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4 &SS*- Bates Makes Plans For New Dining Facility

by Donna James Two years ago it was decided that weeks or so into a set of workable Bates needed a new dining facility. There drawings. These should return shortly, were two main reasons for the decision. and the decision of whether to adopt the First and most obvious is the serious plans will be made. Of course, the overcrowding. In an effort to alleviate Trustees must give their approval. If this problem the Rowe Room has been approved, the College would seek bids opened for students. While this does on the project in April, and if all goes expand the available dining area; it also well the building would be ready for use cuts down on one of the amenities at next January. Most of the funds for the Bates; mainly, a small dining room building are now available, in the form which can be blue-slipped. The less of memorial funds. obvious, but equally important, reason The building will be located on for the new facility is the increasing cost Mountain Avenue, on the Rand field. It of education. In order to maintain its will be in front of Mount David, the high quality. Bates will have to get a little same distance from home plate as Rand larger - 10 to 25 students per year. is. It won't interfere with either the PbolO l>> Brad l-iillrr Bates will remain a small college but softball field or the central pathway up these few extra students are needed to the mountain. Located in this place, the help pay the increasing costs the college building will be closer to 2/5 of the Debate Team Wins Chance is facing in its efforts to maintain dorms than Commons is, and is quality. The new dining facility will help designed to hold 2/5 of the student the College meet the needed expansion. body. The people working on the idea To Represent New England Currently. 1400-1500 students is the realized the need to avoid cliques. himself became the youngest coach ever optimal number for the campus. The highly successful top varsity two- Located next to Rand, it will be closer to be elected to the governing council of The first idea for increasing the dining than Commons for those students man debate team from Bates College the Northeast district in the weekend facilities was the renovation of Fiske has won its chance to represent New coming out of classes in Libbey, activities. dining hall in Rand. Plans were drawn Pettigrew, and Hathorn. Different England and New York in the upcoming The Brooks Quimby Debate Council up by the same group of architects who people will use the facility at lunch and National Intercollegiate Debate at Bates is in its second season under designed the new library. They had to dinner, depending upon their schedules. Championships. In weekend Branham's direction. After remaining make their plans so that the use of Fiske In the unlikely event that there Is a line competition at Wellesley College. dormant for over a decade, the once would not interfere with the rights of the at either Commons or the new facility, it Sophomore Richard Preston, '78. of nationally recognized Bates program people who live in Rand which meant isn't a long walk between the two. In its Alexandria. Virginia, and Freshman has again begun to establish a special entrances, etc. It was realized planned location, the facility leaves Tom Connolly, '79. of Canton. championship reputation. Asked for his Massachusetts, were the fourth of five predictions of the Bates team's chances teams to be selected as the finest in the at the April National Tournament. Northeast. The five top teams Branham proclaimed "we're extremely Dartmouth. Harvard. M.I.T.. Bates, honored simply to have made it; as far as and Cornell - will represent the several I know, we're the youngest team (a hundred active teams in the Northeast in freshman and a sophomore debating the National Championships, to be held top-ranked varsity competition) and the April 15-19 at the Statler-Hilton in youngest program to qualify for the Boston. championships anything we achieve Only sixty-four teams of the several will be a major victory." thousand competing in the nation The topic for the 1976 competition is qualify for the national event. In the "Resolved: that the federal government thirty years of the national should adopt a comprehensive program championships, the current Bates team of land-use control in the United is the first ever to qualify from the State States." Each team in the tournament of Maine. Bates Coach Robert will debate eight preliminary rounds Branham cited the tournament as the four on each side of the proposition — "equivalent of qualifying for the against eight different schools. The N.C.A.A. championship tournament in teams with the best record after the basketball or receiving a major football preliminary rounds will enter that to renovate any part of Rand, the room for possible houses on Mountain post-season bowl bid." Branham elimination and vie for the national title. whole building would have to be Avenue. brought up to 1976 building code The facility will not have a full standards. Allowing for all these things. kitchen, as Commons has plenty of Jazz Band To Rock Portland the cost came to over one million kitchen room. Certain items will be old floor boards shook in dusty ecstasy. dollars, which is more than the cost of a transported from Commons by a special Special to the Student On stage, the eight men soloed, new dorm; for the cost involved, the truck, which makes an air-tight seal with harmonized, riffed and blasted . . . college would be getting an inferior the door at the unloading platform. Half The world famous Preservation Hall stamped and sang. Their music laughed dining room and dorm. It was decided of the facility will have an upstairs, Jazz Band, on tour from its home in and cried. So did we." Among the to scrap the Fiske plan, and aim for a which could be partitioned into rooms. legendary New Orleans, visits Portland, numbers played that night were St. new dining facility. It could be used separately or in Maine! James Infirmary, Tiger Rag, When The The architects were not given specific conjunction with the downstairs main In November of 1975 the Saints Go Marching In. instructions for the new building. area. The downstairs furniture would be Preservation Hall Jazz Band played in You are promised a spontaneous and However, they were told to include removable, so that the area could be Waterville, Maine to a full house and joyful evening with music that is free- areas which could be blue-slipped for cleared for social events. rave reviews. John Thornton of the spirited and original! social gatherings, both small rooms, and One of the most interesting features of Portland Evening Express said, "The Located in the heart of the French a larger area. the building is that it would be heated by Preservation Hall Jazz Band brought Quarter, Preservation Hall is dedicated The architects came up with some the sun. The College had been working down the Opera House last night in a to keeping the music of New Orleans conceptual drawings of their ideas. on plans for a self-energized lab program that had the audience cheering alive. Jazz is played there nightly by These were shown to President building, run on solar energy. A grant all the way ... It was a height of happy these pioneers who created it! And Reynolds, the Trustees, the Student- may be available from Washington, music, free wheeling, full of licks and people come from all over the world to Faculty Residential Life Committee, the D.C., to develop this solar-energy bursting with good nature, listen. Faculty, the Building and Grounds packet for use in the building. The packet magnificently improvised. "Martin Each member of the Preservation administrators, and various student would be in the building, not attached to Dibner said, in the Maine Times "The Hall Jazz Band has memories of the leaders. Then they were sent back to the it. This would make the building the first Opera House trembled deliciously. The continued on p. 3 architects, to be developed after six continued on p. 7 ¥aBe z NOTES AND COMMENTARY 'The journey, not the arrival matters." Montaigne

