dt-yton, reported that the com- student opinion, proposed the and photographs of Crane's present members. Elizabeth mittee had unanimously name "Southwestern State original manuscripts. Ac- ently, Mr. Katz is seeking his Walker. Adon Foster, Eliza- agreed to Include in the bill University." cording to Mr. Katz, almost doctorate from Indiana Uni- beth Pottelger and Joseph versity. Besides handling a suggestion designating At the same time the Fry- forty of the poems in the Beln, have been entertaining "Wright Brothers University Hall bill was accepted by the edition have never been pub- classroom instruction and audiences since 1953. They as the permanent name for House, Whalen encountered lished bifore. literary research work, he is have made Miami a conspicu- serving as Associate Editor the Dayton Campus. The de- little difficulty in gaining Sen- Mr. Katz spent three years ous center of chamber music cision in favor of Wright ate approval of his bill. After compiling, analyzing and edit- of the Mad River Review and Interest through exchange Is General Editor of a pro- Brothers University came a Fry and Hall had drafted Re- ing original manuscripts and concerts with other residence scant four hours after a group publican and Democratic aid tected series, Calendars of groups and performances with of students led by student In the House, Representative American Literary Manu- guest artists. The manuscript of Stephen scripts. He has also publish- senator Sue Sweet had pre- Hall released his pledges and Crane's poem "I Explain the ed articles and reviews on sented Whalen with a petition declined to offer Fry any Silvered Passing of a Ship at requesting the name, "The further active support. Stephen Crane, Theodore University of Southwestern Night* (Katz #81) is one of Drieser, T. S. Arthur, Walt Directory on Salt- Despite Fry's request for se- the drafts that will appear lr. Whitman, T. W. Hlgginson, Ohio." lection of a naming committee Joseph Katz's "The Poems and the detective novel. Wright State Campus Student In early March, several Day- which would have included two of Stephen Crane." Scholars Directories are now on sale ton Campus representatives Dayton Campus students, have long believed that Crane in the bookstore. The Price appeared before theOhioState legislature required that both would not rewrite nor revise Folk Group Is 75S. Government Committee. Stu- bills be placed incompromlse hie poems or stories. dents Linn Bostlck and Sue committee. The result, swiftly GUARDIAN readers can see To Sing approved by the assembly, was for themselves that this Is not Senate Bill 210. This bill, true. which becomes effective No- This manuscript is first pub- At Miami Life Is Absurd vember 5, 1965, requires that lished In the GUARDIAN by Popular folk singing group the Dayton Campus be known permission of Joseph Katz, the New Christy Mlnstralswlll as Wright State Campus until and by courtesy of Alfred A. be featured in an open alrcon- July 1, 1967, or until such Knopf. Inc., owners of the cert at Miami University Fri- Says Camus -ime that full-time student literary rights to Crane's un- day, Oct. 8 at 8:30. B\ HOIl ROWLANDS enrollment figures reach the published material. The group has to their credit Camus called existentialism intellectual suicide yet retains 5,000 mark. At that time, the some of the most popular folk some of the great characters of the existentialist, one being school will become Wright songs In the past few years. that life is absurd yet worth living. He was rlso concerned State University. Section Information gleaned from li- Sullivan and Andy Williams with another tenet of existentialism, the seeking of an Identity twelve of this bill creates a brary files at Columbia Uni- shows. and identity here means being true to oneself. trustees committee for ad- versity, Syracuse, The Uni- Tickets for the performance His novels, "The Stranger," "The Plague" and "The Toll," visory purposes. The nine- versity of Virginia, Hunting- can be purchased from any along with his short stories and plays mean little unless member committee is to be ton, New York Public Library member of the student senate coupled with his philosophic works, "The Myth of Sisyphus" selected by Ohio Governor and f r om several other or at Rlke'.'. department store. and "The Rebel." One should struggle through the Myth before James Rhodes. As yet, there sources. The price: $2. attempiing the fiction; the Rebel can be saved until last. has been no announcement When ask ed about his interest In the Myth Camus sets forth his Philosophy of the Absurd. Indicating whom the trustees in Crane, Mr. Katz replied Spanish Student* In short the Absurd can be applied not only to life, but all will be. that "one is drawn to a body forms of existence. The Universe becomes pure happenstance, Mr. W hite, the Business of literature. On analyzing Hi'crivr Honors meaningless. All existence is meaningless and devoid of that Manager for Dayton Campus, this attraction, one comes up Four Dayton Campus students supreme power called God in theological philosophy. The stated recently that once No- with reasons. I suppose that I have been appointed to an hon- recognition of the absurd is the basis for the existential vember fifth has arrived, find Crane saying things to or society for Spanish stu- despair and freedom. there will be no immediate which I respond. After all, dents at Miami University. For Camus the only possible meaning to life lies in how changes madeoncampusother critics usually agree that with Dagmar Taudien, Sheila Cash, we strive to give life meaning. Take away God and what is life; than minor printing alter- Crane a modern American Cecil Jones and Tony Loren- man who then becomes the supreme power of the universe ations. Questioned concerning literature began. This, inci- zo were honored at a ban- responsible only to himself and for himself. Without God preparations being made for dentally, is usually all that quet on the Oxford campus man is left to his own inventiveness in the course of responsi- the school's oncoming inde- they can manage to agree last nig! bility and morality. The burden is great like the stone of upon." pendence. Mr. White replied. Students appointed must re- Sisyphus, yet not without hope when man lives for man and Step by step, we are readying Currently, Mr.