N b a Editorial S Attitudes are hard to change — especially when one considers that their tuhent t( formation arises from a lifetime of experiences obtained as a member of society. I Problems develop however, when society changes because, unfortunately, attitudes do not change as fast. This is a universal dilemma many groups within society must John H. Howe confront; one such group is woman athletes. Etliliir-in-Chwl The recent institution of the Title IX amendment is now an issue at Bates. Barbara Braman Shirley Thompson Separate groups of men and women have met with the Title IX committee to discuss Am s Editor Business Manager the necessary changes that must be made. As a member of such a group, I have Dick Roihman Claudia lurncr Patricia Weil encountered a variety of opinions — many are encouraging, but at the same time, Feature Editor f-red Clark Sieve Wice certain attitudes exist that are disturbing — not only in that they impede progress in Sports Editors Photograph) Editors women's sports, but also their mere existence seems to say very little for the idea of Brad Fuller Pam Walch Lynn Glover human equality — the right that everyone has. Layout Editor Cup\ Editor Circulation \fananer While it is true that many changes have been made in the athletic department such as an expanded use of facilities; the gym, the training room, the weight machine, Production Stall Barbara (iicxslcr. I im I underpin David Hi.mks and many similar benefits are provided (such as practice uniforms and their Nils Riwidc-Hennkscn laundering) yet there are still other things needed to be done to provide a program that is "adequate" in the same way that the men's program is "adequate." After experiencing some of the opinions held by a few members of the men's department, I Ins newspaper will publish letters to the Kditor onl> Hhen the) are signed: names will be I can't help but wonder if many of the changes were made for the sole reason that it withheld under special circumstances. However, final discretion can and will be exercised by the editors in determining those letters most valuable for publication. All letters should would be against the law not to make the changes. Why can't action be taken and be addressed to Box 309. ( /() the Kditor. improvements made for the reason that the Bates women should have the best program that can be afforded as has been the case with the men? No one wants to The Bates Student is published weekly bv the Publishing Association. Box .109. Bates take anything away from the men and I think that the most intelligent men realize ( ollege. Lewiston Ml 04240. Subscriptions are $7.00 for the academic tear. Printed bv this. Sure, money is tight. No one is denying that either, but if people are genuinely Twin ( it) Printer), lewiston. and 2nd class postage paid in lewiston. concerned with equality of opportunity, these factors would not be the first considered. Obviously, since they are, it is the attitude that exists that is unfair. I have great respect for the men in the athletic department that recognize the existing inequities and are helping the women achieve what is rightfully theirs — equal opportunity. However to those coaches and male athletes that resent our presence in the weight room, the cage, or the gym, remember that we are paying just as much for the facilities at Bates, think about this: winning is nothing without fairplay. CT Letters to the Editor Dear Sir, formal charges and committee decisions In regards to the article that appeared will not be subject to the rule of in last week's Student concerning confidentiality. The Committee will re- various incidents warranting the evaluate this new practice in January, formation of the student-security 1977. committee, I feel compelled to clarify Sincerely, the events resulting in the presentation Douglas I. Hodgkin. of two conflicting reports. Chrmn. On the basis of what was reported to Student Conduct Committee him, Chet Emmons stated that there was no "foot race" and that I was followed to To the Editor: the door of my dorm. In actuality, the The only aspect of the new rooming incident began at the corner of Frye and system which 1 regard as particularly College St. I heard a man, whose voice I unfair is the retention of proctor's SfTTS CoLv didn't recognize, yell out saying, "Hey choice. If proctors are paid for their rVTHLeT'v. you, stop. I want to talk to you." I kept "work", why should they be given OCPT. walking and a second time he yelled out. special privileges simply for collecting a When I.didn't stop, he broke into a run paycheck? I know of at least one case in in my direction. I wasted no time which freshmen who are the proctor's MAib^Foftr sprinting from Frye to the path of choice have been assigned a good room Cheney. As I started up the path, I heard which would otherwise have gone to him say not to "go up there." He was six juniors. This hardly seems fair, since the feet away at this point, but came no new rooming system is supposed to give farther. If that wasn't a "foot race" I seniors first choice in rooming. This don't know what was, and I was a good granting of privilege is strange. deal more than "frightened." I think Proctoring is a job. While many terrified comes a lot closer. proctors are very nice people, few do I'm not one for sensationalism, but I their job well, at least in my experince. To the Editor: three times to work on my primary think the facts should be made clear. The aspect of the job which proctors I would like to thank the students, campaign there. More importantly, I am concerned at perform most diligently is avoiding faculty and administrators of Bates I know that your efforts in Maine the lack of accurate communication being stuck with the phone bill. College for their efforts in behalf of my have been indespensible to my regarding this matter. I think that it is Since the rooming system was revised Presidential candidacy. campaign there and 1 appreciate your important for everyone on the campus in order to get rid of such unfair I understand that some 40 to 50 support. I hope you will continue to aid to be made aware that this area, like any privileges as squatter's rights and dorm members of the Bates College my candidacy in the preparations for the other, is subject to the same degenerate preference, proctor's choice, the last and community have assisted my campaign Maine Democratic State Convention in element in society. I hope that future most blatant privilege, should also have in some way: organizing for, or May. reports are more carefully handled and been abolished. attending the Lewiston and Auburn Hopefully, together with people like investigated. Sincerely, caucuses to help secure six delegates to you in other states, we will be able to get Sincerely, James J. O'Malley the state convention pledged to support this country moving forward again. Claudia Turner my candidacy, putting out a 1400 piece Thank you again. This is the last issue of The Student to mailing, or traveling to New Hampshire Sincerely, appear this semester. Due to the Morris K. Udall To the Editor: tremendous economic squeeze in which At a recent meeting of the Student we presently find ourselves, plans for Conduct Committee, it was voted that a regular Short Term newspaper must Correction after the hearing of each conduct case a be abandoned. However, we do hope to summary of charges and decisions, produce several special editions during omitting all proper names, will be this spring and summer. Several students have complained to the editor that an article published last week posted outside the offices of the Dean of The Student extends an invitation to on the Athletics Dept. contained misconstrued information and thus gave an the College and the Dean of Students. all interested students to join the staff. inaccurate picture. We hope_ that this will promote an Our first general staff meeting will be The article was intended as a Feature. It was supposed to give one person's accurate awareness of Committee held next semester on September 9. In interpretation of the recent changes in that department. This should have been decisions. the meantime, any students who wish to pointed out last week. How well this intention was accomplished is questionable. This change in practice is consistent join the staff should drop a note to box It should be clarified that Ms. Smith and Ms. Crosby of the Athletics Department with the Committee's rules of procedure 309, Chase Hall. We look forward to have both been at Bates just one year. They have not been here for "around two as amended by the Faculty in having you on our staff. years" as erroneously stated in the article. December, 1975, which provide that 7? " ¥aSe 3 Northern Revue Benefit Concert For Udall by Steven Stycos

Peter Gallway with the Great Gallway toured the nation with such Northern Revue and Chuck Kruger will artists as John Sebastian. Laura Nyro. be the featured attractions at a benefit and The Guess Who. The other band concert Monday. April 5. at 8:00 in members are Tad Lathrop. guitar. Steve Schaeffer Theatre. The proceeds will go Kelly, bass, and Tom Turner on the to the presidential campaign of Morris drums. Udall. Folk guitarist Chuck Kruger is a Gallway and the Great Northern familiar musician to many Bates Revue will play a wide range of music students due to his performances at Bates from hits of the 30*8 to more recent jazz, and his regular appearances at the folk, and pieces of their own. Warehouse. Gallway released several albums Tickets are $1.50 and may be before coming to Maine in 1973. Prior purchased at the CSA office or at the to joining the Great Northern Revue. door. Good Time At Happy Hour

by patricia weil THE GREAT NORTHERN REVUE i walked over to page last friday afternoon with the intention of taking Jazz . . . from p. I my assigned photographs, downing a cup of beer, and then making a fairly days when Jazz was coming to the This is the second in a series of hasty retreat, well, there wasn't any beer forefront of American music. Ranging American Bicentennial concerts by the time i got there, but i ended up in age from 63 to 84, these musicians sponsored by Waynflete School Friends staying almost two hours, i thoroughly helped shape and develop jazz into the of the Performing Arts. The first concert enjoyed "happy hour" and i think uniquely American art form it is today. in March of 1975 featured Gunther almost everyone there probably did too. They were in the bands that marched in Schuller and the New England there was a good turn-out of the Mardis Gras parades. They were in Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble. professors, administration, and the bands that marched to and from the Proceeds from the concerts are used to students, some students i spoke to cemetery for funerals. They were on the fund performing arts projects at the complained that none of their riverboats. in the saloons, in the dance school, such as acoustical improve- professors were there some departments halls and on the picnics. They were on ments in the school auditorium and being over-represented and some not the wagons that drove up and down the scholarships for study in applied music, there at all. however, if the idea of happy French Quarter. They played with Louis dance and drama. hour is to meet new people or talk to Armstrong. King Oliver and Jelly Roll Remember the date is April 7, the others that you normally wouldn't run Morton. They are a part of the exciting time is 8:00 p.m.. the place is Portland into, one certainly could do so there. rimin i>> pofricii »rii history of American Jazz! City Hall Auditorium! the idea to have a weekly happy (two) hour is an excellent one. people are always complaining that it is so hard to talk and meet with the faculty on a CA Election casual basis; here is the chance to do so. happy hour has lots of potential to by June Peterson develop into a weekly "good time" for The Campus Association elections everyone who goes. were held on Friday. March twenty- sixth. Dan Isaac, who ran the election, was able to give The Student the list of winners before the count of votes had even been completed, since there was only a single nomination under each office. Those names were as follows: Sandy Peterson. President; David Enright, Vice President; Judy Hendy. Secretary; and John Plotkin. Treasurer. The election was merely a formality accomplishing nothing. Dan plans to propose to the Representative Assembly that there be no more such token elections for an office in the event that there is just one candidate running.

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The University under Albers, Diller, Brooks, description is an apt one. for it is indeed and Relli. Mr. Welliver is best known unusual to hear a poet reciting his for his landscapes; but is as well a poems. For some of us. it is unusual to printmaker of note. The display at the hear poetry at all. Perhaps it is this fact Treat contains both landscape (oil-on- that made the listening difficult at first. canvas) paintings and prints. Items are But as the audience warmed to Mr. Rav on sale, and for those interested there is and he to the audience, there came a a price list at the gallery. (Be forewarned certain intimacy. His poems are both about that. As I remember, the large humorous and serious, sophisticated "Moosehorn Game Preserve" was and countrified. Surprises lurk in his valued at $4300.00 even given slight fire verses and he springs them upon us. one damage.) after another. Mr. Welliver has said: "I do not use a continued on p. 7 camera. To me the moment is impor- tant." And it seems to me that it is the Photo h> Str\f Wire flow and the ultimate transience of the movement) may be felt. In the several The Features: Newman and Fellini moment that he tries to capture. His Tront prints (all hand-coloured by Alfonso Crabcake full-length film of the year (the landscapes give an atmosphere, if you etchings) Welliver catches the water and If you're one of the practically unique intervening Wednesday is covered in the like; rather than a precise rendering. the trout as a camera might. It is all individuals who grabbed up one of those other column somewhere nearby), They are emotional, intimate; dappled sudden stop-action and he loses the beautiful Film Board poster/schedules wrapping up the Film Board selections on the verge of the change that must sense of motion-through the water and at the beginning of the semester (they're with Federico Fellini's best film, 1M come. His brush strokes are strong, fluid, through time. collectors' items now), you'll notice that Slrada. and clean. They alone lend form to the There are as well two prints of "A Man Vs. Society is a heading we gave to La Slrada is one of those films thai trees, grasses, rocks, and sky. They do Nude." It is the same etching, but one some of the movies to try to give the gets awards heaped down upon it not seek to catch the light (as in the great has been coloured and the other left an semester a bit of coherency. Well, that (Academy Award for best foreign film. impressionist paintings) and thus are interesting and initially confusing welter title originated with this Friday's film. Venice Film Festival grand prize. New not choppy and staccato. They are of fine black lines. The contrast between The movie I'm referring to is, of York Film Critics Award for best grand, sweeping, legato brush strokes; the two is good. The coloured print is a course. Cool Hand Luke. When this foreign film) but never makes it to the and they, more than anything else give realistic rendering: the shapely nude film came out in 1967 it became an popular theatres, thus remaining the form and feeling to Welliver's woman emerges from the forest pool, instant classic, symbolizing the bitter relatively unknown, a definite shame in paintings. her own reflection in the water and the attempts of the everyday man in the this case. La Slrada combines a wealth The large "Swamp at Moosehorn reflection of the trees. The colour brings street to fight back at the oppressive of talent quite successfully, with Fellini's Game Preserve" is done somberly in the whole into a sensual focus. The Establishment which was pressing in on typically brilliant directing flowing shades of grey with muted greens and black and white print is more abstract. him in the turbulent sixties. Well, the together with masterpiece performances browns. The fluidity of his brush is well The woman, the water, and the trees all turbulent sixties are quickly becoming by Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart merge; each taking on the rippling apparent throughout. Even though this nostalgia material but Cool Hand Luke and. most of all. Giulietta Masina. The qualities of the water. The lines all flow painting depicts a swamp in mid-winter has lost none of its punch in the story line concerns the circus strong it is not dismal. It has instead a certain into one another leaving no area or form meantime as the saying goes. man Zampano (Quinn) and his cruel completely defined. Here in these simple sense of tranquility which is Basically, the film deals with Newman treatment of the woman who loves him black and white lines there is a strong demonstrative of Welliver's respect for and Kennedy who find themselves as they go travelling about with their sense of the unity of all nature. and understanding of nature as a whole. locked up in an ultra-grit Southern small troupe. They run across Basehart Welliver's art is certainly the work of The smaller paintings are studies (for labor camp staffed by rather pleasant as The Fool, a philosophical acrobat a man who loves nature in all her larger paintings) and as such possess sadists ("What we have here is a failure who steals Giulietta Masina's heart and moods. But, 1 do not think that it is too perhaps an even greater sense of "the to communicate") and trigger-happy gets killed by Zampano in the process. great of a leap to say that Welliver's art Moment." They seem quick, fleet and understudies. Newman, through his The loss of this one person who ever sensitive captives. There are several lush is the work of a man who understands unflagging failure to be moulded by the meant anything to her destroys Masina the complexity of modern life as well. In summer forests, fantastic in their depth camp, raises general cain and disrupts and leads to the film's incredibly tragic our city comfort we forget the and in their very green-ness. There are a the nice orderly routine it had settled ending. A definite lump-in-the-throat couple of winter scenes, a few lovely tranquility of a swamp in winter, or the into, thus bringing wrath down upon his sort of film. way the pines filter sun-light in the ones of white birches in the snow. All head. It is in this Newman vs. wrath that But, and this is where La Slrada summer. Perhaps Welliver is presenting share one thing in common: they are Cool Hand gets its bite. And by the way, genuinely joins the small collection of intimately perfect seconds in nature. us with these moments, these paintings if you've seen it on TV, you've missed a true film masterpieces, the entire story is of his; and he is saying to us that these This theme of the moment carries couple of the best parts that the censors put across with a quiet power and force transient encapsulated pieces of timeare over into the prints as well. However, hacked out; besides, it's a lot better which can cut across even the cynicism all that is really important in life. here a lack of movement (or potential when not disrupted by dog food and which modern life forces on us all, and deodorant commercials. you find yourself wrapped up with the The following Friday brings the last characters the way you're always told Theatre Review: you will be but never quite are. Spring's Awakening Impressive Production motherhood who cannot tell her and the power of man to change his The play is unsettling, for a multitude daughter the simplest facts of life, with by Richard Pettengill of reasons. It switches without world. As Melchior is led back to that its funeral patrons whose umbrella-veils wretched pursuit which is life within the This past weekend was witness to the transition from blatant didacticism (as allow them to revel in their mutual, self- corrupt moral structure of society, the most provocative play we've seen this in the death of Wendla) to unfulfilling centered hypocrisy, with its homosexual headless Moritz contemplates the year on the Bates stage. Frank crypticity (as, for instance, in the schoolboys whose conversations turn agonies of hell. Wedekind has presented Wedekind's tragedy of youth. Spring's "Grand Iquisitor" scene — a far cry without pause from prayers to a dead a picture of the naturalistic world Awakening, (directed by Michael Nash) from Dostoevsky). It moves abruptly comrade to anxiety about the next day's through his own expressionistic eyes. was an impressive production in overall from ludicrous satire (the "professors") assignment, this production certainly The result is slanted, refracted and. conception, if not so much in particular to tragic perversion (the twenty-phennig accomplished that end. unfortunately, a bit anachonistic. Still detail. Norman Dodge's set and lighting target-game). We are now getting to the The individual acting was, however, the themes are universal, and what the heart of Wedekind's classification as a were highly effective: a recurring but on the whole less fulfilling. The curious play doesn't resolve, it at least brings to transitional late nineteenth-century varied backdrop of green leaf-shadows disparity between an actor's true self, the forefront for consideration. figure. Taking elements from a dying successfully conveyed the burgeoning, the self he wishes to convey, and the self We appreciate it when literature "naturalistic" form, he is moving toward vitalistic sense of unspoiled Nature of he ends up actually conveying was answers for us the questions that it a new "expressionism" — a form which which we mourn the death in the disappointingly apparent throughout. raises, but we are ultimately better off aims toward the heightening of children of the play. The lead male and The grand exception to this was that when we are left to answer them for female roles were appropriately given to emotional impact by the use of beloved veteran of the Bates stage, distortion. Wedekind's play is certainly ourselves. Wedekind, in this play, the best of the student actors: Stephen Garvey MacLean, who portrayed with managed to raise issues and make clear distorted, as were my emotions when I Yank and Susan Wanbaugh. In imposing majesty both the sententious his own position while permitting the Melchior Gabor and Wendla left the theatre. It's not hard to see why moralizer Rektor Sonnenstich the American premiere of the play audience to leave with the questions still Bergmann, we have the healthiest (reminiscent, in his ludicrous pedantry, hanging. Ultimately we will only accept caused a riot. Still, if one is going to set individuals that Wedekind has chosen of Shakespeare's Holofernes) and the our own answers anyway, and a work to offer; they possess an innate moral out to portray distortion, one should do "Masked Gentleman." Wedekind so wholeheartedly. This production, which helps us toward that point is sense and affirm their lives at every turn dedicated the play to this mysterious worthy of praise. In my eyes, in spite of the forces which insist that with its excruciating, immediate figure, who represents the force which juxtaposition of a loud humming noise Wedekind's Spring's Awakening is they repent for the very fact of their repulses the dead Moritz and urges worthy of praise. existence. with a pathetic hollow-mockery of Melchior to re-affirm his belief in life e/ $»S* 5 Astronomy At Bates: Prof. Ron Reese And The Wizard by Dick Rothman Students who have taken one of Prof. Ron Reese's courses are usually unanimous in two opinions: the first being that the course was well taught and meaningful, and the second that Ron is a real nice person. This semester Reese is leaching a course in astronomy, a subject whose popularity is sky-rocketing around campus this year with 180 students enrolled this second semester. Never slow to respond to a soaring (sorry!) wave of public opinion. The Student has investigated what astronomy is at Bates, and most importantly, the thoughts of the man whose contemporaries call him "The Wizard." Ron Reese has no idea when he became interested in astronomy. Why does he like the stars? That's easier. "I get a lot of pleasure out of just observing and knowing my way around the sky, and the most enjoyable part of teaching would be the same thing. The observing end of it is a lot of fun." He regrets this fact and really doesn't know what will happen if more and more students sign up for astronomy, the popularity of which seems to be multiplying geometrically. Two years ago 60 students took astro, 4 years ago the number was 35, and 6 years ago only 25 took the course when it was first taught by Reese. With 180 in the class now, will a class of 350 students loom in the future? The man who would have to teach those students hopes not, for he cherishes the one-to-one relationships he gains with students. At the classes' Granf alloon Notebook present size he feels: "I'm not getting the personal contact with the students that I want and I don't feel as if they're getting Just A Springtime Sport their fair share of me." By David Brooks like a scared dog. The introductory astro course is "Do? Next year? Her voice was divided into two parts, the first semester An interesting syndrome occurs at Bates about this time every year as the unnaturally high. Oh, I'm, uh, dealing with our solar system and the working!" I smiled. She'd fallen into the second semester with everything else soon-to-be-graduating seniors, faced with the prospect of being dumped out trap. which is out beyond the stratosphere. In I looked innocent. "Oh, really? Doing addition, every 3 years Reese teaches a in the cold, cruel world any minute now, Photo b> Ste»e Vt ice begin to desperately search for what?" short term unit concerning extra- A few of the weaker hearts around the In teaching this semester's astio terrestrial life. The professor points out something to do when they get out. I course, Reese comes in contact with Having been in the company of these room looked away in pity as she began that because the science distribution to squirm. "Oh, urn, I've got a job. You students 24-25 hours a week during requirement is going up to 3 courses unfortunate people most of my time classes and a number of day and night here, I've learned the What Are You know, a job, uh, working. You know, next year he would like astro to be working at, uh, a job." Her voice trailed ! lab. However, this does not bother him. Gonna Do game pretty well, and have taught yearly. Right now, he is off. The silence descended again, thick I lor when asked what he found most trumpeting the praises of Professor enjoyed playing in previous years. And, I rewarding about teaching Astronomy. still being one of the lucky ones who and accusing. She looked up. Finally Pribram's Physics course next year in 2 she spoke in a voice that could barely be I the professor replied: "I'd say the semesters, the first concerning space and only has to worry about having nothing I students — they're a lot of fun. to do for three months instead of fifty heard. "I'm going to be a waitress at a time, and the second life and matter. Fancy Fastfoods restaurant." The I Particularly when you get them out in The courses are modeled for the non- years, I enjoyed it again this year. I the country (during night labs) and Just last week I got an opportunity to scoreboard rang up the points for.me. physics major and those who know Well, the game was rolling nicely now I they're jumping around to keep warm. about such things expect to see them play when I wandered into a roomful of I (One evening lab was held in a seniors passing the pipe around. I sat and I was enjoying myself. I looked oversubscribed. around for a bit more of a challenge and , temperature of-65°!) By and large their Reese credits his lab assistants for down and, losing no time, turned to the I interest and the good natured bantering fellow on my left. fixed on a rather complacent looking doing a great job in keeping a one-to- fellow in the corner. I also noticed that j we do when we're out there is a lot of one relationship with students even "Gee, Bill," I said, "what are you | fun. That's what I find to be the most gonna do next year?" the pipe had gone out and nobody was through all the long afternoon and bothering to refill it. I rewarding thing about it is the variety of evening labs. "My lab assistants have Everybody in the room froze and a I students I see and their own enthusiasm silence gripped the room by its throat. "Jim!" I said, and everybody in the learned an awful lot of astronomy this room turned and stared, "How about I about Astronomy is contagious." year and I don't think without them we Bill moved uncomfortably. Students who have taken Reese's "Well, ah, y'know, ah, that's a good you? You got your plans all set?" could have pulled this off at all. They've Slowly a cat-like smile slid over his [physics and astro courses have been great. Charlie and B.J. on the night question. I was, ah, thinkin' of described his teachingstyleasinteresting travelling, y'know?" He smiled quickly. face. "Sure do," he said. "I'm going to labs have been doing yeoman service grad school." nd well prepared, and always with a freezing nightly" "Yeah, that's it, travelling — y'know, touch of humor. The object of their take a look around before I settle I recoiled as if stung. You should have It was his assistants who made Reese's realized that, I told myself angrily, now comments, however, is unsure: "I wizard costume, a black robe covered down." He breathed heavily in relief, wouldn't know how to characterize my but everybody else in the room began to you've lost all the momentum! The with stars and half moons topped by a room buzzed as people began chatting tyle of teaching. Traditional in some tall pointed and similarly adorned hat. look grim. Bill's use of the travelling ways, it's a lecture format, but I excuse had cut it off from them and they about grad school — the ever-present He conceived of the idea last summer as straw to be clutched at — and re-lit the think that humor is part of life, and the a way of poking fun at astrology by were all searching desperately for more the better. I think when you make something to say. pipe. I was down, but by no means out. dressing up as the Wizard and casting One big score and I could still emerge omething humorous people will his own horoscope in class. (Later he "Wow, that's really neat!" I said emember it .... I don't know why I admiringly. I turned quickly and hit the the winner. I focused in on a quiet guy had the students chart their own sitting on a frayed pillow. each the way I do — 1 like to, I guess horoscopes in labs.) He feels that: "It girl across the circle from me. "And how hat's why." about you?" I said. She looked startled "Speaking of grad school, Charley, seems to have become a tradition you still going to U.Mass?" Reese feels that a student should get already." This semester the Wiz put on a and you could see the whites of her eyes Inore out of astronomy than knowing continued on p. 7 hilarious and unexpected show before Students and Staff at Bates College *here the constellations are located. his astro class with the help of his More importantly, "I hope the thing assistants which ended with a banana eople get out of it (the study of cream pie in his face — which he didn't Go to: EUROPE stronomy) is a sense of how expect. nsignificant we are and from that I hope This year the professor and his Special Bicentennial Tour hey come to realize that most of our assistants have planned and put on roubles down here (on the earth) are so shows in the planetarium before over The EUROPE that Franklin, Jefferson, nsignificant and so irrelevant to the rest 1000 area school children. The number f the universe that why should we fight and variety of these shows will increase and Adams Knew ■ach other? A sense of one's own in upcoming years because of a grant "Travel routes and see sights they enjoyed" jumbleness, a sense of one's own Bates has received to improve its England, France, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Spain, Switzerland, triteness — if more people had it maybe planetarium and its offerings to the Andorra, Germany lis would be a better place to live. We students and community. In addition, London, Paris, Versailles, the Hague, Antwerp, Geneva re very unique; we are the only kind of "occasionally, for special events we'll French Chateaux Country, Stonehenge, Basque Land anywhere in the universe, and its a throw open the observatory to the local Land of Canals and Windmills, Roman Antiquities ■tame what we're doing to each other. community for something really sponsored by ol hope that by studying how big spectacular coming up, something that University of Maine at Fort Kent lings are, and what a small little corner has a little better chance of success than Dr. Charles J. Noxon, Professor of Geography, Tour Director B occupy that one comes face to face Kuhoteck." A junior, Charlie Ewing, Optional 6 hours graduate or undergraduate credit available. ith one's own finiteness." has been running all the shows this year All expense from New York or Boston $2099 Right now, because of a lack of "from A to Z" and Reese is very June 30 to August 1, 1976 §crsonnel (Reese is the lone Astro prof. thankful for his help, which eases the For free itinerary write to Dr. Noxon, U. of M., Fort Kent 04743 Bates) the two introductory courses in professor's burden considerably. tro are offered only every other year. continued on p. 7

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Baseball: Old Faces, New Look

by Mark Reinhalter

Spring is here and its arrival signals Ginsberg at second. Cliff White at the start of another season of the shortstop, and Kevin Murphy at third. American pastime. In the upcoming All have adjustments to make as campaign the Bates College Varsity Godiksen will be recovering from knee Men's Baseball team will field a veteran surgery, Ginsberg will be moving from squad. Returningare 12 lettermen, most short to second and White from third to of whom have a couple of years short, and Murphy will be making the experience, giving the Bobcats a transition from the outfield. Coach seasoned look that has Coach Chick Leahey said he will be looking hard at b Leahey looking forward to the April 9 the alignment and is pretty optimistic it H opener at Brandeis with eagerness, will work out well. Infield backups w anticipation and a promise that "we'll include sophomores Dave Farris and b be ready." Ron Soucier and a freshmen crop of w In addition to being experienced this excellent prospects and certain future P year's ballclub has a taste for winning. starters. In this group are Gary Page, Biles runner Paul Oparowski congratulated by Maine AAl Director Brian Gillespie. w They piled up a record of 13 wins and 6 Nate Wentworth. Greg Zabel, Jeff B losses in 1975 and narrowly missed Starrett, and John Casey any of whom re being selected for the ECAC College could blossom and offer strong support. Ji Division Tournament. Among those The catching looks to be handled ai wins was a victory over the University of primarily by Charlie Doherty, an Bates Runners Compete hi Maine at Orono who won the Yankee exceptionally fine receiver who has ir Conference and were finalists in the improved his batting. A reliable reserve tc Division I University championships. catcher is Steve Lancor who caught Last season's record was significant in almost a third of the team's games last in Portland Race w that it established Bates as being able to year. Ryan and Zabel also are proven th compete on the same level with a backstops. by E. Racer th university size school and it sharpened Senior Co-captain Jim Lawenda, a ie This past Saturday a few Bates 3.1 mi.) Bob Chasen finished second, the team's determination to put together truly outstanding centerfielder heads up sc runners participated in the Roland Dyer just a few seconds behind the winner. another winning year and possibly earn the outfielders. In three years of Memorial Open roadrace in Portland. Tom Burhoe was in the 5 k. race Pi that ECAC selection. H competition he has established himself The afternoon proved to be a fruitful finishing 33rd. Graduation claimed only a few key as a solid fielder with great range and II one for the five Bates participants, Along with the competition came the players but hit the mound staff capable of making the big catches. Over especially Paul Oparowski who won the rewarding of some fine looking trophies especially hard. Gone are Gary Sinclair that span he has made just one error. He n« 10 kilometer (6.2 mi.) race outduelinga to Oparowski, Merrill, and Chasen and John Willhoite who accounted for9 will be flanked by some combination of el. fine field. Bruce Merrill finished fourth Once again. Bates athletes let a lot of wins against only two losses and Nick Dell'Erario, Jim Tonrey, and Gary in this race and Steve Streeter a fine dc incredibly yielded only 18 earned runs in observers know of their caliber. Pugatch which will guarantee a strong 19th. In the opening race (5 kilometer. itt 83 innings between them. Their heir outfield. Freshmen reserves are Mark of apparents are a trio of seniors who Corson, and Bob Asensio. in chipped in with 4 victories last year and The team's first eight games are on the G a freshman southpaw. The hurlers on road and should provide a good Tt whose performance the team's success indication of how well the Bobcats will Golf Team has High Hopes tei hinges are Co-captain Peter Boucher, fare. Bates will field a well balanced club Peter Shibley, and Glenn Lamarr. Jim with solid hitting, fielding, and running. Si - Nutter, a freshman, has shown promise This year's squad will be the strongest in 1976 Season I. and effectiveness in early season hitting team in recent history led by 2. workouts and could see some action. Kevin Murphy who holds the school's by Bruce D. Tacy 3. Right behind them in no particular single season records for hits, homers, The 1976 Bates College Golf Team order are Ron Hemenway, Jeff with interest like this it is easy to see that RBIs, runs, and total bases. General opens its season with a five day trip Whitaker, Peter Stevens, and Doug the team's hopes are high. The team speed is highlighted by the running through Connecticut and Massachu- Johnstone. The four pitchers who rise to announcement of co-captains is of Cliff White who paced last season's setts this month, and members of the the top will handle most of the pitching something different from the past team with 16 stolen bases and swiped 4 squad and Coach Robert Hatch are chores but all are hardworking several seasons. Coach Hatch, in in one game in 1974 for a New England optimistic about this year's chances. The and Coach Leahey will be assured of announcing Rasmussen and College Division Record. team includes four returning lettermen. depth. Boucher, a fine hitter as well, will Malinowski's selection, commented Last year's seniors as a group had the including low scorer Pete Vignati, '78. probably be the DH when he is not on that he felt they had contributed well to best seasons they had ever had and it is Seniors Pete Malinowski and Wayne the mound. the golf program at Bates and were well Ir hoped this year's can do the same. If the Rasmussen have been named this year's Despite the experience on the team deserving of the honor. Both isci seniors contribute as well as hoped, if co-captains by Coach Hatch, and Wally icil the infield will have a completely new the pitching comes close to last year's Rasmussen and Malinowski have Nalesnik, '77, returns as the fourth pledged to work hard this spring, and UCJ look. Lettermen will cover every mound staff, and if the new look infield lettermen. Also back from last year's im position but each is facing a new holds up the Bobcats just might get that along with the rest of the squad should challenge. As it stands now the starters squad are seniors Fred Clark and Bruce provide some exciting moments on the vi ECAC bid. Tacy. Jay Bright, '78, hopes to be will be Emil Godiksen at first, Bruce course. PP« available early in the season before The season opens up April 19th with u al leaving for Short Term in England. match against Central Connecticut and tes "We're going to do it this year," stated Wesleyan Colleges, with April 20th qu Pete Malinowski. "This year's team is seeing Bates meeting Trinity. Since this eir going to play better than last year's — will be during the vacation break, the we have to." Though last year's team team hopes that Bates students in the Marois and Goodwin Top was unable to take any matches, it did area will provide support. The squad play well at times and came extremely travels to Massachusetts for meets on close on several occasions. "I'm looking the 21 st against Clark/Nichols, and S Basketball Statistics for this year's team to be much tighter," Babson College on the 22nd. UMPG alk believes Pete Vignati. "We have a lot of hosts Bates on April 23rd. With a strong lit i interest and enthusiasm, and with nucleus of returning golfers the team is hei Junior Guard Jim Marois of points per game this year; Co-captain consistent play we ought to be right in optimistic, and hopes for increased nit, Worcester, Mass. led the Bates College Mike Edwards of Neptune, N.J., who there for most of our matches." Twenty- student body support during the regular *ilc Men's Basketball Team in scoring this averaged 7.4 points and 5.3 rebounds four golfers have come out for this year's season. Fore! ut year, according to statistics released per game while anchoring the defense; team, according to Coach Hutch, und today. Marois, a co-captain of the 1975- and Guard Paul Joyce of Framingham, iicl 76 squad, scored 350 points in twenty Mass., who scored 135 points in a ;no games for a 17.5 average. asi reserve role. BEAUTIFUL CAPE COD Sophomore Tom Goodwin, a 6'6" Other seniors who contributed to this igh center from South Windsor, Conn., was year's squad were Guards Tim Bruno of "( the Bobcats' top rebounder with a total Wanamassa, N.J. and Bruce Campbell Are you Interested In experiencing a stumer on Cape ett of 134 in 15 games, giving him an 8.9 of Lewiston. Both proved themselves to Cod as ao many college students do? We have available tim average. Goodwin was also second in be valuable players in a reserve capacity. up-dated information on the following: THE TYPES OF los scoring, as he collected 236 points for a Coach George Wigton's team finished JOBS AVAILABLE, HELPFUL HINTS IN SEEKING A JOB ON CAPE her 15.7 average. the season with a record of 9 wins and 11 COD, WHERE THE BEST AND MOST REASONABLE PLACES TO LIVE T Five seniors closed out their careers at losses, winning six of their last nine CAN BE FOUND, AVERAGE COSTS OF LODGING, SALARY RANGES, ucc Bates this season. Foremost among games. The Bobcats tied for the dm these were Guard Glenn Bacheller of THE COLLEGE NIGHT LIFE, TENNIS, SWIMMING CLUBS, ETC. hoi championship of the C.B.B. (Colby- For information and publication please send $1.00 and a Beverly, Mass.. who averaged 11.5 Bates-Bowdoin) Conference. iav self-addressed stamped envelope to CAPE COD PUBLICATIONS, "I Box 834, Hyannis, Massachusetts 02601 I'vt I £•* f »8e 7 Intramural Track Statistics The Experimental Film by Jane Carpenter

Released On Wednesday, April 7th, as a change from the inside of the mind through the by Steve Powers of pace from its regular 90-minute optic nerves, spots before my eye.. . ." feature films, the Film Board will The latter type of vision Brakhage calls Dorm Points for Intramural Track LONG JUMP present a program of experimental or "closed-eye vision" and he tried to I8'4" (HWD) Meet 1. Lastowski "underground" films. The underground reproduce it by scratching and painting (HWD) Howard House 38 2. Carlson 18*1" film represents an "explosion" of over the images. His PRELUDE(1961) I6'6" (WSH) Roger Bill 19 3. Helm cinematic styles, forms, and directions; to his major film Dog Star Man "is a l.eadbetter 8 HIGH JUMP that is, a radical dissent in terms of form, declaration both of the unity of the Milliken 5 1. Carlson 5'0" (HWD) technique, or content, perhaps in all world (and Brakhage's lyrical feeling of Wood St. House 4 2. Ehrhardt 4'8" (HWD) three. identification with it) and love for Smith North 3 3. Helm 4'8" (WSH) The films to be shown Wednesday woman, expressed in transcendent, cos- The Intramural Track Meet was held night will include Kenneth Anger's mic terms. His images include both the before vacation, and saw Howard 45 yd. DASH 1. Ferguson 5.4 (RB) INAUGURATION OF THE PLEAS- microscopic and telescopic, and range House winning the compeition by a URE DOME (1954/1966), a lavishly from solar explosions to brief glimpses wide margin. The "Slaughterhouse 145" 2. Carlson 5.6 (HWD) 3. Helm 5.7 (WSH) costumed magic masquerade party of the beloved's body . . ." (Paul boys placed in every event but one, and inspired by the neopagan rituals of Beckley). were led by Kurt Carlson, who took 15 45 yd. LOW HURDLES Aleister Crowley. The various Storm de Hirsch's 8-minute film points. But high point man for the meet I.Gorham 6.3 (MIL) characters, drawn from classical PEYOTE QUEEN (1965) is much likea was Jay Ferguson with 16, from Roger 2. Ehrhardt 6.5 (HWD) mythology, undergo costume/ make- ritual of incantation with drum- Bill. He won three events and set a 3. Ferguson 6.7 (RB) up/ personality changes after becoming punctuated visual changes. At times she record in the 440 run. As for the girls, 440 RUN high on an LSD-like witches' brew, divides the screen into multiple frames lacki Wolfe was the only one to show 1. Ferguson 56.0* (RB) while the film itself enters a hallucinated which change with psychedelic and promptly won all the events. What 2. Carlson 62.6 (HWD) crescendo of editing and super- swiftness. Here, her filmmaking happened to all the interest in girls' 3. Daley 63.2 (RB) imposition. The film has up to corresponds directly with abstract style irack? This would have been a good time quintuple-imposition and uses added in painting of the pictograph type; that 880 RUN to show your enthusiasm. . . footage of the naked souls in Hell from is, with a set of cubicles each containing Cage Softball has been progressing, I.Streeter 2:25.4 (LDBR) 2. Ehrhardt 2:33.0 (HWD) Dante's Inferno, an early 30's a different though perhaps related with everyone still trying to figure out Hollywood spectacle. pattern. the new nets. Balls seem to come off MILE RUN Bruce Baillie's MASS FOR THE Finally. Robert Nelson's OH DEM them faster than they go up, and as a I.Ferguson 5:00.0 (RB) DAKOTA SIOUX (1963-64) concerns WATERMELONS (1965) is an assault result, there have been many high 2. Streeter 5:02.5 (LDBR) all of contemporary life, showing an on conceptions about blacks and scoring games. With a week to go before 3. Daley 5:27.5 (RB) alien, "canned" environment. Baillie movies. Made originally as an interlude playoffs, the strong teams look to be shot footage off TV screens, shot in the San Francisco Mime Troupe's A Hedge, Pierce, Smith Middle, Adams RELA Y I. Howard House (Volle-Ciullo- through fog filters, overexposed on Minstrel Show, the film features fifteen III, Roger Bill I, and both JB teams. Ehrhardt-Lastowski) 1:30.8* purpose, and did everything to "keep watermelons which are mangled and By the time this article hits print, a things very diffuse." The various spattered with satiric intent in gleefully WOMEN'S EVENTS new Intramural President will have been segments were then edited according to edited sight gags that have made this elected by the representatives from the LOW HURDLES the form of the Catholic Mass. Stan film an underground hit. I.Wolfe 7.9 (PKR) dorms, to succeed Bob Cedrone. Other Brakhage wanted his film of the birth of All these movies will be shown in items on the agenda were to be a review 45 \d. DASH his third child, THIGH LINE LYRE succession Wednesday night with one of the past year's activities, and possible I.Wolfe 6.8 (PKR) TRIANGULAR (1961) to express "all set fee no matter how many you attend. improvements on next year's programs. of his seeing," not only reality as seen While we recommend you see all of Coed softball will be run during Short 880 RUN I.Wolfe 3:12.0 (PKR) with "Renaissance perspective, 3- them and experience a dimension in film Term, with 5 guys and 5 girls on each dimensional logic — colors as we've you may never see again, we will post team. Sign-ups should be up soon. 220 RUN been trained to call a color a color" but times of showings in advance. MEN'S EVENTS I.Wolfe 34.5 (PKR) also the "patterns that move straight out SHOT PUT 440 RUN Ray . . . from p 1. Voile WWW (HWD) I.Wolfe 82.4 (PKR) 2. Powers 427" (SN) ♦indicates new Intramural Record Mr. Ray's poems have been published echo the sentiments of Professor 3. Carlson 38'11" (HWD) in numerous periodicals, and his latest Guillespie from Bowdoin, who strongly book. Gathering Firewood, has been urges that Bates, Bowdoin. and Colby praised for its insight, its clarity of unite efforts and make evenings with writing, its humor, its very American people like David Ray more frequent. Phys. Ed Questionnaire quality. His facility with Americana is augmented by a familiarity with Established England, as he spent several years in Reese . . . from p. 5 Yorkshire. Many of his poems reveal a In thinking of ways to end this article longing for the English way of life. one quanders over such phrases as "nice In an effort to avoid sex to make suggestions for future offerings. There is a great deal of variety in Mr. guy" and "great prof but realizes that iscrimination in the programs and In order for the committee to best report Ray's work. He displays a great gift for they really don't characterize his cilities of the Department of Physical on student needs it is imperative that Haiku: "The back of this couch/is no situation. Then I saw a poster picturing ucation and Athletics, a Title IX students fill out the questionnaire which substitute for you/my sweet firm Charlie Brown, a big grin on his face, ommittee has been established to will be in their mailboxes Monday April buttress." hanging from a tree wrapped in the eview present offerings and 5 and return it to boxes at the concierge, After his reading, Mr. Ray spoke with string of his kite. Under the picture is pportunities of all students and to outside the post office and at the a small group of students who gathered written: "Good humor makes all things ake recommendations to the receptionist's desk in Lane Hall. Please to discuss their reactions to his poems. tolerable." That just about says it all. resident. The committee has designed help the committee do the best job for He was most receptive and before long questionnaire for students to indicate people were divulging bits of the students. Fill out and return your Dining . . . from p. 1 eir feelings about present offeringsand questionnaire next week. information about themselves and their families to a man only just met, and yet solar-energized non-residential building one who for some reason seemed in northern New England. The solar Springtime . . . from p. 5 interested. The atmosphere was collector has a 45% efficiency rate, so refreshingly open, and for that reason I that there would be a 45% savings in fuel Some of the people tried to keep certainly didn't sound too good, but 1 found myself enough at ease to request a costs. And the campus already has talking to cover up and I realized I had pressed on. "Oh really? What are you look at the poet's tie, upon which was steam lines nearby, so they could be hit a weak spot, although I didn't know teaching?" written an amusing story about the easily tapped. Controls would 'hen the real gold mine I had stumbled Charley began to stammer. "Well, I- various members of the bee community. automatically turn on the steam when onto. Charley stared about himself I'm not really teaching, y'know. I... Ig- Such are the things of which poets are the reserve of solar energy was depleted. *ildly looking for some possible out, got a job with the ad-administration." made. My first "real-live" poet had Besides being a cheaper way of heating i>ut nothing presented itself. Nobody was breathing. "Yeah? certainly been interesting, and I can only the building, the solar energy heats hot "No," he said finally, "no I'm not. What're you gonna do?" water better, something a dining facility ick of school, glad to be out, you "Well, I'm gonna, ah, various jobs." needs. now." He chuckled weakly while I He was sweating profusely, and the pipe asily fended off this meagre attempt at had gone out again. I leaned closer. ghting back. "So tell me Charley — what school "Gee, I bet you are, I really envy your are you gonna work for?" etting out." For some reason this hit The fear in his face was almost SAM'S STECKINO'S im hard, and I smelled a big victory. I tangible. I had him now. "I'm gonna — Italian Sandwich Shcppc losed in. "So what are you going to do I'm gonna ..." All eyes were on him. He Weekly Specials: hen? Work for your parents?" looked around helplessly, but there was Fiz:a, Sandwiches This has always been one of my most nothing they could do. He looked at me, Spaghetti & Meatballs Wed: Smorgasbord uccessful points of attack. People will looked away, looked at me again. He dmit to anything rather than have it could hardly speak. "I'm gonna . . ." Fri: Italian Buffet Tel: 782-9316 or 782-9145 bought they're living at home. Charley there was a long pause. He crumpled up, aved his hands excitedly. a beaten man. His voiceemerged broken. 268 Main St.. Lewiston "No, no, nothing like that!" he cried, "I'm gonna be a gnome at Bates." 5:30 - 10 p.m. I've got a job with a school." Game, set and match. I left the room I frowned. A teaching job? That happily. fa&B Toonin' at Bates: Gimcrack to Retire After Years of Joking Editor's Note: The infamous Gimcrack dies this week as its creator approaches graduation. We asked "Bill Allen" to write us a farewell. We would like to thank "Bill" for his contributions to The Student in his years at Bates, and thus we devote this page in his memory.

by Bill Allen This "Gimcrack" closes out a star- studded, ill-lustrated career as the highest-paid comic-strip artist for the national!) distributed Student. I am old, tired, and have three papers to do before I graduate; thus "Gimcrack" will be no more. Not that you'll notice. The artist (such as he is) wants to apologize for any off-color statements about "whomever" that caused undue consternation. All I can say is, you should have seen the stuff they wouldn't let me publish. Incidentally, "Gimcrack" is pronounced Jim-crack by everybody but me, and, appropriately enough, is defined as "a showy object of little or no value." The historical origins of the term trace back at least to the early days of Smith North, when women were the dance of the deans described as gimcracks. Of course, that kind of think doesn't go over well in the the artist as a young man . . . '70's. In any case, "Gimcrack" was conceived from and dedicated to Walt Kelly, who, if he were alive today, would take one look at this comic and lose his lunch. I'm sure you've had a similar experience. Believe it or not, it was all done in relatively good jest. Maybe somewhere along the line you actually enjoyed a strip or two. The general subject matter of Bates is not much different from that of any college or university or town or city: people are people. If I can borrow a line from Walt to close out this small era, perhaps you'll understand what, in a limited, crude way, "Gimcrack" purported to show: There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground with small flags waving and tiny blasts on tiny trumpets, we may meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us. What more can be said?

Shakespeare the artist as a ticked off old man .. .

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